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        "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
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        "content_text": "\n19. \n\nHongkong, January 1st, 1842. \n\nIn January, 1841, Hongkong was ceded to the British crown, and the island was taken possession of on the 26th; but nothing was done for its improvement nuti! May, when a chief magistrate was first appointed, and shortly after a Road was commenced under the superin-- tendence of the corps of engineers belonging to the Chi nese expedition. From May to August, the population increased most rapidly, and an extensive bazaar shortly followed this congregating of people.-though it received several severe checks from tyfoous and fires.-After the departure of the Chinese expedition to Amoy and Chu- san in August, permanent public buildings were com- menced on the side of the island facing the present au- chorage, which is called by the natives \"Kwun-tai-loo.” \n\nCommencing from the westernmost part of the present settlement there are at this date, independent of the tem- porary barracks which afford quarters for the Bengal Vo- Junteers, one of a permanent nature for about 60 men, nearly completed,-a stone store-house of considerable dimensions ready for use,--and another smaller one in a state of forwardness. A road runs from these buildings: to the bazaar, a distance of about one mile and a half, ou the side of which some private buildings have been com- menced, while in and about the bazaar itself some 20 permanent shops are in different states of completion. From this latter point to the residence of Mr. Gillespie, a distance of about 2 miles, is the present scene of great. est activity; and on both sides of the road permanent buildings of some importance, both as to size and num- ber, have been aud are in progress of construction; white a little higher up Magistracy-hill, we see 3 or 4 perma- nent houses already finished and inhabited, overlooked by the Magistracy and Prison itself; and on about the same elevation, but more to the east on Government-hill, a public office to serve as a temporary residence for the head of the government is just finished having a guard house at no great distance from it, where at present are quartered an officer and more than 60 men of the 55th foot. Near to this is the residence of the land-officer, and a small public building at present used as a post- office. Pursuing the road to the east, one arrives at Cantonment-hill, ou which a barrack is nearly finished for the Madrus Native Infantry, with a powder magazine a liule way behind it. At the foot of this hill a sinall bat- tery is about to be commenced. \n\nArrived at Mr. Gillespie's, the road crosses a granite bridge aud ascends rather suddenly to a gap cut through a hill, from which one commands a view of the whole valley and village of Wong-nei-chung,\" and the road to \"Tai-tun\" winding up it until lost to sight among the hills in the centre of the island. If instead, however, of pursuing this road, the branch which crosses the valley and goes on east is followed, one at length arrives at the village of Soo-koon-poo,--at present a sequestered, well wooded, and very pretty part of the island. It is from the western end of this village that a point runs out into the sea, whercon an European building has already been commenced, and off which lies Kellet's island, where the government are constructing a battery. The road to the east terminates at the village of \"Soo-koon-poo;\" bat about three miles farther is the fishing village of \" Soo- ke-wan,\"--a place with a large migratory population' \n\nA \n\n}",
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        "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848",
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        "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848",
        "content_text": "ŽAN \n\n531 \n\n2 \n\nCaptain Weddell's voyages have made large additions to our hydrographical knowledge of the Southern Hemisphere, and have thrown much light on the history and productions of the Falkland Islands, and others which he explored—and in addition to his minute and highly valuable hydrographical information, the directions which he has laid down (in his work published by Longman and Co. of London in 1825) for doubling Cape Horn, are given with such minuteness and accuracy, that that hitherto difficult and dangerous navigation has been rendered comparatively safe and accessible. Subsequent voyagers have now fully established the accuracy and utility of Weddell's observations and surveys; and Captain Ross, in his late expedition to the Southern Seas, has borne the most honourable testimony to the same effect.\n\nThe views which have been taken of the effects of Weddell's discoveries, have not been more sanguine than are entertained by other and competent judges, and your Memorialist begs leave humbly to submit, for your Lordships' consideration, one or two extracts from a number (No. 7) of the Colonial Magazine (edited by Mr Montgomery Martin), published in July 1840. The article is entitled \"Nautical Discoveries connected with our Colonial and Maritime greatness.\"\n\n\"Ships, colonies, and commerce' has long been England's motto, and long may England pre-eminently possess them; but a reference to the interests of science should likewise characterize her in her dominion of the seas. From the times in which Sebastian Cabot, a private adventurer of Bristol, to the present, when Weddell, a trader in seal-skins, with an intrepidity worthy of any of his predecessors, performed, in a frail bark of a hundred and sixty tons, a voyage of greater length and peril than, under the same circumstances, had ever been performed by man.\"—P. 332.\n\n\"With a view to discoveries towards the south, and in the hope of exploring higher latitudes than had crowned the researches of any former navigator of those little-known and remote seas—an object bespeaking an enlargement of view upon the great questions of maritime science—Weddell encountered the perils of a thousand miles of ice, and accomplished a task never performed by the skill of navigator. He traversed the seas beyond the South Shetlands. A private trader, not fitted out for the purpose of discovery—with ships not fortified and strengthened against the rude assaults of ice, in its thousand shapes—with all the unknown impediments of an unexplored polar sea—he has thrown more light upon the antarctic regions—has been more successful in his researches, and elicited more phenomena and facts connected with the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean, than all the most experienced navigators since the days of Magellan.\n\nImportant as is the information which he has thrown into the scale of science—connected with navigation, physics, and geography they are, perhaps, the more enhanced by the circumstance, that a gratuitous devotedness to the advancement of its cause, was the stimulating mean which led to their accomplishment.\n\n66\n\n\"Weddell, for instance, some years back, performed a most extraordinary voyage, in which he ascertained phenomena connected with the South Polar Seas—that its ices were not congregated in dense and impenetrable masses as in the arctic seas. Should not these things, so interesting to geography, cosmography, and physics in general, be further investigated? And should not some of the wealth of a colonial and maritime state, such as England, be more liberally and munificently employed in encouraging and rewarding perilous expeditions, for the attainment of important objects!\"\n\n\"Is it yet too late, on the part of England, to pursue the tract laid open by the enterprise of Weddell? Has not the State leisure, or public ambition, to encourage such enterprises? or is this new field of scientific adventure at such a discount in England as to furnish no successor to the dauntless navigator who explored new phenomena connected with the antarctic seas? Might not, however, the trial be made? Two ships built for the occasion—their stems and stern-posts, their midship-beams, their wing decks, and lower transoms, and their ribs and planking strengthened so as to resist the hurricanes of the Fuegian seas, and the icebergs of much higher latitudes—under the genius and skill of a commander every way competent to the undertaking—might again approach the South Pole?\n\n\"A second attempt, more auspiciously equipped than that under Weddell, would, it is probable, elicit very interesting results in geography and physics. Questions unascertained, and phenomena as yet unelucidated, might, in a high degree, crown the intrepidity and the enterprise of our nautical adventurers.\"—Pp. 336-7.\n\nExtracts from various other publications, relative to these voyages, of a similar import with the above, from 1825 and subsequently, might also be given. Your Memorialist, however, is unwilling to multiply them, feeling satisfied that what has already been adduced, will be sufficient.\n\n3\n\nto shew the importance of the subject both in a scientific and maritime point of view, to which he has taken the liberty of calling the attention of your Lordships.\n\nYour Memorialist now humbly requests your Lordships' attention to a less pleasing part of the subject, viz. that in consequence of Captain Weddell devoting so great a portion of his time when in these seas, to the purposes of investigation and discovery, he neglected the legitimate object of the undertaking (which was, as stated, the procuring seal skins) so much, that the result, in a pecuniary point of view, was most disastrous to all concerned, and ended in the total ruin and bankruptcy of the daring navigator.\n\nCaptain Weddell died without issue, or any near relation, indebted to your Memorialist in a very large sum; and Mr Mitchell was, at his bankruptcy, in your Memorialist's debt even to a larger amount; the entire losses of the voyages being thus entailed on your Memorialist, the only solvent partner in the undertaking. These losses would now amount to upwards of £6000; and in addition to other heavy losses of late years, have been the cause of your Memorialist becoming insolvent in April last, after engaging extensively in business for a period of 43 years. Your Memorialist is now advanced in life, being upwards of 63 years of age, with a large family, several of whom are entirely dependent on him for support; and in addition to these distressing circumstances, he has within the last three months, met with a very severe accident in one of his legs, from a fall, which has confined him to the house almost ever since, and may be the means of preventing him hereafter from engaging in any active employment.\n\nYour Memorialist, in making this appeal to the benevolence of your Lordships, rests his claim for compensation on the ground of having supplied Captain Weddell with the vessels and the means of prosecuting his scientific researches; without which, in all probability, these voyages would never have taken place.\n\nYour Memorialist trusts that the time which has elapsed since these voyages were performed, will not operate prejudicially to the case now humbly submitted. He hopes that it rather may have a contrary effect, as, but for the train of unfortunate circumstances above alluded to, and the position to which he is consequently now reduced, no such application as the present would have been made.\n\nYour Memorialist, therefore, humbly prays, that your Lordships will be pleased to take his case into your favourable consideration, and be induced to grant him, or the female part of his family, annuities for such amounts as may compensate in some degree the heavy losses which he has sustained, in connection with voyages, by which facts, so interesting, and of such national importance, have been elicited, and the navigation of the Southern Antarctic Circle rendered more accessible to subsequent navigators. Your Memorialist hopes that your Lordships, as watching over the maritime objects of this great nation, will not allow such severe and heavy losses as those sustained by him in the cause of science or discovery, to go altogether unnoticed or unrewarded.\n\nAnd your\n\nEDINBURGH, August 1843.\n\nMemorialist, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]",
        "page_number": 135,
        "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]",
        "content_text": "122\n\n4\n\nis called on to perform duties of no ordinary description, and which must prove very harassing. This however arises from the system in force, and in my judgment is very considerably increased by the presence of what is called \"The Board of Respective Officers.\" What the precise duties of these officers are, cannot clearly understand; but it appears to me that one of their principal avocations is to recommend what to them may seem fit and necessary for the public service.\n\nThe Board consists of—\n\nA Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers.\n\nA Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery. The Ordnance Storekeeper.\n\nThe Acting Deputy Storekeeper.\n\n20. In my despatch of 25th January, No. 10, I have suggested that in a military point of view I cannot conceive it possible that the presence of the two first officers is requisite with a force composed of 1,200 men; and if this opinion be in conformity with that entertained by those more competent to offer one, and there be no other objections, of which I am unaware, I would urgently recommend the abolition of this Board altogether. In all boards the responsibility is so much divided, that suggestions involving expense are much more likely to be made by them than by an individual; and there seems no cause why such occasional alterations and additions as may be required, cannot, on their necessity, being brought to the notice of the General or other officer commanding, be sanctioned by him without the intervention of this Board, which cannot, if Mr. St. Hill's statement be correct, and of which there can be no doubt, but materially add to the labour not only of his own but of that of other departments, as far as I am able to judge, without any commensurate advantage being derived.\n\n21. But should the proper authorities not see fit to place this power in the hands of the commanding officer, it might be ordered that no military expenses should be incurred or recommended beyond £100 without being also approved of by the Governor of the colony.\n\n22. The Ordnance Storekeeper's Establishment is as follows, and amounts annually to £4,165 6s. 7d.\n\n  \n    1 Storekeeper. (first class)\n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n    936\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Deputy Storekeeper\n    \n    \n    \n    540\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 First Clerk\n    \n    \n    \n    362\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Second Clerk\n    \n    \n    \n    322\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    I Assistant Firemaster\n    \n    \n    \n    45\n    12\n    6\n  \n\n23 The expenses of this department amount annually to £1,785, to which must be added £500 per annum for offices and stores; and on the whole I do not consider it susceptible of any material reduction; but from Mr. Assistant-Commissary-General Smith's own showing, I think it is capable of undertaking a very considerable addition to its duties. At present the department has in its charge provisions to the value of £2,424 19s 4d., and the actual value of the supplies issued during the past year, 1848, amounted only to £7,335 4s. 8d. and this includes, as will be seen on reference to Enclosure No. 12, every article of consumption ordered by the commissariat, embracing all hospital comforts. The fresh beef and bread provided by Chinese contractors, as also the fire-wood, form a sum of £3,878, which would leave the actual distribution by the commissariat, of only £3,457 per annum.\n\nPage 41.\n\n24. In explanation of this small expenditure of provisions, it is right, I should again observe, that the European troops amounting to only 600 are supplied with bread and fresh meat by contract, so that with the exception of one day in each week, when salt meat is supplied to them during the six winter months, the commissariat department has indeed in this branch of its duty, but little to do, as the Ceylon Rifles do not draw any rations from the department.\n\n25. Mr. Smith appears to make some difficulty in undertaking the duty of provisioning the navy, and if, as he states, that Hong Kong was the headquarters of the Indian station, and that a large force was always stationed here, his objection might be entitled to consideration; but instead of a line of battle ship, a frigate, three steamers, and five sloops, being ordinarily stationed here, the force intended for Hong Kong as agreed upon between Viscount Palmerston and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty is fixed at one frigate, and a steamer, a force about equivalent to that which Mr. Smith states in the Australian colonies is supplied by the army commissariat under the commissariat regulations; and with this precedent before me, I certainly cannot see why a similar plan may not be adopted in this colony.\n\n26. It appears also evident that the building used for a commissariat store, is at present unnecessarily large; and so far as I can judge, would hold the extra supplies required for the navy. Should it be found insufficient there would be no difficulty in hiring good and dry warehouses elsewhere.\n\n27. With respect to Mr. Smith's animadversions on the civil department, I have nothing to say, except that he is clearly writing on subjects with which he is not familiar, and with the particulars of which he has not the means of being very intimately acquainted. In his remarks I see he says, that on negotiating bills during the past year, a profit of £2,949 has been realized. This is no doubt very satisfactory, but whether the rate of exchange is favourable or otherwise, does not depend on him, but on circumstances over which he can possibly have no control. So long as money can be procured for bills under 4s. 2d. per dollar, a saving will accrue to Government. When the exchange is higher than this rate the Government will sustain a loss.\n\n28. The Barrack Department stands as follows:-\n\n  \n    1 Barrack Master\n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n    689\n    15\n    0\n  \n  \n    I Clerk @ £50 per mensem\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Superior Barrack Sergeant\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Barrack Sergeants\n    \n    \n    \n    525\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    3 Temporary Clerks @ £60\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ditto\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Temporary Clerk @ £70 per month each\n    \n    \n    \n    150\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Foreman of Storehousemen @ 5s. 6d. per day\n    \n    \n    \n    86\n    1\n    6\n  \n  \n    1 Foreman of Magazine\n    \n    \n    \n    86\n    1\n    6\n  \n  \n    1 Cooper\n    \n    \n    \n    86\n    1\n    6\n  \n  \n    2 Storehousemen @ 5s. per day\n    \n    \n    \n    156\n    10\n    0\n  \n  \n    2 Storehousemen @ 4s. 2d. per day\n    \n    \n    \n    130\n    8\n    4\n  \n  \n    1 Painter at £13. 3d. per day\n    \n    \n    \n    19\n    11\n    3\n  \n  \n    Royal Artillery employed in Magazine\n    \n    \n    \n    100\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    Chinese, as Artificers, Watchmen, Porters, Coolies, &c.\n    \n    \n    \n    620\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    £1,014\n    18\n    0\n  \n\nPage 44.\n\n29. The duties this officer has to perform are stated in a memorandum furnished by the officer at present in charge of the department. I certainly cannot see why the duties should not be transferred to the engineer department or to an old subaltern officer of the force serving on the island on an allowance of £100 per annum.\n\nPage 47.\n\n30. The Royal Engineer Department stands as follows:-\n\n  \n    ROYAL ENGINEERS.\n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n  \n  \n    1. Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding\n    1,322\n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    1 Captain or Brevet Major\n    789\n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    1 First Lieutenant\n    357\n    8\n    4\n  \n  \n    1 First Lieutenant attached to Royal Sappers and Miners\n    378\n    13\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ROYAL ENGINEERS CIVIL DEPARTMENT.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Clerks of Works, fourth class\n    589\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    I Foreman of Works, second class\n    258\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Clerk, fourth class\n    203\n    5\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Sergeants, 1 Corporal, 2 Second Corporals, and 39 Privates\n    885\n    17\n    1\n  \n  \n    1 Office Keeper\n    25\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    1 Office Coolie\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Watchmen\n    25\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    CHINESE.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    12\n    10\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    £4,846\n    15\n    5\n  \n\nRoyal Engineer Department.\n\nPage 48.\n\n31. From the enclosed statement will be seen the duties which the individuals connected with this department are called on to perform. In my despatch, No. 10, of 25th January, I recommended that certain reductions should be made in this department, from which further experience and observation afford...",
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        "content_text": "24\n\n25\n\nDescription of Stores.\n\nDifferent natures.\n\nS.\n\nR. U.\n\nBrass\n\n2\n\nGate, 4' 8\" complete\n\n45 2\n\nIron-cast butt\n\n376\n\nCross garnett\n\n277\n\nJacks, lifting Jackets\n\nJags, brass\n\nJambs, marble\n\nJiggers, coopers'\n\nDescription of Stores.\n\nDifferent natures.\n\n8.\n\nR.\n\nD.\n\nHooks and Eyes\n\n185\n\nIron\n\nH\n\n157\n\n-\n\nWith bolts and nuts, for guard beds\n\n26\n\nKey of sorts\n\nProjecting 5 in.\n\n200\n\nHinges -\n\n4' 4\"\n\n4\n\n3' 8\"\n\n2\n\nMetal\n\nCross garnett\n\n8\n\nJumpers, miners'\n\nJacks, roasting, with appurtenances\n\nCamp\n\nKit\n\nKettles -\n\nPaint\n\nTea\n\nBlank\n\nHasps\n\n12\n\nHook and eye, 26 in.\n\npairs\n\n40\n\nBolts, fighting\n\nJoint bolts\n\nHL 10 in.\n\n36\n\nRise, joint\n\n158\n\nTable\n\npairs\n\n4\n\nWrought, for sd. beds\n\npairs\n\n4\n\nHooks\n\nS.\n\n\"\n\nStay\n\nHoes, garden\n\nBill, with handles\n\nBrass\n\nCan, copper\n\nComposition, 18\" x 11\"\n\nIron, stone-saw\n\nPot, iron\n\n6\n\n1,248\n\n144\n\n24\n\nand thimble iron\n\n12\n\n16\n\n36\n\n36\n\n126\n\n14\n\n122\n\nTackle, iron, with thimble\n\nTent\n\npairs\n\n3\n\n19\n\n162\n\nWith thimble for slings, iron\n\n180\n\nHoops\n\n-\n\nCopper\n\n4\n\n10,827\n\nAsh, straight, qr. barrels\n\n582\n\nHorns, powder\n\nHorses\n\nTent\n\nHose, powder\n\nHosiery, fleecy Husks, paddy\n\n3\n\n46\n\nඑ\n\n(Magazine\n\n2\n\n9\n\n5\n\nWooden, strong\n\n43\n\nyards\n\n660\n\nyards\n\n25\n\nWith staves -\n\nKeys\n\nMetal, for opening powder barrels\n\nKnapsacks, complete R. A.\n\nKnives -\n\nChucklers'\n\nClasp\n\nCollarmakers' hand\n\nDrawing, carpenters'\n\nJigger and draw\n\nGabion Hollowing-\n\nLaboratory Pallet\n\nPainters' stone Putty\n\nScraping, gun\n\nof sorts\n\nLables, brass, for keys Lacquer Ladders\n\nLadles -\n\nScaling, 8 length Steps\n\nComposition, copper\n\nIron melting Mess, iron\n\nShot grate\n\n6\n\n5\n\n11\n\n2\n\n6\n\n2\n\n98\n\n319\n\n1\n\n11\n\n64\n\n4\n\n30\n\n16\n\n11\n\n7\n\n8\n\n2\n\n2\n\n10\n\n11\n\n2\n\n58\n\n2\n\n186\n\n2\n\n2\n\n.50\n\n11\n\n34\n\n84\n\nlbs.\n\n210\n\npair\n\n35\n\n2\n\n16\n\n11\n\n144\n\n2\n\nCarronade Gur\n\n5\n\nIbs.\n\n150\n\n32\n\nBits\n\n14\n\nWith staves\n\nBoxes, tin, grease\n\n1\n\nCarronade, 18-pounder Gun\n\n3\n\nand wadhooks\n\n4\n\n27\n\nImplements,\n\nFunnels, tin\n\n6\n\nHowitzer, 12-pounder\n\nRocket\n\nInstructions, copies of\n\n1\n\nWithout stave gun\n\n2\n\nScale, brass, graduated\n\n1\n\nLamps\n\nLanterns\n\n89\n\nStocks for bits\n\n1\n\n203\n\nMathematical\n\n2\n\nLashing, bamboo\n\nHbs.\n\n224\n\nInstruments -\n\nFor loading 8 in. howitzer\n\n2\n\nIvory, brass, ebony, spring knobs\n\n6\n\nB. O. without handles\n\nBolt-\n\n36.3.24\n\n2\n\nBar, for braces\n\nlengths\n\n14\n\nLatches -\n\nNorfolk, large\n\n10\n\nFlat -\n\n84.2.0\n\nPulpit\n\n19\n\nHoop\n\nNailrod\n\n7.0.0\n\nSash, mortice, crank, furnl. compt.\n\n24\n\nIron\n\nOld\n\n-\n\ncwt. qre. lbs.\n\nPlate\n\nSheet\n\nSquare\n\nWrought\n\nFor gun carriages\n\nsets\n\nFor stop cocks -\n\n- bundles\n\nBick\n\nBranding\n\nCollarmakers'\n\nCreasing\n\nEdge\n\nFlagging\n\n(Officers'\n\nA\n\nN\n\nIrons\n\nFire\n\nMousing\n\nSoldiers'\n\nDog, officers'\n\nPalm\n\nPlane\n\nPriming\n\nSeam, turning\n\nShoulder\n\nSoldering, tinman's\n\nTamping\n\nFire\n\n3.0.0\n\n65.3.27\n\n5\n\n4\n\n7\n\n2\n\n4\n\n2\n\n2\n\nsets\n\n3\n\n73\n\n3\n\n186\n\n3\n\n10\n\n4\n\n85\n\n505\n\n2\n\n2\n\n5\n\n7.0.0\n\n62.0.26\n\n2.0.27\n\nLead -\n\nLeather -\n\nThumb\n\nFor sole pieces\n\nLetters, stamping\n\nLevels, field\n\nLevels, spirit\n\nLevers\n\nIron\n\nRifle, flint\n\n88\n\ntons cwt. qrs. Ms.\n\ncwt.\n\n11.2.2.16\n\nqrs.\n\nIbs.\n\n3.0.7\n\n1,000\n\n52\n\n6\n\n22\n\nBell brass\n\n4\n\n4\n\n573\n\nLids\n\nLimo squeezers\n\nLimbers with\n\nwheels\n\nLines\n\nWith trucks, 9 feet\n\nKettles, camp, copper\n\nPot\n\n1\n\n137\n\n75\n\n10\n\nAmmunition carriago\n\nCarriage, gun, traversing 6-pounder\n\n3\n\n2\n\nGun\n\nHowitzer\n\nLinstocks, with cocks Litharge\n\n14\n\n10\n\n563\n\n54\n\nIbs.\n\n622\n\nE\n\n132",
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        "content_text": "37\n\nGentlemen,\n\nMr. St. Hill to the Ordnance Officers.\n\nOffice of Ordnance, Hong Kong, April 19, 1849. AVAILING myself of the desire conveyed in the latter part of the four and the last extracts in the Brigade Major's letter of the 4th instant, that I should offer such remarks as may appear necessary on the proposed change in this department, by sharing a portion of the duties of the Naval Storekeeper, I feel it incumbent on me respectfully to submit the following objections, trusting the Honorable the Major-General will be pleased to give them due consideration, when framing his report on the subject.\n\nThe most cursory glance at the details of the duties now forwarded, I feel assured is sufficient to show the extreme difficulty, if not impossibility, of the object in contemplation, (as far as this department is concerned,) and this will render further remark from me superfluous, but I deem it my duty to point out the very onerous responsibility under which I am now placed, by the immense quantity of valuable stores, &c., under my charge, and for which I am accountable to the authorities at home, myself and friends being under heavy security bonds. This is much increased by my having many inexperienced persons in my office, where it requires a service of several years to arrive at anything like a knowledge of the various natures of the stores, orders, and regulations for conducting so many different duties, the destructive nature of the climate, and the pilfering habits of the Chinese by whom I am surrounded.\n\nFeeling, therefore, as I do, from the reasons stated, the impossibility of my undertaking any, even a small portion of the duties of the Naval Storekeeper, \"with benefit to the service,\" I beg you will be pleased to submit the same respectfully and earnestly for the serious consideration of the Honorable the Major-General Commanding.\n\nI have, &c,\n\n(Signed)\n\nHENRY ST. HILL,\n\nOrdnance Storekeeper.\n\nSCHEDULE of the Pay and Allowances of all Persons employed in the Civil Branch of the Ordnance and Barrack Departments at Hong Kong.\n\n  \n    ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.\n    \n    Annual Gross Pay, &c.\n    Deduction on account of Income Tax, &c.\n    Net Pay per annum.\n    Remark\n  \n  \n    1 Storekeeper (first class)\n    \n    £936 0 0\n    £33 10 0\n    £902 10 0\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Deputy ditto\n    \n    £540 0 0\n    £43 4 0\n    £496 16 0\n    \n  \n  \n    1 First clerk\n    \n    £362 0 0\n    £29 0 0\n    £333 0 0\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Second ditto.\n    \n    £322 0 0\n    £25 16 0\n    £296 4 0\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Assistant fire-master.\n    \n    £45 12 6\n    £1 6 7\n    £44 5 11\n    Absent on leave in England.\n  \n  \n    Establishment 8 Temporary clerks, @ $70 per month each\n    \n    £525 0 0\n    £15 6 3\n    £509 13 9\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Ditto ditto, @ $60\n    \n    £150 0 0\n    £4 7 6\n    £145 12 6\n    One of these to be dispensed with on the return of deputy storekeeper.\n  \n  \n    1 Foreman of storehousemen, @ 5s. 6d. per day\n    \n    £86 1 1\n    £1 19 1\n    £84 2 5\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Ditto of magazine.\n    @ ditto\n    £86 1 1\n    £1 19 1\n    £84 2 5\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Cooper\n    @ ditto\n    £86 1 1\n    £1 19 1\n    £84 2 5\n    \n  \n  \n    2 Ditto\n    @ 4s. 2d.\n    £156 10 0\n    £2 12 2\n    £153 17 10\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Painter\n    @ 1s. 3d.\n    £19 11 3\n    \n    £19 11 3\n    \n  \n  \n    Royal Artillery employed in magazine Chinese as artificers, watchmen, porters, coolies, &c.\n    \n    £100 0 0\n    \n    \n    Average per annum.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    £620 0 0\n    \n    \n    Ditto.\n  \n  \n    Total Ordnance Department.\n    \n    £4165 6 7\n    \n    £4001 14 8\n    \n  \n\nBARRACK DEPARTMENT.\n\n  \n    \n    \n    £ s. d.\n    \n    £ s. d.\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Barrack-master\n    +\n    689 15 0\n    55 19 0\n    633 16 0\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Temporary clerk, at $50 per month\n    \n    125 0 0\n    \n    125 0 0\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Superior barrack-sergeant\n    \n    125 0 0\n    \n    \n    To be discharged on arrival of superior barrack-sergeant.\n  \n  \n    2 Barrack-sergeants, at 3s. per day\n    \n    109 2 0\n    \n    109 2 0\n    \n  \n  \n    Total Barrack Department.\n    \n    £1014 18 0\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ordnance Total\n    \n    £4960 13 8\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nOffice of Ordnance, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 19, 1849.\n\n(Signed)\n\nHENRY ST. HILL,\n\nOrdnance Storekeeper.\n\n138",
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        "content_text": "Corps.\n\n95th Regiment.\n\n54\n\nEnclosure 18.\n\nDETAIL of Guards mounted by the Troops at Victoria.\n\nGuards.\n\nCommissariat store and Provost.......\n\nTreasury\n\nHospital\n\nGovernor's\n\nMajor-Generals\n\nRegimental\n\n  \n    Sergeants.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    9\n  \n  \n    Sergeants.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    9\n  \n  \n    Sergeants.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    9\n  \n  \n    Sergeants.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    6\n  \n  \n    Total\n    3\n    7\n    1\n    59\n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    \n    \n    \n    47\n  \n\nCorporals.\n\nDrummers.\n\nPrivates.\n\n11 315 5 3 | 10 | 428\n\nStations.\n\n55\n\nWEEKLY STATE of the TROOPS Serving in the Island of Hong Kong.\n\nNon-Commissioned Officers,\n\nCorps and Detachments,\n\nand by whom\n\nCommanded.\n\nDistribution.\n\nVictoria.\n\nRoyal Artillery, by\n\nLieut. Col. Eyre.\n\nby\n\nGun Lascars,\n\nVictoria.\n\nLieut. Col. J. Eyre.\n\n  \n    \n    Fit for duty\n    Sick in hospital..\n    Regimental employ\n    Ordnance employ\n    In Provost prison\n    On passage to England...\n  \n  \n    Field Officers.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Captains.\n    :::::\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Subalterns.\n    :::::|\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staff.\n    :::::\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Native Officers.\n    :::::\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staff Sergeants.\n    :::::\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sergeants.\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Corporals.\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lance Corporals.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers.\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Privates.\n    147\n    :::\n    \n    \n    \n    མ\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rank and File.\n    4112\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sick\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In Provost prison.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In gaol\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Prisoners\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nRoyal Sappers and Miners,\n\nVictoria.\n\nby Lieut.-Col. G. Phillpotts.\n\nAttached to 95th Regiment.\n\n  \n    \n    Fit for duty\n    Sick in quarters\n    Prisoners\n  \n  \n    Total\n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    I\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    15\n    \n    \n  \n\nWest Point\n\n**\n\n1\n\n1\n\n12\n\nMagazine.....\n\nCeylon Rifles.\n\n1\n\n6\n\n----\n\nGaol.....\n\nVictoria.\n\nCommissariat Office......\n\n1\n\n3\n\nLieut. Col. J. Walter.\n\nRegimental\n\n1 4\n\n1\n\n24\n\nTotal\n\n+\n\n26\n\nFit for duty\n\n  \n    Royal Artillery.\n    Regimental\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Gun Lascars.\n    Kellet's Island...\n    Regimental\n    \n  \n  \n    Royal Sappers\n    Regimental\n    and\n    Miners.\n  \n  \n    9\n    1\n    60\n    \n  \n  \n    41\n    11\n    316\n    5\n    3 | 10 |4,4\n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    30\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    VIHE\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ........\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    1 5\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    10\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, May 12, 1849.\n\n1\n\n126\n\nco\n\n3\n\n2\n\n24\n\n1\n\n6\n\n21\n\n5\n\n€\n\nVictoria.\n\n:!!!\n\n: \n\n95th Regiment,\n\nby\n\nCeylon Rifles, by\n\nLieut.-Col. H. Simmonds,\n\n  \n    \n    Fit for duty\n    Sick in hospital.\n    Sick in quarters\n  \n  \n    Hospital orderlies.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staff and other employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Regimental employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerk..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Band\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Acting Sergeants\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Drummers and Boys..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Attending drill..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    On passage to England\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In Provost prison.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Absent with leave.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    without leave...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Attached of Royal Sappers and Miners\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fit for duty\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sick..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Convalescent and sick in quarters\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hospital orderlies.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Staff employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Garrison employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Commissariat employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Regimental employ\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerks\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Attending drill\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Absent with leave..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    without leave....\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In custody Civil Power..\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Acting Sergeants\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::::::::::::::\n    2 6 10\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    පු\n    5\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 1 7 3 7\n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::::::::::::::\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nStanley.\n\nDetachment Ceylon Rifles, by\n\nFit for duty Sick\n\nSick orderlies\n\nLieut. J. A. Layard.\n\nEscort duty\n\nTotal\n\nDetachment Ceylon Rifles, Fit for duty\n\nby\n\nSaiwan.\n\nLieut. T. MacDonnald.\n\nSick\n\nTotal\n\n~:::::\n\n::::\n\n-\n\n  \n    7\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    co\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    www\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    I\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    INA4G\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    62\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CT\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5 I 77\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    I\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    21\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    *\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 3 3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    26\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    17 30\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11 315\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    40\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    : ج :-\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7 24 27 30 11 423\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    22\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    :::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2:::::::::::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2:::::~~~\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    28\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11 316\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    :::::::::::::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    23-2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    33\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    :::::\n    \n  \n  \n    :::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 5 10 3 8 5 26 20 28 11 410\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 1 1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 51\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    :::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    411\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    -2-3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    I 1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ས\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    57\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ::\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    25\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    I\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    26\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 5 13\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10 5 30 28 28\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12 493\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    25 1060\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Private, one Corporal to Sergeant, and one Private to Lance Corporal,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    * One Captain on leave, one Sergeant to\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (Signed)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Ceylon Rifle Regiment.. Grand Total\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    RODNEY MYLIUS, Captain,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Brigade Major.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Victoria, Hong Kong, May 12, 1849.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7 13 27 10 10 14 58 68 69\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (Signed)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    L. FRASER, Lieutenant,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fort Adjutant.",
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        "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was",
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        "content_text": "A 16 of 1851.\n\nInclosures No 1 in Dish:\n\nat Cantons intimating\n\nSeizure of Phuc-tho-\n\n\"Letter from a Chinese\n\nRevel 147\n\nAt The Gowary, 1851,\n\n70\n\nat even its greatest advocates will not assert how far they followed as he was lying on the ground\n\none officer was short, the other tall never saw them of use in reclaiming offenders. With the verdict differ; and we have also something afterwards; but not see the body of Captain DaCosta; never saw the officers before, knows nothing more of to say on the manner in which the case was brought before the Court; up these points how his own knowledge.\n\nCross examined, -Chuy-apo lives next door; there ever we cannot enter present, but may do so in is no communication between the houses-does not our next issue.\n\nknow whether Chuy-apo was armed before he was On the subject of the line of defence we are also struck; he aimed at himself immediately after he was unable to speak Tough, and wherefore for the struck. Chuy-apo was in a 'passion; he did not pretext re fuse from speaking merely re-speak or say what put him in a passion; his daughter-in-law and Chuy-in-law ran away after the foreigners had been wounded outside; his wife called out \"save life,\" Chuy-apo ut uke exes would have resulted as it has done,\n\nhad created a disturbance in Chuy-apo's house be- fore this, but does not know anything from his own\n\nAn extra Sessions of the Supreme Court was held knowledge. He did not see the officers wounded, on the 10th instant, for trial of Chuy-apo, charged locks with other things; the paddy field belongs to Chuy-apo is possessed of a house, and 7 or bull- with the murder of Captain DaCosta at Wong-na-chok, on the 25th day of February, 1849.\n\nThe Attorney General for the Crown. Mr. Gaskell for Prisoner.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed to consolidate the two indictments, one for murder by stabbing, and the other for murder by drowning.\n\ndid not assist in killing the officers, saw Clan-kow\n\nsman, Ahing, Leen-ping, Aman, and others assisting killing the officers; the men gave a reason for attacking the foreigners.\n\nLe-arow, boy, sworn, (son of last witness), ---Remembers the 25th February, 1849; was at home at\n\nrice, his sister-in-law waking up a fire, when two off-\n\nMr. Gaskell agreed to this. He objected to jurisdiction, founding objection wording of Supplementary Treaty, (rote taken by his Lordship),\n\nChuy-apo refused to plead; indictment read by Mr. per came into the house and embraced her; his sister-in-law's witness name is Lo-chun-ehe; she and ins R. D. Cay, Registrar of Court, plea of \"not guilty\" ther called out for help, and Chug-apo and others entered.\n\nFurther objection on ground of kidnapping, to being annoyed came and beat the officers; the officers settled by Su and Sir George Bonham: warrant of did nothing else but embrace his sister-in-law; she Curader demand, to show the illegality of con- ciste, is father tried to get the officers out of mittal. His Lordship remarked that it mattered the house before Chuy-apo came. Chuy-apo esme as ittle, there was the man. Indictment translated by soon as the women called for help, his father was M. R. D. Caldwell. Answer by Choy-ebo on the head: then Chay-apo went and anointed above and earth below. Told he might challenge embraced, he first of all requested them (the officers) himself; when his father saw his daughter-in-law the Jury. His counsel demanded a Jury de meditate Langue, when the following were empanelled. Eng-father on the head, the ground bled; the prisoner and to leave the house; they would not, they struck his\n\nlishmen, J. C. Bowring, G. Smart, and W. A. Bow\n\nhis party then came on; after Choy apo came he stab- Foreigners-J. A. Barretto, S. Dellevic, and F. A.\n\nbel the officers at the corner of the house; Chuv-apo only came once, he was armed, did not see what Lo-chun-she, girl, sworn,-Recollects the 25th February, 1849, was then living at Wong-ma-kok in L-ace's her father-in-law) house. While cooking dinner, two foreigners came in and embraced her, one was\n\ndressed in dark clothes, and the other in white; they were dressed as civilians. They came from Chuk-chu; never saw them before; both embraced her his house; the rick field was what he meant when is a road to the brick field where they were killed from embraced her from behind, the other from before he said the corner of the house; the officers struck Her mother-in-law tried to get her away from them. Lo-chow-she is her mother-in-law's name, does not know where her mother-in-law is at present; they struck, her mother-in-law, blackened her, eye and cut her father-in-law's head. Her father-in-law's wound bled from blow with a stick; both had sticks, they were among walking sticks with knobs. Father and mother-in-law tried to push them out of house-they would not go, but flourished their sticks at all near them. Chur-apo came with spear in hand, and wounded them both: would not know the spear. There were several people with Choy-apo, about five people Chay-apo interfered because he was a relation, and also, because her father-in-law and mother-in-law called. All five men were ed for assistance to save their lives.\n\nthe Chinese before they went out of the house, both parties left the house, the officers ran away; they were dead when slung on bamboos; the bodies were cown into the water, the bodies were tied by their hands and feet, and slung on a pole with a rope round their waist; was distant from there 100 covids when they were slang on the bamboo; saw them speared from his house; the shortest space he was from them was as the bodies were carried past, about 30 covids; would know the men that slung the bodies; Chuy-apo did not carry; does not know the bodies; he saw the prisoner and his party sling\n\nif any thing was done with the bodies before they were thrown into the water; knows no more. Has\n\narmed with spears. Cannot say on what part of the elder and a younger brother; his young brother's name is Ea-show; he has gone to see some relations badly they, the officers, were wounded. They were\n\n& Tam-showy; does not know if his brother is sub- wounded at the door of the house; Choy-apo then ran\n\ntall: would know the spear with which the officers were stabbed, identifies it, it belongs to the prisoner.\n\naway. Chuy-so called some people to carry the bodies, and throw them into the water. The integn-\n\ners ran away first; they were pursued by Chuy-po and\n\nCross examined, Cannot see the place where the the men with spears-they were pursued 50 or 60 covids-they were then killed with knives and spears, officers were killed from his house; the time was Could not entity any of the other men besides Chuy-about dark, the place was several tens of covids off; apo, had only been in village a short time saw nothing he went out; dire about half-past 7 P. M.; both were more take place; being frightened ran away to the hills. killed; others assisted besides Clay-apo. There Saw the bodies carried away before she ran away; they were six or seven, he saw when he describes when he were tied and slung on bamboos; they were carried went out. He could see from his house, all he has towards the sea, they were dead when so slang. She described. The officers were stabbed before he went was about 50 feet from them when they were slung on the bamboos. She remained two days in the hills; knows nothing further.\n\nout, he did not see them stabbed; they were dead when slung on the boo; did not see a spear taken | out of Choy-apo's hand; saw the officers come to Choss examined, Chuy-apo lived next door but the village and saw them go into his father's house; one to her father-in-law, there is no communication he was in the house. The Chinese only came to his between the houses; he brought his weapons from his father's house once; did not see the officers go to own base. Chuy-apo was struck first; was struck Chay-apo's house; saw them go into other houses, by both officers with their sticks. They struck him a and interfere with women, saw but himself; did not good many blows before by carned them; cannot go into the houses but could see from outside; the describe the nature of their wounds; they were made officers went inside of the houses; did not see the with a spear. Says the \"did not, and then she did,\" officers strike Chuy-apo before they went this give the above esilencent Coroner's inquest. She said father's house; did not swear so at Coroner's in the fight with her own eyes. It was about & te quest; saw Chuy-apo come out of his house with a o'clock . ., dark, could just see, disturbance first took place in the house and afterwards contioned out- Charles May, sworn. Remembers the 25th February, 1849; received on the morning of the 26th, in- and then followed. The foreigners returned to the formation that Captain DaCosta and Lieutenant Dwyer house, the Chinese also returned. The Chinese were were missing from their quarters at Stanley; went armed both times when they came. She did not say at Stanley with Mr. Caldwell and a party of police. the Coroner's inquest that she knew Chay-ago, Ins Arved at Stanley about half-past 10 . ., found had no conversion with any one in jail on this sub-three Chinese in charge of the Military, examines jech; was in jail with a woman, boatwoman; had no them through Mr. Caldwell; the last witness was one; conversation with her; swears Chug-apo and others the others are not here to-day. The last witness killed them.\n\nsaid he had been at home all day at Wong-ma-kok, Re-examined, Two or three days elapsed between and has seen no Europeans during the day. Made the death an inquest; as at Coroner's inquest as at present.\n\nof Wong-ma-kok, having heard that the missing Jasze, old man, sworn, is a husbandman, lives officure were last seen in that direction. On a path at Wong-na-kok,--Remembers the 25th February, 1849; was living at Wong-ma-kok; that day is of blood; trace the marks upwards about 400 yards, daughter-in-law was cooking in his house, two foreigners came in, and went and embraced her; she was could not discover any blood opposite the village that then only 10 years old, was frightened and ashamed; day; next day saw this rings of blood opposite it in requested them to leave the house; was afraid they different places. At the last corner opposite house would take liberties with his daughter-in-law, they of Lo-ase, saw marks of blood on a rock, the took hold of her by the breast. He and my feng tigt mck was at the corner of another path than tint kuey wutuu vaktave ner, only that they would take li- | heating a dinner the path at the other side berties; desired them to desist; they would not leave of the rock led to a brick field; searched the houses the house when he spoke to them. Some people the village, and in them were clothes hanging up making gunpowder came to drive them away, being dry; they were not perfectly dry then. In Lo vexed with their conduct. When he told them to go anze's house, in addition to the clothes there was a away one struck him on the head, the blow knocked towel with marks of blood, it had been washed; bra down and he bled; there was blood all over bus while ascending the path to village saw a Chinatman clothes, the blow was given with a common walking on the hill, beckoned to him, he came, it was Lo-asze, stick having a silver or zinc knob. The men who examined him, saw a fresh wound on right side of came fought with the foreigners, but when they left his head, he had marks of blood on his heels, also the house he does not know what occurred as he on a band fastening up a trowsers. He said was lying on the ground. His daughter-in-law and he had been at the village all the preceding day wife enlad for assistance. The men then came were but had not seen any Europeans; said the wound armed with spears; would know the men so armed, on his head was caused by falling over stone, Identifies Chuy-zpn, he was one of the men that returned to Hongkong that night. On the morning of 27th came out to Staley (a large party of military The foreigners struck Chily-apo first: were ordered out to search, went from Stanley in e, Clay, went out first and called the officers to a boat and landed i a fishing station at bottom of a come out, but they would not go; Chuy-ape then went path leading to Wong-ma-kok, on this path: drops of and arrested himself. The fight commenced before he blood were visible; saw where the drops of Blood was struck the low on his head was received accident- seemed to end on this path, and on another path on ally while the foreigners were fighting their way outside of hill parallel with the sea, discovered ber Kows nothing further. Two of prisoner's party were drops of blood at some distance from the fishing sta woel in his house, the officers were not; the for- tion; among the racks in a cave found several bundles eigners left first, the Chinese were forcing them out. of clothing ascended the path to the village tracing Prisoner's party followed the officers, does not know the blood all the way. Several seamen and soldiers\n\nforeigners.\n\nwere searching; towards evening heard that one of the seamen had seen some blood on the rocks near the water; went to the place and found two or three large pools of blood, and in one place as if a body covered with blood had been dragged over the rock, this place was about 200 yards from fishing station, and in same direction in which the blood was traced in the morning. Directed my boatmen to search opposite this place; they searched with a boat hook without discovering any thing for some time. There was a heavy swell, and in keeping the boat off the rocks the broken handle of a spear fell into the water; he ing one of the spears from the village, I ordered the boatmen to recover it, as it was part of the evidence, it had sunk and was entangled among the seaweed). While the boatmen were trying to recover it a body became visible among the seaweed, which I recognis- ed to be that of Captain DaCosta. There were several wounds on head, hands, and body, that in the eye appeared to have been inflicted by a triangular spear; the body was taken to Stanley Enrracks that night, and subsequently brought to Victoria.\n\nDanie! R. Culdwell, sworn,-Has heard Mr. May's evidence; accompanied him to Stanley and Wong- ma-kok, on the 26th and 27th February. Was not with Mr. May all the time; ordered by him to trace the blood towards the water, found the blood on path leading from Wong-mu-kok to water: Mr. May went up to the village, I went towards the water; Acarted about half way from Wong-ma-kok traced blood to within 60 yards of small fishing but, a short distapes from the water; found live Chinese in the but and took them to enslody; found nothing suspicious, and not being able to trace blood further went back to the vil-\n\nlage, where I found Mr. May, Ailer searching about the village, returned to Hongkong with Mr. May. We went hack next morning to Wong-ma-kok; found a portion of spear in the village with marks of blood in consequence of a report that a large quantity of blood had been seen near the water, we all went dawn corroborates Mr. May's statement as to find- ing Captain DaCosta's body; jumped into the water, and brought it on shore by a rope round the arts; returned, finding that further search was useless as it was becoming dark. Searched the pockets, found the watch has gone, the rings were also missing; touk the body Stanley, Corroborates the account of the state of body as to wounds on head, hands, and face, saw other wounds after the body was undraseed; } the body was taken from Stanley to Hongkong. Went to the village some days after with Lo-acow, who point- ed on the exact places where the others were killed, one was in a brick field; there was a pool of blood there.\n\nCrons examined,-The place where Captain Da Costa was killed was absent 74 yards from corner of house at the end of village. Could not see from the house the price where Captain DaCosta was killed, there were trees intervening. The place where Jasze-\n\ntenant Dwyer was killer is about 150 yards further, from where Captain DaCosta was killed. Could not see the place where Captain DaCosta was killed until within 30 yards of it.\n\nRe-examined. When the boy pointed out the spot where Captain DaCosa was killed he said he was an eye-witness to the killing\n\nW. Morrison, Colonial Surgeon, sworn,Examined the body of Captain DaCoste on or about the 29th, in Conjunction with Dr. Tweddell, at the dead house of the Military hospital, Vistoria, dll not make an exact post- mortem. Discovered three wounds inflicted by a knife or sword on the scalp, penetrating to the scull; at outer angle of left eye a perforated wound, made apparently by a spear. Such an instamment as the spear with a cutting edge might have inflicted the wounds on the scalp. There was a large wound on the right hip three inches long made by a cutting instrument, the esa kond of spear might have done it; there were very severe contusions, on the hands, face, and back, us if the body had been beaten. Think none of the wounds sufficient to cause death. Did not open the body from the advanced state of decomposi tion. Dr. Tweddell, agreed in my opinion. I think Captain DaCaste was thrown in alive and drowned. Probable that Captain DaCosta was either in a state of syncopé or altering from concussion of the brain when thrown into the water. I form this opinion from the appearance and nature of the wounds-the water would operate in the same way to came death whether the person suffered from syrempe or concussion of the brain---drowning would be the cause of death. Chain DaCosta if suffering from concussion ang't have remained in an insensible state for two or three days, if in syncopé could not remain so two 3 hours and live,\n\nCross examined,--The handle of the spear could i not produce the wounds on the body, the head of the y spear broken off, would not produce the cat wounds, it might produce the wound in the eye.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed to read the depositions of the absent witnesses,\n\nMr. Gaskell objected on the ground that the late Ordinance only applied to Chinese witnesses and ) was not retrospective.\n\nLieutenant Macdonald's filed deposition read. L-acow, re-examined as so City-apo's attaching the bodies to the bamboo. Flo-yung-ping, Aman, Acheng, and Chahen, carried the bodies; the prisoner did not carry the bodies, but was present. Chuy-apo accompanied the bodies to the water; he witness did not go himself to the water, saw when they passed, the prisoner accompanying, following behind\n\nCase for prosecution closed.\n\nMr. Gaskell in defence pointed out the conflicting nature of the evidence.\n\nThe Judge in summing up entreated the Jury to dismiss from their minds all prejudice; to give the prisoner the same chance as if he were an English man or as if he were guilty of killing one of his own countrymen. Read evidence. Convente on its discrepancies, especially in the difference between Lo-chua-she's evidence before the coroner, and that now delivered. If they thought the prisoner had? sufficient provocation (and he undoubtedly had some) ( that the verdict would be manslaughter; if so, war der the prisoner would of course receive the benefit of any doubt which they might have on the case.\n\nThe Jury retired at 5 o'clock P. M., to consider their verdict, and returned at 5. m., with verdict, \"guilty of manslaughter.\"\n\nThe prisoner said he ought to be sent to his own country to be punished.\n\nThe Judge agreed with the verdict; he could not have condemned the prisoner to death on such evidence.- Sentence to be transported for life.\n\nTHE RIVAL NAVIES.\n\n(From the Naval Service Magazine for December, 1850.J Whenever there The lull in the excitement of public affairs, the cry is raised country is in danger. I danger of winter France, of Tais, of America, ex- claim the writers of alarm. The fortifiedips of Cher be impregnable; a vast aval force to s",
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        "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856",
        "content_text": "Majority and what is the fate of ins evidence?\n\n1st represented as having \"confirmed a purp-es- fure \"under\" a Verbal assurance Baz die would But be FROSECUTED\" for his encroachments.\" We are assure by thow, who have seen the appen dix, that no such evidence the found therein, or any one word enpulite of being fairly construei Into a declaration that the mere indemnity agrins JUNISHMENT\" was interpreted into a reaction of Crown rights! The campission would hav done well to listen to the copeluing portion of the evidence of that Witness whose opinioas deserve all attention,\" when he says for all ess encouragement being given, I think if on inle to speak of the legal responsibility neur Art\"\n\nThe President the Commission, however, can- act divest himself of his gama fat ano modent; and not only, but ne his seasily pronounced his opinion aifany Marine Lo folder should fechos to take the ground flted in in front of his Lot, Gaverament rony oust him from the Lore IT ELF!\n\nLet this be borne ja rind, for should ang eir cumalance deprive as of the presence of our ante and respected Cliet Justice, surely his suegrant 1ust be fauad some where else than amongst those whose Verdists are delivered before the Jury is exponnelled. And mark the grounds.--1 opanks the Lease.\n\nUnder 5000 fest-\n\nscawan\n\nSUPPLEMENT.\n\nBut we hure yet to explain, and it should have been stated in the first place, that the lines on the sea you are driven to a imaginary depth We believe, however, theeo tiuas pretty nearly represcat the extent to which Sir John Bowring wishes leare holders to carry their fets and make a Roadway of thirty feet in width. To nary out there lots to the extent required the whole of the hosters are willing enough: bet to the for mation of a Rund way for public per shey have no in sination, put, the Honorable! the Aitorney Gen- eral's opinion notwithstanding-it is not in the ardinery mainer of the Crown to insist on such n Real being spevat.\n\nThat such a Road is not wanted for mere pas- senger traffic wilt be auparest to wit on an in- spection of the wood eat-there being ample space on the Queen's Rood for the passage of all fa po- polarna we hang at present. That sven a Rond in not wants for wasrfage purposes, inspectors of the wood eut will also be satis lad: -and we razy well ask, if ont for hare, den for what perpes la the Priya winted? In M. Sa mayor General Gordon's suggestion for 2 primate Praya, prepared an a scheme propounded by Sir Henry Pottinger befors Las for int were drafted, it is there sail that in case of an invasion by foreign forces the runway would be convenient for transporting cantan speedily and this, really, is the only use conver ible as a necessity.\n\nExcept and always reserved unto fer a Majesty. Ber Heirs, Suecreare and Amigos, fall As for any aid la Police arrangements, it is our \" parver to resume and lake pession of all or any opinion thai, whatever any be in store for us in part of the said pisce or pircel of ground hereby the future, as regards a more efficient force the demised, if required for the improvement of the formation of a Praya will never be other tasa au anit Colony of Hongkong or for any other Publicaid to intending burglars; and the consequence *parpuse whatsnovor, three Calendar Manito will be that when the Bank and Merchants Bird nation heig giera to the occupant thereof of us they coneet lood Pressure and valuable merchan. being so required, a full and fuir compensation *for sizeh end land and buildings thereon being pald to the said und an, his heirs, executors cal vigation to be fairly and imputing\n\n  \n    \n  \n\nTo the flattor of the \"Hosszene Revuras.\"\n\n-\n\nHasan, 254 47, 153 Sen-Referring to the letter in the fast iseac of the China Mail on the subject of the unfair deductions drawn from the bulence taken by the Boxing Trays Chearsalon in huis published report, beg leave to second my testimony in care buration of the laws of the waiter of that letter, so to sixte in my videre given to that Commission netther warra fins justifies n\n\nvery rouse, what an a\n\npoint thing whatever is said. but it sorte respects on here pats upon it,\n\n3(\n\nmare Mtorney General at Hunghong, for the sume reason, by the same person, Cash, by the way. has gone to the Catentivels in a nimbolte frame of mind. He rears he is sacrifont - a regular mantyy vie | tim of all kinds of machinations, to get rid of Adan; aud though he admits that the berth is a govi out, great pay and little to do, he weys ke ought to have something far better, must higher pay, nothing es all to do in deply to do is He vores he is honestly\n\nTollectie my nating givethe fableving extret for worth for were respectable figure; that Palmers the report, which from the anginui neto apunate to be based ¦ton knows it, or if he doesn't that he is the only wae ratire on ny evidence. Another witness, also a zizristiarn of the jacts whe is ignorant on that deadz jat kokler, was perbally satisfies? ↑ « maid (int lie host rennired and trai heltt lake care the world shall be wiser befors very recently an excouragement from the Governor imagifit is much older. li surmind that the ut us time\n\ncrari apon the sea shore in front of his lot and reclaim it Cu being estar to crudescend to prurlavhars, red particularly sugary temper of Chisholm is rather that the Governor in queson was Sar G. Bonham chat Bir soared by the analytic proces a certain little biti 1. Botham ad id in answer to a questions, thus he of his, relation in something forensic in the com had no pawer to sulfanze his intended purprentare, or to wate him any tile to the ined when he should have reclamissionership line, has been subjected to : and that, as and it-that all be (the Gosure) wonkl say wha, that unless he has got all he is likely to get, he don't see the his the tenant's) neighbours compainel, Dovernment would we of exhibiting manh thankfulness for passoura to mot prosende son for the entrenchment, and that in his than, as his countryman, thi pheographer of the | Gavertur's) primate spizion the tumant would be “at right,\"\n\nwould be done at his own risk, and than as the tenant wrest held himself responsible for the consequences,\" \"The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. First, as to being requied to closed to particulara. it may be remembered that at the pelic meling bell to ecrandér tin Government notilleation of 10th November last, I strongly advod the pelicy of meeting the icon of His Excellency the Governor, bring my arents en the same intervw with Sir G. Bestum. Is giving my evidence before the Commission, this interview was brough toy bentlection, sud I prouistet re give the whole parti calars of it without any attempt at centralmer, rolering Grły grosa-questioning unnecesway -- Berninly the report wash it appar that but plendouragement to reclaim, and that on the tall bring esete, (corlewing partient) I had overly been praiser innvaruty fron panishment, (if it be even that it me sellers siching to me about punishment anerosement,\" ble for the congeecaces. Now I will declare that Eiz George\n\nor responsibility for the aequcxers, and feonsider the wond\n\nciasto.\n\nbut that the tenant trust anderstand that what he oughts, defines gratule. Ainsley hay dore this the Bust lably, am in Chian, but Aur Monor; and is reported to have left for publication in this country a record of experiences optriciy confirmatory of his ginnt Tower kill wud kropping block theory an The Fizon, Afghanistan, and the Oriente ahontas ation of the same category --Correspondent of Li- verpacť Albion.\n\ndize noticed by such a mulus ay be seen condescension que inapplicatie to my detector before the\n\nthe Bonham Strand ocw, and would he soon on the Bowring Puya, too, if once completed, they wit think high sine to make arrangements to:\n\nmade by the Surveyor of fer vnd Myasty establishing alsowhers. Nor let this ideo be whis\n\nIf, in these words, the Allorney General can find right in disposase the lanse holder whose cand is not required, but who derlines to PUKERASE More, or it on the latter clause he can watabiish the fact that the fairness and impartiality of the Surveyor General emaot be challenged by thu Lease holder, we shall willingly accord to hire the Conjora's Medal, and hail biar es the 4 Wizard of the East,\"\n\nAnd now, Sir, nilow us to apologise for the pro Jongation of this Letter, for when we beg a place in your columns, -Your obedient Servants.\n\n— F. of U. Apríl ið,\n\nCAVENT & Co.\n\nStates with the pertinence of that passage in Ca. reat Ca's letter running--\n\nThere is ample space now, and ware than ample space lo teen fallic Warien, for double the wants of the Com regnity who have ut se foutages Wat aro thuir repirnama! Minch\n\nmain by the China Mail and others about tiam inumavenience to the publin dwel ing to the sauth of the Queen's Road! Leteny one who knows the pture an Es eye along the fist of residents, and \"their accopations, and then re how many to the \"of the tusen's Road, and up the Hill, nynire large Whar fage accordation. What did the China Mare require « What goods did he land -and what inconvenience was he \"subjected? None! As the same reply will serve loy whe tenths of those who inhabit the tata es on the \"Bill; aut such mast niet he the case, at Cooke tice aline would very soon abs any hone hit serving from redacod rentals on Inland Lots were they used as stung ground, \" --and impressed with the idea that readers at a disuence can never understand the Bowring Praya question from letter press alone, we have prepared, and publish below, a small woed cut of the distracted district.\"Spaces marked Nu. I t on this wond cut exhibit the tots affected by the proposed measure and the dotted lines delineate the general contour of the shore, up to which approximately, leases are already practed hy the Crowa The parts in black are Government holdings, available for Junding placas if goven- ment wilt make them.The fretted lots enclosed in No. 1 represent streets ia Chilmon's, Chinam's and Endicott's Baznars, the whole sen front at which is as open to the public for wharfage as it can well! he. The surch, as slightly altered from the plan accompanying the Hongkong Almansek for 1848, ¦ is drawn to a scale of 400 funt to the inch, and gives a sea ling of 2,700 fest, of which 600 are Loveramant avaliables -400 private bazaare with public wharves, and the remaindet,-private pro- perty the comparative figures being us 17 to 10, or say of private property, and 3 of public landį ings. Surely these faci-that wie ding\" should be sufficient for the most seeptical if stiti dis posed to cavil ni Carat of Cs assertion that i there is ample space for pubite Wharver for #donble the wants of the Comininity who have not sea frontages withou: disturbing rosted rights. For the farther information of readors et dis\n\ntance wo way state that area No. I of the wood eur\n\nis\n\nis part of land sold last year an eoedition that ai Feaya should run in front of it-Port of No, the same; the space between 2 and 3 is Padder's Wharf--between 4 and 5 is the Oriental Bank Who:f-between 5 and 6 the Central Market, and betweco 8 and 9 the privata Bazar and Wharf of Messrs Gibb, Lavingston & Co.-—the deep line of the angle n 9 representing the entrance from the Queen's Road to Benbam Strand. The Leasehol ders opposing the Bowring Praya schome are, in No 2, Mears Lindsay & Co and Dent & Co-in No. 4. Messrs Jardine Mathearn & Co., Turaer &Co, Bowra & Co., Legraik and Storgie, To No. 6, the Onental Bank Corporation and Mesars Jardine, Mathesan & On. In No. 6, the Agents\n\nfor Thomas Ripiey. In No. 8, Mosers William Scott, James White and Julin Bird & Co.-and in\n\nNo. 9, Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. On the In-\n\nland side of the Road, the storekeepers, to a jana,\n\nas we are informed, express themselves in opposi tips to the Praya; and it only remains to be said of the mercantile offices in streets in rear of the Queen's Road-eit. in those of Messrs Williams, Anthon & Cu, Dreyer & Co., J. Dos Remedios, James Staphenson, Angier & Co, 8. E. Barrows and C. Boyd, that only two are in the habit of storing Croods on the basements of their premises; the su perficialGlown area so used boing, we are sure,\n\n• The round member given are quite approximato we repost; but the spacas used na landing plairs by the pub- ho are ukeratuted if any thing,\n\n......\n\nled down. A quarter of a century henes and, in these days of annexation and progress to whom mey belang ibe the island of Lenia? With a French or an American, or, it may be, s Russian settlement herend less chance of being borns down by the \"trong talkce\" of a Bowring Praya Comms sion, how long is likely offered advantages would remain accepted\n\ni\n\nIt was clearly manifeat ra me that the presiding member af\n\nment had been in the habit of resumứng lợin without giving inty other compensation than the Surveyör Generļa spínatè ment. On the print i was closely quistioned by the \"Cone- ssina, and although I acklaced two cases where she ca ant, retting the compensatum cffered, obtained third he asked, the report is not only silent on the portion of spy es dence, but itcally asserts thos it reale with the Sarvey General\" alone to code the question of ommpensation.\" \"la one of the casey I addured, I alleged that in February 1954,\n\nandaard, Lendale, Matize for No 79 e 10 del bars; us Isoil a year after fae 15 as the sale on anualed by the receipt of notice of resumption, the esi price 180 dollara, bring named as compensación. Ón veference to de lerse secret it stipulated that I was to have a alirampantion at a rate to be Sirly and impartially made by the Surveyor, de 19 anitced the hardship of the ee to the Acting Alertsy General who replied that the compensation must be far and equitable, which the offer whe not, and that I count ant be crapeited to access, it, Tur report the public, I was thos, with many others of the simple and cezading publis, deluded into a vers extraordinary error. If such be the case I don't think that any one wil\n\nbuilding in din Clony whendir cars be taken fora him by a Government whose legal adviser not only propounds bad. vocates soch a munstrous doctrine,\n\nslo L'aring wishet in have it related that Govern\n\nWe have said the Lenses were drafted after the Gordon Prays was suggested: and this face is worthy of particular note, for had Sir Henry Putinger ve amourent éontemplated coercion ino a Prays shows, how casy would it have ben to have inserted words giving authority to the action! Yet, hard as are the terms of the fenses, not parage-not a word—can be con-in be deleted into the day of exerting aus substantia strued towards an abrogation of the term on which Marine Lots were first bought. viz holding from the Ses to the road. If, owing to washings from the hitis, and other causes, the as recedes, the terms of the original sale bare still to be acted on by the Crown-he taste of the interests of the to whose use the kod is demised—and, the surne suivit that the Crown promises fall and fair compensation for ell it takes away-such fairt compensation must be given for the lard it adds. Such Mr Chisholm Anstey with and to be the de- should it be found necessary still further to resist cision of higher legal authorities than himself. the formation of a BowRING PRASA F. of C.Aprii\n\n30.\n\nSEA\n\nW\n\n起\n\n*Not two pence per foot--nar the fourth of it,\n\nin conclusion, I have to state may regret that this effoient manner of obtaining the views of the\n\nsaking gri- Buna tratores commission should be so for abused as to render it calikely that such thony with infulare procurable. The non attendance of a rouch respected anal leading member of the enciminals, eu inne comptinet of by the Fraya Coromin, may doubtices be travel infe sight rather than discotusy-1 am, Sir, Your client Servant.\n\nof 17, May 3.\n\nY. J. MURROW.\n\nAUDI ALTERAM PARTEM is a motto for which wo bava much regard, and we readily give insertion to the letter front Lex, with the extract, in italics, to which it refers. The emoluments of the office of Attorney Greeral here are certainly not mere\n\nFRIENDS of the Caprain Coonew some time in the service of ike P. & 0 Company here, and displaced from his common and under sirzamances reflecting little erafit un ruo Agent of that day in China, will learn with pleasure that he is now in the service of the Honourable East India Company; and mor has it will shortly have the appoints ment of Master Attonduit at Matlah. The\n\nfollowing extract from the Caletta Finglish-\n\nnot a 7th ult., is interesting --\n\nOx the ah ulana Sept Comew commanding the E. Company's servaying vessel Gruppler which has been employed in buoying off the Mur all, took charge of the bark. Murmyan Crown China, which vesel\" tad entered that rive by mistake. The Marion was brought up eately to Calcntia, Cap. Priest the Commander of the Maraina was dangerously l, when the Grappler fe in with her which probably caused the mistake. Capt. Commend the crew of the Grappler are criting > ly entaled to me renumeration for thuir ser vices, as the Marmion wes in a dangerous patitisa and would probably have been lost without exis. cane of 13. April 19.\n\n(Continued from supplement poge 31, column 4.) ment, wiz, that on all papers hence passing aror the Isthmus of Panainn, a separate chargo of two pence was a be collected in advance\n\nOn the 2nd of Fairmary came nirections to pay a penny in advance mill sepers hence i England: these sent via Marseilles, with a three peny collection at hone, remaining unlistar- Newspaper Proprietors and forwarding Agents ed. The hard bearing of this amurcement oa\n\nis most manifest. Had the order appeared a month before instead of a month after the beginning of the year we could then have charged such additional pernigs to the Bills for subscription -as it is we must put up with the lows-au inconsiderable one in the ag gregate.\n\nUpon what enamon sense principle this ar-\n\ntha a Barrister of Mr Chisholm Anstoy's stand-rangement has been made we are at a bus 19\n\ning might have expected for doing a \"boom\" in\n\nhis Augran stable.\n\ndiscover. It, simply, with vie w lo econ. omise the labnar el taxing clerks at home, then, in two ways, will the pathe be made to pay a Jor the false idea-firel, in the more costly pay. ment in Colonin: Post Offices for the extra fa- lour given to the collectors, and second-in the reduction in the number of papers regular-\n\nknow that many people take no other means for notifying friends at home of their being able male Newspapers:-the charm of the thing in e a pen tion by addressing covers on lying the little tronbie al na exponse. Alas! we shoult speak in the past tea+d, — the spel is broken the demand for the penny in advance has checked the kindly patention the longing friend loves his expected treat- the postal revente ja so much the less-and the not wanted newspaper is eat to the Ash: box. With so many arguments for the alteration of thia demon for peuries in advance, we tre assured that the tenuro ofile existence will he very brief,\n\nTo the Editor of the Friend of China\"\n\nHONGKONG, 16th April, 1856. Fiz,--Possibly some ingenious philosopher will one day discover a rural storecacope, which wits trasmitted.ts for instance-We all enable us to comprehend at one view the real cha- racter of every illustrious stranghouers cer litte colony with it presenco. At present we can only see one side at a time; and as an object is described by various parties from different points of view, the want of resemblance, and, what is worse, the want of harmony in the several portraits. ie perplexing in the extreme. Witness our last new breone comes upon pa like a comet, in un atmosphere of glory-Gur quit nunos rajoice in the advent of another piller of the state-a real, thorough, radicel, independent. reforming patriotic member of the House of Commons, and we hear of nothing save hire and his career for more than the statue number of nine days. The Mail gives hint an oration from the tow Magazine, you re-produce a sketch by the Parliamentary por trait painter, both highly credible to the artists and honorable to the subject of their labours;-but, intermediately, the Register obtains a nearer view, and resolves the appearance of our corces in the shape of a broom- now broom-which sweeps about is a very eccentric orbit, and hita hard with the shank besides. It was wrong in the Register not to begin by describing the glorious appe manes of the thing at a dislunce.—not to hunt up its splendid antecedents, like his neighbours, before producing his daguerreotype iikennes of ithus be found its stiff sharp bristles rush so romorso leasty across the grain atong our good old China am, with a view, as he shabbily avers, to profits: with a cover open at the sides, at a enarge of\n\nTwo other notifications still comain to be noricet-one of the 22nd vitine, to the effect that the French Post Office will account for ali poarages on papers from Hongkong to the United Kingdoin, a knowledge of which face to this community is not very importan lastly a \"trausuiseios of books\" afisation, in the Gazette of the 55 tastant, by which it is usdained that pa kata may be forwarded hence to Malta and Gibraltar, via Bgypt,and to Ber muda and the British West tudies (Barbadoses, Trauidad and Tork's Baland excepted) not ex- ceeding Two feet in lenghth breadth or widin,\n\nout of the repairs, that bis injured toelings at once tight pence per bulí a pound to Malis and\n\n: \n\ngove vent to their anguish. It will comiert tho, Gibraltar, and one sholing and two pence par Register to know that others have entertained half pound in the Wen ludies such rates p- suspicions respecting the peculiar \"Quixotism\" of plying to the first pound only, after which: the tis new broom, and no doubt he will read with charge has to be incrensed for every fraction action the other side of the questions etted of a pound as a pound-letters found in suc by the well known London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion, in the subjoined extract, which I packets being charged postage with an addi- \n\nition of back packet postage as a penalty. suppose your fairness to both sides will allow you to insert.-I enclose the name of my Solicitor, sud am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nLE X\n\nHow the-ow-Post happens to be Pam's own print is unintelligible to all, and their name is legion, who reject the Urquhartive story about a former edi- tor having called for P.'s mad as a traitor, and then being muzalisha St. Petersburg esksut skip, just as in the present ease of Ansley, who is\n\nSuch are some of the changes that have caught our eye: there may be others, and if there are out, we may, after the late rate of two notifications a mouth, soon expect them. But this, really, is too serions a matter og tyne unfled with, and something must be done t check the nuisance of indeercet legislation.\" by auteur Post Masters General,--F. of C. April, 19.\n\n312\n\nINDEX",
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        "content_text": "that all the lands which had been in the occupation of the Naval and Military authorities, Most of Victoria, should be given over to the local Government under certain reservations. I Cannot now enter into what under other circumstances might be in My opinion advisable.\n\nIt appears however to me that the directions of the War Department have not been Carried out by the local Government. And that the portions of Sa ... \"Reserved for a Battery\" in the Acting Surveyor General's plan are not adopted for the purpose and in no way agree with the Reservations required by War Department.\n\nI should recommend (considering) the Small Military Garrison available and the position of the Ganacta) that a Battery of from 4 to 6 heavy guns should be erected at that point, with magazine and a Barrack capable of accommodating one Company of 100 men. That a small Battery for two guns should be erected at the point below",
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        "content_text": "# The Hongkong Register\n\n## VOL. XXXI. No. 18.\n\n### INTIMATIONS.\n\nThe Estate of the late SAMUEL JAMES SINDEN, Master Mariner, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that persons having Claims against the above Estate, will please send in particulars of the same; and all parties indebted thereto, are requested to make immediate payment to JOHN D. GIBB, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 25th March, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | Joanne Jardine, M.D. |\n| Vice-President | W. T. MERCER, Esq. |\n| Superintendent | B. S. WALKER, Esq. |\n| Resident Surgeon | G. JACK |\n| Consulting Surgeon | W. A. HARLAND, M.D. |\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\n| Ward Type | Daily Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Wards | 90 cents |\n| Intermediate Wards | $1.20 |\n| Private Room | $2.25 |\n\nPatients are also admitted on payment of one day previous to the amount deposited being expended.\n\n| Ward Type | Deposit |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Wards | $10 |\n| Intermediate | $20 |\n| Private Rooms | $30 |\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the Hospital.\n\nNo Hospital Bill to be receipted by the Treasurer only.\n\n### NOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that R. W. F. BEVAN, having an interest in the business of this Office, will sign my name from this date per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN. \"Hongkong Register\" Office, 1st January, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as ATTORNEYS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES PUBLIC, and PROCTORS in Hongkong, was dissolved by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN on the 29th day of April, 1857.\n\nWILLIAM GASKELL\n\nDated this 29th day of April, 1857.\n\nM WILLIAM GASKELL, Solicitor, Notary Public, &c., Queen's Road, Hongkong.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nBENDING the existing troubles at Canton, the undersigned has established himself at this port as MERCHANT, and GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nS. ROBERTSON, Macao, 21st September, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day commenced business as a Ship, Produce, and Insurance Broker, and Adjuster of Average.\n\nOffice, Queen's Road, second house West from Gralia: Street.\n\nHongkong, 1st July 1857.\n\nY. J. MURROW.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as General Merchant and Commission Agent.\n\nB. E. CARNEIRO. Macao, 1st January, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is authorized to sign for our firm in Glasgow.\n\nHOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. L. K. LEBERT of Hamburg in our Firm ceased on the 4th instant, and from this date our business will be carried on under the Firm of OXFORD & Co., which Messrs. A. BOURJON and Mr. C. A. SCHNEIDER are authorized to sign per procuration.\n\nL. K. LEBERT & OXFORD\n\nMacao, 12th February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. ROBERT S. STURGIS, Mr. WAND CUNNINGHAM, and Mr. DANIEL X. SPOONER, in our House, ceased on the 31st December last. Mr. N. M. BECKWITH, and Mr. THOMAS WALSH, have been admitted Partners this day.\n\nChina, 1st January, 1856.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as General Merchant and Commissioning Agent.\n\nJ. VELEZ\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1858.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nVALUABLE HOUSE PROPERTY FOR SALE.\n\nNo. 1,429\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that CAPTAIN R. B. WADE begs leave to inform the Public, that he has taken the Hotel (formerly Mr. Shaw's) in the Pra da Campo, and has thoroughly refurnished and opened the same under the name of WADE'S HOTEL; and by Wellington Street, on the West by Aberdeen Street, on the South by Gage Street, and on the East by two closes of land registered in the land office as No. 13. The property is situated in the centre of the city and is held for the residue of a term of 999 years commencing on the 23d of April, 1844, at an annual ground rent of $42.12.6.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to Messrs. COOPER TURNER AND BAZELAND, Solicitors and Notaries Public, Hongkong.\n\nHongkong, 19th March, 1858.\n\n### INSURANCES.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Established in 1842.\n\nThe undersigned are prepared to accept RISKS on Vessels and Cargoes covered by protecting POLICIES at London (as issued by the various UNDERWRITING COMPANIES) in the PORTS in the ORIENT on ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Canton to ...\n\nMacao, 22d October 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nCAPTAINS & CONSIGNEES of Vessels are requested to take notice, that owing to the enhanced cost of Provisions &c., the Hunters of the SEAMEN's HOSPITAL find themselves under the necessity of raising the rates of Admission which on and after the 1st April 1857 will be as follows:\n\n| Ward Type | Daily Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| PUBLIC WARDS | 90 cents per day |\n| INTERMEDIATE | $1.20 |\n| PRIVATE ROOMS | $2.25 |\n\nH. MAGNIAC, Treasurer.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has established the Ship \"CIRCASSIAN\" as a Receiving Vessel, in Command of Mr. W. K. STANFORD; and is prepared to store OPium, SILK, or TREASURE at moderate rates.\n\nC. R. TAYLOR, Broker and General Commission Agent.\n\nHongkong, 8th March, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nIn reference to the above advertisement, I have this day established myself as an Auctioneer.\n\nC. R. TAYLOR,\n\nHongkong, 18th April, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Business hitherto carried on by the undersigned at this Port since 1st instant, now becomes the Agency of Messrs. W. B. FOSTER, JR., heretofore existing, ceases from that date.\n\nHongkong, 6 April, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nCeylon, the Presidencies of India, Sunda, and England.\n\nThe interest in the foregoing Policies is assigned to the P. and O.S.S. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of payment in the event of Loss.\n\nFor further information, apply to\n\n| Name | Location |\n| --- | --- |\n| B. S. WALKER | Hongkong |\n| MAXIMILIAN FILIUS | Canton |\n| B. WARDEN | Shanghai |\n| H. T. MARSHALL | Singapore |\n| A. I. LOVELL | Calcutta |\n| ROBERT FRANCK | Mauritius |\n| JOSEPH BERNARD | Bombay |\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, 5th January, 1874.\n\n### ALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed AGENTS in China for the above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES at Hongkong, as under:\n\n| Risk Type | Premium Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with TILES, SLATES, or other fire-resisting Material | ... |\n\nDuring the absence from China of Mr. W. M. ROBINET, JR., Mr. J. S. ALVAREZ, who holds our procuration, will manage the Fire Insurance business.\n\nW. M. ROBINET.\n\nHongkong, 6th April, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nAARON MOSES GUBBAY has been admitted a partner in our Firm at Shanghai.\n\nCHARLES JAMESON, Hongkong, 10th February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nLOUIS HEERMANN, Watch and Chronometer Maker, and Jeweller, begs to announce, that he has commenced business in this Colony, in the Queen's Road, in the lower portion of the premises known as \"Mr. Marsh's Millinery Establishment\".\n\nCHRONOMETERS carefully Cleaned and Rated.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1855.\n\n### THE HONGKONG MONTHLY MAGAZINE.\n\nPublished from the 1st July, commences a series of publications under the above Title, Edited by Mrs. A. E. REED.\n\nThe aim of the Editors will be to establish a pleasant Local Magazine, making it welcome alike to the Household and the Counting Room, and in all respects creditable to the community whence it springs.\n\nOwing to the Cost of Publication, the Proprietress is obliged to call for Subscriptions in advance.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLDEN SHERRIES.\n\nAlso, Fine Cakes FRENCH CONFECTIONERY.\n\nApply to LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nBILLS of the undersigned at Shanghai and Foochow; also Dealing largely in this Colony, occupied at present, by the auctioneer.\n\nHongkong, April, 1857.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nKING & Co. of Canton have received an Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL SHEATHING, TERRUS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORNAGE.\n\nApply to LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT and BERRY WINE. In Casks, TR. GRO, P. De SILVER will act as my Agent) of 1,2, & 3. Dagen nach; also CHAMPAGNE (93 dozen Cases). BEER in Cases of 3 a 4 dozen each, at East Point Godowns.\n\nDuring my absence from this Colony.\n\nJ. KEENAN,\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1859.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Business hitherto carried on by the undersigned.\n\nThis is done, the conduct of it under the Firm of JOZE M. DA FONSECA & Co., wherein are united Partners Messrs. ANTONIO JOSE DA FONSECA & FILOMENO VICENTE DA FONSECA.\n\nJOZE MARIA DA FONSECA.\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nMr. GEORGE H. HEATON is appointed a SUB-AGENT for LLOYD'S in place of Mr. S. HALL, resigned.\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co., Agents for Lloyd's.\n\nHongkong, 21st January, 1858.\n\nALEX WILSON.\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nADAMS REVOLVERS with Tranter's PATENT.\n\nAlso, for Overland Mail, HAMS and CHEESE, in tins; FISH, FOWL, and GAME; HADDOCKS, and TEMPLES.\n\nMAC EWEN & Co. Hongkong, 14th February, 1878.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nA Bay Stud Breast HORSE, sound and quiet to ride, and well adapted for a Hack or Charger.\n\nApply at the Office of this paper.\n\nHongkong, 22 March, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION. Established by Charter 1720.\n\nThe undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grant POLICIES against FIRE, to the extent of £16,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Undersigned are appointed Agents, at Hongkong, Canton, and Macao to the Underwriters and MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES, of Hamburg and of Bremen.\n\nDREYER & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nTHIS LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE (Established in 1842.)\n\nIssues POLICIES\n\nSubscription Print, Single Copies.\n\nA few ADVERTISEMENTS may be inserted, at a reasonable rate, and as the Magazine has already Subscribers in Macao, Ningpo, Shanghai, and Siam, it offers inducement as an advertising medium.\n\nThose wishing to subscribe, may address \"Mrs. A. E. Reed, No.1. Stanton Street.\" Single Copies may be had at the stores of Mrs. Joan Lacy, Miss Henrietta MARSH, and Miss GARRETT.\n\nSubscribers are requested to retain their copies in good order for binding, as arrangements will be made to procure a neat European binding at the close of the year at a cost of 20 to 45 Cents per Volume.\n\nHongkong, 24th June, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE OF REMOVAL.\n\nThe undersigned having removed to the premises known as the FLOATING CHAPEL, off the Parade Ground, requests that all Papers and Letters may be sent to the Establishment of NORONHA, Public and Terrace.\n\nJAS. C. BERCHER, Seamen's Chaplain.\n\nHongkong, 28 February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nAll Notices of Births, Marriages, and DEATHS are respectfully requested to be addressed to the undersigned at the Cemetery.\n\nJ. 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        "content_text": "## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE, \n\n**Mr. GEORGE STRACHAN, ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR,** \n\n地出屋式 \n\nGage Street, Victoria, 1st May, 1858. \n\n月戊問士治額如地士未十午便荡街請貴八年可即到燉三行結光\n\n**JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE.** \n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 | Patent WATER CLOSETS |\n| - | Also, Patent Electro-Plated Nickel Silver FORKS, and SPOONS. |\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18-May 4, 1858)\n\ndon't hamper selves with many goods for we fear he wanting. A small county town acquitted by the committee appointed to investigate...\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18.-MAY 4, 1858)\n\nthey give is.\" Be prepared for an outbreak in the successful carrying out the scheme will seem to be on the point of being frustrated. Mr. Bott has been using thin verdict will be flat Mr. Butt Tips, in the of Sitara and Coora Ameer of Scinde, and a King of load contemporary was taken to task by one of large stockholders on Hon... and comfortably quartered, the present. Few people believe the rumors of home has its hospital and its charities of ever great conduct, and we hope Dr. Bridges will... with the privileges of the foe of us, were that if he were to do a Court of Appeal from Hwang's aerial cognizance. He is supposed to heart; each party vies with its neighbor to advance also be acquitted were a committee appointed to investigate his connection as standing...\n\nvery near, and it seems even against Chinese common sense, that a person specially deputed is an event of the greatest importance; there are fairs to raise the small fund required, in which every one, gentle and simple, for miles around are interested. Here, where many cur...\n\na few days, we are sorry to say there is not a hospital.\n\ncurrent for the Opium monopolist. There, unfortunately for Dr. Bridges, there is no committee appointed, and so the clamor goes on unrefuted and slander of this kind never dies. We fortunate...\n\nto settle the affairs of foreigners, the news of the fall of Canton being now by those who accredited him, should not on learning the absence of the plenipotentiaries at the math, which news of money for a good purpose could be raised immediately are not the guardians of Dr. Bridges's good name must have reached him from Shanghae-in such a case, he would stride into Canton in all pomp and openness who would feel the least interest in the subject black as his gown for anything we or the public may be, and as simple barrister his name may be, and say Here I am, ready to arrange matters, after he had paid his subscription. We trust...\n\nwhere are your plenipotentiaries? A diplomatic may not continue, but that some of our principle the British Government representing British catch like that would not be...\n\nmissed by a Chinese man will try and do something, by giving both justice to the Chinese, we could less to a more diplomatist. A ranguotic telegraph is being laid their time and money to help forward to perfection tender care of it. He stands in the position down from the Magazine Hill to the Allied Wharf, so good a work as the establishment of a general of Caser's wife, he should not only be-not guilty. If he should not even be suspected. We publish the following minutes of a meeting are happy to believe, but that he is suspected we that Dr. Bridges bite Mr. Butt is not guilty we held on Thursday 29th ultimo for the purpose of establishing a General Hospital.\" We are impressed on the Chinese mind, and we more urgent business. Having inspected the opium monopolist were invited to attend, but were prevented by understand openly stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the buildings which it is intended to appropriate to clever men, all powerful with the governor or the government; that he can take, unmake, or \"That Dr. Bridges is a very adapted for the purpose. Of the skill of the superintending Physicist, Dr. Kenny, we need not and propitiated. All this may be true. say nothing as it would be presumption in us no and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a medical men to comment on the abilities of worthy, honest, hard-working government servant, gentleman so well and known esteemed. If the establishment of a general civil hospital alluded to in a previous article does not come to pass, the press...\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1858.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nRHOD...\n\nULES FOR STANSBURY'S MEASURING\n\nPRICE-25 Cents each, on Pasteboard,\n\nApply to\n\nMr. M. Hoza,\n\nat the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nthe late mailings out intelligence of the appointment of Dr. Harland as Colonial Surgeon, and as the salary is stated to be £800 per annum,\n\nwe for Dr. Harlan! will be prohibited from undertaking private practice. If we are right in this supposition the government have got a good man cheaply, and the community lost a very able professional attendant.\n\nThe duties of the office have latterly become very heavy, and are likely to become still more so, and it is much to be doubted that one person can discharge them satisfactorily, even devoting his whole time to the work. We learn further, the instructions have been sent out that a new civil hospital is to be built and that nothing more is to be done in the affair of the Bowring Praya.\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1858.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nGOLD LEVER WATCH, with enamelled dial,\n\nand GOLD CHAIN-Maker's Name, Bund and Laut, 41 Cornhill. Number of Watch. The Watch, with a lanyard and set of Studs were, at is supposed, attracted from the case between this and Canton about January. A handsome Reward will be paid for the recovery of the same.\n\nHongkong, 3d May, 1858.\n\nApply at this Office,\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1858.\n\nParties sending Advertisements to the \"Hongkong Register\" or \"Register's Advertise,\" phrase address to the \"Printer and Publisher of the respective Papers, which will secure early attention to their Communications.\n\nsent Galertising has our best wishes:—Fr. Angelo Fr. Reina, and Fr. Long Mesore Kup Present—Revds. Fr. Jerome Mangier, Fr. MacMahon Block, Kenes, Hassoon, Isam. Werden, F. Sustaining...\n\nthat some means will be adopted for the purpose If a new civil hospital is to be erected we hope of incorporating the seamen's hospital with it. The resident surgeon of the seamen's hospital at the following showing the details of the loss that a barrister should get what he asks; he is The meeting was opened by the Revd. Fr. Jerome certainly cannot look upon it as an improper thing might become the resident surgeon of the civil hospital, and this would relieve the Colonial Surgeon from a heavy duty, while it enabled him to...\n\nGENTLEMEN—I am extremely happy to see you all at this meeting for discussing the expediency, and the means between the seller and buyer, the attorney and client. I am convinced that cure, ponder of the hospitals, or two private hospitals have been called upon to remark on this subject, the effect will be derived from the amalgamation of all the civil...\n\nview and to which, I am couleur you will general and client. The only ground on which we feel that owing to the departure of the medical bent, and plentifully alone, have actuated you in business may who opened them, but it was well known they wish I was able to express any gratitude in language equivalent to my sincere interest for this our of your kind coming this night my welcome guest and I sincerely it has on the Chinese. We pointed out the dianess which will not be un great, I hope, by the weight fl Colonial Secretary, and were we have the evil and civil hospitals. We fear the want of efficiency, to give a no harsher name, still continues. It is so did of your valuable advice and suggestions I should not call for any primary assistance...\n\nrealized. Dr. Bridges is in the Chinese eyes a man 41 years, Master of the receiving ship Mahamoudie and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nOne complaint is, and in the first place I beg leave to submit a few of my that when the monopolist engages his services as that the site is an unhealthy one that point own propositions to your consideration.\n\nF. DE SENSA Jr.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Macao, on the 7th April, the Wife of Mr. Joaquin...\n\nAt Macau, on the 1st May, Mr. Isnacracto D. VIRKIRA KIBKRO.\n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st May, Mr. I. P. COLL...\n\nTO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AT HONGKONG\n\nThe undersigned begs to inform the community that the Office of the British Consulate, this day has been transferred from WANPAO to HOKAN.\n\nCHAе. A. WINCHESTER, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul\n\nBritish Consulate for Canton,\n\nAnnexe of Houa, 29th April, 1858.\n\na ground floor in any situation is not well adapted for the purpose of a hospital--still less when high a land is...\n\nIt is intention to establish a General Hospital, in unsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs of corruption to resort to how; perhaps he may expect this: Gardens and S. Francis Hospital and which show however, the monopolist finds himself compelled my father intention to have it well furnished with all it in surrounded by growing trees, and is alut in necessary materials for a proper Hospital, and to be on all sides by hills except where it faces the provided with experienced Doctors: will us in art, but is informed that...\n\ncounsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's harbor. Be this true or false, there is another change which is a tangible one, and the one on which we base our most complaints. The charge is. changed by a sufficient staff of Hospital servants to attend to the patients.\n\nThe gentlemen I intend to appoint are Dr. Vande... and Dr. Kenny the former Gentlemen lately arrived in this Colony, is a bachelor of questionable own count. creasing their diseases or acquiring new ones. fool the set of several languages which Mandarin Bridges; and with great dignity oỀ references oedh as to professional accomplishments, and enough to English people, but to the Chinese the All this is staple and straightforward We have personal experience of this being true at a fluently, and which will be exceedingly useful in least in our instance and a respectable merchant and ship owner made the same complaints to us sometime ago with a request that we would The latter Gentleman, whose abilities she too well three characters—first, as one of the law-makers, commission where he may meet with patients of all place great power is associated. chant and ship owner made the same complaints to Dolor expose it. Thinking it improbable that either known and ustalised, to any better certium, then, as one of the granters, and finally, as tue That is the so in the present case when we have one man in the trustees or the resident surgeon would sane- apply to them as the hurt and most effective...\n\nFellow of the naval College of Surgeons of England-41 tion such a thing we recommended the party to\" and is proposed to be consulting Doctor to the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in course to adopt to put a termination to a rival propositions, I think it well to apprise you of a few...\n\nhis monopoly we see however by report of a meeting held will fin exercises there without distinction of creed on view of their extent. te great sunl, certain- Mr. Isang Batt is, we understand, a very...\n\nA manual number of Inquests have been during the past few days held before the Coroner—one of them however of particular interest: A Chinese was killed by the falling in during the heavy rain of the 20 of an out-building in the course of erection on a Marine lot. 4 Swede was drowned in the harbor while bathing on Sunday the 25th alto. A man, discharged from...\n\nIt is evident that whether this proceeds from patients noting in a way so prejudicial to their carelessness or health, it should be stopped, whether...\n\nRunt of means to prevent the trustees of the seamen's hospital close to carry out or amalgamate it with the civil hospital.\n\nthe appropriate in relieving Papers, who will be received into the Hospital at once; and in the case of time to try point is, that he appears as the paid advocate, at truly desite will also be admitted. stion. In the Civil Hospital a Chinese died from he hoped a properly constructed hospital will be of the airs as the lipizi; to supply this defect, ara perhaps a little stronger in his case.\n\nThe list is no doubt their best course, for it is to that being missionary, I cannot by any means devote ages in the cause. This is the case as nearly as Lufe teal it incurent upon me to remark herehe the same time he holds the position of one of the effects of a gun shot wound received when escaperected on an eligible site in a central spot, of Grand Prus sery kindly tendered his duable aerof Coranous not doubting the honor of its ing from the Western Coal sheds, he having been which there are many that it will be well! vises and M. Braga, roster of the Medal members is yet so jealous of its privileges that it myself entirely the management and perintended. we can understand it of Dr. Bridges, if it be not there committing robbery. A verdier of wilful secured and watched, so that no such abuses can murder has been taught against some parties win!\n\nThe House made a particular attack on a conveying fel...\n\nHail,) deo will take an interest in it. to this market. Iu dar obituary there is the two hospitals would also enable the directors to means as way enable me to cry on these desigua...\n\nThe combination of the means of the to your very own hands to save and suggest such a imputation, and in this the curatituencies In couches, Gentlemen, I consign das proposals will not enfer a member to underlie the shade of...\n\nmamme of Cayman Cole of the Courser, lately wrecked on the Pratas.\n\nWe may have point out two of face—Ã mom- carry out one or two very necessary improvements. fortable set of sick rooms available for the young men of the colony, whether belonging to govern...\n\nwhich it has \n\nHuid Prẻ be the derrotary, \n\nTas news from Canton both public and private are of the most conflicting nature. One be treated for serious diseases with more care and attention than they can obtain in their wet houses set up at Fur Shan, and that it is assembling in the houses of their employers, where their press might be dangerous in cases of infectious another equally positive says No such a thing diseases to the atlier intrares-A portion of the near Fat Shan and The spital to be act mort for the treatment Foldiers place is perfectly quiet. There me the Sade Famous sad counter rumors on the subject of aner only of a temporary character. The fantalony he unlie? pan to atroci the patients.\n\nof the insane, whether the disease be permanent urine of laces of the amal strength (40,000 to 50,000). On this point we see mu besimation...\n\nthere are \n\n3. Kenny proposed Mr Grand the store, Hore we have the close corporation--the are at the details of the object for the formation of as to it or its members underlying grave charge. That a Committee be selected from this meeting to Legislative Council, showing to great impatience ment or the mercantile class, in which they might, that Mosses in Black, it is population. Eat beand this is a popular Reed. Macinon ha aproated a Comunitar, Pr...\n\nalz. Grand Pré proposed and it was unanimously carried that they are perhaps joined by the respectable almost probably they do not believe the large and fucome to be President and Fr. de la Croix added this Mition British and Foreign, and native above all, \n\nPison of the Hospit Mr. Gal P proposed, and it was carried that the Rev. Fr. Jerome, lesit e Founder new is a \n\nwas unanimously wine exactly to think, and as every thing un- secuted, that the Sisters of Charity in the the very worst.\n\nRev. Fr. McMahon proposed Mr. Grand Pré perhaps prepared to tanke up their and to think supposed to be worse than it really is, \n\nposition was also monin shy carried, \n\nW sak, in conclusion, er general readers Proposed by Fr. Jerome and Seeded by air. Sade peruse with care the accompanying article Privalaute or thanks he given to the Gentlemen from the Daily News on Mr. Butt's care. We nek win sa kindly accepted to set at.\n\nProposed by Mr. Kup and seled by Mfr. A. rent whether or not it would not more.\n\nvote is thanks be given to the Secretary its list it end save ten sold ar opes and fair market, dew, to his able conduet in the Ensin Sifeira, that are of tanks to given to Revd. the Gets of the case as to granting a mest udinis liberati in su recuti apcepting the ties id Secretary as to the withdrawal of the first groot, and difconsort with their honor, and open: c'eating, if all Proped by Mr. Block unt seeded by Mr. Issand oppressive monopoly un scaled tenders, when Nothing farther being left for discussion, thermitely as to the regranting it on the same ternis Esalse to theer on Thursday gezi, the 7th May, ka the...\n\nto the same pers, were mady known. And we \n\nin speaking confidently; there is no such army.\n\ns to need fustare polating cut.\n\nthe \n\nWe hear there is much acquisition in villages around, no doubt a great deal of big talk,\n\nalso be isolated buildings for a small pox There hospital and a lock hospital.\n\nIf in ndition a sanatoriure copii, na way long ago proposed in this paper, he erected on the top of Victa Penk, we might consider ourselves well way from Canton to Macau and Hongkong. As we predicted, the Cantooreze pre rising from their fortified to withstand any amount of tiny defent with mere insolence than ere; stones; discne. laze been thrown at offices and soldiers not to mener-getting-the heads of society are so e...\n\nWe fear, however, public spirit is lost an speak of the murderous assault on the policeman paged to making money as fast as they can that Stewart, and it is considered very unsafe to enter they may get back to their own country, that they the western part of the city. In the face of this have us time to care for the rany poor aferra the Europeans are living in Honais in the park nates tied to the island for a very long day, if not houses without even a corporal's guard to pro- for ever. sect them. Goods still go up, and although there is some nceusinese felt by the principal Chinese traders who have returned, yet the only advice...\n\n| \n\nto the meeting and Committee. \n\nThis \n\nhomes of Mr. Buck, to draw Rules and Regiations for the the Hospital.\n\nA. GRAND PRE\n\nNerred \n\nActing Colonist Secretary to give the public. which pays him, sogte expérnation of the very doubtiul position in which he at present stands :—— (beily Never.)\n\nsource of the success of such a scheint, would be. 1. for Youghal and W. T. Bridgee. Eaqrektious peaard by the Committee of the Charnam Mr. \n\nWe do not think outy, one great cases of leave Butt, Esq., Barrister and wanting, but something more than money is. C. L., Harrister and Member of the close car-r's me, it may be informed that the dir. mester has wanting-personal superintendence und an interes portion—the Legislative Council of flugkong, tren aited of the charge of breach of pra ilege, \n\nFrom: what has been allow vú to trucepire respecting the \n\nTo \n\nna weit is a portion of the Naval Brigade. The troops the officers of that regiment: -- \n\nwere left on board the transports Lancashire Witch und Tax Benged Hathara, of the 20th March, says with Mooresfort. at Whampoa and the French Contingent remained on board their own ships, except a ousall party in conjeful occupation \n\nreference to two aditional Native Regiments for th \n\nice in China- \n\nPoutres hundred sepoy belonging to the 65th and #2th Regiments N. 1. are now wigh at island, 30 they have not already arrived ut ur in the visity of Barrack port. As we all know they are destined for service in Cuma, provided they can be clarked on the rearts all which possage us ofen signed these, but not being ralunteers for the screire, they canne! in the whole e Looked upon as very willing soldiers vayer for forel ware,\" nnd we sind be able to state the exact numifer that my he proceeding to China, only on the authority \n\n3. the 181, (reclved a communication from Ule Bariul Bizin und Baron Gros, stating that the reply the Contaistioner had been received that is was most antislactory, and inviting the aavel and milhors and-chief to a saference board the Aulaccuse, to consider what further steps aliulit be taken, in consequence of Keb's determination to resist the very nurse decade of the two Governments, \n\n4. Tur conference was held un the 21st it, when it was determined that the pienipotentiaries should \n\nDe knocking at the dors tie Iluase of Coumene\n\nthese prvi of the \n\nthe inverse of Tabs, it would be overwhelmed with adelage India. basic enough co ungrosa tile whole the ovidence selitted to the committee crabile us, \n\ntime of tho bare. And the tuulia eniture, who A Morril, vus of the four Ameere of Upper Selnic, we setertido a boradigazy faith in the nipotence frihe med of turving acquired the interstance of the of Las in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with; dengnes by the presuction of a legal document. The pretura, which if u come the intimation of die James dim Government appelated a commision of the their argir, it would be perfectly air for them to lost heas 4 Prestige de large judicially. The secept. It was nice aged at a Nahub of Arcot bu Cammons in tris pay of an artisan cum te tor conclusion that the charge was eight members of the Host \n\nTim Court of Directors therungen proposed that 1 Sudan bill be any degree resembling that of Lourd Faimers blogne should be deprived of the laude which he held us, is allowed to be low every bilan in-and der the surged decourt. The Presideur of the Bont of their now is leglus--an every wealthy Balno will have attel, for the Cana being, was of opinion that this contence has paid ur uz merabers in the loss of \n\nto lenient, and at bis sggesden Ali Moore was de This is anger gainer which the people of Bogland rised of the ends thus fraudulently bined, and also of have to murd, now that it to props to vrat illa governs \n\nof the pilots reports from the Sashes. Meanwhile, dan letter to the Eugerial High Couimper, started his crban\" laude, beaving him in pranes munt of falla exclusively on the Minsters of the tr \n\nwe dure suy, preparations are being mude for the restoring his Excelteney that, in consequence of his mom.compliance with the debody submitted for fas on of all his remaining and very valuable eruditary! \n\nWe publish the following despatch from the ception of those men to be taken to fight the battles of \n\nconsideration, the lurther settlement of the question the Goverment in a country distant and different from To win a reversal of this judgment, the Amger Putna to \n\nbeen transferred to the anal and military suites, that where as hrave and faithful soldiers their services Sugated. We pas Uver the minor personages in the dis- Government Gazette of last Saturday from the \n\nof State for Foreign affairs, which we ece fur toere required at would be most valuable, that me should sly address better to his silency stating the above faci, and that it, at the end of a further uded the Coffeys, and the alle lady who travelled \n\ntern of forty-eight hours, the eny saguld be perefully from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the \n\nquived preparations are compite, nid the sea sust atenie purpose of sizing the deposed prace by paying \n\ncoussy be subject to temporary dependion before surdered into our hands, life and property would be es with it. Gar Lusiness is with the servant of the \n\nthey are sent away. Whether they are all to vents respected; but that, if the teras were out roepted, the English public, the bon, member for Youghal. \n\ntheir rus ad munition or not, we are not aware; city would be attacked. \n\nAll our efforts to avert the evils of war from the hot after the last false alarm, we think it would be \n\nกษ \n\nterested nu eympathising agency by which he was - Secretat, s:t the attention of persons who have Some days may be expected to elapse before the re- \n\ncommend \n\nbeen married in Macau or who propose being married rkare:- \n\nNo. 20. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nAch is established by Mr. Burt's corn statements. Hiviers were engagal for the Amar acu after that raine's rival in England Mr. Brat sits that he could \n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages sofem nie heered the passagement of the application furtius in the der's beauf le staves that he al-nize an Chana, otherwise that ja acendance with nys urged upon the Amer, Aut his lends art advisers, the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victores, Cap the bringing of his ca bure Parliament, as the m0268, His Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, relies are to pure. Ha actually used for propers, like \n\nproductive of which he theme obviated to promote the L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief er's van. He coniterie the Pirator: the Superintendent of Frade in China &c., &c. has Kulit Company, and agon Mr. Turen faith, the Presisereived a Despatch front The Bight Hande bat the Bora of Control, la licit their nou wees on Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy child of hie ciet. The result of these applicnída was a of which is hereby published for „euerai inforna- jetine on the Board of Directors in answer to the Amcera \n\nBy Order, \n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. Xo. 7 \n\n| \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chmese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Cidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\nBritish Naval Brigade on the right.\n\nCentre bridge, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's provano instalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers.\n\nPreucia bridge on the inft\n\nColonel Holloway's brigade in reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery,\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain still to cancuston, and the mail leaving; I must therefore defer instheer det üle to the next rpportunity. † in line of contianova elutus of brigade audil further...\n\nI bwe, &c.\n\nC. T. VAN STinerszre, M jur General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now heng oerapied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of Stue for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n} \n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages...\n\nHis Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China &c., &c. has received a Despatch from The Right Honorable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. No. 7\n\n| \n| --- \n| --- \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chinese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Clidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\n| Unit | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Naval Brigade | Right |\n| Centre bridge | Composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's battalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers |\n| Preucia bridge | Left |\n| Colonel Holloway's brigade | Reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery |\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain...\n\nC. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now being occupied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of State for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n}",
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        "content_text": "413\n\n10\n\nat Tang-ku. I immediately took him to the position which I intended the French force to occupy, and also along the whole front, that he might be thoroughly acquainted with the general arrangements. At midnight I despatched my aide-de-camp, Major Greathed, to conduct the French column by a separate route, which he had previously reconnoitred, so that their line of advance was perfectly clear and unobstructed.\n\nThe disposition of the force was arranged as follows:-\n\nFour 24-pounder howitzers (two of Govan's and two of Desborough's), were placed in Battery No. 4 on the left, to play on the defences of the Fort under attack.\n\nTwo 32-pounders and two 8-inch howitzers in Battery No. 3 to open on the same defences and eventually to breach near the gateway.\n\nMilward's Armstrong Battery in Battery No. 5 to silence the enemy's guns by direct fire, and to keep down the fire of the furthermost Northern Fort, which supported the Fort under attack.\n\nA Battery (No. 2) of three 8-inch mortars was advanced between the canals, to shell the Fort from a distance of 500 yards.\n\nOn my right front a Battery was prepared for six guns to silence the fire from the right bank of the river and the Southern Fort; this battery was armed with one 8-inch gun, two of Barry's Armstrong guns, and two French 24-pounder rifled guns. The remaining four French guns were placed on the right, partly sheltered by the Tartar village, but free to turn their fire upon the numerous scattered batteries which lined the right bank of the river. Two of Barry's guns and two of Govan's guns were placed in position at Col. Sargent's picket on the south-east angle of Tang-ku, to cover the French right.\n\nAt 4 A.M. my column of Infantry moved into position, the right wing of the 67th and 44th Regiments, under cover of the canals, in advance, near the Mortar Battery. The remaining wing of the 44th and 67th Regiments, and one half of the Royal Marines, formed the support, which was posted under cover of the canals, near Milward's Battery. The other half of the Royal Marines carrying pontoons. The Royal Engineers and Sappers with material were placed under cover in front of the supports, ready to move forward and keep pace with the progress of the attack.\n\nThe enemy opened before these movements were completed, and as their fire was heavy I replied with Milward's guns, although the whole of my Batteries were not quite ready to open, and the French column, though punctual to the appointed time of 6 A.M., had not yet appeared. By 6 the whole of the British Batteries were in play; General Collinot arrived, and took up the position on the right which had been placed at his disposal, and the French Artillery likewise came into action against the Southern Forts and Batteries.\n\nOwing to the great extent of the enemy's position, they were able to open some guns against the right flank of the French column; but their fire was at once diverted, and eventually silenced, by the two guns of Barry's Battery, which were in position at Colonel Sargent's picket at the east gate of Tang-ku.\n\nThe enemy replied to the fire of our Artillery from all their guns that could be brought to bear; but the fire of the Fort attacked had already sensibly diminished, when a shell from the Mortar Battery, or Milward's guns, alighting in the magazine, caused a grand explosion, soon followed by a similar one in the remotest Northern Fort, with which the gunboats had been for some time engaged.\n\nThe guns of the Fort immediately attacked being nearly silenced, I directed, with the consent of his Excellency, an advance of all the Field Artillery to new positions within 450 yards, and the fire of our batteries was concentrated on the left of the gateway, with a view to breaching.\n\nThe skirmishers of the Allied Forces pushed vigorously forward, and obtained a position on the edge of the outermost of the two wet ditches which surround the Fort.\n\nThe French on the right succeeded in crossing the ditches by ladder bridges, and effected a lodgment on the berm of the unflanked angle of the work abutting on the river. The English pontoon bridge, carried by a party of Royal Marines, advancing on the line of the causeway opposite the centre of the Fort, was met by so heavy a fire that half the carriers were immediately disabled, and the construction of the bridge rendered impracticable.\n\nLieut.-Colonel Travers, R.M.L.I., Major Graham, R.E., were also wounded in attempting to carry out this duty. I thereupon directed the ladders to be brought forward and passed across the ditches towards the right. This was carried out by Lieut. Pritchard, R.E., and parties of our Infantry effecting the passage of the ditches, some by means of the ladders, others by swimming, made their way to the gate.\n\n11\n\nThe enemy made a noble and vigorous resistance, no entry had yet been made, the breach had not been completed, the gate was known to be built up, the attempts of the French to escalade at their angle were unsuccessful. At this juncture, with the permission of the Commander-in-Chief, I brought up two 24-pounder howitzers and two 9-pounder guns of Govan's to within 80 yards of the rampart, which firing over the heads of the men on the berm, cut away the parapet at the point where the defence was most obstinate.\n\nAfter a lengthened struggle the French entered the embrasure at their angle by escalade, and the British climbed into the partial breach near the gate at the same moment, Lieutenant Rogers, of the 44th Regiment, being the first man on our side established in the place. The troops of both nations now poured into the place, but foot by foot the brave garrison disputed the ground, and as there was no means of exit other than by dropping over the wall and crossing the defensive obstacles of ditches, stakes, and abbatis, the loss of the enemy when they were ultimately driven out of the work was very severe, both from the rifles of our Infantry, who crowded the cavalier, and from guns moved round to the left, which swept their line of retreat on the further Northern Fort.\n\nIt was half-past eight o'clock when this Fort, now proved to be the key of the whole position, was in our hands.\n\nThe guns of the cavalier were turned against the opposite Southern Fort, on which fire was still maintained from the heavy batteries on our right attack.\n\nWith the view of following up the advantages gained as soon as possible, fresh regiments, viz., the 3d Buffs and 8th Punjab Infantry, under the command of Brigadier Jephson, were brought to the front by his Excellency's orders, and the Artillery was put in position to enfilade the Fort still untaken on the north side. Suddenly firing on the part of the enemy ceased in all quarters, and white flags were displayed in all the Forts still in their hands.\n\nI need not refer to the further proceedings conducted by the Commander-in-Chief in person, which ended in the surrender of the remaining Northern Fort and the abandonment of those on the south side.\n\nCaptain Biddulph, Military Secretary,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) R. NAPIER, Major-General,\n\nCommanding 2d Division China Force.",
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        "content_text": "HOME CUTTERS\n\nKOW LOON\n\nPeninsula\n\nI maintain \"that Fortifications\" and Garrisons unless very strong are more likely to do harm than good, the Towns being more likely to suffer in the engagement than if they were totally undefended.\"\n\n(Signed) G. G. Cleverly Surveyor General\n\n(True Copy)\n\n143\n\nPLAN OF HONG-KONG, KOWLOON &c.\n\nShewing Proposed Batteries in pink.\n\nTo accompany Surveyor General's Letter No. 12 of 1861.\n\nReference.\n\nNo 1. Tai Tam... N°2 North Point, N°3. Kellet's Island. Fort & Magazine N°4. Wellington Battery 9 Guns, A. Hospital. N°6 Head Quarter House. 2 Guns.\n\nN°7. Parade Pier, N°8 Murray Battery 4 Guns,, Art N°9 10 Possession Point N°11. Eagers Point.. N°12 Navy Bay. N°13 Ouchterlony Battery in ruins.\n\nN°14. Batcher's Point. N°15. Green Island.\n\nOn Kowloon. Nos. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20..\n\nOn Stone Cutters Island Nos. 21. 22. 23.\n\nG. G. Cleverly\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 22\n\nPage 23\n\n \n\n \n\nPage 520",
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        "content_text": "Solphur Channel.\n\n23\n\n20\n\nSTONE CUTTERS\n\n22\n\n21\n\nV\n\n#\n\nα\n\n19\n\nR\n\nKOW LOON\n\nPeninsula\n\nיר\n\nA\n\nH\n\nN\n\n• KON\n\nPLAN OF HONG-KONG. KOW-LOON\n\nShowing Proposed Batteries (pink)\n\nTo accompany Deputy General's Letter No. 12 of 1861\n\nScale of Reference. Miles.\n\nN1 Lyee Mooil. N2 North Point N°3 Keller's Island Fort Magazine. No4. Wellington Battery 68 Guns. N°5 Hospital Hill. 20 Guns. N°6 Headquarters House. 2 Guns.\n\nN°7 to 10 Possession Point\n\nN°7 Parade Pier. N°8 Murray Battery, 8 Guns\n\nN°11. Eager's Point. N°12 Navy Bay. N°13 Quarry Bay Battery in ruins. N°14. Belcher's Point.\n\nN°15. Green Island\n\nOn Kowloon. N°. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.\n\nOn Stone Cutters Island. N° 21. 22. 23.\n\nIve Moon.\n\n17.",
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        "content_text": "## MARINE COURTS.—Ordinance No. 11 of 1860.\n\nThree of these Courts have been held during the past Year. The first was held on the Chief Mate of the Moldavian against the Master of the Ethel. This resulted in the defendant's acquittal, and the Chief Mate being severely reprimanded. The second was to investigate charges of drunkenness and incapacity brought by the Officers, and a portion of the Crew, against the Master of the steamer Genkai, near Chelang Point. The Master, the crew were acquitted and highly commended for the exertions they made to save the Vessel. The third Court was to enquire into the cause of the loss of the steamer Genkai, near Chelang Point.\n\n## GUNPOWDER STORAGE.—Ordinance No. 4 of 1867.\n\n36. In consequence of an explosion on board a hulk containing about 100 tons of Gunpowder, moored at Kowloon, it was deemed necessary to bring the storage of Gunpowder under the immediate control of the Government. A hulk for this purpose was therefore purchased and fitted as a floating magazine. The Ordinance is in full working order, and 31,777 packages, containing nearly 330 Tons of Gunpowder, have been delivered since June last.\n\n37. There has been one conviction under this Ordinance, but as the case was attended with much danger during the passage of the Ship and also for a short time to the Vessels in Harbor and to the Town, it is worthy of special attention.\n\n38. A ship left New York with a full cargo of what the Master supposed to be non-explosive packages and consequently did not pay such particular attention to the storage as would have been the case had he known he had a large quantity of Gunpowder on board. In the manifest was entered a certain number of packages of merchandize. In the meantime, advices had been received from Shanghai by the Agents here to the effect that a number of cases of Cartridges was on board the Vessel, so that on her arrival they applied in the usual way for permission to store 394 cases in the Gunpowder Depôt. It was only then, that the Master knew he had been carrying 34 cwt. of Gunpowder.\n\n39. The fine imposed will doubtless lead to greater care being taken at the Ports of Shipment, to state distinctly in ships' manifests if Gunpowder forms a portion of the Cargo.\n\nTo the Honorable CECIL C. SMITH,  \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,  \nHarbor Master, &c.\n\n## I—NUMBER, TONNAGE, and CREW of Vessels entered at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong from each Country, in the Year 1867.\n\n| COUNTRIES WHENCE ARRIVED | BRITISH | FOREIGN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | TOTAL | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | TOTAL | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | TOTAL |\n|  | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews |\n| Great Britain | 67 | 48,086 | 1,451 |  |  |  | 67 | 48,086 | 1,451 | 16 | 10,994 | 546 |  |  |  | 16 | 10,994 | 546 | 83 | 59,080 | 1,797 |  |  |  | 83 | 59,080 | 1,797 |\n| Continent of Europe |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 14 | 7,818 | 337 |  |  |  | 14 | 7,818 | 337 | 14 | 7,818 | 337 |  |  |  | 14 | 7,818 | 337 |\n| United States of America | 11 | 3,682 | 215 |  |  |  | 11 | 3,682 | 215 | 21 | 11,946 | 521 |  |  |  | 21 | 11,946 | 521 | 32 | 15,653 | 167 | 736 |  |  | 32 | 15,653 | 736 |\n| India and Singapore | 61 | 23,708 | 829 | 3 | 169 | 23 | 64 | 23,877 | 852 | 81 | 16,334 | 624 |  |  |  | 81 | 16,334 | 624 | 145 | 40,097 | 1,476 | 3 | 169 | 23 | 148 | 40,266 | 1,499 |\n| Australia and New Zealand |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 271 | 28,700 | 1,119 |  |  |  | 271 | 28,700 | 1,119 | 271 | 28,700 | 1,119 |  |  |  | 271 | 28,700 | 1,119 |\n| South America |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 68 | 16,334 | 624 |  |  |  | 68 | 16,334 | 624 | 68 | 16,334 | 624 |  |  |  | 68 | 16,334 | 624 |\n| Cape of Good Hope |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| British North America |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Coast of China and Formosa | 708 | 473,257 | 48,472 | 294 | 20,370 | 1,085 | 1,002 | 493,627 | 49,557 | 111 | 18 | 11 |  |  |  | 111 | 18 | 11 | 819 | 473,275 | 48,483 | 294 | 20,370 | 1,085 | 1,113 | 493,645 | 49,568 |\n| Philippines | 1 | 154 | 9 |  |  |  | 1 | 154 | 9 | 2 | 2,209 | 123 |  |  |  | 2 | 2,209 | 123 | 3 | 2,363 | 132 |  |  |  | 3 | 2,363 | 132 |\n| West India |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Java and other Islands, Indian Archipelago | 1 | 2,376 | 721 |  |  |  | 1 | 2,376 | 721 | 4,784 | 230 |  |  |  | 4,784 | 230 | 1 | 2,376 | 721 | 4,784 | 230 | 1 | 2,376 | 721 | 4,784 | 230 |\n| Islands of the South Pacific |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Siam |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 905 | 401 | 81 |  |  |  | 905 | 401 | 81 | 905 | 401 | 81 |  |  |  | 905 | 401 | 81 |\n| Japan | 49 | 9,336 | 271 | 20 | 1,802 | 93 | 69 | 11,138 | 364 | 4,711 | 155 | 1,128 | 36 |  |  | 4,747 | 155 | 1,128 | 36 | 4,760 | 191 | 1,164 | 56 | 20,449 | 1,492 |\n| Amoor River |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| TOTAL | 1,414 | 697,128 | 55,526 | 201 | 708 | 54,550 | 2,530 | 1,515 | 751,678 | 58,056 | 14,858 | 1,511,158 | 232,066 | 7,965 | 299,002 | 69,398 | 21,718 | 48,421 | 2,203 | 1,189 | 521,678 | 45,677 | 14,025 | 1,325,344 | 224,114 | 7,843 | 285,213 | 69,112 | 21,868 | 1,610,557 | 258,228 |\n\nH. G. THOMSETT,  \nHarbor Master, &c.\n\n## II—NUMBER, TONNAGE, and CREW of Vessels cleared at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong from each Country, in the Year 1867.\n\n| COUNTRIES TO WHICH DEPARTED | BRITISH | FOREIGN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | TOTAL | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | TOTAL | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | TOTAL |\n|  | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews |\n| Great Britain | 101 | 9,520 | 252 | 1 | 65 | 11 | 102 | 9,585 | 263 |  |  |  | 1 | 650 | 24 | 1 | 650 | 24 | 101 | 9,520 | 252 | 2 | 715 | 35 | 103 | 10,235 | 287 |\n| Continent of Europe | 59 | 20,289 | 769 | 1 | 286 | 13 | 60 | 20,575 | 782 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 59 | 20,289 | 769 | 1 | 286 | 13 | 60 | 20,575 | 782 |\n| United States of America | 14 | 9,949 | 274 |  |  |  | 14 | 9,949 | 274 | 376 | 1,550 | 69 |  |  |  | 376 | 1,550 | 69 | 390 | 11,499 | 343 |  |  |  | 390 | 11,499 | 343 |\n| India and Singapore | 98 | 100,553 | 3,011 | 14 | 9,949 | 274 | 112 | 110,502 | 3,285 | 980 | 43 | 930 | 43 |  |  | 980 | 43 | 930 | 43 | 196 | 110,545 | 4,215 | 14 | 9,949 | 274 | 210 | 120,494 | 4,489 |\n| Australia and New Zealand |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 285 | 18 |  |  |  |  | 285 | 18 |  |  | 285 | 18 |  |  |  | 285 | 18 |  |\n| South America | 1 | 10,450 | 185 | 72 | 395 |  |  |  | 73 | 10,845 | 185 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 10,450 | 185 | 72 | 395 |  |  | 73 | 10,845 | 185 |\n| Coast of China and Formosa | 769 | 241 | 81,446 | 1,102 | 7,173 | 679 | 122 | 117,726 | 8,720 | 2,889 | 261 | 25,152 | 1,492 | 12 | 104 | 786 |  |  |  | 2,901 | 273 | 25,938 | 2,478 | 12 | 104 | 786 |  |  |  |\n| Philippines |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Java and other Islands in the Indian Archipelago | 35 | 41,395 | 1,876 |  |  |  | 35 | 41,395 | 1,876 | 730 | 288 | 38 | 13 | 3,217 | 124 | 743 | 3,505 | 162 | 765 | 44,600 | 2,038 | 13 | 3,217 | 124 | 778 | 47,817 | 2,162 |\n| Islands in the South Pacific |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Siam |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Japan | 32,182 | 1,116 | 35 |  |  |  | 32,182 | 1,116 | 35 | 41,395 | 1,876 | 730 | 288 | 38 | 13 | 3,217 | 124 | 743 | 3,505 | 162 | 765 | 44,600 | 2,038 | 13 | 3,217 | 124 | 778 | 47,817 | 2,162 |\n| Amoor River |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| TOTAL | 621 | 251,411 | 86,545 | 116 | 847 | 8,506 | 1,184 | 528,125 | 55,861 | 19,703 | 1,256,039 | 228,812 | 7,223 | 383,498 | 62,018 | 21,016 | 1,589,887 | 288,680 | 14,814 | 1,092,919 | 288,947 | 7,386 | 420,045 | 65,524 | 22,200 | 2,112,962 | 834,491 | 1,218 | 589,862 | 62,324 | 287 | 160,812 | 6,028 | 1,505 | 760,174 | 68,572 | 13,967 | 1,358,911 | 251,411 | 7,404 | 426,709 | 65,472 | 21,371 | 1,785,020 | 296,880 | 15,185 | 1,948,179 | 288,955 | 7,601 | 587,021 | 71,600 | 22,876 | 2,635,194 | 865, 485 |",
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        "content_text": "## MARINE COURTS.-Ordinance No. 11 of 1880.\n\nThree of these Courts have been held during the past Year. The first was held on the Chief Mate of the Moldavian against the Master of the Ethel. This resulted in the defendant's acquittal, and the Chief Mate being severely reprimanded. The second was to investigate charges of drunkenness and incapacity brought by the Officers, and a portion of the crew against the Master of the steamer Genkai. The third Court was to enquire into the cause of the loss of the steamer Genkai, near Chelang Point. The Master, Officers and Crew, were acquitted and highly commended for the exertions they made to save the Vessel.\n\n## GUNPOWDER STORAGE.-Ordinance No. 4 of 1867.\n\nIn consequence of an explosion on board a hulk containing about 100 tons of Gunpowder, moored at Kowloon, it was deemed necessary to bring the storage of Gunpowder under the immediate control of the Government. A hulk for this purpose was therefore purchased and fitted as a floating magazine. The Ordinance is in full working order, 31,777 packages, containing nearly 330 Tons of Gunpowder, have been delivered since June last.\n\n36. A ship left New York with a full cargo of what the Master supposed to be non-explosive packages and consequently did not pay such particular attention to the storage as would have been the case had he known he had a quantity of Gunpowder on board. In the manifest was entered a certain number of packages of merchandize. In the meanwhile advices had been received from Shanghai by the Agents here to the effect that a number of cases of Cartridges was on board the Vessel, so that on her arrival they applied in the usual way for permission to store 304 cases in the Gunpowder Depôt. It was only then, that the Master knew he had been carrying 34 cwt. of Gunpowder.\n\n37. There has been one conviction under this Ordinance, but as the case was attended with much danger during the passage of the Ship and also for a short time to the Vessels in Harbor and to the Town, it is worthy of special attention.\n\n39. The fine imposed will doubtless lead to greater care being taken at the Ports of Shipment, to state distinctly in ships manifests if Gunpowder forms a portion of the Cargo.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n**H. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,**\nHarbor Master, &c.\n\nTo the Honorable CRCIL C. SMITH,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n## L--NUMBER, TONNAGE, and Crews of Vessels entered at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong from each Country, in the Year 1867.\n\n| COUNTRIES WHENCE ARRIVED | BRITISH | FOREIGN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST |\n|  | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews |\n| Great Britain, |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16 | 10,994 | 846 |\n| Continent of Europe,..... | 67 | 48,086 | 1,451 |  |  |  | 181 | 30,944 | 2,151 | 14 | 1,096 | 83 | 215 | 48,086 | 1,451 | 14 | 1,096 | 83 | 262 | 80,126 | 2,297 |\n| United States of America, | 21 | 7,818 | 337 | 6 | 3,682 | 148 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 21 | 7,818 | 337 | 6 | 3,682 | 148 | 27 | 11,500 | 485 |\n| India and Singapore....... | 83 | 69,080 | 1,797 | 31 | 59,060 | 1,797 | 122 | 8,038 | 851 | 8 | 1,885 | 72 | 205 | 77,118 | 2,648 | 39 | 60,945 | 1,869 | 244 | 138,063 | 4,517 |\n| Australia and New Zealand, | 52 | 59,480 | 1,949 | 22 | 8,033 | 351 | 69 | 69,480 | 1,949 | 58 | 20,565 | 1,610 | 121 | 128,960 | 3,898 | 80 | 28,598 | 1,961 | 201 | 157,558 | 5,859 |\n| South America, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 19 | 8,522 | 302 |  |  |  | 19 | 8,522 | 302 |  |  |  | 19 | 8,522 | 302 |\n| Cape of Good Hope, | 18 | 5,841 | 181 |  |  |  | 1 | 1,100 | 25 |  |  |  | 18 | 5,841 | 181 | 1 | 1,100 | 25 | 19 | 6,941 | 206 |\n| West Indies, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 9 | 7,241 | 184 |  |  |  | 9 | 7,241 | 184 |  |  |  | 9 | 7,241 | 184 |\n| Java and other Islands, Indian Archipelago,. | 155 | 4,711 | 155 |  |  |  | 2 | 2,209 | 82 |  |  |  | 155 | 4,711 | 155 | 2 | 2,209 | 82 | 157 | 6,920 | 237 |\n| Islands of the South Pacific, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7 | 1,802 | 63 | 1 | 1,128 | 56 | 7 | 1,802 | 63 | 1 | 1,128 | 56 | 8 | 2,930 | 119 |\n| Philippines, | 26 | 420 | 26 |  |  |  | 2 | 2,376 | 61 |  |  |  | 26 | 420 | 26 | 2 | 2,376 | 61 | 28 | 2,796 | 87 |\n| Siam, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 40 | 8,281 | 119 |  |  |  | 40 | 8,281 | 119 |  |  |  | 40 | 8,281 | 119 |\n| Japan,.......... | 99 | 20,706 | 491 |  |  |  | 44 | 9,936 | 201 | 2 | 420 | 26 | 99 | 20,706 | 491 | 46 | 10,356 | 227 | 145 | 31,062 | 718 |\n| Amour River,.................... |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4 | 4,784 | 280 |  |  |  | 4 | 4,784 | 280 |  |  |  | 4 | 4,784 | 280 |\n| British North America, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 11 | 708 | 18 |  |  |  | 11 | 708 | 18 |  |  |  | 11 | 708 | 18 |\n| Coast of China and Formosa, | 911 | 478,257 | 48,472 | 294 | 11,708 | 521 | 1,189 | 521,678 | 45,677 | 14,025 | 1,825,344 | 224,116 | 2,100 | 999,935 | 94,149 | 14,319 | 1,837,052 | 224,637 | 2,418 | 1,610,557 | 298,228 |\n| **TOTAL** | **1,414** | **697,128** | **55,526** | **101** | **294** | **11** | **1,865** | **1,344** | **224,116** | **7,343** | **285,218** | **89,112** | **1,518** | **610,557** | **298,228** | **7,484** | **88,634** | **71,817** | **3,002** | **2,182,235** | **298,905** |\n\n**H. G. THOMSETT,**\nHarbor Master, &c.\n\n## IL-NUMBER, TONNAGE, and Crews of Vessels cleared at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong from each Country, in the Year 1867.\n\n| COUNTRIES TO WHICH DEPARTED | BRITISH | FOREIGN | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST | WITH CARGOES | IN BALLAST |\n|  | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews | Vessels | Tons | Crews |\n| Great Britain, | 11 | 10,289 | 362 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 | 760 | 24 | 11 | 10,289 | 362 | 1 | 760 | 24 | 12 | 11,049 | 386 |\n| Continent of Europe,..... | 10 | 9,520 | 362 |  |  |  | 43 | 980 | 43 |  |  |  | 10 | 9,520 | 362 | 43 | 980 | 43 | 53 | 10,500 | 405 |\n| United States of America... | 7 | 1,550 | 59 |  |  |  | 285 | 10,450 | 395 | 1 | 769 | 24 | 7 | 1,550 | 59 | 286 | 11,219 | 419 | 293 | 12,769 | 478 |\n| India and Singapore,....... | 1 | 285 | 10 | 18 | 11,219 | 418 | 31,416 | 1,102 |  |  |  |  | 1 | 285 | 10 | 49 | 42,131 | 1,898 | 50 | 42,416 | 1,908 |\n| Australia and New Zealand, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 98 | 100,558 | 8,041 | 24 | 17,173 | 679 | 98 | 100,558 | 8,041 | 24 | 17,173 | 679 | 122 | 117,731 | 8,720 |\n| South America, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 36 | 26,212 | 907 | 117 | 125,706 | 9,539 | 36 | 26,212 | 907 | 117 | 125,706 | 9,539 | 153 | 151,918 | 10,446 |\n| Java and other islands in the Indian Archipelago, | 32 | 2,889 | 104 | 1 | 328 | 13 | 8 | 8,217 | 117 |  |  |  | 32 | 2,889 | 104 | 9 | 8,545 | 130 | 41 | 11,434 | 234 |\n| Islands in the South Pacific, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7 | 2,605 | 98 | 7 | 2,705 | 38 | 7 | 2,605 | 98 | 7 | 2,705 | 38 | 14 | 5,310 | 136 |\n| Philippines, |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 | 2,858 |  | 14 | 8,694 | 202 | 3 | 2,858 |  | 14 | 8,694 | 202 | 17 | 11,552 | 202 |\n| Siam,.... |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 | 783 | 73 |  |  |  | 3 | 783 | 73 | 3 | 783 | 73 |\n| Japan,.......... | 56 | 48,421 | 2,205 |  |  |  | 51 | 32,838 | 971 | 41 | 8,682 | 229 | 56 | 48,421 | 2,205 | 92 | 41,520 | 1,200 | 148 | 89,941 | 3,405 |\n| Amour River, |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Coast of China and Formosa, | 1,021 | 486,580 | 42,355 | 25,272 | 1,017 | 817 | 45,540 | 1,975 | 118 | 52,819 | 2,857 | 201 | 8,953 | 441 | 108 | 1,046,812 | 44,330 | 25,289 | 1,018 | 834 | 78,493 | 2,398 | 109 | 1,125,305 | 46,728 |\n| **TOTAL** | **1,218** | **589,462** | **32,524** | **117** | **49,859** | **2,200** | **85** | **86,545** | **2,506** | **1,184** | **528,125** | **45,861** | **18,798** | **1,256,839** | **220,012** | **7,228** | **333,498** | **62,018** | **21,016** | **1,589,867** | **298,630** | **14,814** | **1,692,919** | **268,967** | **7,386** | **420,043** | **65,524** | **22,200** | **2,112,962** | **334,491** | **13,967** | **1,368,811** | **251,111** | **7,404** | **426,709** | **65,472** | **21,371** | **1,795,520** | **316,583** | **15,185** | **1,348,173** | **298,938** | **7,691** | **587,021** | **71,500** | **22,870** | **1,935,194** | **370,438** | **22,195** |",
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        "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]",
        "content_text": "320 \n\nI saw a mast-head light following us; but I didn't say she would either be in that night or at the bottom. I thought I saw her mast-head light following us from the forecastle. When I came up from below, I came fast to the break of the forecastle and looked over the bulwarks. The other vessel was just abreast of the bridge, and I should say, about half a ship's length off from where I was standing. When I last looked out, I saw only a light, not a ship. I was not two minutes on deck the first time I came up. I ran down, as I feared the topmast might fall or something. I didn't know what might come down. I did not see any break in the other vessel. I saw a light, but I did not know whether it was a port, or a gun port, or what. I thought it was a large port, but had not much time to look. I did see through the light, but I saw no person or persons behind the light. I did not see any table. I swear that I saw nothing to evidence that the other vessel was damaged. I did not hear her whistle blow. I heard no shout from the other vessel. I did not hear the report of any gun. I did not see the flash from any gun. I have not stated to any one in Yokohama that I saw the flash of any gun. I have been asked the question and answered \"no.\" After I had gone below, I suppose it was from seven to ten minutes before I came on deck again. When I came on deck, I saw what I thought was the mast-head light of the other vessel; it might have been a mile or a mile and a half off, but I cannot tell.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD: I have never been a sailor, always a steward. I know there was a lighthouse; I can't say if the light I saw came from the light-house. I went on shore about a quarter to eight, I think. I got back again about 11 P.M. I didn't return immediately, as I had to wait for the officer with whom I had come on shore. I went to the Post office with the third officer. I was waiting at the Post office about twenty minutes or half an hour. We were waiting some time on the Bund to get carts to take the mail away. I was about fifteen minutes at the hotel and had one glass of brandy and water. I should think I was quite sober when I arrived on board the Bombay. I swear I was not half tight. I went on board to report a message from Mr. Dalziel to the chief officer. I told the chief officer that Mr. Dalziel wanted the Captain to take the ship to the French buoy the first thing in the morning. I am possessed of no nautical knowledge.\n\nTo the Court: My cabin is on the lower deck forward. I mean the main deck; it is on the starboard side; it has a port; I could not look out of that port; was obliged to keep it closed all night; saw nothing through that port. I was in my cabin at the time of the collision. I felt a shock and thought we had gone on shore; that's why I ran on deck. I then went up the fore companion, that is before the bridge, just at the break of the forecastle. I could not hear anything that was said on the bridge as I went up the companion; I could hear no cry, nor hail, nor could I hear a steam whistle going. The light I saw after coming on deck the second time was right astern. No one was standing by me when I saw the other vessel the first time; the carpenter and gunner were on the forecastle when I went up there. The carpenter said he had seen some one lifted away from a table inside where the light was; he said \"he thought she was hard struck,\" or words to that effect. We had not passed the lightship when the carpenter made those remarks to me. The carpenter's name is Murray. Don't remember how the conversation with the carpenter commenced. I did not report that conversation to the Captain or to any officer. I did not report it at the P. & D. office on shore. At the time I went on deck the second time, I don't know if our engines were going or not. Soon after this, I received orders from the chief officer to go down below to the store room; I went to the store room. The water was running into the store room fast. I didn't see the well sounded. The water was coming in at the bows; a good body of water was coming in as large as the stream from a fire engine hose. The carpenter said he thought he saw some one being removed from a table or something. I don't remember having mentioned anything about this conversation at the International, or at any other place. I looked over the starboard bulwarks. I don't know what distance the two vessels were apart when I went on deck the first time. It took me about two seconds to run on deck. My cabin is about seven or eight yards from the ladder.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. NEWMAN,  \nSteward in charge.\n\nJOHN MURRAY, sworn, states: I am carpenter of the steamship Bombay. I was walking on the forward part of the spar deck, just before the collision took place. I suppose I could see a mile or two off. It was blowing pretty fresh. I heard an order given to port or starboard the helm; I don't know which. I felt a very slight shock. After the collision, I was ordered to go and sound the well. I reported to the chief officer that there were three inches of water in the second forward compartment. I didn't at the time report what water was in the forward compartment, as it was used as a storeroom and locked up. I did examine the fore compartment afterwards. When we got there, I heard the water coming in, but could not see it for stores. It may have been five or eight minutes after the collision that I examined the fore compartment. The deck was overflooded with water, but the lower compartment was not then filled. I paid no attention to whether the engines were going then. I know the engines had been stopped, but I cannot say for how long they were stopped. The stores were removed from the fore compartment when we found that the water was coming in. Could not say with what force the water was coming in. The fore compartment was lined with wood, one and three-quarter inches or two inches thick. We cut away the wood to see if there was any leak besides the one we had found out. We had discovered one leak about two feet under the water line. One of the plates was split. The crack was ten inches to a foot in length. I put some wedges into the crack, but they were forced out by the ship going through the water. There was nothing in the hole before I attempted to wedge it up. The thickness of the plate which was cracked was about 3/16ths of an inch. I was not on deck after this, only when the ship stopped. I was busily engaged below. There is only one carpenter aboard the ship.\n\nAt the time of the collision, I was a little abaft the bridge on the starboard side, opposite to the engine room. One of the stewards was there, but I cannot say whether he stopped there. It was the bedroom steward. I was not standing looking at the ship with the chief steward at the time of the collision. Immediately after the collision, I saw a ship under sail, then I saw her sheer alongside of us and go past us. I saw her propeller, and it was going round, but I don't know whether astern or ahead. I saw damage had been done to the other ship, but I could not tell to what extent. She appeared to be damaged about the starboard quarter. She was damaged above the water line, but I cannot say whether she was damaged below the line. I saw two men lift another man and hand him away. I had some conversation about this on the forecastle afterwards, just for a minute. I did not report the circumstance to the Captain or to any officer. It was immediately after that that I was called by the chief officer to go below. After that, I remained below until the ship was off the light-ship. The chief officer went below with me part of the time. I don't recollect that I had said anything to the chief officer of what I had seen. When abreast of the light-ship, there were over nine feet of water in the fore compartment. I considered she was making water fast. We had buckets; the sluice valve was up, but under way at the time.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG: I could give no idea of what time elapsed between the collision and the time I got the store-room door opened. I think the ship was under way at the time, but I really cannot say. When I got into the first compartment, we could not sound the wells as it was full of stores. We could not sound the foremost compartment till about 8 or 10 minutes after the collision, but I am only guessing that. When we first sounded, I think there were about five feet of water in the first compartment. That had increased to about 9 feet when we got up to the light-ship, and we were baling the ship out all the time. When abreast of the light-ship, the water in the second compartment had increased to about 18 inches. This water in the second compartment came from the first compartment, I think. The sluice was up at the time, and the sluice communicates between the two compartments. The width of the crack below the water line may have been one-eighth of an inch or more. Before we reached the light-ship, we had no pumps going. I do not think there was any water coming through the hole where the plank went through the stem. There was a plank through the stem. It is not there now. I examined it before it was taken out. The diameter of this plank was 12 to 14 inches. It came from the port side. The hole which it made was a sort of oblong. It passed through an iron plate on the port side, then through a part of the main deck waterways, and through the plate on the other side; it bulged the iron out on the other side, and from outside on the starboard bow, burst it so that we could see a part of the end of it. The thickness of the plates is about 5/16ths of an inch. This spar may have penetrated say two or three inches of wood. The waterways connect abaft the stem. The timber penetrated abaft the stem. I was about six feet from the ship's rail on the starboard side when the ship's struck. I heard a person on board the other ship, just after the collision, sing out either \"ship ahoy\" or \"steamer ahoy.\" That's all I heard, and an officer from the Bombay answered. Did not hear any reply to the Bombay's answering hail. I did not hear her steam whistle. I did not hear any gun fire. I did not see the flash of any\n\ngun. I did see a break made into the Oneida by the Bombay; I think it was a little abaft the mizen mast, near her starboard quarter. When she struck, I could not see if the other vessel had a wheel house; but I saw a part fall over to one side; but I could not say what it was. I saw something that the Bombay had knocked away go over toward the port side. It was on the deck. I cannot say if it fell overboard or not. It looked like a wheel house or something of that sort. I saw a light at this point. I saw three men. I saw two men handing one man toward the fore part of the ship. I saw no more persons. I saw a light through a table; this hole appeared to me to fall on a table. I didn't see anything on the table, as if there was a meal spread, or anything of that kind. I saw the three men on one of the decks. If she had a poop deck, they must have been on the spar deck. The third man was being supported along by a man on either side of him. I could see a lamp, but whether it was hanging above or on the table, I cannot say. I saw that lamp, I think, through the hole which had been made by the collision. I did not see the wheel of the vessel. I saw what I thought to be a table; but no other furniture. The light and the table were on the same deck on which I saw the man being supported. I was about 20 feet abaft the bridge of the Bombay when I saw this. I don't know if any one else saw it. There was a party looking over the side with me, but I cannot say whether he saw it or not. That person was one of the stewards. I think his name is Smith. No one else was standing by or near me. I am quite sure that I made no mention of this to the first officer. I mentioned it to the chief steward, who was standing in one of a group on the spar deck. I know there were three or four in a group, but I could not say whether the second-class passenger was there or not. I did not go on shore that night after anchoring. The leak I referred to was on the port side of the ship. I found a gaff and part of a sail, and a spanker boom hanging over the side belonging to the other vessel. I did not see any boat on the ship.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD: I did not report what I had seen to the Captain or any officer. It was not my duty to do so. I was not on the spar deck more than three or four seconds. The remarks were made after sounding the second compartment and before sounding the first, before we got to the light-ship. I don't know if the engine room pumps were going before the water rose to a height of 18 inches in the second compartment.\n\nTo the Court: From two to three inches is the usual amount of water in the second compartment. I did not examine the bulkhead in the second compartment. Could not get at it, as it was full of coals. After that, I came on to the spar deck. It was then I had the conversation with the steward. I think the 18 inches in the second compartment was owing in a measure to the sluice valve being open. If I had considered our ship in danger, I should have gone direct to the Captain and reported it. It would have been my duty to have done so. The chief officer was there when I found the timber through her bows, and he reported it to the Captain. If the chief officer had been present, I should have reported to him, and not to the Captain, had I thought the ship was in danger. The body I saw falling over to port might have been a boat, and it might have been a deck house. As I stood, the light from the other ship was abreast of me, about 20 or 30 yards from me. At that time, we were sheering off to port, and her stern and quarter were nearly abeam.\n\nI saw the Oneida's screw after I had seen the light. I did not see her wheel. Had the wheel been under the poop, I could not have seen it. It was too dark to have seen it had it been on the poop. Her screw was going round when I saw it after the collision. I did not see any part of the Oneida as it were cut off and floating away. I did not see any spars or pieces of wreck floating between the two vessels. I am unable to say on what deck it was I saw the table and the light--whether it was between the poop and the spar deck, or between the spar deck and the water line. I have described what I saw through the hole, but I cannot give any idea as to the size or shape of the hole. I was looking at the hole from a slanting position and saw, I should say, the whole of the bodies of the three men. I did not think the other vessel was cut down to the water's edge. From what I saw, I did not think there was any danger of her sinking. I saw her on our port bow just a minute before the collision. I didn't see her long after the collision, as she went away past us with all her sails set. I could not tell whether she was drifting past us or whether she was being steered. I think we took the Oneida a little on our starboard bow. We struck her from her bows and towards her stern. I could not see the amount of injury we had done her as it was dark, and I could not see on her deck. I saw the body falling towards the port side of the ship before I saw the light. It did not appear to me that the light issued from where this body was moved. I was walking and about six feet from the rails of the Bombay at the time of the collision. The shock was so slight that I hardly felt it. I did not perceive any recoil, but just felt a slight shock after the collision. The vessels were clear of each other at once. I think it was pieces of plank of some kind in the stem. One piece was pitch pine, and the other pitch or red pine, I should say red pine. It was about 16 inches long. There was some oakum and cotton about it. I saw a six or seven-inch spike in it. I didn't see any iron bolts in it. I at no time made a report to the Captain or any officer of the ship that the Bombay was in danger. Had I thought the Oneida was in danger, I should not have thought it my duty to report it, not while all the officers were looking at it--not while all the officers were on duty and could see the ship as much as I did. I do not know of any reason to prevent a person standing on the bridge from seeing everything as I did. I was standing about eight feet lower than the level of the bridge. I think I was a little higher than the level of the fracture in the other vessel.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJOHN MURRAY.\n\nAdjourned till 2 P.M.\n\nProceedings resumed at two P.M.\n\nDAVID RENNIE, sworn, states: I am chief engineer of the Bombay. The second engineer was on duty at the time of the collision. I was in the engine room. I remember the collision. The collision felt to me more like a glide than anything. I was stepping into the engine room at the time the telegraph bell sounded. The order conveyed by the bell was \"Stop.\" The telegraph bell conveyed no further order until \"go ahead\" again. I should say about three minutes had elapsed from the first order being given till I felt the collision. I cannot say how long the steamer was stopped, as I did not take the time. The engine room's bilge pumps are always working and were working at that time--you could not disconnect the pumps; if the engines are going, the pumps must necessarily be in motion at the same time. The pump might miss drawing the water from a compartment of the ship for a little time. I have no reason to know that the pumps missed drawing the water. During the time there were 18 inches in the second compartment.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG: The Bombay is divided into compartments. The pumps are connected with the fore hold, main hold, engine room, and stoke hole. The forward hold is not connected with the pumps. The second compartment where the 18 inches of water were is connected with the pump. There are seven bulkheads in the ship and seven compartments, but they don't extend to the main deck. The compartments are named the first, and one right behind that, of wood, the fore hold, the coal bunker, the stoke hole, the engine room, the main hold, and the magazine. The pumps are always going; but I don't know whether they were drawing water after the collision. I keep an engineer's log. In that log, it is my duty to enter the time at which the engines are stopped and at which they go on again. It is noted at about the time the engines were stopped on the occasion of the collision; but the exact time was not taken. The second engineer noted the time. It was noted as soon as his watch had expired. His watch expired at 8 o'clock. The collision took place between 6 and 6.30 P.M. We have a state in the engine room from which the log is made up. I didn't see the slate, but I saw the book that was made up from the slate. I cannot tell whether the entry in the book corresponded with that on the slate. I have not got that record with me. We have a counter to show the number of revolutions. She was making about 26 revolutions, equalling 8 to 8.5 knots, before the order to stop was given. Received no order to \"reverse the engines.\" At the moment of the collision, I think we were going perhaps about 6 or 6.5 knots. When the collision took place, I was putting in the starting bar of the engine. The bar was in at the moment of the shock. It had no effect on me at all--did not even stagger me.\n\nTo the Court: The engines were stopped the instant the order was given. Had I been ordered to \"reverse,\" it would have taken me, I should say, three minutes. I should have been as long as that, as I should have had to get the men to \"stand by.\" They were not ready. Had they been ready, it would have taken from 30 seconds to a minute. I made up the log myself from the rough book. It was made up on the night on which we anchored in Yokohama.\n\n(Signed)\n\nDAVID C. RENNIE.\n\nWILLIAM HERBERT, sworn, states: I am gunner on board the steamship Bombay. I was on duty at the time of the collision. I was on the forecastle. I saw the other ship when she was about a mile off. I think I saw all her lights--the masthead and two side lights. She was a little on our port bow coming towards us. I could not at first see whether she was under sail or steam; but when she got closer, I saw she was under sail. I could not tell she was under steam before she got clear of us. I saw her screw working when she was abreast of our funnel after the collision had taken place. The only light I lost sight of was the red light. I watched the other vessel until about one or two minutes before we struck; I had time to reach the poop. I went to the poop in order to get out of the way of the collision. I knew there was to be one. The collision was very slight where I was. The seacannie was the only one on the bow on the look out that I know of. I think he stopped there during the collision. At the time of the collision, I was on the top of the poop ladder. I saw the other vessel going by us from the top of the poop ladder. She passed pretty quickly. I did not see her smoke stack. I saw her sails and her screw going round. I saw a light on board of her. I cannot say where the light came from. I cannot describe the light. I saw a hole in the ship's side. It was a breach. I could not tell if it was a large hole. I only saw one person on board the other ship. I don't know whether sitting or leaning...",
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        "content_text": "## SEVENTH DAY, THURSDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1870.\n\nThis led down to the Captain's cabin, to which there was a moderately broad staircase. In the cabin, there was a table, which was covered with a red cloth the last time I saw it. The cabin had air ports, about four inches in diameter. In the first place, the poop cabin was entirely carried away by the collision; it was swept entirely into the sea; then I saw that the whole starboard quarter and stern were cut off. I was not down in the Captain's cabin, and cannot say how large a breach was made in it, or can I describe the breach. I should think the breach must have extended the whole breadth of the ship. I suppose the staircase leading to the Captain's cabin must have been cut off, as the Oneida was struck forward of that. I don't know how the Captain got on deck. I did not go and look over to ascertain the extent of this breach in the Oneida's stern. I think the Oneida ran about two miles after the collision before sinking but, after reflecting again, I have no means of judging the distance run. I cannot say how far she had run. I should judge that her propeller must have been injured, but I don't know. I should think her engines were not injured. I should like to say that I don't think the Oneida went two miles after the collision. I don't know how far she went, and had no means of judging. The wheel was cut away by the collision. The wind was from N.N.E. to N.E., principally N.E., force from 4 to 5; the Kanonsaki light bore one point on the starboard bow from the time of sighting it to the time of the collision, except when I altered course by reason of the ship sagging, when it was brought up nearly ahead. At no time before the collision, did it bear upon my port bow. It is a rule of the U.S. Navy, when the officer of the watch alters course, that he informs the navigating officer and the Captain of it, but on this occasion, I understood the Captain was not to be disturbed. I did notify the navigator and he came on deck. He stayed on deck about 10 minutes. When one of the U.S. Navy vessels is in a dangerous place, the navigator's post of duty is on deck. When any danger from a collision is apprehended, his post is also on deck, and if he considers it necessary, he can take charge of the ship. When I first saw the Bombay's light, it was a little to the left of Kanonsaki light, then it went to the right of the light. As it was rounding the point, I saw the starboard green light of the Bombay; it bore one point on the starboard bow. Twenty of the officers of the Oneida were lost and ninety-five men. The Oneida arrived on the China station at the end of 1887. The Bombay was one mile off when I noticed her heading for the Oneida. I could not have avoided her then by putting our helm aport. When you see the mast head and green light of an approaching steamer, the rule is to starboard the helm in order to give the other steamer a wide berth; this I did when I first saw the Bombay's lights. As far as I know, the helm was starboarded at the time of collision; at least, I had given no orders to change it.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. The name of the lookout on the starboard forecastle is William Brittany, ordinary seaman; the man at the weather wheel is named Albert Rugaart, seaman; those are all of the lookouts who were saved. I was in charge of the deck when we first saw the Bombay's lights as officer of the watch. I was in charge of the ship at the time of the collision. We passed within three cables' length of the light ship, I should think. When I took charge of the deck, we were steering for Kanonsaki light--for a moment, that light was brought to bear almost right ahead. I don't know if Perry Island was in sight at that time. I did not know Perry's Island. I am unacquainted with the land in that locality. I am not supposed to know the land; as officer of the watch, I am supposed to know the course but not the peculiarities of the land. I thought the ship was sagging only from the fact of bringing the light more ahead, not from the position of the land to westward.\n\nI thought we were approaching the land to the westward. I could see the land, and the general outline of it. At that time, I should think the land to the westward was something between 4 or 5 miles distant. I was aware that we could approach it pretty close. I was at that distance when we sighted the Bombay's lights; we made the lights one point on the starboard bow; the other vessel was steering up toward Yokohama, her course would have taken her somewhere up by the lightship. I imagined that vessel was going to pass on the starboard side, because she was so far in toward the western shore, and we were some way out. We left Yokohama about 5:15 P.M., and came into collision with the Bombay at 6:45 P.M. Our time would have been the same as H.M.S. Ocean's time. When we saw all three lights of the Bombay, we were about a mile off. We were so close together, and approaching so rapidly, that I thought that if we ported our helm, we should collide; we were approaching each other at the rate of seventeen miles an hour, I should judge. Under the circumstances, our mizen and gaff topsails would be against our port helm; it is doubtful whether we should have had time to get them in before the collision. Allowing the vessel had no canvas on, and in fine weather, without canvas, and under steam, I don't know how long it would have taken the Oneida to turn round. When I saw the Bombay's green light, it did not occur to me that her red light must be just on the point of opening.\n\nThe Oneida usually went about seven and a half knots; the boilers and engines were out of order. When the speed was reported to me, it did not occur to me to doubt whether we were going so slowly. I didn't have the log heaved the second time, as I didn't think it necessary, as I took the word of the midshipman, and didn't wish him to think that I imagined he didn't know how to heave the log; that was the first time he had ever heaved a log on board our ship. It is possible and even probable that he might have missed a knot under those circumstances. I thought the Oneida might be going seven and a half knots, no more. The engines were not going fast, and there wasn't much wind. The engines did not turn so fast after six o'clock as they did before. I am not aware that it is usual for vessels to keep on the starboard side in a narrow channel. It did not occur to me that the Bombay might be too close to the western shore, and wanting to come out. Our engines were going but not very rapidly at the time of collision. No change was made in speed. I did not hear our hail answered. My purpose in ordering them to shorten sail was to decrease the ship's headway, knowing that we ought not to be under sail after collision. It was not very long, say five minutes after the collision, that we first discovered that the Oneida was making water dangerously; her sails were clewed up within the five minutes. I hadn't found out that the rudder was damaged at the time that the order was given to shorten sail; it was about two minutes after this that I found all the steering gear was out of order. The chief engineer must have reported that the ship was making water. Steps were taken to head the ship off to the western shore. I don't know that it occurred to anyone to beach the vessel on the Saratoga Spit. I believe that Mr. Moldaur thought we were below the spit. I didn't know; I hadn't seen the buoy. Our standard compass was on the poop, underneath the spanker boom, amidship. I think the navigating officer knew where he was with regard to the Saratoga Spit; he must have taken the bearings, he was always taking bearings when we were under weigh. I don't know whether he took the bearings of Perry's island or not.\n\nThough seeing only one light, I judged that the Bombay was running nearly parallel to us; immediately before the collision, I know that she must have starboarded her helm, as I could plainly see the Bombay's head go to port. The Bombay was running across our bows, and the Oneida was not running across the Bombay's bows. I don't want it understood for a moment that I admit that I crossed his bows. There were no flash-lights, blue lights, or any kind of signals on the bridge--it would not be as easy to get a rocket ready as to get ammunition from the magazine, as the rocket would have to be fastened to the stick. I don't think the rockets could have been got ready as soon as the gun was ready for firing. The Oneida's proper complement of boats was six, which I consider would be sufficient to save all hands; some of them would have carried provisions and some not. When we left Yokohama, we had not that complement; we were short three serviceable boats. I should judge that the launch and the 2nd cutter would each carry, say 45, and that the 3rd cutter would carry over 30; if we had had our proper complement of boats, we could not have carried the whole ship's company without the gig; with all the boats, we might just have saved all the ship's company. We carried spare booms all lashed outside; none were lashed inside; no order was given to cut away spars or to prepare for wreck. The order to take to the boats was not given till, say, 12 minutes after the collision. I didn't hear it given myself.\n\nI believe the order was given to the lifeboat's crew to clear away the lifeboat. If the Oneida had struck on a rock instead of coming into collision, we might have saved more men, as we might have had the gig--the third cutter also would have held more men than she had. I did not hear Captain Williams say, \"you have the Admiral to thank for this.\" I heard that Captain Williams said, \"I have asked for boats and can't get them.\" I couldn't swear to anyone having been wounded on board the Oneida; I heard that the orderly at the cabin hatch had his nose cut off, and that the man at the lee wheel was killed--there were two men at the wheel at the time of the collision, besides a quartermaster. The Oneida carried two Surgeons. I don't think that the Surgeons knew that the men were hurt; I didn't know it. I only heard of it afterwards--the doctor of a vessel not being an executive officer is not supposed to go away in charge of a boat unless by special authority; in the event of a boat being sent away on duty, one of the line officers is always supposed to go in charge. I suppose we were about ten minutes by the wreck before we pulled away. I did not see the Doctor's boat during that time; the doctor pulled off to a junk. I cannot tell whether he might have saved any men had he stayed by the wreck. There was no order given to the Doctor to leave the ship that I know of. Our spanker boom was fastened to the mizen mast by a goose neck of iron.\n\n## Proceedings resumed 9 A.M. Thursday, 3rd February, 1870.\n\nExamination of Isaac Yates, master U.S.N., resumed.\n\nTO THE COURT. I cannot say whether any bearings were taken at 6 P.M.; they would have been entered in my log at 8 P.M. I suppose that Mr. Moldaur had taken bearings. When I altered the course to S.E. and by S., it had nothing to do with the approaching steamer; we headed up to that point slowly and then headed back slowly. I should think this took altogether about 5 minutes. Mr. Moldaur remarked that we could not go any more to port, as he thought we were as close over to the eastern shore as he thought it safe to go. There is no rule of the road in our service, to my knowledge, that in passing a narrow channel, a vessel keeps on the starboard side. Having a ship on my starboard side, I am aware that it is my duty to keep out of her way. I saw her three lights when about a mile distant, 3 points on our starboard bow. I did not port because she was well on the starboard bow, and I thought for an instant and saw that I could not port my helm. I could not port because I thought we should have struck end on--besides she was on my starboard side, and the rule is to starboard your helm. I had previously seen the green light only; and by the steamer opening out three lights, I was aware that she was porting her helm. There is no impression on my mind that I should have ported my helm then as she was on our starboard side, and should have kept to starboard--the starboard lookout man is saved and also the man who had the weather wheel. The leadsmen are not saved. The magazine of the Oneida is in the forward part of the ship; the shell rooms are also forward; the signal lights were kept, I believe, in the signal quartermaster's room. Our signals were patent signals of different colors. I cannot say where the signal quartermaster's room was. I know it was somewhere forward. After the collision, there was nothing to prevent our getting up signal lights for making a signal. The key of that room was kept by the signal quartermaster; the rockets, however, were under charge of the gunner's mate. I don't know where they were kept; they were not kept in the shell room. The only store rooms aft were in connection with the paymaster department. The tiller was carried away; everything shaft the wheel was cut off; the mizen mast was standing. The wheel was forward of the poop; I did not myself see that the tiller was gone, but I judged that the head of the rudder was gone also. This I know: that the ship was unmanageable. We had a tiller on the spar deck and another within the Captain's cabin. We did not try to steer by the second tiller; the Captain's cabin was all smashed up, and we could not get there; the Captain, I believe, was lifted up by two men. I did not try to go down to the Captain's cabin and steer by the second tiller. The Boatswain was told to try and get the relieving tackle shipped. He is saved. Had I been able to steer the ship, I should have tried to bring her up on the spit. I cannot say where the water first came in from. Just before I saw the ship was heading E. by N., I saw the lighthouse on our starboard beam. The signal quartermaster is not saved. The steam whistle was not blowing when we hailed; all was silent on our ship.\n\nI have been a master since the 25th of March last; I was 23 last November. I have had charge of the deck at sea ever since I have been in the Oneida. I have always taken my regular turn. When I first joined the Oneida, I was an ensign. I joined the Oneida on the 6th August 1868 at Nagasaki. I first saw the Bombay's light to the eastward of Kanonsaki light; after that, I saw it to the westward; my ship was heading up to S.E. by S. when I first saw the Bombay's light on our starboard bow. It was still on our starboard bow when we got on our course S. by E. 1/2 E. I did not see the Bombay's light on our port bow the whole time; when I got on our proper course, the Bombay's light was to the westward of Kanonsaki light. She was on our starboard bow, a long distance off, and close into the western shore. I should judge that she went round Kanonsaki and then steered in toward the shore. I can't exactly explain how she could have been in towards the western shore. When I first saw her green light, she was a point on our starboard bow. When I saw all her lights, she was three points on our starboard bow; the navigating officer was down below for his dinner.\n\nI can't say why we fired the lee gun instead of the weather gun. I don't know if the Bombay could have heard the weather gun better; perhaps she might, but I think she ought to have heard it anyway. We were short of the launch, which we carried in the cradle at the starboard waist; the second cutter, which we carried on the starboard quarter, hoisted up abreast the main rigging; the dingy was quite useless. I came away in the first cutter, which was carried on the port side. The doctor came away in the cutter, which was carried on the port quarter. No other officer who was on duty at the time was saved except the boatswain. The port binnacle was forward of the wheel, so that a man standing at the wheel could look right into it. The wheel was situated just forward of the cabin hatch. I think that Mr. Stewart hailed immediately after the collision had taken place, and that the whistle was blown directly after that. The whistle was not blown before the collision took place. The Oneida's steam whistle was a large one, and of a very loud tone. I could not distinguish any figure on board the Bombay. I could see a good many lights on board her. I was standing on the starboard side of the bridge at the time of the collision. I was looking over my right shoulder to see how she was going to strike us. When I looked over my shoulder, I saw lights on her deck, but I did not see either of her side lights; the side lights are not allowed to show aft. It was such a short time that I cannot say how long it was after I lost sight of her green light that she struck us. After we had opened all the Bombay's three lights, we lost her red light.\n\nWhen I saw all her three lights, I gave the order to starboard our helm. I have not at any time stated as follows, viz: that I first saw the Bombay's bright and red light a little on the port bow, and that I gave the order to port the Oneida's helm, but that Captain Williams came on deck immediately afterwards and said; \"no, no, starboard your helm, always starboard,\" and that in my opinion the Oneida was altogether in fault with regard to the collision. I did not make use of my speaking trumpet to hail the other vessel. The shock of the collision was severe; it was not lighter than I had anticipated. I could have given the order to stop the engines. It did not occur to me to stop the engines when I saw the collision was inevitable, as I wanted if possible to get by. At no time before the collision did I want to stop the engines. I did send for Mr. Moldaur when I saw the vessel heading for me--all her three lights. I saw him on the bridge ladder just as the ships were striking. I told the boy to tell Mr. Moldaur that I wanted him. I did not tell the boy to tell him that we were in danger of colliding, as he always came up night or day when sent for. When I saw the Bombay's three lights, I knew that she kept porting, but, nevertheless, I kept starboarding as that was the rule of the road. Even when I see another ship making a mistake, I consider it my duty to abide by the rules, and not to use my own discretion.\n\nThe main topsail, main trysail, spanker, and gaff-topsails were all set, and would act against the port helm, so that she would not have felt her helm so soon as if she had had no sails set; on the other hand, these sails would act in favor of the starboard helm. The Oneida's peculiarity was that you always had to keep a weather helm, when the aft sails were set, as she had an inclination to come up to the wind. Even with the wind on her quarter, there would be some difficulty in keeping her off the wind; she would carry some weather helm whenever the spanker was set. She carried a weather helm when we altered course to S.E. by S. I didn't touch the braces at all; the sails were all full then; the wind was pretty aft on our quarter; we always had to keep the yards braced well in, in order to keep her off on her course. The port tacks were hauled on board. I didn't think it prudent to have the spanker and gaff topsail set, but I didn't like to go against the orders of the navigating officer. I don't know that the main supply of signal lights were kept in the...",
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        "content_text": "28\n\nthe Force so that the system invariably worked well.\n\n23. The case may well have been so far as other Departments have been concerned, but from a Police point of view the very opposite has been the actual result.\n\n24. In an article reviewing the circumstances connected with the Showkewan that appeared in the Monthly Magazine, the following paragraphs occur:\n\n\"On the night of the 14th an unarmed body of Chinese made a descent on the outlying village of Shuckman, whether for revenge or plunder one knows not. They failed to attain their ends whatever they were, for before they had fully developed their plans they were met by a European Sergeant of Police and by five native Policemen; the latter were slightly wounded, and the former was mortally wounded, and he died while being moved from the place where he had fallen. The murderers escaped, and so little energy appears to have been shown by the Police stationed at Shaukiwan, that no one knows even in what direction the murderers went, whether to Sai-man or to Stanley, they simply scattered anonymously... whether the hints...\"",
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        "content_text": "203\n\nNov. 18, 1872.] THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,\n\nAUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.\n\nHATTON-COURT, THREAD NEEDLE-STREET, LONDON\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter. Paid-up Capital, £800,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS, 1872-75. CHAIRMAN.\n\nANDREW CASSELS, Esq. Frederick W. Jeligers, Esq. Emile Lenta, Esq. John Jones, Esq.\n\nWm. Maenganan, Esq. Thomas Lancaster, Esq. William Paterson, Esq.\n\nLudwig Wiese, Esq.\n\nMANAGER.\n\nJohn Howard Gwyther.\n\nSUB MANAGER.\n\nJames Macdonald,\n\nSECRETARY.\n\nWillem Charles Mallins.\n\nBAKERS.\n\nLondon The Bank of England; the City Bank. Scotland-The National Bank of Scotland.\n\nBombay.\n\nAGENCIES AND BRANCHES.\n\nRangoon.\n\nSingapore. Batavia\n\nHong Kong\n\nCalcutta.\n\nShanghai, Amoy.\n\nHankow. The Corporation buy and sell, and receive for collection, Bills of Exchange, payable at the above-named places; issue Letters of Credit; undertake the purchase and sale of Indian Government and other Securities; hold them for safe custody; and receive Interest or Dividends as they become due.\n\nDeposits of money are received for not less than twelve months, bearing Interest at 3 per cent. per annum.\n\nHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK\n\nOF INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter,\n\nHead Office-65, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nBranches and Agencies:\n\nBombay, Calcutta, Madras. Colombo. Kandy. Galle, Matric.\n\nSETTLEMENTS and Java-\n\nIn INDIA\n\nCEYLON\n\nSTRAITS\n\nCHINA\n\nJAPAN\n\nSingapore, Penang, Batavia.\n\nHong Kong, Foochow, Shanghai,\n\nCanton, Hankow\n\nYokohama.\n\nBankers:-\n\nBank of England,\n\nLondon Joint-Stock Bank.\n\nThe Bank receives money on deposit, buys and sells Bills of Exchange, issues Letters of Credit and Circular Notes, and transacts the usual Banking and Agency business connected with the East, on terms to be had on application.\n\nCOMPTOIR\n\nD'ESCOMPTE\n\nDE\n\nPARIS.\n\nIncorporated by National Decrees of 7th and 8th of March, 1848, and by Imperial Decree of 20th July, 1854, and 31st December, 1868.\n\nRecognised by the International Convention of 30th April, 1862\n\nCAPITAL, fully paid up, £3,200,000,\n\nReserved Fund ... 1,200,000... £800,000\n\nHEAD OFFICE.-14. Rue Bergere Paris.\n\nAGENCIES AT-Lyons. Marseilles, Nantes, Mulhouse, Roubaix (France) Brussels Belgium, Alexandria (Egypt), Calcutta. Bombay, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Saigon (Cochin China), Bourbon (Reunion), and Yokohama (Japan).\n\nLONDON BANK-The Union Bank of London.\n\nLONDON AGENCY-144. Leadenhall-street E.C.\n\nMANAGER.-Theod. Dromel.\n\nThe London Agency grants Drafts and Letters of Credit, and purchases or collects Bills payable at the above-named places.\n\n819\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter, August 30, 1851.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL. £1,500,000.\n\nRESERVED FUND, £444,000.\n\nThe Corporation grant Drafts and negotiate or collect Bills payable at Bombay, Calcutta, Colombo, Foochow, Hong Kong, Kandy, Madras. Mauritius, Melbourne, Point de Galle, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Yokohama, and Ningpo, on terms which may be ascertained at their office. They also issue Circular Notes for use of Travellers by the Overland Route.\n\nThey undertake the agency of parties connected with India, the purchase and sale of Indian and other Securities, the custody of the same, the receipt of Interest, Dividends, Pay, Pensions, &c., and the effecting of remittances between the above-named dependencies.\n\nThey also receive deposits of £100 and upwards for fixed periods, the terms for which may be ascertained on application at their offices.\n\nOffice hours, Ten to Three: Saturdays Ten to Two.\n\nThreadneedle-street, London\n\n1272\n\nCHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE\n\nCOMPANY (Limited).\n\nIn conformity with the SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS, adopted and confirmed at the EXTRAORDINARY MEETINGS of SHAREHOLDERS held at HONG KONG on the 1st and 15th Feb., altering clauses Nos. 13, 14, 132, and 139 of the Articles of Association (such changes to take effect from 1st November, 1871), the net Profits of the Company will, from that date, be distributed as follows, viz.:\n\nTwo-thirds (2/3) to all contributors, whether Shareholders or not, in proportion to the net amount of premia contributed by each.\n\nOne third to Shareholders generally, according to the number of Shares held by each.\n\nLONDON AGENTS-FEARON AND CO., 54, GREAT ST. Helen's. E.C., By whom risks to all Eastern ports are taken at current rates.\n\nHONG KONG AND SHANGHAI\n\nBANKING CORPORATION.\n\nCapital, $6,000,000. Paid up, $1,500,000. Reserve Fund, $900,000.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS AND HEAD OFFICE IN HONG\n\nKong.\n\nLONDON MANAGER-W.H. Vacher, #2, Lombard-street\n\nBANKERS-London and County Bank.\n\nBRANCHES AND AGENCIES\n\nHong Kong Shanghai\n\nFoochow Ningpo\n\nHankow\n\nYokohama\n\nHiogo Manila\n\nSaigon\n\nSingapore\n\nBombay Calcutta\n\nThe Bank grants DRAFTS upon and negotiates or collects BILLS at any of its Agencies or Branches; also receives DEPOSITS for fixed periods, at rates varying with the period of deposit.\n\nTHE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT.\n\nGreat economy effected by using\n\nWALL LIGHTS AND LUSTRES FOR\n\nGAS AND CANDLES. CHANDELIERS IN BRONZE AND ORMOLU. MODERATOR LAMPS AND LAMPS FOR INDIA. TABLE GLASS OF ALL KINDS. ORNAMENTAL GLASS, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN\n\nLONDON-Show Rooms, 45, Oxford-street, W.\n\nBIRMINGHAM-Manufactory and Show Rooms Broad-street.\n\nESTABLISHED 1807.\n\nTHE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE IN CHINA.\n\nFOUNDED IN PEKING Nov. 1871, under the patronage of the Foreign Ministers and Residents in the Chinese Capital, Secretary in Peking, De S. W. Bade (Britt Legation): Sec. for Great Britain, Professor Summers (Chair Once, 3, George-yard, Lombard-street, who will be happy to receive the names of gentlemen who desire to become members, or to subscribe to the Peking Magazine, published by the Society. Sub. £3 per annum. The Magazine to non-members, 6s. per annum from members.\n\nTWO\n\nEDUCATION.-ST, LEONARD'S-ON-SEA.\n\nTWO LADIES of great experience, and possessing excellent testimonials, RECEIVE A limited number of YOUNG LADIES or CHILDREN needing sea air, careful training, and education.\n\nPARENTS residing abroad would find this most desirable home. References can be given for England, India, China and Japan.\n\nFor terms Co., address M1. H., London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, E.C.\n\nK. de PIOTROWSKI, COMMISSION MERCHANT & GENERAL AGENT\n\nHIOGO-KOBE,\n\nJAPAN.\n\nCOWASJEE DINSHAW. Close to the Landing Place, Depot of EUROPEAN, CHINA, AND INDIAN GOODS. WINE, BEER, CHAMPAGNE, and SPIRITS of the best quality Bombay-made Soda Water and Lemonade Perfumery, Confectionery, Oilman's Stores, and Stationery of every description. Sola Topees and Canvas Shoes, &c., &c.\n\nSTEAMER POINT, ADEN. Drawing and Reading-room free to Passengers. The London and China Express ON SALE.\n\nT. W. JACKSON,\n\nLIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT\n\nOF MEAT.\n\nRead carefully the printed instructions. CAUTION.-None genuine without Baron Liebig's the inventor's, signature.\n\nBeware of all imitation extract.\n\nCEYLON.\n\nCOFFEE ESTATES FOR SALE,\n\nSAN\n\nFRANCISCO.\n\nTHE LONDON & CHINA TELEGRAPH. THE FOURTEENTH Volume of this\n\nJOURNAL commenced on the 1st of January 1872. Terms for advertising, 2s. 6d. per five lines and 6d. for each additional line.\n\nSubscriptions and Advertisements received abroad by the following Agents:- Paris\n\nRICHARD & Co. Passage des Princes.\n\nThe Agency will conduct Banking business of every description with the Continent. India, China, &c., upon terms to be ascertained at the Office.\n\nin size from 48 to 1,500 acres, and in price from £200 to £24,000,\n\nALEX. BROWN,\" Kandy.\n\nN.B. Fifty-seven estates now on the register.\n\nTHE AGRA BANK (Limited).\n\nEstablished in 1839.\n\nCAPITAL 1,000,000.\n\nHead Office: NICHOLAS LANE, LOMBARD-STREET,\n\nLONDON.\n\nBranches in Edinburgh, Calcutta Bombay, Madras, Kurrachee. Agra, Lahore, Shanghai, Hong Kong.\n\nCurrent accounts are kept at the head office on the terms customary with London bankers, and interest allowed when the credit balance does not fall below £100.\n\nDeposits received for fixed periods on the following terms, viz.:-At 4 per cent. per annum, subject to twelve months' notice of withdrawal. For shorter periods deposits will be received on terms to be agreed upon.\n\nBills issued at the current exchange of the day on any of the branches of the Bank free of extra charge; and approved bills purchased or sent for collection.\n\nSales and purchases effected in British and Foreign Securities, In East India Stock and Loans, and the safe custody of the same undertaken, Interest drawn, and army, navy, and civil pay and pensions realised.\n\nEvery other description of banking business and money agency, British and Indian, transacted.\n\nJ. THOMSON Chairman.\n\nSCHOUT AND CO., SHIPBROKERS AND FORWARDING AGENTS, AMSTERDAM\n\nALEXANDER BROWN, ESTATE AND GENERAL AGENT, KANDY, CEYLON,\n\nVISITS and reports on Coffee Plantations, estimates Crops, values Properties, buys and sells Lands, Goods, and Produce on Commission, and transacts all kinds of Estate and Agency Business.\n\nHOLLOWAY'S PILLS\n\nCOUNSEL AND COMFORT. A disordered stomach throws the whole system out of gear, and renders us unfit both for work and enjoyment. A few doses of these strengthening and purifying Pills, however, speedily restore order, and re-enable the taker, according to the accompanying directions, will, without difficulty, enable the stomach to digest its food.\n\nThese excellent Pills are suitable alike for the peer as the peasant, the soldier and the sailor, and particularly for those in foreign climates.\n\nHolloway's Pills are very useful in checking feverish attacks, bilious complaints, and inflammation; they have also made the most signal cures in cases of dropsy and disease of the kidneys, heart, and lungs, when the sufferers seemed past the aid of medicine.\n\nHamburg Bremen\n\nLisbon.\n\nMr. Cocoto,\n\nR.CARL.\n\nG. STEINMEYER.\n\nHolland-Rotterdam 1.A. Kramers.\n\nAmsterdam MACKAY, BOGERT,&nd Co.\n\nALGUSTE PEDRO CABILIO.\n\nRua des l'oyaes de'. Bento 20.\n\nWN.II. FOGG & C.,82, Burling\n\n80p.\n\nNew York............\n\nSan Francisco.......\n\nAlexandria\n\nSuez.... 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[Nov. 18, 1872\n\nCHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED),\n\nIN CONNECTION WITH THE\n\nEASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nTARIFF TO CHINA AND JAPAN.\n\nOn and after 15th OCTOBER the following Rates for Telegrams\n\nof Twenty Words will come into force:--\n\nFROM LONDON,\n\nTO HONG KONG)\n\nSHANGHAI JAPAN\n\n£6 0 0\n\n7 0 0\n\nFROM PROVINCIAL\n\nSTATIONS.\n\n£6 1 0\n\n7 1 0\n\nHalf the above Rates for every additional Ten Words beyond Twenty Words.\n\nNo charge for Postage will be made on Messages to China and Japan, which are posted at Hong Kong, Shanghai, or Nagasaki.\n\nMessages should be given in at the Falmouth Company's Office, No. 74, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON.\n\nMessages sent from Postal Stations should be ordered\n\nVIA FALMOUTH\n\nthese words being signalled as an instruction by the Postal authorities free of charge.\n\nTHOMAS FULLER, Secretary.\n\nOld Broad-street, London, E.C..\n\n9th October, 1872\n\nDRUGS, CHEMICALS, &c..\n\nWHOLESALE AND FOR EXPORTATION.\n\nDRUGS, &c., guaranteed genuine as imported, and PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS made in strict accordance with the Pharmacopoeia.\n\nW. L. H. SKEEN AND CO.,\n\nPHOTOGRAPHERS,\n\nCOLOMBO, CEYLON.\n\nInvite inspection of their large collection of\n\nAll Orders accompanied by Drafts, or sent through Merchants, attended to promptly, and VIEWS OF CEYLON, NATIVE CHARACTERS, &C\n\nexecuted upon the best terms.\n\nBAISS BROTHERS & CO.,\n\nDRUG MERCHANTS, &c., GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS\n\nFOR CHEMICALS, &c.,\n\n102. LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nTHE CHINA AND JAPAN AGENCY.\n\nFor the Purchase and Shipment of Goods of all kinds to Ports in China, Japan, the Straits Settlements, &c. Orders for Furniture, Stores, Books, and Personal Requirements of every description promptly executed, either by Overland Route or Clipper Sailing Vessels.\n\nThe articles in all cases are carefully selected by persons who have had personal experience of the wants of residents in China and Japan.\n\nOrders should be accompanied either by a remittance, or a reference for payment in London, All communications to be addressed, and remittances made payable, to\n\nTHE MANAGER, AND JAPAN AGENCY, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, London, E.C.\n\nCATALOGUES POST FREE.\n\nMAC EWEN AND CO., QUEEN'S ROAD\n\nHONG KONG, GENERAL STOREKEEPERS AND COMMISSION AGENTS.\n\nSpecial Agents for the\n\nLondon and China Express.\n\nCAUTION\n\nSTEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS for Children Getting their Teeth. Purchasers are requested to BEWARE OF IMITATIONS of this Medicine, and to observe in every case that the words \"John Steedman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey,\" are engraved on the Government Stamp affixed to each packet, without which none are genuine.\n\nSold by all Chemists and Druggists, in packets at 1s. 1d. each.",
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        "content_text": "## (6) \n## (7) \n217 \n\nThe foregoing table only gives the number of people who were found dead or dying under the ruins of houses, but it is feared, although no record can be obtained, that a very large number must have received bodily injuries, as it is known that as houses became unroofed and were threatened with annihilation, their inmates left them and went into the streets when the latter were quite dark and when building débris, roofing tiles, and other missiles were being hurled from every housetop with force almost beyond credence.\n\nTowards 2 A.M., the violence of the wind had driven before it such a large volume of water into the harbour through the Lyeemoon Pass, that at this hour, which under ordinary circumstances should have been that of low water, the sea had risen considerably above the datum of high water and was washing over the lower portions of the City. Before 3 A.M., the Gas Works were submerged, and the gas supply being cut off, the City was during these most anxious moments suddenly plunged into darkness. About this time, Mr. CREAGH, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, and some other gentlemen who had collected together a few volunteers to put out a fire, which had broken out in Jervois Street, report that the latter as well as the streets between it, Bonham Strand, and the Praya, were four feet under water, that the people were up to their waists in water, and that the waves were buffeting the fire engine so that it could not be used. This evidence is corroborated by the marks left on many buildings after the sea retired, among others, the Harbour Master's Office had five feet of water in its lower storey.\n\nThe entire sea frontage of the City has been very seriously damaged. The Praya wall for a length of a mile between the City Hall and Toong Kai Street has been broken up, and will have to be entirely rebuilt with new material. From Toong Kai Street as far as the Sailors' Home, a distance of one mile, the wall shows so many breaches, and is altogether so undermined that it is still a matter of doubt whether long sections of it may not require rebuilding in like manner. In many places from the Eastern Guard House to East Point, the sea wall has also given way and will require reconstruction on a more solid basis than has hitherto been adopted in Hongkong. But as the very important subject of the sea defence of the City is one of special report, now under preparation, it will be premature to dilate upon it in this memorandum.\n\nGovernment House, together with the Law Courts, the Lock Hospital, and the Government offices, have escaped with greater immunity than any other buildings. In the latter, a chimney stack was blown down and fell through the roof; with the exception of this, and a few doors and windows blown in, there has been no damage of any consequence to report.\n\n### Government Civil Hospital\nThis ricketty old structure has been left in so ruined a state as to be no longer habitable. During the earlier stages of the gale, the doors and windows fronting the North were blown in one after another, and the wind having found a vent into the upper storey soon upheaved the roof, carrying away portions of it to a distance of 200 yards. The brick verandahs on some of the wards fell in. For more than an hour, the terrified patients ran considerable risk of being killed, and Dr. CLAPHAM, the Resident Surgeon, informs me that owing to the intense darkness and the deafening roar of the wind, it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded in getting them together and sheltering them in one room of the lower storey, which had fortunately been but lately repaired, so that it was able to hold out till daylight.\n\n### Victoria Gaol\nVictoria Gaol has portions unroofed, some of the windows of the north-eastern frontage blown in, and glass broken. A survey was held under my direction after the typhoon, but no part of the Gaol was found so unsafe as to render possible the escape of prisoners. The principal damages to this building have been since made good.\n\n### Stone Cutters' Island Gaol\nThis huge and imposing pile, founded by SIR HERCULES ROBINSON and designed to accommodate a convict establishment of 600 persons, is now a heap of ruins. Many of the main walls are so cracked and so much out of plumb that they will have to be knocked down to prevent future accidents. The greater portions of the roof fell in, carrying away and crushing under it the long galleries which divided the lines of cells. The basement portion of the eastern wing, which was used as a Powder Magazine, was buried in débris, and the fall of the building entailed considerable risk of an explosion. The powder was, however, subsequently removed from under the ruins, and safely stored in the Hulk which is anchored off the island. The upper floors of Stone Cutters' Island Gaol were fortunately not tenanted.\n\n### Central Police Barracks and Police Stations\nOf all the Police buildings, the Police Officers' quarters have fared worst. These were unroofed and had some of the doors and windows in the North front blown in. The house was otherwise very severely shaken, some of the chimneys being blown down through the roof. The Central Police Barracks have also been partially unroofed, and much of the woodwork is destroyed. In the outlying villages, the Police Stations of Shau-ki-Wan and Stanley have suffered most; both have been very severely shaken, and I fear the latter will have to be almost entirely rebuilt. The Police Station at Yow-ma-tee was for a time four feet under water, and when the sea receded, it left a steam launch and other craft stranded on its basement floor.\n\nThe wharves, both public and private, built out at right angles to the Praya along the whole extent of the City, have been swept away or otherwise injured, with the exception of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Ship Company's new jetty and the Hongkong Pier, both timber structures. Of Government piers, but few have been left in such a condition as to be worth repairing, and it is deserving of attention that those apparently solid structures which were made of ashlar granite succumbed long before the timber jetties in their neighbourhood.\n\nAfter the sea retired, the Praya embankment, which previously formed one of the most capacious business thoroughfares of the City, was left in places like a sloping beach covered with the stones and concrete débris of the sea wall, together with wrecks and spars. All these heaped one upon another rendered the embankment almost impassable. In places where the sea wall was knocked down and the embankment behind it scoured away, some of the large mansions fronting the sea, and which are occupied by the principal merchants of the Colony, were already being undermined by the waves, and they would have inevitably fallen had the gale lasted a few hours longer.\n\nThe whole of Victoria is drained and sewered into the harbour, the drainage being led out at intervals along the Praya wall. The destruction of the wall, entailing the destruction of the sewer outlets, plugged for a time every channel of escape, and the sewage becoming dammed and stagnant, after twenty-four hours became putrid. The clog was rendered still more effective by the mass of sand which the waves washed onto the ruins, so that many of the sewers became tightly packed with débris, their walls blown in, or so shattered as to require rebuilding, imbedded in it. The natural result was a most pestilential smell, rendered still more deleterious by the deadly fœtor of decomposing human bodies which continued to be washed ashore for several days. Happily, however, in spite of the hot weather which followed, the Public Health has not suffered, and after forty-eight hours, when the panic had in a measure subsided, and workmen could gradually be got together, gangs were employed to clear away the débris and to restore things to their normal condition.\n\nIn the country, many isolated houses have been knocked down, and the paddy fields and meadows under cultivation, which skirt the foreshores of the island, have for the most part been inundated by the sea. The rice crops have been destroyed, and much misery has been entailed upon the poorest of the community.\n\n### The General Post Office\nThe General Post Office, though it does not show many external signs of injury, has been greatly strained, owing to the weakness of the roof timbers. These have been in many places hollowed out by white ants, which for a short time back have infested the roof. I fear that a new roof to a portion of the house will be necessary.\n\n### Markets\nThe six principal markets of Victoria have experienced the fate of other buildings; in some cases, having their roofs untiled, in others, as in the Central market, having portions of their outer walls damaged.\n\n### Public Schools\nThe insecure foundations of the Central School, made manifest by the earthquake of five months ago, have become still more so since the typhoon. Portions of the roof have come away from the walls, and these have got slightly out of the perpendicular. A part of the tiling over the western Class Room has been stripped off, and some damage done to doors and windows. As it is contemplated at no distant date to erect a new School with increased accommodation, it will not be necessary, in regard to the Central School, to go to greater expense than will suffice to maintain it safely for a year or two to come. Three out of the four other Public Schools of the City have escaped with trifling damages, but the fourth one, i.e., Syingpoon School, has lost the roof off its western front.\n\n### The Police Courts\nThe Police Courts have been partly unroofed, and the eastern verandahs laid in ruins.\n\n### Harbour Master's Office\nThe unsheltered site of this public office, which is only 50 feet away from the Praya wall, exposed it to two dangers, and it has come through the ordeal much better than could have been expected. While the gale was stripping off the roofing, the sea that had flooded down the Praya was battering against its walls. At one time, there were five feet of water in the basement, and the breakers were sending their spray over its roof. In spite of this, the damage is attended with surprisingly small loss, being limited to portions of the roof which are untiled and to doors and windows which are shattered and unhinged.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an interesting report from the Superintendent of the Government Gardens, upon the damage done to the gardens and plantations of the Colony. When we call to mind the constant and laborious care which has been taken to induce upon this bare and ungenerous soil an artificial vegetation, and the successful and gratifying results which had so flattered these efforts, we cannot but be disheartened at the disastrous finale which has closed the efforts of so many years. A large proportion of the handsome and well-grown Banians and India rubber trees which lined the streets of the City and the roads leading out of it have been blown down, and so many have been injured that we may not enjoy their grateful shade for years to come.\n\n### Government Telegraph Lines and Clock Tower\nThe Government Telegraph lines throughout the island were destroyed, the wind in many instances snapping the telegraph poles close to the ground. The shore ends of the submarine cables were also broken, and communication severed. The Clock Tower was much shaken, and the dials of the town clock were blown in and shattered to pieces. The Harbour Officers' quarters have been very much shaken, and the tower over the building will have to be pulled down, as it is injured beyond repair.",
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        "content_text": "## (6)\n\nThe foregoing table only gives the number of people who were found dead or dying under the ruins of houses, but it is feared, although no record can be obtained, that a very large number have received bodily injuries, as it is known that as houses became unroofed and were threatened with annihilation, their inmates left them and went into the streets when the latter were quite dark when building débris, roofing tiles, and other missiles were being hurled from every housetop with force almost beyond credence.\n\nTowards 2 A.M., the violence of the wind had driven before it such a large volume of water in the harbour through the Lyeemoon Pass, that at this hour, which under ordinary circumstances should have been that of low water, the sea had risen considerably above the datum of high water and was washing over the lower portions of the City. Before 3 A.M., the Gas Works were submerged, and the gas supply being cut off, the City was during these most anxious moments suddenly plunged into darkness. About this time, Mr. CREAGH, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, and some other gentlemen who had collected together a few volunteers to put out a fire, which had broken out in Jervois Street, report that the latter as well as the streets between it, Bonham Strand, and the Praya, were four feet under water, that the people were up to their waists in water, and that the waves were buffeting the fire engine so that it could not be used. This evidence is corroborated by the marks left on many buildings after the sea retired; among others, the Harbour Master's Office had five feet of water in its lower storey.\n\nThe entire sea frontage of the City has been very seriously damaged. The Praya wall for a length of a mile between the City Hall and Toong Kai Street has been broken up, and will have to be entirely rebuilt with new material. From Toong Kai Street as far as the Sailors' Home, a distance of one mile, the wall shows so many breaches, and is altogether so undermined that it is still a matter of doubt whether long sections of it may not require rebuilding in like manner. In many places from the Eastern Guard House to East Point, the sea wall has also given way and will require reconstruction on a more solid basis than has hitherto been adopted in Hongkong. But as the very important subject of the sea defence of the City is one of special report, now under preparation, it will be premature to dilate upon it in this memorandum.\n\nAfter the sea retired, the Praya embankment, which previously formed one of the most capacious business thoroughfares of the City, was left in places like a sloping beach covered with the stones and concrete débris of the sea wall together with wrecks and spars. All these heaped one upon another rendered the embankment almost impassable. In places where the sea wall was knocked down and the embankment behind it scoured away, some of the large mansions fronting the sea, and which are occupied by the principal merchants of the Colony, were already being undermined by the waves and they would have inevitably fallen had the gale lasted a few hours longer.\n\nThe wharves, both public and private, built out at right angles to the Praya along the whole extent of the City, have been swept away or otherwise injured, with the exception of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Ship Company's new jetty and the Hongkong Pier, both timber structures. Of the Government piers, but few have been left in such a condition as to be worth repairing, and it is deserving of attention that those apparently solid structures which were made of ashlar granite succumbed long before the timber jetties in their neighbourhood.\n\n## (7)\n\n224\n\nIn regard to Government buildings, I have the honour to report that nearly all have suffered to some extent, and that estimates of the cost of their repairs are being prepared and will be duly submitted.\n\nGovernment House, together with the Law Courts, the Lock Hospital, and the Government offices, have escaped with greater immunity than any other buildings. In the latter, a chimney stack was blown down and fell through the roof; with the exception of this, and a few doors and windows blown in, there has been no damage of any consequence to report.\n\n**Government Civil Hospital**. - This ricketty old structure has been left in so ruined a state as to be no longer habitable. During the earlier stages of the gale, the doors and windows fronting the North were blown in one after another, and the wind having found a vent into the upper storey soon upheaved the roof, carrying away portions of it to a distance of 200 yards. The brick verandahs on the South side were forced out of the perpendicular until they toppled over, and a part of the ceilings of the wards fell in. For more than an hour, the terrified patients ran considerable risk of being killed, and Dr. CLAPHAM, the Resident Surgeon, informs me that owing to the intense darkness and the deafening roar of the wind, it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded in getting them together and sheltering them in one room of the lower storey, which had fortunately been but lately repaired, so that it was able to hold out till daylight.\n\n**Victoria Gaol** has portions unroofed, some of the windows of the north-eastern frontage blown in, and glass broken. A survey was held under my direction after the typhoon, but no part of the Gaol was found so unsafe as to render possible the escape of prisoners. The principal damages to this building have since been made good.\n\n**Stone Cutters' Island Gaol**. - This huge and imposing pile, founded by SIR HERCULES ROBINSON and designed to accommodate a convict establishment of 600 persons, is now a heap of ruins. Many of the main walls are so cracked and so much out of plumb that they will have to be knocked down to prevent future accidents. The greater portions of the roof fell in, carrying away and crushing under it the long galleries which divided the lines of cells. The basement portion of the eastern wing, which was used as a Powder Magazine, was buried in débris, and the fall of the building entailed no inconsiderable risk of an explosion. The powder was, however, subsequently removed from under the ruins and safely stored in the Hulk which is anchored off the island. The upper floors of Stone Cutters' Island Gaol were fortunately not tenanted.\n\n**Central Police Barracks and Police Stations**. - Of all the Police buildings, the Police Officers' Quarters have fared worst. These were unroofed and had some of the doors and windows in the North front blown in. The house was otherwise very severely shaken, some of the chimneys being blown down through the roof. The Central Police Barracks have also been partially unroofed, and much of the woodwork is destroyed. In the outlying villages, the Police Stations of Shau-ki-Wán and Stanley have suffered most; both have been very severely shaken, and I fear the latter will have to be almost entirely rebuilt. The Police Station at Yau-ma-tei was for a time four feet under water, and when the sea receded, it left a steam launch and other craft stranded on its basement floor.\n\nThe whole of Victoria is drained and sewered into the harbour, the drainage being led out at intervals along the Praya wall. The destruction of the wall, entailing the destruction of the sewer outlets, plugged for a time every channel of escape, and the sewage becoming dammed and stagnant, after twenty-four hours became putrid. The clog was rendered still more effective by the mass of sand which the waves washed on to the ruins, so that many of the sewers became tightly packed and imbedded in it. The natural result was a most pestilential smell, rendered still more deleterious by the deadly fœtor of decomposing human bodies which continued to be washed ashore for several days. Happily, however, in spite of the hot weather which followed, the Public Health has not suffered, as after forty-eight hours, when the panic had in a measure subsided, and workmen could gradually be got together, gangs were employed to clear away the débris and to restore things to their normal condition.\n\nIn the country, many isolated houses have been knocked down, and the paddy fields and meadows under cultivation, which skirt the foreshores of the island, have for the most part been inundated by the sea. The rice crops have been destroyed, and much misery has been entailed upon the poorest of the community.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an interesting report from the Superintendent of the Government Gardens, upon the damage done to the gardens and plantations of the Colony. We cannot but be disheartened at the disastrous finale which has closed the efforts of so many years. A large proportion of the handsome and well-grown Banians and India rubber trees which lined the streets of the City and the roads leading out of it have been blown down, and so many have been injured that we may not enjoy their grateful shade for years to come.\n\nThe Government Telegraph lines throughout the island were destroyed, the wind in many instances snapping the telegraph poles close to the ground. The shore ends of the submarine cable were also broken, and communication severed.\n\nThe General Post Office, though it does not show many external signs of injury, has been greatly strained, owing to the weakness of the roof timbers. These have been in many places hollowed out by white ants, which for a short time back have infested the roof. I fear that a new roof to a portion of the house will be necessary.\n\n**Markets**. - The six principal markets of Victoria have experienced the fate of other buildings; in some cases, having their roofs untiled, in others, as in the Central market, having portions of their outer walls blown in, or so shattered as to require rebuilding.\n\n**Public Schools**. - The insecure foundations of the Central School, made manifest by the earthquake of five months ago, have become still more so since the typhoon. Portions of the roof have come away from the walls, and these have got slightly out of the perpendicular. The western Class Room has been stripped off, and some damage done to doors and windows. As it is contemplated at no distant date to erect a new School with increased accommodation, it will not be necessary, in regard to the Central School, to go to greater expense than will suffice to maintain it safely for a year or two to come. Three out of the four other Public Schools of the City have escaped with trifling damages, but the fourth one, i.e., Saiyingpoon School, has lost the roof off its western front.\n\nThe Police Courts have been partly unroofed, and the eastern verandahs laid in ruins.\n\n**Harbour Master's Office**. - The unsheltered site of this public office, which is only 50 feet away from the Praya wall, exposed it to two dangers, and it has come through the ordeal much better than could have been expected. At one time, there were five feet of water in the basement, and the breakers were sending their spray over its roof. In spite of this, the damage is surprisingly small, being limited to portions of the roof which are untiled and to doors and windows which are shattered and unhinged. The meteorological station was, however, entirely swept away, and not a trace of the instruments remains. The Harbour Officers' quarters have been very much shaken, and the tower over the building will have to be pulled down, as it is injured beyond repair.\n\nThe Clock Tower was much shaken, and the dials of the town clock were blown in and shattered to pieces.",
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        "content_text": "377\n\nwings of the building at Stive Cutters Island to a greater extent than their safety requires, and to preserve them intact so far as may be possible in case it should be thought expedient to restore the whole building.\n\nIn accordance with these instructions I have communicated with the Surveyor General and find that up to the present time nothing further has been done than to remove those dangerous portions of the building which were in the point of falling down and to convert the Chapel into a Small Pox Ward and the Gateway buildings into a Powder Magazine. Those portions of the Gaol I therefore, being fully prevented, but in respect to the are ring work, done and wind dove therein will not begin till they are roofed in.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient humble servant,\nThe Acting Administrator.",
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        "content_text": "358\n\nthe means of the delay to\n\n29.\n\nchem.\n\nJune 18.08.\n\nSir Richard added \"In the normal course things as the cession of the ground transferred to the Colony is with the sanction of the War Department and the Imperial Government; and is a matter quite apart from the construction of the road, His Excellency is prepared to take steps for its formal transfer to the Colony whenever the General Officer Commanding may require it.\"\n\n23.\n\nmamma\n\nconsider most...\n\nthe\n\nTo this it was replied that in consideration of the difficulties to\n\nPage 86\n\nbe otherwise encountered by the Public Works Department of the Colony, the General would withdraw his objection to the scheme, provided that an interval of 20 feet clear be preserved between the nearest point of the Magazine and the nearest inside limit of the proposed Road; and provided that a Wall to shut off the Magazine from the Inchcolm end of the road be built at the expense of the Colony.\n\nqu.\n\n\"The General, however, declined to transfer the land until the instructions which he stated 'were probably on their way' had been received.\n\n28:\n\nDoubtless\n\nway\n\nto him\"\n\nHas Your Lordship will everything",
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        "content_text": "415\n\nthe Magazine at any point nearer than a distance of 20 feet from its Boundary wall.\n\nAs the Excellency was prepared to put a sum on the Estimates for 1869 for construction of the road and the framing of those Estimates is now under consideration it therefore becomes essential that he should know whether he is to be guided by the opinion given by the Military Authorities in February 1867 or that now transmitted. If the latter is to prevail finally the road must be abandoned.\n\nIn the meantime as the Cession of the ground transferred to the Colony with the sanction of the Bar Department: and Her Majesty's Government is a matter quite apart from the construction of the road. His Excellency is prepared to take steps for its formal transfer to the Colony whenever and in whatever manner the General may consider most convenient.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed) J. Gardiner Austin\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n(True Copy)\n\nJ. Gardiner Austin\n\nColonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "417\n\nhad any objections to make to the arrangement detailed in correspondence forwarded therewith, \n\n(for his perusal.\n\nand accompanied by a plan showing \"made\" the intended line of the Kowloon Road, and the Boundaries of the portions of the War Department ground decided to be \n\nRoy.\n\ngelen af.\n\nThe objection which Major Brunker has recorded is one which Lt Col: De Bult, The Commanding Royal Engineer, united with him in considering of undoubted importance and one which is not removed, though modified by the conditions enforced by Major General Tuy being observed.\n\nThese appear to have been that \n\nthe Road should not approach the Magazine Boundary wall at any point nearer than 20 feet; and that a high wall should also be built as an additional security.\n\nThe Major General is anxious to meet His Excellency's views as far as possible and as the point in question was conceded by Major Quartermaster General, RE, in consideration of the difficulties to be otherwise overcome by the Road, Major General Brunker will withdraw opposition to the scheme provided the undermentioned conditions are clearly acceded to by the Colonial Government.\n\n(1.) An interval of 20 feet clear, measured from the northern Boundary of the Road\n\nPage 420\n\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "when laid out (not from the bocksfit or preliminary quage line) to the nearest point of the Magazine Boundary wall to be preserved. (2). It wall to shut off the Southern end of the Magazine enclosure from the road of each elevation an Extent as the Commanding Royal Engineer may consider necessary.\n\nrecovery at the Expense of the Colony to be erected Major Several Brunker has not yet received from that War Office probably the instructions which are on their way to him, and until their arrival he would wish not to take any steps with regard to making formal transfer of the land.\n\n(Signed) Wilkinson Shaw\n\nA. & Q. Quarter Master General\n\nMr. 311\n\nGift than Colonel Commanding\n\nB\n\n$4 Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office. 418\n\nHongkong 2nd July 1868.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge your communication of the 27th June No. I and to acquaint you in reply thereto by direction of the Governor that His Excellency concurs in the conditions specified by the Major General in Event. of the formation of the road being hereafter undertaken by the Colony.\n\n(Signed) J. Jardine.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nDeputy Asst. Quarter Master General",
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        "content_text": "Sources \n\n· The two Nullahs rising for the most part in purely Colonial areas, as just explained, have always been jealously protected by the Colonial Government from pollution by Cultivation.\n\nNowhere have any Gardens ever been allowed in their vicinity, and on this point complaint has been made by the Military Authorities. This fact should re-assure the Commanding Royal Engineer that the same precautions which have been accepted and jealously enforced without intermission for the past twenty years would be continued after the transfer was recognized by the present Military Authorities. Moreover, the steepness and rocky nature of these gathering grounds reduce to a minimum any danger from this Source.\n\n(c) Risk of Pollution from people bathing or washing above the Tanks.\n\nThe change of Ownership of the ground would in no way affect the purity of the water from the above causes, as the flying Sentries at present employed to warn ... people ... will be continued as heretofore. The Colonial Government has never in any way placed any impediment in the way of these sentries; on the contrary, the Police have always been willing and ready to lend them every assistance in their power. Nor will the opening of the new road be likely to increase the risk of bathing or washing in the water supply, for it so happens that in regard to these streams, the flying sentry can as easily detect the presence of ten men as one, the whole of the drainage below the 500-foot contour being under his view at the same Coup d'oeil.\n\n(D) Risk of Pollution from House Sewage\n\nImmediately after the completion of the new road past the Magazine, it is proposed to parcel out the land into building lots, but as there are no available sites for residences above the level of either the Albany Tank or Magazine Tank, the contamination of their contents by house Sewage is a physical impossibility. The Albany Tank is situated one hundred and eighty-eight feet above the level of the new road along the ...\n\nPage 429",
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        "content_text": "430\n\nMans\n\nM\n\nvicinity of which the New Villa Residences would be laid out. It should however be inferred, because the Water Supply is beyond the reach of pollution from sewage that the latter will be allowed to escape into the water courses below the level of the Tanks. There is no intention of perpetrating an abuse so\n\nand one which by the Statute Book of the Colony (Ordinance No. 14 of 1845) is a punishable offence. His Excellency the Governor\n\nmore completely to guard against any just complaint on this point from the Military Medical Officers it is\n\nand has always been the intention to incorporate in the form of Crown Lease of Building Lots\n\ngrave\n\nis also well aware that the more\n\na\n\non the\n\nto be sold clause specially providing against this will. If this be observed and the prohibition against cultivation continued as heretofore the objections raised by the Commanding Royal Engineer and Principal Medical Officer appear\n\nto me to be at once met.\n\nRisk of Danger to the Magazine from the proximity of the road\n\nThe stipulations upon which the road is\n\n116.\n\nallowed to pass near the Magazine,\n\nwere\n\nafter due deliberation clearly defined by General D'Aguilar and agreed to by Governor MacDonnell before receiving\n\nconditions are now-\n\nthe ground from Colonel We Butts, and the matter is in the files closed. But as new conditions are now sought to be imposed, to the entire subversion of the Covenant of 1868-9 and which if supported by the Imperial Government must effectually put an end to the project of the road and the conversion of the ground into Villa residences it is of the last importance that the necessity, if any, for these new considerations should be closely inquired into. On this point Colonial and Military interests are identical since the explosion of the Magazine would affect both alike, consequently, opinions coming from this Department in regard to this matter are entitled to equal weight as those emanating from the Commanding Royal Engineer, and the solicitude of the Colonial Government for the preservation of the City from disaster be ranked second to that of the Military Authorities. Accordingly in dealing with the road and\n\n21.074-",
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        "content_text": "entirely ignore the tunnel and descending from the Mountain side - easily gain access to the point marked A in the diagram, which to him were point would be inaccessible to him the road mode in open cutting. I respectfully submit therefore that the well considered Provisos of 1868 are in their present proposed modifications every way safer than\n\n17. As the spar of the hill is a large one the proposed tunnel would have to be carried a great length before emerging into light at the opposite end, and as the road is intended to form eventually a carriage drive, the sectional Area of the heading (which would be mostly driven through granite) would require to be so great as to involve an outlay beyond the means of the Colony.\n\n18. It is an established axiom that Powder Magazines are less liable to danger from attempts at incendiarism in the vicinity of thoroughfares, than in lonely and secluded spots, and I need not therefore descant upon the advantage to the Magazine, of the proposed new road\n\n19.\n\n \n20. which will in time convert into a respectable neighbourhood what is now known to be the haunt of bad characters. In deference to the wishes of Colonel Moggridge and if only for the sake of harmony I would not have scrupled to recommend that the road should be taken in some other directions had it been possible, but a glance at the Contours of the hill sides at once shows that its passage elsewhere cannot be accomplished, and that if it be not carried through the line agreed to since 1868 it cannot be carried through at all.\n\nRifle Ranges on Kowloong where the troops go by successive Companies, for target practice, to Rowr they remain for several Months camped out in the capacious Cantonments there appropriated to the War Department for this purpose. The peculiar target practice of this regiment is therefore carried out at Kowloong and not at Victoria; and this has been the custom for years past. The rifle range at Victoria to which\n\nPage 433",
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        "content_text": "proposed in Colonel Moggridge's tracing is most singularly unfortunate as ensuring – the maximum of annoyance to the inmates of Government House and especially to the residents in Garden Road close to the Albany Nullah.\n\n23. Under existing arrangements the Military are, to their own acknowledgement according, amply provided, free of charge, with rifle-range accommodation at Kowloon, where that accommodation is most required by them, and it is not therefore reasonable that more should be required of the Colonial Government by the Commanding Royal Engineer. If, however, there be anxiety for this point, it should at once be allayed by the knowledge that among the vacant lands of the peninsula no difficulty will be experienced in selecting another suitable site for a rifle range, when in the natural course of events the present one shall have been hemmed in by Buildings and Gardens; and there is no reason why this second alternative site at Kowloon should not at once be selected and reserved for future Military purposes upon the same Conditions as those which accompany the tenure of the range now.\n\nHaving now gone through the conditions and suggestions in detail as regards water Supply, Sewage, powder Magazine, and rifle ranges, it only remains for me to call your attention to the fact that if any of these conditions or Suggestions are assented to, the Colonial Government will find itself burdened with grave responsibilities in exchange for a certain something which, inferring from the tenor of the Military correspondence, would purport to be in the nature of a valuable concession, but which on examination proves to be the reverse. If the New road is to be carried through only at the inordinate cost of a tunnel, then it cannot be carried through at all, for not even on the most advantageous terms would the proceeds of the land sales contribute a tithe of the Cost.\n\nFurther, on examination, there are no Lands available for Sale, since beginning from the West, Colonel",
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        "content_text": "1.26\n\ndefensive.\n\nI have the honour to be Sir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nA. Austice.\n\nSECTION OF ROAD IN PROXIMITY\n\nTO MILITARY MAGAZINE.\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nENCLOSURE\n\nOSURE WALL.\n\nMILITA\n\nSE2\n\nWALL TO\n\nREGT\n\nED BY\n\nBALONIA\n\n38\n\n03\n\nNEW\n\nROAD.\n\nROAD\n\nIN CUTTING AS STIPULATED BY GENERAL BRUNKER\n\nAND COLONEL DE BUTTS. R. E.\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nALTATIVE WALL\n\nENCL\n\nURE\n\nTUNNEL.\n\n30.0\n\nROAD IN\n\nTUNNEL AS NOW SUGGESTED BY COLONEL MOGGRIDGE, R. E.\n\nNOTE.- The both Sections \"point A\" shows the nearest access to the Magazine.\n\n437",
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        "content_text": "439\n\nBrunker had any objections to make to the arrangements detailed in correspondence forwarded therewith for his perusal, and accompanied by a plan, shewing the intended line of the New Road, and the Boundaries of the portions of the War Department decided to be given up. The objection which Major General Brunker has recorded is one which is Colonel De Butts, the Commanding Royal Engineer, unites with him in considering of undoubted importance which is not removed, though modified by the Conditions imposed by Major General Guy bringing and one observed.\n\nThese appear to have been that the road should not approach the magazine boundary wall at any point nearer than 20 feet, with a suggestion that a high wall should also be built as additional security. The Major General is anxious to meet His Excellency's views as far as possible, and as the point in question is conceded by Major General Guy, in consideration of the difficulties to be otherwise overcome by the Colony, Major General Brunker will withdraw opposition to the scheme, provided the under-mentioned conditions are clearly acceded to by the Colonial Government.\n\n1. An interval of 20 feet clear, measured from the northern Boundary of the road when laid out...",
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        "content_text": "33*\n\n440\n\n(not from the lockspit or preliminary gauge line) to the nearest point of the magazine Boundary wall to be preserved.\n\nA wall to shut off the Southern end of the Magazine enclosure from the Road, of such elevation and extent as the Commanding Royal Engineer may consider necessary, to be erected at the expense of the Colony.\n\n2.\n\nFrom Commanding Royal Engineer to General Acting Surveyor\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nI have received a letter from Col. Wilkins relative to the new road from House to near the Happy Valley, and with some minor details as to boundary near the magazines it will not be objected to by the Home Authorities, so that there appears to be no objection to the proposition now being put into official form.\n\nMajor General Bunker has not yet received from the War Office the restrictions which are probably to be imposed on him and until their arrival he would not like to take any steps with regard to making formal transfer of the land.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(signed) Wilkinson Shaw,\n\nDepy Asst Quarter Master General.\n\nYours etc.,\n\nW. Wilson,\n\nRoyal Engineer's Office, Hong Kong,\n\n15th December 1865.\n\nAg. Surveyor General, Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "463\n\nrunning very\n\nto\n\np\n\nA\n\nmagazine\n\nwithout the slightest apprehension of\n\ndanger.\n\nthe\n\nMore risks might occur during the progress of the construction\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nroad by blasting operations or lighting\n\nfires\n\nwhich should of course be carefully watched\n\nCopy From Commandant (Lt Col. I B de Butts R.E.)\n\nThere may, however, be some special circumstances connected with the locality\n\nor\n\ntraffic of which we are unaware that may affect the question.\n\nIt appears that the laboratory, which is subject to the same difficulty,\n\nis not yet constructed, and if so, its site might possibly be somewhat further\n\nremoved from\n\nthe road.\n\nBut\n\nJ.D.B.\n\n(\"the shaft Bergane)\n\nwith\n\nto\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nRoyal Engineers Office\n\nHongkong August 18th 87\n\nI have the honour to return the Correspondence forwarded,\n\nas per your\n\nMinute of 30th Ultimo, and to state that as soon as a boundary\n\nstone be placed at the point marked X\n\nin pencil on\n\nthe plan, where the proposed New Road branches off from that leading towards the Albany,\n\nI think the ground to the South\n\nmay\n\nbe considered transferred from the War Department to the Colonial Government, the date of placing the stone and its exact position\n\nbe recorded as evidence, on the plans retained in this office.\n\nThere is one point which seems to have been overlooked in giving up this ground, and that is the Military Tank and Mains supplying Murray Barracks; it should be noted on the plans to be retained in the Colonial and Royal Eng's Offices (subject to the approval of His Excellency) that these will still remain the Property of the War Department, and that they are to remain undisturbed and that free access to them at all times shall be allowed.\n\nThe Hon'ble\n\nThe Colonial Secretary\n\nYo\n\nKe\n\nĐảng Đông.\n\nI have the honor to be\n\nYour Most Obedient (signed) I B de Butts.\n\nCommandant\n\nSignal Engineer in China",
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        "content_text": "470\n\nConsider a wall on the East side of the Magazine as essential as one on the south and will have to be constructed along the hill road and further that a palisade fence 8 feet high, should be erected all along the North side of the road to prevent persons passing from that road to the neighbourhood of the Magazine - the breadth of which will depend on whether the road is carried in a tunnel, cutting or on the surface.\n\nRifle Ranges 15. There is a Rifle Range on the grounds proposed for cession, which has firing points to about 500 yards, but is susceptible of extension by adjustment of the firing point and target.\n\n16. It is chiefly used for firing Matches and by the Hongkong Rifle Association and is a standing range - there is no site for a rifle range on any of the M. D. Lands in other parts of the island of Hongkong.\n\nThere is a good one on Colonial land at Kowloon, and it is used by the Military on a six months' notice of surrender.\n\n18. The rapid increase in the Number of villas and buildings at Kowloon and of the lettings there for Gardens up to the immediate vicinity of the Range, renders it almost certain that within a short time...",
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        "content_text": "new powder close at Home Callers Irland.\n\n6. The Superintendent also concurs with me in the opinion that the storage of powder on shore entails the necessity of a wharf projecting into deep water to allow of large cargo boats coming alongside and loading at all times of tides without having to use boats. On this point it must be borne in mind that it is in the increased handling of powder barrels, caused by the loading and unloading in and out of small boats that the risk of accident lies, and the prudence of having a proper wharf will therefore be readily recognized.\n\n7. Accordingly, though not instructed to that effect, I have prepared a drawing of a timber jetty running out into a depth of five feet at low water spring tides, the cost of which will be $2700. Owing to the excessive shallowness of the water all along the shore opposite the magazine, the jetty, as shown, will have to run out to a distance of one hundred and forty-four feet before attaining the depth mentioned.\n\n8. The aggregate cost of magazine and jetty would therefore amount to $10,700.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Signed) J. I. Price\n\nGeneral",
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        "content_text": "268\n\nI have to state for the information of the Secretary of State for War, that I do not consider it desirable that the transfer should be proceeded with until the question as to the direction of the road being constructed by the Local Government in the vicinity of the magazine shall be decided.\n\nTelegram.\n\n55\n\nIn receipt of your letter of 28th April 1861 communicated to the Government the suggestion therein contained viz:- that the road should be carried at a height above the magazine. The Governor has not thought fit to reply to this communication.\n\nThe road may be carried either in that manner or below the magazine - I am inclined to think the latter preferable, but of course the road could not be recognized as a boundary road. I should here state that the flow accompanying the Inspector General's letter does not seem correct as to the line of road at the most important point. The road approaches much nearer to the rear or south side of the Victoria Barracks than shown in the blow - a correct tracing of the road is enclosed. I am not anxious to raise objections to the road itself - except in connection with the Magazine - but the present line in this portion of its length should be divested of the character of a boundary road.\n\n2/3\n\nPage 268 appears to be delineated by the context, and the original page numbering is preserved with \"268\" at the top, followed by content, and \"2/3\" indicating a continuation or pagination detail.",
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        "content_text": "When decided night equally be marked by clones or other means.\n\nBut with regard to the general question of the date of the transfer, I desire to state my opinion, that for many reasons the immediate and unconditional transfer of the land in question is not desirable.\n\nFor the question has been in abeyance for more than thirty years, during which time changes have taken place and circumstances and conditions may have considerably altered.\n\nThere can be no necessity for this hurried despatch, a careful consideration of the case should take place on the spot.\n\nI can see no reason for it; largely and gratuitously conceding while many of the requirements of the Troops remain unprovided for.\n\nMany aspects, such as the health of the Troops and the safety of the magazine, Laboratory and stores, are at present in a measure secured by the possession of the Military Reserves.\n\nThe reports of the Commanding R.E. Royal Engineer, of the Principal Medical Officer, and of the Military Storekeeper all point to the conclusion that these advantages would be prejudiced by the proposed cession, and no equivalent is proposed for this loss.\n\nIf this ground is once allowed unconditionally...\n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "Military Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, 7th April, 1876.\n\nI am directed to forward for the information of the Governor the accompanying copy of a Telegram received from The Secretary of State for War relative to the question as to the direction of the new road.\n\nThe Major General therefore requests, as previously recommended, that the work may be stopped at the point to the East and West of the Magazine, which will be indicated\n\nhas been in a measure forced upon me).\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,\n\nChanlly Gave leopy\n\n1.4237- Sir 73444 278\n\nColonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "We see extensive deposits constantly forming in front of the Happy Valley and entailing periodically a large outlay in their removal by the dredging of the Bowrington Canal. Again, abreast of the Wanchai Gap Valley and along the foreshore near No. 2 Police Station the same thing is occurring, and it was but last year that the Government was compelled to project an artificial and unsightly reclamation beyond the line of the Praya Wall in order to save the Wanchai Sewers from getting choked by sud. Next in order of succession come the Magazine Nullah and the subject of the Commanding Royal Engineer's Memorandum, , the Albany Nullah and its water-shed, forming no exception to the general rule.\n\nOne quarter of a mile to the West again, follows the Glenealy Valley the rain-drainage of which is carried to the sea under the City by means of a great stone sewer through which have passed and are passing hundreds of tons of sand, a large portion of which has to be removed periodically to prevent the sewer outlets from becoming buried in it. Still further to the West follow four parallel water-sheds with smaller drainage areas, but which nevertheless pour out year after year huge masses of silt along the sea in front of the Chinese districts. Last but not least at the extreme Western suburb, and near the Gas Works, the Shek-tong-Tsui stream rolls out into the Bay so large an amount of mud and débris as to have already formed a spit or tongue projecting to a considerable distance beyond its mouth, and which as regards growth and dimensions is only equalled by the deposits at Bowrington.\n\n9. It is certain therefore that a far more anxious question than the silting up of the Albany Nullah mouth, no less a one than the rapid shoaling of the entire water-frontage of Victoria awaits solution at the hands of the Imperial and the Island Governments. That this shoaling is going on in a very sure and steady manner is a fact which unfortunately can admit of no possible doubt, for above low water mark the evidence of one's own senses, and below low water mark, the soundings which have been periodically taken off the Praya Wall too clearly indicate its uninterrupted progress.\n\n10. Along the western half of the City where land is very valuable, the difficulty, which is by no means a new one, has always been met and overcome, and will always continue to be successfully overcome by the periodical construction of a new breast wall out in deeper water, and by the artificial conversion of the sea behind it into dry land, which is bought with avidity for building purposes and at a Crown rental sufficiently high eventually to reimburse the Government for a considerable portion of the outlay entailed.\n\n11. In the eastern half of the City, along the Bowrington and Wanchai districts, it is otherwise. There, the shoaling extends very much further out from the shore owing to the configuration of the latter and to the inaction of the tides. Consequently a new sea wall, if built in moderately deep water, would have to be placed at a very great distance out from the present shore, and the area to be reclaimed behind it would be so enormous as to render the undertaking a very serious one, especially as it is very doubtful whether any body could be found to purchase the new ground after it was made. The present Sea Wall and Praya roadway along these districts were built in 1859, during SIR JOHN BOWRING'S administration. The reclamation extended from the Military Arsenal to East Point a distance of one mile, and it is said that for a few years after its completion, junks and small craft were able to moor alongside and make fast to the wall. To-day however, except in a few places, this same wall is inaccessible at low water spring tides even to the smallest rowing skiff, and during extraordinarily low springs it is seen to be fringed by a foreshore over the greater part of which one may walk dryshod.\n\nPage 356\n\n12. In the central District, a large portion of the waterside is the property of the Naval and Military Departments, and it has fared no better. The sea is receding, and Her Majesty's Naval Yard, which a few years ago had an approach sufficiently deep for gunboats to lie at the head of the Admiralty Pier while refitting, will be eventually left high and dry. Nothing different could have been foreseen by either of the Imperial Departments when years ago they selected the sites for their waterside premises, and it is not to be wondered that the approaches to the same should now be found shallowed when it is borne in mind that Colonial lands parcelled out at the same time into Marine Lots have long since passed into the category of Inland Lots, and that the new properties built out into the sea which caused this change have again in their turn, after a short existence as Marine Lots, been subjected to the same change of classification by fresh reclamations in their front.\n\n13. It has been necessary to review the question generally, before adverting specially to the individual case of the Albany Stream, in order to show that the evils complained of in the Commanding Royal Engineer's Memorandum are not restricted solely to the neighbourhood of the Military reservations. And in regard to this Albany Stream, I have the honour, with all due deference, to submit that although its silting may entirely originate as stated in paragraph 5 of the Memorandum, on the hill sides which are Colonial Government property, the cause is as completely beyond the control of the Colonial Government as it is beyond that of the War Department and its Officers; nor can it be possible to hold the former even partially responsible for the silting of the stream, as inferred by the tenour of the Commanding Royal Engineer's Memorandum, any more than it can be made answerable for the physical configuration of the Island, for its latitude and longitude, for its rainfall, for the geological inability of its surface to withstand meteorological influences, or for any other natural cause whatsoever.\n\n14. Nor am I prepared, after very careful investigation, to acquiesce in the correctness of the statement made in paragraph 4 of the Memorandum, to the effect that the obstruction at the mouth of the stream has been caused by the rubbish tipped into it at the Roman Catholic Chapel by the public at large. Before the Typhoon of September, 1874, this abuse never existed at all, for the man in charge of the Chapel was always on the alert to prevent it. After the Typhoon when the Chapel became a ruin, it is true that some people threw broken tiles and brickbats in its vicinity, but these attracting the notice of the Police a stop was put to the irregularity. Since then Police notice boards strictly forbidding persons to shoot rubbish anywhere in the vicinity have been posted, nevertheless in spite of these and the vigilance of the Inspectors of Nuisances it is quite true that on several occasions people have been detected committing the same offence. I would however point out that such cases have been rare, and there can be no doubt that on this point the Commanding Royal Engineer must surely have been misinformed. I am told that the servants of one of the War Department tenants who keeps a large livery Stable and Dairy on Ordnance Land used to be seen throwing rubbish into the watercourse, this however the Police could not well have prevented as they do not patrol military grounds. But whatever abuses of this kind may have occurred, they could not to any extent appreciable by the eye, have aided in or contributed to the great operations of Nature which have been described in regard to other streams and which are the true causes of the present condition of the Albany Nullah.\n\n15. For these operations of Nature, Nature alone is responsible, and it should not be sought by proclaiming the ownership of the ground on which they occur, to lay at the door of a sister service, evils which each of the Departments has in its turn, at one time or another, had to combat single-handed and from its own resources, and to which all three alike became liable to be exposed when Her Majesty's Government assumed possession of this Island with all its physical peculiarities and drawbacks.\n\n16. It is clear from the Commanding Royal Engineer's Memorandum that the condition of the Nullah has become as serious a matter for consideration by the ...",
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        "content_text": "(20)\n\nbreadth of China, he will perhaps see cause to modify his opinion that Sir T. Wade withdrew the archives of the Legation from Peking on \"insufficient grounds.\" The \"insufficient grounds\" connected with the question related rather to the Minister's earlier concessions than to the later acts of firmness he permitted himself to display. The complimentary address presented to Sir Thomas Wade at Shanghai judiciously shelves any allusion to the question of satisfaction, and the Minister's answer is far more honest and outspoken in this connection than the address which called it forth. He refers to the way in which his acts have been at times, \"emphatically denounced,\" and rightly ascribes the compliment paid him to the respect always felt for rectitude of purpose. No one will deny him the credit due on this account. But the interests at stake are too large to allow a conscientious critic to lose sight of the injury done to them, because the official criticised is not open to disparagement on the score of honesty or scholarship.\n\nBut it is needless to enlarge on this question. The home press may safely be trusted to deal with the stultification of Her Majesty's speech which Sir Thomas Wade's diplomacy has secured, and a word in conclusion to Sir Charles Dilke is all that is necessary. He has utterly misrepresented foreigners in China both as to their views and their acts. He has gathered up the hasty expressions of opinion so often promulgated at the dinner table and used them as the basis of arguments both erroneous and unjust. His talents, his social influence, and his power of writing or saying a good thing increase the weight of dicta communicated to the public through the pages of an influential magazine. For all this he owes us some reparation. I have pointed out many of his mistakes and might point out more; but enough has been said to show that there is another side to the questions upon which\n\nhe pronounces in such ex cathedra style. It remains to be seen whether Sir Charles will attempt to justify or will withdraw his allegations.\n\n3\n\nN. B. DENNYS.\n\n(6)\n\n391",
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        "content_text": "391\n\nby the cession of the gathering ground and streams feeding the said tanks, and which might at any time hereafter be prejudiced or polluted by the action of the Colonial Government, or their tenants, on the lands so to be ceded and passing out of the possession of the Imperial Government.\n\n6. The passage of the proposed new road near the new magazine. The stipulations concerning this point are to be found in Brinker's letter dated 27th June 1868 and the concurrence thereto of the Colonial Government in No. 311 dated 2nd July 1868 from the Colonial Secretary's office.\n\n7. The opening of a public road near",
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        "content_text": "by the Resident Councillor at Malacca\n\ncannot but comment\n\non the\n\nSimon to\n\nThe Carl Authenticates\n\nin favor of\n\nThe latter.\n\nWith regard\n\nto the\n\nlast paragraph of your\n\nlast letter\n\nI am to point out\n\nthat the Commissioners do not\n\ndissent from the proposition\n\nthat\n\nthe justification\n\nto construct houses in this\n\nlocality is within a radius\n\nof several hundred\n\nyards\n\nto the\n\nextension\n\nof roads within\n\nwill be prepared more\n\nin compliance\n\nwith the many wishes\n\nto enjoy\n\nthis duty also\n\nthat already\n\n10 Finally the Resident Councillor at Malacca\n\ndraws\n\nattention to the fact that all\n\nthe protection formerly\n\nafforded by flying parties\n\nin the vicinity of the\n\nmagazine\n\nhas\n\nbeen continued\n\nand\n\nlaboring\n\nwas\n\ntimes as here life\n\nfor diligently\n\nBall in Johore\n\nthe Governor\n\nLord Camanor\n\nForce.\n\nfive & the Ronnie.\n\nat his request\n\nante Police with plain XSI am to\n\nadd an injunction to carry it out\n\ndiligently\n\nThe Report of the Commissioner\n\nGeneral may be referred to with your annotations",
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        "content_text": "418\n\nat a distance of only 50 feet from it. The General Office Commanding further points out that by directing the road below the Magazine, the more serious objections to it would be avoided, and it would appear that it might be so directed without inconvenience, or increase of cost, to the Colony.\n\nIt would seem advisable to instruct the Governor to adopt the lower line of road suggested by the General Officer Commanding or to suspend the formation of the road at this point until the question has been considered in all its bearings; and W. Hardy hopes that Lord Carnarvon will find\n\n2",
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        "content_text": "Surveyor General's Office\n\nHongkong, 5th February 1877.\n\nUpon examination I find the plan of the boundary road round Magazine Point, sanctioned by the Secretary of State, Colonial Office, in Despatch, No. 155, of 18th December last to be quite correct.\n\n2. It is however, to be regretted, in reopening this Correspondence, that the plan of the Entire road was not transmitted home by the Military Authorities.\n\nThe Honorable J. Gardiner Austin\n\nColonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "I have to state that by skirting round the promontory, as correctly shown by the blue line on the office plan enclosed in that letter, I have been able to keep the road along the natural surface of the ground, whereas if I had carried it through the promontory, it would have been if not in a tunnel through granite, in an excavation of no less a depth than 75 feet at its summit.\n\n9. It is quite evident that the original approximate line of boundary road is shown in the sketch plan of 1868 going through the hill spur now known as Magazine Point instead of round it simply because either the existence of the latter or its exact position were not known to the person who sketched the plan.\n\n16. As regards the advantage of the hill-spur for future extensions of barrack accommodation, I have to state that owing to its distance from other military buildings, to its narrow and awkward shape, its steepness and inaccessibility, and from the fact that the ground slopes rapidly away on three sides, I am of opinion that if of any value at all for the purpose mentioned, it must be of very considerable less value than that of the thirty-two acres of vacant and available Marine Department land immediately below it to the east.",
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        "content_text": "# SHORT NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS\n\n## THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nDean Charannes, it is but natural to assume that both the Pythagorean (or Chaldean) and the Chinese (more ancient) scales may have been derived from the same source, directly or indirectly. What that common source was, is at present impossible to say.\n\nComparing Chinese music with modern European music, it will be observed that our third and sixth differ from the Chinese intervals, but only by about 81/80 e.g., a comma, and that in the five-tone scale of the Chinese the fourth and seventh are entirely absent. This latter peculiarity appears to be a characteristic of the ancient Celtic music, as still observable in old Scotch or Irish tunes, a very remarkable coincidence. Dr. Wagener states this, but omits all reference to what we believe to be a fact, viz., that there are at present in China both scales in vogue. The so-called Southern Melodies adhere to the above-described ancient (five-tone) scale, being entirely devoid of the fourth and seventh, but the so-called Northern Melodies are, as we believe, based on the twelve-tone scale, having no true semi-tones at all, but three quarter tones, the above-mentioned third and sixth being half-flattened. It is the absence of the fourth and seventh, or half-flattening of third and sixth, that gives that peculiar characteristic to Chinese music which Dr. Wagener describes as \"a near relation to the basis of our Minor tunes.\" We are very much indebted to Dr. Wagener for the information we have gleaned from his essay.\n\n## The Vertebrata of the Province of Chili. With Notes on Chinese Zoological Nomenclature. By O. F. von Möllendorff, Ph.D. Shanghai, 1877.\n\nWith this essay, read in January this year before the North China Branch R. A. S., natural science in China has been very materially enriched, and it is evident that Swinhoe has found a worthy successor in Dr. O. F. von Möllendorff. What has hitherto been contributed, apart from Swinhoe's and, to some extent, Abbé David's labours, towards completing our knowledge of Chinese Zoology, were principally general descriptions, as those of Kirchner, Du Halde, Grosier, Murray, Dr. Williams. Useful as such general information is, it requires extensive correcting and supplementing work which cannot reach perfection unless the Zoological peculiarities of the several provinces of China are studied, not from native works only, but by practical observations. The Zoological nomenclature of the Chinese Classics differs to some extent from that adopted in the Dictionaries and Repertories of later days, and differs widely from the popular terminology in vogue in the several parts of the Chinese Empire. Not only are the finer distinctions of the ancient writers, based on careful observation of nature, effaced in modern Repertories and Dictionaries, but one and the same name given to an animal in one province may be found, in practical speech, to designate in other provinces many widely different species. It is therefore not sufficient, even for specialists like Swinhoe and von Möllendorff, simply to observe the animals of any one province, to diagnostically describe, classify and name them according to the principles of modern Zoology, but this scientific nomenclature has to be applied to an elucidation and, where necessary, emendation of the native nomenclature as found in the Classics, the ancient Dictionaries, modern Repertories and popular speech.\n\nThis is the aim Dr. von Möllendorff placed before himself in compiling his valuable manual of the Vertebrata of Chili. To an independent practical study of nature, he added an extensive study of the classical and modern literature as well as of the popular nomenclature. The commentator of the Chinese Classics, the lexicographer of modern Chinese vernaculars, as well as the students of natural science generally, will find here a mine of valuable information, applicable even, in many points, to other provinces or to China in general. Dr. Williams' Syllabic Dictionary receives here a series of important corrections, whilst the wolf, the elapharus and other animals, confusedly described in the commentaries to the Classics, are treated to special diagnostic descriptions. There is also a detailed account of the Nan-hai-tai, the Imperial Hunting Grounds (South of Peking), which have never before been fully described.\n\nWe were glad to observe that Dr. von Möllendorff protests against that objectionable vice, frequently indulged in by Abbé David and even by Swinhoe, of introducing native names into scientific appellations, which very often, as is especially the case in China, are very differently pronounced in different provinces and can only be very imperfectly represented by Roman letters. A case in point is for instance Swinhoe's `Canis hoolei` or David's `Canis henlyi`, both being pronounced hu-li in Mandarin, h- in Cantonese, fi-l in Hakka, and in each case designating a particular actual or fabulous species of fox and not the genus \"Canis Vulpes.\" We can only wish that the exigencies of the Consular Service required Dr. von Möllendorff's transfer to some other province where he would have opportunities to continue his successful efforts to elucidate the Zoology of China.\n\n## From Swatow to Canton, Overland. By Herbert A. Giles, of H.B.M. Consular Service. Shanghai, 1877.\n\nTourists' journals in China, when written by a man of Mr. Giles' knowledge of Chinese matters, keenness of observation and raciness of style, become very attractive reading. In the present pamphlet a vast deal of information is combined with the most amusing descriptions of the peculiar incidents of Chinese travels. The little book affords as pleasant reading as the best novel we know of. There are only two points we have to find fault with, and they are perhaps merely caused by the general lightness and airiness of style and expression. In the Preface, Mr. Giles speaks of \"Chinese and Hakkas,\" as if the Hakkas were not Chinese, and on page 68 he gives currency to an absurd exaggeration as to there being over one hundred monasteries on the Lo-fau Mountains. Twelve would be nearer the mark.\n\n## The Gospel of China.\n\nPublished by the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of England. No. 1, July, 1877.\n\nThis is a small quarterly periodical, established for the purpose of stimulating the missionary energy of the Presbyterian Church of England in its relation to China. The number before us contains an express renunciation of that unhealthy narrowness of spirit which characterizes so many similar publications of this class in noticing only the doing of the emissaries of the one denomination to which the supporters of the publication in question belong, as if Protestant Missionaries were labouring only to glorify each his own little denomination, instead of joining with all Christian workers, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, nay with civilization in general and even commerce in particular, in one COMMON cause. We are not sure, however, that the Editors of the publication before us would go quite as far as we here wish. Trade and commerce are here indeed recognized as civilizing powers, and it is refreshing to see the readers of a Missionary penny magazine treated to a first-class article on \"Great Britain and China, their political and commercial relations,\" and to a series of Miscellanea embracing subjects like the following, the new Convention with China, the death of duke Kung, the Peking Gazette, the Railway, Telegraph and Omnibus in China. But we may have to wait in vain for a recognition of Roman Catholic Missionaries as fellow-workers in the same field, the only reference to Roman Catholic priests in the present number (p. 21-22) being a fully-deserved exposure of the pernicious system adopted by most priests of assuming official ... \n\nPage 61 \nPage 173",
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        "content_text": "## \n8\n\nalong the centre of the bottom of the ditch, and that flank defence be provided therein. I would also recommend that the southern part of this work should be cut off from the long straggling main work by a flanked ditch and wall. This interior retrenchment would not only serve as a redoubt for the whole work, from which an artillery fire could still be maintained on the town, but would provide for the probable contingency of its having to be defended by a small garrison only.\n\n## Fort Fullerton\n\nFort Fullerton, a weak battery à fleur d'eau, has been partially dismantled to make way for the Government Post Office, but it still has an armament of nine 68-pdrs, of 95 cwt., six of which are mounted. Eight of these guns, however, require re-venting and one is unserviceable. This work was formerly intended to assist in the defence of the roadstead, but its retired position and want of command render it very unsuitable for this object. Like Fort Canning, moreover, a fire from this work would draw the enemy's fire on the town. Fort Fullerton would, however, owing to its position, be a useful post in case of a rising of the native population, and I would recommend that it should be retained with reference to this contingency. With this view, the guns mounted on the sea-face should be removed, the embrasures filled up, and the parapet provided with a banquette. The gorge of the work should also be closed by a loopholed wall, in connection with the Post Office.\n\n## Painter Battery\n\nThis battery is constructed in the shape of an elongated horse-shoe, 100 feet in length by 10 feet in mean width, and is armed with five 56-pdrs., S. B. guns of 98 cwt., three of which only are now in position and these require re-venting; the remaining two are dismounted and unserviceable. There is no bombproof accommodation, and its magazine, which is situated in the gorge of the work close to the guns, is weak and much exposed. This battery occupies a commanding position, however, and was constructed with a view of bringing a cross fire to bear on the roadstead in connection with Forts Canning and Fullerton. Owing to its small extent, the guns are placed very close together, and but one 4-foot traverse is provided. This circumstance, taken in connection with its position on a narrow ledge on the face of the cliff, would always have rendered the service of the guns dangerous. The site is quite unsuited for the requirements of modern warfare, and I recommend that the armament should be removed, and the battery entirely dismantled. The summit of the hill, upon the slope of which it stands, presents, however, a very advantageous and commanding site for a work to aid in the defence of the roadstead and the New Harbour. I shall refer to this point hereafter.\n\n## Mount Faber Battery\n\nThis battery was constructed for two 56-pdrs., S. B. guns of 95 cwt., and designed to bear upon the eastern and western entrances of the New Harbour, which are distant 2,300 yards and 2,400 yards respectively, as well as to play upon any vessel that had succeeded in entering the harbour, in which the navigation is somewhat difficult. The armament of this work has, however, been removed and the work itself has not been kept in repair.\n\n## Mount Faber Mortar Battery\n\nThe two 13-inch mortars are still in position, but the work itself can scarcely be said to exist. The mortars were intended to play upon the deck of any vessel that may have entered the New Harbour, but it need scarcely be added that so small an amount of vertical fire would scarcely afford such protection.\n\n## \n9\n\nIt will be seen that the existing defences scarcely provide in any degree for the protection of New Harbour, and that there is nothing to prevent a hostile cruizer from entering, and destroying the shipping, wharves, docks, and establishments therein.\n\nI will now consider what defences are necessary to afford the required protection.\n\n## Proposed defences\n\nDistant as Singapore is from any great foreign naval centre of operations, from whence a possibly hostile maritime power could despatch an expedition in any great force, it is only necessary to defend it against the attack of a squadron which might consist of three or four vessels, one or two of which would probably be ironclad. If it were considered necessary to provide for defence against non-armourclad vessels only, of course a large saving would be effected in the cost of armaments. It is, however, to be observed that France and Holland each have, at the present time, at least one ironclad in the Eastern Seas. A few months ago, there were three ironclad vessels, two French and one Dutch, in Harbour here.\n\n## General plan of defence\n\nIn order to provide effectively for the protection of New Harbour, I would propose to place two works on the island of Blakan Mati--one on Mount Serpong, the other on Mount Siloso; also a new battery on Mount Palmer. I further propose to occupy Mount Faber for defence on the land side. 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        "content_text": "## (2)\n\nThe land for the firing station could be obtained from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, and, should it be their intention further to extend their wharf, some arrangement might be made with them as to the building of this firing station. The reason for which it is built should be kept as secret as possible, and it might be called an expense magazine.\n\nPosition above Teregah Point.\n\n6. There is another position which could be used as a firing station, namely, the hill above Teregeh Point, 140 high. The disadvantages of this position, as compared with the one proposed now, are:-\n\n(1) Being so retired, the observation mines could not be fired with accuracy, especially on a misty morning.\n\n(2) The cables would have to be longer, and would be more exposed to being cut by a party landing.\n\n(3) That it is not under such a heavy fire from the forts as the Tanjong Pagar spit, so that, if a party landed, it could find cover and could make deliberate preparations for cutting the cable or storming the firing station.\n\n(4) It would be exposed to fire from a distance.\n\nAdvantages of Station behind Breakwater.\n\n7. The advantages of the Tanjong Pagar Station are:\n\n(1) That its position would be impossible for an enemy to make out, and being behind the breakwater, and being bombproof, it would be safe from distant fire, and only when the line of mines was passed would it be exposed to direct fire.\n\n(2) The cables being led in under water, it would be very difficult for a landing party to find them; they would be exposed to a heavy fire during the search.\n\n(3) The breakwater forms a very good protection to the cables, and the cables would be protected from any creeping operations by it.\n\n(4) That the station shown in drawing could not be taken or destroyed by a sudden rush.\n\n(5) With the alterations as shown in the drawing, it could be used for firing locomotive torpedoes, which would add greatly to the defence of this entrance.\n\n8.\n\nProposed Addition to Mines.\n\nIn addition to the mines already laid down for the defence of this entrance, I would propose two groups of four E. C. mines, each 200 yards in advance of the present line, on the main line of ships entering the harbour, and would suggest also a third line, 150 feet in front of the present double line of E. C. mines.\n\nIt should be in convenient ...\n\nThe proposed work in the \"shocks wats\" might be framed useful here.\n\n## (8)\n\nPassive Obstructions.\n\n9. Dummy mines and heavy chains to protect the cable would also be plentifully used, and a passive obstruction might be made of rafts and the harbour buoys to prevent an enemy steaming straight into the New Harbour, which he would perhaps try if he had information of the passage defended by observation mines only.\n\nThe Beran Darat Passage.\n\n10. The narrow passage between Blakang Mati East and the Beran Darat reef could be closed by passive obstructions without difficulty, and temporary mechanical mines might be used here.\n\nSinki Strait.\n\n11. The Sinki Strait, which is never used by vessels, could also be closed easily by sunken vessels or piles.\n\nThe Western Entrance.\n\n12. The Western entrance is about 280 feet broad, and is defended by 8 500-lb ground mines and six E. C. mines.\n\nThe ground mines are arranged to be fired in the same way as those at the Eastern entrance.\n\nThe six E. C. mines form one group. These mines are connected by a four-cored armoured cable to the firing station, which is situated in an excellent position on an almost vertical cliff, 60 feet above the level of the water.\n\nSuggestion as to Defence.\n\n13. I would, on account of the rate at which the tide runs at this entrance—sometimes four knots—propose that it be defended entirely by ground mines, and as the firing station is directly above the mine field, I think pairs or even single mines could be fired with great accuracy. This method of firing would require special sanction of the home authorities.\n\nTo carry out the defence in this way, six extra ground mines would be required, and the six E. C. mines could be used some 800 yards in advance of the present line, where the strength of the tide is considerably less.\n\nProposed Advance Line.\n\n14. In addition to the present defence, I would propose an advance line of two groups of four E. C. mines, as shown on plan, from 900 to 1,000 yards in front of the Mount Siloso battery and the proposed Tussir Panjang battery. This would assist these batteries immensely should an ironclad try to engage them at battering range, and would be very little extra expense.\n\nDefence of the Roads by Submarine Mines.\n\n15. As it is laid down in the new Manual that submarine mines should not be more than 1,000 yards in advance of the guns protecting the mine field, very little can be done for the defence of the roads.\n\nPage 540\nPage 541",
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        "content_text": "## new works: \n\nBelcher's Point Upper and lower batteries. } very well advanced \n\nBatteries} \n\nStonecutter West - Fairly so, but the wet weather has been much against us \n\nStonecutter Central = 4 new Howitzer guns \n\nLyemun \n\n4 magazine's in progress. \n\nThe authorized East Reverse Battery has been completed - the new road is completed - the Western and Central Batteries are progressing well, and the Southern ditch is more than half finished. \n\nThe existing completed works, with the exception of the Reverse Battery at the Lyemun, are all armed, though probably some alterations will eventually be made; none of the new guns have yet arrived, nor has any information been officially received from the War Department as to the probable date of their arrival; \n\nbut, until the emplacements are ready for them, this is of little consequence, provided their construction is well in hand. \n\n(Signed) E. Walker \n**Colonel R.E.** \nCommanding Royal Engineer \n**HongKong** \n20th October, 1885",
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        "content_text": "## \n360 \n\nMagazine mounted in the existing central battery in place of the earlier armament of 2-7\" M.L guns. One 10\" BL gun new site to be selected by you; instructions as to which have already been sent to you under date 15th October 1884 Hongkong.\n\nThree 64-pr M.L guns to be mounted on a site to be selected by you for the defence of the Mine Field which will extend from the west end of the island to Belcher's Point, Hong Kong. They should be so placed as to thoroughly command the mine field; but should be...",
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        "content_text": "## \n(4) \n\nEst, &c., and two torpedo launches afloat. The Garrison and the Volunteers ashore, free from care about the forts and at liberty to move in one compact body against any force attempting to land.\n\nAnd what have we, or what are we to have in place of this? To the eastward a 3-gun battery at North Point—a similar battery at Hung Hom, both two miles and a half away from the narrow entrance they are to defend, and within a mile of the magazines, docks, arsenal, and barracks from which they are to keep the enemy. In the Pass itself a wretched earth-work commanded from a dozen points around, incapable of replying effectively to the fire of any heavily armed vessel, capable of being taken by a small landing party, and needing for its own protection at least a company of infantry. This Pass is, in addition, to be defended by torpedoes, but the torpedoeist has his establishment and stores, his base in fact, in the town three miles away, instead of on the spot and under the guns of a powerful fort. The batteries at North Point and Hung-Hom are commanded from hundreds of neighbouring points. Their guns are mounted en barbette. The gunners could not stand to their guns three minutes after machine guns opened on them from an enemy's tops. Any artillery officer will admit this. Less than 900 yards from the muzzles of the guns in North Point Battery is another spur running out to the eastward, from which infantry fire could pick off every man at the guns, every man who showed his nose above the parapet. This spur is easily accessible to landing parties, pushing on shore from an enemy's ships out of sight of the battery. Against hostile attack, pressed with skill and energy, the battery could not live an hour, and to make it defensible at all against attack from land and sea two companies of infantry would be barely enough. To make matters worse, there is no shelter for troops in or near it. It would have to be supplied with men, stores, everything from the town. An enemy, an active enemy, could easily be up at the battery before it could be manned, and it is noteworthy that the only road up into the battery is on the side nearest the sea. The road from Hongkong comes out past Whitfield Station and under the west side of the spur on which this battery stands, perfectly sheltered from the view and from the fire of an enemy. It would have been easy enough to have made the approach from some point of that road and taken it into the battery out of sight, and sheltered from fire. There is a natural covered way. But no, the road continues round the point to the exposed side of the hill and up the whole length of the incline into the work, exposed at every point to the fire of an enemy's ships anywhere in sight. There is hardly any possible defect of which this battery is not an illustration, and the same may be said of Hung Hom Battery. They are so close to the objects they are supposed to defend that every shot that misses them and passes over, wrecks the docks, or the Kellet's Island magazine, or the arsenal,—the docks within a few hundred yards, all the others within a mile. These two forts might possibly successfully repel the enemy's ships and prevent them entering the harbour, but could not prevent them from smashing the docks and the city.\n\nThese two batteries are commanded from places easily accessible to an active enemy, within a few hundred yards. They are unprotected from the fire of machine guns. They are incapable of defending themselves. They need a covering force outside. One half of the money that has been expended in building, repairing, altering, enlarging, and improving these useless man-traps would have built a powerful casemated fort in the Lye-ee-mun Pass, capable of successfully defending itself and the Pass. Thousands of pounds more are going to be spent on them unless the Colony openly, publicly, and forcibly protests.\n\nWhat have we, or rather what are we to have on the west side? A battery of the same pattern as the others on Stonecutters' Island, three miles from Sulphur Channel, exposed to capture by a coup-de-main, needing an infantry force to defend it from landing parties, depending for men, ammunition, and provisions on Hongkong, and only capable of annoying an enemy after he has rounded Mount Davis and is steaming into the harbour; and Belcher's Point Battery, similar to the others in the main line of its construction—open to be commanded and rendered useless by infantry fire from the neighbouring hills, needing infantry defence in case an enemy attempted to land at the other side of Mount Davis, and unable to touch an enemy's vessels until they passed Mount Davis and had fairly entered Sulphur Channel.\n\nThis battery, like the other, having to be manned from the town, would require daily supplies of provisions and ammunition.\n\nHere again the money spent and being spent on Stonecutters' and Belcher Point Batteries would build a powerful fort on Green Island, having its resources within itself, needing no defence from outside, capable of smashing any hostile men-of-war that came within its range, and of keeping them at a respectful distance from the town and shipping.\n\nLastly, with the present batteries as our sole defence, the island, in the absence of the fleet, is defenceless on its southern side. The infantry force of the Garrison must be broken up and scattered unduly to protect the batteries from landing parties, and to enable them to make even a pretence of resistance to an enemy's fleet. Five hundred of the enemy, landing from boats at any of the pretty little bays from Mount Davis to Cape D'Aguilar, could make a military promenade through the island. Let us suppose the programme sketched by a writer in the home papers to be attempted to be carried out in fact by our dear friends the French. We need only trouble ourselves with the first act in the programme: Admiral Courbet receives telegraphic orders to attack and take Hongkong. He has a dozen vessels and a couple of thousand soldiers at his instant disposal in Formosa. There are three possible cases. We might have absolutely no notice of the designed attack. Then, in the present state of the defences, Admiral Courbet simply steams in and, giving General Sargent, his officers and soldiers credit for skill, ability, and British pluck, where would the colony be? Captured after a useless fight—or, if not captured, destroyed and rendered useless to our fleet, either as a place to repair in or to coal. Admiral Courbet would not hesitate to move his fleet into the harbour past the existing \n\n## Page 420",
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        "content_text": "166\n\n19. The names of the principal contributors to the Gardens are as follow:\n\nAnderson, Lieut.-Colonel D. G.; seeds.\n\nArmstrong, J. M.; plants.\n\nBlackhead Smith, Mrs.; seeds.\n\nBoehmer, Louis, Yokohama; plants.\n\nBotanic Gardens, Brisbane, J. Pink, Director; plants.\n\nJamaica, D. Morris, M.A., Director; seeds.\n\nCalcutta, Dr. G. King, LL.D., Director; plants.\n\nDurban Natal, J. M. Wood, Curator; seeds, plants, &c.\n\nTownsville, A. M. Anderson, Superintendent; plants.\n\nRoyal Kew, Sir J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., &c., Director; plants and seeds.\n\nBunting, Isaac, Yokohama; plants.\n\nCooper, W. M. Ningpo; seeds and plants.\n\nCoxon, Mrs. A.; plants and seeds.\n\nCurtis, C. Penang, Forest Department; plants and seeds.\n\n20. The following are the chief recipients:\n\nAcclimatization Society Queensland; seeds.\n\nAdams & Son, Messrs. New Zealand; seeds.\n\nBell Irving, Mrs.; plants.\n\nBlackhead Smith, Mrs.; plants.\n\nBotanic Gardens, Adelaide; seeds.\n\nBrisbane; seeds and plants.\n\nCalcutta; seeds and plants.\n\nCeylon; seeds.\n\nJamaica; seeds.\n\nMelbourne; seeds.\n\nNatal; seeds and plants.\n\nSingapore; seeds and plants.\n\nTownsville; seeds.\n\nSydney; seeds.\n\nTrinidad; seeds.\n\nRoyal Kew; seeds, plants and herbarium specimens.\n\nCameron, Mrs.; plants.\n\nCrawford, Mrs.; plants.\n\nCrow, W. E.; plants.\n\nCundall, C. H. Manila; plants.\n\nCurtis, C.; plants and seeds.\n\n21. During the year we received:--\n\n789 Plants.\n\n291 Packets of seeds.\n\n1 Wardian Cases.\n\n4 Animals.\n\n60 Herbarium specimens.\n\nCundall, C. H., Manila; plants and seeds.\n\nDehra Dun, Forest School, India; seeds.\n\nFranco, P. M.; seeds.\n\nHance, Dr. H. F., Canton; seeds.\n\nHughes, J. I.; one deer.\n\nIndian Forest Department; seeds.\n\nMacgowan, Dr. F. Wenchow; plants.\n\nNicholl, Mrs. Amoy; seeds.\n\nPickford, C. R. B., Cebu; plants.\n\nPiercy, Mrs.; plants.\n\nPolice Department; one Pheasant.\n\nQueensland Acclimatization Society; seeds.\n\nRomano, A. G.; plants.\n\nSwalemen, Van Der, Ghent Belgium; seeds.\n\nWhitehead, F. H.; one Deer.\n\nWing Kee; one Owl and two Storks.\n\nWoodin, E. L.; plants and seeds.\n\nFaber, Rev. E.; plants.\n\nFranco, P. M.; plants.\n\nGordon, Major-General, A.H.A.; plants.\n\nGrossman, C. F.; plants.\n\nHance, Dr. H. F. Canton; plants and herb. specimens.\n\nHargreaves, Rev. G. Canton; plants.\n\nLadies Recreation Club, plants.\n\nMaries, C. C. India; seeds.\n\nMoin, E. M. A. India; seeds.\n\nPiercy, Mrs.; plants.\n\nPolice Department; plants.\n\nRomano, A. G.; plants.\n\nSilva, J. M. A.; plants.\n\nThe Governor of Macao, seeds.\n\nThe Maharaja of Durbungah; seeds.\n\nThe Spanish Consul; seeds.\n\nThomson, Dr. J. C. Canton, plants.\n\nTripp, H. J. H.; plants.\n\nVyvyan, C. B.; seeds.\n\nWing Kee; plants.\n\nWoodin, E. L.; seeds and plants.\n\n22. Irrespective of the plants that were sold during the year we sent out:-\n\n2,202 Plants.\n\n221 Packets of seeds.\n\n14 Wardian Cases.\n\n22 Herbarium specimens.\n\n23. The Library has been increased by the following additions:--\n\nA journey of Exploration through Western Ssu Ch'u.\n\nBotanical Magazine for part of 1885.\n\nDecandolle's Monographiae Phanerogamarum, 4 vols.\n\nFranchet's Plantae Davidianæ, first part.\n\nGardeners Chronicle for 1885.\n\nJournal of Botany for part of 1885.\n\nLoureiro's Flora Cochinchinensis.\n\nNew Commercial Plants and Drugs by Thomas Christy, F.L.S., F.S.C.L. presented by the Author.\n\nReport of the Acclimatization Society Queensland for 1884.\n\nReport on the Arboriculture of the assigned districts, India for 1884.\n\nReport on the Botanic Gardens Adelaide for 1884.\n\nFirst Annual Report on the Forest Department, Straits Settlements, 1885.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in Ajmere-Merwara for 1883-84-85.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in Assam for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in British Burma for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in British India for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in the Central Provinces for 1884-85.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in Coorg for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in Hyderabad Assigned Districts for 1884-85.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in the Punjab for 1884-85.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh for 1883-84.\n\nReport on the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew for 1883.\n\nHorticultural Gardens Lucknow for 1884-85.\n\nPublic Gardens and Plantations, Jamaica, for 1884.\n\nEstablishment of a Botanic Garden and Arboretum at Montreal.\n\nby Mr. Hosie on a journey through Central Ssu Ch'uan.\n\nof the Royal Society of Tasmania.\n\non the Experimental Garden, Milam, North Borneo for 1884.\n\nAnnual Administration Reports of the Forest Department, Madras Presidency for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of the Forest Survey Branch for 1883-84.\n\nSiebold's Flora Japonica, 2 vols.\n\nSuccinct Notes on some plants from New Guinea and a description of hitherto unrecorded Papuan Orchids, by Baron von Muller, K.C.M.G. &c.\n\n24. The Garden staff has worked fairly well throughout the year, but a high standard of efficiency is not to be expected. The ordinary Chinese Gardener has no knowledge of the physical laws that govern vegetable life, although they cultivate many of the plants of their native country with wonderful success; but in dealing with foreign plants that require to be carefully studied till the conditions necessary for their acclimatization are understood, they show little interest. They in fact frequently neglect such plants, unless a rule of thumb practice can be laid down for their guidance. It is a hard matter to interest a Chinese Gardener in an experimental attempt to propagate or cultivate a plant which must be subjected to a process different to that which he has been accustomed to practise. This class of men could hardly be expected to understand an explanation of the physical laws that bear upon horticulture as a science; but Mr. Ford has endeavoured for some years back to procure a better class of workmen by training up boys as apprentices, and educating them upon a broader principle than that usually followed in China; but although this system has been fairly satisfactory in one or two cases, it has not been wholly successful. The training which the boys receive sharpens their intelligence and gives them educational advantages that make them aspire to a position more lucrative and, from their point of view, more dignified than that of a \"fa-wong.\" Several promising lads have left in this way just as they were beginning to be useful. This of course is very disappointing, and I am afraid that no other result can be anticipated in future, unless the intelligence of the trained apprentices is remunerated at its market value.\n\n25. Government House.-A number of plants, chiefly Palms and Arvids, were planted out on the bank below the northern side of Government House. The fence which supports the creepers on the top of the bank has been extended for seventy yards farther on the walk, and the plants on the older portion have all been cut back and replaced with a view to more uniformity.\n\nWere the necessary funds available, great improvements could be effected on the ground just within the wall at the eastern bend of Upper Albert Road. The appearance of this part is a constant eye-sore, owing to the rough nature of the ground and the constant litter of bamboo leaves. The bamboo is very effective in isolated clumps, but its predominance in a garden or pleasure-ground is objectionable from an artistic point of view and injurious to the development of the other trees and shrubs that were planted with the intention of contributing to and improving the general effect.\n\nAFFORESTATION\n\n26. The planting of China Pines was commenced on December 3rd, 1884, and completed on the 16th of May, 1885. They were planted in the following localities:-Kowloon, North of Butts; Observatory; Black Mountain; Aberdeen Hills; Mount Kellet; and below Mount Gough Road. The total number planted is 342,302.\n\n27. A number of seedling Pines were raised in sites in the following localities:--Mount Davis, Mount Kellet, the New Military Sanitarium, and Saiwan, 204,837 plants being successfully raised. A large number of sites, probably one fifth of those made on the southern side of Mount Kellet, were unproductive. The soil in this locality is rather variable, and the failures chiefly occur on the steep slopes where the grass is scanty. Where the ground is covered with a fibrous carpet of grass roots, the rain, as it rushes down the slopes, is absorbed in sufficient quantities to saturate the soil and render it suitable for the reception and subsequent development of the young tree; but where the ground has been denuded of its herbage by the irrepressible grass cutter with his blunt sickle, which does not cut but uproots the grass, the young tree is sorely handicapped in the struggle for existence.\n\n28. 150 Catties of Pine seeds were sown broadcast on the hill south of the Little Hongkong estuary. A large number of seedlings have sprung up, but in rather irregular patches. It would be premature however, to pronounce upon the issue of this experiment at present. The result will be more apparent next year.\n\n29. Some Bischoffias and Camphors were planted on Mount Davis. Camphors and Cork Oaks were also planted on the hills above the Powder Magazine. These have all done well.\n\n30. Fourteen species of Eucalyptus were raised in various quantities and planted out in the following localities:-New Military Sanitarium; above Powder Magazine; and at Sokonpo. The total number planted being 16,398. Each species was planted in a clump, and marked with a ticket to enable us to identify the different kinds, and note their relative adaptability to the soil and climate of Hongkong. This comparison has been very interesting, and will be valuable in enabling us to select the most suitable kinds in future. The three species that are conspicuously superior to the others, and which may be considered an unqualified success, are L. robusta, citriodora, and tereticornus. The next in order are:-marginata, platyphylla, corymbosa, resinifera, and haemastoma. These five kinds have not done so well on the exposed hills near the Military Sanitarium as the three first mentioned kinds, but they have succeeded very well at Sokonpò where the position is more sheltered; and I have no doubt that they will succeed in many of the unexposed parts of the island. Other four species, namely: Stuartiana; siderophloia; Microcorys; and maculata have grown moderately well. The percentage of deaths is small, but the growth is slow and weakly. They evidently required a richer soil than the above mentioned sorts. The two species that have been least successful are pilularis, and hemophloia. A large proportion of both kinds have died, and those that have survived have not a promising appearance.\n\n31. 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        "content_text": "# STATEMENT \n\nOF \n\nASSETS AND LIABILITIES \n\nON THE 31ST DECEMBER, \n\n1880. \n\nEnclosure 4. \n\nSTATEMENT OF PREMIA ON LAND SALES. \n\nBALANCE. \n\n  \n    1882.\n    Amount realised during the year,\n    18,434.27\n  \n  \n    \n    Expenses of advertising, &c..\n    94.50\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    18,339.77\n  \n  \n    1883.\n    Amount realised during the year,\n    25,785.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Commission, &c.,\n    66.85\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    25,718.15\n  \n  \n    1884.\n    Amount received during the year.\n    19,695.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    19,695.00\n  \n  \n    1885.\n    Amount received during the year.\n    66,708.50\n  \n  \n    \n    Compensation for a Leper's House, on resumption,\n    50.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    66,658.50\n  \n  \n    1886.\n    Amount received during the year.\n    34,393.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Expenses of advertising,\n    402.92\n  \n  \n    \n    Expenses in connection with new lots for sale,\n    1,240.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Expenses incurred on the employment of prisoners making new roads in order to open out new lots for sale,\n    343.49\n  \n  \n    \n    Making survey of Magazine Gap lots and setting out for sale,\n    175.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Construction of a sea-wall at Kauloon point,\n    17,500.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    19,661.41\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    34,731.59\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    165,143.51\n  \n\nAUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, \n\nHONGKONG, 17th March, 1887.\n\nMedench Newark, \n\nActing Auditor General.\n\n \n205",
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        "content_text": "# Donors\n\nAdams, Rev. J. S., Ningpo\nArmstrong, J. M.\nBotanic Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia\nBrisbane\nJamaica\nMauritius\nMelbourne\nNatal\nPenang\nPort Darwin\nSaharanpur\nSingapore\nTownsville\nTrinidad\nCook, Mrs.\nCooper, W. M., Ningpo\nCox, J. H.\nCundall, C. H., Manila\nDiercks, F., Hankow\nHenry, Rev. B. C., Canton\nJohnstone, D. A., Hoihow\nKneebone, Miss\n\nThe following is a list of receipts for the year :-\n\n| Publication | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Botanical Magazine, 1887 | 51 |\n| Journal of Botany, 1887 | 25 |\n| Gardeners' Chronicle, 1887 | 32 |\n| Report, Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 1886 | 43 |\n| Indian Forest Reports |  |\n| ‣ Forest Administration in Assam, 1886-87 | 29 |\n| ‣ Central Provinces, 1886-87 |  |\n| ‣ Bengal, 1886-87 |  |\n| ‣ Ajmere Merivara, 1885-86 |  |\n| ‣ British Burma, 1885-86 |  |\n| ‣ Ceylon, 1886 | 11 |\n| Botanic Gardens, Jamaica, 1886 | 11 |\n| Mauritius, 1885 | 53 |\n| Natal, 1886 | 13 |\n| Coorg, 1885-86 | 3 |\n| Madras, 1886-87 | 33 |\n| Saharanpur, 1886 | 31 |\n| Singapore, 1886 | 17 |\n| Ceylon | 19 |\n| Agri-Horticultural Society, Madras, 1886 | 73 |\n| Kew, London | 33 |\n| Hyderabad, 1886-87 | 11 |\n| North-West Provinces, 1885-86 | 3 |\n| Andamans 1885-86 | 15 |\n\nKoch & Brunner, Messrs., Cebu\nLivesey, J., Stone-Cutters' Island\nMacGowan, Dr. D. J.\nRoebelen, C.\nRoyal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta\nPalm Nurseries, U.S.A.\nSchultz, Mrs., Perak\nThurston, K.C.M.G., Sir J. B., Fiji\nVeitch & Sons, Messrs. J., London\n\n## HERBARIUM\n\nThe facilities and accommodation not only for extending, but even for maintaining the collections of scientific dried plants are still lamentably deficient. We have now about reached the limit of possibility of progress unless the suggestions which I have made on several occasions be responded to. There are now large collections of plants put away which have been made, dried, and poisoned, and which cannot be mounted, labelled and incorporated with the general collections in cabinets until the additional accommodation for working at and storing the specimens is available.\n\nAs much attention as possible has been given to the herbarium demands whenever a little time could be obtained between other work. A considerable number of plants have been poisoned, mounted by the clerk and office boy, and labelled and incorporated by myself, but there are large numbers which it has been impossible to overtake.\n\nA collection of nearly 2,000 named specimens of chiefly Asiatic plants have been procured by purchase. Since they came into our possession they have all been poisoned to preserve them from damage or destruction by insects, and many of them have been mounted. Another large collection was obtained during a journey made by myself, with Chinese assistants, up the North and Lienchau Rivers in the Kwangtung Province. Duplicates of all these have been sent to `Kew Gardens`. They have not yet been examined and determined, so that I am not yet able to make a report on the species which were obtained.\n\nDonations of dried plants have been received from the Rev. E. FABER, of Shanghai, amongst which were many species of Chinese plants which were not before in our herbarium.\n\n## BOTANICAL LECTURES\n\nWhen the Chinese Medical College was inaugurated last year I was invited to give the Botanical Lectures to the students. With the approval of the Government I consented to do this, and have continued since last October to deliver two lectures a week. The lectures have all been given after office hours. For the sake of the demonstrations it would have been more convenient to give the lectures during daylight, but this was found impracticable to work into the time table of the College. Botanical specimens to illustrate the lectures have been supplied to the students from the Botanic Gardens.\n\nSince the Herbarium has been provided with more suitable accommodation, the students have received their lectures twice a week in the Herbarium room instead of at the Medical College. By this arrangement the resources of the Herbarium have been readily available and of great assistance to the students. The students take great interest in the botanical lectures, and many of them give promise of capacities for making considerable acquirements in botanical science.\n\n## LIBRARY\n\nA copy of the `Chi Wu Ming`, a valuable work on Chinese Botany which is difficult to procure, was obtained from Peking, through the kind aid of the Registrar General's Department of this Colony and of Dr. DUDGEON at Peking.\n\nI have to thank the Indian Forest Department for sending regularly copies of its various Reports which have been received throughout the year, and also the Directors of the many Botanic Gardens in various colonies for Annual Reports.\n\nTo Mr. THISELTON DYER, Director of `Kew Gardens`, we are specially indebted for numerous copies of the `Index Flore Sinensis` of the various parts as they were published, and also for copies of `Icones Plantarum` and the `Kew Bulletin`, the latter complete for the year 1887, the first year its publication.\n\n*Since the above was written I am very pleased to say that by some alterations in the departmental buildings very greatly improved accommodation has been provided by the Government, and work long delayed is now progressing satisfactorily.*\n\n| Publication | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Report, Queensland Acclimatisation Society, 1886 |  |\n| Forests, Straits Settlements, 1886 | +4 |\n| Survey Branch, 1885-86 |  |\n| Review of Forest Administration in British India, 1885-86 |  |\n\n## GOVERNMENT-HOUSE GARDENS\n\nThe ordinary yearly routine work has been performed at the gardens appertaining to Government House, but besides the thinning of over-grown trees, of which a good deal has been done, no special works have been undertaken.\n\n## INVESTIGATION AND PLANT COLLECTING\n\nA journey was undertaken by myself in August along the North and Lieuchau Rivers in the Kwangtung Province. Besides an extensive collection of dried plants for the herbarium about 800 living plants were brought back. These are chiefly plants of an ornamental character which are most desirable additions to cultivation. When these living plants have become established and grown they will, in many cases, be new objects of great beauty and interest in the gardens of this Colony. When the collections have been thoroughly examined, a work which will yet take some time, the scientific results of the tour will, I feel sure, be of considerable value and interest.\n\nBesides the introduction of new living plants, and the acquisition of a large quantity of material for the herbarium and for the enrichment of science, I may mention another result which is important and of direct and immediate practical utility to the Forest Department. For several years I have endeavoured, in vain, to procure through Chinese and other sources seeds in quantity of the tree (`Cunninghamia sinensis`) which yields the timber, so called China fir, that is universally used here and in South China for all kinds of building, and many other purposes. While I was absent I found the tree growing abundantly about 100 miles North of Canton, and under circumstances which rendered it possible to procure seeds in quantities as were desirable. I made arrangements for seeds to be collected there when they were ripe and delivered in Hongkong. We have now a large quantity on hand, and experiments on a large scale will be made with the cultivation here of the tree during this year. The timber from this tree, if it be found to succeed here, will be of much more value than that of `Pinus sinensis`, the tree which hitherto we have planted very extensively.\n\n## FORESTRY\n\nAfter the reduction of planting works which took place in 1886, the number of trees dealt with in artificial reproduction during 1887 was again brought up to something nearer former work, but until the Forestry vote is again placed at the figure which was provided before its reduction last year, we cannot accomplish annual afforestation works to the same extent as formerly.\n\nRoughly estimating the area of ground operated on by the number of trees planted at fairly regular distances apart we have about 312 acres as the area for 1887. 157,144 trees were reared in nurseries and planted on the hills. Planting as usual was commenced in December, and finished in April, which was somewhat earlier than in former years. Planting in the dry season can only be done in places where water is available for artificial irrigation. In other places we are entirely dependent on favourable weather. In all places the planting was very successful.\n\n### Nurseries\n\nNine nurseries have been maintained. These were situated at Kowloon (two), Saiwan, North Point, Sokonpo, Deep Water Bay, Little Hongkong, Aberdeen, and Pokfulam. From them the trees were carried to the various planting grounds ranging from Saiwan in the East, North Point in the North, Pokfulam in the West, and Deep Water Bay in the South of Hongkong, and north eastwards of Yaumati at Kowloon.\n\nThe trees reared in nurseries under contract have this year, as a rule, been very successfully managed by the contractor; they show a great improvement on the previous year's work in this respect.\n\n335",
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        "content_text": "# 366 \n## February 1880.] \n### Cl. 32. \n## 12 \n### General Regulations-continued, \n#### Military Books and Maps. \n\n1. With reference to Clause 19, Army Circulars, 1886, February the following have been published, and will be added to the List of Works promulgated by the appendix to that clause, which will be amended accordingly: \n   - 1886. \n     - Examination Papers, Admission to Royal Military Academy, and for First Class Appointments to Royal Marine Artillery, November and December, 1885 0 0 9 \n   s. d.\n\n2. The following book will be removed from the List: \n   - Fortification, Military Engineering, &c.; Text Book of Part II., 1880.\n\n3. Paragraph 7, Clause 19, Army Circulars, 1886, should read as follows: \n   - 7. Maps published by the Ordnance Survey Department or by the War Office, will be supplied as soon as they can be obtained, under similar conditions to those specified above for books, and paid for in a similar manner; but the application for them must be sent to the Deputy Quarter-Master-General, Intelligence Branch, War Office, and the Paymaster receiving the amount will credit the payment in his next Pay List, under the head of \"Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Sale of Maps\" in the case of Ordnance Survey Maps, and under \"Vote 16, Appropriation in Aid,\" in all other cases.\n\n### Army Advertisements. \n#### U 3B. \n\n1. The following has been added to the List of Newspapers in which Army Advertisements are authorized to appear: \n   - 1886. \n     - \"Newtownards Chronicle.\"\n\n2. The List of Newspapers promulgated by Clause 164, Army Circulars, 1886, will be amended accordingly.\n\n## 13 \n### Army Forms. \n#### ARMY FORMS. \n##### [February 1886. \n\n1. The following Army Form has been approved: \n   - Army Form 771, \"Expenditure Voucher-Fuel and Light.\"\n\n2. The following Army Forms have been cancelled: \n   - Army Form G 953, \"Accoutrements and Pioneers' appointments (Reserve Forces, except Yeomanry and Volunteers), Requisition for.\" Army Form G 982 will be used in its stead.\n   - Army Form G 1080, \"Certificate in support of expenditure of Candles for Magazine Lamps, Royal Artillery Districts and Sub-districts.\"\n\n3. The designation of Army Form G 1029, will in future be: \n   - \"Paint, &c.-Artillery, Fort or Battery; Requisition for.\"\n\nRalph Thompson \n1886. \n1",
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        "content_text": "No.\n\nDATE.\n\nTIME,\n\nFIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1889.\n\nSITUATION OF FIRE,\n\nNo. or BUILDING DESTROYED.\n\nDAMAGE.\n\nCAUSE.\n\nWholly.. Partly.\n\nREMARKS.\n\n-\n\n1 Jan.\n\nA co 19\n\n3\n\n4\n\n* A\n\n3,\n\n11.15 p.m.\n\nMidnight.\n\nHouse No. 1, Rozario Street,\n\nMatshed at Belchers Bay,\n\n6,\n\n5.10 p.m.\n\n77,\n\n11.15 p.m.\n\nChimney of House No. 28, Stanley Street, House No. 197, Queen's Road West,\n\n8,\n\n12.\n\n4 p.m. Daylight.\n\nGrass on hillside above No. 1 Tank, House No. 73, Queen's Road East,..\n\n2\n\nI\n\n$1,000\n\nFalling of a kerosine lamp,\n\nTrifling\n\nUnknown.\n\nNone $2,000\n\nDo.\n\nDo..\n\nTrifling\n\nDo.,\n\nNone\n\nIncendiarism,.\n\n-\n\n17,\n\n3 a.m.\n\n9\n\n18,\n\n53\n\n3.20 p.m.\n\n19,\n\n4 a.m.\n\nHouse No. 159, Queen's Road West, House No. 279, Queen's Road West, House No. 75, Queen's Road East,.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.,\n\nDo.\n\nUnknown,\n\nDo.\n\nIncendiarism....\n\n25\n\n10\n\n20,\n\n8 p.m.\n\n11 Feb. 4,\n\n2 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 198, Hollywood Road, House No. 44, East Street,\n\nDo.\n\nTrifling\n\nBursting of a korosine lamp. Accidental.\n\n12\n\n6,\n\n9.45 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 92, Wing Lok Street,\n\n$20,000\n\nUnknown,......\n\n13\n\n11,\n\n4.30 p.m.\n\nA stack of grass at the \"Basel Mission\" Garden,\n\nTrifling\n\nDo.\n\n14\n\n12.\n\n10.10 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 36, Third Street,\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\n15\n\n15,\n\n6 p.m.\n\nGrass on the hillside near Tai Tam Tuk,\n\nDo.\n\nDo..\n\n16\n\n17.\n\n8.20 p.m.\n\nChimney of House No. 35, Wellington Street,\n\nNone\n\nDo.\n\n17\n\n19,\n\n9.35 p.m.\n\nGrass on hillside above Richmond Terrace,\n\nTrifling\n\nDo.,\n\nInsured in the China Fire Insurance Company for $1,000.\n\nInsured in Messrs. Siessen & Co. for $2,600.\n\nSome young trees destroyed,\n\nA bundle of rags saturated with kerosine gunpowder and matches were found in the house.\n\nThe staircase was saturated with kerosine oil.\n\nFalse alarm.\n\nOld rags saturated with kerosine oil were thrown into the house.\n\nInsured in Messrs. Russell & Co. for $15,000.\n\nExtinguished by Police.\n\nA number of young trees destroyed.\n\n18\n\n21.\n\n22\n\n19\n\n24.\n\n>\n\n7.30 p.m.\n\n20\n\n24,\n\n7.30 p.m.\n\n21 March\n\n2.\n\n1 a.m.\n\n22\n\n2.\n\n23\n\n6.\n\n24\n\n13.\n\n11 a.m.\n\n25\n\n14,\n\n6.30 p.m.\n\n26 April 5,\n\n27\n\n12,\n\n8.51 p.m.\n\n7.30 p.m.\n\n9.45 p.m.\n\nGrass on hillside near Magazine Gap,\n\nS. S. Benlowers,\n\nMatshed at Yaumati,\n\nMatshed at Coffee Plantation,..\n\nHouse No. 5, Wing Wo Street,\n\nHouse No. 337, Queen's Road Central, House No. 91, Station Street, Yaumati, Grass on hillside above Sai Wan,\n\nGrass on hillside above Little Hongkong, House No. 292, Queen's Road West,.\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nUnknown\n\nDo.\n\n$12\n\nDo.\n\n$240\n\nDo.,\n\nTrifling\n\nDo.,\n\nDo.\n\nDo.,\n\n310 Trifling\n\nDo.\n\nDu\n\n$20\n\n28\n\n17.\n\n9.20 a.m.\n\n29 May\n\n5.\n\n30\n\n22\n\n7.20 p.m. 10 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 146, Boulam Strand Central, House No. 307, Queen's Road West,\n\nChimney of House No. 155, Queen's Road West,\n\nNone.\n\nUnknown.\n\n$300 Trifling\n\nDo., Falling of a korosine lamp.\n\nCareless use of lighted candles. Unknown,\n\n22 pigs destroyed.\n\nInsured in the Northern Assurance Company for $5,500.\n\nInsured in Messrs. Pustau & Co. for $4,500.\n\nExtinguished by Police.\n\nCarelessness while boiling oil,... Insured in Messrs. Stemssen & Co. for $2,200.\n\nInsured in Messrs. Scheele & Co. for $4,000.\n\nNo.\n\nDATE.\n\nTIME.\n\nFIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1889,-Continued.\n\nNo. of\n\nBUILDING\n\nSITUATION OF FIRE.\n\nDESTROYED. DAMAGE.\n\nCAUSE.\n\nWholly. Partly.\n\n$10,000 Incendiarism,\n\nREMARKS.\n\n358\n\n31 May\n\n4.35 a.m.\n\nHouse No. 10, Wilmer Street,...........\n\n32\n\n33\n\n31\n\n35\n\n22 # 38 53 Reeg C\n\n12.\n\n9 p.m.\n\nA house in Un Fuk Lane,\n\n13,\n\n4 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 20, Gilman Street,,\n\nTrifling Do.\n\nAccidental.\n\n14.\n\n11.30 a.m.\n\n16.\n\n1.45 a.m.\n\n36\n\n17,\n\n5 p.m.\n\n37\n\n17,\n\n38\n\n21,\n\n\"\"\n\n9 p.m. Midnight.\n\n99\n\nJune\n\n16,\n\n40\n\n24,\n\n41\n\n25.\n\n\"\n\n42\n\n26.\n\n14\n\n4.30 p.m.\n\n2.30 a.m.\n\n2.45 a.m.\n\n9.30 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 32, Ship Street,\n\nHouse No. 1, Pokfulam Road,.....\n\nMatshed at Skew Bridge, Shaukiwan Road,.\n\nHouse No. 86, First Street,................ House No. 41, Shamshuipo,\n\nHouse No. 115, Third Street,\n\nHouse No. 113, Queen's Road West,\n\nHouse No. 252, Queen's Road Central,\n\nChimney of the Hongkong Dispensary,\n\n$20\n\n¦ ¦\n\nTrifling\n\n$860\n\n$20\n\nAccidental.\n\n$50\n\nIncendiarism,....\n\nCarelessness while burning joss paper.\n\nCareless use of lights while catching bugs.\n\nUnknown.\n\nIt is supposed that some thieves entered by the sky-light and set fires to the stores. Insured in Messrs. Siemssen & Co. for $15,000.\n\nCareless use of fire for boiling pig's food,\n\nA number of pigs destroyed.\n\nSome straw and oil were found burning in the house.\n\nNone\n\nUnknown.\n\nDo.\n\nFalling of a kerosine lamp.\n\nDo.\n\nUnknown.\n\nTrifling\n\nDo.\n\n43\n\n28,\n\n9.50 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 242, Queen's Road West,\n\n$3,000\n\nIncendiarism........\n\n44\n\n46\n\n47\n\n18\n\n49\n\n29902 82866* **\n\n29.\n\n4 p.m..\n\nChimney of House No. 2, Stanley Street,\n\nNone\n\nUnknown.\n\n45 July\n\np.m.\n\nHouse No. 87, First Street...................\n\nDo.\n\n4,\n\n11,\n\n4.20 a.m.\n\n2 4.10.\n\nHouse No. 227, Queen's Road West,\n\n$1,300\n\n1),\n\nHouse No. 198, Queen's Road West, Grass on hillside,\n\nNoue\n\nBursting of a kerosine lamp.\n\nDo.\n\nUnknown,\n\n11,\n\n50\n\n16,\n\n5 p.m.\n\nGrass in a house at Mong Kok Tsui, Chimney of house No. 12, Market Street,\n\nTrifling\n\nDo.\n\nNone\n\nDo.\n\n31\n\n16,\n\n10.35 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 6, Mercer Street,\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\n52\n\n17,\n\n1a.m.\n\nHouse No. 90, Queen's Road East,..\n\nDo.\n\n53\n\n29,\n\n5.10 p.m.\n\nMatshed on the hill near Victoria Fort,.\n\n$300\n\n2\n\n54 Aug.\n\n10,\n\n10.30 p.m.\n\nChimney of house No. 72, Jardine's Bazaar,.\n\nNone\n\npaper. Unknown.\n\n55\n\n11,\n\nGrass on hillside near Kai Lang Wan,\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\n56\n\n12.\n\n8.45 p.m.\n\nHouse No. 14, Shelley Street,...\n\nDo.\n\nIncendiarism,..........\n\n24,\n\n3.20 a.m.\n\nHouse No. 95, Hollywood Road,\n\n$400\n\nUnknown,\n\nBursting of a kerosine lamp.\n\nThe master of this shop was charged with arson but was discharged at the Supreme Court.\n\nCareless use of fire for drying cakes,\n\nInsured in Messrs. Norton & Co. for $1,300.\n\nIncendiarism,.......\n\nCarelessness while burning joss paper.\n\nNo trees destroyed.\n\nAn empty paint tin containing kerosine oil was found burning on the staircase.\n\nA lighted paper torch saturated with kerosine was thrown into one of the rooms. Insured in Messrs. Melchers & Co. for $700.\n\n19",
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        "content_text": "8. There is another subject to which report after report from this Department has called attention. To no other Department of the Public Service, I presume, is room of more importance than to the Postal Department, yet there is no Department in which there is less space in proportion to requirements. It is only necessary to point to the extensive postal premises at Sydney, with a population of 225,000, at Singapore, with a population of 180,000, and at Durban, with a population of 25,000, to demonstrate that Hongkong with a population of 200,000 is not marching with the times in the matter of a commodious Post Office. The Assistant Postmaster General has to be content with a high stool and a desk in a recess which overlooks a stand frequented by cacophonous chair bearers.\n\nWhen the European and American Mails are despatched on the same morning, the throng of people attempting to buy stamps and post letters has necessitated the stationing of an officer to divert the stream of Chinese to the back of the Post Office where a counter for the sale of stamps has been extemporised. The internal dimensions of the Post Office, which may have sufficed for the necessities of a quarter of a century ago, are now wholly inadequate, as may be seen by any one, who likes to spend an hour contemplating the sorting and disposal of a French Mail.\n\n9. The number of Dead Letters which have to be opened in the Department to discover the sender is considerable. In many cases there is neither an address nor a signature: it then becomes necessary to peruse the body of the communication in search of some indication of the source of the letter. In this way no little time is consumed and much that was intended for a private view comes under the official gaze. Where the letters emanate from mercantile houses, their origin can almost always be traced by the presence of initials stamped on the envelope, and if private individuals would only put their names on the cover of every letter they wrote, they would have the satisfaction of receiving back their undelivered correspondence in an unmutilated condition. Soldiers' and sailors' letters always bear the name of the sender on the envelope with the result that the members of Her Majesty's land and sea forces have their dead letters restored to them intact.\n\n10. I have to chronicle the reduction in rates of Postage to the Cape Colony which began on the 23rd of August and by which letters are now carried for 20 cents instead of 30 cents the half ounce.\n\n11. Negotiations are now in progress with the object of establishing a system of Parcels Post Insurance between Hongkong and the United Kingdom, and of instituting a direct exchange of Money Orders and closed Parcels between this Colony and the Dominion of Canada. The Insurance scheme is sure to command public favour whilst the advantages of a direct exchange with Canada by means of the new \"Empress\" Steamers over the devious route via London are palpable.\n\n12. For the benefit of the Peak residents, a new mail signal station has been inaugurated at the Mount Gough Police Barracks, which are in a central position and visible to all houses on the southern slopes, even to those situated at Magazine Gap.\n\n13. Another familiar topic is that of the French Mail and the Marine Sorters. In my report for 1889 I said \"a settlement of the question in the direction desired may be expected very shortly.\" I was guided by a letter from the French Consul dated the 22nd May 1889 to His Excellency the Governor (copy attached). Since then, however, a further letter (copy attached) has been received withdrawing this concession.\n\n14. As I pointed out in my report for 1889, it would accelerate the delivery of mails very much if this Department were placed in direct communication with Cape Collinson and Green Island. The arrivals of steamers could then be telephoned or telegraphed and the launch would at once be despatched to convey the mails on shore.\n\n15. International Statistics to regulate the payments for sea and territorial conveyance of mails during three years were taken during the month of May.\n\n16. The early period of the year at which this report is submitted precludes the possibility of giving a detailed statement of the finances of the Department for 1890.\n\nThe Revenue for 1889 was as follows:- Gross Revenue 1889, Deficit,..\n\n18. The amount of Peak and Kaulung correspondence carried during 1890 is shown by the subjoined figures :—\n\n  \n    \n    Peak\n    Kaulung\n  \n  \n    Sent to\n    4,802\n    1,813\n  \n  \n    Received from\n    8\n    128\n  \n\nI have pleasure in thanking the Manager of the High Level Tramway Company for the facilities granted to the Peak Postmen.\n\n19. Approximate Statistics for 1890 are annexed and are conspicuous for the gratifying decrease in the number of unpaid and short paid articles. They also point to a large increase of ordinary correspondence, postcards, newspapers, registered articles and parcels.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\nARTHUR K. TRAVERS,\n\nPostmaster General,\n\nThe Honourable W. M. DEANE, C.M.G.,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nAPPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1890.\n\n  \n    DESCRIPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE\n    INTERNATIONAL\n    LOCAL\n    TOTAL\n    COMPARISON WITH 1889\n  \n  \n    \n    Despatched\n    Received\n    Despatched\n    Received\n    \n    Increase\n    Decrease\n  \n  \n    Ordinary paid Letters\n    643,000\n    525,700\n    \n    \n    1,325,760\n    22,800\n    \n  \n  \n    Unpaid and short paid Articles\n    \n    15,750\n    900\n    150\n    16,330\n    \n    1,283,700\n  \n  \n    Letters on Postal Business\n    1,550\n    \n    3,250\n    1,800\n    8,100\n    250\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,500\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, Circulars, &c.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    11,100\n    6,300\n    4,500\n  \n  \n    Patterns, Registered Articles\n    1,900\n    \n    \n    \n    24,300\n    13,700\n    \n  \n  \n    with Return Receipts\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Parcels\n    150\n    6,200\n    1,900\n    10,000\n    3,700\n    750\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    60\n    50\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Post Cards\n    1,450\n    2,200\n    \n    \n    5,150\n    3,700\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    25,050\n    17,030\n    8,020\n  \n\n(Translation.)\n\nFRENCH CONSULATE,\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 22nd May, 1889.\n\nSIR,\n\nThe French Government have been pleased, in response to the expressed wishes of the Colony of Hongkong, to entertain with favour the delicate proposal made to them of placing a British Mail Agent on board the packet boats of the Messageries Maritimes for the purpose of sorting, between Saigon and Hongkong, correspondence intended for the latter Colony or for transmission to North China.\n\nSuch officer would be taken on board on the following conditions :\n\nThe upper mail room in the \"batterie\" would be placed at his disposal, and would be fitted up for use as an office, but only between Saigon and Hongkong. The agent would besides have the free enjoyment of a first class cabin from Singapore to Hongkong and vice versa, and would be admitted to the same table as first class passengers upon payment of one half of the usual tariff.\n\nInstructions have been sent by the Messageries Maritimes Co. to its agency at Marseilles to effect the necessary alteration on board the packets of the Indo-China line.\n\n$142,309.11\n\nShare of United Kingdom, Conveyance of Mails, Working Expenses, $12,136.83 Contribution towards P. & O. subsidy 45,870.31 Share of other Countries, $54,041.89 7,913.37 43,164.86\n\nI shall be obliged if His Excellency will inform me whether the Colonial Government consents to these terms, and, if it does, from what date they may come into operation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nBEZAURE.\n\n$163,127.26\n\n$36,656.29 paid France for 23 years from April 1886 to December 1888.\n\n$163,127.26\n\nHis Excellency Sir GEO. W. DES Vœux, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong, &c., &c., &c.\n\n17. The number of Parcels received and despatched during the year is as follows:-\n\n  \n    \n    Inward\n    Outward\n  \n  \n    By P. & O. Packet\n    9,219\n    349\n  \n  \n    By German Packet\n    5,125\n    151\n  \n  \n    Total\n    14,344\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    9,568\n    5,276\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    14,844\n  \n\nThe total number despatched and received in 1889 was 13,173. The heaviest outward mail was despatched at Christmas and consisted of 510 parcels, whilst the heaviest inward mail was the New Year Mail by which 772 parcels were received.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nFRENCH REPUBLIC, PARIS, 5th February, 1890.\n\nSir,\n\nThis Administration has just learned that the Colonial Authorities of Hongkong, in the name of your office, have recently taken fresh steps to secure the admission on board the packet boats of the Messageries Maritimes of a British Agent who would start from Singapore and sort correspondence intended for Hongkong.\n\nIn its great desire to contribute as much as lay in its power to the improvement of the Postal Service of Hongkong, this Administration had actually taken the scheme into consideration, notwithstanding the very serious inconveniences which might result to the French Service from its adoption.",
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        "content_text": "leading to a great enhancement of revenue from land sales, Ground rents, and an increased volume of taxation. His Excellency was further able to point to a vast commerce in a healthy state of progress, with prosperity extraordinary and prospects magnificent. I have almost quoted His Excellency's own words. What is the state of the colony to-day? His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government in his official minute, the latest information furnished to this Council, estimates a deficiency of about $100,000 in our finances at end of this current year. The 39 millions of dollars of deposits in the local Banks have enormously decreased, yes, by millions of dollars. I say so without fear of contradiction; a large amount of the money has hopelessly gone and been lost for ever. More is called for to save a comparatively small portion which may or may not be redeemable from total loss. Mining ventures in the Malay Peninsula, tobacco planting in Borneo, and a number of the now local enterprises have not yet yielded any return on capital invested, while many others are in course of, or on the verge of, liquidation. The market value to-day of companies registered in Hong-kong and referred to in His Excellency's despatch has shrunk at the lowest estimate by a sum of ten millions of dollars. Land has fallen greatly in value, we are largely overbuilt in the city of Victoria, at the Peak, Magazine Gap, and at Kowloon; one has only to look around to realize the fact; there are scores, yes, hundreds of empty houses untenanted and yielding no return on the money so invested.\n\nThe position of matters can only be aggravated by Government notification of 28th March last calling for the fulfilment of covenants unfulfilled upon all sales of Government land. For some years to come there will be no great land sales, no addition to our land revenue, and there must be a diminution in the assessed taxes, rents have fallen to so great an extent. The valuations of July next will prove this. About one-fourth of our total revenue is derived from the opium farm, a most unstable and most uncertain source of income in the near future. His Excellency has wisely reminded the Secretary of State that the present large profit on subsidiary silver coin must not be counted on as a permanent source of revenue. The Chinese Government have now a mint at Canton, and may in time supply a large portion of the Canton and Foochow requirements from which ports the chief demand for these coins arises.\n\nOur taxes are already very high. 13 per cent. on the rental sounds moderate but is quite misleading, for rents here are about three times more than rents at home and much higher than in most places in the East. The increase in our garrison of 1,509 men—which was promised but only exists in the imagination of the War Office, though we have all the same pay a double military contribution—would have brought considerable commercial benefit to the ratepayers, large sums would have been disbursed locally for rent, supplies, etc., though the public revenue might not have been largely or directly augmented thereby. The financial position of the Colony is not strong and it is doubtful if the estimated revenue for 1891 will be realised. The revenue shows unmistakable signs of instability and shrinkage, while expenditure is rapidly increasing in every direction, more particularly on public works.\n\nThere are very enormously augmented salaries, and an overwhelming and appalling increase in the Surveyor-General's establishment and increasing demands for contributions to Imperial funds, with no appearance or promise of finality. His Excellency now contends that £40,000 is a just and fair military contribution from this Colony, but has not given us any figures or arguments in support of this new contention to set against His Excellency's official statements of eighteen months ago. Trade which seemed to His Excellency in a healthy state of progress in October, 1889, is bad—undoubtedly bad. Every one will tell you so. Excellency's very able speech of 19th ult. he made it clear beyond doubt that although perhaps able to pay our way to-day and to sustain our increasing burdens, it was a matter of grave doubt whether the position of the Colony was an assured one, and its prosperity in the past any guarantee of its future; in fact His Excellency plainly indicated that the Colony in re its financial position had reached the point of danger.\n\nHis Excellency told us the sad tale of the West Indian Island of St. Thomas, now deserted if not dead, and pointed out three of the most important causes in operation tending to our destruction which had already hit us very hard, and of which we were not yet in a position to determine the outcome. The position of the Colony has changed very much and for the worse since this question of salaries was first mooted. The actual charge on the revenue has gone on and may go on increasing. When the Appropriation Bill for 1891 came up for the third reading the honourable member opposite (Mr. Keswick) informed this Council (in a speech I have now before me) that the original Select Committee of which he was a member contemplated a total annual increase in salaries of about $10,000. The actual increase for 1891 has now swollen to the simply appalling amount of $102,906 since last year, to $210,489 more than in 1887 or four years ago. In short, salaries now amount to one-third of our total revenue. Much better for the Colony, much better for the officers themselves, to grant no increase of pay, if a few years hence there must be a reduction through our sheer inability to pay.\n\nThe question is still under the consideration of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, Lord Knutsford, and therefore still open. By agreeing to this resolution unofficial members could not be guilty of inconsistency, nor would they thereby stultify themselves in any way. Let us wait at least before charging the Colony with this larger additional permanent expenditure till there has been some revival in trade, some recovery in values, some definite indications that the sad fate which overtook the Island of St. Thomas, and with which His Excellency has threatened us, may not be ours. In view of all the altered circumstances of the Colony for the worse I feel justified in moving this resolution.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE—Mr. President, I rise to second Mr. Whitehead's resolution. He has certainly gone into the whole question in a most exhaustive manner, and I quite agree with him that with our increased expenditure we want to do a little retrenchment. It is rather an ungracious thing to do, what is proposed in the resolution, but still we think it necessary it should be done. We have to look to our ways and means now, and these salaries cannot be paid for some time, they may be reconsidered by and by, but our ways and means are not very flourishing at present with this much military contribution upon us. I have much pleasure in seconding the resolution of the hon. member on my right.\n\nHon. J. J. KESWICK—I rise for the purpose of moving an amendment to the motion of my hon. friend Mr. Whitehead. I do so because unable to recognise the reasons given in the resolution why the salaries should not be increased as altogether logical or correct. As I said in this Council on a former occasion, it is a very ungrateful and unpleasant task to discuss questions like this, which in some respects is personal, or at all events a delicate application. But I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that, as I mentioned in this Council in December last, a mistake has been made in the amount of the increase of salaries recommended. The amount recommended by the Committee was only $10,000, and instead of that sum, which would have shown a very moderate percentage of increase, salaries have been increased to the amount of 35 per cent. I quite feel that it is desirable in the public interest to tackle this question without delay and recognise that a mistake has been made and ought to be remedied while there is yet time, and it is for that reason I take advantage of the opportunity now afforded me, which I did not expect to have in December. I feared the matter was then complete.\n\nI think all the unofficial members felt with myself that a right and proper increase of salaries was necessary. I feel so still. But the resolution of my hon. friend opposite reads \"that in consequence of the enhanced military contribution\" the colony cannot pay the increased salaries recommended. I view the matter quite differently and consider that it is in consequence of a great many extraordinary expenses we have that we are unable to grant this increase. I suppose there never was a time in the history of the colony when the enormous demands for public works and general expenditure were so great in comparison with its shrinking revenue. I am satisfied that the revenue of the colony is declining, and it is on these grounds I consider this increase to official salaries of 35 per cent. should be reconsidered and what may be regarded as an adequate...",
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        "content_text": "# Document Review\n\nThere is an increase in Street lighting (1614856) of about 50 per cent, and I do not think it is so large. Expenditure should have been incurred without obtaining previous sanction from the S. of State; the annexed mass shows that it is principally the general principal streets which will be lighted by Electricity, so that parts which require it most from a Police point of view will not benefit at present.\n\nIt is true that the Assessed Taxes show a net increase of $35,000, Gross $50,00 less $1500, due to \"increase in rateable tenements,\" but there are other works, such as Water & Drainage, that have to be met just now - outlays are more than Sheet Lighting Expenses.\n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| GR1178/1922/32(III) | Reference file |\n\n## Actions\n\n? Write to the above effect.\n\nPar. 5. ? Shall we wait for the promised further report?\n\nPar. 7. It is satisfactory that some reduction has been effected in the Estimates for the Slaughter stone and Cattle Central Market & we may approve proceeding with them without further delay. As to the latter, he asks for a telegram. \nTelegram `693`.\n\nPar. 9. ? Approve Hospital additions for now.\n\nPar. 10-12. ? Approve proceeding with the alterations of the Magazine for explosives.\n\nThere is nothing in the Est. to show that the diversion of Canal Alteration of Race Course \"to cost $24,000 was required in any sense on Sanitary grounds, but with the further explanation now given, I think the scheme may be approved.\n\nPar. 16. ? Approve market extension at Shaukiwan.\n\nWe might telegraph in reply.",
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        "content_text": "## 95. \nThe building consisting of three slaughter houses, one exclusively for the use of Indians, the others for the killing of cattle, sheep, and pigs; three sheds for the accommodation of animals to be slaughtered, office, coolie quarters, and out-buildings covers an area of 8,615 square feet and is approaching completion.\n\n## 96. \nPublic Laundries.-A site 17,660 square feet in area has been selected for the construction of ten public laundries on Kennedy Road, Wanchai.\n\n## 97. \nThese laundries, consisting of two living rooms, cook house, washing, drying, and ironing rooms, are being erected by Mr. TSANG SAM under `contract (1)`. Good progress has been made with the work, and the laundries will shortly be ready for occupation.\n\n## 98. \nPublic Latrines.--Previous to the past year, very inadequate latrine accommodation existed in the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon. To meet this want, ten cast-iron latrines obtained from Messrs. MACFARLANE & Co. of Glasgow have been erected in the villages of Stanley, Shaukiwan, Aplichau, Hung Hom, and Yaumati. They appear to meet the requirements of the native population and will doubtless improve the sanitary condition of the villages.\n\n## 99. \nLatrines were also completed in June last in Jardine's Bazaar and Poyan Street. The former covers an area of 540 square feet and the latter an area of 770 square feet.\n\n## 100. \nCivil Hospital Staff Quarters.-This building is situated at the corner of High Street at its junction with Eastern Street and occupies a site 21,114 square feet in area. The building is two stories in height and consists of 10 bed rooms, 5 sitting rooms, an office, and one dining room with the necessary servants' quarters, bath, and lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 101. \nIn addition to the above, a chemical laboratory 41 feet by 21.4 feet and store rooms have been provided.\n\n## 102. \nA `contract (3)` was entered into with Mr. TSANG KENG in November, 1889, for its erection, the time fixed for its completion being May, 1891. I regret, however, that owing to what appears to be inexcusable delay on the part of the contractor, this building is not yet completed, though in a very advanced stage.\n\n## 103. \nCivil Hospital Coolie Quarters-Commenced in July, 1890, the `contract ()` being obtained by Mr. Wo SING, were completed in April, 1891. This building occupies a site (2,800 square feet) within the Hospital compound and is two stories in height, consisting of 7 rooms with the necessary bath, lavatory, and kitchen accommodation.\n\n## 104. \nCivil Hospital alterations and additions.-Under this heading, the necessary boiler house, boiler, and piping have been provided and erected for supplying hot water to the bathrooms, lavatories, and kitchen throughout the Civil Hospital main buildings.\n\n## 105. \nThe contract for this work was obtained by Messrs. FENWICK & Co. in May last and has been satisfactorily completed at a cost of $850.\n\n## 106. \nThe retaining wall on the northern boundary has been built, and a few minor improvements have also been carried out.\n\n## 107. \nLunatic Asylum for Chinese.-This building, situated in High Street, occupies an area of 11,700 square feet, including an airing court of 5,650 square feet, was commenced in April, 1890, by Mr. YEE HING under `contract (48)` and satisfactorily completed in July, 1891.\n\n## 108. \nThe building is two stories in height, in addition to a 7-foot basement, and consists of 4 day rooms and 16 single cells, four of which are padded. Four rooms are provided for the attendants and office, as well as the necessary servants' quarters, kitchen, bath, and lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 109. \nPolice Station Aberdeen-Commenced by Mr. SOON LOONG in October, 1890, under `contract (38)`, is situated near the eastern end of the village on an elevated site having a southern aspect, has been satisfactorily completed.\n\n## 110. \nThis building is two stories in height with a 4-foot basement and is built of brickwork with stone dressings.\n\n## 111. \nThe accommodation provided consists of 3 rooms for a married Inspector, mess-room and barrack-room for 4 European Constables, barrack-rooms for 6 Sikh Constables, 8 Chinese Constables, and 6 Water Police with lavatory and bath accommodation, 4 cells, charge room, stables, store-rooms, servants' quarters, and kitchens.\n\n## 112. \nThe site is divided into two terraces, the stables, store-rooms, &c. being placed on the lower and the remaining buildings on the upper.\n\n## 113. \nPolice Station at Quarry Bay-Occupying an elevated site on the western side of Quarry Bay, 4,340 square feet in area, is a one-storied building containing 2 rooms, store-room, and 2 cells. Detached from the main building but approached by a covered way are the kitchens, servants' quarters, and offices. This building was commenced in November, 1890, and completed in July last by Mr. CHAN A TONG under `contract (8)`.\n\n## 114. \nKennedytown Police Station.-The sum of $2,000 has been expended in erecting a retaining wall at the back of the building and cutting away the steep hill side, which had commenced to slip.\n\n## 115. \nDistrict School Sai-ying-poon.-This school is situated at the junction of High Street with Pokfulam Road and was commenced in September, 1890. It occupies an area of 6,530 square feet. Three class rooms are provided and fitted up to accommodate 186 children. Quarters have been provided for a coolie and the necessary kitchen accommodation and offices. The work has been carried out by Mr. YEUNG A TING under `contract (11)` and was completed in June last.\n\n## 116. \nAdditions to Government House-Erected from the designs of Messrs. PALMER & TURNER and under their supervision, was commenced in April, 1890, consist of a ball room 60 feet by 40 feet, supper, card, and billiard rooms, and other accessories, is situated at the eastern end of Government House and occupies a site 2,700 square feet in area.\n\n## 117. \nThe building, with the exception of the decorations and lighting, was completed in September last. A contract has been entered into with the Electric Company for lighting this portion of Government House with electricity.\n\n## 118. \nThe installation of the Electric Light has been commenced and consists of 138 incandescent lamps of a total candle-power amounting to upwards of 2,600.\n\n## 119. \nThe alternating current for supplying these lamps will be taken from the Electric Company's house-lighting mains at a pressure of 2,000 volts and will be reduced by a transformer placed in the building to a pressure of 100 volts for the purposes of lighting the lamps.\n\n## 120. \nAll wires used in the building will be insulated with vulcanized india-rubber protected by a braided covering and laid in hard wood casings; the sizes of the wires employed varying, as the number of lamps supplied, from a strand of 19 No. 16 B. W. G. copper wires to 1 No. 18 B. W. G. copper wire for a single lamp.\n\n## 121. \nThe amount of electric energy consumed will be measured by meters placed in the building, the charge being 35 cents per 1,000 watt-hours, at which rate it is estimated that the lighting will cost about $3.50 per hour for current when all the lamps are alight.\n\n## 122. \nThe estimated initial cost of Installation is dollars four thousand three hundred and eighty-one and cents fifty. ($4,381.50.)\n\n## 123. \nOn the completion of the electric installation, it is proposed to proceed with the internal decoration of the building.\n\n## 124. \nQuarters for Superintendent, Botanical & Afforestation Department.-This building, situated at the junction of the Albany and Robinson Roads, occupying an area of 7,920 square feet, is two stories in height. On the ground floor is an herbarium 44 feet by 22 feet, 2 offices, and 2 store rooms; on the upper floor are the Superintendent's private quarters. Work was commenced in March last by Mr. YEE HING under `contract (4)` and the building is now nearly completed.\n\n## 125. \nPier Stone Cutters' Island.-A substantial timber pier has been constructed on the northern shore of Stone Cutters' Island opposite the Powder Magazine. The pier is 176 feet in length and has a floor area of 1,930 square feet. This work was carried out by Mr. CHAN A TSAN under `contract (3)` entered into in November, 1890, and completed in March, 1891.\n\n## 126. \nThe reconstruction of the Governor's Peak Residence; Magazine for Explosives, Stone Cutters' Island; Shaukiwan Market Extension; and Lowering Queen's Road West, have not yet been proceeded with.\n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY WORKS\n\n## 127. \nThe Vaccine Institute-is being erected on a site 4,800 square feet in area immediately north of the Kennedy Road at its western end. The buildings are one story in height and comprise a waiting room, operating room, quarters for a caretaker, and the necessary cook houses and offices. To the north of the main building but connected by a covered way across a yard 33 feet in width are situated 20 stalls for calves and the necessary fodder store.\n\n## 128. \nYaumati Praya Wall.-During the gale of July last, the southern portion of the Yaumati Praya Wall, 750 lineal feet in length, was carried away, and the Praya roadway at this point considerably damaged. A `contract (1)` was entered into with Mr. TSANG SAM in September last for the reconstruction of the wall and repair of the roadway. The amount of this contract was $5,508.10, and the time for its completion July, 1892. Fair progress has been made with this work.\n\n... \nPage 2 \n...",
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        "content_text": "# REPORT OF THE ACTING CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE FOR 1891\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, on the 25 February, 1892.\n\n## POLICE DEPARTMENT, CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 22nd January, 1892.\n\nSIR-I have the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Governor the Police Report for the year 1891.\n\n2. The total number of offences coming under the cognizance of the Police was 10,869, being an increase on the year 1890 of 2,445 cases, giving an increase of 20.02 per cent.\n\nSubdivided into serious and minor offences (so-called) there were in 1891, 2,904 cases of the former class as against 3,100 cases in 1890, shewing a decrease of 196 or 3.41 per cent; and in the latter class 7,965 cases in 1891, as compared with 5,324 cases in 1890, giving an increase of 2,551 cases or 47.91 per cent.\n\n3. This rather large increase is to be accounted for by the number of arrests made for \"Unlicensed Hawking,\" \"Uttering Street Cries\" and contraventions of the \"Markets Ordinance,\" the “Opium Ordinance” and the \"Gambling Ordinance.\"\n\n4. The European Force has been increased by 1 Sergeant and 4 Constables. The present strength of the Force is as under:\n\n| Category | European | Indian | Chinese |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Captain Superintendent | 1 |  |  |\n| Deputy | 1 |  |  |\n| Clerks | 2 |  | 1 |\n| Chief Inspector | 1 |  |  |\n| Inspectors | 11 |  |  |\n| Interpreters |  | 2 |  |\n| Jemadar |  | 1 |  |\n| Sergeants | 14 | 5 |  |\n| Acting Sergeants | 12 | 8 |  |\n| Constables | 90 | 199 | 294 |\n|  | 128 | 211 | 326 |\n\nThis number is exclusive of the Police specially employed by other departments and private firms.\n\n5. Three new Police Stations were completed during the year, one at Aberdeen, one at Tsat-Tsye-Mui (Quarry Bay), and one at Kennedy Town. The latter has not yet been occupied by the Police in consequence of the non-completion of the new approach road.\n\n6. Owing to the extent of the Police beats in the Hill District, one of the three standard Police Electric Alarms obtained from England in 1890, has been placed at the Magazine Gap, and connected with the Mount Gough Police Station, and I have recommended that the other two standards or \"Call Points\" be fixed, one at Mount Kellet Spur, and the other at Plantation Road.\n\n7. In my Annual Report on the Government Fire Brigade for 1891, I have called attention to the disadvantages of the present system of overhead Electric Light wires in the city. From a Police point of view the disadvantages are equally great. On the occasion of a fire in Queen's Road Central on the morning of the 6th May, it was considered necessary, in order to prevent an accident to the firemen, to shut off the current, thereby placing a part of the city in darkness during the confusion which more or less always occurs at fires; and again on the night of the storm, the 3rd December, just at a time the work of rescuing persons from boats alongside the Praya was going on, the Electric Light on Praya West failed in consequence of the lines being damaged by the masts of a junk.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nGEO. HousPOOL,\nActing Capt. Supt. of Police.\n\nHonourable W. M. GOODMAN,\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n&c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "424 \n\n12. Maintenance of Water Works and Sewers.--The Water Works and Sewers throughout the Colony have been maintained for an expenditure of $4,913.97 and $936.71 respectively. The maintenance of the filter beds and operations necessary for the efficient filtration of the water absorb the greater portion of the expenditure under the former heading.\n\n13. Land Survey Department.--During the year eight land sales have taken place. The area being 2,482,198 square feet including Farm Lot 13 Kowloon of an area of 53 acres, premium realised $28,698. Extensions of existing lots of a total area of 133,705 square feet have been granted. The amount of premium being $6,553 and annual Crown rent $664. Leases have been issued for the reclaimed Marine and Inland Lots in front of Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Premises West Point of a total area of 85,386 square feet and annual Crown rent $684, and also for the new Marine Lots on the reclamation at Kennedy Town of a total area of 202,409 square feet and annual Crown rent $2,076.\n\nSurveys have been made, boundaries corrected and plans and particulars for the preparation of new leases forwarded to Land Office.\n\nSurveys have been made of the village of Pokfulam and a portion of the villages of Little and New Hongkong in connection with the adjustment of Squatters' claims.\n\n14. Inspection of Buildings.--During the current year plans for 4 European houses, 115 Chinese houses and 20 miscellaneous structures have been deposited, also 74 plans for alterations to existing buildings.\n\nSixty-five (65) buildings have been certified under Section 33 of Ordinance 15 of 1889. Permission has been given to erect 14 verandahs and 8 Piers over Crown Land. Notices have been issued to remove or repair dangerous structures in 78 instances and to remove verandah enclosures in two cases.\n\nFour hundred and seventy-one (471) miscellaneous notices and permits have been issued.\n\n## EXTRAORDINARY PUBLIC WORKS\n\n* District School Kowloon\n* Kowloon New Roads\n* Additional Private Ward Civil Hospital\n* Hongkong Pier and Approach Road\n* Additional Public Latrines\n* Magazine for Explosives\n* Shaukiwan Market Extension\n* Government Office Extension\n* Road from Plantation Road to Magazine Gap\n* Improved Road from Aberdeen to Wongneichong\n\nPlans have been prepared and contract entered into for the construction of Kowloon New Roads. Plans have also been prepared for the erection of the Slaughter House, Pig and Sheep Depôts and are in the course of preparation for the Reconstruction of the Governor's Peak Residence.\n\n20. New Water Mains.--The new distributary system of Victoria Water Works has now been practically completed as far as present requirements necessitate.\n\n21. Sewerage of Victoria.--Considerable progress has been made with the construction of the sewers in the Central portion of the City nearly 5 miles of pipe sewers and storm water drains with such accessories as Manholes, Ventilators and Flushing Apparatus, have been completed during the current year.\n\n22. Sewerage of Yaumati.--This work was commenced in March last and one mile of sewer with the necessary accessories has been completed.\n\n23. Water Supply Kowloon.--Experiments have been carried out during the current year for the purpose of ascertaining the yield of the well recently sunk. A survey has been made of a large portion of the peninsula. A full report on the results of the experiments and a definite project for these Water Works has been forwarded to Government.\n\n24. Miscellaneous Minor Works.--The only work calling for remark is the renewal of the Tytan telephone line along the Bowen Road which has been completed.\n\n15. Central Market.--The walls are completed to the level of the plinth and a new contract has been entered into with Mr. CRAN ATONG for the completion of the structure.\n\n25. Praya Reclamation Works.--Considerable progress has been made with Sections 1, 2, 3 and 7. The construction of the rubble foundations for the new wall and the earth backing behind the same in these sections is practically completed, and in the case of Section No. 7 the filling in and construction of the wall is in a very advanced stage.\n\nDuring the current year, 46,206 cube yards of rubble have been put in the foundations, and 45,680 cube yards of earth filling have been deposited behind the wall.\n\n1,231 Concrete blocks have been made of which 741 have been placed on the rubble foundations, Section No. 2.\n\n87,897 cube feet of granite ashlar have been built into walls and drains.\n\n16. The following works have been completed, viz.:—\n| Work |\n| --- |\n| Gap Rock Lighthouse |\n| Praya Reclamation Site for Western Market |\n| Training Albany Nullah and Branches |\n| New Roads and Preparatory Work Kennedy Road Sites |\n| Bridge over Bowrington Canal |\n| Cattle Depôt Extension |\n| Preparation of Site for Slaughter House, Pig and Sheep Depôts |\n| Slaughter House Kowloon |\n| Public Laundries |\n| Civil Hospital and Staff Quarters |\n| Civil Hospital Alterations and Additions, Hot Water Apparatus |\n| Quarters for Superintendent Botanical and Afforestation Department |\n| Vaccine Institute |\n| Telegraph Cable to Gap Rock |\n\n17. Additions to Government House.--The decoration and electric lighting of the new Ball Room have been completed and that of the remainder is in hand.\n\n18. Fair progress has been made with the repairs of St. John's Cathedral and the erection of lamps at Kowloon Point and Yaumati.\n\n19. The following works have not yet been commenced:\n| Work |\n| --- |\n| Slaughter House, Pig and Sheep Depôts erection of buildings |\n| Reconstruction of the Governor's Peak Residence |\n| Improvements Recreation Ground, Happy Valley, Gaol Extension |\n\n26. The Reclamations in front of the Sailors Home and Wharf and Godown Company's premises are complete.\n\n27. The two Hopper Barges constructed by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, were completed and taken over in February last.\n\nThese are now employed depositing earth filling in Section No. 3.\n\n28. I attach a statement shewing the expenditure on extraordinary works during the current year to the 30th June and approximately the outstanding liabilities on that date.\n\nHonourable\n\nTH: COLONIAL SECRETARY,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nFRANCIS A. COOPER,\n\nDirector of Public Works",
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        "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]",
        "content_text": "on the Assessment of the property in the \n\nrateable property Colony for the \n\nyear 1893-94. \n\nIt is satisfactory that in spite of \n\nfind that in \n\nFalling off \n\nto \n\na \n\nin the rents \n\nin certain portions of the Colony, the total of the assessment slightly exceeds that for the \n\nyear 1892-93. I have the honour to be, My Lord Marquess, Your Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nWilliams Robing \n\nEnclosure. \n\nHONGKONG. \n\nTHE ASSESSOR'S REPORT ON THE ASSESSMENT FOR 1893-94. \n\nC. O. \n\n14801 \n\nRECR(26) \n\nREC29U093) \n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, on the 17th July, 1893, \n\n370 \n\nASSESSOR'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 19th June, 1893. \n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit my fourth Annual Report, on the Assessment for the year 1893-94. \n\nnew Valuation of the 2. By order of His Excellency the Governor in Council, I have made whole Colony, which comprises the City of Victoria, the Hill District, the Chinese Villages in Hongkong, Kowloon Point, and the Chinese Villages in British Kowloon. \n\n3. The City of Victoria is divided into ten (10) rating districts, and, counting each village, &c. as an unit, there are eighty (80) rating districts, or areas, in the whole Colony. \n\n4. The number of houses reported to be vacant, and inspected under Section 35 of the Rating Ordinance, has been about the same as in the previous year, when I estimated the number of inspections at 3,500. \n\n5. During the period from 1st July, 1892, to 1st June, 1893, Interim Valuations were made as follows:- \n\nIn the City of Victoria. \n\n155 new tenements with a rateable value of \n\n54 improved tenements with a rateable value of replacing existing assessments amounting to \n\nIn the rest of the Colony. \n\n143 tenements with a rateable value of re-placing then current assessments of.. \n\n$46,630 \n\n$67,740 \n\n$51,775 \n\n$56,962 \n\n$27,112 \n\nThe total Interim Assessments for the whole Colony being 352 tenements with a gross rateable value of $171,332 less $78,887, on account of assessments cancelled, leaving an increase of $92,445. \n\n6. The result of the new General Valuation is that the Rateable Value of the Colony as a whole has increased by $6,247 or 0.17 per cent. \n\n7. There is a decrease in the City of Victoria of $21,761 or 0.68 per cent. accounted for firstly by a continuance of the causes affecting the rental value of property, and secondly by certain tenements having been demolished since the last Valuation, and therefore not being rateable, and by property having gone out of rating in previous years, and not yet having been replaced. These properties include the new building for the Chartered Bank adjoining the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, the Offices at the corner of Ice House Street and Queen's Road, the new store near to Messrs. LANE & CRAWFORD'S, 52 houses in course of construction upon the site of the Godowns, Praya West, near the Sailors' Home, and several other tenements in various localities. Nearly all of the properties referred to above will become rateable during the ensuing year, and I estimate the Rateable Value to be at least $40,000. \n\n8. I estimate the gross loss to Rateable Value in Victoria attributable to depreciation in rentals at $129,340 equal to 4.08 per cent. This shows a slight improvement on last year's return when the reduction from this cause was $145,720 or 4.44 per cent. The gain from new and improved property is $107,579, which, deducted from the above mentioned $129,320, leaves a net decrease of $21,761 on the Valuation of the City of Victoria. \n\ncent. \n\n9. The Rateable Value of the Hill District shews a decrease of $6,030 equivalent to 6.46 per cent. 71.31 per cent. of this arises at the Magazine Gap District, where rents generally have fallen considerably. Since the Valuation was completed, I find that, in two or three instances, houses at the \"Peak\" have been let at improved rents, and there are indications of better figures being obtainable in the future. \n\n10. In Kowloon Point there is an increase of $2,190 or 2.18 per cent. Yau-ma-ti and Hung-Hom shew increases of $1,470 (3.46 per cent.) and $929 (1.22 per cent.) respectively, Kowloon Villages, i.e., the whole of the Peninsula excluding Kowloon Point exhibit an increase in Rateable Value of $4,354 or 2.54 per cent. \n\n11. Hongkong Villages have increased in Rateable Value $27,494 equal to 27.75 per cent. $16,822 of this is owing to the extensions at the Tai Koo Sugar Refinery at Quarry Bay. Increases are also seen at Aberdeen and Shau Ki Wan of $3,752 (19.69 per cent.) and $2,404 (20.61 per cent.) respectively. \n\nOut of a total of 68 Villages in the Colony, only 9 have decreased in Rateable Value, the total reduction being $1,135 against an increase of $32,983 in the other 59 Villages.",
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        "content_text": "Extra Police went on duty in the district in which these work. It was found, however, that the coolies of both parties had not turned out as usual for work and the following dispositions were made.\n\nIn addition to the extra Police already placed in the district, a strong body of Police was stationed outside the houses with orders to prevent the coolies from leaving the houses in any numbers. A launch party of Police patrolled off Praya West so as to render assistance at any point along the Praya if necessary.\n\nIn the meantime, Inspectors Stanton and Quincey, with a strong force of detectives, searched all the principal coolie houses and seized a large number of carrying poles, which become formidable weapons in the hands of Chinese, and a revolver with a loaded magazine was found in the possession of one of the Club members.\n\nThe Police kept a sharp lookout for persons carrying arms, and during the day, seven arrests were made for this offence, the arms found being revolvers (some loaded), swords, and fighting irons.\n\nThe Chinese were also interviewed by the Registrar General and promised not to sell arms, a promise they kept as far as I can ascertain.\n\nThe effect of these measures...",
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        "content_text": "149\n\n? \n\nThe principal items, which will probably show a falling off as compared with the receipts for 1896, are as follows:--\n\nLight Dues, $72,000\n\nFines. 22,500\n\nJunk Licences, 4,600\n\nFees of Court,. 2,000\n\nMiscellaneous Receipts, 5,000\n\nSubsidiary Coins, 10,000\n\nLand Sales...... 15,800\n\nin addition to other minor decreases.\n\nThe Government intends to adopt a bold policy in regard to the supply of subsidiary coins, and it is probable that, if the demand for them continues to be as brisk as it is at present, the result may be more gratifying than the estimated revenue from this source would lead me to conjecture. The Government is much indebted to the Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for his assistance and advice in connection with this subject.\n\nAs regards Land Sales, I should not be surprised if, for reasons which I have already stated, instead of falling short of the somewhat exceptional figures for 1896, the revenue from this source for 1898 actually exceeded the receipts for the former year.\n\nThe total Estimated Expenditure, including Public Works Extraordinary, for 1898 amounts to $2,770,706. Of this sum $137,830 is chargeable to the Loan, leaving a balance of $2,632,876 to be defrayed from current revenue. This gives an estimated surplus of revenue over expenditure of $61,992. In estimating the Expenditure the rate of exchange, for the purpose of sterling payments, has been taken at the low value of 1s. 9d.\n\nThe difference between the estimate of expenditure for 1898 and the total sum expended in 1896 is $295,796. Of this increase no less than $270,906 is on account of the more extensive programme for Public Works Extraordinary which it is proposed to carry out in 1898, and which includes several works of pressing importance to the sanitary well-being of the Colony and of a remunerative nature. Some of these are destined for the general benefit and convenience of the community. Amongst the latter I may mention the Improvement of the Recreation Ground at Wongneichong, which will be partly paid for in 1898; the extension of the new road, known as Chamberlain Road, at the Peak: the extension of certain streets in Kowloon; and the proposed new road from Plantation Road to Magazine Gap. This road, whilst improving the means of communication between the Hill Districts, will open up several very desirable building sites for private residences.\n\nYou will, probably, have observed that no provision has been made in the Estimates for the new Victoria Road, Victoria Hospital, and Nursing Institute, which are intended to commemorate the completion of the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign. This loyal community having subscribed $98,000, the Government, in accordance with its promise, proposes to add a like sum. The Finance Committee will therefore be asked to-day to vote that amount. When the vote is passed it will be charged to the revenue for the current year. The Fund will then stand at the handsome total of over $196,000, and it is proposed to draw it to defray the expenditure on those special works that may be incurred during 1898 and following years. It may interest you to know that I have applied for the services of three Sisters who will be at the disposal of the community on fixed terms as soon as they arrive early next year.\n\nHaving explained the greater part of the estimated increase of expenditure for 1898 as compared with that incurred in 1896, it remains to point out the most noticeable increases under other heads, viz. :-\n\nPublic Debt, $48,970\n\nPensions,. 26,950\n\nPost Office,.. 23,500\n\nPublic Works Recurrent, 10,000\n\nSanitary Department...... 13,500\n\nThe increased expenditure on account of Public Debt is partly due to the contribution to the new Sinking Fund, which only commenced in October 1896, and partly to the depreciation of the dollar. An increase for Pensions is only to be expected as the Colony grows older and the number of pensioners increases.\n\nThe increase for Public Works Recurrent is explained by the general extension of works and the consequently increased cost of maintenance. The other increases are accounted for in the foot-notes contained in the Estimates.\n\nThe following substantial decreases, on the other hand, as compared with the expenditure for 1896 should be recorded :---\n\nLegal Departments, $ 6,600\n\nMagistracy, 3,200\n\nPolice and Gaol, 10,100\n\nMiscellaneous Services,............... 66,200\n\nMilitary Expenditure, 20,800\n\nI have now, I think, dealt as fully as time permits with the Estimates for 1898 and any further information that may be desired will be furnished in Finance Committee.\n\nAs regards the financial prospects of the current year, you will observe that the revised Estimate of Revenue only amounts to $2,446,065. The revised Estimate of Expenditure, on the other hand, is put at $2,590,870, giving an estimated excess of Expenditure over Revenue of $144,805. Since the revised Estimate of Revenue was prepared, the financial barometer has risen considerably and the depression, which was likely to affect the items \"Land Sales\" and \"Subsidiary Coins,\" has disappeared. I have now good reason for stating that the revenue from Land Sales is almost certain to double the amount estimated, &c., $200,000 instead of $100,000; whilst if exchange maintains its present higher rate, it is not too much to expect a profit of 4 per cent from subsidiary coins which, on the total consignments ordered for the year, should bring in some $100,000 instead of $65,000 as previously estimated. This disposes of $135,000 of the anticipated excess, and the remaining $9,800 is more than covered by the balance in hand at the end of 1896 (exclusive of Loan monies) amounting to $13,486. An estimated deficit of over $144,000 will thus be converted into a surplus of $3,686. I am hopeful of even a more favourable result. The prospect may, I think, be considered satisfactory especially when it is borne in mind that over $98,000 will have been contributed from current revenue to the Jubilee Fund, and that Public Works have by no means been neglected.\n\nAnd here, Gentlemen, I will briefly review the position of the Colonial Finances. At the time of my arrival the Colony was reaping the inevitable results of over-speculation and labouring under the weight of severe financial depression. The outlook was anything but bright; business was dull, and the revenue suffered accordingly. On the other hand, there were Public Works of pressing importance to be carried on, e.g., the Praya Reclamation, the Central Market, the Extension of the Gaol, and the Water, Drainage, and Sewerage Works. It was evident that the revenue was insufficient to meet the demands made upon it.\n\nHowever, I awaited the financial results of my first year of administration; and those results, Gentlemen, convinced me of the necessity of raising a loan, and if you will refer to my speech to this Council on the 25th January, 1892, you will recollect that I then approached you on the subject with an expression of regret that it should have fallen to my lot to make such a proposal to you in my first address. Further experience of the situation and a study of the financial prospects for 1893 confirmed me in my opinion, and, in laying the Estimates on the 16th November, 1892, I definitely announced to you that a loan had become a necessity. You admitted that necessity, and in 1893 an Inscribed Stock Loan of £200,000 at 33 per cent, was negotiated by the Crown Agents. In the following year, the unredeemed balance of the 1887 Loan, amounting to £140,000, was converted from 4 % Debentures into 33 % Inscribed Stock, and thus brought into conformity with the 1893 Loan,\n\nThe Public Debt of the Colony now stands at £311,790, the figures over and above the sum of £340,000 representing extra stock issued in connection with the expenses of conversion.\n\n-3-",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 86\n\nthe proceedings at a meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 25th instant.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nWilliam Robinson\n\n4084\n28TE 98\n\nExtract from the \"Daily Press\" of the 26th January, 1898.\n\n## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held at the Council Chamber yesterday afternoon. Present:-\n\n* His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, G.C.M.G.\n* His EXCELLENCY Major-General BLACK, C.B. (Officer Commanding the Troops).\n* Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART (Colonial Secretary.)\n* Hon. W. M. GOODMAN (Attorney-General).\n* Hon. R. MURRAY RUMSEY (Harbour Master.)\n* Hon. F. H. MAY, C.M.G. (Captain Superintendent of Police.)\n* Hon. T. SERCOMBE SMITH (Colonial Treasurer).\n* Hon. R. D. ORMSBY (Director of Public Works).\n* Hon. C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.\n* Hon. Ho KAI.\n* Hon. E. R. BELILIOS, C.M.G.\n* Hon. J. J. BELL-IRVING.\n* Hon. WEI A YUK.\n* Mr. J. G. T. BUCKLE (Clerk of Councils).\n\n### MINUTES\n\nThe minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.\n\n### PAPERS\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table the report of the Head Master of Queen's College for 1895, further papers respecting the proposed new Government offices, and the Supreme Court revenue returns for 1897.\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE\n\nThe DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS moved the adoption of the minutes of a meeting of the Public Works Committee held on the 11th January.\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded. Carried.\n\n### HIS EXCELLENCY BIDS THE COUNCIL FAREWELL\n\nHis EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR - Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, my principal object in calling a meeting of Council this afternoon was that I might have an opportunity of announcing to you officially a fact with which you are already acquainted privately, that I am leaving this colony on the 1st of February and that my successor will be Sir Henry Blake. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, to whom I telegraphed a few days ago, is unable to inform me of the exact date upon which my successor will arrive in Hongkong, but I assume that after six or nine years' hard work in Jamaica he will probably apply for several months leave of absence. In the meantime, His Excellency General Black will administer the affairs of this Government, a duty for which he is eminently qualified. (Applause.)\n\nI have to thank you all, gentlemen, for the kindness and consideration which you have extended to me during the past six years and two months - a term of office which, uninterrupted by any leave of absence, I do not think has ever been exceeded by a Governor of any one of Her Majesty's Colonies. To Mr. Chater, the senior unofficial member, my thanks are especially due. From you, gentlemen, I have received valuable advice, and I think I may fairly say on some occasions even unanimous support. I can assure you that I shall always look back with great pleasure upon our meetings here - and if I should ever recall any serious difference of opinion which may have occurred between the executive and the unofficial members of Council I shall not forget that we one and all, according to our own lights, although we differed, were solely animated by a desire to do what we individually thought was best for the interests of this progressive colony. (Applause). Gentlemen, I bid you farewell and may every success attend you in the future, both in your public and private capacities. (Applause).\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER - Your Excellency, we have listened with much interest to the announcement you have just made, which, although not unexpected, when thus officially spoken emphasises its reality. Speaking on my own behalf and, I trust, on behalf of my unofficial colleagues present, I desire to express my sincere appreciation of the able manner in which you have for the past six years presided over this Council - (applause) - and of the unfailing courtesy and forbearance shown by you to all. (Applause.) During your Excellency's administration many important Ordinances have been added to the statute book and many important public works accomplished and others inaugurated. (Applause.) This Council, as well as the Executive Council, has been enlarged, and the colony thereby afforded more voice in the control of its affairs. Your Excellency arrived in this colony at a time of deep depression. You will leave it in a condition of renewed prosperity with everything on a sounder basis; and this has come to pass in spite of some adverse conditions, namely, the continued dullness of trade and two outbreaks of plague. Under your auspices most important sanitary legislation has been carried through, greatly to the benefit of public health, though in the face of a good deal of opposition; and the city now is in a far better position to grapple with epidemics than it has ever been before. (Applause.)\n\nNaturally there has been some friction occasionally and debates at times have been very warm indeed, but your Excellency has held the reins with tact and impartiality, and now in laying them down you have the great satisfaction of knowing that you will leave the colony better in every respect than you found it. (Applause.) I feel only too conscious that I am unable to do justice to the occasion, but I trust that my unofficial colleagues, some of whom will no doubt address you themselves, will supplement my feeble attempt at expressing the general appreciation of your Excellency's successful and popular administration, which has also been the longest since the founding of this colony. And now, Sir, in bidding you ... farewell I have only to say that although we may not meet at this table or in this Council Chamber again, yet we shall cherish with deep and lively recollection the urbanity with which you have always presided over our deliberations. In the best sense of the term I am sure we all join in wishing you, Sir, goodbye. (Applause.)\n\nHon. Ho KAI - Sir, I fully concur with the remarks that have fallen from the lips of the hon. the senior unofficial member. I have been with him in the sentiments he has expressed in regard to your Excellency. For the past six years your Excellency has most successfully presided over this Council and during that long period your consummate tact, your wise discretion, and your unfailing courtesy have promoted good feeling and harmony amongst hon. members and increased the usefulness of their deliberations.\n\nWhether we agreed or disagreed upon a measure or a subject, whether we engaged in heated discussion or pleasant banter, the decorum and dignity of the Council have always been maintained. During the six years of your administration we have passed many useful measures and have revised and improved a great many old Ordinances, but I venture to say that in no instance has any harassing or embarrassing legislation been passed. So far as the public works of the colony are concerned, when your Excellency assumed office there were many useful works in progress and in point of completion, but your Excellency has inaugurated many useful works and when they are completed - such as the Peak roads, the road leading from Plantation Road to Magazine Gap, the new houses that are to be built in Taipingshan, and other new works which your Excellency has caused to be inaugurated - all these, when completed, I say, will ...",
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        "content_text": "## \n7. \n\nof the Police station) but not of Kowloon East, which might still be required for Military purposes.\n\nThe next paper, C.S.O. 661/89, in which the question of a site for an additional powder magazine off the Kowloon Road was settled, is important only because Governor des Voeux in his letter remarked that the surrender of the lower site was not conditional, as apparently assumed by the Military Authorities, and suggested the assembling of a joint military and civil Commission to deal with the question of lands acquired by the military and the consideration to be given for them. So far as I am aware, that Commission met four times, did nothing, and was dissolved.\n\nIn the next paper, C.S.C. 2878/89, the Military Authorities were informed that, on reconsideration, Governor des Voeux preferred to give the upper site for a hospital, subject to satisfactory arrangements for protecting the water supply being made.\n\nPage 300\nPage 301",
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        "content_text": "## Medical Dept.\nChanges in the figures explained by O.A.G. I should like to allow Dr Lowson his Allowance for Chair-Coolies, yes, but as to this ... wrong: Light say allowance: we shall I think should not be magistrating. The government should fix the Salary of the magistrate in the lease. 9 m. Innes's minute on `23713`.\n\nThe proposed increased allowance to the Detective Force is a matter that will be dealt with separately. It amounts to some $1200 a year and is explained by the O.A.G. I should refuse to allow this for the present as it may make a precedent. As to allowing the proposed Ration Allowance to the Indian Police ($1540), similarly, I defer. Here also the allowance may not be so high.\n\nThere is an increase of Staff of Inspectors, and the proposed increase in the Colony. Admittedly, the inscrutable state of affairs necessitates an increased Expenditure of about $11,500. The O.A.G. explains fully, and I think we should approve.\n\n### Special Service\nThe paper `23712` dealing with this matter has been referred to Mr Johnson. I have already minuted to the effect that it should be for the time being \"part rejected\". I hope we shall knock off at least $10,000 of the estimated $14,000.\n\n### Miscellaneous\nAs to the charge & the C.A. of ip.c on freight, we are promised a further Despatch. The question of granting the remittance privilege to the Indian Prison Warders is undecided (`18904` in Circulation), but I understand that a concession will probably be made. The increase for this purpose amounting to $2000 is therefore I.W. Extraordinary.\n\nI say he will hereafter be on the point. As to proposed Chief Inspector of Police, I doubt I can approve. At present, it must remain on the Estimates.\n\nHere there must be very great cuttings down. Perhaps the Governor had better decide their exact nature, but we might suggest the following Komisions for his consideration:\n1. Powder Magazine\n2. Police Station with the proposed general increase of the Salaries of Chinese (this matter is with Mr Lucas)\n3. Wangnaichong Road\n4. The two Public Latrines\n5. The year's Residence at the Peak\n\n`2000-12-97` `6812-1000-6-98`",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nYesterday a meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber at the Government Offices, there being present:\n\nHis EXCELLENCY the **ACTING GOVERNOR**, Major-General BLACK, C. B. (Officer Commanding the Troops).\n\nHon. T. SERCOMBE SMITH (Acting Colonial Secretary).\n\nHon. R. MURRAY RUMSEY (Harbour Master).\n\nHon. F. H. MAY, C.M.G. (Captain Superintendent of Police).\n\nHon. A. M. THOMSON (Acting Colonial Treasurer).\n\nHon. R. D. ORMSBY (Director of Public Works).\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.\n\nHon. Dr. Ho Kai.\n\nHon. E. R. BELILIOS.\n\nHon. J. J. BELL-IRVING.\n\nHon. WE A. YUK.\n\nMr. J. G. T. BUCKLE (Clerk of Councils).\n\nThis being the Acting Governor's last appearance at the Council meeting, a number of ladies and gentlemen belonging to the outside public attended.\n\n## THE ACTING-GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL\n\nHis Excellency MAJOR GENERAL BLACK, before the commencement of the ordinary business, said: -- All business firms, whether large or small, take stock once a year, and call a momentary halt to see how they stand before girding up their loins for the work of the coming year. Governments, which are but large business firms working for the public weal, in the same way review each year their position, and not only put forward their balance sheet but indicate with modest satisfaction schemes which have run smoothly and well, and gloss over those which, however well laid, though they may have gone agley. I take, then, no unusual course in asking you to listen while I briefly touch upon some of the events which have made the ten months I have had the honour to hold the reins more eventful than many like periods of your past history.\n\nAlthough less severe than in 1894, the Plague has this year claimed 1,163 victims out of 1,320 stricken. Wisely abandoning the too stringent application of Western methods, the Government erected suitable hospital buildings at Kennedytown, placed them in charge of the Tungwa Hospital, and induced the Chinese to carry their sick to that benevolent institution. While deeply deploring the loss by this dread visitation, I am glad to congratulate the medical profession, and the other Government officials whose duty connected them with the suppression of the plague, for the strenuous and unselfish efforts with which they carried out their humane duties. Three of the sisters caught the infection at the post of duty, of whom two died, giving up their lives as nobly as men who die on the field amid the din and excitement of battle. (Applause.)\n\nThe outbreak of war between Spain and America --- two countries in friendly relations with England --- threw on this Government the onerous task of maintaining the laws of neutrality. A little island stored with good coal, and all the munitions of war in great abundance lying off a coast indented with harbours, is naturally a convenient spot where belligerents might replenish their stores of coal and food, and it is a source of satisfaction to this Government that, thanks to the energy and tact with which the officials carried out their duties, the laws of neutrality were strictly enforced, and yet the end of the war found us on as friendly terms with either belligerent as at the beginning. The changes that this war may bring may deeply affect this colony, but they still lie in the future and are not yet within our ken.\n\nA social incident not without its bearing on a great national movement was the arrival in Hongkong of a German Prince charged for the first time with high command in Eastern waters. The Prince of Prussia would have found a welcome for his own sake. Courteous, kind, and capable, yet every inch a Prince, he was welcomed by the whole community of Hongkong, and the English inhabitants did not forget in their welcome that he and his wife are grandchildren of our beloved Queen. (Applause.)\n\nHongkong has long felt the anomaly of its position, with the northern side of its magnificent harbour actually belonging to another power, its forts at the eastern entrance commanded at short rifle range by the Devil's Peak, and the end of its mine fields almost touching the Chinese soil, the Bay of Kowloon within the precincts of its harbour but outside its jurisdiction. In June last, a Convention was signed by which our boundary line is pushed some 13 miles to the north, thus sweeping away these anomalies, giving Hongkong room to expand, and more than all presenting the passing into other hands of the roads of Lantau, and the spacious harbour of Mirs Bay. (Applause.)\n\nMuch interest is naturally felt in Hongkong as to the position of the stations of the Maritime Customs. It seems to me only just and necessary that these should recede with the new boundary --- (Applause) --- for it would be an abdication of sovereignty if a foreign power were allowed to exercise control within British waters. At the same time, I recognise that it is right that we should aid the friendly Government of China in her task of protecting her revenue, made so difficult by the indented nature of the coast line, and to this end, I have suggested that opium should be stored in Government Godowns, and only issued on Government permit.\n\nIn legislation, much useful but unobtrusive work has been done. I may instance --- The Trade Marks Ordinance. The Liquor Licences Ordinance. The Bank Note Ordinance. The increased issue of Bank notes has, from causes well known to you all, been long demanded, and the enlarged circulation is proving a great boon.\n\nThe Queen's Recreation Ground Ordinance is the last in which I have taken a great interest, and I have some right to look upon it as a bantling of my own. The recurrence of the plague has forced on every thinking man the need of letting light and air into the blocks of Chinese houses, which, full of human beings in many cases, literally stand back to back in the City of Victoria, containing rooms into which the sun never enters, and where the fetid air has no motion. Doctors and physic, good though they be by themselves, are powerless to cure, while sun and air are a sure preventive; and great as the task may be of bringing these natural agents into this reeking mass of humanity, their admission must be secured by law. A bill is now before you which I admit does not go far enough, but it will at least be the beginning of a great reform.\n\nMany complaints have been made as to the shortcomings of the Post Office; a great deal of the confusion comes from retrenchment having been carried too far, and from the business having outgrown the building. I have submitted recommendations to the Secretary of State which will, I trust, produce great improvement in the department, in whose well-being every individual is concerned.\n\nNearly allied to the Queen's Recreation Ground is the reservation of the rocky bluff on which stands the boulders called Sung Wang Toi or the \"Watch Towers of the Sung\", which, as far as I can gather, is the only historical monument which links modern history with the old-world time. To make its reservation more certain, I applied to the Secretary of State for leave to bring in a bill to this end, and his permission is now on the sea. I regret that I will not have the pleasure of giving assent to it.\n\nA survey has been made of the Jubilee Road round the Island; it has been traced with gradients easy and offers, in the section between Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay, an important sanitary reform, for part of the scheme is to fill up and turf over the festering inlet to which the leading medical men of the colony point as the source of the malaria which has so long marred the health of Aberdeen and the neighbourhood of Magazine Gap.\n\nI have nothing but the good of the community at heart, and I emphatically state that if you believe medical testimony, it...",
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        "content_text": "## 32-\n\nDeep Water Bay. As usual they were left behind, would fire the trains and join very strong in artillery, here, however, his (Tanghorne's) men as they retreated. For once we had the advantage, our 40-pounders on the Tytam Road breastworks had taken their stations on the hills at midnight.\n\nThe enemy pressed to the and hill from Quarry Bay Gap to Poktolum assault with great vigour suffering heavily, was belching forth fire and smoke like so many angry volcanos, still the assault crept upwards, ever closer-nearer. Our vant-our position was practically impregnable. Ourloss by musketry fire from the hills above was comparatively trifling. Soon after 10, however, the enemy managed to get two 9-pounders up the hills, and then the situation changed. In half an hour we lost five and thirty men killed, two Maxims were disabled, and the walls were breached in several places. Our men had made some very pretty practice, and more than one French artilleryman had been knocked over at 900 and 1,000 yards on the crest of the hill. After Smith had signalled in answer to Tanghorne's orders that he had fired the mines, and he and the corporal had been seen to leave the forts, our people left the redoubt with the remaining Maxims in rear covering the retreat.\n\nThe forts blew up with tremendous explosions, breaking the chains and sinking some of the ships that had barred the pass. Smith and Brackenbury fired Shaukiwan as they came through to join Tanghorne, who also burnt Quarry Bay as he fought his way back, losing heavily. Tanghorne, with one Maxim, made his last stand at Tsatszemui Police Station, where they were finally all slain. Previous to this, however, he had sent Marshall and half-a-dozen men ahead to fire the Langkat oil depot at Whitfield.\n\nFurney had withdrawn his men East, and mined the galleries and arranged with Tanghorne that if the redoubt had to be evacuated, Sergt. Smith and Corporal Brackenbury, whom he had put in command, would fire the Magazine in a few minutes, after which they continued firing at the North Point Road whenever bodies of the enemy appeared, materially retarding the final storming of Tsatszemui Station.\n\n## 33 -\n\nIt becomes impossible to give any connected account of the battle or series of separate combats. Yardhill held his own bravely till he was killed shortly after noon—his position being by that time completely surrounded, every ridge and spur the enemy swarmed with, it must be admitted, the most reckless gallantry. The attack from below was successful, as it so often is when the assailants are prepared for an unlimited expenditure of life to attain their object, despair. There was no attempt made by the enemy to descend to the town, they realized that the stubborn foe on the heights had to be exterminated.\n\nThe enemy next crossed the line having been broken between Quarry Bay Gap and at Middle Gap. Up the hills in the saddle behind High West, and circled down in rear of Rordon's position—not, however, without heavy loss from the fire of Belcher's and Victoria Batteries. Soon every point of the hills was circled with fire, where our men were dying, fighting hopelessly but unflinchingly with the sullen ferocity of ... and we claimed the sacrifice to the uttermost tittle and fraction. General Morblon waxed very rueful afterwards when he saw the gaps in the European garrison of Indo China,--there were more gaps than garrison, and he had only gotten in exchange a mountain deluged with blood and a blazing town.\n\nThe attack crept up by more weight of numbers; where one of the enemy dropped, hydra-headed a score sprang up; where one of ours fell (some husband, father or brother who forty-eight hours before had been at a desk) there was none to fill the breach. What we lacked in numbers we made up in desperation and sullen fury.\n\nSome curious instances of the Berserk fury, or running amok as they call it in the Straits, occurred. Quiet, kindly men suddenly appeared to go mad, or were tired of waiting for death, jumped the parapets and dashed in amongst the men, roaring (possibly some old ancestor who had taken possession of them shouting his battle cry), escaping a heavy fire, and were not cut down till after doing great execution.\n\nThe men continued firing on any bodies of the enemy that were visible descending to the town. The coal and kerosine godowns at the eastern end of the town were blazing, as were also the Godowns at West Point. About 5 p.m. the men-of-war came through Lyeemoon, but were met off North Point by such a fire from the Stonecutters batteries that they were glad to retreat—the Descartes having to be beached in Shaukiwan to prevent her sinking in deep water. By sunset the blazing town was in the hands of the enemy, about 11 General White had been taken down mortally wounded and the supreme command had devolved on Yardhill. Although firing was still going on here and there on the hills, yet was the colony not...",
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        "content_text": "## CORRESPONDENCE, 'THE BACK DOOR.'-A CRITICISM.\n\nTo the Editor of the 'CHINA MAIL.'\n\nHongkong, October 8.\n\n...quite lost; Britain's flag still flew over part of the island, that the last of the defenders, certainly amazingly few, was slain and the Union Jack torn down. Poor Blobs, if spooks revisit this world, he should haunt the isle he guarded so well and loved so dearly in life.\n\nIt is now time to tell you... General Renard was unable to communicate with General Morbleu till after dark and then had to report that he had barely 700 men fit for duty, and that they were in such an exhausted condition without reinforcement, he could not essay the reduction of Stonecutters. Morbleu's men were, if anything, in worse plight, and Huzzard took good care to rouse them at intervals during the night with a shell or two over the town.\n\nAbout 3 a.m. Renard sent over some small parties of men, who, landing at the eastern end of the island, got into the Civil Magazine, where were stored nearly 150 tons of dynamite and about 200,000 lbs of powder (it was a great oversight that at the first alarm this mass of explosives had not been taken out into the harbour and sunk), laid trains, lit the matches and retired to the Peninsula again. About 4.15 a.m. the Magazine blew up with a fearful explosion and shock like an earthquake, bringing down houses and walls in Victoria, and tumbling down the ruins in Kowloon.\n\nThe effects were calamitous on the Stonecutters Forts: it literally dismantled them; all the guns were thrown over, the front of Stonecutters East opened and fell forward into the sea, yawning chasms appeared in Stonecutters West. Rookshank and many of his men were buried in the ruins of the Eastern fort. Huzzard collected all the survivors in the West fort and did what was possible to barricade the breaches, &c. One quick-firer was got into serviceable order, and then they had done all they could do. At sunrise the French came over, at first very cautiously, but finding no resistance, with greater boldness, till past the butts. Renard had landed 500 men, but it was not till past 8, and until reinforcements from Hongkong had landed on the southern shore.\n\nSIR, Your 'Back Door' contributor is just a wee bit too previous. The Bear has not got Hongkong yet, though the object of the little story is plain to be seen, and who will say that the writer's motives are not patriotic. Not fault with individuals, but with the system.\n\nWe know that our soldiers, officers and men, will do all that men can do and may be trusted to die at their posts; but why should they have to die, when a little forethought and preparation would render it unnecessary for them to make this sacrifice?\n\nWhat are the facts? Civilians possessed of ordinary common-sense and reasoning, though not necessarily experts in fortifications and warfare, believe, not without some apparent reasons, that this Island is inadequately defended on the South side; and that under modern conditions we are liable to be 'rushed,' say at the present moment with only the Undaunted (under repair) and the Amber and the obsolete Harbour craft available, not counting torpedo boats, which are fast becoming obsolete, too.\n\nOf course, we know the hundred and one reasons that would be given to prove such a thing impossible, but it is always the unexpected that happens, and knowing the recently expressed sentiments of some of our friends, would it not be worth while to be prepared for any eventuality?\n\nSo far as can be learned, the sum of their labours are represented by a coat of black paint on several buoys in the Harbour, presumably to frighten the enemy and make him imagine Mines. None of the naval members ever fulfilled the purpose for which they were intended, so far as the public are concerned.\n\nNow we have to pay 17 per cent Military Contribution, besides extras. Many of us have all we possess invested in this Island, and will have to live and die here, and naturally we want to feel reasonably sure that our defences are being looked after. If there is any doubt on this point, let the Authorities take us into their confidence and demonstrate the fact to a representative committee, and if it is money they want, they can surely trust to our patriotism and to our sense of self-interest to make any required sacrifice, the only necessity being that they must convince our reason.\n\nSurely this is better than trusting to luck and passing on responsibility. The weak point appears to be that if we were attacked in the foggy season, guns on the heights would be no use, in a dark night, to keep hostile craft at a distance in the absence of the fleet as at present. Now, if the points of each small bay on our south shores were provided with a couple of Maxims and a quick-firer in the nearly absolute shelter of the points of land where galleries could be excavated for them, and for a powerful search light, no boats capable of landing troops could possibly escape detection or annihilation.\n\nThe number of men required at each bay would not exceed say ten in peace time, and a buried telegraph cable would enable information to be sent to Headquarters for re-inforcements on the first appearance of an enemy, and here the Jubilee Road would come in.\n\nNow the expense of this first instalment of defence would not be very great. I believe we have some Maxims in store, and the services of the convicts could be utilized to make the shelters, shelters that could not be easily burst or reached by any vessel short of an ironclad, and this in the offing, but those holding them could sink anything. I believe there are numerous sites for guns pre-empted by the War Authorities on the South side, but so far there is not a gun near them, and we know how long it takes to get a heavy gun into position when there is extra pay per hour for the men on the job.\n\nAnd what has become of the famous Defence Committee of which so much was expected? Hongkong is our most distant link in the chain of strongholds. Now, is it worth or is it not worth our while to defend it to the last? If it is not worth our while, why all the money spent and to be expended on projects, etc., etc. We must conclude that the authorities consider it a vital point! If so, why this blind trusting to luck and a defenceless south shore?",
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        "content_text": "## THE DEFENCE OF HONGKONG\n\nAs to the North side, hopes are entertained that Sir Claude Macdonald may be able to settle that matter for us, but we should be prepared to settle it ourselves on short notice if the pinch came. Every one is so afraid to take responsibility now-a-days, and the Chinese parrot cry of \"No belong my pidgin'\" is always forthcoming, that we should be prepared with a scheme of defence with our own resources in the absence of the fleet? The public would feel much easier if they knew such was the case, and that every man knew his post and duty faithfully, beforehand. Every point should be thought out, and prepared for, and an intelligence department formed, and instructions prepared for Gap Rock and outlying points. Heliograph stations fixed, and a patrol service of torpedo craft ranged, so that it could be sent out to watch in the event of complications arising likely to result in war; a pre-arranged signal from sea-ward of the approach of suspicious craft would be of incalculable advantage in giving us time to muster for defence.\n\nFREE LANCE.\n\n### THE DEFENCE OF HONGKONG (China Mail, Oct. 12.)\n\nThe series of articles which has appeared in these columns, under the rather curious heading of \"The Back Door,\" has doubtless caused much talk and controversy. It is possible that the articles may have caused some amusement, notwithstanding their realistic character. A certain amount of amusement may have been caused by the fanciful movements of the attackers and defenders, it is to be hoped that something more important than the mere pleasures of imagination will result from the sketch referred to.\n\nA competent critic puts the matter in this way :-\n\n\"Your attractive literary skit entitled 'The Back Door' may open our eyes as well as arouse our thinking powers (and, of course, afford us a topic of conversation); for, conjectural as most of it is, and impossible as many will say more than one incident related must be, it should be remembered that a declaration of war has not invariably preceded hostilities even amongst the most civilised powers. Witness the attack on the Turkish fleet at Sinope, and the so-called reprisals at Foochow in the Franco-Chinese War. The bombardment of Alexandria has been quoted conversationally as a similar illustration, although it does not seem equally applicable. And the Jameson Raid has also been mentioned; but neither appear to be analogous. One was to check an insurrection, and the other (since disowned by the Imperial Government) was something between a demonstration and a premature blunder. Anyhow, to return to our local application of the imaginary defence and final destruction of Hongkong, one can realise, without being behind the scenes, that the Harbour Defence vessels are antiquated, and that the small expense required to mobilise 'suddenly' more than once a year would be money well vested.\n\n\"Another point which is exercising the minds of property-holders is, can the Colony be shelled from seaward or from Mirs Bay? It is generally believed that no hostile craft can get into the harbour, or if once in that she could survive for any time. Another point, what about our magazine? and what facilities exist for the transport of ammunition to the various points which will be necessary?\n\n\"It seems to me that these are points on which our unofficial members might well be exercised. Is it not worth while protecting the shore ends of the telegraph cables, or are we so certain we can at once repair any damage close in shore, that such protection is unnecessary? The cost of carrying out these suggestions cannot be so great as to exclude them from practical politics, and their completion cannot but add to our security.\"\n\nThus far our Critic; and we do not doubt that most of the thinking residents of the Colony will be prepared to go with him thus far. We have also to commend 'Free Lance' for his sensible commentary upon the whole of the situation. Indeed, most men of common-sense realise that something is wanting in our defence arrangements. We are all ready enough to die for 'home and country', if necessary; but the question is now where lies the necessity? It is over the 'system', or rather want of system, which is our weakness,--never our readiness to defend ourselves. Continuity is needed, here, as in everything else in out-of-the-way Colonies. One General, or Engineer Commanding, requires one thing; and he spends money, and stays say three years. Another succeeds, and the pack is shuffled again, and a new game begins. Such (as the saying is) is life in the Far East. So far as we can comprehend the lessons conveyed in the awfully realistic sketch of the noble defence and final destruction of Hongkong (as described in \"The Back Door\"), they are these:—\n\n| Point | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1.) | A proper look-out and patrol of the South side of the Island. |\n| (2.) | Efficient protection of telegraphic cables. |\n| (3.) | Proper official Consuls for Saigon and Vladivostock. |\n\nWe ought to know that the ammunition, food, coal, etc., as well as the men to man all the harbour defence vessels, are at any moment ready for the whole of these vessels to be under weigh as soon as ever steam can be got up. 'It is no secret that the Infantry in the Colony is insufficient for the defence of the frontiers,--that, even with the aid of the guns of the forts, at least one Battalion should be available for the frontier on the mainland; and as the Colony already complains of the Military burden, something should be done in the meantime. Blockhouses, or something more than temporary shelter trenches, should be prepared in the positions commanding the likeliest landing places for a hostile force, to enable the infantry at our disposal to meet the foe with the advantage such fortifications afford. Would it be a waste of money to prepare shelter for the field-guns available, or to know exactly the spots the batteries must occupy to resist a landing at any named point, without running the risk of annihilation from the heavy guns of an enemy's ships the moment they open fire, and to have the passage to such spots kept clear of all obstructions?\n\nIs it not remarkable that Great Britain maintains no Consul in French Indo-China, or at Vladivostock? Are our interests in these places less than those of any of the Foreign Powers who maintain Consuls of their own race in Hongkong? Again, is it not worth while protecting the shore ends of the telegraph cables... \n\n- 36 -- \n- 37 --",
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        "content_text": "560\n\n*in the section between Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay an important sanitary reform, for part of the scheme is to fill up and turf over the festering inlet to which the leading medical men of the Colony point as the source of Malaria which has so long marred the health of Aberdeen and the neighbourhood of Magazine Gap. I have nothing but the good of the community at heart, and I emphatically state that if you believe medical testimony it is your duty to decree that this section be the first taken in hand\"\n\n3. It seems to me that Government having voted a moiety of the whole fund, are more deeply interested in the matter than any individual subscriber and are therefore in a position to request the Chairman of the officially appointed Committee to call a meeting to reconsider the resolution which it is, at present binds the hands of the Committee to a course of action entirely opposed to the wishes of the majority of the subscribers. I venture to suggest this course as a means of ascertaining the views of those concerned.\n\n4. I also think it would be desirable while His Excellency Major-General Black remains with us, to have the question of the construction of a road round Mount Davis discussed from a military point of view.\n\n5. The best season for road-construction work is the present, labour is abundant and it seems a pity that money\n\n#",
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        "content_text": "Public Works Office, \n\nHongkong, 11th October, 1898. \n\nSir,\n\nThe construction of the proposed carriage road round the island of Hongkong is a matter in which the whole public without exception naturally take a very great interest, especially those who subscribed towards the Jubilee Memorial of Her Majesty's Reign.\n\n2. Being intimately acquainted with the matter in all its bearings, I have obtained the permission of Government to address you, and through you the public, including I should hope all or nearly all of the subscribers.\n\n3. The necessity for this arises from the fact that owing to what I may term an unfortunate resolution passed at a meeting of the Jubilee Committee on April 26th, 1897, and subsequent to which subscriptions towards the proposed memorials were received, the Committee feel bound to a course of action which seems most undesirable in the interests of all concerned, as I hope to be able presently to demonstrate.\n\n4. That resolution was as follows :- \"That the money so collected together with an equal amount promised by the Colonial Government be deposited at interest in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in the name of the Jubilee Committee, and be disbursed by them after paying for the local celebrations - one half towards the erection of the Hospital for Women and Children, and the training of nurses, and the other half towards the construction of the first section of the carriage road from Kennedytown to Aberdeen, which the Government undertakes to commence forthwith and to carry on the remaining portion of the road until completed.\"\n\n5. I emphasize the portion of the resolution which I term unfortunate in view of further experience and the present aspect of the question.\n\n6. I understand that legal opinion has been taken and that it is considered, as matters now stand, that work can only be commenced on the section of road between Kennedytown and Aberdeen and that until that section is completed nothing can be done towards constructing a carriage road between Aberdeen, Stanley, and Shaukiwan. But, at the same time, I believe it is admitted that a general meeting of subscribers can, if so disposed, or if it is the wish of the majority, rescind the latter portion of the above resolution, and leave it open to the Jubilee Committee, at whose disposal it must be understood the money now lies, to sanction commencement of the work elsewhere.\n\n7. Bearing in mind that what was desired as a carriage road round the island, the existing road from the city by Pokfulam to Aberdeen should not be ignored. The rise from Queen's Road level to Vaine Road or Bonham Road is necessarily steep, but the distance is short and the hill is by no means impracticable; from this to some distance beyond Douglas Castle the gradients are easy; then a short steep hill occurs, but one that can easily and at no great expense be improved; so that even now we have a fairly good carriage road six miles in length from the city to some distance beyond the Paper Mills at Aberdeen. By beginning at Shaukiwan or Aberdeen, or at both, the desired end would be much more rapidly attained than in any other way, and then would come the time to consider whether a level road round Mount Davis was worth the expense.\n\n8. A carriage road has been traced round the island, at such gradients as will meet with the approval of drivers, riders, and cyclists, an estimate has been framed and plans drawn, and it only remains to call for tenders and enter into contracts to ensure the work of construction being actively pushed on.\n\n9. The total length between Shaukiwan and Kennedytown is a little over 18 miles, which for convenience of working has been divided into three sections, namely, Shaukiwan to Stanley 7 miles, Stanley to Aberdeen 8 miles, Aberdeen to Kennedytown 5½ miles. The estimated cost of these sections respectively is $114,170.20, $95,406.00, and $145,612.80; total for the whole road $355,189.00, or an average of $19,199 per mile.\n\n10. The shortest section is much more difficult than either of the others; it passes along the precipitous rock-bound coast at the base of Mount Davis, involving an enormous amount of rock blasting and building, which is clearly indicated by the difference in estimated cost. Thus the average cost per mile from Shaukiwan to Stanley is $16,310, from Stanley to Aberdeen $11,901 (corrected from $15,901), and from Aberdeen to Kennedytown $26,475.\n\n11. The money now lying in the bank towards the construction of the road is about $92,000. This would suffice to make four miles from Shaukiwan towards Stanley, or nearly to Tytam Tuk, and two miles from Aberdeen towards Stanley to Deep-water Bay, the latter two miles including the reclamation of the Aberdeen tidal flat of evil repute, the bug-bear of Magazine Gap; or it would make the whole of No. 2 Section from Aberdeen to Stanley.\n\n12. The six miles I indicate first would provide a nearly level carriage road from Aberdeen to Deep-water Bay golf links, doing away with the steep circuitous existing bridle path by Little Hongkong, and at the other end would provide a carriage road of easy gradients from Shaukiwan to Tytam Tuk, thus avoiding some of the steepest and worst parts of the existing path round the island.\n\n13. In fact if, owing to lack of funds, nothing more was done for years, the circuit round the island would be enormously improved. The driver of carriages would have a good road from Victoria viâ Pokfulam and Aberdeen about 8 miles in length to Deep-water Bay golf links, and on the other side an equally good road from Victoria to Tytam Tuk, the centre of probably the most beautiful part of the colony, 14½ miles in length, while to the average cyclist the circuit of the whole island would be an easy matter, as the only portion of the old road to be negotiated would be that from Deep-water Bay to Tytam Tuk, quite half of which is easy going.\n\n14. I repeat that if the latter part of the above quoted resolution is rescinded, and the Committee give the Government a free hand, the money now in the bank will suffice to substitute for six of the worst and most difficult miles of the existing path, six miles of smooth well-graded carriage road 18 feet in width.\n\n15. Now to look at the other side, The money in the bank will pay for the making of about 3 miles from Kennedytown towards Aberdeen, say to form a junction between the large Plague Cemetery and the Sandy Bay Plague Cemetery, useful I will admit should there unfortunately be again necessity to enlarge and extend these burial grounds, but scarcely the drive that ladies and children or jaded city workers would select, bearing in mind that it is exposed to the full glare of the afternoon and evening sun and that it would lead nowhere but would have to be retraced in returning.\n\n16. Years would probably elapse before the $53,000 odd still necessary to complete this one section to Aberdeen could be spared from general revenue, and I may safely predict that none of the present generation would see the sections from Aberdeen to Stanley and Stanley to Shaukiwan opened to traffic.\n\n17. Whether it would be wise to render 5 miles of rock-bound coast, defended now by nature from the landing of enemies, more accessible to a possible foe, is a question for military experts; common sense seems to point to leaving it alone.\n\n18. I therefore, sir, would urge through your columns the calling together of a public meeting and a fresh expression of opinion on the part of the majority of the subscribers as to the disposal of the fund.\n\n- I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant,\n\nR. D. O'Brien,\n\nDirector of Public Works\n\nPage 584",
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        "content_text": "# The Malarial Mosquito in Hongkong\n\nFROM THE 44 CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nThe accompanying notes concerning the existence of the Malarial mosquito in Hongkong were read by Mr. C. V. Ladds at a meeting of the South China Branch of the British Medical Association on Monday evening :-\n\nIn a Circular Despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated December 6th, 1898, His Excellency the Governor was requested to forward to the Colonial Office a collection of mosquitos from the colony with a view to investigating the possible connection of Malaria with this genus of insect. Two collections were forwarded as requested upon August 18th and November 24th respectively, and none of the species Anopheles having been included in these collections it was thought at that time that they did not exist in Hongkong. Having always taken a great interest in the Malaria question, and not being satisfied with the result obtained during the above investigation, I determined to take up the subject privately, and commenced work in December, 1899.\n\nAfter going thoroughly into the matter, and after having cultivated the larva of many varieties of mosquito, I at length found that the Anopheles undoubtedly did exist in the colony and was to be found in most of its known malarial districts. I first discovered them close by a Government Bungalow at Kennedy Town. The different occupants of this house having been subject to repeated attacks of fever ever since its erection in 1895, I determined to make this place my starting point, and after a very careful examination, I found a small pool swarming with Anopheles larvæ within fifty yards of the building.\n\nExtending my search I found the same species near the Kennedy Town Fever Hospital, at Magazine Gap, at Wong-nei-cheong village, near a house on Bonham Road, at Quarry Bay, close by the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, all round the camp of the Welch Fusilier detachment at Kowloon, and in many other places.\n\nThis being sufficient evidence of their existence over a considerable area of the colony, and having now no doubt that they were to be found in all the malarial districts, I next proceeded to examine the particular kind of pool which the Anopheles appeared to select as most suitable for the propagation of its species.\n\nA small shallow pool containing algae, or green flocculent water-weed, and fungoid growths, abounding in all kinds of aquatic insect life, and which is not quite stagnant (or if stagnant at the time of discovery is not likely long to remain so, but is renewed occasionally by small flushes of rain water), appears to be their favourite habitat.\n\nIn early every instance I found them only in such pools, which were in most cases fed by minute streams issuing from small springs in the hill side, and those not being of sufficient volume to carve out a channel of their own, just spread themselves over the surrounding lower ground, and so help to form and feed the typical Anopheles pool.\n\nThey do not seem to inhabit pools which are entirely stagnant (or likely to remain so long) or which contain no water weed; and appear to be particularly careful in their selection, as, although there may be dozens of pools in the locality, only a few of them may contain Anopheles.\n\nHaving repeatedly found the mosquito hovering round a pool which contained the same species of larva, it is probable that the adult insect returns to its original home to deposit its eggs, and this theory may, if correct, account in a measure for their not being found scattered indiscriminately about everywhere. After once seeing the particular kind of pool which these mosquitos affect it is easily recognized, but it is not quite so easy to describe it correctly; yet I trust that I have given a fair general idea of what to look for.\n\nREG 16 AUG 371\n\nI find by experimenting that the Anopheles larvæ appear to feed upon the algae or water weed which is found in their particular pools, and also possibly upon some of the animalcula which they contain. This I proved by placing some larvæ in clear tap water and others in water taken from an Anopheles pool which contained water weed; those in the former dying quickly, while those in the latter hatched out in due course. I should not say that the larval stage of the insect is a long one, probably about a week to ten days, this depending a good deal upon the nature of the pool; after which time they emerge therefrom as adult mosquitos. The life of the mosquito itself probably extends over a period of several weeks, perhaps longer.\n\nI have so far not succeeded in finding the Anopheles larvæ in any of the healthy districts of the colony, or far distant from human habitations, nor have I yet found them in rice fields, in large pools of water, in rapidly running streams, in pools with sandy bottoms, in wells, old broken pottery, tubs, pans, etc., as in the case of Culex, which may be found in almost anything which contains water.\n\nIn contradistinction to the Anopheles, water weed does not seem to be necessary to the existence of the Culex larvæ, they being often found in pools, etc., from which it is entirely absent. A further distinction between the two species being that the former appears to be much more delicate than the latter. It is not necessary here to describe the Anopheles larva or mosquito, they being so entirely different from the other species as to be easily recognised after having been once seen. Having satisfied myself as to the existence of the Anopheles in the colony, and having given a brief description of its habitat, etc., I will now pass on to the possibilities of its extirpation from the island. With this object in view, I have been testing the effects of various insecticides. I found that kerosene used as described by the African Commission was very effective in still pools, or in those which were temporarily stagnant; gas tar also proved to be very useful, but in my opinion Jeyes' Fluid is the best of those which I have tried up to the present.\n\nSo far as my experiments have gone, I find that one part of Jeyes' Fluid to 10,000 of water kills both Anopheles and Culex larvæ in a few hours, very much weaker solutions destroying them after a longer interval.\n\nPermanganate of potash appears to be of very little use. In a solution of 1 to 1,200 of water, equal to one in five of Condy's Fluid, the larvæ lived for twenty-four hours, and were as lively as ever at the end of that time, while in a solution of 1 to 500, equal to nearly one in two of Condy's Fluid, they lived for four hours without there being any appreciable effect upon them, and even after twenty-four hours more than half of them were alive.\n\nHence by treating all Anopheles resorts frequently with Jeyes' Fluid, kerosene, or gas tar, during the whole of the dry season, when such pools are comparatively scarce, and by paying particular attention to surface drainage in malarial districts, much might be done toward effecting their partial, if not total, extermination.\n\nIn conclusion, I think I may safely say that by working upon these lines, and given the services of half-a-dozen intelligent coolies, some one to look after them, and the necessary supplies of the above-mentioned chemicals, in a very short time it would be possible to cause the Anopheles to become so scarce in Hongkong that should they prove to be the only source of infection by malaria, cases of malarial fever would soon be as rare as cholera, and the finding of the Anopheles larvæ in any part of the island as difficult a matter as looking for the proverbial needle in a truss of hay.",
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        "content_text": "of Translation.\n\nSir,\n\nActing Viceroy to Mr. Scott.\n\nKOMSTE KLIA BATT\n\n213\n\nCanton, 23rd November, 1900.\n\n後樓房街\n\n史經如 楊衢雲\n\n宋少東\n\nI have received a Report from the Heads of the Kwang Tung Chief Police Office and the Military Bureau to the following effect.\n\nWith reference to the startling dynamite explosion resulting in the death by crushing of several persons which occurred at dawn on 28th November in a house in the Hou Lou Fong Street, we have the honour to state that subsequently the capture of a rebel named Shih Ching Ju was effected. This man admitted on examination that, incited by the principal criminal Yang Chu Yun to collect a band of men and plot evil deeds, he had joined with one Sung Shao Tung in a conspiracy to blow up the Governor's Yamen and seize the opportunity to commence operations. They concealed a quantity of dynamite in a house in the Hou Lou Fong Street, the explosion of which killed several people. The scheme was also to blow up the Tartar-General's Yamen, Treasurer's Yamen, and the Kuan Yin Hill Powder Magazine inside the City Wall, and the Arsenal, but it was not accomplished. Yang Chu Yun had appointed prisoner Chief Leader and Director for Canton City and directed him to superintend the transmission of funds. Prisoner also said that they had for name and sign \"The Guild of China's Exaltation\".\n\nShih Ching Ju was executed, sanction having been duly obtained, and the members of the confederacy disclosed by the evidence are being rigorously hunted down. Detective now reports the discovery that the arch-criminal Yang Chu Yun is now concealing himself in Hongkong, and again collecting confederates with a view to making trouble.\n\nWe would point out that this arch-rebel Yang Chu Yun, having started what he calls the 'Guild of China's Exaltation', actually had the daring to plot explosions in the Yamens, hoping for an opportunity to commence operations, and that, if the plot...",
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        "content_text": "503\n\nin a conspiracy to blow up the Governor's Yamen and\n\nseize the opportunity to commence operations. They\n\nconcealed a quantity of dynamite in a house in the\n\nHou Lou Fang street, the explosion of which killed\n\nseveral people. The scheme was also to blow up the\n\nTartar General's Yamen, Treasurer's Yamen, and the\n\nKwan Yin Hill Powder Magazine inside the city wall,\n\nand the Arsenal, but it was not accomplished. Yeung\n\nChu Yun had appointed prisoner chief leader and\n\ndirector for Canton City and directed him to superintend\n\nthe transmission of funds. Prisoner also said\n\nthat they had for name and sign \"The Guild of China's\n\nExaltation\".\n\nShih Ching Ju was executed, sanction having been\n\nduly obtained, and the members of the confederacy\n\ndisclosed by the evidence are being rigorously\n\nhunted down.\n\nA detective now reports the discovery that the arch\n\ncriminal Yang Chu Yun is now concealing himself in\n\nHong Kong and again collecting confederates with a\n\nview to making trouble.\n\nWe would point out that this arch rebel Yang Chu Yun,\n\nhaving started what he calls the \"Guild of China's\n\nExaltation\", actually had the daring to plot explosions\n\nin the Yamens, hoping for an opportunity to commence\n\noperations, and that if the plot had succeeded, the\n\nCapital of the Province would have been thrown into\n\nunimaginable disorder, which would have most seriously\n\naffected the commerce in which foreigners are concerned.\n\nThus he is guilty of great and abominable crime;\n\nand as the detective has discovered that this man is\n\nconcealed in Hong Kong, it is of immediate necessity\n\nthat he be arrested and dealt with so that the\n\nprincipal in the crime may be punished.\n\nBut Hong Kong is foreign territory and it is not",
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        "content_text": "$40,000.\n\n362\n\nWestern Market\n\nMarket at Kowloon Point\n\n35,000.\n\nTemporary Markets\n\n3,000.\n\nExtension of Wantsai Market\n\nmaking, in all,\n\n4,000. $82,000.\n\n:\n\nThe question of Market accommodation was referred to the Public Works Committee which unanimously agreed to recommend that a Supplementary Vote should be taken at once to enable the works to be undertaken forthwith. As these works were of pressing emergency, Votes were brought before Council in accordance with the recommendation of the Public Works Committee, so that the much wanted Market accommodation might be provided without unnecessary delay. A sum of $5,000 was voted by the Legislative Council so as to enable the Director of Public Works to proceed at once with the preparation of the site for the Market at Kowloon Point: a sum of $12,000 was voted towards meeting the cost of the erection of two temporary Markets, one opposite the Sailors' Home and one adjoining the new Harbour Office: and a sum of $3,000 was voted towards the cost of extending the Wantsai Market. This improved Market accommodation which is necessary on Sanitary grounds will also prove a source of increased revenue.\n\nA new Slaughter House is to be built at Shaukiwan on which a sum of $8,000 will be expended, and a disinfecting station is to be established at Kowloon at a cost of $8,000 whilst the Plague Hospital at Kennedy Town is to be extended on which a sum of $15,000 will be spent during 1902.\n\nApplication has been made to the Secretary of State for the services of a Bacteriologist (See Governor's Despatch No. 40 of 5th February 1901: Colonial Office Despatch No. 130 of the 19th April, 1901: Governor's Despatch No. 221 of the 19th June, 1901), and it is hoped he may arrive during the forthcoming year. No provision has been made in the Estimates for this Officer as it is not known what salary he will require. But a sum of $10,000 has been inserted in the Estimates towards the cost of a Bacteriological Institute which it is hoped may be commenced as soon as the Bacteriologist does arrive.\n\nThe importance of road making has also received attention. The Taipo Road 16 miles in length will be completed early next year, thus enabling traffic by road all the way between Kowloon Point and Taipo. The Conduit Road will be widened at a cost of $8,000 and a new road will be commenced between Sham Shui-po and Lai Chi Kok. A new road will also be made above Bowen Road, joining Magazine Gap and the Peak Roads.\n\nA commencement will be made with the new Clock Tower on which it is estimated a sum of $25,000 will be spent during the year.\n\nIn view of the importance of retaining open\n\n4.",
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        "content_text": "Public Works Extraordinary.\n\nStatement showing sums voted up to 12th June 1902.\n\nService No. 7 to Despatch No. 254 of the 14th June 1902.\n\n  \n    Service\n    Estimate\n    Amount Revoked of Supplementary Estimate\n    Total with Savings Deducted\n    Unexpended Balances\n  \n  \n    1. New Law Courts\n    50,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2. Governor's Peak Residence\n    40,000\n    \n    57,432.20\n    \n  \n  \n    3. No. 7 Police Station\n    17,432.20\n    \n    17,787.80\n    \n  \n  \n    4. Public Latrines\n    10,000\n    \n    \n    4,666.68\n  \n  \n    5. Trinits\n    7\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6. Praya Reclamation\n    119,780\n    5,787.51\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    S. Tai-po Road - 4 miles in Length\n    12,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Governor's Piers\n    10,000\n    \n    10,357.14\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    8. Western Market\n    50,000\n    \n    \n    30,351.14\n  \n  \n    9.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10. Harbour Master's Office\n    15,000\n    \n    25,000\n    \n  \n  \n    11. Survey of New Territory\n    25,000\n    \n    35,000\n    \n  \n  \n    12. Additional Reservoirs Tai-tan, Drainage Area\n    10,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13. City of Victoria and Hill District Waterworks\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14. Quarantine and Segregation Camp\n    50,000\n    \n    60,000\n    \n  \n  \n    1. Praya East Reclamation\n    60,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15. Volunteer Head Quarters\n    26,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18. Police Station, Sheung Shui\n    10,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15. Kowloon Waterworks Gravitation Scheme Site 1\n    60,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    10,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    30,000\n    \n    \n    $2,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    126,156\n    9,261.56\n  \n  \n    19. Tai O\n    8,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    20. Improvements in Lighting Approaches to Harbour\n    7,922\n    \n    15,922\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7,000\n    \n    \n    6,000\n  \n  \n    \n    13,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    21. Market at Kowloon Point\n    17,000\n    \n    18,000\n    \n  \n  \n    2. Two Temporary Markets, one opposite Sailors' Home and one adjoining new Harbour Office\n    3,000\n    \n    12,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    5,000\n    \n    10,000\n    \n  \n  \n    28. Extension of Wan Chai Market\n    4,000\n    \n    3,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,000\n    \n    5,000\n    \n  \n  \n    24. Slaughter House at Shaukiwan\n    8,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    23. Disinfecting Station in Kowloon\n    5,000\n    \n    3,000\n    \n  \n  \n    26. Quarters for Inspector\n    4,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    27. New Shed, &c, at the City Disinfecting Station\n    8,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    28. Clock Tower\n    25,000\n    \n    18,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    12,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    29. Bacteriological Institute\n    10,000\n    \n    30,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    5,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    30. Extension of Central Police Station by adding another Storey\n    15,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    31. Extension of Mount Gough Police Station\n    9,000\n    \n    5,000\n    \n  \n  \n    32. Resumption of Property to provide Married Quarters for the Indian Police\n    45,000\n    \n    48,000\n    \n  \n  \n    33. Covering in Yard of Gaol\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    34. Abolishing Good Windsea in order to prevent cases of suicide among the prisoners\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    35. Married Quarters at Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    36. Extension of Cattle Inspectors' Quarters at Kennedy Town\n    1,700\n    \n    8,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3,150\n    \n    10,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,150\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    10,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    37. Widening Conduit Road\n    1,700\n    \n    8,000\n    \n  \n  \n    38. Fence round Plague Hospital\n    2,300\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    39. Electric Light Installation at Civil Hospital\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    40. Yard in Stone Nullah Lane for Public Works and Sanitary Department\n    3,900\n    \n    1,400\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,400\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    400\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,800\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,900\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    41. Resuming and Reclaiming Land at Starling Inlet Police Station\n    8,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    42. Minor Roads in New Territory\n    5,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    43. Public Mortuary in Kowloon\n    5,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    44. Boat Slips at Sai Kung and Tai Po\n    1,500\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    45. Road from Sam Shui Po to Lai Chi Kok\n    20,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    46. Road above Bowen Road, Joining Magazine Gap and Peak\n    10,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    47. Extension of Plague Hospital Kennedy Town\n    15,000\n    \n    \n    10,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    6,000\n    \n  \n  \n    48. Park in Western District of City\n    5,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    49. House for Private Nurse\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    50. Store account\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    New Sheep and Swine Depots\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Completion of Coolie Officers' Quarters\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    District Watchmen's Quarters\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Gout there Home for Quarantined Dogs\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Perch on Rock wearkyemun Coal Store\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Starling Inlet Police Station\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Public Bath house\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Training diverting\n    1,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    nullah in the vicinity of trea Brachion of a Derick on newrite at Crap Rock\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Railing in openings round Animal Depôt\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Koray Avenue\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cation\n    2,099.05\n    \n    7,120\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,100\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,020\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,980\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,500\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,215.58\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    9,000\n    3,000\n  \n  \n    Castle Peak Crematorium\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Repairs & alterations to boat Pavilions\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Repairs to Lapphuimun Custom Station\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Training nullako in neighbourhood of Ristimank\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Illuminating Public Buildings in convecting\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Routes\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    celebrations\n    17,555\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    773,166.66\n    \n    1,379,579.95\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    225,955.58\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    281,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mthath\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11,000\n    \n    24,938.11\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    8,450\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,432.23\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    175.55\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    170\n    \n    4,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,099.85\n    \n    7,120\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,100\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    7,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,500\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,215.58\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    9,000\n    3,000\n  \n  \n    \n    676,870.21\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11,000\n    \n    24,938.11\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    8,450\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    By Order 14.6.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nPage 334",
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        "content_text": "## Betadine \n\nThe Javelin was extended to 1,000 yards nearly the whole of the site proposed for the Military Hospital will be within the limits of danger according to the Range Requirements of the new Magazine Rifle.\n\n## \"Stonecutters' Range\"\n\n9. This Range 300 yards in length was granted conditionally G.G. No. 3048 of 1883. The proposed extension of this Range encroaches on War Department Property and the Military Bungalow (see plan submitted herewith) comes within the limits of danger.\n\n9. It appears almost hopeless with the limited area suitable for Rifle Ranges within this Colony to further extend the existing Ranges unless the Naval and Military Authorities will act together in the matter.\n\n10. I apprehend considerable difficulty in providing adequate range accommodation for the Navy and Army, specially since the addition to the Garrison of the Hongkong Regiment numbering upwards of 1,000 strong.\n\n11. It does however appear possible that some arrangement might be made for the Police and Rifle Association to use one Range, viz:- the present Police Range; and if the remaining Ranges, one of which, viz:- the Military Range, is extended to 1,000 yards, could be used jointly by the Navy and Army, a possible solution might be obtained to meet present requirements.\n\n13. In conclusion, I would point out that His Excellency the General Commanding specially referred to the increased range accommodation necessary for the Military Forces at the last Meeting re Military Reserves and Lands presided over by His Excellency the Governor.\n\n10th June, 1893.\n\n(Sd.) Francis A. Cooper.\n\nPage 330\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "# 350\n\nMagazine.\n\nThe form\n\n## G.\n\nApart from my departmental and official duties, I may state that during my tenure of the Chair of Botany in the Hong Kong Medical College, I became lecturer in botany and subsequently examiner in botany.\n\n10. Then Justice the Honourable ...\n\nHom/hom for 20 years.\n\nWhen the St. John's Cathedral became a self-supporting institution, I was auditor for accounts and subsequently Trustee, and at that time & afterwards a Member of the New Church Body, holding simultaneously the combined offices of Honorary Treasurer & Honorary Secretary, when a great deal of work involved by the disendowment of the church and its reconstitution as an independent church fell upon me.\n\n12. This is a brief & condensed account of the Christian work of my 31 years' service in Hongkong.\n\n13. In regard to remuneration, I should like to point out that in the terms of my appointment, I received £500 per annum, and that on my retirement after 31 years, I shall receive $5,600 per annum, which at 1/10 is now £630, only £130 more than at my appointment. This, of course, includes exchange compensation, but is only for depreciation of silver, not for enhanced value of services. It will be remembered that there were no opportunities of promotion in my own department, nor did the nature of my work permit transfer & promotion in another department. Further, such small savings have been possible to provide for funeral expenses in the event of my death only.\n\n14. Under these considerations, I respectfully leave my case to the favourable consideration of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies of the regulations with a view to a more liberal application in many ways.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n**Charles Ford**",
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        "content_text": "## SCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER, &C.\n\n35 cents and so on, increasing 6 cents per package for each 25 lbs. of gunpowder, up to and in excess of 100 lbs., according as the gunpowder may be loose or in tins.\n\nPackages containing safety cartridges to be charged per 25 lbs. weight, 6 cents a month or fraction of a month. Packages of detonators 9 cents for 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing and, as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\n## SCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF OTHER EXPLOSIVES.\n\n(Section 36.)\n\nNitro glycerine, or glonoine oil, gun cotton, fulminating mercury, dynamite, lithofracteur, Horsleys' patent blasting powder, &c., &c.\n\n| Cases containing | Rate per month or fraction of a month |\n| --- | --- |\n| 25 lbs. and less | 16 cents |\n| more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs. | 28 cents |\n| 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs. | 40 cents |\n| 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs. | 52 cents |\n\nand so on, increasing 12 cents per package for each 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing: and, as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\n## TABLE U.\n\n### REGULATIONS FOR THE LICENSING, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL OF BOATS, &C.\n\n(Section 40.)\n\n#### GENERAL.\n\n1. All boats or vessels referred to in these Regulations must be duly licensed as therein directed. No person shall engage or let out for hire any boat or vessel unless it has been licensed according to these Regulations.\n\n2. Every person in charge of a licensed boat or vessel must show his licence when required to do so by any officer of the Police, Registrar General's or Harbour Departments, or by the employer of such boat or vessel, each of whom is hereby empowered to board and examine such boat or vessel.\n\n3. All boats or vessels may be stopped and searched by the Police.\n\n4. For any breach of these Regulations the Licensee or owner or any of the crew of a licensed boat or vessel shall be liable to be prosecuted before a Police Magistrate, and, if found guilty, to be punished accordingly.\n\n5. No boat or vessel shall ply for hire within 300 feet of any ship of war without the written permission of the Harbour Master or of the Officer in command of such ship of war.\n\n6. All boats or vessels licensed under these Regulations on leaving or entering any Port within the waters of the Colony, except when actually conveying or in the employ of pleasure parties, shall comply with the provisions of Section 39 of this Ordinance relating to the entry and clearance of Junks.\n\n7. Any breach of these Regulations shall be punishable with a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default of payment with imprisonment for three months with or without hard labour.\n\n8. Whenever any certificate or licence issued under these Regulations has been lost or destroyed, a duplicate thereof may be granted by the proper officer if he is satisfied of such loss or destruction, upon payment of one-tenth of the original fee in no case exceeding $1.\n\n#### I. PASSENGER BOATS.\n\n9. Licences shall be issued by the Registrar General on production of a certificate from an Inspector of Police, stating the particulars required by Form B annexed. The applicant must furnish such security for his appearance when required or for the production of the boat, as the Registrar General may demand. Each licence shall be numbered, and shall not be transferable.\n\n10. The issue of a licence shall be in the discretion of the Registrar General and any licence may be suspended or cancelled by him, if it shall be proved to his satisfaction after due enquiry, that the Licensee, or any of the crew of the boat, has been guilty of any breach of these Regulations, or of misconduct in connection with the requirements thereof.\n\n11. No boat shall carry more than the number of passengers for which it is licensed, and no boat shall carry any cargo except passengers' baggage.\n\n12. Every boat shall go alongside a wharf when ordered to do so by a Police Constable, and shall, when conveying passengers, be carefully steered, and travel with reasonable expedition.\n\n13. Every boat shall, as regards repairs and cleanliness, be kept in a state fit for public use.\n\n14. Licences shall state the length and breadth of the boat together with the scale of fares, and shall be valid for one year only, from the 1st July.\n\n15. Every boat shall carry on each bow and on the stern, legibly painted upon wood, the number of its licence in figures at least 2 inches in height, and no other number, and such number shall not be concealed. The numbers shall be painted by persons duly authorised in that behalf by the Licensing Officer and for such fees as the Licensing Officer shall from time to time direct.\n\n16. Every boat shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a light at the bow visible all round; and shall also keep a lighted lantern with the licence number either painted on the glass or cut in on the frame in figures at least 2 inches in height, to be produced when demanded.\n\n17. No person in charge of a boat shall demand more than the fare provided by these Rules, or shall he refuse to take a passenger, except for some reasonable cause, anywhere between the North point of Hongkong and Hunghom point on the East; Belcher's Bay and West point of Stonecutters' Island on the West; Shamshuipo and West point of Stonecutters' Island on the North.\n\n18. The person in charge of the boat shall show the scale of fares to anyone demanding to see it.\n\n19. The following licence fees shall be charged in respect of passenger boat licences :--\n| Class | Length | Fee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st class | upwards of 40 feet | ... |\n| 2nd class | from 30 to 40 feet | ... |\n| 3rd class | from 20 to 30 feet | ... |\n| 4th class | from 12 to 20 feet | ... |\n| 5th class | less than 12 feet | ... |\n| Village boats |  |  |\n\n20. The following is the maximum scale of hire for passenger boats:-\n| Class | Per day of 12 hours | Half an hour | Per hour with two passengers | For each extra passenger |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st class | $2.00 | ... | 20 cents | 5 cents for half-an-hour; 10 cents per hour |\n| 2nd class | $1.50 | ... | ... | ... |\n| All other boats | $1.00 | ... | ... | ... |\n| All boats | ... | $0.50 | ... | ... |\n|  |  |  | Between sunset and sunrise 5 cents extra per passenger. |\n\n#### II. CARGO BOATS.\n\n21. Cargo boat licences shall be issued by the Registrar General on production of a certificate from the Harbour Master or his Deputy, stating the particulars required by Form 4 hereto annexed. A fee of one dollar shall be payable to the Harbour Master for this certificate. The applicant shall furnish the Registrar General with his photograph, if required, and shall also give such security for his appearance when required as the Registrar General may demand. Each licence shall be numbered, and shall not be transferable.",
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        "content_text": "site. \n\nin \n\nI am afraid there \n\nfighting the W.O. \n\na \n\nthe point \n\nI send copy Gov. question of finding \n\nto build \n\nfundo \n\n(k \n\nmomke \n\nback that the \n\nanother site on wh convict person when \n\nare available for that purpose shd. be considered \n\n9 30 \n\nthese eines \n\nof \n\ninf. Wo, adding that in \n\nas \n\nthe suggested removal \n\nthe Magazine from Stonecutters Id. \n\nis only required \n\nmore plast/3 \n\nMilitary grounds, \n\nsince (of par 2 of 48710) \n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to-- \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n\nWar Office, \n\nLondon, S.W., \n\nbrks.\" \n\nand the following number quoted. \n\nHong Kong 5/33. \n\n(I.G.F.1.) \n\nSir, \n\nWar Office, \n\n123 \n\n12 JAN 2 London, S.W. \n\n10 January, 1903. \n\nwe \n\nsuch removal \n\ncan \n\nonly \n\ntake place \n\nthe wo bear the cost \n\nI want to settle close this last point \n\nonce \n\nfor all] \n\nSw7167 \n\nWrite as you propose, with the modification that I would not treat the suggestion of a \n\nPrison on Stonecutters Island as \n\nfinally Negatived. It has always been thought of for this purpose, but the governor \"look out for other Suitable sites \n\nCaptain \n\nC.PL. \n\n16 at once \n\nClausan has same \n\nthank papers M 26/1. \n\nmust \n\nWith reference to your letter 29193/1902 of \n\nthe 1st August 1902, I am directed by the Secretary of \n\nState for War to acquaint you for the information of \n\nMr.Secretary Chamberlain, that it appears from the local \n\ncorrespondence subsequently furnished that the intention \n\nof the Colonial Government, when funds permit, is to \n\nremove the existing magazine from Stonecutters' Island \n\nand to erect a convict establishment on its site. \n\n2. The adoption of this proposal would entail \n\nthe residence of the civilian staff required for the \n\npurposes of the prison, and an addition to the military \n\nguards of the various open batteries and other works \n\nbelonging to the War Department. \n\n3. \n\nThe presence of a civilian population on the \n\nIsland would be most objectionable, and Mr.Brodrick feels \n\nconfident that Mr.Chamberlain will agree in deprecating \n\nany execution of the scheme in question, which would \n\naggravate rather than diminish the evils, from a defence \n\npoint \n\nUnder Secretary of State, \n\nColonial Office, S. W.",
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        "content_text": "278\n\n(2) King's Park.\n\nThe value to be recorded for the 93 acres intended for conversion into a Park, after deducting that portion occupied by the old Military Ranges, is to be at the same rate as that shown in the Colonial Secretary's schedule for the 30.15 acres of building land round the Park.\n\nFor the purposes of this exchange the land exclusive of the old Military Ranges is taken as being one half of the total acreage, and the value $493,177.\n\n(3) Stonecutters Island.\n\nTo be transferred to the General Officer Commanding as Colonial Military land at a recorded value of $1 per acre, the Colonial Government retaining and enclosing the site of the magazine, now required for a ..., and providing free access for military purposes to the present boundary of the existing Military Reserve at the N.E. point of the island. If the island is hereafter surrendered to the Colonial Government the War Department is to receive a credit in the Colonial Military Lands Account at the nominal rate of $1 per acre. The transfer to the War Department will not affect the Admiralty use of the Naval Range.\n\n(4) Kowloon East Battery.\n\nThe transfer of Military Reserve land is subject...",
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        "content_text": "(b) The value to be recorded for the 93 acres intended for conversion into a Park, after deducting that portion occupied by the old Military Ranges, should be at the same rate as that shown in the Colonial Secretary's schedule for the 30.15 acres of building land round the Park; and for the purposes of this exchange the value of the old military Ranges should be taken as being one half of the total area of 46.50 acres and the value thereof $493,177.\n\n(C.)\n\nThat Stonecutter's Island, which formed the subject of correspondence between the Colonial Secretary and Colonel Brown, noted in 28206/03 should be transferred to the General Officer Commanding as Colonial Military land at a record value of $1 per acre, the Colonial Government retaining and enclosing the site of the magazine, now required for a battery, and providing free access for military purposes to land at the present boundary of the existing Military Reserve at the N.E. point of the island. If the Island is hereafter surrendered to the Colonial Government the War Department is to receive a credit in the Colonial Military Lands Account at the nominal rate of $1 per acre. The transfer to the War Department will not affect the Admiralty use of the Naval Ranges on the Island.",
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        "content_text": "## LIST OF SITES\n\n1. Practice Battery, Mount Davis, \n2. Electric Defence Light Emplacements, M. Lots 279, 280, \n3. Electric Defence Light Emplacement near Connaught and Des Voeux Roads, \n4. Belcher and Fly Point Batteries, Victoria Battery, \n7. Sanitarium, Magazine Gap, \n8. Murray Battery, \n9. Parade Ground, \n10. Wellington Barracks, Arsenal Yard, \n11. Military Cantonment, \n12. Hospital Site, Bowen Road, \n13. Spring Gardens \n14. North Point Battery \n15. Land at Lyemun and Sywan Bks., \n16. Sywan Redoubt, \n17. Building Land, Kowloon, 30.15 acres, Site of King's Park, \n18. Kowloon East Battery, \n19. Cantonment, Stanley, \n20. Kellet Island \n21. Kowloon East Battery, \n22. Land at Signal Hill, \n23. Whitfield Barracks, \n24. Parts of Stonecutters Island, \n25. I. L. 1565 Sikh Slaughter House, \n26. Tai Hang Rifle Range, \n27. Kowloon Dock Battery, \n28. Elliot Battery, \n29. Pinewood Battery, and proposed Reserve, \n30. Site below Bowen Road Hospital, \n31. Devil's Peak, etc., \n32. Ngau Tau Kok or Kowloon Peak Reserve, \n33. Gun Club Hill, \n34. Kowloon City Rifle Range and Reserve, \n35. Stonecutters Island, remainder of Island outside War Department plots, 140 acres, \n36. Cable Hut, Kowloon City, Authorised Encroachment. \n37. Cable Hut, Devil's Peak, \n38. Inland Lot 1621, Cattle Depôt, \n39. Mount Cochrane, \n40. Time Ball Station \n41. Four Garden Lots, Kowloon 21, 48, 49, 50. \n42. North Point Reserve, \n43. Areas (two) in R. C. Cemetery, \n44. Tank near Magazine, Kennedy Road, \n45. Reserve at Sywan, \n46. Mt. Austin Barracks, R. B. L. 64 \n47. Land at Kowloon \n\n## NOTES\n\n1. To be bought by War Department \n2. War Department \n3. Might be sold, see para. (12) \n4. War Department, see para. (4) \n5. War Department \n6. War Department \n7. War Department \n8. (Site included in another entry) \n9. ... \n10. ... \n11. ... \n12. Might be sold, see para. (12) \n13. Might be sold, see para. (13) \n14. ... \n15. ... \n16. War Department \n17. War Department, see para. (4) \n18. War Department \n19. War Department \n20. War Department \n21. War Department \n22. War Department \n23. War Department \n24. War Department \n25. War Department \n26. War Department \n27. War Department \n28. War Department at Arbitrators' price, $348,510. See para. (7) \n29. War Department at Arbitrators' price, $125,489. See para. (7) \n30. War Department at Arbitrators' price, $41,500. See para. (7) \n31. $3,850, see para. (7) \n32. ... \n33. ... \n34. Granted to War Department for 10 years, when a new Range if required must be provided. See para. (14) \n35. ... \n36. Authorised War Department Encroachment \n37. Do. \n38. Held by War Department on a deed \n39. To be sold to Colonial Government, $15,518. See para. (7) \n40. To be sold to Colonial Government, $43,005. See para. (7) \n41. Proposed to be sold to War Department at the rate of 1 cent per foot square. The Prison buildings to be paid for, $30,000. See para (3) \n42. To be sold to Colonial Government, $135,759. See para. (2) \n43. To be sold to Colonial Government, $819,770. See para. (2) \n44. To be sold to Colonial Government, at half the rate per acre of the above area, but only land not used as Park to be paid for. See para. (2) \n45. Proposed to lease. Land actually now required is to become War Department property. See para. (4) \n46. Reserved for burial of R. C. soldiers. Not War Department property \n47. War Department. In use \n48. Has reverted to Colonial Government. Reserved for 21 Barrack scheme which was not carried out. See para (8)\n\nIf it be desired to transfer a piece of land from the second to the first category, as for example to build a barrack, it should be valued as if in the open market. It is suggested that the rent payable by the War Department to the Colonial Government should be $1 per acre or part of an acre per annum in the old Territory and 25 cents per acre per annum in the new part, with a minimum rent of $1.\n\nIt should be borne in mind that land in the Leased Territory is not freehold but can only be held for a term of 99 years from 1st July, 1898, while existing War Department land is freehold and therefore more valuable.\n\nThe following is believed to be a complete list of all War Department Lands, Reserves, and Authorised Encroachments from the Colonial Government in Hong Kong, with a short note against each shewing the present status, and what it is proposed to do with it.\n\nSuch cases as require it are afterwards dealt with at more length.\n\nThe order is taken from a Table prepared by the Colonial Works Department in June, 1904, so far as it goes.\n\n| Site # | Description | Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Practice Battery, Mount Davis | To be bought by War Department |\n| 2 | Electric Defence Light Emplacements, M. Lots 279, 280 | ... |\n| 3 | Electric Defence Light Emplacement near Connaught and Des Voeux Roads | $3,850, see para. (7) |\n| 4 | Belcher and Fly Point Batteries, Victoria Battery | War Department |\n| 7 | Sanitarium, Magazine Gap | ... |\n| 8 | Murray Battery | ... |\n| 9 | Parade Ground | ... |\n| 10 | Wellington Barracks, Arsenal Yard | War Department |\n| 11 | Military Cantonment | ... |\n| 12 | Hospital Site, Bowen Road | ... |\n| 13 | Spring Gardens | Might be sold, see para. (12) |\n| 14 | North Point Battery | War Department |\n| 15 | Land at Lyemun and Sywan Bks. | War Department, see para. (4) |\n| 16 | Sywan Redoubt | War Department, see para. (4) |\n| 17 | Building Land, Kowloon, 30.15 acres, Site of King's Park | To be sold to Colonial Government, $819,770. See para. (2) |\n| 18 | Kowloon East Battery | War Department |\n| 19 | Cantonment, Stanley | War Department |\n| 20 | Kellet Island | Might be sold, see para. (12) |\n| 21 | Kowloon East Battery | War Department |\n| 22 | Land at Signal Hill | War Department |\n| 23 | Whitfield Barracks | War Department |\n| 24 | Parts of Stonecutters Island | War Department |\n| 25 | I. L. 1565 Sikh Slaughter House | Not War Department. Proposed for sale, $81,350, see para. (6) |\n| 26 | Tai Hang Rifle Range | To be transferred free. See para. (2) |\n| 27 | Kowloon Dock Battery | War Department Reserve. Part to be sold to Colonial Government, $172,345. See para. (6) |\n| 28 | Elliot Battery | War Department at Arbitrators' price, $348,510. See para. (7) |\n| 29 | Pinewood Battery, and proposed Reserve | War Department at Arbitrators' price, $125,489. See para. (7) |\n| 30 | Site below Bowen Road Hospital | War Department at Arbitrators' price, $41,500. See para. (7) |\n| 31 | Devil's Peak, etc. | $3,850, see para. (7) |\n| 32 | Ngau Tau Kok or Kowloon Peak Reserve | ... |\n| 33 | Gun Club Hill | Granted to War Department for 10 years, when a new Range if required must be provided. See para. (14) |\n| 34 | Kowloon City Rifle Range and Reserve | Desirable to lease this |\n| 35 | Stonecutters Island, remainder of Island outside War Department plots, 140 acres | Authorised War Department Encroachment |\n| 36 | Cable Hut, Kowloon City | Authorised Encroachment |\n| 37 | Cable Hut, Devil's Peak | Do. |\n| 38 | Inland Lot 1621, Cattle Depôt | Held by War Department on a deed |\n| 39 | Mount Cochrane | To be sold to Colonial Government, $15,518. See para. (7) |\n| 40 | Time Ball Station | To be sold to Colonial Government, $43,005. See para. (7) |\n| 41 | Four Garden Lots, Kowloon 21, 48, 49, 50 | Proposed to be sold to War Department at the rate of 1 cent per foot square. The Prison buildings to be paid for, $30,000. See para (3) |\n| 42 | North Point Reserve | To be sold to Colonial Government, $135,759. See para. (2) |\n| 43 | Areas (two) in R. C. Cemetery | To be sold to Colonial Government, at half the rate per acre of the above area, but only land not used as Park to be paid for. See para. (2) |\n| 44 | Tank near Magazine, Kennedy Road | Proposed to lease. Land actually now required is to become War Department property. See para. (4) |\n| 45 | Reserve at Sywan | Reserved for burial of R. C. soldiers. Not War Department property |\n| 46 | Mt. Austin Barracks, R. B. L. 64 | War Department. In use |\n| 47 | Land at Kowloon | Has reverted to Colonial Government. Reserved for 21 Barrack scheme which was not carried out. See para (8) |",
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        "content_text": "# LIST OF SITES.\n\n4\n\nThe following 15 sites were proposed by Colonel STORER in 1891 as Military Reserves. See para. (10.):-\n49. (1) West of Belchers P. F. Cells,\n50. (2) Belcher. Site for movable armament,\n50. (3) Site for Redoubt, etc., near Belcher,\n52. (4) Belcher-Land east of P. F. Cells,\n53. (5) Surrounding Victoria Battery,\n54. (6) Summit of High West,\n55. (7) Summit of Mount Gough,\n56. (8) Summit of Mount Kellet,\n57. (9) Sanitarium Reserve,\n58. (10) Summit of Mt. Cameron,\n59. (11) Summit of Mt. Nicholson,\n60. (12) Reserve East of North Point Battery,\n61. (13) Land surrounding Kowloon East and Dock Battery,\n62. (14) Kowloon. Existing Lines of Defence and ground required for Field Firing & Military Exercises,\n63. (15) Kowloon Frontier-Land surrounding the proposed forts,\n64. Wong-nei-cheong Battery,\n\n## NOTES.\n\n| Site | Note |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | Not now required. Colonial Government land. |\n| (2) | Not now required. Colonial Government land. Superseded by Pinewood. |\n| (3) | Not required. Colonial Government land. |\n| (4) | Not required. Colonial Government land. |\n| (5) | Never treated as a Reserve, but the land is kept clear. Colonial Government land. |\n| (6) | Considered as lapsed to Colonial Government. |\n| (7) | Do. Do. |\n| (8) | Occupied before 1891. Proposed to be rented as a Military Reserve. See para. (9). |\n| (9) | Considered as lapsed to Colonial Government. |\n| (10) | Do. |\n| (11) | Has reverted to Colonial Government. See 34. |\n| (12) | Was occupied before 1891. See 33, 41, 42, 43. Reserves existing before 1891. See para. (2). |\n| (13) | Has lapsed to Colonial Government. |\n| (14) | War Department, not yet valued. |\n| (15) |  |\n| Wong-nei-cheong Battery |  |\n\n## FURTHER DETAILS OF THE METHODS PROPOSED FOR DEALING WITH SOME OF THE SITES.\n\n(1.) The items in the Table against which a price has been inserted are taken from the Table prepared by the Colonial Secretary dated 4th April, 1903; approved by a Conference at the Treasury dated 13th October, 1903; enumerated in Colonial Office letter 15th January, 1904; and not objected to by the Acting Governor in his letter dated 9th March, 1904. These prices are therefore assumed to be correct and final.\n\n(2.) Military Reserves in Kowloon, Nos. in Table 33, 41, 42, 43.-Part of the land is considered to be dealt with in the manner stated in the 1st para., that is to say-\n(a.) Gun Club Hill is to be definitely vested in the War Department free of cost.\nThe nominal value of $1 per acre which was originally proposed is not considered desirable.\n\nand (b.) the Garden Lots 21, 48, 49, 50 are to pass to the Colony at a value of $135,750 and the Building Area along the King's Park, 30.15 acres, at a value of $319,770.\n\nThe difficulty lies in dealing with the land set aside for the King's Park for which the War Department demanded a sum of $493,177.\n\nThe solution proposed for this problem is not to charge the value put on the land so long as it is used as a Park. If any of it is alienated to other purposes a proportional payment to be made.\n\nA charge has consequently been inserted for the new road running North of the Gun Club Hill barracks. This is clearly constructed in the commercial interest of Kowloon-not for recreation. The area of this road lying within the land set aside for the Park is approximately 5 acres 1 rood 24 poles, and its value at half the rate as the Building Area of 30.15 acres, which is that at which the King's Park area has been valued, is $28,597, which forms a deduction from the total price.\n\nIt is observed that the sum set down for the value of the Park, requires to be checked. It is arrived at by the initial assumption that the total area of the Park is 93 acres, but this has never been accurately delineated. When this is done, the total area is to be taken and the value per acre put upon it to be half that on the 30.15 acres of building land. Half the value is taken because half the site is assumed to be Rifle Range, which is dealt with on other terms.\n\n(3.) Stonecutters' Island, Nos. in Table, 24, 41.\n\nThis is largely Military land already. The War Department owns six battery and barrack sites and has made all the roads.\n\nThe Colonial Government use a portion of the old Prison, which has been partly pulled down, as a Magazine. This is being replaced by another in Green Island.\n\nThey had the intention of reconstructing the Prison on this site. If the Island be taken over by the War Department, land will have to be provided for it elsewhere.\n\nThe Navy use a Rifle Range along the North shore. This land is Colonial Government property. If the Island be taken over by the War Department the Naval occupation of the Range should not be interfered with, but it should be provided that if the Navy no longer require it, it should revert to the War Department.\n\nIn consideration of the value of the position and of the cost to the Colony of providing a fresh site for the Prison it is proposed that a price of 1 cent per square foot be debited to the War Department for exclusive rights over the whole Island. The area of the Island exclusive of War Department property is 140 acres and the price therefore is $60,984. The Colony to have the right to the re-transfer of the 140 acres at the same rate if hereafter surrendered by the War Department.\n\nThe old Prison buildings have been estimated as having a value of $30,000 and would be paid for by the War Department at that price.\n\n(4.) Syuan Reserve No. in Table, 45.\n\nFor this land the Colonial Authorities ask $542,460 and the War Department offers $143, i.e., $1 per acre. It is perfectly certain that the War Department will not pay over £50,000 merely to keep strangers from approaching the Batteries. Even if this were made a paper entry, which would hardly be possible to be done with the whole sum, it would not be an even exchange of values. The War Department already possesses all the Battery and Barrack sites, since the 6-inch gun Battery was built by the Colony and the site was part of the contribution.\n\nIt is not disputed that the War Department has the land as a Reserve. It has therefore only to sit still in order to deprive the Colony of all use of it, although at the same time it could not secure the Batteries against intrusion in a satisfactory manner.\n\nIt is now proposed that the land should be rented as a Military Reserve and a fence put up as an encroachment. In this way the War Department would obtain the power to keep off strangers. They would, however, if they wished to purchase any land, have to pay for it at building value. This would probably not lead to any great expenditure in the future as it is hardly possible that the War Department would ever require any large portion of the total area. The Batteries and the land around them are already War Department property: the land round the new 6-inch gun Battery requires delimiting.\n\n5 \nPage 199",
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        "content_text": "# REPORT OF A MEETING OF \"THE INCORPORATED CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LIVERPOOL\"\n## EXTRACT FROM THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE CHAMBER FOR NOVEMBER, 1906\n\nThe question of the restrictions imposed by the \"CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT,1869\", and the \"HONGKONG ORDINANCE,1889\", on the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants (DECK PASSENGERS) by British steamers to Foreign Countries, came up for discussion before the Chamber.\n\nThe Chairman referred to the disabilities under which British ships laboured owing to the Acts mentioned, and said they were debarred from engaging in legitimate and profitable trade, and it was most unfair that they should be at a disadvantage compared with those of other countries.\n\nA case in point was illustrated where a German vessel was favoured - (the Foochow case).\n\nThe following RESOLUTIONS were passed and copies of them were ordered to be sent to H.M. Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n**RESOLVED.-**\n1. That the Committee of the East India Trades Section of this Chamber deplore the disabilities under which the shipping of the United Kingdom labours owing to the provisions of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1899, and the Chinese Emigration Ordinance (Hongkong) 1899, whereby British vessels are in many cases debarred from engaging in legitimate and profitable trade.\n\n2. The recent instance of the s.s Powhattan, which was chartered in London to carry coolies from China to Mexico under contract approved by Chinese Provincial Authorities and with the consent of the Mexican Authorities, and which charter had subsequently to be cancelled, is an illustration of the hardship suffered by British Owners at a time when suitable employment for shipping is difficult to obtain.\n\nThe Committee therefore urges that the law and Ordinance should at once be suspended, as being unduly restrictive, and entirely out of date owing to the change of circumstances which has taken place since the Regulations objected to were authorized by the Home Government and put into operation by the Legislature of Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "## 567\n\n2\n\nLondon, as well as from Messrs. Dodwell and Co., and the Liverpool Ship-owners' Association. I have the honour to draw your attention to the Resolutions, copies of which I append, and which were forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe demand for Chinese labour for Panamá, which it is expected will spring up in the near future, and also the constant demand which exists at present in the Mexican mines, makes Shipping Companies anxious to see the present prohibition removed, as otherwise British vessels will lose a valuable trade which will fall into the hands of their German or Norwegian rivals, probably under less favourable conditions than ours.\n\nI may mention that Messrs. Dodwell and Co. made a second unsuccessful attempt in Shanghae in September last to dispatch another British ship, the \"Bessie Dollar,\" to Mexico with coolies under contract. The attempt failed, as it had done at Foochow, permission to clear being refused by His Majesty's Consul-General. Sir H. de Sausmarez, who was appealed to for an opinion on the legal aspect of the case, was, I understand, strongly of the opinion that the law required amendment. I have heard that it was his intention to send home a report on the subject, but whether he has done so I am not informed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \n**HERBERT F. BRADY**\n\n3\n\nbeen brought to my notice, I have now the honour to give a short account of the circumstances which no doubt formed the basis of the rumour that reached the French Minister.\n\nOn the 10th May last, 515 coolies were shipped from Foochow by the German steamer \"Erna\" for Santa Rosalia, Lower California, Mexico, for work in the copper mines owned by the \"Compagnie du Boléo.\" These coolies were examined by Drs. Myers and Vizerie, of Pagoda Anchorage, and were passed as being perfectly healthy at the time of their departure. I am unable to ascertain at what precise time the epidemic of \"beri-beri\" broke out among the coolies. M. Vetch, a French citizen, by whom the coolies were shipped, states that the epidemic appears to have broken out one month after their arrival at Santa Rosalia. On the other hand, it was stated by the French Vice-Consul, M. Hardy, that some six or seven of the coolies had died on the voyage out, but he could not give the cause of the deaths. He also informed me that over 100 of the coolies had died at the mines, and consequently the \"Compagnie du Boléo\" decided to repatriate those of the coolies who were sick.\n\nThese coolies, 112 in number, were shipped from Santa Rosalia by the steam-ship \"Illaworth,\" and five days later 109 of them (three having died on this voyage) were transhipped at Salina Cruz into the British steam-ship \"Alabama.\" The surgeon of the \"Alabama\" states in his report that all of the 109 received on board were suffering from \"beri-beri\"; forty-five died on the voyage and three died after arrival at Pagoda Anchorage of this disease. There being no proper quarantine facilities at Pagoda, special arrangements were made for the landing and accommodation of the sick coolies. A report on this subject from the Consular Agent at Pagoda will be forwarded to you shortly.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**G. M. H. PLAYFAIR**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the Monthly Magazine of the Chamber for November 1906.\n\n### Report of a Meeting of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool\n\nThe question of the restrictions placed by \"The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855,\" and the \"Hong Kong Ordinance, 1899,\" on the conveyance of Chinese emigrants (under contract) by British steamers to foreign countries came up for discussion before the Chamber.\n\nThe Chairman referred to the disabilities under which British ships laboured owing to the Acts mentioned, and said they were debarred from engaging in legitimate and profitable trade, and it was most unfair that they should be at a disadvantage compared with those of other countries.\n\nA case in point was illustrated where a German vessel was favoured (the Foochow case).\n\nThe following Resolutions were passed and copies of them were ordered to be sent to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies:\n\n| Resolution # | Text |\n|-------------|------|\n| 1           | That the Committee of the East India Trades Section of this Chamber deplore the disabilities under which the shipping of the United Kingdom labours, owing to the provisions of \"The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855,\" and the \"Chinese Emigration Ordinance (Hong Kong), 1889,\" whereby British vessels are in many cases debarred from engaging in legitimate and profitable trade. |\n| 2           | The recent instance of the steam-ship \"Powhattan,\" which was chartered in London to carry coolies from China to Mexico under contract approved by Chinese Provincial authorities, and with the consent of the Mexican authorities, and which Charter had subsequently to be cancelled, is an illustration of the hardship suffered by British owners at a time when suitable employment for shipping is difficult to obtain. |\n| 3           | The Committee therefore urges that the Law and Ordinance should at once be amended, as being unduly restrictive and entirely out of date, owing to the change of circumstances which has taken place since the Regulations objected to were authorized by the Home Government, and put into operation by the Legislature of Hong Kong. |\n\n(No. 36.) Sir,\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Consul Playfair to Sir J. Jordan**  \nFoochow, November 12, 1906.\n\nWith reference to your telegram No. 8 of the 3rd instant, inquiring as to the existence of popular agitation against the emigration of local coolies to Mexico, and to my telegram No. 12 of the same date, in reply, stating that nothing of the kind had",
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        "content_text": "# Correspondence \n\n175 \n31st July, 1907.\n\nSince writing you on the subject, I have come across a copy of the opinion of Mr. George King on Life Assurance legislation, and herewith enclose copy of his answer to one of the questions put to him by Mr. T. B. Macaulay, who wrote him on the subject in view of the proposed assurance legislation in Canada. Mr. George King is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland. He has been Chairman of the Life Office Association and Vice-President of the Institute of Actuaries; editor of the Journal of Actuaries; editor of the Post Magazine; the author of the text book of the Institute of Actuaries, the recognised text book in all languages on the principles of insurance. He has, moreover, made a study of life assurance legislation, both in England and in foreign countries, from the point of view of public and not in the interests of particular Companies. His evidence before the select committee of the House of Lords on Life Insurance Companies was listened to with attention, and carried great weight. He was, in fact, the only witness whom the Chairman specially thanked. In his evidence, he spoke of a standard of solvency as being very mischievous.\n\nI have given these details about Mr. King because they show that his opinion should carry great weight. In my opinion, Mr. King is the leading Actuary of the present day, and I think that this opinion would be shared by the great majority of people engaged in actuarial work.",
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        "content_text": "47\n\n314\n\nDuring the examination of the Polyxene ores, recently discovered by me in Hongkong, (the Platinum Group) I noticed the behaviour of osmium with nitric acid, which I believe furnishes the key to much of the early, and later, sickness in the Colony, such as I have good reason to believe caused:-\n\n1. The abandonment by the Naval Authorities of the site called Navy Bay, at West Point, their first depot,\n\n2. The abandonment of the European Settlements at Wong-nei-chong and Morrison Hill,\n\n3. The great sickness consequent on cutting Wanchai Gap road, leading to Happy Valley.\n\n4. The abandonment of Sai-wan, and afterwards Stanley, as Military cantonments.\n\n5. The sickness of troops sent to the Military Sanatorium at Magazine Gap, where the top was peeled off a hill, and the building placed in the middle, leaving a large area of disintegrated rock round it.\n\n6. The abandonment of Pok-fu-lam as a suburban place of residence in 1862-3.\n\nI consider the disintegration of rocks largely due to the presence of osmium. Hills, formerly covered with forest growth, produced, with their quota of decaying vegetable matter, during a long period of history, ammonia and nitrates. The chemical affinity of nitre for osmium gradually produced effects of disintegration in rocks impregnated with platinum metals, to a depth sometimes, in Hongkong and vicinity, of thirty feet. This disintegrated rock, on being cut into, was ready, when acted upon by hot rays of the sun, at once to produce the poisonous vapour of osmic tetroxide. Once started, the discharge went on day and night for some time,\n\nIt has been said that opium was first introduced into China (Tonquin) by Arab Merchants, and used by Chinese as a prophylactic against malarious fever. When burnt it throws off what is known as an \"animal\" smell, and the process of distillation called smoking, no doubt yields ammonia, amongst other things. Ammonia was formerly obtained by distilling such animal matters as bones, skins, horn &c., and I was struck with the fact told me when travelling in Kwong Tung, in answer to my enquiry why there was no export of hides from the North river districts, as is done in the Yangtze valley, - that these hides &c., had better value for making into factitious opium, which was smoked after mixture with a proportion of genuine.\n\nIn metallurgy, during the process of refining platinum metals, the osmium is captured by leading tetroxide vapours, which come off, into a vessel containing ammonia. It would thus appear that the antidote for poisonous vapours of osmium tetroxide is ammonia.\n\nHongkong 10th February, 1909.\n\nJ. GRANT SMITH.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nAugust 15, 1913\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nSECTION\n\nREPR 101\n\n(No. 243.) Sir,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received August 15.)\n\nIN the course of a recent interview with the Governor of Shantung, Mr. Wilton, Peking, July 26, 1910. His Majesty's consul at Chinan-fu, elicited some interesting information on the subject of railway development in that province.\n\nThe project of a line from Chefoo to Weihsien, thence to Ichow-fu, in Southern Shantung, to connect ultimately with the Tien-tsin-Pukow main line, had, said the governor, been abandoned. This was partly due to the physical difficulties of the country through which the line would run, partly on account of the possibility of political complications with Germany.\n\nThe railway from Chefoo to Weihsien would be built in any case, but, owing to lack of funds, there was little likelihood of a start being made this year.\n\nThe line which the governor hoped to take in hand at once was one from Kiaochow or Kaomi (on the Tsingtao-Chinan-fu Railway) to Yichow-fu, for eventual extension to the Tien-tsin-Pukow line via Yihsien. This line was now being surveyed, and work would be commenced early next year, in accordance with a promise made to the German authorities that the line would be constructed by the end of 1914. It will be remembered that a German-built railway from Kiaochow to Yichow-fu formed part of the Kiaochow Agreement of 1898, and although I was not aware that any limit of time had been set for the completion of this line, it is quite possible that the Germans made some stipulation to that effect when they agreed, at the time of the Tien-tsin-Pukow negotiations, to waive their right to construct the line themselves.\n\nThe governor's statements are confirmed by reports from His Majesty's consul at Chefoo, and by information placed at my disposal by the Peking agent of the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nAs regards the Chefoo-Weihsien line, Mr. Mortimore reports that the scheme is making no progress whatever, as the people of Shantung are either unable or unwilling to provide the necessary capital, some 10,000,000 dollars ($840,000). They might, he thinks, agree to a foreign loan, but under the Kiaochow Agreement they are bound to apply in the first instance to Germany, and, as you are aware, there has lately been a recrudescence of anti-German feeling in the province.\n\nMr. Mayers informs me that his corporation are prepared to finance this line, and he seems to think that the Germans would not raise any serious objections were the connection between Kiaochow and the Tien-tsin-Pukow line, above referred to, assured.\n\nAs regards the construction of the Kiaochow-Yichow line, Mr. Mayers thinks there is every likelihood of an early start being made, as labour and materials can now be diverted from the completed section (Tien-tsin to Techow) of the Tien-tsin-Pukow line. He says that, to the best of his knowledge, there is no truth in the report, published in the Shanghai newspapers, that the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank have undertaken to finance the Kiaochow-Yichow-fu line.\n\nA disturbing factor in the situation, as far as the German programme of railway development in Shantung is concerned, is the movement now on foot to construct a Chinese line from Kaifeng-fu, the capital of Honan, to Haichow, a seaport on the north-eastern coast of Kiangsu just south of the Shantung border. A writer in the June number of the \"Far Eastern Review,\" a monthly magazine published in Manila and Shanghai, which is usually well informed on Chinese railway affairs, gives some interesting particulars regarding this project. He states that the Board of Communications, after considering various alternative routes, have finally decided on the construction of a line from Kaifeng-fu to Haichow via Hsuehow (on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway) and Tsingkiangpoo, on the Grand Canal. A glance at the railway map of China, published by the War Office, will show the importance, both from a political and a commercial point of view, of the proposed line which, it will be observed, forms the\n\n[2875 p-2]",
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        "content_text": "Victoria Peak.\n\nDrainage.\n\n19\n\nThe only item under this head to which I need allude is that of $11,100 for the continuation of nullah training as an anti-malarial measure in the district to the South of Magazine Gap. The Military Authorities, who have barracks in the neighbourhood and who contributed before, have been asked again to help towards the cost of the work.\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nThere are a number of small items under this head for an explanation of which I would refer you to my Budget statement. The estimate of $2,000 for Public Bathing Places is the result of a resolution moved by the Honourable Mr. E. Osborne at the meeting of Legislative Council held on 2nd May, 1912. I enclose an extract from the \"Hansard\" report of the debate from which you will see that the resolution was carried unanimously and that the Government undertook to consider the matter with the Budget for next year.\n\n\"Enclosure\"\n\nWaterworks.\n\nFor an explanation of the necessity for an additional Service Reservoir at West Point, I would refer you to my Despatch No. 334 of 26th September, 1912. A sum of $250,000 has been inserted for the Second Section of the Tytam Tuk Scheme, which, owing to the comparatively inexpensive character of the preliminary work, principally in the nature of excavation, is as much as it is expected can be spent during the year. The contract for this work, which was signed during the current month, amounts to $1,781,817.98. The time allowed for completion is five years, but I trust that in about two years some benefit in the way of an increased water supply may be derived from the work.\n\nKOWLOON.\n\nBuildings.\n\nThe small increase amounting to $700 on the original estimate for the Vegetable and Fruit Market at Yaumati is due to an enlargement of the original scheme. The contract has recently",
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        "content_text": "## \nbut it was on the morning of 22nd July that to supervise coolie work in the rough weather I went out on duty at 2 am and after completing my work at 7.30 a.m. Magazine Gap Road near the first where the Hill District ends and Lawrence the Town is absent twenty minutes walk, and when all the coolies finished their work and returned to Victoria, I came down to town, (a) to buy some food stuff from the market as there is nothing to be obtainable on the Peak, as Sir you know very well, (b) to ask Inspector Fisher for a new diary as my old diary was going to finish, and for which I asked him on the 17th July 1912, to which he replied \"come for it the day before it will finish\" and I met him near Dairy Farm at about 7.50 a.m. and asked him for the diary and he replied \"your better last year old diary till Wednesday the 24th July 1912, then I will give you a new one\" and so he did, and no work has suffered on this date.\n\nTherefore I beg to ask your kindness as to dismiss the First charge on the ground, that on the 23rd July 1912, I have performed my duty actually, and you are misinformed, which I think always those Inspectors do.\n\nFurther I am very sorry, that instead of taking into view my hard work in this district and the longer hours of my duty which I am always performing and when visiting this district he, Inspector Fisher has caused me to perform, as he asked me to come on duty 2 or 3 hours early to accompany and point him out the complained places he has only taken into view that I finished my work few minutes early and had complained to you while anyhow I was right in doing so.\n\nand as he Inspector Fisher visited the Peak District on the following dates, I have performed my duties follow on these dates, and for which he never gave me any time off for the over hours work.\n\n4th January 1912 from 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  \n19th January 1912 from 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.",
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        "content_text": "524 \n\nbut it was on the morning of 22nd July 12 that to supervise coolies' work in the rough weather I went out on duty at 2 a.m. and after completing my work at 7:30 a.m. Magazine Gap road near the Firs, where the Hill district ends and whence the Town is about 20 minutes walk, and when all the coolies finished their work and returned to Victoria, I came down to town, (a) to buy some food stuff from the market as there is nothing to be obtainable on the Peak, as Sir you know very well, (b) to ask Inspector Fisher for a new diary as my old diary was going to finish, and for which I asked him on the 17th July 1912, to which he replied \"come for it the day before it will finish\" and I met him near diary shop at about 7:50 a.m. and asked him for the diary and he replied \"use last year's old diary till Wednesday the 24th July 12, then I will give you a new one\" and so he did, and no work has suffered on this date.\n\nTherefore I beg to ask your kindness as to dismiss the 1st charge on the ground, that on the 23/7/12, I have performed my duties actually, and you are misinformed, which I think always these Inspectors do.\n\nFurther I am very sorry, that instead of taking into view my hard work in this district and the longer hours of my duty which I am always performing and when visiting this district the Inspector Fisher has caused me to perform, as he asked me to come on duty 2 or 3 hours early to accompany and point him out the complained places he has only taken into view that I finished my work few minutes early and had complained to you while anyhow I was right in doing so,\n\nand as he Inspector Fisher visited the Peak district on the following dates, I have performed my duties following on these dates, and for which he never gave me any time off for the over hours work.\n\n4th January 1912 from 3 a.m. to 8 a.m., and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.\n\n19th January 1912 from 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913",
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        "content_text": "351\n\nDuring the examination of the Polyxene ores, recently discovered by me in Hongkong (the Platinum Group) I noticed the behaviour of osmium with nitric acid, which, I believe, furnishes the key to much of the early and later, sickness in the Colony, such as I have good reason to believe caused?\n\nThe abandonment by the Naval Authorities of the site called Navy Bay, at West Point, their first depot.\n\nThe abandonment of the European Settlement at West Point, by the Military.\n\nThe abandonment of the European Settlements at Wongneichong and Morrison Hill.\n\nThe great sickness consequent upon cutting Wanchai Gap Road, leading to Happy Valley.\n\nThe abandonment of Saiwan, and afterwards Stanley, as Military Cantonments.\n\nThe sickness of troops sent to the Military Sanatorium at Magazine Gap, where the top was peeled off a hill, and the building placed on the centre, leaving a large area of disintegrated rock around it.\n\nThe abandonment of Pokefo-lum as a suburban place of residence in 1862-3.\n\nDuring an indefinite period the chemical affinity of nitre for osmium gradually produced disintegration in rocks impregnated with platinum metals, sometimes to a great depth. This disintegrated rock, on being cut into, was ready, when acted upon by the hot rays of the sun, at once to produce the poisonous vapor of osmic tetroxide. This is the cause of Hongkong fever, which poisons by entering the body with the air in breathing.\n\nHongkong 10th February 1908\n\nJ. GRANT SMITH.",
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        "content_text": "34\n\n1 Clark expansive bit, to bore up to 14 ins.\n\n1 Hand saw, 24 ins.\n\n1 Iron smoothing plane, 21 ins., single.\n\n2 Soldering bits, 1 lb., and handles.\n\n1 Set Electric\" Whit. stocks and dies, with taper and plug tape, ¼ in., ½ in., ¾ in., 1 in.\n\n1 \"Roarer\" soldering lamp for paraffin oil, No. 101 p., 1 pt. size.\n\n1 Oil pump for barrels and drums.\n\n2 ¼ turned barrel butt cocks screw bottom crutch keys.\n\n35\n\nELECTRICIAN'S REPAIR KIT.\n\nArticle and Description.\n\nRepair Box, containing :-\n\nDETECTOR GALVANOMETER, with two cells.\n\nBRACE, ratchet, American, ½ in., with set of drills, 1/16 in., 1/8 in., 3/16 in., ¼ in.\n\nBRADAWL, with 12 blades.\n\n2 Oil filler cans, 2 pint size, with sunk top and guard.\n\n2 Seamless oil cans, ½ and 1 pint sizes.\n\n1 1 lb. can pipe joint compound.\n\n1 1 lb. can flake graphite.\n\n1 Doz. sheets fine emery cloth.\n\n1 Doz. sheets glass paper.\n\n1 Doz. files, assorted.\n\n1 Doz. file handles.\n\n20 lbs. soft tinman's solder.\n\n2 lbs. Rosinal\" soldering paste.\n\n1 Gross assorted wood screws from ¼ to 3 ins. long.\n\n1 Gross brass ditto, ¼ in. to 1 in. long.\n\n5 lbs. Assorted wire nails.\n\n1 Gross copper rivets and burrs, No. 8.\n\n1 CHISEL, ½ in. (wood).\n\n1 CHISEL, cold, ½ in.\n\n2 FILES, smooth, flat, 6 in.\n\n2 FILES, second cut, flat, 6 in.\n\n1 FILE, bastard, round, 6 in.\n\n1 HAMMER, claw, ½ lb.\n\n1 KNIFE, jointing.\n\n1 Pr. PLIERS, side cutting, 6 in.\n\n1 Pr. PLIERS, side cutting, 4 in.\n\n1 HACKSAW, 10 in., with 12 blades.\n\n1 lb. Syphon worsted.\n\n2 lbs. Coloured cotton waste.\n\n1 lb. of India-rubber solution in collapsible tubes.\n\n1 lb. Omega adhesive tape.\n\n2 lbs. Rubber prepared tape.\n\n2 lbs. Ozokerite tape twill.\n\n2 lbs. Chatterton compound.\n\n1 SOLDERING BOLT, 1 lb.\n\n1 SOLDERING LAMP, Barthel's No. 4.\n\n1 SPANNER, adjustable to 1 in. gap (Clyburn).\n\n1 SCREWDRIVER, 8 in.\n\n2 TOMMIES.\n\n1 SCREWDRIVER, magazine.\n\n1 VICE, bench, 2¼ in. gap.\n\n2 lbs. WIRE, copper, bare, No. 20 (soft).\n\n2 OZS. WIRE, copper, S.S.C. No. 36.\n\n2 Ozs. WIRE, copper, S.S.C. No. 40.\n\n½ lb. WIRE, iron, S.S.C. No. 40.\n\n1 OZ. WIRE, platinoid, bare, No. 36.\n\n12 OZS. TIN FUSE, No. 18 (15 amp.) and No. 30 (2 amp).\n\n2 lbs. SOLDER, soft.\n\n4 Ozs. FLUX, soldering, in tin.\n\n402",
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        "content_text": "## Page Ten\n\n### Two Storm-Centers\n\nA group of five thousand persons on a sloping lawn falling away from a stately country house to a dainty artificial lake. Two bands playing at opposite ends of the ample grounds. A white canopy, and under it hundreds of people listening to a lively vaudeville troupe. Another larger tent, and here tea and sandwiches for the famishing, as the afternoon wears along. Halfway down the spacious lawn, a rectangle is marked out with ropes. The pistol cracks, and a tug-of-war is on. God is on the side of the heaviest contestants this day. Then as the afternoon light shoots long rays across the contented people, and the shadow of a short man becomes titanic and menacing, the call is to the platform, and all the chattering host masses itself in front of the speaker's table.\n\nA little man with gray hair and gray mustache, worn face, harassed lines between the eyes, and kindliness in the eyes, stands up squarely, and speaks emphatically. He is listened to rapturously, applauded mightily. That is Lloyd George, of England, at a Liberal fête.\n\nThis commonplace-looking man has torn the social structure of England into shreds. He has given the law-making power to elected persons instead of to hereditary lords. He is doing away with one rich man having a half dozen votes. He is breaking up the vast landed estates, held idle for the rearing of partridges, pheasant, and deer. He has insured a nation, and given pensions to the aged.\n\nThe two storm centers of the English-speaking world are Theodore Roosevelt and David Lloyd George. They are both born, bred, and perfected fighters. They have a jutting out of the lower lip and a smashing gesture of the arm and hand, which come from beating back opposition. They fire up into repartee and energy when the going is hard. They are at their fighting best under a rain of missiles and abuse. They came into a tame, sure world hoping to find it a scene of action and a continuing adventure.\n\nTheir lives have been a series of outbreaks. Most good men are like a firecracker. They have one loud noise in them, and then they disintegrate into silence. But these men carry explosive force which can repeat its violent performances. As quickly as their vitality is quenched at one point, it breaks loose with flame and speed at another point, and the end is not yet. They each contain a grain or two of spiritual radium, a demonic force which manifests itself again and again without exhausting its energy. They are vastly popular because they are tonic. They prove to us that things can be changed, that there is a lot in life besides routine and monotony.--\"Popular Magazine.\"\n\n### Paris Women Adopt Wounded Soldiers\n\nSociety Maids And Matrons Who Are Not Caring For At Least One Men Are Outcasts\n\nLondon, November 2.-Paris has hit upon a new greeting. When one woman meets another in the street she does not ask any of the inane questions that heretofore had such a great vogue. She straightaway gets down to business and asks: \"Have you adopted a wounded soldier?\" If the reply is in the affirmative the women feel themselves social and moral equals. But if it should happen to be in the negative then the poor neglectful culprit is an outcast of the worst kind.\n\nSeriously speaking this habit of \"adopting\" wounded soldiers has become widespread among wealthy society women here. Much of it is done through the Military Hospital of Val de Grace. After securing the necessary permit from the military authorities, these women pay a visit to the great wards where hundreds of the wounded soldiers lie mending.\n\nThey chat and laugh with the men until they come upon one whose personality is especially pleasing or whose circumstances are especially appealing. Arrangements are soon made by which the soldier is transferred to the care and responsibility of the interested woman.\n\n### Tracing It Back\n\nThe dentist says it's all right to tell the story, but that his name must not be used.\n\nO'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nJapan has begun installation of large exhibits in the Palaces of Food Products, Education and Liberal Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. These are, in addition to the three quarters of an acre of manufactured products, booths for which are nearly complete in the Palace of Manufactures. More than 600 tons of additional exhibits from Japan are due to arrive on the `Tenyo Maru` early in December.\n\n### Advertisements\n\n| Product | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| **THE ELECTRIC HOT-PAD** | It takes the place of the hot water bottle, is safe, light, durable, sanitary, effective, convenient, economical and fits the body. Connects with any light socket. Five hours for One cent's worth of current. Available at **The German Dispensary, ESCOLTA** `RE-87` |\n| **HORLICK'S MALTED MILK** | The perfect food for invalids, dyspeptics, infants. At all first-class grocers and drug stores. Distributed by **Pacific Commercial Co.**, sole distributors. |\n| **DRY CLEANING** | Send by Parcel Post if you live in the Provinces. If you live in the City, ring call-write-or wire **The Sanitary Steam Laundry** `5 2 9` |\n| **PURE SWISS MILK** | Available through **LUTZ & C°-N AGENT'S.`427** |\n\nReaffirmation of the participation of France in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition was made in a telegram sent to A. Legallet, President of the Auxiliary French Committee in San Francisco, by A. Tirman, General Commissioner for France to the exposition, on November 22nd.\n\nMEET ME IN THE HUBBUB AT 9 TO-NIGHT.\n\nO'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\n### In the Rear of the Allied Armies\n\nBy a Danish War Correspondent. After repeated visits of those regions in Northern France which have been chastised hardest by the fury of the war, I feel compelled to contradict some of the current ideas respecting combatants and non-combatants on the side of the Allies. The spirit of the corps of officers is undoubtedly good. And if it had only depended on them, many things would have been omitted which are now remembered against the French and English. But the spirit of the troops is so much worse, and their officers have to suffer more from that spirit than they dare confess. It is the spirit of the people which any unbiased observer must condemn. He who cares may claim attenuating circumstances for the people. It has become the victim of \"an unbridled press which is guided by criminal instincts.\" This press must be considered the intellectual cause of all the atrocities committed on French soil, not only against German wounded and prisoners, but also against Frenchmen as well and which have been committed against these latter in far greater number than is generally known.\n\nA government order of August 1st too carelessly opened the prisons. Human material was wanted. Whoever cared to become a soldier was welcome, no matter how much there was against him. I remember that even in pro-French Italian papers I was in Nice at the time that order made the most unfavorable impression. No one more than the officers deplores the perfectly unlimited admission of criminal elements to the army service. At Air on the Lys I saw a colonel in complete despair. He had, that morning, condemned to death four men of his artillery regiment for \"cowardice\" before the enemy and the plundering of their fallen comrades. In the afternoon further cases of criminal actions were reported to him from a section in an advanced post. I heard that the majority of the troops of this regiment were from the South of France, men, who in the North are not considered good material. The Italian inhabitants of Southern France have been accused of being no heroes. But I believe that Paris supplies far worse elements. I base these remarks upon the statements of numerous officers who criticized the measures of their War Office in the severest manner and without reserve.\n\nIn France a scape-goat must always be found for any fault. As soon as the army fares ill, Monsieur Millerand will be the scape-goat. But the evil itself can not be eradicated any more. For necessity compels to put, without regard to physical and moral qualifications for the purpose, all and every one into the ranks who can possibly be used. In that way the righteous and unrighteous are mixed together; of course the spirit of the army deteriorates thereby.\n\nYou will surely have read in your home papers, how in France the fear of spies has become epidemic. That explains itself in great measure by the existence of the mentioned bad elements in the army. A single man may be as brave, as capable of enthusiasm as possible. But when he believes that he must demonstrate to the comrade beside him, who, before the outbreak of the war, was either sitting behind prison bars, or allowed himself to be put into the uniform from complete lack of work, feelings of contempt or of suspicion, such a state of mind cannot contribute to an increase of eagerness or gladness. In the last three weeks \"the cases of desertion, especially on the left wing, have increased greatly.\" In Noyon I met a cavalry picket riding after two dozen deserters. They asked me about the road. We talked a while and I learnt several things which are characteristic for the feelings of the piou-piou. \"Really it is a pity to waste the time with catching these fellows,\" the leader explained. \"It is done only for authority's and discipline's sake. It would have been much better not to give us such comrades.\" The pursuit of the deserters meets with the greatest obstacles, I was told further. They enter the first destroyed or deserted house they find, procure civilian clothes \"and then hush, they are gone!\" That would not be the worst. But in civilians' clothes they can rob, plunder, burn and assassinate and commit all sorts of highway robbery. There is no more protection in the lone and deserted villages. The gendarmerie is elsewhere, and so greatly occupied that for the criminals the golden harvest time has come. Believe me, Sir, the picket leader told me, many a one from that confounded Paris, where all this gang comes from, would never have thought of becoming a defender of his country, if he had not reasoned: This is an opportunity which will never return, to make hay. As long as we are in barracks in the open field, we are safe. But as soon as we come to a larger village with some ruined houses, we can be sure that we lose again several of the fellows who in civil life are not honest men. Rarely one alone deserts. Always entire gangs conspire to desert. Sometimes I almost believe that they did not make away in the beginning of the war 'with all the Apaches in Paris' and that we are afflicted with that plague which has become alike the terror of the army and the peaceable citizen, just as they were the terror of the Parisians.\n\nOf the work of the hyenas of the battlefield and the looters one can convince himself in every deserted village. Since it is out of the question that German or French armies break into houses whose owners have fled before the arrival of the troops, it can only be supposed that criminals do their wicked work, taking advantage of the situation. If by accident gendarmes come upon the scene, the burglars pretend, as I have been told repeatedly, to be the owners of the house themselves. If the gendarmes happen to know the owner of the house, they either submit to their fate, or pretend they have been sent by the owner to fetch one or the other object. Frequently they set undamaged houses, after having looted them, afire. In this manner many a solitary chateau, many a country-place, which had been spared by friend and foe alike, has found its end in dreadful devastation. The French government \"should keep a better eye on its criminals.\" But in order to keep the house-breakers and incendiaries under inspection, a much larger contingent of police and constabulary is necessary than France has, today, at its disposal. On our way back from Compiegne to Paris we have been stopped (Continued on page 141)\n\n### Advertisements\n\n| Name | Profession/Service | Contact |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **T. H. STEPHENS** | Dentist | Cosmopolitan Bldg., Sta. Cruz Bridge. Only office with laughing gas. Gold Crowns -- `P10` |\n| **M. A. LOUIS** | ROENTGENOLOGIST | Suite 316-314 NaIAN Building, Escolta. Entrance, Gulle David. ELEVATOR SERVICE. Tel. `398` |\n| **O'CONNELL'S** | Independent | SUBSCRIBE FOR `15.00 A YEAR` |\n\n## Page Eleven",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n## Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th March, 1915.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter marked **CONFIDENTIAL** of the 20th February, I am directed to inform you that the woman referred to by you, Pun Mei Lan, duly arrived in Hong Kong with two cheques, one for $750 and one for $150, signed by Mr. Clausen drawn on the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank here.\n\n2. After making careful enquiries into the work of the Kieler Mission, and perusing your report dated the 11th December last containing references to the mission, His Excellency the Governor authorised the cashing of the cheques by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, which is liquidating the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank. The sum of $850 represented all the money belonging to the Kieler Mission in Hong Kong, and although Mrs. Pun admitted that at the instigation of the German Consul at Pakhoi the mission had inserted some references to the war from the German point of view in their magazine, His Excellency did not consider it necessary to withhold the money which was apparently needed for the maintenance of the orphans and teachers in their schools.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) Claud Severn,  \nColonial Secretary.\n\nW. Stark-Toller, Esq.,  \nHis Britannic Majesty's Consul,  \nPAKHOI.\n\nNo. 3458/1915.  \n**CONFIDENTIAL**  \nCOPY.",
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        "content_text": "After making careful enquiries into the work of the Kieler Mission, and perusing your report dated the 11th December last containing references to the Mission, His Excellency the Governor authorised the cashing of the cheques by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which is liquidating the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank. The sum of $850 represented all the money belonging to the Kieler Mission in Hong Kong, and although Mrs. Pun admitted that at the instigation of the German Consul at Pakhoi the Mission had inserted some references to the war from the German point of view in their magazine, His Excellency did not consider it necessary to withhold the money which was apparently needed for the maintenance of the orphans and teachers in their schools.",
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        "content_text": "# CANADA INDIA COMMITTEE\n\n## THE COMMITTEE'S OBJECT\n\nTo Promote a Wider Appreciation of Canada's Relation to India and to Secure its Equitable Adjustment.\n\nTORONTO, CANADA\n\nDear Friend,\n\nMr. Ernest W. Jackson, the bearer of this letter, is going to India for the purpose of enlisting the help, cooperation, and guidance of India's sons who are interested in the great cause to which we are devoted.\n\nWe believe he will receive courteous and sympathetic assistance. We bespeak for him your hearing when his mission is made known.\n\nThe Canada India Committee has been at work for about a year and comprises nearly one hundred associate members. It originated in British Columbia up to the summer of 1914 when the \"Komagata Maru\" passengers were refused entrance into Canada.\n\nThe declared objects of this Committee are stated above, based as these are on the fundamental principle of a common brotherhood and One Father, we have to contend at every point with the intense individualism which prevails among the people of Canada.\n\nPerhaps nowhere is materialism so strong within the British Empire, and so unaffected by the lessons now being learnt nearer the war zone.\n\nUnder the direction of Dr. Sunder Singh, we have worked incessantly to bring about something resembling an organization. We have conducted many small meetings throughout this City to explain the work and to secure members.\n\nIt is safe to say that each member represents much time, energy, and money, and even now few members have any real vision of the cause.\n\nWe also have a paper for enlightening people here on India. But the opposition is strong and well-organized. It turns up everywhere and at present effectually keeps us from getting a hearing in the churches and the representative societies. The voice of slander and the suspicious word makes great havoc, constantly upsetting the minds even of our own workers.\n\nWe know what we want. We should spend about Rs 300/- per month on a strong, well-managed, and well-written monthly magazine, paid stenographer, etc., (our own volunteers have worked themselves almost to nervous rocks) and all located in a central house. We have been spending nearly this amount during the winter, but the strain is too great on the very few who contribute their money and time.\n\nOur present members can cheerfully provide one half this sum, and we think it probable that our Indian friends will see that we have the other half.",
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        "content_text": "120\n\nSafety car.\n\nTridiges and detonators.\n\nWeight of packages.\n\nGovernment not responsible for damage.\n\nOther explosives.\n\nWeight of packages.\n\nGovernment not responsible for damage.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nand so on, increasing by 8 cents per package for each 25 lbs. of gunpowder, up to and in excess of 100 lbs. according as the gunpowder may be loose or in tins.\n\nPackages containing safety cartridges to be charged per 25 lbs. weight, 6 cents a month or fraction of a month. Packages of detonators 9 cents for 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing; and, as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\nSCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF OTHER EXPLOSIVES.\n\nNitro-glycerine, or gloroine oil, gun cotton, fulminating mercury, dynamite, lithofracteur, Horsley's patent blasting powder, &c., &c.\n\nCases of the above containing 25 lbs. or less, ...... 16 cents\n\nCases containing more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs., 28 cents\n\nCases containing 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs., .......... 40 cents\n\nCases containing 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs., ..... 52 cents\n\nand so on, increasing by 12 cents per package for each 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing; and as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n121\n\n\"Northern Boundary - An imaginary straight line between the White Rock at Tai-kok-tsai and the southernmost point of Stonecutters Island.\n\n\"Southern Boundary - An imaginary straight line between Yau-mati Police Station and the southernmost point of Stonecutters Island.\n\nWestern Boundary - An imaginary straight line between the Custom House at Lai Chi Kok and the Kowloon Godown flag-staff intersected by the Northern and Southern Boundaries.\n\nBetween 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. a clear passage of 60 yards from the shore shall be kept.\n\nIII. - Sam Shui Po.\n\n**Southern Boundary\". — An imaginary straight line between the Harbour Master's Station at Sam Shui Po and the High Rock at north east point of Stonecutters Island intersected by the Western Boundary.\n\n**Western Boundary\". — An imaginary straight line between the Custom House at Lai Chi Kok and the Kowloon Godown flag-staff.\n\nIV. Other Harbour Master's Stations.\n\nAs the Harbour Master may direct.\n\n[8.89.]\n\nTable T.\n\n  \n    Trading Licences\n    One year\n    One voyage\n    Fishing Extension\n  \n  \n    Under 100 piculs\n    $6.00\n    $1.00\n    $1.00\n  \n  \n    From 100 to 200\n    8.00\n    1.25\n    1.00\n  \n  \n    200 to 300\n    10.00\n    1.50\n    2.00\n  \n  \n    300 to 400\n    12.00\n    1.75\n    2.00\n  \n  \n    400 to 500\n    14.00\n    2.00\n    3.00\n  \n  \n    500 to 600\n    16.00\n    2.25\n    3.00\n  \n  \n    600 to 700\n    18.00\n    2.50\n    4.00\n  \n  \n    700 to 800\n    20.00\n    2.75\n    4.00\n  \n  \n    800 to 900\n    22.00\n    3.00\n    5.00\n  \n  \n    900 to 1,000\n    24.00\n    3.25\n    5.00\n  \n  \n    1,000 to 2,000\n    26.00\n    3.50\n    6.00\n  \n  \n    2,000 to 3,000\n    28.00\n    3.75\n    6.00\n  \n  \n    3,000 to 4,000\n    30.00\n    4.00\n    7.00\n  \n  \n    4,000 to 5,000\n    32.00\n    4.25\n    7.00\n  \n  \n    5,000 to 6,000\n    34.00\n    4.50\n    8.00\n  \n  \n    6,000 to 7,000\n    36.00\n    4.75\n    8.00\n  \n  \n    7,000 to 8,000\n    38.00\n    5.00\n    9.00\n  \n  \n    8,000 to 9,000\n    40.00\n    5.00\n    9.00\n  \n  \n    9,000 to 10,000\n    42.00\n    5.00\n    10.00\n  \n  \n    Over 10,000 piculs\n    44.00\n    5.00\n    10.00\n  \n\nI. - Victoria.\n\n\"Northern Boundary\". The south line of the Central Fairway.\n\n\"Southern Boundary\". — An imaginary straight line 250 yards from a parallel to the Praya Wall.\n\n\"Eastern Boundary\". — An imaginary straight line in continuation of Pasig Wharf.\n\n\"Western Boundary\". — As far as the Harbour Master shall think fit.\n\n* As amended by G. N. 109 of 1908 and No. 17 of 1912.\n\n* As amended by G. N. 122 of 1919 and No. 6 of 1912.",
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        "content_text": "HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nbeen required for the proper supervision of roads and other public works under construction. These men are usually appointed on a temporary basis and have so far been paid out of lapsing salaries; their posts are now fully shown in the Estimates. Increase of clerical work in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance Office has necessitated the addition of one 4th Grade Clerk while one 2nd Grade Chinese Surveyor has been added under \"Miscellaneous\" for work in connection with new roads under construction.\n\nThese new posts have necessitated several increases in Conveyance Allowances shown under \"Other Charges\"; it has been possible, however, to reduce other votes to the extent of $4,370.\n\nto find useful employment for a larger staff for many years to come, unless there should be some unlooked-for set-back to the prosperity of the Colony,\n\nAs regards details, it will be observed that in Hongkong the first six items are for the completion of buildings already in progress. Item 7 provides for quarters for scavenging coolies in the Western portion of the City. Item 8 for a new Fire Brigade station. Item 9 for the completion of the Crematorium. The mortuary in Hill Road is now too close to new residences that it is considered desirable to remove it to a new site. Under item 11 provision is made for building a second block of married quarters for Police in Caine Road. Item 12 is for twelve new houses in Wong Nei Chong Road. Six of these it is proposed to lease to the Naval Authorities for two years to house Naval Civil Officers, who are at present occupying military quarters. It is essential that these officers should reside in Victoria, and, by the provision of quarters for them, the pressure on the housing resources of the Colony will be, in some small measure, relieved. The present summer quarters for the families of Police-officers are quite inadequate, and it is proposed under Item 13 to begin the erection of a suitable building on the Peak.\n\nSeveral votes for Public Works Recurrent show an increase this year over those for the current year amounting in all to $98,100, with reductions in other votes amounting to $14,500—the net increase being, therefore, $83,600. The reasons for these increases and decreases are fully shown in the foot-notes to the Estimates.\n\nThe conclusion of peace makes it possible to proceed with many public works held over owing to the demands made on the resources of the Colony for war purposes. Honourable members will not be surprised, therefore, to find that the sum provided under the head Public Works, Extraordinary, exceeds $4,000,000.\n\nUnder the heading \"Communications\" Item 16 (a) to (g) sums are provided for completing works now in progress. This is nearly double the amount provided for this year, and nearly three times the amount spent in recent years. These are large figures, but I feel sure that the Council will agree with me that, now that the war is over, it is the wisest policy to press on our programme of public works to the utmost of our ability in order both to make up the arrears of the years of war and to prepare as fully as possible for the era of increased trade and prosperity which, we hope, is now beginning. Even as it is we have been obliged to omit several works of importance, but if, as the year advances, it appears to be possible to deal with an even larger programme than that now included in the Estimates, I shall not hesitate to lay before you supplementary proposals, to which I shall hope to secure your assent. I would mention here that any such increase in work would almost certainly necessitate an increase in the staff of the Public Works Department, but there can, I think, be no doubt that it will be possible to find useful employment for them.\n\nUnder (k) a sum of $60,000 is provided for a very necessary widening of the road between North Point and Quarry Point, while (l) and (m) are for improvements in Shaukiwan village. It is proposed to open Kennedy Road to motor traffic, and the sum provided under (n) will enable part of the work to be undertaken. The road contemplated under (o) will open up some good building sites, and at the same time will provide for an alternative route from Aberdeen to Victoria, avoiding the very steep hill on the Pokfulum Road. Under (p) provision is made for beginning the construction of a road over Wong Nai Chong Gap to Deep Water Bay, and under (q) for the first part of a road which will eventually reach Shek O and Cape d'Aguilar and will, it is hoped, lead to the development of that part of the island, which is at present somewhat isolated. Under (r) the road to Wanchai Gap will be extended to Magazine Gap, giving access to new building sites.\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nUnder Miscellaneous the principal work will be the filling-in of the low-lying areas in the neighbourhood of Tai-kok-tsui and Fuk Tsun Heung. Item (t) is for continuing the work of surfacing the main roads in the City with asphaltum.\n\nThough there is abundance of water in the Kowloon Reservoir the difficulty has hitherto been to supply the rapidly growing population owing to the impossibility of getting water-mains of suitable size during the war. Provision has been made for laying a larger main from the reservoir filter-beds and for improving the distribution system.\n\nUnder Item 17 provision is made for beginning the construction of a tramway to Wanchai Gap, which will provide a rapid means of access both to Mount Cameron and to the hills between Wanchai and Magazine Gaps.\n\nUnder \"Miscellaneous Works\" provision is made for reconstructing ferry piers and beginning the reclamation scheme at Ap Lei Chau. Some important improvements are also to be made at the Central Police-station.\n\nKowloon Projects.\n\nIn the New Territories provision has been made for completing the surfacing of the road from Fanling to Castle Peak so that it may be suitable for motor transport in all weathers. A very necessary patrol path along a portion of the frontier is to be constructed.\n\nUnder the headings \"Drainage\" and \"Miscellaneous\" large sums are to be expended in connection with the growing town of Shamshuipo, and provision has also been made for a scheme of electric lighting for Taipo and Taipo Market.\n\nThe estimates for the Post Office show little change from those of former years. A large increase in the work of the Parcels Branch has necessitated the addition of two 5th Grade Postal Clerks and of two Postmen at $144 each, and increases under \"Other Charges\" have been considered necessary amounting to $1,100. The working of the Post Offices continues on a satisfactory basis, the net profit for the year 1918 for both Postal and Telegraph Services amounting roughly to $270,000.\n\nUnder Buildings provision is made for beginning a new Fire-station and a new Police-station; the erection of quarters at the Royal Observatory and in King's Park and very necessary alterations at the Water Police-station to render it suitable for the increased number of Police to be accommodated when the Fire-station is erected.\n\nUnder \"Roads\" a sum of $150,000 is provided for making new roads and improving existing roads, while it is proposed to extend Coronation Road towards its eventual terminus in Sham-shui-po. A beginning is also to be made with the road to the China Light and Power Company's new station.\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway.\n\nUnder the heading Kowloon-Canton Railway there are a few small changes in the staff and a considerable number of increases and decreases occur in the votes for \"Other Charges\" under the various heads. Expenditure on Railway varies somewhat more than in the case of other Departments. These increases and decreases, as will be seen from the Abstract on the table, amount to $94,035 and $22,249 respectively, giving a net increase of $71,787. The reasons for the changes will be found in the foot-notes attached to the Estimates.",
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        "content_text": "Council\n\nNext, Sir, I take the objection that this proposed road is not desirable. First, on the ground that it will destroy one of our greatest assets at the Peak, namely, the absolute quiet which we enjoy at night. If, as I understand to be the case, it is proposed to continue this road ultimately on through the Mount Kellett Gap down to Pokfulam Road we are faced with the possibility of a fine procession of joy riders at the Peak at all hours of the day and night. And, even if you call a halt at Chamberlain Road, you cannot prevent anybody who can afford the hire of a car from going up to the Peak on a fine moonlight night, as I presume that the Government does not intend to put up a turn-pike and to issue passes to Peak residents only.\n\nAnd now I come to my second ground of undesirability which I consider most important, and that is the question of safety of the children living at Magazine Gap and the Peak. The proposed route of the road lies through Magazine Gap itself, and thence along the Craigmin Road to Craigmin West, and subsequently it has to squeeze its way through the small gap between \"Cheltordale\" and \"Balgownie\" and then to run for some distance along the present road past the Peak Church, which road is the approach to the Peak school for all children going to that school from any house to the east of that school. And the question which I wish to put is this: Why should we wantonly and unnecessarily introduce a new danger for children living at Magazine Gap and the Peak by building such a road?\n\nI notice that tenders are now being invited for the construction of this proposed road, but I venture to hope that Your Excellency, before sanctioning the acceptance of any tender, will carefully seek for the correct answer to these two questions: -\n\n1. Is such a road really necessary for the purpose of giving to Peak residents access by motor to other parts of the Colony?\n\n2. Is such a road desirable, having regard to the danger which it will bring to children at Magazine Gap and the Peak, and having regard to the fact that it will destroy the present priceless peace and quiet at the Peak?\n\nMR. LAU CHU PAK.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Lau CHU PAK said: - Your Excellency, on behalf of my Chinese colleague and myself, I beg to offer a few observations on certain items in the Estimates. In our opinion, and that of most of those whom we represent, the reduction in the number of hawkers' licences, which is intended to save the Police trouble, will more likely have an opposite effect, inasmuch as in addition to looking out for unlicensed hawkers, they will have to devote more time and attention to watching the movements of the unemployed and the vagrants, whose ranks will be swelled by those who fail to obtain licences for hawking as an honest means of earning their livelihood.\n\nThe Chinese population has in seven years grown enormously and will, so long as political disturbances across the border periodically crop up, continue to grow, so that the number of licences for hawking needs to be increased instead of being reduced. From the Chinese point of view, it is more in accordance with righteousness to give a man a few dollars as capital for hawking so as to enable him to gain a decent livelihood than to leave him unemployed and drift into the ranks of vagrants. I think the objections to hawking would be minimized, if the licences be issued in each district and increased or reduced as they may be in proportion to the number of people residing therein.\n\nThe licences may also be classified, so that, in the vicinities of markets, licences for selling only commodities other than market products would be issued. In view of the fact that the Chinese community considers it exceedingly hard on a poor but honest man to be punished for trying to gain a livelihood by honest means, not because he defies the law by refusing to pay for a licence, but because he is denied one when he willingly offers to pay for it, we hope the Government will reconsider its decision from a more sympathetic point of view.\n\nAt any rate, all those who are at present holding licences should be given new licences and an extra number should be given to new applicants in proportion to the increase in the population. As regards the two thousand licences which it is proposed to abolish, we should also like to know how it is to be done and whether steps will be taken to prevent possible abuses in connection with the issue.\n\nA MATTER OF EQUITY.\n\nWater Excess Supply and Meter Rents - Under this heading, it is proposed to charge for excessive use of water in the rider-main districts. It may not be out of place to recall what really led up to the introduction of the rider-main system. The system was asked for as a concession from the Government by the Chinese residents and they paid the cost of its construction, which amounted to more than $1,000,000.\n\nThe conditions under which the Chinese live here, to-day, are the same as they were seventeen years ago when the system was introduced. Their houses are almost all let out by floors, and in many cases a floor is sub-let to several families. The ground floor occupied by shopkeepers and tradesmen uses more water than the tenants of the upper floors. Will a meter be fixed on each floor or a meter on the ground floor only, to serve for the whole house? If so, how will the charges be equitably apportioned amongst the different floors or the different families, as the case may be? And who is to be held liable for payment, when one floor becomes vacant?\n\nIf the landlord is to be held liable for everything, how is he to recoup himself? Is he allowed simply to add what he likes on to the rent and is such addition, if counted as rent, again taxable? These reasons, together with several others were, seventeen years ago, laid before the Government by the Chinese community with the request that the rider-main be substituted for the meter system and the Government granted the request on condition that they contributed to the cost of its construction.\n\nPractically speaking, it was in the nature of a contract between the Government and the Chinese house-owners. Now, after so many years, in spite of the fact that the Chinese had until recently suffered much hardship from short supplies and that they had been made to spend so much money, they are to be charged for what is essential to good health and cleanliness in their narrow and crowded quarters.\n\nHave those who have originated the proposal to charge for excessive use of water in the rider-main districts weighed well every condition, under...\n\nPage 264",
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        "content_text": "Council\n\n11\n\nS LOW.\" Liao alicen and pretends to carry on a trade as a cover for criminal practices. You cannot have both the mediaeval and the modern system. The native idea of public thoroughfares is not in accordance with the modern school of thought on the subject and I think it is reasonable in the interests of traffic control and the management of the city generally that these licenses should be kept within a reasonable figure. The honourable member also mentioned that there might be abuse in connection with the issue of a limited number of licences. I do not think so. All present holders will be entitled to a renewal of their licences and new applications are carefully inquired into.\n\nWith regard to the proposed charge for excess water, the rider mains were given at the request of the Chinese but it must be borne in mind that they were given also to enable the Government to check the use of water and their primary object was that when the shortage of water came in the winter to cut off the water from Chinese tenement houses. It was found that, in order to conserve the supply, it was necessary to cut it down to something under two hours a day. During a period of restricted supply the Chinese turned on the tap and wasted the water. Now we have a supply lasting throughout the year and the wastage is very great indeed. I think the hon. member would prefer some tax upon the amount used rather than supply should be limited to an hour a day, with street fountains only available during the rest of the time. There are certainly various difficulties as regards the imposition of the tax but its incidence would be on a wide basis. There is no definite statement as to increased fees; it is simply proposed to add to the revenue from this source.\n\n20\n\nAs regards the question of the buoys in the harbour, raised by Hon. Mr. Parr, the suggestion to increase the fees has not been gone into at any length. The cost of everything—even the cost of passages on the ships of the hon. member's own company—have gone up very much indeed and there is reason why the Government should remain in the position it was in six years ago. With regard to emigration fees our fees are, I think, below those of other ports and the figures show that we can put on these extra charges. The Council may rest assured that the Government will do nothing to prejudice the important interests of the Colony in this matter.\n\nI may, in conclusion, express my deep appreciation of the complimentary words expressed by the two hon. members with regard to myself, which, I think, are rather deserved by the service as a whole to whose efficient co-operation the smooth running of the Government machine is entirely due.—(Applause).\n\n19\n\nMr. POLLOCK—One point to which the Hon. Colonial Secretary did not refer was to the question of private practitioners being allowed to attend their own patients in the Kowloon hospital.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY—That is the intention of the Government.\n\nHon. Mr. POLLOCK—I am not convinced that the unofficial members refused the Wauchai Gap tramway.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY—I discussed it in Committee and it was agreed that the scheme should be omitted.\n\nDIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.\n\nDIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS: replying to the various points raised by members, with regard to public works which have not been dealt with by the Hon. Colonial Secretary I would ask permission first to express my deep appreciation of the remarks relating to myself which have fallen from the hon. member opposite (Hon. Mr. Hutlock), and from my hon. friend on my left (Hon. Mr. Parr). It has always been my endeavour to maintain the high standard of excellence of the public works generally, which had been established by some at least of my predecessors in this Colony. The hon. senior unofficial member referred to the necessity for the prompt dealing with plans for alterations to buildings and new buildings. Provision is made in the ordinance for a very limited period within which plans must be dealt with and if he could bring to my notice any case in which that period has been exceeded I will be glad to investigate it. According to the ordinance the parties who deposit such plans may proceed with the buildings if no intimation of disapproval is received within the period stated.\n\nWith regard to the Praya East Reclamation scheme I can only say that some delay will necessarily result from the visit of Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice to investigate the question of harbour improvements generally and the establishment of wharfage and railway communication on the other side of the water. It is necessary to have a great deal of information prepared for his benefit and the staff that would be otherwise engaged on the Praya East Reclamation work has had to be taken off for that purpose.\n\nThe hon. senior unofficial member referred to the motor road from Chamberlain road to Magazine Gap. In that case the question was referred to the Public Works Committee, consisting of all the unofficial members, and they were unanimous in recommending the construction of that road. I am aware, of course, that my hon. friend Mr. Pollock was absent from the Colony when that occurred, but I think he should have it out with his locum tenens in the first instance before complaining of the insertion of this item.\n\nHon. Mr. POLLOCK: I entirely disagree with the hon. member. Why should I not have my own views on the subject, and why should I not express them?\n\nThe DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS: I merely wished to mention that it was not a matter which had been inserted by the Government without reference to the unofficial members and that the work had received their unanimous support.\n\nI think the Colonial Secretary dealt very fully with the question of the rider main system. The reason for introducing this system was that a Bill had been passed by this Council providing for the withdrawal of the services to the houses generally unless meters were introduced, and for giving a supply to the people from public fountains only. That was the reason why the rider main system was applied for, and ultimately introduced.\n\nThe main object of the meters, of course, is to economise the water supply and prevent the necessity for further great extensions of the waterworks to maintain the supply. Such extensions, if necessary in the future, must be attended by far greater costs.\n\n211",
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        "content_text": "HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nMore Hospital Accommodation\n\nItem 10 provides for the reconstruction of the Victoria Hospital and the building of a maternity wing. A committee was recently appointed to advise on the matter and their recommendations have been adopted.\n\n213\n\n49\n\nItem 28 is in respect of furniture for officers' quarters. It has been decided with the approval of the Council to provide heavy furniture for all quarters occupied by European officers.\n\nItem 30 provides for a Marconi Bellini Direction Finder which it is proposed to install at Cape D'Aguilar in order to assist shipping during the foggy season.\n\nItem 31 provides for the reconstruction of Queen's Statue Wharf which is long overdue.\n\nItem 11 refers to a proposal to build a new hospital to relieve the pressure at the Civil Hospital where the demand has outgrown the accommodation. It is the intention to allow private practitioners to have wards in which they can see their own patients in the new hospital. The question of site is bound up with the Military Lands questions, and it may not be possible to make a commencement next year.\n\nItem 12 provides for a building for an outpatient department for the Government Civil Hospital, which should be of great use both to the Government and to the University.\n\nItem 13 is in respect of the rebuilding of Saiyingpun School on a site on Bonham Road near the University, which it is hoped to acquire. The site affords ample space for a large school on modern lines.\n\nRoad Construction on the Island\n\nUnder Roads, item 16, I may call attention to the road from Bowen Road to Deep Water Bay, which will provide quicker communication with the southern side of the island; to the road from Taitam Gap to Cape D'Aguilar, which will open up new country; to the road from Wanchai Gap, past Magazine Gap, to Chamberlain Road, which will open up the Peak to motor traffic; to the widening of Garden Road; to the widening and improvement of the Shaukiwan Road, which forms part of the scheme for driving a 100ft. main road along the line of the present Praya East out to Shaukiwan.\n\nIt is not proposed to proceed with the scheme for widening Queen's Road East, as the expense is enormous, and on the completion of the Praya East Reclamation there will be a 100ft. road close by and parallel to Queen's Road East.\n\nUnder item 17 provision is made for a cable from the Observatory to Stonecutters Wireless Telegraph Station for the purpose of sending out time signals.\n\nItem 37, 8-inch main from North Point to Shaukiwan, is in connection with the same scheme.\n\nItem 38 provides for an additional main to the Peak which is necessary to cope with the increasing demand for water at the Peak.\n\nItem 41 provides additional plant for the Peak Pumps. Temporary arrangements for a water supply to Mount Cameron are proposed under item 42 in order to encourage the development of building sites which have been opened by the Wanchai Gap Road.\n\nItem 43 provides for a water supply to Repulse Bay.\n\nItems 45 to 48 are in respect of next year's expenditure by the Government on the Praya East Reclamation scheme.\n\nThe commencement of a new Police Station at Yaumati is provided for under item 49. Space is being left for the erection of a Magistracy which will before long be required on the Kowloon side.\n\nA Hospital for Kowloon\n\nThe sum of $50,000 is inserted under item 51 in respect of the Kowloon Hospital. It is proposed in the first instance to commence with a small building which will be capable of expansion when the needs of Kowloon become better known. It is considered desirable that the main hospital establishments should continue to be on the island.\n\nItem 53 provides for a Police Station at Mongkoktsui, which is required to cope with the increasing population in that neighbourhood.",
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        "content_text": "535\n\n1.\n2.\n\nEvidence of Child-Slavery in Hong-Kong.\n\nExtract from Hong-Kong Telegraph, Nov. 5, 1918.\n\n\"On one point there will be no dispute and that is that Chinese children are bought and sold in this British Colony without their consent being in any way obtained, and that no attempt whatever is made to hide the fact.\"\n\nExtract from South China Morning Post, Nov. 5, 1919.\n\n**Prominence is given to-day to the problem of Child-Slavery in Hong-Kong**. The practice which is purely Chinese continues, and no authority seems to be strong and energetic enough to alter it. Newcomers are generally shocked when they learn that such a condition as slavery exists in a British Colony, in perversion of the grand principle of freedom for which the British Flag stands. Ways and means must be devised to secure the happiness and freedom of the slaves when they are released from those who at present exercise what they consider to be legitimate claims over them.\n\n3. Correspondent in China Mail, Nov. 9, 1919.\n\n4.\n\nChina now forbids the sale of human beings, whilst we can sell them here (Hong-Kong) in the market overt. What I would suggest is that a law should at once be passed forbidding the sale of human beings.\n\nExtract from Hong-Kong Daily Press, March 8, 1919.\n\n\"It may be that ill-treatment of bought persons is a punishable offence, and that it is questionable whether in Hong-Kong the owner is entitled to the custody of a child acquired by purchase, but the fact remains that the law on the subject is a dead letter. No attempt is made to check the traffic, and no steps are taken to ascertain how such children are treated.\n\n5.\n\nColonel John Ward, House of Commons.\n\n6.\n7.\n\nMarch 31st, April 26th 1926.\n\nSee Hansard Report. Colonel Ward describes his personal knowledge of child-slavery when in Hong-Kong in 1917.\n\nExtract from St. John's Cathedral (Hong-Kong) Magazine.\n\n\"It is a pity that the Government will not take the step proposed, namely Registration and inspection of girl-slaves. It is the least that ought to be done. Although slavery may not be legally in existence in this Colony, a girl can be bought and sold and she can be beaten by her owner. If that is not slavery, it is difficult to know what is.\"\n\nPolice Court Evidence.\n\n(1) At the Magistracy, June 16, 1920 a Chinese woman was charged with cruelty to two slave-girls. (`Hong-Kong Daily Press`)",
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        "content_text": "## The University is composed of three Faculties\nThe University is composed of three Faculties: 1.—Medical, which offers ample facilities for the practice of medicine. The medical laboratories were the gifts of various Hongkong Chinese residents. There is a large staff of instructors in medicine and all the principal medical practitioners in Hongkong give lectures at the University. Clinical work is carried out at the Government Civil and Tung Wah Hospitals. The degrees are recognised for registration in Great Britain by the General Medical Council. 2. Arts. The establishment of this Faculty was largely due to the munificence of a Chinese gentleman in the Straits Settlements (Mr. Cheung Pat-ane). Its special object is to provide training suitable to those who desire to enter the public service or the higher branches of mercantile life. The course of instruction comprises English and Chinese literature, political and constitutional history, political economy, jurisprudence, international and commercial law, psychology, the school practice of education and history of educational theories. 3.—Engineering. This Faculty is divided into three branches-Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical. The University has an exceptionally large equipment of machinery and apparatus, and has a number of laboratories and workshops. There is practically no place in China where students have such an opportunity of seeing all kinds of machinery in actual working and of learning their practical management. Several graduates have obtained an Honour's Degree awarded by the Examiners of the London University.\n\nThe University insists upon all students having a proper knowledge of their own language although instruction at the University is carried out in English. Students are required to pass an examination in written Chinese before entering, and two Chinese Professors, both Hanlin graduates, give lectures on the classics and history of China.\n\n## V-PUBLIC WORKS\n\nThe Central Police Station and the Harbour Office extensions were completed, and a commencement was made with the erection of two large blocks of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies, one block being situated in Belcher's Street and the other in Taipingshan.\n\nGood progress was made with two blocks of Quarters for Government Servants at Happy Valley each containing 6 houses. A block of flats in Caine Road for married Police Officers, and three houses at the Peak designed for Quarters for Senior Officers were all well in hand at the close of the year.\n\nA start was also made with the erection of two other houses at the Peak for the Puisne Judge and Mr. John Duncan respectively. The former is being built under arrangement with Messrs. Denison, Ram & Gibbs, the latter being designed and constructed by Mr. Duncan personally.\n\nIn addition to these, two blocks of 4 houses each were under construction at Leighton Hill, and a scheme was approved for the erection of 5 detached, and one block of semi-detached houses, and a block containing 4 flats on the area known as the \"Homestead Site,\" at the Peak; both of these works were placed in the hands of local firms of Architects, the Leighton Hill houses being carried out by Messrs. Denison, Ram & Gibbs, whilst the work at the \"Homestead Site\" was entrusted to Messrs. Little, Adam & Wood.\n\nPlans were also prepared by the Public Works Department for a large block of buildings on the area opposite the Central Market, comprising a New Fire Station, Offices for the Imports and Exports and Medical Departments and the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs. In Kowloon, a Fire Station was completed in Salisbury Road, and other minor works were in progress.\n\nWith regard to communications in Hongkong, the following roads were completed:-Road from Gap Road to Bowen Road, and from Bowen Road to Wanchai Gap, also the Findlay Road extension.\n\nWorks commenced and in progress during the year were:- the first section of the road from Taitam Gap to Shek O, the road from Wanchai Gap to Magazine Gap, the road connecting Pokfulam and Victoria Roads contouring the Western side of Mount Davis, and the extension of Lugard Road, whilst extensive widening improvements were carried out to the Shaukiwan Road.\n\nIn Kowloon, considerable progress was made with the extension of Coronation Road, also with the road connecting Mongkok tsui with Kowloon City; and the road from the Kowloon City Road to the China Light & Power Company's new Station and the Hong-kong & Whampoa Dock Company's new houses at Tai Wan Bay was completed.\n\nAdvantage was taken of the large amount of filling obtained from the extension of Coronation Road referred to above to level up portions of the low-lying areas east of Shanghai Street near this point.\n\nIn the New Territories, the extensive improvements to that portion of the Taipo Road between the 9th and 18th milestones were nearly completed, whilst further improvements to this road between the 3rd and 5th mile-stones were begun. A considerable portion of the road between Castle Peak and Fanling was macadamized, the surface being finished with asphaltum.\n\nProgress was made with the necessary resumptions of property required for widening Wanchai Road and Queen's Road East, and a considerable number of houses were, either by partial or complete re-erection, set back to the new alignment.\n\nA commencement was made with a further section of the Shamshuipo Reclamation Scheme, and extensive building activity prevailed on the portion already reclaimed. The Kai Tak Land Investment Company made substantial progress with the reclamation of an extensive area of foreshore in Kowloon City, as did also the Standard Oil Company of New York in extending their reclamation at Laichikok.\n\nPage 22\nPage 23\nPage 352",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nIn regard to item 4 on page 12, how it comes about that the estimate for 1922, $62,700 so much exceeds the approved estimate of $14,600 for 1921.\n\n### THE WANCHAI GAP TRAMWAY\n\nAs regards the projected tramway to Wanchai Gap, the unofficial members would suggest that the question be gone into as to whether it would not be preferable to carry up such tramway (a little to the East of Wanchai Gap) almost up to the top of Mount Cameron, as it would seem possible that, with branch roads (ricksha roads) at intervals from the stations on such tramway, an increase could be made in sites available for building at different levels on Mount Cameron, the first station from the bottom being on Black's Link, the second and third at different levels above that, and the fourth station being at the top of the Tramway. It may also be pointed out, if it be suggested that the time is hardly ripe for such a tramway, that the tramway would take some time to construct and furthermore that, when the present Peak Tramway was opened in May, 1888, there were then only about a dozen houses in the Peak District and half a dozen houses in the Magazine Gap District. Moreover, a tram is obviously the only feasible means of approach enabling those of moderate means to reside in the Mount Cameron District and is also indispensable for the transport of provisions and other necessaries.\n\nIn regard to Public Works recurrent, we concur in the remarks which will presently be made by the Senior Chinese Unofficial Member on the subject of levelling the road from No. 7 Police Station to the back of the Gas Works and also as to the desirability, from the point of view of the safety of the motoring public, of the Government resuming the Pavilion at the junction of Park Road and Bonham Road West.\n\n### Dealing now with Public Works Extraordinary, seriatim, we have the following remarks to make :-\n\n**(i)** Re item 4, \"Victoria Hospital Maternity Block,\" we should like some explanation as to how it comes about that the revised Estimate so far exceeds the original Estimate.\n\nPage 393\n\n**(ii)** Re items 5 and 16, namely new Offices for the Public Works Department and proposed Volunteer Rifle Range, we should like the Government to make it a matter of special urgency to push on with these Works, and also with item 57, the Kowloon Hospital, the commencement of work on which has been very much delayed. In fact, when the speaker was recently over in Kowloon, the site was absolutely untouched by the hand of man.\n\n**(iii)** As regards item 21 (c) \"Road from Wanchai to Magazine Gap\" we should like some explanation as to why the original estimate for this item was increased from $20,000 to $76,000.\n\n**(iv)** As regards item 25, \"Construction of new Queen's Statue Pier,\" this is another of the Works which we would suggest ought to be pressed on, in the interests of the public. We understand that the $97,000 mentioned is the total contract price for completion, and we would ask what is the contract date for completion.\n\n**(v)** As regards the Praya East Reclamation Scheme, we regret to learn that the contract time for the completion of this work is 6 years, and we would inquire what steps the contractor has undertaken to adopt re locomotive trucks, etc., for the hastening on of the work.\n\n**(vi)** As regards item 74 (e) \"Extending Coronation Road northwards through hill (formerly K.F.L. II.),\" we regret to see that less progress than had been anticipated is being made this year and we would inquire whether the estimated sum of $12,000 for 1922 will complete the work.",
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        "content_text": "1921 \n\nHONG KONG \n\n63 \n\n53898 \n\nFROM \n\nClark \n\nDATE \n\n26 Oct \n\n31 CT 21 \n\n- \n\n404 SEPT. 24, 1921] \n\nWEST INDIAN MEDICAL CONFERENCE. \n\nThe answer was in the negative, then there was something wrong in the State. \n\nFrom an administrative point of view, one of the most interesting papers read during the Conference was that by Dr. G. B. DE FREITAS on \"Some difficulties of medical practice in British Guiana.\" He referred to the large size of the districts, to the insanitary state of the villages, and to the fact that in cases requiring hospital treatment, the patient's friends were often unwilling for him to go into hospital owing to prejudice, ignorance, the great distance to be covered, and lack of means. Frequently, a doctor was called in too late, and the ignorance of the people of the means of spread of infection made many difficulties. There were myriads of flies, there were no latrines, and drains were often stopped up. Frequently, in infectious cases, the district medical officer was not called, and the first intimation he had was a telegram from the medical officer notifying the case. Sometimes contacts were not inoculated owing to the delay in notifying the district medical officer of the diagnosis. Drinking water was of bad quality and insufficient quantity. There was a lack of trained assistance at childbirth, and there was difficulty in prosecuting unregistered midwives owing to lack of evidence. The examination of meat exposed for sale, in which tubercle might be present, was neglected. There was a lack of control of venereal disease. Building sites were often unhealthy, and the dwellings of the people were overcrowded. There was insufficient control of cow-byres and swine; cow-byres were frequently close to the houses and swarmed with flies, and thus food was contaminated. In uncontrolled areas, vegetation often blocked the public roads. In country districts, deaths were often uncertified; the villages were visited once a week by the Government Medical Officer, and in his absence, the police N.C.O. decided if the death should be reported to the coroner or not. The discussion revealed the fact that there was no registration of deaths in Barbados, and that the infantile mortality there was the highest in the West Indies. \n\nMiss CLAPHAM subsequently read a valuable paper on \"Nursing in the West Indies,\" and pointed out that the provision of a nursing home was essential, and the introduction of a few trained English nurses would be most beneficial. Dr. MINETT referred to the excellent beginning made in local teaching by the appointment of a board of examiners by the Royal Sanitary Institute in Barbados, Trinidad, and British Guiana; he considered that hygiene ought to be taught in the schools. The interesting statement was made that there was little tuberculosis or leprosy and no filariasis in Grenada, but there was malaria there. On the contrary, filariasis, tuberculosis, and pellagra were prevalent in Barbados, and leprosy was found there, but no malaria. The papers by Mrs. MINETT, M.D., and Dr. WISHART on infantile mortality and child welfare were interesting and up-to-date, and Dr. Wishart also read a valuable paper on the sanitary and health problems of Georgetown. Dr. WOLFF said that the infantile mortality was lower in Paramaribo than in British Guiana, although more organized work was done in the latter. He put it down to the fact that midwives had two years' training at the military hospital at Surinam. \n\nAt the conclusion of the discussions of the different subjects, the delegates to the Conference passed the following series of resolutions, which were forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies: \n\n1. The most modern methods of promoting infant welfare, personal and public sanitation, and hygiene should be introduced. \n\n2. In the interests of the health of an immigrant population in the West Indies, there were recommended: (a) the provision of a pure water supply, (b) efficient surface and soil drainage, (c) a properly organized system of disposal of refuse and excreta, (d) effective control of mosquitoes, and (e) the stringent enforcement of Public Health Ordinances and Regulations. \n\n3. The West Indian Governments (i) should instruct their Agricultural Departments to promote the rearing of small livestock by the labourers, to provide a suitable proportion of animal protein for their daily dietary; (ii) should introduce educational propaganda in the schools to promote a knowledge of food value; and (iii) should consider the question of subsidizing local food industries, such as fishing, and the relaxation of duties on imported protein foodstuffs. \n\n4. A survey of individuals in various districts of different colonies should be made to obtain information concerning local and racial factors which result in poor physique and industrial inefficiency. \n\n5. A system of control of midwives should be inaugurated, including methods of training, registration, and supervision by a central authority. \n\n6. The registration of stillbirths should be instituted, with confidential notification of miscarriages, in connection with measures for infant welfare. \n\n7. The West Indian Governments should adopt school medical inspection as a routine procedure. \n\n8. Restrictive measures for venereal diseases were required, to include educational propaganda and the provision of free and confidential treatment at existing institutions. \n\n9. Alastrim (recently epidemic in Jamaica) should be regarded as small-pox, and research as to its nature should be undertaken. \n\n10. Revaccination of the population should be brought into force. \n\n11. For the control of malaria, there were recommended: (a) strict observation of the anti-mosquito ordinances, (b) special attention should be given to the value of screening houses and institutions, and (c) mosquito netting should be generally used. \n\n12. The diagnosis of yellow fever should be based on clinical signs and symptoms until an accurate diagnosis by laboratory methods was discovered, but there should be no relaxation of anti-mosquito measures. \n\n13. The isolation of lepers after notification should be instituted, and arrested cases of leprosy should not be discharged from leper asylums under any conditions. \n\n14. A supply of antitetanic, antidysenteric, and other serums and vaccines should be provided. \n\n15. A united West Indian medical service should be established for the following reasons: (a) to provide for the granting of leave to medical officers at regular stated intervals, and for definite periods for considerations of health and for post-graduate study, thereby increasing the efficiency of the service; (b) to provide a recognized procedure for effecting promotion, which under present conditions, especially in the case of smaller colonies, does not exist, thereby supplying inducements to good work and securing contentment; (c) to provide for the easy transfer of medical officers from one colony to another for limited periods for the interchange of ideas, and for enabling such officers to become acquainted with the varying conditions of practice in colonies other than their own, to the mutual benefit of the colonies concerned; and (d) to provide means to secure for the benefit of all the colonies the advice of officers specially qualified in all matters relating to medical and sanitary organizations. \n\n16. The other colonies should adopt the recent leave regulations of British Guiana. \n\n17. The early appointment of a sanitary commissioner for the West Indies was necessary, to be under the Imperial Government, and independent of local control. \n\n18. The provision of an adequate whole-time staff for the Government Bacteriological Laboratory was necessary. \n\n19. The training of the medical staffs in the Schools of Tropical Medicine should be compulsory for all officers before entry into the service. \n\n20. All officers already in the service should take such a course, and be provided with free transport, full pay while taking the course, and the time so spent should not be regarded as leave of absence. \n\n21. A West Indian medical magazine should be published and circulated. \n\n22. The Colonial Office should approach the London School of Tropical Medicine to undertake research in the West Indies. And the Colonial Governments should secure local support for the specialists. \n\n23. A West Indian medical conference should be held every three years. \n\nThe Acting Governor congratulated the delegates on their resolutions and welcomed especially those recommending improved drainage and the provision of a supply of pure drinking water in British Guiana. He announced that a local loan of five million dollars for a permanent sea defence scheme was about to be raised, and said that he regarded it as an insurance, and the necessary preliminary to any effort to drain adequately the coast lands. He pointed out that the area now colonized in British Guiana was partially a reclaimed swamp, 4 ft. below the level of high spring tides. \n\nOn the one hundred and sixteenth commencement day of Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin Medical School, U.S.A., closed its doors after an existence of more than one hundred years. The reason is that the college officials feel that they are no longer properly able to maintain the medical school with the financial support available. The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on the last commencement day upon only eight students. \n\nAccording to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, California, which has just added Anaesthesiology to the \"minimum requirements for a physician and surgeon certificate,\" is the first State in the United States of America to place anaesthesia on the list of required subjects in the medical curriculum. The hope is expressed that it will shortly be transferred from the \"elective\" to the \"required list\" in every State in the Union. \n\nFOR CIRCULATION :- \n\nMr. Grindle, W.I. Dept. \n\nMr. Lambert \n\nSir H. Read \n\nSir G. Fiddes \n\nMr. Wood \n\nMr. Churchill \n\nFiddian \n\nPrevious Paper \n\n48228 \n\nAUG. 7.11.21. \n\n19.11.21. \n\nSubsequent Paper \n\n(a) (377809) W%. 4710/19 Gp. 163 \n\n40000 5-21, W & S Ltd. \n\nSUBJECT \n\nReemployment in Col. Service \n\nRequests cousin for effect in \n\nTiji, Abou \n\nor Mhades. \n\nMINUTES \n\n...",
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        "content_text": "All the houses at Leighton Hill are being constructed by Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs, and those on the Homestead site by Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood,\n\nIn addition, 12 houses at Happy Valley were completed for subordinate officers early in the year.\n\nGood progress was made with the new police married quarters, containing 6 BQte, in Caine Road.\n\nAlterations were carried out to the Kitchen Block at Government House, and a new Garage Block was commenced which includes quarters for the Custodian and two rooms for guests, for whom accommodation cannot be found in the main building.\n\nThe quarters for scavenging coolies at Hospital Road were completed towards the end of the year, and good progress was made with similar quarters in Belchers Street.\n\nFoundations were commenced for the large building (New Fire Brigade Station) opposite the Central Market, the details of the accommodation of which were given in last year's report. A temporary Fire Station was completed in Wanchai.\n\nA contract was let, and work commenced, for a maternity section next to the Victoria Hospital, Barker Road, the Peak, and plans were prepared for the alteration to the main hospital block, and to the nurses' quarters; also, an outpatients' block was commenced at the Civil Hospital.\n\nIn Kowloon, quarters for the Royal Observatory staff were completed, and an extension to the pig lairage at Ma-tau-kok was made.\n\nThe preparation of the site for the Kowloon Hospital was in progress.\n\nDrawings were prepared for the new police station at Yau-mati and Mong-kok-tsui, and for an extension to the fire brigade station at Kowloon.\n\nOther works of a minor nature were carried out.\n\nIn the New Territories, work was proceeding in connection with the rebuilding of four of the prison sheds at the Lai-chi-kok branch Prison.\n\nGood progress was made with the new clerks' quarters at Taipo, and the land bailiff's quarters at Pingshan.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS,\n\nThe following Motor roads were in hand :-\n\nA road contouring the South side of Mt. Davis and linking Pokfulam Road with the Victoria Road was completed, as was also\n\nthe extension of Lugard Road; the first section of the road from Taitam Gap to Shek O, about one mile in length, was also completed, and good progress was made with the second section thereof, and a contract for the third section was let; the two latter sections are also each about a mile in length.\n\nA twenty-foot road from Wanchai Gap to Magazine Gap and from thence to Chamberlain Road was under construction; one, from Bowen Road to Wongneichong Gap, being the first part of the new road to Repulse Bay, was completed; and good progress was also made with the twenty-foot road from Bowen Road contouring the hill towards Sookunpoo Valley, passing over the ridge where it will be joined by Broadwood Road.\n\nA further section of the scheme for widening Kennedy Road was completed and progress was also made with the scheme for widening Queen's Road, East, as opportunity afforded, though there still remains a considerable portion to be dealt with before the widening can be accomplished. Work on the scheme for the diversion of a certain portion of the Shaukiwan Road through Quarry Bay Village and the improvement of the alignment and levels of a considerable section of the same road on either side of the diversion was commenced.\n\nIn Kowloon, further progress was attained with the extension of the Coronation Road to the North West of Mong-kok Village.\n\nThe section of the Kowloon City-Mong-kok-tsui Road, East of the Railway, was nearing completion, and the section, West of the Railway, was making good progress. The excavation from the hills to form the above-mentioned roads was being utilized to fill in the low lying areas to the south of the Old Kowloon boundary line.\n\nExtensive widenings of existing roads were carried out as follows:-\n\nKowloon City Road, between K.I.L. 1150 and the bridge over the stream course West of the Hill of the King of the Sung'; from this latter point a sixty-foot width of roadway was constructed on a new alignment to the New Kowloon City-Mong-kok-tsui Road.\n\nSalisbury Road, between Nathan and Chatham Roads. Hankow Road, between Salisbury and Peking Roads, Argyle Street, between Coronation Road and Ho-mun-tin.\n\nThe improvements to the Taipo Road, between the 3rd and 5th milestones, and the section of this road—and the construction of a bridge—at Ma-nin-shui were completed.\n\nA road extension, 10 feet wide, was made from the Fanling-Sheung Shui Road to the Sheung Shui Police Station,\n\nPage 27\n\n...\n\nPage 26\n\n...\n\nPage 15\n\n83",
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        "content_text": "# 104 \n## 26 \n\nDuring 1923 an Honorary Degree was conferred upon the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., who has held the post of Honorary Treasurer since the foundation of the University.\n\nA donation of $300,000 was received from the Hongkong Government in final liquidation of the balance of $1,000,000 which the Government promised in 1920 to contribute to the University Endowment Fund. A benefaction of $250,000 was also received from Sir Paul Chater to be known as \"The Chater Endowment Fund\", the income to be applied to the general funds of the University.\n\nThe total cost of the land, buildings and equipment of the University may be placed at approximately $1,750,000 and their replacement value at not less than $2,500,000, while the invested endowments exceed $3,000,000.\n\n## 27 \n### PUBLIC WORKS\n\n#### BUILDINGS\n\nDuring the year under review good progress was made on the following works:- In Hongkong, - Foundations and steel framework of the New Fire Brigade Station opposite the Central Market; site formation of the new Sai Ying Pun School; site formation of the new Queen's College Building; site preparation and retaining walls for the new garage on Stubbs Road. In Kowloon --- Medical Officers' Quarters and site formation of the Kowloon Hospital site; new market at Mong Kok Tsui. In the New Territories :- New Police Station at Shatin Police Block House at Castle Peak. The undermentioned works were completed :- In Hongkong:- Senior Officers' Quarters on the Homestead site at the Peak (except semi-detached houses) under Messrs. Little, Adams & Wood; Quarters at Leighton Hill, under Messrs. Dennison, Ram & Gibbs; Maternity Block and alterations to the Sisters' Quarters, Victoria Hospital; additional offices for the P.W.D; Miniature Rifle Range at the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. In Kowloon :- Police Stations at Yaumati and Mong Kok Tsui; additional storey to Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station. In the New Territories :- Quarters for Indian Married Police at Au Tau and Lok Ma Chow; additions to Land Court Building, Tai Po. Many other smaller works of minor importance were also accomplished.\n\n#### COMMUNICATIONS\n\nThe road and path from Wanchai Gap to Middle Gap; road contouring hillside above Conduit Road (1st Section); the low level road (25 feet wide) from Island Bay to Big Wave Bay; road from Wongneichong Gap to Repulse Bay Road (mile at Repulse Bay Road end); were completed. The road connecting Broadwood Road with Wongneichong Gap Road was nearing completion.\n\nSubstantial progress was made with the undermentioned works- Road from Taitam Gap to Shek-O (2nd Section Shek-O Gap to Shek-O Village); extension of the 20 foot road from Magazine Gap to Peak Tram Station, Chamberlain Road; road contouring Wongneichong and Tai Hang Valley (2nd Section).\n\nFair progress was made with the widening of the road through Quarry Bay Village, and road from Causeway Bay to North Point.\n\nMention may also be made of improvements being carried out to Kennedy, Bonham, Conduit, Pokfulam and Victoria Roads.\n\nIn Kowloon, the extension of Coronation Road northwards through the hill (formerly K.F.L. II) was completed.\n\nGood progress was made with diverting the roadway near the site of the new Kowloon Hospital, the extension of Waterloo Road, Tokwawan Road (section between Kowloon City Road and K.M.L. 90).",
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        "content_text": "# Extracts from Rules and Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council on the 15th day of March, 1906, under the provisions of Section 6 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1873)\n\nThe following shall be deemed to be dangerous goods within the meaning of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873 namely:-\n\n- Any preparation or adaptation of any substance similar or not to the following used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion :- \n  - Nitro-glycerine, gun-cotton, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, dynamite, blasting powders, gun-powder, gelatine dynamite, cheddite, gelignite, blasting gelatine, bobbinite, compressed gunpowder, rackarock, chlorate of potash mixture for rackarock and picric acid.\n- Compressed Oxygen.\n- Compressed Acetylene.\n- Dissolved Acetylene.\n- Chlorate of Potassium (in quantities exceeding 1 lb.).\n- Any other chlorate.\n- Acetone.\n- Any inflammable liquid, not already, with or without excepted quantities, declared to be dangerous, which, when tested in manner for the time being prescribed under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, shows a flash point below 150° F.\n- Compressed carbonic acid.\n- Compressed ammonia gas.\n\nNothing in this regulation contained shall be deemed to declare or imply that any substance heretofore declared to be dangerous goods within the meaning of the said Ordinance shall not be deemed to be dangerous goods.\n\n## DANGEROUS GOODS IN GENERAL\n\n1. Every Vessel arriving at any Port in the Colony having on board any Dangerous Goods within the meaning of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, or to which the said Ordinance applies, and every Vessel about to take on board any such goods for exportation, shall hoist a **RED FLAG** at her Fore-truck and shall keep it flying so long as any of such Goods are on board.\n\n2. Every Ship, Vessel, Lighter or Boat of any description whatever, having on board any Dangerous Goods as aforesaid, shall whilst in the waters of the Colony hoist a **RED FLAG** at the Fore-truck or, where there is no mast, on a pole at her bow.\n\n3. Every ship, Vessel, Lighter or Boat as aforesaid having on board or being about to take on board any Dangerous Goods as aforesaid, shall anchor at one of the Dangerous Goods Anchorages, or at such place in the Harbour as shall be pointed out by the Harbour Master, or his Deputy, and the said Vessel shall not be removed therefrom without the permission of the Harbour Master.\n\n   Provided that the Harbour Master or his Deputy shall not require any Ship or Vessel to anchor at a Dangerous Goods Anchorage when she has a certificate from an officer of His Majesty's Navy or from one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Explosives to the effect that she has a properly constructed Magazine, and the Master of such Ship or vessel further certifies in writing that all explosives are carried in such Magazine, that all detonators have been removed and that no other Dangerous Cargo is carried by the Ship or Vessel.\n\n   Provided also that, should any vessel, having on board any Dangerous Goods as aforesaid, not be provided with such magazine certificate, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or Assistant Harbour Master, if a Naval Officer, at the request of the master, owner or agent of such vessel, to inspect her magazine, and if satisfied that it complies with all requirements, to issue a certificate to that effect and to charge a fee of $25 for such certificate.\n\n78\n109",
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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG ESTIMATES PUBLIC WORKS\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRA-ORDINARY,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward,.\n\n#### COMMUNICATIONS, ·Continued.\n\n| Original Estimate | Revised Estimate | Approved Estimate | Estimated Expenditure 1925 | Estimated Expenditure 1924 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  | 2,337,500 |  |\n| **28 Roads:- Continued.** |  |  |  |  |\n| (k) West Bay Development, Road Construction, | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 |  |\n| (l) Wongneichong Development, Road Construction, | 25,000 | 15,000 | 25,000 |  |\n| (m) Queen's Road East,―Widening to 60 feet. | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |  |\n| (n) Kennedy Road,-Improvements, | 87,000 | 10,000 | 30,000 | 10,000 |\n| (o) Bonham Road, Road Improvements and Widenings; | 50,000 | 20,000 | 22,000 | 20,000 |\n| (p) Surfacing Main Roads,.. | 60,000 | 60,000 | 150,000 |  |\n| (q) Stubbs Road, Surfacing for heavy traffic, | 120,000 | 145,000 | 20,000 | 120,000 |\n| (r) Caine Road Widening and raising to new levels between Arbuthnot Road and Aberdeen Street, |  | 25,000 | X |  |\n| (s) Road from Shek O Gap to D'Aguilar, | X |  |  |  |\n| (t) Access road to War Memorial Nursing Home, Stubbs Road, | 20,000 | 6,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 |\n| (u) Access road to Q.B.I.L. 14, Yee Woo Street and the Electric Light Works, | 40,000 |  |  |  |\n| (v) Shaukiwan Road, Widening near Taikoo Dock, | 10,000 |  |  |  |\n| (w) Conduit Road Widening, | 45,000 |  |  |  |\n| (x) Raising Shaukiwan Road between ... |  |  |  |  |\n| (y) Surfacing Wongneichong Road East of I.Ls. 2340 and 2343, | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |  |\n| (z) Service path from Magazine Gap Road to serve new sites south of Thorpe Manor, | 30,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 |  |\n| (aa) Hongkong Tramway diversions and necessary road improvements, | 20,000 | 6,000 | 25,000 | 10,000 |\n| (bb) Garden Road above Kennedy Road, Improving and Widening, | 10,000 | 7,000 | 3,000 |  |\n| (cc) Improvement of the junction of Stubbs Road with Morrison Gap Road, | 25,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 |  |\n| (dd) General Works. | 50,000 |  | 120,000 | 50,000 |\n| **DRAINAGE.** |  |  |  |  |\n| **29 Training Nullahs :—** |  |  |  |  |\n| (a) Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme, | 8,000 | 16,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 |\n| (b) Wongneichong Nullah, | 8,000 | 8,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |\n| (c) General Works, |  | 20,000 | 50,000 | 30,000 |\n| **30 Miscellaneous Drainage Works :-** |  |  |  |  |\n| (a) Laying sewer in connection with Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme, | 8,000 | 9,000 | 8,000 | 1,000 |\n| (b) Shaukiwan Road, Laying drain in connection with North Point Foreshore Development, | 6,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 10,000 |\n| (c) ... | 8,000 |  |  |  |\n| **31 General Works,** | 35,000 | 52,000 | 40,000 |  |\n| **MISCELLANEOUS.** |  |  |  |  |\n| **32 Queen's Pier,** | 175,000 | ...... |  |  |\n| **33 Aplichau,-Reclamation Scheme,** | X | 37,000 | 75,000 | 15,000 |\n| **34 Chinese Cemeteries,-Laying out new areas,** |  | 43,000 | 48,000 | 10,000 |\n|  |  | 1,000 | 5,000 | X |\n|  |  | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 |\n| Carried forward,. |  |  | $ 3,061,000 |",
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Offices (4 cars). | 5,000 | 15,000 | 10,000 |\n| (») | Tai Hang Development, Road Construction, | 60,000 | 120,000 | 60,000 |\n| 19 | Inspector's Quarters, Cart Shed and Garage next to No. 1 Police Station, |  | 50,000 | 50,000 |\n| (.) | West Bay Development, Road Construction, ... | 25,000 |  | 25,000 |\n| 20 | Police Stations: |  |  |  |\n| (P.) | Wongneichong Development, Road Construction, | 25,000 |  | 25,000 |\n| (a) | Bay View, | $10,000 |  |  |\n| (b) | Peak, | $10,000 | 30,000 |  |\n|  |  |  |  | 42,000 |\n| (e) | To replace No. 8,.... | $10,000 |  | 12,000 |\n| (7.) | Queen's Road East,-Widening to 60 feet. | 20,000 |  | 20,000 |\n| 21 | Schools :- |  |  |  |\n| (c) | Kennedy Road,—Improvements,....... | 10,000 |  | 10,000 |\n| (a) | At Quarry Bay................. | $23,000 |  |  |\n| (6) | At Leighton Hill, | $25,000 | 48,000 | 48,000 |\n| (s) | Road Improvements and Widenings in Bowen Road, ... | 20,000 |  | 20,000 |\n| 22 | Central Police Station New Store and Caution, | 35,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 |\n| 23 | Magistracy new cells, |  |  |  |\n| (4) | Main Roads in City.-Surfacing with asphaltum, | 60,000 |  | 60,000 |\n|  |  | 14,000 | 8,000 | 6,000 |\n| 24 | Garage near Homestead Site at the Peak, |  |  |  |\n| (.) | Stubbs Road, Surfacing for heavy traffic, | 20,000 | 120,000 | 100,000 |\n|  |  | 1,000 | 1,000 |  |\n| 25 | Market at Quarry Bay, | 5,000 | 9,000 | 4,000 |\n| 26 | Pokfulum Police Station--New Quarters for Sergeant, | 1,000 |  | 1,000 |\n| 27 | New Architectural Office,...... | 58,000 | 60,000 | 2,000 |\n| 28 | Government Civil Hospital, Structural Alteration to \"C\" Block,. | 10,000 |  | 10,000 |\n| 29 | Government Civil Hospital, Extension to Sisters Quarters, |  |  |  |\n| (r.) | Pokfulam Road, surfacing with sand carpeting between Nos. 4-8 Bridges is from No. 11 Bridge to Aberdeen Village.. | 30,000 | 50,000 | 20,000 |\n| (w) | Queen's Road West, Improvements. | 1,000 | 1,000 |  |\n| (*) | Island Road,-surfacing for heavy traffic between Aberdeen und Stanley, | 100,000 | 100,000 |  |\n|  |  | 50,000 |  | 50,000 |\n| (.) | Caine Road, Widening and raising to new levels between Arbuthnot Road and Aberdeen Street, |  |  |  |\n| 30 | Latrines and Urinals and Bath houses,....... | 25,000 | 85,000 | 60,000 |\n|  | (*) General Works, | 20,000 | 1-4,000 |  |\n|  |  |  | 50,000 | 6,000 |\n|  |  |  | 105,000 | 54,000 |\n|  | COMMUNICATIONS. |  |  |  |\n| 31 | Roads:- |  |  |  |\n|  | DRAINAGE. |  |  |  |\n| (a.) | Improving and widening road through Quarry Bay Village, | 50,000 |  |  |\n| (b.) | Road from Taitam Gap to Big Wave Bay, | 100,000 | 50,000 |  |\n| 32 | Training Nullahs :- |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme, | 17,000 | 57,000 | 40,000 |\n|  |  | 8,000 |  |  |\n| (c) | Extending 20-foot road from Magazine Gap to Victoria Gap, |  |  |  |\n| (b.) | General Works, | 20,000 |  | 20,000 |\n|  |  | 8,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |\n|  |  | 20,000 |  | 20,000 |\n|  | Carried forward, | 2,346,000 | 409,000 |  |\n|  |  | 2,700,000 |  | 763,000 |\n\n|  | Carried forward, | 2,346,000 | 409,000 |  |\n|  |  | 2,700,000 |  | 763,000 |",
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        "content_text": "# LIST No. 1.\n\n## Statement of Estimated Unexpended Balances and Supplementary Votes required up to 31.12.25.\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY.\n\n| ITEM | WORK | ESTIMATED UNEXPENDED BALANCE TO 31.12.25. | SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATED VOTES ALREADY TAKEN. | SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE REQUIRED. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward | 431,500 | 80,600 | 182,400 |\n|  | Miscellaneous Drainage Works :- |  |  |  |\n|  | Hongkong. |  |  |  |\n| 30 | (a) Laying sewer in connection with Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme | 5,000 |  |  |\n| 31 | General Works | 13,400 | F.M. 63 | 2 |\n|  | BUILDING. |  |  |  |\n| 1 | Overseer's Quarters, Elliot Filter Beds | 4,000 | 1 |  |\n|  | Cadet Quarters, Canton | F.M. | 6,000 | 8 |\n|  | New Queen's College | 6,000 | J 63 |  |\n|  | MISCELLANEOUS. |  |  |  |\n| 9 | Extension of Lairage, and Coolie Quarters, Kennedy Town | 5,000 | 21 | 29 |\n| 25 |  |  | R=P===SRZ 6 35 |  |\n| 10 | Reinstatement of Kenney Town Police Station | 1,000 |  |  |\n|  | Sairingpun Market, Reconstruction | 5,000 | 238 | 32 |\n| 17 | Queen's Pier. F.M. |  | 33 |  |\n|  | Aplichau, Reclamation Scheme | 5,000 | 36 | 39 |\n| 19 | Telephone cable to D'Aguilar Station F.M. |  | Miscellaneous Works |  |\n|  | Government Stores, Extension | 28,000 | 18,000 |  |\n|  |  | 25,000 F.M. 63 | 4,000 | 13 |\n|  | New Infectious Diseases Hospital | 30,000 | 11 |  |\n|  | New Government Offices, Alterations | 45,000 | 16 |  |\n|  | Police Station, Rebuilding of No. 8 | 30,000 | 19 |  |\n|  | Magistracy new cells | 13,500 | 12 | 20 |\n|  | New Architectural Offices, F.M. | 38,000 |  |  |\n|  | Government Civil Hospital, Extensions to |  |  |  |\n|  | WATER WORKS. |  |  |  |\n|  | Taitam Tuk Scheme, Additional Pumping Plant :- |  |  |  |\n|  | Sisters' Quarters F.M. 38 | 5,000 |  |  |\n|  | Sanitary Depot and Inspector's Quarters, Shaukiwan | 30,000 |  |  |\n|  | Scavenging Coolies' Quarters, Shaukiwan | 50,000 |  |  |\n| 26 | Conservancy Coolies' Quarters, Rutter Street | 30,000 | 92989 |  |\n| 52 | Eastern Pumping Station |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Engine House and Foundations |  |  |  |\n|  | Taitam Tuk East Catchwater (1st Section) Shek O Water Supply | 40,000 | F.M. 03 | 4,000 |\n| 53 |  | 60,000 |  |  |\n|  | Bowen Road Filter Beds conversion... Jardine's Look-out Service Reservoir | 100,000 | 5,000 | 15,000 |\n|  | COMMUNICATIONS, |  |  |  |\n| 28 | Roads :- |  |  |  |\n| (c) | Wanchai Road widening to 42 feet | 25,000 |  |  |\n| (d) | Road from Causeway Bay to North Point | 50,000 |  |  |\n| (k) | West Bay Development Road Construction... | 25,000 |  |  |\n| (r) | Caine Road Widening and raising to new levels between Arbuthnot Road and Aberdeen Street |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Road from Shek O Gap to D'Aguilar | 20,000 | 30,000 |  |\n|  | Shaukiwan Road widening near Taikoo Dock, F.M. 15... | 15,000 |  |  |\n| (w) | Conduit Road Widening F.M. 25... | 22,600 |  |  |\n| (x) | Raising Shaukiwan Road between Yee Woo Street and the Electric Light Works | 25,000 |  |  |\n| (a) | Service path from Magazine Gap Road to serve new sites South of Thorpe Manor | 7,000 |  |  |\n| (bb) | Garden Road above Kennedy Road, Improving and widening | 10,000 | F.M. 63 |  |\n| (dd) | General Works | 125,000 |  |  |\n| 29 | DRAINAGE. |  |  |  |\n|  | Training Nullahs :→ |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme | 3,000 |  |  |\n| (c) | General Works |  |  |  |\n|  | Carried forward | 431,500 | 80,600 | 182,400 |\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued.\n\n| ITEM | WORK | ESTIMATED UNEXPENDED BALANCE TO 31.12.25. | SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATED VOTES ALREADY TAKEN. | SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE REQUIRED. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Kowloon. |  |  |  |\n|  | BUILDINGS. |  |  |  |\n| 57 |  | S & & £3283 8 |  |  |\n| 58 | Kowloon Hospital :- |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Building and Furniture... (b) Site | 100,000 |  |  |\n|  | Mataukok Slaughter House, Inspector's Quarters... | 12,000 |  |  |\n| 59 | Mongkoktsui, New Market and Site | 5,000 |  |  |\n| 60 | Cattle and Swine Depot, Yaumati | 1,000 |  |  |\n| 61 | Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Yaumati | 50,000 |  |  |\n| 62 | Open Market, Bowring Street | F.M. 03 | 3,000 |  |\n| 64 | Hunghom Market Extension, 12 fish stalls. with tanks | 2,000 |  |  |\n|  | To Kwa Wan Market, 10 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry | 12,000 |  |  |\n|  | Closed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market | 50,000 |  |  |\n| 67 | Extension of stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station garage, and arrangement of Workshop | 40,000 | 38 222 |  |\n| 68 | Slaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui | 25,000 |  |  |\n| 69 | Workshop and Quarters for Electrical and Telephone Staff | 17,000 F.M. 68 |  |  |\n| 70 | Police Married Quarters, Mongkok. 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        "content_text": "247\n\n22\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nRECORD HONGKONG DELUGE.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nIf not the greatest in mere figures, then the most destructive deluge of Hongkong's history has wrought indescribable damage and confusion in all parts of the Colony.\n\nIn the short space of time, it is impossible to give a rough estimate of the loss in money. The havoc will take time, men and cash to repair. But worse still, lives have been lost as a result of the furious rainstorm which started last night and has not ended this afternoon. Details given below tell of the wide scope of the damage.\n\nOn older residents, the point which had caused the highest impression was the period during which thunder, lightning, and rain came by the bucketful without a moment's break.\n\nIt must be an unusual phenomenon for Hongkong to be practically alight for more than half an hour before 4 a.m. The peals of thunder which chased each other across the heavens portended ill for the Colony this morning, the effects being described below.\n\nMuch time will elapse before order is restored throughout the Colony.\n\nFrom the earliest hours, the Police, Fire Brigade, Public Works Department, Sanitary Department, and other authorities were out in rescue and rehabilitation parties, but the comparatively small number available made but little headway against the storm.\n\nThe previous best, for an hour of rainfall in Hongkong, was 3.480 inches which fell in one hour on July 15, 1886. Between 3:30 and 4:30 this morning, the rain-gauge at the Royal Observatory, Kowloon, recorded 3.965 inches.\n\nCherra Punji in the Khasi Hills, Assam (India) has 464 inches a year (this average extending over 33 years). In July there, the wettest month, they have 30 inches a day for five successive days, and a mean of 115 inches (equal to our total for a year) for this month.\n\nThe Storm.\n\nThe storm itself, as regards its duration and the force of the claps (there was barely a second between the flash and report), is generally recognised as the worst Hongkong has ever experienced.\n\nCAUSE OF DELUGE.\n\nAlthough the week-end typhoon—the first of the current season—did not actually visit Hongkong, it is the direct cause of this morning's complete deluge.\n\nThat typhoon went inland about 80 miles to the East of Hongkong, near Swatow. Then it stopped and started to \"fill-up.\"\n\nLATEST FIGURES.\n\nBetween midnight last night and 1 p.m. today, 20.79 inches of rain were recorded at the Observatory.\n\nFrom 10 a.m. yesterday to 10 a.m. today, the figures are 21.44 inches.\n\nWeather forecast till noon to-morrow: South-west winds, fresh; overcast, rain.\n\nBy doing so, it became a little area of intense depression, with considerable effect on atmospheric circulation. The result is all this weather upheaval, thunderstorms, and abnormal rains.\n\nNEW RECORDS.\n\nNearly 4 Inches An Hour.\n\nWhen the thunder was continuous, the Observatory recorded a new record for any 24 hours (or, strictly speaking, a civil day).\n\nA civil day is from midnight to 12 midnight. The highest in the books for any day in the month of July is 13.480 inches, for the 15th of that month, in the year 1886. From midnight last night till 9 this morning, the Observatory had already registered 19.155 inches of rain.\n\nImpressive Figures.\n\nStill, the old brigade hold a few records which the majority of residents will be well content to leave to them. There are a good many hours to go before midnight to-night, when 24 hours will have been completed. By then, the experts expect that we shall have left everything behind and set up a new best.\n\nFor a civil day (midnight to midnight) Hongkong's best is 20.496 inches on May 30, 1889.\n\nFor any period of 24 consecutive hours, the best is 27.44 inches, being from 6 a.m. on May 29, 1889, to 6 a.m. on May 30, 1889.\n\nHongkong Well-off!\n\nFOUR BODIES.\n\nThe Fire Brigade were out early to assist in rescue work at the No. 3 pumping station, near the University.\n\nA portion of the building collapsed and several men went under. Two bodies were dug out from the debris. Four others were rescued and sent to hospital.\n\nNo. 3 pumping station is on Pokfulam Road, just beyond the medical buildings of the University.\n\nLater. A large boulder was unloosened from the hillside and crashed on the station. Four bodies have been found.\n\nMORNING \"TREK.\"\n\nUnprecedented scenes were witnessed in the city and all parts of the Colony this morning when, in their morning \"trek\" to the office, business people tried by-ways and devious routes to find that, in practically every instance, the only solution was to wade several feet deep in water.\n\nThe rivers of water pouring over roads and tracks put a stop to the Peak tram service, lower level trams, buses, taxis, etc.\n\nFording the Streams.\n\nThe \"trek\" which set in down the old Peak road and all routes from the outskirts to the city must have been, on a miniature scale, something like the condition of affairs at Home during the general strike.\n\nKowloonites came off comparatively well considering. Many of the older buses were \"stuck\" in Yaumati and other places, and the service was very limited, rendering necessary something like a twenty minutes' wait at the stopping places for would-be travellers.\n\nThe \"Star\" ferry service continued as usual, but Yaumati suffered very badly from inundation, and the ferry service there was temporarily suspended.\n\nSlimy, Yellow Rivers.\n\nArrived at the \"Star\" ferry wharf (Hongkong side), the troubles began in real earnest. The sandy waterfall over the Praya wall was sufficient indication of what they had to face, and the streams of water traversing Pavement and road in every direction confirmed their apprehensions.\n\nDes Voeux Road, Queen's Road, Ice House Street, Chater Road, and Pedder Street were feet deep in water. Many shops were flooded out.\n\nWATER RATIONS.\n\nOwing to the damage to the No. 3 pumping station, which completely cut off all supplies for the time being to Robinson Road, Conduit Road, and the Peak districts, it is essential that even for cooking purposes, only the minimum quantity of water should be used.\n\nAs far as possible, residents in those districts must temporarily cease using water for bathrooms, &c. Every endeavour should be made to use spring or rain water for washing and general purposes. All water should be boiled.\n\nWyndham Street Rapids.\n\nDue, apparently, to a water main burst, masses of road surface had been torn up in Pedder Street, near the Hongkong Hotel entrance, and parts of the hoarding used in connection with the re-construction were lying helplessly in the water.\n\nSeveral landslides are reported from different localities, and a part of the old Peak Road below Barker Road has been washed away.\n\nA subsidence also occurred further down Lower Albert Road.\n\nSTREET BURSTS UP.\n\nThe queer experience of a street bursting up is reported from the Wanchai district.\n\nWyndham Street presented a remarkable spectacle, water descending the road and pavements early this morning with the force of rapids.\n\nSpring Garden Lane became a canal, connecting Queen's Road with Praya East.\n\nCaine Road and Bonham Road were impassable to motor traffic during the early part of the morning.\n\nPEAK TRAM DAMAGE.\n\nWhen will the Peak trams be running again, inquired a \"China Mail\" reporter of Mr. Henry Humphreys, chairman of the company, who replied \"Not for 24 hours at least, possibly more.\"\n\nThe worst damage is at Kennedy Road, where tons and tons of earth have fallen over the track.\n\nMr. Humphreys is informed by his technical experts that it will take a full day to remove the debris and repair the damage.\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD SCENES.\n\nOnce again Queen's Road Central has suffered untold damage, especially the shops on the south side which are so much lower than the road level.\n\nHitherto so-called \"water gates\" had proved effective, but the invading elements beat everything. Muddy water swarmed up show-cases and stands.\n\nPedestrians who wore storm boots found it almost impossible to walk through as their feet became entangled in inches of slush.\n\nSTRUCK BY LIGHTNING.\n\nThe house in which is the P. & O. Mess at Mountain View was struck by lightning, the coping of the south-west corner being carried away and the telephone and electric lighting system being put out of order.\n\nA resident in another district of the Peak also had a scare, being surrounded by smoke and fumes thought to be due to lightning striking something.\n\nNear Naval Hospital.\n\nA landslide occurred at the junction of Stubbs Road and Magazine Gap Road, closing it to motor traffic.\n\nCRACKER FACTORY BLAZE.\n\nPeople living in the Ma Tau Kok district, Kowloon City Road, were started early this morning by an explosion even louder than the terrific thunder claps.\n\nThis was caused by the striking by lightning of a large godown in which the products of the Kwang Man Loong Cracker factory are stored.\n\nSWIM TO ASSISTANCE.\n\nBluejackets armed with shovels, picks, axes, and other tools were busy at the Naval Yard trying to clear the choked drains which blocked water from the direction of Seven and Six Penny Hill and flooded the yard and the residential quarters.\n\nIn the early morning, several had to swim across in order to render assistance.\n\nTOMMIES TURN OUT.\n\nThe garden at Murray Barracks was almost swept away and destroyed. Half of the railings on that portion of Queen's Road was taken away with the cement pillars and placed across the road.\n\nMen of the Surrey Regiment were busy clearing the earth here.\n\nNews came through at about 11:30 that there had been a house collapse at Cross Street, near the No. 2 Police Station.\n\nFire Engine Stuck.\n\nThe engine got stuck in the mud opposite the Murray Barracks, and the Surreys men had to surrender their implements to the fire party to get the engine out.\n\nIn the morning, another fire was observed in Queen's Road East, near the Grand Theatre.\n\nCrowds were busy collecting what they could get from the Kowloon Fire Brigade.\n\nPage 23\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926.]\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL",
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        "content_text": "42\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\nPUBLIC WORKS, -Continued,\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925,\n\n43\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual,\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\nProvisionally\n\nVoted.\n\nExplanatory Remarks,\n\n$\n\n*\n\n16,643,525 16,329,865.91\n\n1,277,780.20 1,591,439.29\n\n-93\n\nPUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY, -Continued.\n\n2,837,500 1,646,787.49\n\n95,336.68\n\n786,049.20\n\n116,300.00\n\nBrought forward........\n\nHongkong,—Continued.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.—Continued.\n\nContinued.\n\nRoads.\n\n(7.) West Bay Development, Road Construction\n\n25,000.00\n\n25,000\n\n50.00\n\n(1) Wongneichong Development, Road Construction\n\n25,000\n\n25,000.00\n\n(2.) Queen's Road East,—Widening to 60 feet\n\n20,000\n\n15,861.04\n\n4,138.96\n\n(3.) Kennedy Road,—Improvements\n\n30,000\n\n20,856.17\n\n143.83\n\n(o) Bonham Road, Road Improvements and Widening\n\n20,000\n\n15,000.00\n\n5,000.00\n\n(p.) Surfacing Main Roads.......... (9.) Stubbs Road, surfacing for heavy traffic\n\n150,000\n\n149,690.72\n\n25,000\n\n17,800.47\n\n360.28\n\n7,100.58\n\n(2) Caine Road Widening and raising\n\nLess work done than anticipated.\n\nNot begun.\n\nDo.\n\nLess work done than was anticipated.\n\nThe expenditure represents the cost of resuming land at I. L. 6094 for widening purpose.\n\nto new levels between Arbuthnot Road and Aberdeen Street (*) Road from Shek O Gap to D'Aguilar\n\n20,000\n\n20,000.00\n\nNot begun.\n\n30,000\n\n30,000.00\n\n(7.) Access road to War Memorial\n\nDo.\n\nNursing Home, Stubbs Road\n\n30,000\n\n44,812.08\n\n14,812.08\n\n(8.) Access road to Q.B.I.L. 14\n\n10,000\n\n10,000.00\n\n15,000.00\n\n(P.) Shaukiwan Road, Widening near Taikoo Dock......\n\n20,000\n\n(1) Conduit Road, Widening.......\n\n6,000\n\n34,962.52 29,471.15\n\n14,962.52 22,471.15\n\n(2.) Raising Shaukiwan Road between Yee Woo Street and the Electric Light Works........\n\n15,000.00 22,500.00\n\nMuch extra walling was necessitated to prevent washing down into Happy Valley.\n\nNot begun.\n\n[Taikoo Dockyard. Additional work undertaken to improve the bend near eastern entrance to the Heavy amount of underpinning was necessary to buildings and retaining walls.\n\n225,000\n\n(9.) Surfacing Wongneichong Road East of I.Ls. 23, 10 and 29 1 (*) Service path: from Magazine Gap : Road to serve new sites south of Turope Manor\n\n10,000\n\n25,000.00\n\n10,000.00\n\nNot begun.\n\n****\n\nDo.\n\n3,000\n\ntre) Hongkong Tramway diversions and necessary road improvement....... (24) Garden Road above Kennedy Road, Improvement and Widening.. (re.) Improvement of the junction of Stubbs Road with Morrison Gap Road\n\n25,000\n\n9,994.75\n\n22,922.64\n\n6,994.75\n\n10,000\n\n2,077.30\n\n10,000.00\n\nJIHAL\n\n20,000\n\n20,000.00\n\n(dd) General Works\n\n50,000\n\n119,151.54\n\n69,151.54\n\n125,000.00\n\nDrainage.\n\n7,000.00\n\n6,000.00\n\nWork completed.\n\nLess work done than anticipated.\n\nNot begun.\n\nDo.\n\nExpenditure greater than anticipated due to the development of the Colony.\n\nTraining Nullahs:-\n\n(4.) Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme\n\n8,000\n\n(8.) Wongneichong Nullah\n\n50,000\n\n(r.) General Works\n\n30,000\n\n434.28 19,442.94 50,025.24\n\n7,585.72 30,557.06\n\nPractically no development took place.\n\n20,025.24\n\nMiscellaneous Drainage Works : —\n\n34,400.00\n\n(a) Laying sewer in connection with Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme\n\n8,000\n\n912.75\n\n7,087 25\n\n(6) Shaukiwan Road, Laying drain in connection with North Point\n\nWork commenced late in the year.\n\nExpenditure greater than anticipated due to the development of the Colony.\n\nPractically no development took place.\n\nForeshore Development\n\n10,000\n\n(e) General Works\n\n40,000\n\n0,371.30 49,782.29\n\n629.70\n\nCarried forward\n\n3,087,500 2,265,178.86\n\n9,782.29\n\n253,486.25\n\n1,025,807.89\n\n13,400.00\n\n354,450.00\n\nExpenditure greater than anticipated due to the development of the Colony.\n\nCarried forward .....\n\n16,648,525 16,329,865.91 1,277,780.20 1,591,489.29\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "# REPORT FOR 1926\n\n## STAFF \nIn 1926 the Staff was reduced by five. Miss Munro, after a serious illness, has now gone home on leave. Mrs. Ng and Mrs. Wei resigned for reasons of health and Miss Fok and Miss To were transferred to King's College.\n\n## ATTENDANCE \nThe attendance during 1926 was satisfactory, the average daily attendance being four hundred and ninety-two, and it is gratifying to be able to report that the dwindling in numbers during the course of the year, so noticeable in the past, was much less pronounced. One class, 7c, had exactly the same numbers and names on the roll at the beginning of December as at the beginning of January, which for B.P.S. is an achievement, but which it is hoped will shortly be looked upon as the normal and not the exceptional condition throughout the School.\n\nI would here urge parents not to withdraw their daughters from the School during the year. The time for a girl to leave is at the close of the school year, in December. It has been found that premature withdrawals are very unsettling to the School, and sight must not be lost of the fact that a girl who fails to complete a session is indirectly responsible for depriving another of admission, as entries are not encouraged after the work of the year has begun. The accommodation of the School is taxed to the utmost; each year applicants are perforce refused admission. This year one hundred and forty-six applications had to be refused.\n\nIt is to be regretted, therefore, that a girl should enter upon the school year without the intention of remaining until the end of it.\n\n## HEALTH \nThe health of the School remains good. In October Dr. Minett, the M.O. of Schools, medically examined one hundred and sixty-nine entrants. The report on eyes and teeth was not satisfactory, out of the number examined there were fifty defects, mainly eyesight.\n\n## STUDIES \nSince the last report was submitted several changes of a progressive nature have been introduced, the chief being the extension of the study of English to the lower classes of the School.\n\nIn January, 1926, the Remove Class, which had previously had studies in the ratio of three hours Chinese to two of English, was included amongst the English Classes, and the hours were changed to one and four respectively. In this way pupils are afforded an opportunity of reaching the standard of English required for the Junior Local in the remaining four years.\n\nThis change has proved a success and has been appreciated by the girls. It is now possible to carry the English teaching down two years further, two divisions of Class 7 and one division of Class 8 now learning English in the ratio of three to six. An important result of this change is that girls are encouraged to pass from Class 7 to the Senior School, and to pursue their studies up to the Standard of the University Locals.\n\nIn 1925 the subject of Hygiene was introduced by means of informal health talks into the curriculum of the School. In the lower classes these are given in Chinese, in the English junior classes they form the subject of colloquial lessons and in the Senior Classes the subject is treated formally as Domestic Science. In 1926 Domestic Science replaced Needlework as a subject for the Senior and Junior Locals. Needlework is taught five years in the Junior and four years in the Senior School: it was therefore felt that it could be well discontinued in favour of a wider and more generally useful subject. The old cookery kitchen was small and inadequate, and it was found possible last year to fit out as kitchen a more suitable room. The subject of Housewifery has recently been introduced, and although it has not yet been possible to set apart a room for this purpose, it is hoped that certain structural alterations will render it possible to allocate the room above the kitchen to the service of this new and important branch. The girls are responsible for the entire cleanliness and freshness of the place, the washing of paint, curtains, cleaning of windows, \n\n## Prize Giving \nfound in the second half of the Magazine. After the reading of the Report for 1926, Miss Skinner spoke of her coming departure on leave and wished the girls a happy and successful year. Mr. Wood then gave away the prizes, which included the awards on the results of the Senior and Junior Local Examinations, the Government Free Scholarship Certificates, the English and Chinese class prizes and the certificates for First Aid and Home Nursing. A full list of prizes and prize-winners will be found at the end of the Head Mistress' Report. The second innovation came when Mr. Wood spoke to the students in Cantonese instead of in English. His speech was listened to with great attention and interest.\n\nThe proceedings ended with a vote of thanks to Mr. Wood, proposed by Miss Lewis.\n\nSpecial thanks must be given to those who contribute every year to the Prize Fund. The list of names was published in the newspaper report of the day's proceedings, but it is perhaps not sufficiently understood that the list of prizes owes some of its length to the generosity of the donors to the Prize Fund.",
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        "content_text": "93\n\n- 5\n\n.1\n\n94\n\nEstimate of Capacity.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nFiltering Capacity.\n\nDistribution.\n\nKowloon.\n\nThe area shown as \"Indirect\" is the area draining into Catchwaters.\n\nWith a total storage of 501.75 million gallons and a total catchment area, direct and indirect, of 4,270 acres, I estimate the capacity of the existing Kowloon Works at 5 million gallons per day. The whole of this supply is by gravitation.\n\nFILTERING AND DISTRIBUTION.\n\nThe following tables give in condensed form particulars of the existing Filter Beds and Service Reservoirs :——\n\n  \n    City.\n    Filter Beds\n    Service Reservoir\n    Remarks.\n  \n  \n    Name.\n    Area in Square Yds.\n    Capacity in mill. galls.\n    \n  \n  \n    Albany.\n    4,944\n    5.187\n    Slow sand.\n  \n  \n    Bowen Road\n    .72 + .417\n    1.137\n    3 mill. gals. per day.\n  \n  \n    Eastern\n    6,338\n    4.88\n    Slow sand.\n  \n  \n    Elliot\n    4,395\n    5.317\n    \n  \n  \n    West Point\n    1,980\n    .851\n    \n  \n  \n    Kennedy Town\n    \n    .343\n    \n  \n  \n    Magazine Gap Road.\n    \n    .395\n    \n  \n  \n    1750 ft. Tank\"\n    \n    .388\n    \n  \n  \n    Peak Reservoir\n    \n    .395\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Mt. Gough\n    \n    .211\n    \n  \n  \n    Total...\n    17,657 Square Yds.\n    19.104 mill. galls.\n    \n  \n\nWith a slow sand filtering area of 17,657 sq. yds. and taking a filtering rate of 400 gallons per yard per day the existing beds when all are in operation could deal efficiently with 7 million gallons per day, but as about 10% of this area will always be out of action for cleaning the working figure must be reduced to 6.3 million gallons per day. The filtering capacity can therefore be taken as 6.3 million gallons per day by slow sand beds and 3 million gallons per day by fast gravity beds, or a total capacity per day of 9.3 million gallons.\n\nA large portion of the existing City Distribution system is very old and consists of 3\" and 4\" dia. C. I. pipes with even smaller effective diameters owing to incrustation. A fair length of 15\" C.I. pipes has been laid during the last three years which has helped matters considerably, but during the Summer it is increasingly difficult to keep pressures up in the central portions of the City.\n\n  \n    Name.\n    Filter Beds Area in Sq. Yds.\n    Service Reservoir Capacity mill. galls.\n    Remarks.\n  \n  \n    Kowloon Shing Mun\n    8,000\n    \n    Slow sand.\n  \n  \n    Kowloon Tong.\n    \n    2.183\n    \n  \n  \n    Pipers Hill\n    \n    1.547\n    \n  \n  \n    Yaumati\n    \n    .162\n    \n  \n  \n    Hunghom\n    \n    .092\n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    8,000\n    3.984\n    5 mill. galls, per day (under Construction).\n  \n\nWith a filtering area of 8,000 sq. yds. a filtering speed of 400 gallons per sq. yard per day and a 10% allowance on beds out of action for cleaning, the Kowloon Beds can efficiently filter 2.9 mill. gallons per day. Before the end of the year the Shing Mun Fast Gravity Filter Beds will be completed adding 5 mill. gallons per day to the filtering capacity and bringing the total mainland capacity to 7.9 mill. gallons per day.\n\nFiltering Capacity.\n\nDistribution.\n\nThe distribution system in Kowloon is on the whole good, but the steady development all over the peninsula calls for a continuous programme of main-laying while the Service Reservoir Capacity is now inadequate.\n\nESTIMATED Requirements.\n\nIt is difficult to work out with any degree of accuracy the exact water requirements of Hong Kong, as, during the last twenty years there have only been three years when it has been found possible to give a full supply throughout the twelve months, these years being 1919, 1920 and 1921.\n\nFrom the census returns I find that the population of the City showed an average increase, between the years 1911 and 1921, of about 4.2% annually.\n\nThe full supply to the City in 1921 was 8.11 mill. gallons per day, which taking a percentage annual increase in supply equal to the annual percentage rise in population during the previous decade gives an estimated consumption of 10.14 million gallons per day in 1927.\n\nThe actual consumption during 1927 was 9 million gallons per day with restrictions in force for over four months in the year and I estimate the full supply without restrictions would have been 9.5 million gallons per day, which is somewhat lower than the estimate from a population basis.\n\nTaking all circumstances into consideration I consider the following a modest estimate of the daily full supply water requirements of the City for the next five years :-\n\n1928 10 mill. galls.\n\n1929 10.4 mill. galls.\n\n1930 10.8 mill. galls.\n\n1931 11.2 mill. galls.\n\n1932 11.6 mill. galls.\n\nDuring the decade 1911 to 1921 the population in Kowloon showed an average annual increase of about 8.1%.\n\nThe actual water consumption in 1921 was 759 million gallons and in 1927 it was 1,249 million gallons, showing an average annual increase of 10.7%.\n\nWhen it is remembered that the supply in Kowloon is largely by street fountains but that a very large number of meters for internal services have been granted during the past few years, it is to be expected that the consumption per head will increase and that the daily consumption will therefore increase in proportion more rapidly than the population. The above figures support this view.\n\nTaking all circumstances into consideration I consider the following a modest estimate of the daily full supply water requirements of Kowloon during the next five years:\n\n1928 3.8 mill. galls.\n\n1929 4.18 mill. galls.\n\n1930 4.45 mill. galls.\n\n1931 4.66 mill. galls.\n\n1932 4.9 mill. galls.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nKowloon.",
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        "content_text": "167\n\n18\n\nMr. Henderson in his minute dated 13.1.26 in C.S.O.3864/25 pointed out that the following savings in water from the mains could be made if salt water were made available:-\n\n(a) Existing Public Latrine (metered)\n\n(b) Existing Water Closets (excluding Peak)\n\nestimated\n\n(c) Street Watering (H.S.D's estimate)\n\n(d) Side Channel Washing (H.S.D's estimate)\n\nTotal\n\n29 million gallons per annum.\n\n42 million gallons per annum.\n\n2 million gallons per annum.\n\nJJ million gallons per annum.\n\n94.5 million gallons per annum or 260,000 gallons per day.\n\nSavings can also be made if the fresh water flush scheme is adopted. I estimate that piping could be installed at an economic cost to give at least 130,000 gallons per day from the proposed fresh water scheme without recourse to pumping. The total fresh water supply required is therefore 245,000 gallons per day, the whole of which for an average of about 7 months in the year will be available from the streamcourses without pumping. The volume to be pumped daily during the 4 months dry weather period will vary from a few hundred gallons upwards.\n\nThe lowest D.W.F. gaugings are shown on plan of Health Districts and are as follows:-\n\nJ 9,331 gallons per day.\n\nStream at Point A 33,653\n\nB 0\n\n31 6,826\n\nD 7,488\n\n25\n\nE 3,499\n\nF 6,667\n\n35\n\nG 3,300\n\nJ H 7,373\n\n99\n\nI 41,990\n\n11\n\nJ\n\nK 4,248 17,496\n\nD 141,861 say 140,000 gallons per day.\n\nNo rain has fallen since the 19th January and gaugings which have again been taken at each of the above points show only a diminution of flow equal to 12% over an average of 20 days. From the above it will be seen that an additional supply of not more than 105,000 gallons per day will be required from some other source during the dry weather period to ensure an adequate supply for the whole of the residential areas on the northern slopes of the Island above the level of Pokfulam, Bonham, Caine and Kennedy Roads from the Chinese Christian Cemetery on Pokfulam Road to Mount Parish, excluding the Peak which is already supplied from the main.\n\nFortunately two other reliable sources are available which will continue to give an abundant supply. The first is in Shek Tong Tsui Nullah below Pokfulam Road and here it is proposed to utilise the water which drains into the nullah below the intake tank at the point marked A on plan and also the water which runs to waste from the condensers and pumping plant the result of slip on the high duty pumps of the Pokfulam Road Pumping Station.\n\nThe minimum available from these two sources, after allowing for a draw off of 50,000 gallons at the intake tank and 34,000 to be recovered by Waterworks is 43,000 and 33,000 gallons respectively giving a total of 76,000 gallons.\n\n19\n\nThe second source is in the Albany Nullah just below the level of Bowen Road and here it is proposed to use the water which drains into the nullah below the intake tank at the point F on plan and also the water which is used for sand washings at the Bowen Road filter beds. The minimum available from the former source alone after allowing for a draw off of 38,000 gallons at the intake tank at F is 200,000 gallons. The former source has been checked and the returns show no diminution of flow.\n\nAt each of these 2 nullahs it is proposed that electrically driven pumps be installed to deliver, after filtration, such quantities to the high level tanks as the streams fail to supply during the dry weather period. The total available at all times in these two nullahs is not less than 282,000 gallons per day.\n\nThere remains the cost of the installation and the question of harbour pollution which I understand is now being reported on by the Government Analyst. As to the latter, it would appear that in the granting of water flush to a population of 19,200, the sewage discharging through the harbour frontage of about 3 miles would be considerably diluted and the increased pollution would be very small and practically negligible; about 20% of this population already possesses the flush system. As to the cost, no alterations or additions would be required to the existing sewer system and the total cost of carrying out the scheme including the necessary nullah intakes, tanks, balancing tanks, electric pumps, pump houses mains and fittings complete as shown in brown on plan would be approximately $178,500.00, details of which are given on page 19. To prevent waste I would suggest that all houses be put on water meters at a rate of say $1.00 per 1,000 gallons which no doubt all consumers would gladly pay for the privilege of the flush system. The adoption of the scheme based on a consumption of 115,000 gallons per day would give, after deducting working costs, a return to Government of about 8% on capital outlay plus maintenance and depreciation charges. All houses above the level of 50 feet below the top water levels of tanks and reservoirs shown on plan are or can be supplied from streamcourses and have been taken into account with existing services in recording the dry weather flows.\n\nSmall intake Tanks generally of about 1 day's supply, break pressure and balancing tanks would be built in the positions indicated on plan together with any minor intakes to ensure full development of the whole of the polluted catchment area on the northern slope, not used for Waterworks purposes and bounded by the spur above I.L. 2378 Pokfulam Road, High West, Victoria Peak, Victoria Gap, Mountain View, Mount Gough, Magazine Gap and Wanchai Gap.\n\nThe pumping mains shown green on plan would be of steel 5\" in diameter and the chief distributing main shown on plan by heavy brown line would be 4 inches in diameter and the subsidiary mains shown brown 3\" galvanized.\n\nThe houses on Stubbs Road in the Wongneichong catchment area East of Mount Parish are too widely scattered to be brought into the scheme; each must be treated on its merits in many cases water flush can only be granted subject to the owners providing 4 months capacity storage tanks, very few streams being available during the dry period.\n\nThe Ridge Broadwood Road and all houses in the vicinity up to the 400′ level can be provided for as shown on plan.\n\nFRESH WATER SCHEME FOR MIDDLE LEVEL ZONE.\n\nApproximate Estimates.\n\n(A). Approximate cost of Pumps & Pump Houses,\n\n1. at Pokfulam Road $12,000.00\n\n2. at junction of Bowen Road and Garden Road $12,000.00\n\n(B). 5\" Steel Pumping Mains in duplicate,\n\n1. at Shektongtsui 5,940 feet.\n\n2. at Albany 8,580.\n\n$36,500.00\n\nCarried forward $60,500.00\n\n108",
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        "title": "CO129-515-4 Proposals for site for Royal Naval canteen 30-1-1929 - 28-3-1929",
        "content_text": "# NATIONAL SCHEME FOR DISABLED MEN\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to- \nThe Secretary of the Admiralty, London, S.W.1, quoting `66/208a/62779`, L.P.-N. 8. Admiralty, S.W. 10, C.E.in C.....\" February 1929.\n\n048/28/208a. 1000. 52889/25\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 15th December, 1928, No.52889/28, relative to the provision of a site for the Royal Naval Canteen at Hong Kong, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that My Lords have considered the points raised by His Excellency The Governor at his visit in July last on the possibility of a site being found in the Naval Arsenal Yard, and they are prepared to consider the surrender of the Yard to the Colonial Government on the basis that an establishment similar to the existing Naval Armament Depot as a whole is provided on some other suitable site on the following conditions:-\n\n(a) The establishment to be constructed by the Naval Authorities.\n(b) The whole cost, including the provision of land, to be met by the Hong Kong Government.\n(c) The existing Depot to be surrendered as soon as the new one is available for occupation.\n\nThe value of the property given up would possibly assist in the provision of funds to meet the expenditure.\n\n2. My Lords have been in consultation with the War Office on the possibility of a site being found on Stone Cutters Island for the proposed new Naval Magazine Establishment, constructed so as to provide for the joint accommodation of Navy and Army Explosives, and, as will be seen from the accompanying...\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.1.\n\nPage 10\nPage 11",
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        "document_key": "CO129-516-5 Policy of Hong Kong government on the purchase and supply of opium 25-2-1929 - 10-5-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-516-5 Policy of Hong Kong government on the purchase and supply of opium 25-2-1929 - 10-5-1929",
        "content_text": "## BRITISH BULLETIN, No 38.\n\nWhy do people waste their time in formulating silly and immoral plans for dealing with the drug curse, instead of, like reasonable beings, prohibiting the sale and use of the drug, except for medical purposes?\n\nThere is no other remedy but prohibition. Prohibition at the source will effect, in a natural order, prohibition in distribution and use. Publish to the world the Black List of the offenders—the manufacturers, the countries that permit illicit trade, the Governments that fail to deal with the evil. Carry out the Hague and Geneva Conventions to the letter. Persuade new-born Turkey to come into the League, and convince both Turkey and Persia that they must—for their own sake, as well as for the world at large—join the comity of nations in one of its most imperative efforts to save the world from the curse of narcotic drugs.\n\nThe recent issues of \"Opium, a World Problem,\" reveal not merely a continuance of the energies of the \"National Anti-opium Association of China,\" but a distinct advance in the enthusiastic zeal which the Association has manifested itself from the date of its inauguration. Their magazine is full of interesting points, even when we venture to think there should be some modification of statement. They are justified in saying that their own efforts are largely counteracted by the steady stream of such drugs as morphine, heroin, and cocaine poured in upon them from abroad. If opium-smoking is prohibited as the National Government proposes, opium addicts can easily obtain morphine and morphine pills supplied from abroad.\n\nWithin their own borders, the obstacle is always the military, as we have seen in recent incidents reported by China correspondents. Opium is at the bottom of most quarrels, such as the Szechwan war and the Yunnan-Kweichow dispute. Yunnan sends a good deal of opium into Kwang-tung, and the Kwang-si Government taxes it in transit, collecting £225,000 a month on Yunnan opium alone. Yunnan retorts by sending the drug by aeroplane. And always the military are the authors of the evil. They regularly fix the rate of transit, pocketing all but what they have to pay in 'squeezes' and bonuses to their agents.\n\nOne interesting point is suggested by our old friend, Dr. Wu Lian-Teh, who has always been an anti-opium enthusiast. He would like to see established an International Narcotic Factory to supply the world's legitimate needs—all other factories to be closed. That would no doubt be ideal, but its impossibility is obvious. There are other means within the power of the League of Nations, if only it would act up to the principles of the Hague and Geneva Conventions.\n\nWhat impresses us in the whole discussion as set forth in these instructive issues of \"Opium, a World Problem,\" is that, if the National Government can get the mastery over the military offenders, they will soon make a clearance of the poppy-fields, as was done between 1907 and 1916, before Yuan Shi-Kai divided the country into military zones, and handed the protection of China to the military rascals who did their worst to ruin the country for their own enrichment.\n\nWe venture on one suggestion—not a prophesy, for that would indeed be rash—that, if the National Government of China continues stable, we may, several years hence, find China to be the dominant and triumphant force in this great campaign. America and China between them may possibly succeed by practical effort where European schemes have largely failed.\n\n## Egypt\n\nWelcome news arrived from Egypt on March 21st that the Egyptian Government is determined to check the drug evil, and had just created a special Narcotic Bureau, under the direction of the Commandant of the Cairo Police. The police appear to have traced one of the chief sources of the supply of heroin, and have arrested two Polish Jews, who were deeply involved in the traffic. Both these Jews hail from Vienna, finding their supplies in the Austrian capital. The Austrian police seem to be actively tracking down their confederates in Vienna.\n\nWhat this means may be better understood from an article in a Cairo newspaper which has been forwarded to us, and which evidently is inspired by the Egyptian Government. Up to ten years ago, the only drug in use was hasheesh, and the number of persons addicted to it was very small. Then came cocaine, and multitudes of people used it, and big fortunes were made by its importers. It is said the vice has spread to every village in the country. In Cairo, in a single year, there were 5,570 convictions for the possession of narcotics. Heroin is bought in Europe at £20 an ounce, and by the time it reaches Egypt, it is worth £45, and the dealers retail it at a higher figure, after adulterating it with boracic acid powder. Of 20,000 persons in prison, 5,000 are drug addicts.\n\nIt is not to be wondered at that the Egyptian Government is alarmed at the prospect of its people being ruined by the drug evil. They estimate that, out of a population of fourteen and a half millions, as many as half a million are affected by it as more or less addicts. The increase of crime and the economic loss caused by the sapping of physical powers are sufficient to arouse the Government to a sense of its national peril. They are to be congratulated on their determination to crush the thing out. They want no monopoly, but absolute prohibition. Or, as we have said, to cut off the snake's tail just behind the ears.\n\nReceived since last acknowledgment—Miss Grey, £1; Miss Aldis, 2s. 6d.; Scottish L. of N. Union, 10s. 6d.; Leonard Wigham, 5s.; Miss Candler, £1.\n\nWe bank at Barclay's, 54, Lombard Street, E.C.3.\n\nAll communications to be made to Rev. E. J. Dukes, 2, Bethune Avenue, Friern Barnet, N.11.\n\nFinchley Press, East and North Finchley.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929",
        "content_text": "## POST.\nWEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929\n\ncontinued unrestricted import and export of silver dollars to correct the vagaries of the tael, and the free circulation and acceptance of silver dollars, and in this the Government might assist by withdrawing its discouragement to payments to the Treasury in the Colony's legal tender.\n\nAn increase in notes accompanied by free circulation of dollars interchangeable into notes and general observation of the fact that silver dollars are legal tender in this Colony would appear to be effective almost at once in bringing down the Hongkong paper dollar to its true value.\n\nIt is desirable to retain bank-notes, and its temporary increase might be facilitated to the issuing Banks by the grant of less onerous conditions for an excess of the present amount, subject to a gradual reduction to a figure proved by experience to be sufficient for the Colony's requirements.\n\nThis is by no means an exhaustive review of the situation, but sufficient facts have been exposed to warrant an examination of the problem by the Government. Perhaps one of our unofficial members of the Council will take the matter in hand and move for a Commission to explore the matter in all its aspects, or preferably a currency expert might be engaged to report thereon.\n\nYears ago a situation detrimental to the interest of the Colony in reference to small coins was corrected by the action of the Government, and it now lies again with the Government to take such steps as may be necessary to remove the handicap which now exists to the trade of Hongkong.—Yours, etc.,\n\nOBSERVER.\nHongkong, July 16th, 1929.\n\n### Flowers, and Funerals.\n\nSir, May I express my agreement with Captain Baylis' admirable letter in your issue of today? On the occasions of these melancholy and unfortunately not uncommon processions to the cemetery, we cannot be but struck by the deplorable waste of money that has been expended in wreaths of fast withering flowers.\n\nPerhaps but comparatively few of us appreciate the splendid work that charities such as the Hongkong and kindred societies are doing. Their work is always unobtrusive, perhaps too unobtrusive, but every penny received by them is expended in lightening the burden of someone to whom the world has not been overkind.\n\nThe causes for the anomaly of a \"promise\" being superior in value to the \"performance\" in this issue are undoubtedly many, but the principal cause would appear to be the inadequate supply of bank notes for \"trade\" purposes; the value of bank notes emitted is returned in millions, but what proportion of these millions is in trade circulation is unknown, nor is the total ascertainable of the huge sum hoarded by the Chinese in South China as a protective measure against the insecure and mercurial paper of their own Banks, and their coin of varying and doubtful values.\n\nThis is a wonderful tribute to the note-issuing institutions of Hongkong, but they are possibly not performing fully the service intended by the Ordinances authorising their respective note issues in that an important percentage of such notes (larger than most people think) is being utilised to a purpose foreign to facilitation of trade by its permanent withdrawal into the Chinese equivalent of the French peasant's stocking.\n\nThis unexpected use of bank-notes has kept Hongkong currency at an over silver parity, and a position in taels, originally contracted for trade requirements which did not eventuate and since carried on speculatively, has intensified the difficulty by keeping up or even increasing the premium.\n\nSir, I think many of your readers will thoroughly endorse all that Mr. Baylis has said, re Flowers and Funerals. I hope something will be done to have stop this habit (for has it not become that?) of sending stacks of wreaths, ordered from Flower Street, by the office boy to the funeral of everyone of note who dies here.\n\nOld custom dies hard, but if instead of the wreath the cost of it could be sent to Captain Baylis for distribution, what an amount of real suffering would be alleviated. Tomorrow, from entirely selfish motives, I am going to make a start. I am informing those few, alas! very few persons who in the event of my decease would be likely to send a wreath, to forward $2.50 instead to Captain Baylis, for though I can think of little good I have done by living, I will then in my last hours have the consolation that I have endeavoured to accomplish some little good by dying.—Yours, etc.,\n\nCORONA.\n\n### That Shanghai Notice.\n\nSir, I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 5, addressed to the Chairman of Council, relative to an enquiry by the Editor of Dearborn Publishing Company as to whether the expression \"No dogs or Chinese admitted\" appears on any public signboard in Shanghai.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to inform you that no such notices are posted in any parks or in any of the places under the Council's jurisdiction, furthermore, careful investigation reveals the fact that such a notice has never appeared in the International Settlement.\n\nFor your information, I have the pleasure in handing you herewith three photographic reproductions of notices posted in the various parks and gardens. The Council would, accordingly, greatly appreciate it, if when replying to the Dearborn Publishing Company, you would emphatically point out that such statements as these are entirely false, unfounded and unwarrantable and that their publication is strongly objected to by the Council and the Foreign Community at Shanghai.—I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\n(Sgd.) E. S. B. ROWE, Secretary.\n\nAttached to these letters are facsimiles of the Regulations posted outside the Public and Reserve Gardens, Jessfield Park, and Hongkew Park, notes, a natural and normal consequence of weakness in the sterling rate in Shanghai vis-a-vis a relatively unmovable rate in Hongkong.\n\nIn other words, the premium of Hongkong notes is primarily due to the demand therefor exceeding the supply, and in a secondary manner to the speculation in taels.\n\nThere are undoubtedly other very many causes, but whatever they may be, the fact remains that a departure of a currency from its parity, whether a rise or fall from its basis of value, cannot react otherwise than detrimentally to trade.\n\nThe question is full of intricacies, and a satisfactory solution even more so, but a remedy might be found in an increase in the issue of bank notes, and placing a curb on the speculation in taels. The latter might be reached without great difficulty by agreement between the Banks themselves but, for obvious reasons, it cannot be effective unless accompanied by drastic measures to meet the trade requirements of Hongkong in respect of banknotes.\n\nNeither will an increase by itself in the issue of Bank notes remedy the situation unless accompanied by a certainty of convertibility.\n\n### Yunnan Fighting.\n\nTerrible Havoc Caused in Yunnanfu.\n\nPeking, July 16. Delayed messages from Yunnanfu paint a lurid picture of street fighting in that city, after a powder magazine explosion, which wrecked large areas of the city, including the French and British Consulates.\n\nThe explosion occurred on July 11. The British Consulate was mostly demolished, with most of its contents entirely destroyed. The Consul, Kirke, was injured, but not seriously.\n\nIt appears that troops of Generals Ho and Chang invaded Yunnan from Kweichow, marched on Yunnanfu, where a weak defending force failed to beat off the attack. The invaders got into the city, and there was much fighting in the streets, followed by the explosion of the powder magazine. There are further details yet to come.—Reuter.\n\n[An exclusive cable to S.C.M. Post last week gave facts of the explosion, and its results.]\n\n### The Colonies.\n\nAppointment of Mr. Hartshorn Foreshadowed.\n\nLondon, June 2. The Times to-day features an article by its Parliamentary correspondent, forecasting that on the conclusion of the Simon Commission's work Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, M.P., will be invited to Office and the Colonial Office separated from the Dominions Office, when the latter will be definitely separated.\n\nLord Passfield will continue to act as Secretary of State for Dominions and Mr. Hartshorn take charge of the Colonial Branch.\n\nM. F. KE, Hon. Secretary, Association, Hongkong, made a Statement.\n\n### PUBLIC AND RESERVE GARDENS REGULATIONS\n\n| Rule | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | The Gardens are reserved for the Foreign Community. |\n| 2. | The Gardens are opened to the public from 6 a.m. and be closed half an hour after sunset. |\n| 3. | No persons are admitted unless respectably dressed. |\n| 4. | Dogs and bicycles are not admitted. |\n| 5. | Perambulators must be confined to the paths. |\n| 6. | Birdnesting, plucking flowers, climbing trees or damaging trees, shrubs, or grass is strictly prohibited: visitors and others in charge of children are requested to aid in preventing such mischief. |\n| 7. | No person is allowed within the band stand enclosure. |\n| 8. | Amahs in charge of children are not permitted to occupy seats and chairs during band performances. |\n| 9. | Children unaccompanied by foreigners are not allowed in Reserve Garden. |\n| 10. | The Police have instructions to enforce these regulations. |\n\nBy Order,\nN. O. LIDDELL,\nSecretary.\n\nShanghai, September 13, 1917.\n\n### PEAK RESIDENT.\n\nSir,—With reference to the claim of your correspondent \"Truth-seeker\" to have seen in 1916 at the entrance to the Bund Gardens at Shanghai a notice reading \"Dogs and Chinese are not admitted,\" it seems desirable to publish once more the official repudiation, and I therefore enclose a copy of an official statement on the subject.\n\nIt is surely quite simple for the relatives to insert the words \"No flowers by request,\" and the custom would die out.—Yours, etc.,\n\nPEAK RESIDENT.",
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        "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929",
        "content_text": "## GENERAL WORKS\n\nRoads, $70,000. To provide for areas in course of development. Roads are macadamised, kerbed and channelled, and footpaths laid as new buildings are erected during the year.\n\nTraining Nullahs, $25,000. To provide for training stream courses on areas under development.\n\nSewage and Storm Water Drains, $60,000. Increase is considered necessary to provide drainage facilities to new schemes and properties under development.\n\nMiscellaneous, $30,000. This vote is to provide funds for the various small items that are found to be necessary by all Government Departments during the course of the year, such as new water mains, fixing hydrants, clearing conduits, and miscellaneous minor works.\n\nWater Works, $15,000. To provide for miscellaneous minor works.\n\nPort Works, $5,000. This vote is for preliminary investigations such as taking soundings and borings, and diving operations in connection with the new and proposed harbour works.\n\n## COMMUNICATIONS\n\nRoad from Causeway Bay to Quarry Bay section 70 feet wide, opposite M.L.s. 430 and 431, $15,000. The amount requested is to cover retention money and any work remaining uncompleted at the end of the year.\n\nTai Hang Development Road Construction including strengthening Conduit, $60,000. The amount requested is to complete the work.\n\nBarker Road improvements from Stubbs Road to Victoria Hospital, $19,000. The amount expected to be expended in 1929 is $20,000, and the balance of $19,000 is required to complete the work in 1930.\n\nPath 10 feet wide to Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station (1st section), $2,000. The vote provides for retention money as it is hoped to complete the work in 1929.\n\nRoad connecting Garden Road and Bowen Road with May Road, $88,000. In lieu of constructing the motor road to Mountain Lodge, provided for in the Estimates 1929, the Council recommended that this work be taken up at a cost of $108,000. It is expected that $20,000 will be expended in 1929, and the balance of $88,000 will be required to complete the work in 1930.\n\nYee Wo Street - Re-alignment of tram track and roadway between Great George Street and Causeway Bay, $100,000. This is necessary as certain private buildings fronting on Yee Wo Street are to be demolished, and they are required to be rebuilt to the approved building line on the alignment of the 100 ft. road.\n\nWidening May Road from Tram Station to Conduit Road to a minimum width of 20 feet, $75,000. The completion of this work will enable Mid-level residents to reach the City either via Conduit Road or the Magazine Gap Road, which is now being widened between Bowen and May Roads to take motor traffic.\n\nTo construct steps near I.L. 2301 to give access to 100 ft. contour road west of Tin Hau Temple, $5,500. The development of I.L. 2301 is to be proceeded with, and it is necessary to construct these steps to support the public sewer passing near to the lot.\n\n## DRAINAGE\n\nExtending sewer to R.B.L. 245, $21,000. The vote provides for extending the public sewer between a point on the Island Road about 300 yards west of Little Hong Kong Village to R.B.L. 245. This is required to pick up the sewage from the houses in course of erection on this lot.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\nNew Garage, P.W.D. Store, Wood Road, $1,000. The amount requested is to cover retention money and any work remaining uncompleted at the end of the year.\n\nConstructing a path and barriers at the Indian cemetery, $1,000. Under clause (e) of the conditions of the new lease granted to the Indian community, Government is committed to forming a new approach road to the cemetery.\n\nChinese Cemeteries - Laying out new areas, $6,000. This vote is necessary for forming additional extensions to the existing cemeteries for burial purposes.\n\nNew Furniture for all Departments, $22,000. This vote is necessary to provide for new furniture and fittings to Offices and Quarters to all Departments in the Hong Kong district.\n\nRenewing Electrical wiring at Government Buildings, $12,000. This vote is for renewing the old and defective electrical wiring to certain Government buildings.\n\nLaying a cable between the G.P.O. and Upper Albert Road, $5,000. In view of the proposed intercommunication with the Hong Kong Telephone Co., which will necessitate an increase in the number of Government telephones installed, it is essential that another cable be laid in 1930.\n\nLaying a cable between Upper Albert Road and Government Civil Hospital, $9,000. This cable also is essential for the reasons given under Sub-head 32.\n\nColonial Cemetery - Laying out new burial areas, $7,000. Further burial areas will be required in the near future.\n\n## WATER WORKS\n\nInstallation of Turbines and Pump at Bowen Road Filter Beds, $5,000. The amount requested is to cover retention money and any work remaining uncompleted at the end of the year.\n\nNorth Point, Balance Tanks, $80,000. The amount requested is to complete the work. It will not be possible, owing to shortage of staff, to commence this work until late in 1929.\n\nNew Principal Main in City, $20,000. This vote is required to meet increasing consumption.\n\n## PORT WORKS\n\nPraya East Reclamation - Contribution by Government towards funds for Reclamation, $55,000. According to the revised Estimate, the Government share for this work will be $947,504. It was not possible to make the final payments in 1929, and the sum of $55,000 is now required to complete the payment of the Government share of the cost of the work.",
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        "content_text": "Moreover nothing need clearing up: \"The point at issue is how the figure of $2,000,000 has been arrived at. No information is given. It is anticipated that this sum will be recovered by the sale of the land vacated within a few years, but no valuation based on land sales is given. It is not even clear what land will be available for sale. Clearly the present Arsenal Yard will be available, but Kellett Island will apparently be required by the Military and we do not know whether the new magazine site will be for sale or not. The Governor has not given us the area of any of the lands mentioned about demolition and ownership of materials.\n\nSheet A in (1) shows the position of lands; our only information is in Sheet A attached to the Admiralty papers at (1) in this file. (2). It is not stated on what terms the Military occupy Stonecutters Island. The Admiralty have arranged direct with the Military to transfer their Arsenal to that Island, but whether this simply means that they will have the use of Colonial land without paying anything for it, is not clear. In 62799/29, the Admiralty's suggestion was that the whole cost, including the provision of land, should be met by the Hong Kong Government. If Stonecutters Island is Colonial Government land, then the sum of $2,000,000, which was to include the cost of the site as well as of the building (see third enclosure to (1) in this file), would seem to need reduction.\n\nI have tried, without success, to obtain...",
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        "content_text": "(Encl.),\n\n3840/21\n\nfrom other files, evidence of land values in the neighbourhood.\n\nThe land to be produced by the Reclamation scheme alongside the Arsenal was estimated in 1921 to be worth $4.- per square foot, but lapse of time and the fall of the dollar make this estimate almost worthless. Although the fall of the dollar makes the proposed terms more favourable to the Government than they were when they were suggested in August 1929, I think we should ask for further information on the two points noted above before approving.\n\nEnquire by telegram. D.H. Sultd.\n\nG.C.G.C. Miles\n\n14/10.30\n\nre: letter of 31.10.30 in (1)\n\nThe position seems sufficiently clear. The Admiralty at present occupy the Arsenal Yard or Depot (4 acres), the Kennedy Road Magazines (6.2 acres), and Kellett Island (1 acre). They have arranged with the War Office to remove their establishments from these three areas to \"an area of land in military occupation on Stonecutters Island.\"\n\nAs regards the three areas which the Admiralty will vacate, the Arsenal Yard or Depot and Kellett Island will revert to the Colonial Government, subject in the case of Kellett Island to the retention by the War Office of their magazine sites there until the new Army magazines are constructed. In return for the reversion of these two areas to the Colonial Government and to assist the Admiralty in the cost of their moving, the Colonial Government has agreed to pay the Admiralty $2,000,000.\n\nWe need not query that sum which has been reached by local negotiations. It is a sum which the Admiralty estimate it will cost them to construct and equip their new Depot on Stonecutters Island, and the Governor assures us in paragraph 4 that it will be recovered by the sale of the land evacuated within a few years.\n\nAs regards the third area to be vacated, the Kennedy Road Magazines, \"it will be returned to the War Department as soon as the new accommodation is ready, and if not required for military purposes will revert to the Colony.\" (Paragraph 4 of the 1st enclosure to No. 1.) The question of the removal of the military magazines is to be left over for later settlement. (Paragraph 6 of the despatch), and that is why the disposal of the third area vacated by the Admiralty is not dealt with in the present Agreement.\n\nIt might be possible to criticise some aspects of the Agreement, particularly the reversion of the Kennedy Road Magazines to the War Department, but we should only get involved in a wrangle with the Lands Department, War Office.\n\nThere seems no doubt that the Agreement is advantageous to the Admiralty, War Office, and the Colonial Government, and it will be better to close the deal than to attempt to get alterations on points which we may consider too favourable to the War Office.\n\nThe Admiralty are satisfied that the new Depot to be constructed on Stonecutters Island can be done within the terms of the Washington Treaty (paragraph 5 of first enclosure to No. 1), but there is no evidence that the Foreign Office has been consulted.\n\nSubstance of para. I go to Admiralty and say the Secretary of State proposes to approve, but will be glad to know first whether the scheme has been explained to the Foreign Office and whether they have concurred that it is unobjectionable from the point of view of the Washington Treaty.\n\nJ.Hulder.\n\n16.10.30\n\nG.L.M. Canson\n\n22/12\n\n7:10. Admiralty\n\n16/10\n\nMAY/R\n\n£22.10.30\n\n8 Admiralty\n\n5.11.30\n\nFrs. copy of letter addressed to F.O regarding the evacuation & Arsenal Yard \"Kellett Island Magazines.\n\nAwait further communication from Admiralty files.\n\nHalder 7/20\n\n7.11.30\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "NO CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n8 OCT 1930' CUL. OFFICE!\n\n626\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG. 4th September, 1930.\n\n4\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof Your Lordship's confidential despatch dated the\n\n1st of April, 1930, on the subjects of the removal of the\n\nRoyal Naval canteen and the magazine accommodation at\n\nHong Kong.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLORD PASSFIELD,\n\n2.\n\nI have given this matter very careful\n\nconsideration from the point of view of this Government\n\nand, with the concurrence of my Executive Council, would\n\nrecommend that the Admiralty should be offered the agreed sum of $2,000,000 in four half-yearly instalments\n\nin consideration of the evacuation of the Arsenal Yard\n\nand Kellett Island Magazines.\n\n3.\n\nFrom this sum will be deducted, in the case of the first instalment, the agreed sum of £16,258 for an exchange of land which is necessary in connection with\n\nthe work on the Praya East Reclamation. For this the\n\nGovernment has already available $236,259 which may or\n\nmay not be sufficient according to the rate of exchange when the transaction takes place.\n\n4.\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "34\n\n3.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor during a visit to this country in the summer of 1928, approached Lord with proposals that the Naval magazines should be removed altogether from Hong Kong and that the land and buildings evacuated should be handed over to the Colony.\n\nA\n\nThe Naval magazines comprise three distinct establishments and information concerning the nature of their Lordships' tenure of these properties is given on Sheet A attached.\n\n&\n\n4.\n\nThe negotiations which ensued have culminated in the offer made at (a) of His Excellency's letter of 21st August 1929 of which a copy is enclosed. It will be seen that the Colonial Government are prepared to pay two million dollars to My Lords in return for the surrender of the Arsenal Yard and Kelletts Island. The Military Authorities have been associated with the negotiations and, as will be seen from the enclosed copy of our office letter dated 31st January 1930, the Army Council are prepared to hand over the site required on Stonecutters Island for the new Magazine Establishment subject to certain stipulations which My Lords are considering and which they do not anticipate will give rise to any difficulty. The Magazines referred to at (b) on Sheet A will be returned to the War Department as soon as the new accommodation is ready and if not required for military purposes will revert to the Colony.\n\n5.\n\nThe terms of the Washington treaty render it necessary that the accommodation to be provided in the new depot shall not exceed that of the existing, and although complete details have not yet been worked out, My Lords are satisfied that its construction and equipment on this basis can be carried out for the two million dollars offered by the Colony. The work may take rather longer than was at first anticipated to complete but this point can doubtless be adjusted satisfactorily with the Colonial government. Thus the whole of the Naval magazine installation will be removed from the Island of Hong Kong and concentrated in one depot on a site far more suitable for the purpose and secure from disturbance at little or no cost to My Lords. The new establishment will not cost more to run than the present one. The extra expense for transport of stores would be offset by economies arising from the concentration of three areas into one.\n\n/6......",
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        "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932",
        "content_text": "170\n\n150\n\nNotes Comments\n\nblotches, the marking in one case being on the blunt end of the egg and in the other case on the pointed end, the third egg was the usual colour evenly marked.\n\nOur thanks are again due to Mr. H. Green, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, and his staff, for the help afforded us in compiling these notes.\n\nTurning to page 40 Vol. I, No. 1, of H. K. N. under the heading of :- 'Things we want to know!' We have gleaned considerable information on certain of these points since this article was written, viz :— (4) Nesting haunts of Kite, Collared Crow, and Magpie. (5) Arrival dates of the Swallow, Swift, Starling and Cuckoos, (6) Great Himalayan Barbet-locality seen and date.\n\nBut we still require more information on Duck, species seen and locality.\n\n2. Snipe, Quail, Woodcock, when and where seen, whether plentiful or not.\n\n3. Plover, locality and date.\n\n4. Owls, Waterhens, Cuckoos, Barbets and Pied Kingfishers,- Nesting Habits.\n\n5. The homes of the White-rumped Swift and Green Parrakeet which have so far baffled us.\n\nWe ask observers once again to help us with useful information about the Colony's bird life, particularly during the nesting season. We reiterate what has been said previously in this magazine namely that the journal is a co-operative venture and is dependent on observers to help us to collect the complete records we desire. A brief note made at the time of watching a particular species is often of much value afterwards.\n\nARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.-We record the following for the past quarter:-\n\nDEPARTURES.-Eastern Quail (Coturnix c. japonica) March 28th: Kestrel (Cerchneis tinnunculus) April 8th Fanling: Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) April 6th Kam Tin: Forest Nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis monticola) April 1st Castle Peak road just after sunset: Eastern Tree Pipit (A. trivialis hodgsoni) April 16th Kam Tin: Richard's Pipit (Anthus r. richardi) April 21 Kam Tin: Daurian Redstart (Phoenicurus a. auroreus) April 6th Kam Tin: Chinese Greenfinch (Chloris s. sinica) March 30th King's Park Kowloon: Red-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola p. philippensis) April 7th on road just above Sha Tin: Chinese Stonechat (Saxicola torquata stejnegeri) April 21st Kam Tin.\n\nARRIVALS. Chinese Starling (Sturnia sinensis) April 6th Kam Tin- several: Chinese Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocerus) March 19th Sham Chun valley-several: Indian Koel (Eudynamis orientalis honorata) April 6th Kam Tin: Eastern Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus sinensis indicus) March 29th\n\nNotes Comments\n\n151\n\nBotanic Gardens: Great Chinese Barbet (Megalaima virens virens) March 9th Lam Tsuen valley, several: Chinese Little Bittern (Ixobrychus s. sinensis) March 15th Aberdeen: Japanese Robin Flycatcher (Siphia Mugimaki) March 19th Sham Chun valley: Siberian Greyheaded Bunting (Emberiza fucata fucata) March 26th Lan T'au: Large White-rumped Swift (Apus pacificus pacificus) March 6th Ng Tung Shan, several : Grey-backed Thrush (Turdus hortulorum) March 26th in a garden at Tai Po: Yellow-browed Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus humei præmium) March 19th Tai Po Eastern House Swallow (Hirundo rustica gutturalis) February 20th Castle Peak.\n\nICHTHYOLOGY\n\nLEUCOGLOSSA HERKLOTSI Herre, new species.\n\nE. A. A.\n\nDorsal VIII-I-27; anal II-I-20; there are 31 scutes in the straight portion of the lateral line, 67 scales in the anterior portion.\n\nThe oblong body is strongly compressed, with the dorsal and anal profiles regularly and almost equally curved; the depth is 2.2 times, the head 3.15 times, the deeply forked caudal 2.9 times, the long falcate pectoral 2.65 times in the length; the depth of the head equals its length; the eye is 3.35 times, the snout 2.9 times, the maxillary 2.3 times, the ventral 2.4 times in the head; the interorbital breadth slightly exceeds the eye diameter; there is a toothless space at the tip of each jaw, behind which is a single row of sharp hooked teeth along each side; the mouth is very oblique, the maxillary not quite reaching a vertical from the front margin of the eye; the pectoral extends to a point over the 7th anal ray; the longest dorsal ray is 1.6 times, the longest anal ray 1.8 times in the head; the gill rakers are 4+13, plus a very short stub on each limb; the anterior portion of the lateral line is nearly straight for some distance, then slightly curved up descending in a wavy line to the posterior straight section armed with scutes; which is a little shorter than the curved portion; the seventh and eighth dorsal spines are minute, barely reaching the surface of the skin.\n\nThe colour in alcohol is dark bluish gray with 4 vertical silvery white cross bands on each side of the body, and with traces of a fifth band near the caudal peduncle; the posterior margin of the gill opening is pearly white and a pearly white bar extends along the base of the anal and lower side of the caudal peduncle; the fins are all dusky or blackish, except the ventrals which are milky white; the tongue and all the roof of the mouth above it to the tip of the jaw, and the symphysis of the lower jaw back halfway to the root of the tongue are all milky white, the rest of the mouth and lips black or violaceous black.\n\nHere described from the type and only specimen, 180 mm. in length, secured in the market at Hong Kong, in September, 1931.\n\nNamed for Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, in honour of his activities in investigating the fauna and flora of Hong Kong.\n\nALBERT W. HERRE,\n\nStanford University,\n\nCalifornia, U.S.A.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nMay 1932.\n\n171\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "240\n\n241\n\n242\n\nD. J. FINN, S.J.\n\n\"double F pots developing a foot and that as a recent event, while showing another late mark—the glaze type. The fact that feet have in several other cases been found detached should be noted as agreeing with the observation of finds in Tonkin and Annam showing that the feet were made separately and attached before the firing of the upper part of cups and pots (7). Another point of technique which is worthy of note, as affording a link with the neolithic south (whose culture was very much the same as our Kwangtung seaboard) as well as affording a characteristic for classifying other local finds, is the attachment of the neck. It was a mainland site indeed that first presented me with the clue.\n\nIt had been noted already that the inside of the pots just below the neck showed sometimes a peculiar row of scalloped edges pointing down from a projecting ridge. Fragment 1 is a notable instance but is not unique. No solution offered itself until on a site which may be known for the present as S.K.F. High, a small bit of a 'basket' type (1.a) was found which gave the wanted clue. The sherd was from the neck and gave a section from the tip of the lip just down to below the join with the shoulder. On what would be the inner side, were in high relief two big regularly cut chevrons of clay which formed a continuation of the clay of the neck-collar.\n\nIt was now obvious (and has since found abundant confirmation) that this was a way of attaching the neck by a series of tabs or fringe of chevrons which were inserted within the already formed mouth-opening of the pot and then pressed back and upwards into the clay of the shoulder or necking. In the Lamma pots (figure 7, c and d), the technique is advanced enough to succeed in concealing the device by a better amalgamation of the two parts: on the S.K.F. High site, the result was left as a kind of high-relief chevron pattern standing out on a part invisible as long as the pot remained whole.\n\nIn (9) Plate 5, M. Patte has published a piece from Bau Tro which seems to have this technique though it is not so described in the text.\n\nThis point may be well worth noting for the sake of the classification of local finds as well as for their link with Tonkin and Annam.\n\nThe fragment 1 has on the interior of its collar, some zones of dots that suggest the glaze type. Also, it has lower down than its chevron neck-join a very distinct rope zig-zag imprint that may be the mark made by the top of a basket used to support the pot interiorly during the earlier stages of making and stamping. Figure 7, c and d show typical neck-sections with bevelled edge.\n\nThat brings to an end the first description of the I class of the pottery. Before the end of the series, it will be necessary to return to these again and again. For the moment, we are content to record them with one attempt at finding a general indication of the date. Of course, in this, I am influenced by the knowledge of the other finds to be discussed later on, but I think that even now a fair case can be made for the 'double F' class and in general for the strata 1-3 feet as representative culture of the 3rd century B.C., either Chinese or in fairly close contact with them.\n\nBefore concluding, I should perhaps add that the evidence for the general conclusions of my lecture (12) is getting stronger and that even since I began this article, the first problem proposed above has come much nearer solution. I can now confidently say that the stratum which contains the typical pots is the stratum that contains or has contained very fine polished stone weapons (which it may be misleading to call 'neolithic') as well as bronze Ko's, arrow-heads, and other weapons. Tonkin and Annam have revealed similar collocations (4) (7) (9), and we may hope that further research will establish conclusions very interesting for the early history of South China as a whole.\n\n16\n\nREFERENCES,\n\n(1) d'Ardenne de Tizac: Animals in Chinese Art,\n\n(2) British Museum Guide to Oriental Pottery and Porcelain.\n\n(3) Chin shih so (Commercial Press re-print in 12 volumes),\n\n(4) Goloubew, V.: L'Age du Bronze au Tonkin et dans le Nord-Annam. Bulletin de l'Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient, 1929.\n\n(5) Hobson, R. L. Catalogue of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection; Pottery and Porcelain.\n\n(6) Hsi ch'ing ku chien (Kien Lung edition).\n\n(7) Parmentier, H. Depôts de Jarres a Sa-Huynh. B.E.F.E.O. XXIV.\n\n(8) Parmentier, H. Anciens Tambours de Bronze, B.E.F.E.O.. VIII\n\n(9) Patte, E: Le Kjökkmödding néolithique de Bau Tro. B.E.F.E.O. XXIV.\n\n(10) Shuo wen ku chau pu.\n\n(11) Siren: Early Chinese Art: Prehistoric and Pre-Han.\n\n(12) South China Morning Post 8/8/32.\n\n(13) Burlington Magazine Monograph on Chinese Art.\n\n(14) B. Laufer. Han Pottery.\n\n(15) Ts'in Han Chin Wen Luh (Catalogue of Ts'in and Han Bronze Epigraphy) recently published by the Academia Sinica, edited by Yung Keng (December 1931).\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\ni\n\nArchaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n243\n\nAPPENDIX I.\n\nWhen the above article had been almost completed, new and very pertinent material turned up in a most interesting fashion. So important is it that Dr. Herklots has added to his generosity and patience by allowing the addition of this appendix along with the considerable extra expense of a tone-block, Plate 34, figures 1, 2, and 3.\n\nMr. Ng Ching Sum, the demonstrator in the Biological Department, seeing the fragments which had come to be reproduced recognized them as the same type as vases carefully treasured by his father, one of them known worshipfully as 'Noah's Vase.' Very kindly he has allowed them to be published here.\n\nDecember 1933.",
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        "content_text": "- 3 -\n\nHavale\n\n38\n\nEncl. No.3.\n\nnot necessitate its continuation beyond a certain point until the situation appears favourable.\n\n5.\n\nThere is no doubt however that three matters require early attention. These are the rebuilding or replacement of the City Hall, the rebuilding or disposal of Beaconsfield Arcade and the rebuilding of Government House. I have already dealt with the first of these.\n\nThe building known as Beaconsfield Arcade was acquired by Government in 1918 with the intention that part of the site should be granted to the Y.M.C.A. This intention was not carried out and it has since been used for the most part as temporary Government offices.\n\nThe building has now been condemned as unsafe and it will be necessary to demolish it in the near future. The site can be extended considerably by cutting away the hillside to the south of Queen's Road so as to provide for a block of buildings extending from Murray Parade Ground to Ice House Street, as shown on the plan. It will be necessary for the purpose to acquire Inland Lot 564 which is occupied by one of the oldest buildings in the Colony, at a cost estimated at some $160,000. The area thus made available for sale together with the balance of the City Hall site not required by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank will, it is thought, readily find purchasers, situated as it is in a central locality and on one of the main thoroughfares.\n\n6. With regard to Government House, I enclose a copy of the recommendations of the Retrenchment Commission with which I am in general agreement although I consider that a more suitable position might be found in the neighbourhood of Magazine Gap, possibly on the site of the former Military Sanatorium.\n\nThe existing building which dates from 1856 is in many respects unsuited to present day requirements. Moreover the building",
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        "content_text": "Tel. No. XXNXXX Whitehall 9400.\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to:-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nThe War Office,\n\nLondon, S.W. 1,\n\nand the following number quoted.\n\n118/Abroad/796 (D.1.1.a.)\n\n# 1\n\nTHE WAR OFFICE,\n\nLONDON, S.W. 1.\n\n16 December, 1932.\n\nWith reference to your letter of 12th November, and previous correspondence under your number 92608/32, relative to the Aerial Ropeway between the Military Magazines and the sea front at Hong Kong, I am commanded by the Army Council to state that it is noted that the Colonial Government are reported to be anxious to expedite the surrender of the Naval Arsenal Yard and the removal of the ropeway, and have asked that the matter may be settled not later than 1st January next.\n\nIt is not clear to the Council, however, that the matter is of such immediate urgency as this request would appear to indicate. It is understood that the accommodation to be provided for the Admiralty on Stonecutters Island may not be completed before 1934 or possibly 1935, and that until it is ready for occupation, the Navy must necessarily continue to use the Kennedy Road Magazines and the ropeway. There is also reason to doubt whether, even supposing the substituted accommodation were ready earlier than is anticipated above, building development in the Arsenal Yard would be practically impeded during the next two years by the temporary retention of the ropeway.\n\nApart, however, from the question of urgency, the situation needs to be considered from another point of view. The continued occupation of the Kennedy Road Magazines and the continued use of the ropeway by the military after the naval evacuation will be due to no wish of the military authorities but to the failure of the Colonial Government to implement their proposals to provide alternative magazine accommodation for the Army, while at the same time proceeding with their proposals to enable the Admiralty to vacate. In the opinion of the Army Council it would be neither equitable nor reasonable that through what may be described as a piece-meal scheme of reprovision which the Council have no opportunity of controlling, and which the Admiralty appear to have accepted on the strength of representations from the Colonial Government, the War Department should be mulcted in heavy expenditure, whether in diverting the ropeway or in compensating the Colonial Government for possible depreciation\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31\n\n31",
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        "content_text": "Sub-head 8-Miscellaneous, $15,000.-The vote is available for all Departments and provides funds for small works which arise during the year but are considered too small for a separate vote. 9.—Waterworks—(a) Miscellaneous, $8,000.-Provides for small extensions to subsidiary water mains and other miscellaneous minor works.\n\n(b) Meters, $140,000.-To provide for the supply of meters throughout the year principally to the Rider Main Districts.\n\n10.-Port Works, $5,000.-Covers expenses incurred in taking soundings, borings, and for preliminary investigations in connection with new and proposed harbour works, foreshore dumping etc.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\n11.-New 100-foot road between Causeway Bay & Ming Yuen, $140,000.— A Contract has been let for the sum of $231,550 for excavating about 350 yards lineal along the centre section of the road and depositing surplus hard material at the Eastern end, approximately between Power Street and the Government Quarry at Tsat Tse Mui.\n\nThis will leave a further length of the road at the Western end to be completed, to connect with the existing road at Causeway Bay, where heavy rock cutting is necessary. The reduction of certain sections of this road to 75 feet wide is under consideration.\n\n12. Surfacing 40-foot roads on Praya East, $30,000.-To cover the cost of surfacing, channelling and kerbing portions of Thomson and Jaffe Roads on the Praya East Reclamation according to agreement with lot holders.\n\n13.-New Road to Bathing Beaches, $15,000.-The total estimated cost of constructing this road, which is an extension of the Repulse Bay Beach Road, to two small bays South East of Repulse Bay is $70,000. Of this sum $55,000 is to be provided by the sponsors of the Repulse Bay 'Lido' Scheme and the work will not be commenced until such time as that scheme is approved.\n\n14. Robinson Road, $31,000.--To commence a road widening and improvement scheme between Peak Road and Glenealy which embodies the widening of Glenealy Bridge and deals with the dangerous corner below the new Canossa Hospital. This sum includes any necessary land resumption.\n\n15.-Wongneicheong Old Road Improvements, $30,000.-This sum is required to meet road expenditure arising out of further building development in Wongneicheong Valley.\n\n16-10-foot path to Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station, $25,000.-To continue and complete a 10-foot wide Access Road to the Wireless Station at Cape D'Aguilar. A section of .5 miles is already completed and this vote is to complete the remaining length of 1.25 miles.\n\nThis road will greatly facilitate the transport of personnel and stores to the Wireless Station.\n\n17. New road from Island Road to Stanley, $60,000.-This sum covers the cost of construction of a loop motor road .6 miles long to connect Island Road with the new Wong Ma Kok Gaol Road near Stanley Police Station. It will also provide access to new development in the district.\n\nSub-head 18.-Kennedy Road Widening. $30,000.-To continue the partially completed Kennedy Road Widening Scheme dealing particularly with that portion behind the Magazine.\n\nThis should allow of through traffic and to some extent relieve congestion in the Wanchai-Queen's Road East area.\n\nDRAINAGE.\n\n19.-Additional Septic Tank at Repulse Bay, $15,000.-Recent development in this area has tended to overload the existing septic tanks. In order to relieve this, it is proposed to instal an extra tank which will be sited along the South-West arm of the bay.\n\n20.—New Sewer-Wongneicheong Gap to Island Road, $27,000.—To construct a sewer to pick up drainage from new development along this road. Each lot connected has to pay a proportion of cost so that eventually most of the original outlay will be refunded to Government.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n21.-Chinese Cemeteries, laying out new areas, $6,000.--To provide for additional burial areas in existing cemeteries.\n\n22.-Colonial Cemetery, laying out new areas, $7,000. To provide for an extension to the burial area within the boundaries of the Colonial Cemetery Happy Valley.\n\n23.-Tsat Tsz Mui Quarry: Covering to mixing plants, new high tension cable and a transformer house, $10,000. To continue work on the protection of plant and provision of electric power to machinery.\n\n24.-Tsat Tsz Mui Quarry: Extensions and Improvements, $10,000.-The development of the quarry is now approaching a stage which on economic grounds calls for a natural extension of the layout. The sum requested is to meet this expenditure and provide for the erection of plant already in the Colony.\n\n25-Rewiring of Government Buildings, $25,000.---This sum is required for the replacement of defective and dangerous electrical wiring in Government buildings.\n\n26. Twelve E. H. T. Disconnecting Joint Boxes for Cable to Cape D'Aguilar, $5,700. For breaking up this cable into sections to facilitate testing and location of faults and thereby reduce probability of lengthy breakdowns.\n\n27-Laying telephone cable from the main route Victoria Gap-Gough Hill, $7,000. To continue the policy of placing Government telephone cables underground considered an economy in the long run.\n\n28-Laying telephone cable between G.P.O. and Cable Hut at Happy Valley, $42,000.--This portion of the main cable from the G.P.O. to Cape D'Aguilar has only 3 pairs of lines spare. As further calls may be made on the cable, it is advisable to provide an adequate reserve by duplicating the existing cable.\n\n29.-Reinstatement of Government Retaining Walls, $20,000.-These walls are examined annually and this vote provides for the repair or reconstruction of any walls which are considered dangerous.\n\n30-Central Police Station: Extension to Store, $1,200-The existing store is very cramped. It is proposed to enclose part of a shelter and thus form an extension to the East of this store.\n\nPage 388\n\n \n\nPage 388 \n\nPage 388",
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        "content_text": "116 \n\n# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nI note with interest that the Harbour Survey is to be completed by 1935. \n\nThe Colonial Secretary did not refer to the subject, but I see in the Estimates, Public Works Extraordinary, Item 91, that a sum of $224,440 has been budgeted to be spent next year on dredging the Harbour. It is satisfactory to know that this now long overdue work, which has been pressed for by the Shipping and Commercial interests, is at last to be taken up seriously. I shall be glad if the Colonial Secretary, when he replies to this debate, will tell us what is the present position with regard to the contracts for putting this necessary and urgent work in hand.\n\nIt is a matter for regret that the already considerable expenditure on the vehicular ferry piers is to be increased by a lakh or more, but I trust that the advice of the Naval Dockyard expert will put things right. It would appear to the layman that some of the initial mistakes might have been avoided if expert advice had been sought in the first instance.\n\nThe application of the new Safety and Load Line Conventions to one of the World's great ports is, of course, necessary, and the Colonial Secretary informed the Council of the verdict of the Board of Trade as to the minimum increase in the Government Marine Surveyor's staff which application of the Convention will call for. The Technical (Shipping) Committee of the Chamber of Commerce stressed the point that once existing shipping has been surveyed and brought into line with the Convention requirements, the subsequent periodical surveys will doubtless occupy much the same time as before.\n\nThey therefore recommended that, until the amount of extra work has been ascertained in the light of practical experience, the Government should engage additional staff on temporary appointments only, in order to avoid expensive enlargement of the pensionable staff.\n\nThe Committee still hold the same view, notwithstanding the ruling of the Board of Trade that three additions to the permanent staff are necessary, and they express the hope that any new appointments made will be in the first instance for a fixed period only, say three years.\n\nI am afraid it is unlikely that there will be any large amount of new construction of ships in Hong Kong in the next few years. The proposed expenditure of $60,000 on making Magazine Gap Road accessible for motor vehicles will be welcomed by all Peak Residents, as it will reduce considerably the distance from the Upper Levels to the centre of the town.\n\nI would suggest, however, that, in the interests of public safety, the road be barred to motor lorries unless being used in connection with building operations on Magazine Gap Road itself.\n\n40",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n143\n\nThe only other point to which I wish to make reference is what has been referred to as Government House and City Development Scheme. The scheme has been submitted to the Honourable Members and has received their approval and that of the Secretary of State. I am glad that the proposal to build the new Government House at Magazine Gap meets with approbation. The site was only chosen after careful consideration. The suggestion that on the completion of the house a Governor's Visitors' Book should be kept at the Colonial Secretary's office appears sound. I fear that I shall not be here myself, but I feel sure that my successor will be ready to adopt the proposal.\n\nI have already been approached in regard to the proposed new road on the north side of the Cathedral, and have recorded my view that, unless there are cogent reasons to the contrary, this portion should not be open to motor traffic.\n\nIt is the present intention of Government to find room in the new City Hall for the library removed from the old building.\n\nI am of opinion that it is most desirable that, if the Secretary of State sees no objection, we should treat this scheme as a whole as a matter separate from the ordinary estimates. It entails, on the one side, the sale of land after site preparation, and on the other, the levelling of land and the construction of a new Government House, a New City Hall and various other buildings for Government purposes.\n\nSo far as can be seen at present, the scheme should result in a very large profit, but until it is further advanced it would, in my opinion, be entirely wrong to use any money which we may have received under the scheme for any other purpose.\n\nIt may happen that the Colony will have to wait for several years for the benefit of such profits as may accrue, and at present such profit is merely an estimate.\n\nShould it approach the estimated figure, Government will have a very large amount at its disposal and, if I may indulge in a vision looking ahead to a time a year or two after I shall have left the Colony, I hope to see the greater part of that profit utilized for slum improvement in Hong Kong. As to its need there can be no doubt, but it is a difficult problem of which, having regard to the financial side, I have not been able to find a solution. The increased number of buildings which have been erected in various parts of the Colony must, I think, have relieved to some extent the congestion in the most crowded parts, but this is not an entire solution of the problem.\n\nWhen more buildings are erected and funds become available it may be possible to break up some of the congested areas and open up new streets and open spaces.\n\n67",
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        "content_text": "## M.F. 237\n\nThe first and most important point (see paragraph 54 of the Report) is the loss of $314,447.02 which the Government has suffered on a sterling contract for remittances to the Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\nIn connection with this loss the Auditor reports:\n\n\"The Government has been required by this Department to obtain the Secretary of State's covering approval for making forward sterling contracts, as this is a departure from the recognised Treasury practice. In connection with the loss on this contract, the Government has also been requested by this Department to ask the Treasurer how he has shown this loss in his account, but no reply has been received. Further, there does not appear to have been any notification to this Department of the signing of this contract.\n\nThe Unofficial Members would be glad if the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer would reply to the statements of the Acting Auditor.\n\nAlso, in connection with paragraph 53 of the Auditor's Report, we should be glad to know from the Honourable the Acting Director of Public Works why a penalty of only $1,820 was enforced against the contractor in question instead of the full penalty of $5,740.\n\n## Bus Services\n\nAnd, lastly, we come to the subject of the Bus Service.\n\nAt first, no doubt, there was every disposition on the part of the bus-using public to adopt rather a lenient view of the shortcomings of the new services on both sides of the Harbour, having regard to the fact that new companies were taking over these services and that it was only fair to give them sufficient time to get into their stride.\n\nSuch lenient considerations are, however, now no longer applicable seeing that these new bus services have already been running for four months.\n\nAt the commencement of the new services, constant breakdowns of buses took place, especially when going up Garden Road, and, even recently, breakdowns on Garden Road still occur, whereas such breakdowns under the regime of the Hongkong Hotel Company were practically unknown.\n\nIf such breakdowns are in any way attributable to the obtaining of less experienced drivers at lower wages, then such saving has been distinctly false economy, both from the point of view of the Company and also of the travelling public who have a right to expect a punctual and efficient service.\n\nAnother complaint which has been voiced in the columns of the local Press, and which is doubtless also due, in a measure, to drivers having insufficient experience, is the failure of the buses, especially on the Hongkong side of the Harbour, to keep to a proper regular schedule of times, thereby causing grave inconvenience to passengers going to and from their offices.\n\nIn Kowloon special grievances have recently been ventilated in the South China Morning Post, namely the insufficiency of buses on certain routes at certain hours.\n\nWe trust that the Government will fully investigate the above matters with a view to their being remedied, as it is so obviously necessary that the regularity and efficiency of public utility companies should, in the interests of the public, be fully maintained.\n\n## MR. GORDON MACKIE\n\n### Trade Situation Worse Than In 1925-26. SHIPPING OUTLOOK BAD\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Gordon Mackie said: Your Excellency, my Honourable friend, the Senior Unofficial Member, has dealt very fully with the principal points in the Honourable the Colonial Secretary's speech and has covered most of the ground which calls for any comment.\n\nThere are one or two matters, however, which have not been touched upon and on which I would like to make a few remarks.\n\nI note with interest that the Harbour Survey is to be completed by 1935. The Colonial Secretary did not refer to the subject, but I see in the Estimates, Public Works Extraordinary, Item 91, that a sum of $224,000 has been budgeted to be spent next year on dredging the Harbour. It is satisfactory to know that this now long overdue work which has been pressed for by the Shipping and Commercial interests is at last to be taken up seriously. I shall be glad if the Colonial Secretary, when he replies to this debate, will tell us what is the present position with regard to the contracts for putting this necessary and urgent work in hand.\n\nIt is a matter for regret that the already considerable expenditure on the vehicular ferry piers is to be increased by a lakh or more, but I trust that the advice of the Naval Dockyard expert will put things right. It would appear to the layman that some of the initial mistakes might have been avoided if expert advice had been sought in the first instance.\n\n### Marine Surveys\n\nThe application of the new Safety and Load Line Conventions to one of the World's great ports is, of course, necessary, and the Colonial Secretary informed the Council of the verdict of the Board of Trade as to the minimum increase in the Government Marine Surveyor's staff which the application of the Convention will call for. The Technical (Shipping) Committee of the Chamber of Commerce stressed the point that once existing shipping has been surveyed and brought into line with the Convention requirements, the subsequent periodical surveys will doubtless occupy much the same time as before.\n\nThey therefore recommended that, until the amount of extra work has been ascertained in the light of practical experience, the Government should engage additional staff on temporary appointments only in order to avoid expensive enlargement of the pensionable staff.\n\nThe Committee still hold the same view, notwithstanding the ruling of the Board of Trade, that three additions to the permanent staff are necessary, and they express the hope that any new appointments made will be in the first instance for a fixed period only, say 3 years.\n\nI am afraid it is unlikely that there will be any large amount of new construction of ships in Hongkong in the next few years.\n\nThe proposed expenditure of $60,000 on making Magazine Gap Road accessible for motor vehicles will be welcomed by all Peak residents, as it will reduce considerably the distance from the Upper Levels to the centre of the town.\n\nI would suggest, however, that, in the interests of public safety, the road be barred to motor lorries being used in connection with building operations on Magazine Gap Road itself.\n\n### Government House\n\nI feel that the Government is wise in reverting to the scheme for rebuilding Government House on the site available at Magazine Gap which is so admirably suited to the purpose.\n\nThe new Residence, with the completion of the new Motor Road, will be almost as conveniently situated as the present Government House and in much more pleasant surroundings. However, for the convenience of passers-through and residents on the lower levels might I suggest that Your Excellency arrange to have a Visitors' Book kept at the Government Offices?\n\nMembers naturally listened with interest to the Colonial Secretary's remarks on the subject of aviation. I agree that we must continue to develop Hongkong as an air port in readiness for the time when China becomes a party to the International Air Convention and, \n\n## Page 37",
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        "content_text": "## C. S. O. \n\nM.F. 237.) \n\nExpress, on behalf of the Chinese Community, our grateful thanks to Your Excellency for the sympathetic manner in which you have dealt with the petition to allow the existing bathing pavilions at North Point to remain where they are. Though Your Excellency was unable to grant the request in toto, you have permitted the pavilions to remain until the beach is required by the Government for public purposes.\n\nThis concession is much appreciated by the public, and is proof of Your Excellency's solicitude for the welfare of the community.\n\nMy colleagues and I realise that sooner or later these pavilions will have to move elsewhere, and we also cannot think of any suitable site than the Saiwan Beach contemplated by the Government.\n\nWe hope, however, that before giving notice to the bathing clubs definitely to move from North Point, the Government will have a motor road, sufficiently wide for buses, constructed from Shaukiwan to Saiwan Beach. If funds permit, this new motor-road could, with advantage, be extended so as to link up with the Shaukiwan-Shek-O road at Big Wave Bay. I respectfully commend this suggestion to the consideration of the Government.\n\n## Shing Mun Malaria\n\nThe honourable senior unofficial member has stressed the necessity for anti-malarial measures to be adopted at the Shing Mun waterworks. I strongly endorse his remarks, for a malaria outbreak of a serious nature in Shing Mun Valley would delay the completion of the works, which should on no account be permitted when we are still suffering from annually recurring water shortage. The possibility I have mentioned is by no means remote, for it might be recalled that when the Kowloon-Canton Railway was being constructed, an outbreak of malaria at Shatin Valley considerably impeded the progress of the work.\n\n## New Government House\n\nIn regard to the new Government House, the Chinese members, having examined the proposal in all its aspects, acquiesce in the abandonment of the present house and site, and the location of the new house at Magazine Gap. In view of the distance of the new site from town, I would suggest that, when the Governor moves into his new residence, the Governor's Book may be deposited at the Colonial Secretary's Office for the convenience of the public. The matter may seem trivial, but in reality it means a great deal to the large number of people who call to sign the Governor's Book as a mark of respect to the head of the Government. I may mention that my unofficial colleagues support my suggestion.\n\n## Military Contribution\n\nThe honourable senior unofficial member, on behalf of his unofficial colleagues, has expressed satisfaction that some concessions in the method of computation for Military Contribution has been secured from the War Office through the Secretary of State for the Colonies. An examination of Appendix II on page 107 of the draft Estimates has revealed that the total saving to the Colony by these concessions is only $119,105, an amount by no means substantial, when we consider that the Colony has still to pay as much as nearly $5,000,000 in 1934.\n\nThere are apparently some other savings, according to certain remarks of the Hon. Colonial Secretary; but the amount is not disclosed.\n\nMr. Tratman at the last meeting of this Council said that “in addition to relieving the annual expenditure the concessions should also release a certain portion of the liability under this head which appears as a Suspense Account in the financial statement.\" A reference to the financial statement on page 109 of the draft Estimates shows that the sum of $976,782.27 is entered against Suspense Account. It is, I submit, a matter of importance to the public to know how much of this sum represents concessions from the War Office in respect of Military Contribution.\n\n## Omnibus Heads\n\nI now deal with a subject which the honourable senior unofficial member has delegated to me. The Hon. Colonial Secretary in his Budget speech pointed out what he considered to be drawbacks in the allocation of Cadet Officers and clerical officers to individual departments instead of showing them under what he called General Staff, and he proceeded to give an illustration of the obfuscation to which the system was said to have given rise. I respectfully submit that the illustration is not sufficient reason for a reversion to the unsatisfactory system of lumping salaries under 'Omnibus' heads which, when in vogue a few years ago, gave the public no idea of what any one department spent. Changes in the personnel of the administration are bound to occur after the preparation of the annual Estimates, but it should not be very difficult for the accounts to be adjusted at the Treasury. The views of the unofficial members have always been that the estimates of each department should embody as far as possible all expenses—personal emoluments, other charges and special expenditure—chargeable to that department, and they are glad that these views have the support of the Government Auditor who commented on the subject in his report for the year 1930.\n\n## Taxation Question\n\nI join with the honourable senior unofficial member in expressing satisfaction that Your Excellency has not found it necessary to resort to fresh taxation. There are some people who expected even a reduction of taxation, but personally I cannot see how the Government could have taken off any taxes yielding substantial revenue without having to sacrifice some of the essential public works or essential public services. That there is no fresh taxation is in itself a blessing for which we should all be thankful in these days of shrinkage in public and private incomes.\n\nI hope, however, that no one will construe these remarks as evidence of any complacency on my part in regard to our increasing cost of administration.\n\nThe increase has been steady and enormous during the last several years, and I view it with grave concern and apprehension.\n\nLet us compare the actual expenditure of the year 1926 with the estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of Public Works Extraordinary. I take the year 1926 because it was a year of trade depression somewhat similar to, although not as severe as, the one we are undergoing.\n\nThe total expenditure for that year was $18,804,715, while that for 1934 is estimated to be $29,750,745. The increase is $10,946,030, or as much as 58 per cent. in only eight years! The time has certainly come when a halt should be called to this increasing expenditure, especially when the Colony is passing through a trade depression of unprecedented severity.\n\n## Taxable Limits\n\nI cannot agree with the opinion expressed in certain quarters that Hongkong is still lightly taxed as compared with other countries, and that additional taxation is inevitable in the no distant future. It is to be devoutly hoped that the Government will not regard this opinion as representing the sentiment of the public. The public, or a preponderant majority of it, is opposed to any new imposts: it simply cannot bear them. Experience has shown that there is a limit to the taxable capacity of the people, beyond which revenue, instead of gaining, will suffer. Hongkong has, I verily believe, reached that limit. Only two years ago the Government made a thorough revision of all licence and other fees, and introduced many new forms of taxation, which have affected all classes of the community, directly and indirectly. If, therefore, future Budgets had to be balanced, the public would...",
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        "content_text": "## C. S. M.F. 237.)\n\nThe view to obtaining tenders at Hong Kong should go by the next mail. There is every reason, therefore, to believe the work can be started as soon as it is physically possible for the plant to arrive in the Colony.\n\nI now pass to the matter of the Marine Survey Staff.\n\nThe views of the Chamber of Commerce as to the desirability of the additional staff being recruited on a temporary basis were shared by the Government and communicated to the Board of Trade through the Colonial Office; but the Board appears to have found them impracticable.\n\nIt must be remembered that it is essential that trained men shall be on hand in the Colony as soon as possible, and it is only to be expected that such men will hesitate to fall out of the running at home in order to take up the posts with uncertain prospects in Hong Kong. I shall have more to say on the converse of this proposition in my next section.\n\nAs to the training of Marine Surveyors after recruitment, I refer my honourable friend to the reply already given on page 184 of the Hansard volume for 1931. Whenever it has been possible to find fully trained men willing to transfer to the service of the Colony, we have accepted them eagerly, but such cases have been few, and we have had to accept the cost of training as part of the price of bringing this port up to full Board of Trade requirements.\n\n### Magazine Gap Road\n\nAs regards the use of the proposed Magazine Gap Road, it is the intention of the Government that, apart from tradesmen's vans and lorries carrying goods to the houses en route, the road shall be kept for passenger traffic.\n\n### Preferential Duties\n\nIn the matter of the admission of Hong Kong manufacturers to preferential duties in the United Kingdom, I am glad to be able to say that it is believed that a method of certification satisfactory both to local manufacturers' authorities and to the Customs has now been arranged. Details of the procedure have been communicated to the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nNext are the comments of my honourable friend, the senior Chinese Member, and before I deal with them, I must thank him for the generous terms in which he has received my maiden venture. I need not remind him that in learning alphabets, the skill and patience of the tutor count for more than the capacity of the pupil.\n\nI again express my sympathy with the speaker and those whom he represents over the impending retirement of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, but I fear I can hold out no hope that he will change his mind.\n\n## (11) Juvenile Courts\n\nIt is expected that the Juvenile Courts will be in operation very shortly. At first, the proclamation putting the Ordinance into effect was held back while certain criticisms made by the Secretary of State were met. The delay has been mainly due to the difficulty experienced in securing suitable Probation Officers, but this difficulty has now been overcome.\n\n### \"Omnibus\" Heads\n\nThe only other point of detail that falls to me is the matter of the \"Omnibus\" heads. The objection that Mr. Halifax and I have raised to the new system is not that it involves extra work but that it does not achieve the object with which it was instituted, namely, to give the Legislature a more accurate view of the cost of each department.\n\nComparative figures over a series of years will show quite fictitious fluctuations due to the fact that it is only possible to frame the estimates for a given year on the position as it exists in the middle of the previous year. We know from bitter experience that the best-laid programmes for coming leave seasons never can work out as planned, but the deviations which unforeseeable casualties will impose are not calculable even by the law of averages.\n\nWe know that the odds against the figures we set down proving correct in the event are great, but these figures are at least a fixed point, and we take that rather than embark on wild guessing. It is true that after the close of a year, we can calculate exactly the expenditure for the year in Personal Emoluments in any one Department; but even that is useless for comparative purposes because, as I showed in my opening speech, the department has to bear, if not in that year, then in another, the cost of officers on leave who may revert to it but more often will be required to serve elsewhere on their return and are therefore not a proper charge on that department.\n\n### Cost of Government\n\nAs regards the general question of the increased cost of administration, I must remind honourable Unofficial members that the Government of this Colony is continually receiving demands from all directions, including themselves, to increase its public services. We are pressed to provide new and larger schools, new and larger hospitals, new health services, new factory legislation, first-class port status, larger legal staff, and many other similar improvements and expansions. All these involve not only increases in technical staff but parallel increases in secretarial and clerical staff. The best instance I can give is that just provided by the honourable member himself and so strongly supported by his colleague.\n\n44\n\nIf the property owners' assessment is by separate flats, we shall have to treble the collection staff of the Treasury and more than treble the staff of the Assessor's Office.\n\nIn ordering new houses, one must not forget that the straw in the bricks, though low-priced, still costs money. Furthermore, I would remind the honourable member that the exchange rates adopted for the 1926 Estimates were 1s. 8d. for sterling salaries and 2s. 2d. for other sterling charges. (Applause)\n\n## GOVERNOR SPEAKS\n\n### Sympathetic, Public-Spirited Policy\n\n**SLUM CLEARANCE**\n\nHis Excellency the Governor said: Honourable Members, the Budget has been dealt with in such detail by both Officials and Unofficials that there appears little left for me to say except as regards the general position.\n\nIn the first place, I wish to congratulate my honourable friend, the Colonial Secretary, on the clearness and lucidity of his first Budget speech, and to thank him and his officers for the great help which they have given me in the final preparation of it. I also thank the Honourable Colonial Treasurer and Honourable Director of Public Works for their useful memoranda. Further, I wish to express my great appreciation of the work done by Mr. Grantham in connection with the Budget. He has had a lot of spade work to do; and from my own experience, many years ago, I can appreciate the care and patience which are necessary in carrying out a work of this kind, in which constant changes in items and figures almost bring a feeling of despair to the officer in direct charge. Mr. Grantham has carried out his duties most efficiently. I thank the Honourable Senior Chinese Member for his kindly reference to myself.\n\nI am indebted to the honourable members for their careful consideration of the Budget and for their helpful comments and criticisms. If we exclude certain comments which are scarcely relevant to the Budget itself, the criticisms have been gratifyingly few. It is noteworthy and somewhat unusual that some of the suggestions involve increases in staff and expenditure. That was stressed just now by the Colonial Secretary.\n\n### Disappointing\n\nI must confess that I found the Budget somewhat difficult and, in some measure, disappointing. Six",
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        "content_text": "## Budget Discussion\n\nLike `(C.S.O.M.F.257)` see some of it donated to this institution. For a University of this kind to have no Chair of Health is a very serious blemish which I hope will disappear in the near future.\n\nThe Government is already giving the utmost assistance that it can, having regard to its own financial position, and it remains for private effort to supplement this help and make the University an institution of which this Colony may well be proud.\n\nOn `Public Works Extraordinary`, various works have already been provided for, and I have little to add. The scheme for building Senior Officers' Quarters at May Road is based largely on economic grounds. Owing to the paucity of quarters, Government incurs a very large bill for allowances to officers, representing, subject to a maximum, the difference between 6 per cent. of their salaries and the rent which they actually have to pay for non-Government accommodation. The construction of further quarters will result in a saving of money.\n\n### Anti-Malaria Work\n\nA sum of $100,000 appears under the head of Anti-Malaria Works and I trust that it will be possible to spend at least the whole of this amount. I have been perturbed for the last year or two at the increased incidence of malaria in the Colony, and there is much to be done. Progress is being made with various preventive works, though it is slower than I could wish: the engineering difficulties are considerable.\n\nI inform the Council that Government has decided to resume low-lying land between Shouson Hill and Aberdeen, now being used as vegetable gardens. There is no doubt that this is a most dangerous breeding ground for mosquitoes and its resumption is unavoidable if we are to make any progress in eradicating the disease. Even desirable improvements have their disadvantages, and I understand that the Malariologist feels that by the resumption of this land he will be deprived of one of his most productive larvae collecting grounds! (Laughter).\n\n### Central British School\n\nI share the regrets expressed at the slow progress that has been made with the Central British School. I stressed the necessity of pushing on with the work and am very disappointed that it has not been possible to make greater progress. The Director of Public Works has explained to the Council the reasons which prevented his making an earlier start. I give an undertaking that if the work can be accelerated I will ask this Council to vote an additional sum for it in the course of next year.\n\n### Loan Works\n\nUnder Loan Works, I trust that it will be possible to make more rapid progress with the construction of the new Gaol, for the existing one, as you all know, is a disgrace to the Colony and the present position is almost untenable. Meanwhile, as honourable members are aware, a temporary block is being constructed at the Laichikok Prison to enable us to cope with the present congestion.\n\nMy honourable friend the Director of Public Works has dealt with the cross harbour pipe line. The Government fully realises the urgent need for a second line and will push on with the work as fast as possible. The same remarks apply to the Shing Mun Gorge Dam and I can only add that in the Resident Engineer we have a most capable and energetic officer who can be trusted to get the work completed with the greatest possible expedition.\n\n### Financing Loan Works\n\nThe question of our policy in regard to financing Loan Works will require careful consideration in the near future, and I propose to go into it with the Colonial Treasurer, Mr. Taylor, on return from leave, as it was proposed that he should consult the Financial Advisers of the Colonial Office while in England. For some time we have been financing Loan Works out of Surplus Balances. This course is economically sound, but obviously it cannot go on indefinitely, and the difficulty is to decide just at what point to raise a further loan.\n\nYou will see from the Colonial Treasurer's memorandum on the financial position that it is anticipated that by the end of this year we shall have drawn on Surplus Balances, in anticipation of a further loan, for an amount of over seven and a half millions. It is obvious, therefore, that we cannot continue drawing on Surplus Balances much longer, and it may be necessary to borrow before very long.\n\n### Other Matters\n\nThe Hon. Senior Chinese member has made a reference to bathing beaches. Government has every sympathy with this form of recreation, which is at the same time very popular and very desirable from a health point of view, and it has gone to a good deal of trouble to explore the possibilities of other sites. When it becomes necessary, owing to industrial development and port requirements, to go farther afield to Saiwan or elsewhere, I consider that Government should provide adequate road access.\n\n### Sterling \"Loss\"\n\nThe Hon. Senior Unofficial member has raised a question in regard to a sterling contract made in 1931 which I consider scarcely relevant to the Budget now under discussion. I am prepared, however, to make a statement on the subject. The history is briefly as follows: In September, 1931, the estimates for 1932 having just been prepared on the basis of a shilling dollar exchange fluctuated considerably as a result of England abandoning the gold standard. The sterling rate rose from 11½d on September 21 to 1s. 2d. on the 26th, and after consultation with and on the advice of banking and business circles, where the view was held that the rate would not be maintained at that figure, it was decided promptly to obtain cover for a portion of our future sterling commitments and a contract for £200,000 at 1s. 3d. was made for 1932.\n\nIt happened, however, that when it became necessary to make remittances to the Crown Agents under this contract the dollar was higher than 1s. 3d., with the result that the remittances cost us more dollars than would have been the case had we merely remitted as required at the current rate of the day. This additional cost is what is termed by the Auditor a \"loss\": it is rather a misleading term and would not, I believe, be so used by a firm in similar circumstances.\n\nHaving regard to the difficulties which had been encountered in balancing our Budgets, owing to the fluctuations of the dollar, I was definitely of opinion that we should take advantage of a marked appreciation of the dollar to safeguard the future to some extent and so ensure that in regard to our sterling commitments in 1932 we should not find ourselves seriously embarrassed by possible further fall in the dollar.\n\nIn view of the Auditor's opinion I submitted the whole matter to the Secretary of State who, in his reply, expressed the view that the remittance of money exactly when money is required without the freedom to use discretion as to the best time for remittances would not be an advantageous procedure and would in the long run almost certainly result in a loss which could have been avoided. He was of opinion that the Hongkong Government, with the expert advice available locally, ought to be in a position to remit, broadly speaking, at the right time, and approved of my exercising my judgment in deciding on any individual occasion what is the best course to take in the public interest of the Colony.\n\n### City Development\n\nThe only other point to which I wish to make reference is what has been referred to as the Government House and City Development Scheme. The scheme has been submitted to the honourable members and has received their approval and that of the Secretary of State. I am glad that the proposal to build the new Government House at Magazine Gap meets with... \n\nPage 47",
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        "content_text": "# GENERAL WORKS\n\n## Sub-head 10.—Roads, $50,000\nThis sum which is similar to that requested for 1933 is required to provide for the road surfacing, kerbing, channelling and footpaths of new roads as new buildings are erected or realignments of streets take place.\n\n## 11.—Drainage (a) Training Nullahs, $7,500\nThis sum is required to meet the cost of training stream courses where this is necessary due to new development.\n\n## 12. (b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works, $45,000\nRequired to meet the cost of providing sewers and storm water drains for houses in newly developed areas.\n\n## 13.—Miscellaneous, $25,000\nThe vote is available for all Departments and provides funds for small works which arise during the year but are considered too small for a separate vote.\n\n## 14. Waterworks (a) Miscellaneous, $10,000\nProvides for small extensions to subsidiary water mains and other miscellaneous minor works.\n\n## 15.—(b) Meters, $50,000\nTo provide for the supply of meters throughout the year.\n\n## 16.—Port Works, $2,000\nCovers expenses incurred in taking soundings, borings, and for preliminary investigations in connection with new and proposed harbour works, foreshore dumping etc.\n\n# COMMUNICATIONS\n\n## 17. New 100-foot road between Causeway Bay and Ming Yuen, $50,000\nTo continue rock cutting over the section between Oil and Power Streets and surface from Power Street to the point where the Bathing Clubs' sheds commence.\n\n## 18.—Surfacing 40-foot roads on Praya East, $25,000\nTo continue surfacing, channelling and kerbing portions of Thomson and Jaffe Roads on the Praya East Reclamation according to agreement with lot holders.\n\n## 19.—New Road to Bathing Beaches (South-East of Repulse Bay), $50,000\nIn order to provide further bathing facilities it is considered desirable to extend the road which was referred to in Notes on 1933 Estimates, page 2, sub-head 13 to serve the unnamed bay immediately to the north of West Bay. A contribution of $55,000 will be made towards the total cost by the sponsors of the Repulse Bay 'Lido Scheme'.\n\n## 20. Robinson Road widening between Peak Road and Glenealy (including bridge), $10,000\nTo complete the widening scheme which commenced in 1933.\n\n## 21.—Blue Pool Road Improvements (1st Section), $35,000\nTo replace the lower section of the existing earth track by a proper road made necessary by probable development of the surrounding area.\n\n## 22.—10-foot Path, Shek O Gap to Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station, $7,000\nTo complete.\n\n## 23.—New Road from Island Road to Stanley, $4,000\nPayment of retention money.\n\n## 24.—Widening of Magazine Gap Road between May Road and Stubbs Road, $60,000\nA widening and improvement scheme to relieve traffic congestion in Queen's Road East and to facilitate motor access between the City and the higher levels.\n\n## 25.—Widening of Middle Gap Road and access road to Mount Cameron lots, $15,000\nTo provide access to potential building lots on the western slopes of Mount Cameron.\n\n# MISCELLANEOUS\n\n## 26.—Chinese Cemeteries, laying out new areas, $6,000\nTo provide for additional burial areas in existing cemeteries.\n\n## 27. Colonial Cemetery, laying out new areas, $2,000\nTo provide for an extension to the burial area within the boundaries of the Colonial Cemetery Happy Valley.\n\n## 28. Reinstatement of Government Retaining Walls, $20,000\nThese walls are examined annually and this vote provides for the repair or reconstruction of any walls which are considered dangerous.\n\n## 29.—Traffic white lines, studs etc., $2,000\nTo meet the cost of providing and laying down either white lines or studs on road corners, curves and junctions.\n\n## 30.—Garage at Arbuthnot Road, $5,000\nTo construct a garage on Arbuthnot Road near its junction with Wyndham Street to house the prison van and motor cycles.\n\n## 31.—Rewiring of Government Buildings, $25,000\nThis sum is required for the replacement of defective and dangerous electrical wiring in Government buildings.\n\n## 32.—Telephone Cable to Shaukiwan, $50,000\nTo connect up Shaukiwan with the Government telephone system. The existing service does not extend beyond Happy Valley.\n\n## 33.—Shed for Fire Appliances, Aberdeen, $1,500\nTo house a motor fire pump unit in the precincts of Aberdeen Police Station.\n\n## 34. Shed for Fire Appliances, Aplichau, $750\nTo house a hand drawn trolly on which can be mounted the fire pump unit to be stationed at Aberdeen. The shed will be erected near the pier.\n\n## 35.—Three Stores for H.K.V.D.C., $1,200\nTo provide for the construction of three stores. The building will be an extension to the existing unit offices which front on the parade ground.\n\n# WATER WORKS\n\n## 36.—Back Lane Service Pipes, $7,000\nTo provide for the extension of subsidiary service pipes in back lanes in newly developed properties to obviate the excessive cutting of roads which would be necessary for direct connection to principal mains. These subsidiary mains are eventually paid for by house owners when connections are applied for.\n\n## 37.—New Principal Mains in City, $20,000\nTo meet increasing consumption and maintain adequate working pressures in the City it is necessary to extend the larger distributing water mains.\n\n## 38.—Eastern Pumping Scheme, $20,000\nTo continue work in connection with the provision of a filtered water supply from the Eastern Filter Beds to the slopes of Mount Cameron, Jardines Lookout, Broadwood Road and eventually Repulse Bay district.\n\nPage 204",
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        "content_text": "## South China Morning Post, Aug. 29th, 1933\n\n### SALE OF A CHILD\n\nA MAN AND WOMAN SENT TO PRISON\n\n**OFFENCE ADMITTED**. Convicted on a charge of having taken part in a transaction for the sale of a male child, Wong Kwan-ting (11), a man named Fan Sang, an earth coolie, and Leung Ho, 76, widow, were sentenced to twelve months and six months imprisonment respectively, by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon.\n\nMa Fung-wan, a boatman, another defendant in the case, was discharged on the police withdrawing the case against him, and his evidence was used against the other defendants. Chang Yi, described as a kept woman, was discharged after evidence.\n\nAt the previous hearing of the case, Chiu Chau-ming, an unemployed man, was convicted of kidnapping the boy, and sentenced to twelve months hard labour. The offence was committed at 254, Tai Nam Street.\n\nMr. Hiu-shing Lo appeared for Ma Fung-wan, the defendant against whom the police withdrew the charge, and Sub-Inspector Eiston prosecuted.\n\nMa Fung-wan said that the boy was brought to him at the Tak Yee lee shop, Saikung, by the second defendant, who claimed he was her grandson.\n\nOn the previous day, August 4, he was approached by a casual friend of his, Yau Fat, who asked him whether he wanted a son. He met the first and second defendants at Yau Fat's house, and the following day the second defendant brought the boy to him. He paid $101 for the boy, but did not know who actually received the money.\n\n### DEFENDANTS PLEAD\n\nThe first defendant said that Yau Fat asked him to take the child over to the purchaser.\n\nThe second defendant admitted taking the boy to Yau Fat's place and that he had been sold.\n\nThe third defendant said she knew nothing about the matter.\n\nAnother witness, Ho Sin, the principal tenant of No. 254, Tai Nam Street, said that the first defendant and his wife, the third defendant, lived on the first floor. The old woman, the second defendant, came on August 3, bringing the boy with her, and gave him in charge of the first defendant, who took him away that very night. The second defendant stayed overnight, and left the following morning, to return again on August 5, leaving on August 6. She came again on August 10 to look for the first defendant and was arrested the following morning.\n\nRemarking that there was no evidence against the third defendant, except that she was living with the first accused, Mr. Wynne-Jones discharged her.\n\nAddressing the first and second defendants, he said that they had pleaded guilty to the second charge in their statements, and he was going to convict them. Sentence was passed as stated above.\n\n## South China Morning Post, Oct. 12th, 1933\n\nA young woman, Tse Sam-tai, was sent to prison for two years, and her father, Tse Po, and mother, Chau Sai-mui, were sentenced to one year's hard labour each, by Mr. Schofield and Mr. Balfour, sitting together at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon. The mother took ill during the afternoon and was seated in the dock throughout the hearing.\n\nTse Sam-tai was convicted on a charge of kidnapping a girl, Ng Oi-san, aged seven years, from 33, Main Street West, Shaukiwan, and the parents on charges of harbouring her at Yung Shu-wan, Lamma Island.\n\n\"It looks almost as if the first defendant conceived the whole idea, and brought her parents into it,\" remarked Mr. Schofield.\n\nDet.-Sergt. Fowlie prosecuted.\n\nThe girl, whose face could barely be seen above the witness stand, told the Court she lived with her parents at Shaukiwan and the first defendant was a lodger. About a month ago, while the witness was on her way to buy some sweets, the first defendant took her on a tram. She was then transferred to a boat and taken to Lamma Island. The second defendant made her work boiling pig wash. She slept on a camp bed in the third defendant's hut. She was called 'Chan Tai.' The third defendant beat her on both legs with a small bamboo because he said she took too much time in washing clothes. The first defendant visited her once and stayed the night.\n\nUnder the pretext that she was going out to wash clothes (this she was allowed to do) she made her way to the Yung Shu Wan Police Station where she reported and stayed the night.\n\nEvidence of the arrest of the first defendant in Shaukiwan and her parents in West Point was given by a Chinese detective.\n\nThe girl's mother said Ng Oi-san was her adopted daughter, and produced the deed of presentation. When the girl was missing, the first defendant remained at the house and, according to the witness, \"pretended to cry when she heard of the news.\"\n\n## South China Morning Post, Oct. 18th, 1933\n\n### SALE OF A CHILD\n\n**WOMEN'S IGNORANCE OF THE LAW**\n\n**RETURNED BANISHEES**\n\nBefore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, two Chinese women, Cham Ying and Wong Kan, were charged with illegally transacting the sale of a child, niece of the first defendant. The two women pleaded guilty, the first defendant saying that as she was hard up she sold the child to the second defendant.\n\nThe second defendant said, \"I am a widow and want a girl to bring up as my daughter. I plead ignorance of the law.\"\n\nInspector A. J. W. Dorling, prosecuting, said that the child's father was left a widower in 1925 and, as he worked as a fireman on an ocean-going steamer, he left his daughter under the care of the first defendant. Early last May, the child fell ill and was taken for treatment to a herb seller. During the course of treatment, the herb seller said she knew of a woman who wished to buy a child. The first defendant willingly agreed to sell the girl.\n\n### CHILD SOLD FOR $100\n\nThe two defendants met and on May 29 the girl was taken to the second defendant's house to stay for 24 hours. On May 30, they all went to the Tin Hau Temple armed with a document stating that the child had been sold for $100. Inspector Dorling believed the exact sum paid over was $99. Out of this money, the first defendant received $47.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: What happened to the rest of the money?\n\nInspector Dorling: The money was split up, $5 going to the herb seller and the remainder to one, Li See, who acted on behalf of the first defendant.\n\nIt appeared that on the same day of the transaction, the child and the first defendant disappeared. The matter was reported to the police who later found the first defendant and the child and heard of the sale.\n\nThe second defendant was also a herb seller. The girl's father had not given authority for the sale. It also appeared that six years ago, the first defendant had been banished from Singapore and on her arrival in this Colony in 1927 had been banished for ten years. The father of the child did not know the first defendant was a returned banishee.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: According to the second defendant, the transaction was bona fide.\n\nInspector Dorling: Yes. The girl would have been better off under the second defendant's care.\n\n### SENT TO PRISON\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: The first defendant will have to take the maximum sentence of six months' imprisonment, and on the charge of returning from banishment, I give her another six months. As for the second defendant, I believe she was actually bona fide over the transaction, but I want her to understand that in Hongkong they are not allowed to act like this. This does not mean she can't adopt a child. There is a certain procedure to be gone through when adopting children. I advise her to visit the S.P.C.A. for advice and once she has gone through that procedure, she will be safe from any further trouble.\n\nThe Magistrate fined the second defendant $25 as she only possessed $40 all told, and was unable to pay the original fine of $50.\n\nBefore fining the defendant, the Magistrate said, \"I have got to discourage people from doing this but, on the other hand, if I take her $10 away from her, I will drive her to some other crime. As this is a very special case, I will reduce the fine from $50 to $25. However, I don't want anybody to consider that this has established any sort of precedent.\"\n\n## South China Morning Post, Aug. 1st, 1933\n\n### A MUITSAI CASE\n\n**ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF SMALL GIRL**\n\n**SEARCH FOR PARENTS**\n\nThe alleged ill-treatment of a six-year-old girl led to the appearance of Cheung Yau, a married woman, before Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.\n\nThe defendant was charged by Sub-Inspector Fraser, of the S.P.C.A., with having kept an unregistered mui tsai, Wong Kiu-houng; with having ill-treated her, and alternatively with having ill-treated a child, who was under her care.\n\nThe defendant denied the girl was a mui tsai, and said she was an adopted daughter. She admitted beating the child for being mischievous.\n\nSub-Inspector Fraser said that on Saturday, a lady inspector visited the girl. The girl was in a very dirty condition, and was suffering from a form of prickly heat. She had a number of bruises on the back, the right arm, left shoulder, and back of both hands. She said she had slept on a stool outside the cubicle. She also alleged that she was given only one bowl of rice a day. She had been bought by the defendant for $150 two years ago.\n\nMr. Schofield remanded the defendant until tomorrow in order for the girl's parents to be found. Defendant was allowed bail in $200.\n\n## South China Morning Post, Aug. 3rd, 1933\n\n### HUMAN CATTLE\n\n\"The centenary of the death of William Wilberforce did not pass unnoticed in Hongkong. Fittingly, the Anti-Mui Tsai Society rendered due homage to this champion of the slaves, and its members have been inspired to greater vigilance and activity in the Abolition of a bad old system. Those who have followed the movement appreciate that much has been done to make happier the lot of Hongkong's chattels. As the result of agitation, the authorities may no longer rely upon the unctuous professions that slavery is unlawful under the British Flag, that no property rights in human beings are recognised, etc. A more positive attitude has been enforced. Sales and purchases of people are forbidden. Existing mui-tsai must be registered and must receive wages. In time, except for those brought in from China, the mui-tsai will grow up and as a class disappear.\n\nUnfortunately, however, there is still much evasion of the law. The Ordinance can be rendered ineffective by pretence of adoption, and the protection of children will not be complete until there is compulsory registration of adoptions also, even adoptions by relatives, with periodical visits by inspectors. This further stage of the emancipation campaign appears to carry the necessary work beyond the Anti-Mui-tsai Society—or at least beyond its title. Reorganisation may therefore be required, and in this connexion it may be timely to suggest again amalgamation with the Society for the Protection of Children.\n\nThe latter Society is also doing excellent work, which touches closely, at one point at least, the labours of the older organisation; both are watchful against cruelty. The amalgamation suggestion has been discussed several times, but, while outwardly there appears to be no obstacle, beneath the surface suspicion seems to remain. Ardent abolitionists still appear to regard the Society for the Protection of Children as something of an official whitewash brush for the mui-tsai system, for sweating of child labour, rack-renting, etc., with education and charity as the only approved remedies.\n\nOn the other hand, the members of the Society for the Protection of Children appear to regard the Anti-Mui-tsai Society as over-advanced and dangerous. These mutual suspicions are unworthy, and more may be done by more definitely co-ordinated effort. Failing early amalgamation, the best possible use must be made of the existing weapons, and here we have a criticism to address to the Magistrates of the Colony.\n\nThose guilty of cruelty to children are sternly and properly punished; but the sentences upon traffickers are still inadequate. Looking over our files we find the mistress of a sly brothel fined only $150 or three months' hard labour, and the seller of a small boy fined $1,000, or one year. For kidnapping a seven-year-old child, a man was sentenced to twelve months and twenty strokes. In two other sly brothel cases the fines were $100 and $75. And then a case of kidnapping of a child in which the sentence was six months, while the owner of a number of girls employed in immoral traffic was fined only $50, and for the sale of an infant the fines were also $50, or six weeks.\n\nThese penalties are inconsistent and inadequate. For comparison, a returned banishee received sentence of one year as did a thief who stole from a house at Magazine Gap. For stealing a fountain pen, sentence was six months, and the same sentence was imposed upon a snatcher. Opium cases offer stronger contrasts, but for these there is a scale of penalties and they can be left out.\n\nThe magistrate, of course, must be permitted to allow the circumstances to guide him. Speaking generally, however, it must be said that offences against children, involving their lives, are as yet insufficiently discouraged. All kidnappers and traffickers should be flogged—even to those who buy children and thus create the market.",
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        "content_text": "# South China Morning Post, Aug. 29th, 1933\n\n## SALE OF A CHILD.\n\nA MAN AND WOMAN SENT TO PRISON.\n\nOFFENCE ADMITTED.\n\nConvicted on a charge of having taken part in a transaction for the sale of a male child, Wong Kwan-ting (21), a man named Fan Sang, an earth coolie, and Leung Ho, 76, widow, were sentenced to twelve months and six months imprisonment respectively, by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon.\n\nMa Fung-wan, a boatman, another defendant in the case, was discharged on the police withdrawing the case against him, and his evidence was used against the other defendants. Chang Yi, described as a kept woman, was discharged after evidence.\n\nAt the previous hearing of the case, Chiu Chau-ming, an unemployed man, was convicted of kidnapping the boy and sentenced to twelve months hard labour. The offence was committed at 254, Tai Nam Street.\n\nMr. Hin-shing Lo appeared for Ma Fung-wan, the defendant against whom the police withdrew the charge, and Sub-Inspector Elston prosecuted.\n\nMa Fung-wan said that the boy was brought to him at the Tak Yee tea shop, Saikung, by the second defendant, who claimed he was her grandson. On the previous day, August 4, he was approached by a casual friend of his, Yau Fat, who asked him whether he wanted a son. He met the first and second defendants at Yau Fat's house, and the following day the second defendant brought the boy to him. He paid $10 for the boy, but did not know who actually received the money.\n\n## DEPENDANTS PLEAD\n\nThe first defendant said that Yau Fat asked him to take the child over to the purchaser.\n\nThe second defendant admitted taking the boy to Yau Fat's place and that he had been sold.\n\nThe third defendant said she knew nothing about the matter.\n\nAnother witness, Ho Sin, the principal tenant of No. 254, Tai Nam Street, said that the first defendant and his wife, the third defendant, lived on the first floor. The old woman, the second defendant, came on August 3, bringing the boy with her, and gave him in charge of the first defendant, who took him away that very night. The second defendant stayed overnight and left the following morning, to return again on August 5, leaving on August 6. She came again on August 10 to look for the first defendant and was arrested the following morning.\n\nRemarking that there was evidence against the third defendant, except that she was living with the first accused, Mr. Wynne-Jones discharged her.\n\nAddressing the first and second defendants, he said that they had pleaded guilty to the second charge in their statements, and he was going to convict them. Sentence was passed as stated above.\n\n# South China Morning Post, Oct. 12th, 1933\n\nA young woman, Tse Sam-tai, was sent to prison for two years, and her father, Tse Po, and mother, Chau Sai-mai, were sentenced to one year's hard labour each, by Mr. Schofield and Mr. Balfour, sitting together at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon. The mother took ill during the afternoon and was seated in the dock throughout the hearing.\n\nTheir Worships convicted Tse Sam-tai on a charge of kidnapping a girl, Ng Oi-san, aged seven years, from 33, Main Street West, Shaukiwan, and the parents on charges of harbouring her at Yang Shu-wao, Lamma Island.\n\n\"It looks almost as if the first defendant conceived the whole idea, and brought her parents into it,\" remarked Mr. Schofield.\n\nDet.-Sergt. Fowlis prosecuted.\n\nThe girl, whose face could barely be seen above the witness stand, told the Court she lived with her parents at Shaukiwan and the first defendant was a lodger. About a month ago, while the witness was on her way to buy some sweets, the first defendant took her on a tram. She was then transferred to a boat and taken to Lamma Island. The second defendant made her work boiling pig wash. She slept on a camp bed in the third defendant's hut. She was called 'Chan Tai.' The third defendant beat her on both legs with a small bamboo because he said she took too much time in washing clothes. The first defendant visited her once and stayed the night.\n\nUnder the pretext that she was going out to wash clothes (this she was allowed to do) she made her way to the Yung Shu Wan Police Station where she reported and stayed the night.\n\nEvidence of the arrest of the first defendant in Shaukiwan and her parents in West Point was given by a Chinese detective.\n\nThe girl's mother said Ng Oi-san was her adopted daughter and produced the deed of presentation. When the girl was missing, the first defendant remained at the house and, according to the witness, \"pretended to cry when she heard of the news.\"\n\n# South China Morning Post, Oct. 18th, 1933\n\n## SALE OF A CHILD.\n\nWOMEN'S IGNORANCE OF THE LAW.\n\nRETURNED BANISHEE\n\nBefore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, two Chinese women, Cham Ying and Wong Kan, were charged with illegally transacting the sale of a child, niece of the first defendant. The two women pleaded guilty, the first defendant saying that as she was hard up she sold the child to the second defendant. The second defendant said, \"I am a widow and want a girl to bring up as my daughter. I plead ignorance of the law.\"\n\nInspector A. J. W. Dorling, prosecuting, said that the child's father was left a widower in 1925 and, as he worked as a fireman on an ocean-going steamer, he left his daughter under the care of the first defendant. Early last May, the child fell ill and was taken for treatment to a herb seller. During the course of treatment, the herb seller said she knew of a woman who wished to buy a child. The first defendant willingly agreed to sell the girl.\n\n## CHILD SOLD FOR $100.\n\nThe two defendants met and on May 29 the girl was taken to the second defendant's house to stay for 24 hours. On May 30, they all went to the Tin Hau Temple armed with a document stating that the child had been sold for $100. Inspector Dorling believed the exact sum paid over was $99. Out of this money, the first defendant received $47.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: What happened to the rest of the money?\n\nInspector Dorling: The money was split up. $5 going to the herb seller and the remainder to one, Li See, who acted on behalf of the first defendant.\n\nIt appeared that on the same day of the transaction, the child and the first defendant disappeared. The matter was reported to the police who later found the first defendant and the child and heard of the sale.\n\nThe second defendant was also a herb seller. The girl's father had not given authority for the sale. It also appeared that six years ago, the first defendant had been banished from Singapore and on her arrival in this Colony in 1927 had been banished for ten years. The father of the child did not know the first defendant returned banished.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: According to the second defendant, the transaction was bona fide?\n\nInspector Dorling: Yes. The girl would have been better off under the second defendant's care.\n\n## SENT TO PRISON.\n\nMr. Wynne-Jones: The first defendant will have to take the maximum sentence of six months' imprisonment, and on the charge of returning from banishment, I give her another six months. As for the second defendant, I believe she was actually bona fide over the transaction, but I want her to understand that in Hongkong they are not allowed to act like this. This does not mean she can't adopt a child. There is a certain procedure to be gone through when adopting children. I advise her to visit the S.P.C.A. for advice and once she has gone through that procedure, she will be safe from any further trouble.\n\nThe Magistrate fined the second defendant $25 as she only possessed $40 all told, and was unable to pay the original fine of $50.\n\nBefore fining the defendant, the Magistrate said, \"I have got to discourage people from doing this but, on the other hand, if I take her $10 away from her, I will drive her to some other crime. As this is a very special case, I will reduce the fine from $50 to $25. However, I don't want anybody to consider that this has established any sort of precedent.\"\n\n# South China Morning Post, Aug. 1st, 1933\n\n## A MUITSAI CASE.\n\nALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF SMALL GIRL.\n\nSEARCH FOR PARENTS.\n\nThe alleged ill-treatment of a six-year-old girl led to the appearance of Cheung Yau, a married woman, before Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.\n\nThe defendant was charged by Sub-Inspector Fraser, of the S.P.C.A., with having kept an unregistered mui-tsai, Wong Kin-heung; with having ill-treated her, and alternatively with having ill-treated a child who was under her care.\n\nThe defendant denied the girl was a mui-tsai and said she was an adopted daughter. She admitted beating the child for being mischievous.\n\nSub-Inspector Fraser said that on Saturday a lady inspector visited the girl. The girl was in a very dirty condition and was suffering from a form of prickly heat. She had a number of bruises on the back, the right arm, left shoulder, and back of both hands. She said she had slept on a stool outside the cubicle. She also alleged that she was given only one bowl of rice a day. She had been bought by the defendant for $150 two years ago.\n\nMr. Schofield remanded the defendant until tomorrow in order for the girl's parents to be found. Defendant was allowed bail in $200.\n\n# South China Morning Post, Aug. 3rd, 1933\n\n## HUMAN CATTLE.\n\nThe centenary of the death of William Wilberforce did not pass unnoticed in Hongkong. Fittingly, the Anti-Mui Tsai Society rendered due homage to this champion of the slaves, and its members have been inspired to greater vigilance and activity in the abolition of a bad old system. Those who have followed the movement appreciate that much has been done to make happier the lot of Hongkong's chattels. As the result of agitation, the authorities may no longer rely upon the unctuous professions that slavery is unlawful under the British flag, that no property rights in human beings are recognised, etc. A more positive attitude has been enforced.\n\nSales and purchases of people are forbidden. Existing mui-tsai must be registered and must receive wages. In time, except for those brought in from China, the mui-tsai will grow up and as a class disappear. Unfortunately, however, there is still much evasion of the law. The Ordinance can be rendered ineffective by pretence of adoption, and the protection of children will not be complete until there is compulsory registration of adoptions also, even adoptions by relatives, with periodical visits by inspectors. This further stage of the emancipation campaign appears to carry the necessary work beyond the Anti-Mui-tsai Society—or at least beyond its title. Reorganisation may therefore be required, and in this connexion it may be timely to suggest again amalgamation with the Society for the Protection of Children.\n\nThe latter Society is also doing excellent work, which touches closely, at one point at least, the labours of the older organisation: both are watchful against cruelty. The amalgamation suggestion has been discussed several times, but, while outwardly there appears to be no obstacle, beneath the surface suspicion seems to remain. Ardent abolitionists still appear to regard the Society for the Protection of Children as something of an official whitewash brush for the mui-tsai system, for sweating of child labour, rack-renting, etc., with education and charity as the only approved remedies. On the other hand, the members of the Society for the Protection of Children appear to regard the Anti-Mui-tsai Society as over-advanced and dangerous. These mutual suspicions are unworthy, and more may be done by more definitely co-ordinated effort. Failing early amalgamation, the best possible use must be made of the existing weapons, and here we have a criticism to address to the Magistrates of the Colony.\n\nThose guilty of cruelty to children are sternly and properly punished; but traffickers are still inadequately dealt with. Looking over our files we find the mistress of a sly brothel fined only $150 or three months' hard labour, and the seller of a small boy fined $1,000, or one year. For kidnapping a seven-year-old child, one man was sentenced to twelve months and twenty strokes. In two other sly brothel cases the fines were $100 and $75. And then a case of kidnapping of a child in which the sentence was six months, while the owner of a number of girls employed in immoral traffic was fined only $50, and for the sale of an infant the fines were also $50, or six weeks. These penalties are inconsistent and inadequate.\n\nFor comparison, a returned banishee received a sentence of one year as did a thief who stole from a house at Magazine Gap. For stealing a fountain pen, the sentence was six months, and the same sentence was imposed upon a snatcher. Opium cases offer stronger contrasts, but for these there is a scale of penalties and they can be left out. The magistrate, of course, must be permitted to allow the circumstances to guide him. Speaking generally, however, it must be said that offences against children, involving their lives, are as yet insufficiently discouraged. All kidnappers and traffickers should be flogged—even to those who buy children and thus create the market.",
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        "content_text": "## REVENUE SURVEYS AND GENERAL\n\n17. Surveys were made in detail for plans to be attached to Crown Leases of 869 lots. These surveys entailed very accurate measurements of all boundaries, dimensions in every case being given to the nearest inch. Co-ordinate values at each angle of a lot were obtained and the areas computed by double latitudes. The measurements, co-ordinates and areas were entered in a special book kept for record purposes.\n\n18. Surveys were made of several areas of various sizes for plans to be attached to deeds of surrender.\n\n19. Contour surveys as detailed below were made and plotted.\n\n| Area in acres | Locality | Scale | Verticle interval | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 62.51 | Jardine's Look Out | 1:10 | 600 | Land development, Only 63 acres plotted. |\n| 4.00 | Aplichau | 1:10 | 600 | Land development |\n| 70.30 | Aberdeen | 1:10 | 600 | Land development |\n| 2.05 | Stubbs Road | 1:10 | 600 | Land development |\n| 1.00 | Ventris Road | 1:10 | 600 | Land development |\n\n21. Surveys were made of the following lots in the new Territories:\n\n| Demarcation District | Lot No. | Area in acres | Length of traverse. ft. | Closing error, (Linear) | Closing error (Angular) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 92 | Forestry Lot 503 | 7 | 3,400 | 1 in 8,000 | 1' 40\" |\n| T 32A | 6 | 3 | 4,300 | 1 in 5,000 | 1' 20\" |\n| 92 | 2216 | 3 | 2,900 | 1 in 5,000 | 1' 00\" |\n|  | 1421B | 11 |  |  |  |\n|  | 1075B |  | 2,300 | 1 in 5,000 | 1' 20\" |\n|  | 1287 | 17 | 6,000 | 1 in 6,000 | 1' 00\" |\n|  | 339 |  | 3,600 | 1 in 4,000 | 2' 20\" |\n|  | 394 | 10 | 4,000 | 1 in 6,000 | 1' 20\" |\n\nThe whole of these surveys was carried out by tachemetrical methods from traverses which have their origins in main or subsidiary traverses in the vicinities. The level values were obtained from known values of Bench Marks.\n\n20. Surveys were made of matsheds at Tweed Island Bay, bathing pavilions at North Point, boundaries of Dairy Farm Lots along Victoria Road, forestry paths below Mount Collinson and Boa Vista, and from Wanchai Gap to Magazine Gap Road.\n\nA survey was made and plans prepared of areas taken over by Government from King's Park. Total area 93 acres plotted to a scale of 1:2400. An area of 2 acres was surveyed and plotted to a scale of 1:2400 for Royal Air Force Officers' Quarters and another area of 10 acres to the same scale for Civil Aviation Officers' Quarters at Ngau Shi Wan.\n\nA survey to show privately owned lots in the European Cemetery at Kap Shek Mi (an area of 11 acres) was made and plotted to a scale of 1:600.\n\n22. In addition to the above a survey was made of Shan Ha Village (Sap Pat Heung Valley), the area being 4 acres, length of traverses 5300 ft., linear misclose 1 in 6000 and angular misclose 1' 20\". Building blocks at Tai Po Market were surveyed, a total area of 2 acres with a linear misclose of 1 in 5000 and an angular misclose of 1' 20\". Two beaches at Castle Peak (Main beach and \"Cafeteria\" Beach) were surveyed for position of bathing sheds. The area was 12 acres, the linear closing error 1 in 5000 and angular 1' 20\".\n\n23. The Kwan Ti race course was surveyed in connection with the issue of a Crown Lease but plotting had not been completed at the end of the year. The area surveyed was 60 acres, total length of traverses 17,300 feet, with an average linear misclose of 1 in 6000 and an angular misclose of 1' 20\".\n\n24. The boundaries of 318 lots of various sizes were defined on the ground, chiefly for building purposes. In addition the line of sea wall and proposed road at North Point and the line of the proposed new sea wall at Kennedy Town were set out and permanent marks fixed for reference for setting out proposed new roads. 28 acres held on permit were demarcated, also the European Cemetery of 11 acres at Shek Kap Mi, a new site for Victoria Orphanage, the site for the Central British School of 9 acres, Kowloon Cemetery No. 3, site for new Magistracy, proposed Anglican Church at Kowloon Tong. New Polo Ground (11 acres) at Kowloon Tong and sites for the Royal Air Force Officers' Quarters and Civil Aviation Officers' Quarters.\n\n|  | Area in acres |  | Length of traverse in feet |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 20.16 |  | 35,191 |\n|  | 8.95 |  | 6,143 |\n|  | 0.93 |  | 2,515 |\n|  | 0.85 |  | 1,400 |",
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        "content_text": "## 52. Gas Lighting, City, and Suburbs and Hill District\nThe total number of lamps in use at the end of the year in the City and its precincts was 1,774, an increase of 59 over the figures for the previous year, and in the Hill District, 231, the same figures as last year. The fitting of Reflectors to the Gas Lamps in Hong Kong District was undertaken by the Hong Kong & China Gas Company without expense to Government and resulted in better illumination.\n\nIn the interests of economy, a number of lamps, 99 in all, in Chatham Path, Craigmin Road, Kotewall Road, Magazine Gap Road, Monmouth Path, Po Shan Road, Peak Road, Victoria Road, and Watson Road, were, under arrangement with the Hong Kong & China Gas Company, extinguished at midnight throughout the year, instead of at the times specified in the Gas Street Lighting Agreement.\n\nExpenditure\n$121,576.12\n\n## 53. Electric Lighting, City, Hill District and Shaukiwan\nTraffic Control Lights in City, forty-four in number, were maintained in working order.\n\nThe total number of lamps in use at the end of the year in the City, Outside City and Peak Districts was as follows:\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Street lamps, etc. | 773 |\n| Pier Lamps | 44 |\n| Lamps in Public Latrines | 112 |\n\nIn addition to these, the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co. of Hong Kong, provide ten lamps, each having a cluster of three 100 C.P. incandescent lamps, for lighting the road adjacent to their property.\n\nAn arrangement, similar to that made with the Hong Kong and China Gas Co. for the extinguishing at midnight of a number of street lamps, was made with the Hong Kong Electric Co. The following were the roads affected: Bowen Road, Brewin Path, Homestead Path, Lugard Road, Magazine Gap Road, Mount Davis Road, Mount Cameron Road, Pokfulam Road, Sassoon Road, Stubbs Road and Tregunter Path. 318 lamps came under the arrangement.\n\nExpenditure\n$68,635.06\n\n## 54. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damage-Hong Kong\nFollowing the typhoons, repairs of varying magnitude, chiefly confined to roofs and joinery, were carried out under this head to the following buildings: No. 1 Police Station, No. 2 Police Station, Wong Nei Cheong Gap Police Station, Gough Hill Police Station, Homestead Flats and Quarters, Colonial Secretariat, New Fire Station, Harbour Office, Volunteer Headquarters, New Government Offices, Magazine Gap Police Station, Victoria Hospital, Queen's Gardens, 155, 275, 276, 361, 404, 407, The Peak, Bacteriological Institute, Happy Valley Quarters, Wancha School, Old Seamen's Institute Johnston Road, M.I. Stables, Street Boys' Club and No. 7 Police Station, Mental Hospital, Shek Tong Tsui Market, Central Police Station, Stanley Police Station, Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Telegraph Station, Kennedy Town Hospital, Government Civil Hospital Staff Quarters, and Victoria Gaol.\n\nSand and boulders were removed from nullahs at Wongneicheong, Sookunpoo, and North Point; storm water drains were cleansed at Aberdeen Docks, Aberdeen and at Shaukiwan East near the Police Station; and the flushing dam at Staunton Creek, Aberdeen, was also cleansed of sand and repairs effected.\n\nFollowing the typhoons, repairs were carried out to the following piers-Blake, Harbour Department, Jubilee Street Fire Float, Sai Wan Ho and Shaukiwan, and to the Police Searching Sheds on the Ping On, Tai Hing, Tung On and Yuen On Wharves.\n\nExpenditure\n$16,935.14\n\n## 55. Maintenance of City and Hill District Water Works\nThe year opened with a ten hours supply daily, the hours of supply being 6-11 a.m. and 4-9 p.m. With the exception of three days at Chinese New Year (25th-27th January) when a constant supply was maintained, the ten hour supply remained in operation until 30th April, when the total storage in the island reservoirs had fallen to 680 million gallons. The rainfall during the first four months of the year had been practically negligible, and further restrictions had become inevitable. On 1st May the hours of supply were reduced to six per diem (6-9 a.m. and 5-8 p.m.) and this arrangement continued until 1st July when a constant supply was resumed. As the normal rains did not fall in August it was found necessary to return to a daily supply of ten hours on 26th August, and on 9th September, when the total island storage was only 1,458 million gallons, the hours were reduced to six daily. Storage began to increase about the middle of September and the daily supply hours were extended to eight on 21st September, whilst on 9th November a further increase to ten hours, which remained in force until the close of the year, took place. During the year, therefore, a 24 hours supply was maintained for 59 days only. At the end of the year there were 63 street fountains in use.\n\nThe cross harbour pipe gave no trouble during the year and the leakage was negligible.",
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        "content_text": "## 85 REVENUE SURVEYS AND GENERAL\n\n17. Surveys were made in detail for plans to be attached to Crown Leases of 869 lots. These surveys entailed very accurate measurements of all boundaries, dimensions in every case being given to the nearest inch. Co-ordinate values at each angle of lot were obtained and the areas computed by double latitudes. The measurements, co-ordinates and areas were entered in a special book kept for record purposes.\n\n18. Surveys were made of several areas of various sizes for plans to be attached to deeds of surrender.\n\n19. Contour surveys as detailed below were made and plotted.\n\n| Locality | Area in acres | Scale | Vertical interval | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Jardine's Look Out | 62.51 | 1:10 | 600 | 1 Land development. |\n| Aplichau | 4.00 | 1:10 | 600 | 1 Land development. |\n| Aberdeen | 70.30 | 1:10 | 600 | Only 63 acres plotted. 1 Land development. |\n| Stubbs Road | 2.05 | 1:10 | 600 | 1 Land development. |\n| Ventris Road | 1.00 | 1:10 | 600 | 1 Land development. |\n\nThe whole of these surveys was carried out by tachemetrical methods from traverses which have their origins in main or subsidiary traverses in the vicinities. The level values were obtained from known values of Bench Marks.\n\n20. Surveys were made of matsheds at Tweed Island Bay, bathing pavilions at North Point, boundaries of Dairy Farm Lots along Victoria Road, forestry paths below Mount Collinson and Boa Vista, and from Wanchai Gap to Magazine Gap Road.\n\nA survey was made and plans prepared of areas taken over by Government from King's Park. Total area 93 acres plotted to a scale of 1:2400.\n\nAn area of 2 acres was surveyed and plotted to a scale of 1:2400 for Royal Air Force Officers' Quarters and another area of 10 acres to the same scale for Civil Aviation Officers' Quarters at Ngau Shi Wan.\n\nA survey to show privately owned lots in the European Cemetery at Kap Shek Mi (an area of 11 acres) was made and plotted to a scale of 1:600.",
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        "content_text": "379\n\n2\n\nSub-head 11.-Miscellaneous, $18,000.--This vote is available for all Departments and provides funds for small works which arise during the year but are considered too small for a separate vote.\n\n12.-Waterworks-(a) Miscellaneous, $8,000.-Provides for small extensions to subsidiary water mains and other miscellaneous minor works.\n\nJJ\n\n29\n\n\"\n\n13.-\n\n(b) Meter, $20,000.-Provides for the supply of meters throughout the year.\n\n14.-Port Works, $2,000.-Covers expenses incurred in taking sounding, borings, and for preliminary investigations in connection with new and proposed harbour works, foreshore dumping etc.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS,\n\n15.-New 100-foot road between Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay, $280,000. ---It has been decided to complete this work as early as possible. A contract has been let for the 2nd Section of this road, and tenders obtained for the 3rd (and Final) Section in conjunction with forming an extension of the Reclamation at North Point. The rock removed from approximately Lau Sin Street to Wing Hing Street will be utilized in forming the Rubble Mound of the latter work.\n\n16.-Widening of Middle Gap Road and access road to Mount Cameron (1st Section), $15,000.-To provide access to potential building lots on the western slopes of Mount Cameron. The sum provided will complete the contract in hand and allows for a further extension if required.\n\n17. Surfacing 40-foot roads on Praya East, $4,000.-To continue surfacing, channelling and kerbing portions of Thomson and Jaffé Roads on the Praya East Reclamation according to agreement with lot holders.\n\n18.-New Road to Bathing Beaches (South-East of Repulse Bay), $4,000.— A road to the new Bathing Beaches is under construction. A contribution of $55,000 has been made towards the total cost by the sponsors of the Repulse Bay Lido Scheme. The amount provided is to meet the cost of Retention money.\n\n19.-Widening of Magazine Gap Road between May Road and Stubbs Road, $3,000. It is anticipated that the contract will be practically completed in 1934. The sum provided is to meet the payment of Retention money and minor departmental works.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n20.-Reinstatement of Government Retaining Walls, $5,000.-These walls are examined annually and this vote provides for the repair or reconstruction of any walls which are considered dangerous.\n\n21.-Rewiring of Government Buildings, $10,350.-This sum is required for the replacement of defective and dangerous electrical wiring in Government buildings.\n\n22.-Traffic White Lines, Studs and Motor Signs, etc., $5,000. To meet the cost of providing and laying down either white lines or studs on road corners, curves and junctions, and also motor signs etc.\n\n23.-Colonial Cemetery, laying out new areas, $1,000.-To provide for an extension to the burial area within the boundaries of the Colonial Cemetery Happy Valley.\n\n3\n\nSub-head 24. Latrines for two new Bathing Beaches, South of Repulse Bay, $7,000.- This item is to meet the cost of providing lavatory accommodation at the two larger Beaches South of Repulse Bay now open as public bathing beaches.\n\n3)\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\n\"+\n\n\"\n\n>\n\n97\n\n25.--Sanitary Department Garage, $1,400.-Provision for additional exits and substitution of bostwick gates for wooden poles in all exits to meet the requirements of the Fire Brigade.\n\n26.-Two Cold Storage Rooms at Central Medical Store, $12,000.-The amount provides for constructing two cold storage rooms, capacity about 1750 cubic feet for storing sera, vaccines and ether.\n\n27.-Garage accommodation at Shaukiran Police Station, $3,500.-This item provides garage accommodation for a Fire appliance, car and motor cycle.\n\n28.-Chinese Cemeteries, laying out new areas, $6,000.-To provide for additional burial areas in existing cemeteries.\n\nWATER WORKS.\n\n29.-Back Lane Service Pipes, $5,000.-To provide for the extension of subsidiary service pipes in back lanes in newly developed properties to obviate the excessive cutting of roads which would be necessary for direct connection to principal mains. These subsidiary mains are eventually paid for by house owners when connections are requested.\n\n30.-Eastern Pumping Scheme, $75,000.-To continue work in connection with the provision of a filtered water supply from the Eastern Filter Beds to the slopes of Mount Cameron, Jardines Lookout, Broadwood Road and eventually Repulse Bay district.\n\nPORT WORKS,\n\n31.-Extension of Reclamation at North Point, $75,000.-This work is referred to in item No. 15 above. The extension will provide a further area for dumping, and as a large quantity of rock is available from the line of the 100-foot road above referred to, it is an economical time for this work to be carried out.\n\n32.-Construction of Seawall and Cattle Pier at Kennedy Town, $70,000— To complete portion of the Rubble Mound already formed and construct a new pier for landing cattle at the corner of Western Praya and Cadogan Street.\n\n33.-Construction of Yard for Storage of Sand at Praya East, $15,000.-- For the construction of bins, together with surrounding fencing etc., in connection with a scheme for the conservation of sand. The site is in Gloucester Road, near Arsenal Street.\n\nPUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.\n\n34.-Resumption for Road Widening Schemes approved by Government as rebuilding occurs, $10,000.-This vote is to cover expenditure in connection with resumptions of private properties fronting on roads which require either widening or realignment.\n\n380",
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        "content_text": "8 - \n\nSub-head 79.-Refuse Boat Pier at Yen Chow Street, Shamshuipo, $12,000.-This is the central point for handling refuse from the Western area of the Peninsula from which it will be conveyed to Kun Tong.\n\nPUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDING ORDINANCE.\n\n80.-Compensation and Resumptions, $10,000.-This vote covers expenditure incurred in the acquisition of buildings and land necessitated by Town Planning Improvement.\n\nNEW TERRITORIES.\n\nBUILDINGS\n\n81.-Market, Roads, Drainage at Tsun Wan, $20,000.-It has been decided to site the market on an area of high ground just off the Castle Peak Road and provision is made for an access Road from the sea and from the main road together with the necessary drainage.\n\nGENERAL WORKS.\n\n82.-Roads, $5,000.-To cover expenditure in connection with the development of Sha Tau Kok, Tai Po Market and Un Long.\n\n83.—Drainage—(a) Training Nullahs, $3,000.—To be expended in permanent nullah training.\n\n84.-\n\n(b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works, $3,000.—To provide for miscellaneous drainage works made necessary by development at Sha Tau Kok, Tai Po Market and Un Long.\n\n85.-Miscellaneous, $5,000. This vote is available for all Departments and provides funds for small works which arise during the year but are considered too small for a separate vote.\n\n86.-Water Works, $2,000.-For general extension to Government mains and service supplies required by new development.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\n87.-Resurfacing Road from Tai Po Market in the direction of Fanling Cross Roads including filling in to 20 feet in width and part resumptions, $10,000. This road which is only 16 feet wide is getting into bad condition necessitating strengthening at an early date and it is proposed to widen it at the same time.\n\n88.-Improving bends at 54, 63 and 74 miles, Tai Po Road, $5,000.—To complete the reconstruction of three bad bends on this much used highway.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n89.-Compensation and Resumptions, $2,000.-For minor resumptions which become necessary during the year in connection with road, street or other improvements.\n\nWATER WORKS.\n\n90.-Water Supply Un Long District, $10,000.—This allows for completion of the work commenced this year.\n\n91.-New 6\" supply main for Tai Po, $5,000.—This allows for completion of the work commenced this year.\n\n9\n\nAppendix VI.-Loan Works.\n\nShing Mun Valley Scheme--2nd Section.\n\n2nd Cross Harbour Pipe, $100,000.—To complete the construction of the second cross harbour pipe. It is anticipated that this pipe, which is 18 inches in diameter, will be ready for use by about April.\n\nVehicular Ferry, $25,000.-To continue protective works to the piers necessitated by damage done in berthing the vehicular ferry vessels and to provide additional amenities asked for by the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Company.\n\nNew Gaol at Stanley, $1,500,000.—To pay Retention money on the site preparation contract which it is anticipated will be completed by the end of October. Also to commence the erection of the Cell Blocks, Administration Buildings and Workshops etc. together with the construction of the drainage system and surfacing within the boundary walls and the erection of Staff Quarters outside the Boundary Wall.\n\nTytam Tuk Catchwaters, $170,000-To continue works on the Dragon's Back, Mount Pottinger and Mount Parker catchwaters. This will complete the additional catchwatering for the Tytam Tuk reservoir and will increase the catchment area by about 1,554 acres. The work will be completed by November, 1935.\n\nAir Port.\n\nAir Port & Seaplane Slipway, $520,297.69.-To provide for the construction of a new hangar 270′ 0″ by 157′ 0″ together with a temporary ancillary building for administrative purposes and a seaplane slipway at the west end of the aerodrome. The cost of the existing hangar was borne jointly by the Royal Air Force and the Colonial Government. That portion of the cost which was borne by the Colonial Government will be refunded by Royal Air Force who will enter into sole occupation of the existing hangar when the new hangar is completed. The sum so obtained will be used towards the cost of the construction of the new hangar which is to serve civil purposes only.\n\nWireless Telegraph Station, $12,382.-To complete the equipment of the Wireless Telegraph Station required in connection with civil aviation.\n\nAppendix VII. Government House & City Development Scheme.\n\nGovernment House.\n\n(a) Approach Road, $70,000.-To complete the formation of the Approach Road 30 feet wide from Stubb's Road to the site of the proposed new Government House at Magazine Gap.\n\n(b) New Government House, $180,000. –To proceed with the site formation of the projected new Government House at Magazine Gap. The whole scheme as at present envisaged and including the approach road and site formation is estimated to cost approximately $2,000,000.\n\n386",
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        "content_text": "SECRET\n\nC.R.C.C. No.X/11361/AQ.\n\nHEADQUARTERS,\n\nCHINA COMMAND HONG KONG,\n\n5th February, 1936.\n\n15\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n1.\n\nI have the honour to refer to the question of the acquisition of the Arsenal Yard, Queens Road, by the Colonial Government from the Admiralty, and the attendant question of the removal or diversion of the existing overhead ropeway.\n\n2.\n\nOn the 12th June, 1931, it was represented to Your Excellency by this Headquarters that it was impracticable to divert the ropeway. It appears, however, that at a later date it was accepted that the ropeway could be diverted at an estimated cost of £5,000. The question as to who should meet this cost has recently been the subject of correspondence between the War Office and this Headquarters.\n\n3.\n\nI have now had this question under further examination, and I am convinced that the diversion of the ropeway to W.D. land is an unsound and uneconomical proposition from the point of view of all parties concerned.\n\nThe re-erection of the gantry on W.D. land and the construction of new pylons will seriously interfere with the arrangements in the Ordnance Depot. When it is re-erected we retain a method of transportation which does not meet military requirements. The ropeway was constructed at a time when communication was required between the Magazine and the Arsenal Yard sea frontage only, all ammunition passing from Magazines to ships. The ammunition stored by the Army, however, must be distributed to forts by road transport.\n\nIt is obvious, therefore, that in order to save handling and time, direct access to the Magazines by road is preferable.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nThe Governor\n\nHONG KONG.",
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        "content_text": "2.\n\n19\n\n2\n\n62779\n\nNaval and Military magazines in Hong Kong were indivisible parts of one comprehensive scheme.\n\n(ii) That the Colonial Government failed to implement its undertaking with regard to the Military part of the scheme and is therefore solely responsible for the complications that have arisen in the fulfilment of the Naval part.\n\nNeither of those assumptions is admitted by this Government.\n\nWith regard to the first assumption, from the point of view of this Government the reprovisioning of the Naval and Military magazines formed two entirely distinct matters. It is true that they were under discussion at the same time, but the Colonial Government had no reason to suppose that they were inter-dependent except in so far as there had been a proposal by the Admiralty (vide the Admiralty letter to the Colonial Office of 7th February, 1929) that there should be a joint Naval and Military magazine on Stonecutters Island. This proposal was not pursued owing to the opposition of Major General Sandilands for the reasons given in his secret letter to the War Office dated 9th May, 1929. The questions of Naval and Military magazines then became separate and distinct so far as this Government was concerned, and the possibility of their being undertaken at the expense of the Colonial Government became largely a question of finance balanced against benefits accruing to the Colony.\n\n5.\n\nWith regard to the second assumption and to the opinion expressed in the third paragraph of the War Office letter, that the Colonial Government receded from its understanding with the War Department, I take this",
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        "content_text": "## Head 34.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n| Estimate | Expenditure up to 31st December, 1935 | Approved Estimate, 1936 | Revised Estimate, 1936 | Estimated Expenditure, 1937 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Buildings** |  |  |  |  |\n| 1 Queen Mary Hospital | $591,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000,000 |  |\n| 2 Wanchai Market | $25,600 | $90,000 | $100,000 |  |\n| 3 Trade School | $6,500 | $100,000 | $132,000 |  |\n| 4 Government Stores and Workshops |  | $55,000 |  |  |\n| 5 Stanley Market |  | $18,000 |  |  |\n| **General Works** |  |  |  |  |\n| 6 Roads |  |  |  |  |\n| 11 Blue Pool Road-Section adjacent to Inland Lots Nos. 3685 & 3686 |  | $13,600 | $4,000 | $9,600 |\n| 12 Magazine Gap Road-Road-widening and Car Park at junction of Bowen Road.. |  | $8,000 |  |  |\n| 13 Garden Road-widening |  |  | $24,000 | $24,000 |\n| 14 Electric Road-Raising levels |  | $40,000 | $20,000 |  |\n| 7 Drainage :- |  |  |  |  |\n| (a) Training Nullahs |  |  |  |  |\n| 24 Sing Woo and Blue Pool Roads-Training Nullah |  | $28,000 | $29,000 | $5,000 |\n| (b) Miscellaneous |  |  |  |  |\n| 8 Miscellaneous | $5,000 | $30,000 | $15,000 | $20,000 |\n| 9 Water Works: |  |  |  |  |\n| (a) Meters | $3,000 | $5,000 | $4,000 | $5,000 |\n| (b) New Distribution Mains | $12,000 | $20,000 | $15,000 | $20,000 |\n| (c) Miscellaneous | $5,000 | $5,000 | $4,000 | $8,000 |\n| 10 Port Works | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 |  |\n| **Communications** |  |  |  |  |\n| **Miscellaneous** |  |  |  |  |\n| 15 Shek Tong Tsui Market-Latrine Convertion to Flush |  | $1,000 | $1,000 | $1,000 |\n| 16 Kam Wah Street-Flush Latrine |  | $10,000 |  | $10,000 |\n| 17 Jubilee Street Pier-Covered Entrance |  |  |  |  |\n| 18 Government Quarry-Roofing Plant |  | $10,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 |\n| 19 Colonial Cemetery-Laying out New Areas |  | $1,000 |  | $1,000 |\n| 20 Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out New Areas |  | $8,000 |  | $8,000 |\n| 21 Reinstatement of Retaining Walls | $2,000 | $5,000 | $3,000 | $2,000 |\n| 22 Traffic Signs, etc. | $3,000 | $5,000 | $3,000 | $3,000 |\n| 23 Street Name Plates |  | $2,000 |  |  |\n| 25 Sing Woo and Blue Pool Roads Sewer Extension | $2,000 | $6,000 | $4,000 | $2,000 |\n| 26 North Point Reclamation-Sewer Extension |  | $20,000 | $5,000 |  |\n| 27 Boat Street-Sewer Extension |  | $5,750 |  | $7,000 |\n| 28 Electric Road-Sewer Extension |  | $7,000 |  | $7,000 |\n\nCarried forward $934,450",
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        "content_text": "Ilan went was \nthe result of \nlong careful investigation \n2 this \npossible causes \nSu IV. Peel & \nhis advisers \nis enough \nto satisfy those \ndoubts \nI see \nno objection spin \n10 \nM. Roper's 'A'. \n27 May \nalso \nbe \nworth \nmaking \nthe Gov to \nConsider \n(having regard to \nrecent decisions on \nHS Defence) \nWhether the dangers of \nSort Howe \nBeach \nMagazine Gap \nneed \nto be \nexamined \nfrom \nthe point of view of \nA.R.P., \non which aspect \nmuch \nhas been \nwritten \nsince the original plans in \nHK were \nprepared. \nWe \nshould forward that suggestion in a \n5-0. \nletter for Cowell;",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential \n5425.\n\nDowning Street,  \n16 August, 1938.\n\nMy dear Northcote\n\nYour proposals for the rebuilding of Government House, set out in your confidential (3) despatch of the 11th of July, are being officially approved in a despatch which goes by the same mail as this letter.\n\nIt occurred to us when your proposals were being examined that it would perhaps be advisable to consider, having regard to the recent decisions on Hong Kong defence, whether the designs of the new Government House near Magazine Gap need to be re-examined from the point of view of Air Raid Precautions, on which question much attention has been attracted and much work has been done since the original...\n\n|              |              |\n|--------------|--------------|\n| RB           | C. O.        |\n| Mr. Rogers   | Mr.          |\n| Gent         | Sir H. Moore.|\n| Sir G. Tomlinson | Sir C. Bottomley.|\n| Sir J. Shuckburgh |              |\n\n7/8.38.  \n53934/38 Hong Kong.  \nAndy  \n141  \nFor Mr. Cowell's signature.  \nof Permt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \nSecretary of State.  \n**DRAFT.**  \n**Confidential**  \n\nSIR GEOFFRY NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.  \n\n(*801-150) Wt. 13952-47 10,000 6/37 T.S. 695  \n(*1632-150) Wt. 32179-71 20,000 12/37 T.S. 695",
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        "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### [Mr. Donner.]\n\nside by side with a Germany which can live contentedly in peace, rather than with a Germany that is starving and in despair. Therefore, we ought not to be over-anxious if Dr. Funk's great drive into South Eastern Europe succeeds.\n\nI do not believe we shall lose these markets entirely, for, as the Prime Minister pointed out, many of the countries in South Eastern Europe, many of the Danubian countries, require foreign exchange, and they can obtain it only by trading with Great Britain and France. But just as it is natural for Germany to trade with South Eastern Europe, so it is natural, surely, for us to increase our trade with the Dominions and Colonies. I express the hope and belief that the Munich settlement will represent a new chapter in our history. If it leads to greater German prosperity, that will be a factor on the side of peace. I believe that one of the results of it will be that we shall turn more to our own Dominions and Colonies than in the past, and do our best to extend our trade with them and develop the territories within the British Empire. If that should happen, then even greater good will come of that Agreement than we see to-day.\n\nThere is one obstacle which still remains to such progress. I should like to make an appeal for the formation of a small committee to examine the whole question of inter-Imperial trade, because I think that the facts and figures which are really essential to us are missing. What is needed are statistics to show what the Dominions produce and in what quantities and where, how much they sell and to whom they sell it, how much they buy and from where, and lastly what are the transport and communications which are available. If we had those data and statistics, it should not be beyond our capacity to build up a great Imperial trade on a complementary and not on a competitive basis of production. If that policy were coupled with a great policy of fostering at home the domestic power of production, then we should secure an even higher standard of living in this country. I believe that by carrying out such a policy we should be able to maintain and increase the standard of living in England.\n\nBefore concluding, there is one other aspect to which I wish to draw attention.\n\n### International Situation\n\nI believe that the solution of many of our economic problems, and many of the economic problems which will face this country after the Munich Agreement, lies in the lesson provided by the example of one man, Lord Nuffield. Let the House consider what has happened in regard to him. We find that a great industry has been built up as a result of the establishment of the McKenna Duties. We see not only an improved article produced for the consumers, but we find that the price has been lowered; and we see that Lord Nuffield has accumulated a great fortune which he has given back to the people. That is the point to which I wish to draw the attention of the House. Not only has he secured much for Oxford economically, but the great bulk of his fortune has gone back to the people who made it. I suggest that ought to prove a great lesson to all of us. If we were to recognise that we are faced with immensely high tariff barriers all over the world and that there is little or nothing that we can do to reduce many of those barriers, and sell in those markets denied to us to-day, and if we accepted those conditions and facts and heightened our own tariffs and made greater use of them, by protecting ourselves, we could create a higher standard of employment and living in England.\n\n**Mr. Dingle Foot:** Is that part of the policy of appeasement?\n\n**Mr. Donner:** Yes, it is. I believe that if one took, over the last five years, an average of the profits of all companies in England—index them individually, for the sake of argument, at 100—and increased the protection for those industries, one could estimate quite easily the increased profits produced by the higher tariffs, and if one were to return that extra profit in the shape of, say, 10 per cent. to the State, for giving the benefit of the tariff, 10 per cent. to the shareholders, 30 per cent. for the renewal of equipment and machinery, and 50 per cent. to the people who created it, not only would it create a higher standard of living and greater employment in this country, but it would create a new spirit of co-operation between the Government and the employers and the employés.\n\n**Mr. Foot:** I do not follow the hon. Member's argument. He was arguing a little earlier in his speech that it was in our interests to do what we could to raise the standard of living and increase the prosperity of Germany, and I gather of other European countries. Does he suppose that a steep increase in our own tariffs would conduce to that end?\n\n**Mr. Donner:** I do. I explained at the beginning of my speech that I believe that the natural expansion of German trade is in South-Eastern Europe, just as the natural expansion of English trade lies, in the first instance, in fostering the domestic power of production, and secondly, in increasing trade with the Dominions and Colonies on the lines I have suggested. If a policy on those lines were carried out, I believe it would create a new spirit of national unity and of good will and co-operation among the working people of this country. Such a policy could be carried out simultaneously with the Prime Minister's policy of appeasement. I believe we should make it plain that we are not prepared to fight in Europe or anywhere else except in a cause more essential, more vital and more important to the interests of this country than is the maintenance of peace itself to this country, and by fostering such a spirit at home, by stimulating trade within the Empire, this country would be able to look forward to a great, happy and peaceful future.\n\n6.40 p.m.\n\n**Mr. Muff:** We meet to-day in circumstances different from those in which we met a month ago. Then it was a day of tension, and when Ministers and the Front Opposition Bench came in at 2.45 for prayers, one Member said: \"Are things as bad as that?\" We wished the Prime Minister Godspeed when he went to Munich, and when he came back I told my constituents that I was glad of the respite. Representing as I do the vulnerable city of Hull, with its teeming population, I contemplated with horror what would happen to Hull and to London in the event of war. I was glad of the Agreement, but since then I have found myself saying, as did our great weekly humorous magazine, that it was a peace we were glad of, but not very proud of. I suggest to the Prime Minister that the German Government have badly let him down by not showing a more accommodating spirit and greater magnanimity. They have made his position and that of the Government more difficult. Although the House may wonder what that matters to a Labour Member, I feel that as long as the right hon. Gentleman is Prime Minister, and as long as he was doing what he thought was right in his policy of appeasement, the Fuhrer might have behaved better than he has done, especially to Czechoslovakia.\n\nI suppose that I am the only Hussite Member of the House. I am rather proud to be what is known as a Moravian Brother. The Hussites owe their inspiration to a man whose memory we honour in St. Stephen's Hall, John Wyclif. In Czechoslovakia there are both Sudetens and Czechs. As a result of the persecution which these people, especially the Czechs, have suffered in Sudetenland, I feel that it was the duty of the German Government to stand by Article VII, which was signed by the Fuhrer as well by the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini and M. Daladier. We have a right to complain. Moreover, the German Government are missing a great opportunity by not implementing the large measure of good will which was created when the feeling of revulsion at the prospect of war was turned into a feeling of gladness when the respite came. If the German Government possess any psychologists, I suggest they have made a grave mistake in not making better use of the opportunity which came their way by implementing Article VII, by which they promised to give Sudeten, Czech and Jew the option of saying where they wished to live. The German Government have not made our position easier by the expulsion of thousands of Jews. If the Fuhrer had wanted sincerely to help the British Prime Minister and to save him from the criticism of his own party in the country, he could have done so. I have spent the last five weeks in defending the Prime Minister against Conservatives. Incidentally, I am glad to say that some of those Conservatives are going to vote Labour at the next election but that is by the way.\n\nI speak in general terms because I do not wish to be personal, but the German Government is making the position of this country more difficult because of this persecution of minorities and especially of the Jews. At the same time there is an insidious movement against this country, a sneering at the English people and statements are made publicly to the effect that we are persecuting the Arabs in Palestine.",
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        "content_text": "# \n## 2 \n\nThe constitution and control of Makerere College were discussed and the Sub-Committee had submitted a Report, copies of which would be circulated later with information regarding the action taken by the Secretary of State.\n\nThe Secretary of State greatly appreciated the Sub-Committee's efforts to place him in possession of their views on this important question at such short notice.\n\n## 3. Agricultural Policy in the Colonial Empire (A.C.E.C. 39/38)\nLord Dufferin said this paper did not deal with education as such, and therefore was not suitable for incorporation in the agricultural section of Sir William McLean's general Memorandum. The Committee would remember that various portions of that Memorandum did not meet with the entire approval either of the Medical Advisory Committee or the Agricultural Advisory Council. Lord Dufferin had therefore suggested that a joint body should be set up to consider the matter, so that general agreement could be reached. A joint body had been set up, consisting of Mr. Mayhew, Sir Frank Stockdale and Dr. Smart. It had discussed the Memorandum and hoped very shortly to produce a draft which would be an improvement on the original document and more strictly confined to essentials.\n\n## 4. European Education in the Colonies\nLORD DUFFERIN stated that some time ago Major Church had suggested that an inquiry should be made into this subject, but the matter had been postponed pending the receipt of further information. As this information was now available Lord Dufferin suggested a sub-committee should be set up, with the following personnel:\n- MAJOR CHURCH\n- MR. SCOTT\n- MR. DOUGALL\n- MR. BURNEY\n- PROFESSOR MACKINNON\n- MR. MAYHEW\n\nto examine the whole question and report to the Committee. (Bishop Myers has also been invited to join the Sub-Committee.)\n\nThe Committee agreed to this suggestion.\n\n## 5. Commission on Higher Education in Malaya\nLORD DUFFERIN stated that Mr. Pickthorn, Chairman, had been compelled to return home for political reasons, and Sir William McLean had been appointed Chairman of the Commission in his place.\n\n## 6. The date of the next meeting was fixed for Thursday, 24th of November, at 11 a.m.\n\n## 7. Secretaries' Notices\nMR. MAYHEW reported:\n\n### (a) (i). Inter-Territorial Language Committee, East Africa\nThe report of the last meeting of this Committee, held at Zanzibar on 2nd and 3rd May, had been received. The Committee recorded with deep regret the loss experienced in the death of Mr. F. Johnson, which took place on 12th March, 1937. Mr. Johnson had been the Secretary of the Committee since its beginning, was a prominent Swahili scholar and had done a great deal to further the study and the knowledge of the language and to add to the printed literature, especially for use in the schools. His last work had been the revision of Swahili dictionaries which it was hoped would now be published. During the period under review seven new books in Swahili had been published, 113,927 Swahili books had been sold; the sum of £20 had been distributed in prizes to Africans for essays in Swahili; the programme of work included the publication of the revised dictionaries and the preparation and publication of a further list of books on various subjects, including health, history and agriculture, etc.; the Committee had decided to elect as members African scholars, one from each of the territories of Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar, to be recommended by the Director of Education.\n\n### (ii) Mr. E. G. Morris, Director of Education, Kenya, had been appointed Director of Education, Nigeria, in place of Mr. W. H. McCowan.\n\n### (iii) Uganda Education Department Report, 1937\nIt had been decided that it was unnecessary for the African Reports Sub-Committee to consider the Report, in view of the attention already paid by the Committee to Part II of the East African Higher Education Commission Report, and its comments thereon.\n\n### (b) (i) Cambridge Local Examinations\nThe Syndicate had announced important changes in its School Certificate Regulations, with effect from 1939. The changes were in accordance with proposals made by the Secondary School Examinations Council which had been approved by the Board of Education. These changes seemed likely to benefit Secondary Schools in the dependencies which took the Cambridge Examination. They would have to be taken into account when the replies were received from Colonial Governments to the Advisory Committee's proposals for a new type of School Certificate Examination.\n\nThe most important changes were as follows:\n| Change | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| English Language Test | A pass would be required in English language test, which would be quite separate from the subject of English literature. |\n| Subjects Required | Candidates would be required to pass in five subjects taken from at least two groups, of which group 2 or group 3 had to be one. |\n| Certificate Requirements | It would be possible to obtain a Certificate without having to present for examination a second language other than English or without presenting a subject from the mathematics and science group, though a subject from one or other of these groups had to be taken. |\n| Local Certificates | The Syndicate's arrangement for the issue of local certificates for Malaya and West Africa thus would become the normal practice. |\n| University Matriculation | It was not yet certain whether this would lead to a change in the requirements for University Matriculation. |\n| Study of Local Languages | The Syndicate wished it to be understood that this change would not affect any work that the Syndicate might be doing in consultation with the local authorities overseas to promote the study of local languages. |\n| Practical Subjects | A greater prominence given to the practical subjects group 4 of the Examination which was now brought on to a par with groups 2 and 3. |\n\nIn reply to a question from MR. BURNEY, MR. MAYHEW said an Examination held in English Literature would be a separate but not compulsory subject.\n\n### (ii) University of London Institute of Education\nThe Colonial Department of this Institute had prepared for the use of its students a statistical and descriptive review of education in British Malaya, based on Annual Education Reports, the Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the Straits Settlements, and the 1931 Census Report. Copies of this survey could be supplied to any members of the Committee who might want them.\n\n### (iii) Straits Settlements: Trade School, Singapore\nThe Secretary of State had approved a proposal from the Governor of the Straits Settlements for the extension of the Trade School at Singapore which was opened in 1930. The number of students had grown from 30 to 120, and in 1937 only 43 could be admitted out of 200 applicants. There had never been any difficulty in placing ex-students of the School. Accordingly accommodation was now being provided in a new building for 276 students, and an additional course for radio electricians was to be supplied.\n\n### (iv) School of Oriental Studies\nNotice had been received that this school would be known henceforth as \"The School of Oriental and African studies\". Its present address was:\nVandon House,\nVandon Street,\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\n### (v) He had received the recently published special number of the New Asia monthly magazine which was published in French-Indo China, the whole of which was devoted to education in Indo-China. A full and well-illustrated account of the education system was given. An abstract of it would be published in Oversea Education, and the copy of the magazine could be circulated to those members of the Committee who expressed a desire to see it.\n\n## Page 26",
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        "content_text": "## SECRET\n\nthe Lords Commissioners of Admiralty a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the provision of funds for the payment of the outstanding balance of the final instalment due to the Admiralty in connection with the transaction.\n\n2. As the S. of S. understands that the matter of the aerial ropeway has been finally disposed of he has, subject to the approval of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, given sanction for a supplementary vote for $40,851.06 to cover the final payment due to the Admiralty.\n\nI am, etc.,\n\nPage 8\nPage 9\n\n**C.S.O.896/29c.**\n\n## SECRET\n\nDear Gent,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\nHong Kong.\n22nd June, 1939.\n\nYour letter of 2nd June, 1939, No.53533/39 regarding the final payment to the Admiralty in respect of the transfer to the Colonial Government of the former Naval Arsenal Yard.\n\nAs you know the correspondence regarding the ropeway was prolonged and complicated. It was always the contention of the Colonial Government that the Naval Authorities should be responsible for the removal of the ropeway and that Government retained from the final instalment of $2,000,000 paid to the Admiralty a sum representing the dollar equivalent of £5,000 as security for the carrying out of the work. There then ensued a three-cornered dispute between the Colonial Government, the Naval Authorities and the Military Authorities. Correspondence with the Secretary of State about this seems to have ended with Sir A. Caldecott's secret despatch of 21st December, 1936, which left the matter still in the air. In April, 1937, however, the local military authorities notified the approval of the War Office to the removal of the ropeway: I enclose copies of the further correspondence exchanged on that occasion.\n\nThe Naval Authorities duly removed the ropeway in September, 1937, and surrender of the property was taken on 20th September, 1937: but application for payment of the balance of purchase price was not made by the Naval Authorities until 4th February this year.\n\nYours sincerely,\nG.E.J.Gent, Esq., O.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.,\nColonial Office,\nLONDON.\n\nPage 9\n\n## COPY\n## SECRET\n\nHeadquarters,\nChina Command.\nHong Kong.\n10th April, 1937.\n\n**C.R.C.C. No.X/11361/AQ**\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to refer to my letter number X/14349/AG dated 7-12-36, and to previous correspondence on the subject of the transfer of the Arsenal Yard by the Admiralty, to the Colonial Government, and the handing over of Kennedy Road Magazines to the War Department by the Admiralty.\n\nI have now received from the War Office a cable to inform me that my plans for the evacuation of Kelletts Island, and the removal of the ropeway between the Arsenal Yard and Kennedy Road Magazines are agreed to.\n\n2. The solution is to the effect that:-\n| Point | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | The War Department will provide road access to the lower Magazine by improving the existing concrete track from Queen's Road, and providing turning space for lorries at the Magazine, |\n| (ii) | The War Department will retain the portion of the ropeway that runs from the lower Magazine to the upper Magazine and Laboratory, and provide at the lower Magazine a ropeway terminal suitable for the loading and unloading of shell from or into lorries. |\n\nUnder this arrangement the portion of the ropeway North of Queen's Road can be dismantled as soon as the War Department has completed the transfer to Kennedy Road Magazines of the ammunition at present stored at Kelletts Island, and of certain ammunition which it has been found necessary to transfer from Lyemun. It is anticipated that it will take approximately 14 days to effect these transfers.\n\nThe dismantling of the above portion of the ropeway will be a matter for the Naval Authorities and the Colonial ...\n\nHis Excellency,\nThe Governor,\nHong Kong.\n\nPage 10\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## Head 30.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward | Expenditure up to 31st December, 1938. | Approved Estimate | Revised Estimate | Estimated Expenditure, 1939. | Estimated Expenditure, 1939. | Estimated Expenditure, 1940-41.\n---|---|---|---|---|---|---\n$ | 1,584,200 |  |  |  |  |\n**Communications.—Continued** |  |  |  |  |  |\n30 Tin Hau Temple Road Extension |  | 50,000 | 55,000 | 55,000 | X | \n31 May Road widening Aigburth Hall to Conduit Road |  |  |  |  |  |\n32 Magazine Gap Road widening between Bowen Road and May Road |  | 20,000 | 20,000 | X |  | \n33 Causeway Bay Road-Raising and widening including strengthening seawall |  | 80,000 | 80,000 | X |  | \n34 Mount Cameron Development-New 20 feet road (Sections A-B and B-C) |  |  |  |  |  | \n35 Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Muk Fu Ferry |  | 55,000 | 1,900,000 | 25,000 | 500,000 | \n36 K.I.L. 3394-Forming access roads |  |  |  |  |  | \n37 New Territories Roads Reconstruction of Bridges |  | 30,000 | 20,000 | 10,000 | 1,000,000 | \n38 Castle Peak Road-Realignment Tsun Wan |  | 30,000 | 50,000 |  |  | \n39 Road to Fanling Volunteer Camp |  | 19,000 | 19,000 | 19,000 | 8,000 | 8,000\n**Drainage and Anti-Malarial Works.** |  |  |  |  |  |\n40 North Point Reclamation--Sewer extension |  | 20,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | \n41 Canton Road-New intercepting sewers |  | 40,000 | 10,000 | X |  | \n42 Argyle Street Nullah reconstruction |  | 10,000 | 54,167 | 55,000 | 55,000 | \n43 Anti-Malarial Works |  |  | 40,000 |  |  | \n**Port Works.** |  |  |  |  |  |\n44 North Point-Reclamation Extension |  | 400,000 | 186,176 |  |  | \n45 Kennedy Town-Construction of Seawall and Cattle Pier |  | 10,000 | 10,000 | 3,750 | 145,000 | 140,230\n46 Extension of Reclamation-Jubilee Street Pier to Pottinger Street Pier |  | 4,550 | 4,000 | 585,000 | 140,000 | 100,000\n47 Sand screening equipment |  | 375,000 |  | 15,000 |  | \n48 Government Slipway Yaumati-Reconstruction of Pier |  | 15,000 | X | 30,000 |  | \n49 Nullahs at Kai Tak-Repairs to decking. |  |  | 27,000 | X | 7,000 | \n50 Kun Tong Refuse Dump |  | 34,703 | 7,000 | 34,000 |  | \n51 Construction of seawall and filling in old slipway at Hung Hom |  | 6,500 | 34,000 | 1,300 | 8,000 | 6,200\n**Miscellaneous.** |  |  |  |  |  |\n52 Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas |  | 9,283 | 6,000 | 6,000 |  | \n53 Colonial Cemetery-Laying out new areas |  | 60,000 | 987 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000\nCarried forward |  | 2,992,750 |  | 186 |  |",
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        "content_text": "## Head 30.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued.\n\n| Description | Approved Estimate to 31st December, 1938 | Expenditure, 1939 | Revised Estimate, 1939 | Estimated Expenditure, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward |  |  |  |  |\n| **Communications.—Continued** |  |  |  |  |\n| 30 Tin Hau Temple Road Extension | 125 |  |  |  |\n| 31 May Road widening Aigburth Hall to Conduit Road | 1,479,200 | 50,000 | 55,000 | 1,900,000 |\n| 32 Magazine Gap Road widening between Bowen Road and May Road |  | 20,000 | 20,000 | 25,000 |\n|  |  | 80,000 | 80,000 | 500,000 |\n|  |  | 55,000 | 55,000 | 30,000 |\n|  |  | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |\n|  |  |  |  | 10,000 |\n|  |  |  |  | 1,000,000 |\n|  |  |  |  | 30,000 |\n|  |  | 19,000 | 19,000 | 50,000 |\n|  |  | 8,000 | 8,000 |  |\n| 33 Causeway Bay Road-Raising and widening including strengthening seawall |  |  |  |  |\n| 34 Mount Cameron Development-New 20 feet road (Sections A-B and B-C) | 20,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 40,000 |\n| 35 Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Muk Fu Ferry |  | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 |\n| 36 K.I.L. 3394-Forming access roads |  |  |  | 55,000 |\n| 37 New Territories Roads-Reconstruction of Bridges |  |  |  | 40,000 |\n| 38 Castle Peak Road-Realignment Tsun Wan |  |  |  | 400,000 |\n| 39 Road to Fanling Volunteer Camp |  |  |  | 186,176 |\n| **Drainage and Anti-Malarial Works.** |  |  |  |  |\n| 40 North Point Reclamation-Sewer extension |  | 10,000 | 11 | 10,000 |\n| 41 Canton Road-New intercepting sewers | 54,167 | 55,000 | 55,000 |  |\n| 42 Argyle Street Nullah reconstruction |  |  |  |  |\n| 43 Anti-Malarial Works |  |  |  |  |\n| **Port Works.** |  |  |  |  |\n| 44 North Point-Reclamation Extension | 20,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |  |\n| 45 Kennedy Town-Construction of Seawall and Cattle Pier | 3,750 | 145,000 | 140,230 | 4,550 |\n|  |  |  |  | 550 |\n| 46 Extension of Reclamation-Jubilee Street Pier to Pottinger Street Pier | 4,000 | 585,000 | 140,000 |  |\n| 47 Sand screening equipment | 100,000 | 375,000 |  | 15,000 |\n| 48 Government Slipway Yaumati-Reconstruction of Pier | 15,000 |  |  | 30,000 |\n| 49 Nullahs at Kai Tak-Repairs to decking. |  |  |  |  |\n| 50 Kun Tong Refuse Dump | 27,000 | 7,000 | 34,703 |  |\n| 51 Construction of seawall and filling in old slipway at Hung Hom | 7,000 | 34,000 | 6,500 | 1,300 |\n|  |  |  |  | 34,000 |\n|  |  |  |  | 8,000 |\n|  |  |  |  | 6,200 |\n|  |  |  |  | 500 |\n| **Miscellaneous.** |  |  |  |  |\n| 52 Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas | 9,283 | 6,000 | 6,000 |  |\n| 53 Colonial Cemetery-Laying out new areas | 60,000 | 987 | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n|  |  |  |  | 2,000 |\n| Carried forward | 2,887,750 | 398 |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "## Sub-head 13.—Additional Public Latrines, $50,000.—This is an inclusive sum provided to meet the cost of additional latrines which may be requested by the Urban Council.\n\n## 14.—New Girls Reformatory, $5,000.—It is proposed to provide a Reformatory or Rescue Home for young prostitutes, which would be managed by the Salvation Army. No definite site has yet been selected and meantime only a token sum is considered necessary.\n\n## 15.—New Public Health Centres, $100,000.—Health centres have been requested by Hon. Director of Medical Services at St. Peter's Church, Sham Shui Po, Tsun Wan, etc.\n\n## 16.—Mental Hospital --- Additions and Improvements. $2,500.—To improve ventilation to kitchen, provide water storage and additional lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 17.—Leper Settlement—4 new huts with lavatories. $16,000.—It is proposed to erect 4 huts with lavatory accommodation at Kennedy Town.\n\n## 18.—Kowloon Hospital Extension Site Formation, $80,000.—This work provides for the future extension of the present hospital and also for the proposed Infectious Diseases Hospital.\n\n## 19.—New Infectious Diseases Hospital, $50,000.—The Honourable Director of Medical Services has stressed the necessity for this Hospital. A site is now being prepared adjacent to the Kowloon Hospital.\n\n## 20.—New Public Mortuary—Kowloon, $50,000.—The present mortuary is inadequate and badly situated from a health point of view. It also occupies a valuable building site.\n\n## 21.—New Queen's College, $5,000.—No site has yet been decided upon and it is unlikely a Contract will be let in 1940. The sum provided is to cover the cost of any investigational work necessary.\n\n## 22.—New Vernacular Girls College, $50,000.—This building will be known as the Eastern District Vernacular Girls School and will replace the present Vernacular Normal School for women which occupies rented premises in Lee Garden Street. A site has been selected in Eastern Hospital Road, Soo Kun Poo.\n\n## 23.—New Teachers Training College, $235,000.—It is proposed to construct this College on the site of the old Diocesan Boys School, Bonham Road.\n\n## 24.—Hong Kong Prison, Stanley—Additions and Improvements, $10,000.—This sum is required to meet certain alterations and extensions considered necessary by the Commissioner of Prisons.\n\n## 25.—Botanical and Forestry Buildings—Alterations and Improvements, $2,400.—This sum includes for the provision of a drying room and enclosing an office verandah.\n\n## 26.—Breezy Point Quarters—Car Park, $5,000.—The Honourable Commissioner of Police recommends the provision of this accommodation—at present officers leave their cars in Park Road and cause congestion.\n\n## 27.—Postal Kiosks:-\n| Location | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Shaukiwan | $3,700.—The licenced stamp vendor in Shaukiwan does not wish to continue the business. 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        "content_text": "## 194\n\nGodowns at West Point have been under intense fire for days. There are large stocks of food which cannot be got out. Intention seems to be to destroy food supplies.\n\n### 15th December, 1941\n\nI don't know which would be the best bet, whether to go home and sleep or not. I have not seen my flat since the early part of the war, but have managed to maintain contact with my servant, who states no damage has been done but bombs have been dropped down the road. After yesterday I am beginning to feel shaken. I got the blast across my head and my voice is going. This morning was bad, we were shelled constantly downtown, as well as bombed and we have had several direct hits on the Gloucester building. Severe damage to rooms on 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 8th floors. Hongkong Bank also registered several direct hits, but due to excellent construction no damage has been done. There is very little activity at night, apart from shelling, which appears to be on the other side of the island. C.\n\nIn between bombings telephoned and told me Brenda Morgan had been killed. Tried to get new office fixed up. Windows to be sandbagged and painted black and paper stripped. All inside glass partitions to be removed.\n\nI think it is sheer madness to move all police into Gloucester, which is full of women and children and refugees. It is bound to be a target as soon as it is known, and it won't be long. Signallers are busy every night from high buildings, and we never seem to be able to catch them.\n\n### 16th December, 1941\n\nTea lounge and arcade shops, 1st and 2nd floors are being got ready to house police. All glass in the arcade has been broken and window spaces have been sandbagged. C.P. is not a proper man for wartime conditions. Most charming peace-time C.P. but cannot make snap decisions and takes too long to consider stupid little details that don't matter. Not popular with his men because of this failing. Also a very ardent Oxford Grouper.\n\nVery heavy shelling all day at North Point. Power station seems to be objective. Large fire at Shell tanks. Reports of landings of large bodies of troops at North Point, Aberdeen, and Stanley. No action seems to have been taken and nothing had been done about the landings on the water front; why we are not firing on them is a mystery to me.\n\n### 17th December 1941\n\nLarge fires still burning at N.P. Confirmed A.P.C. tanks are on fire. Heavy shelling all day and troops reported all over Wanchai and Tai Hang. Big battle raging at Magazine Gap and Tai Hang. Ah Sze reports firing all over the valley, but so far no damage has been done to house. Situation supposed to be in hand but am sceptical of these reports. Lights and power failed tonight. Power station heavily shelled all day and pall of smoke all over the city. Landings continue under smoke screen. On alert and large party on duty all night. Instructions to shoot on sight anybody on streets who fails to answer challenge.\n\nLarge bodies of looters and 5th Cols active.\n\n### 18th December, 1941\n\nFurther heavy raids and more machine gunning on the streets. Now that the power has gone, the air raid sirens have gone out of order, and no warning can be given; the only warning is when the planes appear and that is often too late for cover.",
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        "content_text": "# 195\n\nWe are without water today, which seems to indicate that the mains have been damaged.\n\nMore and more troops are pouring in, and in spite of reports I feel situation is definitely out of hand. Heavy fighting is continuing over Magazine Gap and Mount Cameron, the latter is believed to have been taken by the enemy. Many troops on Tai Hang and in the valley, no possibility of getting home and ridiculous to try, Ah Sze reports bodies all over the hillside.\n\nPropaganda leaflets are being dropped by the Japs, the subject matter of which is anything but pleasant. All definitely aiming at the suppression of the white population and inflaming the Chinese and the Indians to turn against us. Many of the leaflets are aiming at killing the white man.\n\n## 19th December 1941\n\nNo water again and no light. Kerosine lamps are being used in the hotel. Lounge and 1st floor of the H.K. hotel now being used as a hospital for wounded troops. Many have come in including some Canadians who are reported to have suffered heavy losses.\n\nHeavy fighting and further landings reported. Aberdeen has had a bad time and reports of heavy naval casualties have come in. Japs still fighting at Magazine Gap. Shelling of main roads to dislocate transport is now evident and road to Magazine Gap is badly damaged, also road to Peak. Several houses on Peak badly damaged and a few killed.\n\n## 20th December 1941\n\nMrs. Kendall joined me today. Her house has been blown up and she has no place to live. American Chinese girl speaking good English, her husband is doing a good job. Still no water but fortunately we had a tub full but that is now nearly exhausted. We are short of drinking water and there is no more in the hotel. We are using well water which is salty and even the tea and coffee are undrinkable.\n\nTalked to a wounded Canadian tonight who told me that they had had a bad time, nearly all their staff officers have been killed. They did not know the country nor the people and could not distinguish between them, consequently the results have been disastrous. He also told me they were not properly trained men and had never been trained for hill fighting; they had been trained on the plains.\n\nReports of situation in hand, definitely do not believe it, think it is being said to stop panic amongst the Chinese and to lull the public into a false sense of security. Don't like the feeling of things in general. Fire still burning at Shell.\n\n## 21st December, 1941\n\nDining rooms now transferred from 8th floor to 4th and 5th corridors. Too dangerous to use top floor. Also no lifts. Food not bad but insufficient and shortage of water none too pleasant. Food tastes brackish and coffee undrinkable. Reports from radio at home are distorted and are anything but correct.\n\nHeavy battle continues at Repulse Bay and Stanley, also Aberdeen. Tai Hang and Wongneichong, although reports state that we are still holding out. Troops continue to pour in from the mainland, and we seem to be losing ground rapidly. Heavy shelling all day and large fires still continue at North Point. Ah Sze reports fighting on the hillside but no damage to house as yet, many bodies on the hillside opposite and many in the valley.\n\n## 22nd December 1941\n\nReports of landings are not improving and general situation appears to be anything but pleasant. Have tried several times to send telegram home but P.M.G. states we are unable to get messages out and that we are virtually cut off from outside world. Radio reports from home are nonsense regarding local situation and we who are on the spot are amazed at the reports which are being broadcast. Some is of course Jap origin. Fierce fighting reported at Aberdeen and Happy Valley. Cameron and Tai Hang also under full control of enemy troops.\n\nWe have lost Mount...",
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        "content_text": "-20-\n\nThe Commanding Officer MTB 11 and 7th Subdivision.\n\nFriday December 19th, 1941.\n\nAttack on Japanese landing craft in Kowloon Bay.\n\nCommanding Officer 2nd TB Flotilla.\n\n189\n\nAt 0830 all M.T.B's had been ordered alongside \"Robin\" and ammunition was topped up. We were given orders to stand by to go round into Kowloon Bay and break up an attempted landing and return when all ammunition was expended.\n\nAt 0845 07 and 09 left. V2 was standing by the telephone and at about 0900 he sent for me and told me 10 and 27 were now proceeding as far as Green Island and I was to remain by the phone for further orders from XDO.\n\nThe first order I received from XDO was to tell 10 and 27 not to wait at Green Island for orders but carry straight on into the harbour.\n\nAbout ten minutes later I was told that 11 and 12 should now proceed and wait off Green Island. 11 however had just left \"Robin\" so that 11 and 12 passed 10 and 27 almost off Magazine Island, and V2 told me to take his place as he had engine trouble.\n\nI therefore proceeded straight round Mt. Davis past the R.N. Dockyard and so into Kowloon Bay, speed 30 knots. We have no information that the Japs were on the Island and were therefore somewhat surprised when a heavy and accurate fire was opened on me from the shore by North Point.\n\nThis consisted of machine gun fire, howitzer or mortar. I started to zig-zag violently and kept well in the middle of the Bay. No landing craft were now crossing the harbour, in fact none were visible. I looked around and saw 12 was still following. I decided that we could do nothing useful so altered course to withdraw.\n\nShortly after the Japs had opened fire on me we were hit several times and my Coxswain was wounded in the neck. The S.P.O Stoker Petty Officer Stonell took over the wheel. Wheel was put hard to port and not reducing speed and I made a large turning circle in the centre of Kowloon Bay.\n\nWhen I next had a chance to turn round I could see no sign of 12. Fire was opened on us from Kowloon Peninsula as I passed the R.N. Dockyard and then inside the boat boom, being now rather close to that shore. Later, I was attacked by aircraft. I kept up a constant zig-zag however, and was not hit.\n\nOn asking my ratings if they had seen what happened to 12 they said she stopped and clouds of white smoke were issuing from her. On reaching the south side of Mt. Davis I called Mt. Davis on the lamp \"Passing to XDO no landing craft lost 12\". While doing this however, at slow speed (10 knots) I was again attacked by aircraft which dive bombed me. I had just time to accelerate and the bomb was a very near miss astern. 27 and 26 were then just off Mt. Davis awaiting orders.\n\nMTB 11 returned to Aberdeen, Coxswain went ashore walking himself up to sick bay.\n\n(signed)\n\nC.J. Collingwood,\n\nLieutenant, R.N.",
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        "content_text": "Date \n\nDistrict \n\nTime. \n\n27. \n\n12.12. \n\n41 \n\n42 \n\n16. \n\nPolice H. Q \n\n17. \n\nWater Police. \n\n18. \n\nGreen Island \n\n19. \n\nWestern. \n\nEmergency \n\n20. \n\nUnit, Hong Kong. \n\n21. \n\n22. reported to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon that all Kowloon Police, except Green Island, had been checked as safely over. \n\n10.30 A Police party under Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, and Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police with the Chief Inspector Kowloon was formed with the intention of proceeding over to Kowloon to acquire food from the Kowloon Godowns but the project was abandoned on instructions from the Defence Secretary. \n\n10.30 After waiting without result for guards to arrive for the Star Ferries to prevent crews deserting Inspector Whant, Divisional Inspector Water Police, P.S.A. 216 Wheeler and Mr. MacKenzie of the Star Ferry Company decided to proceed over to Kowloon to reconnoitre. Five European civilians insisted on accompanying them over to Kowloon, two were women - Mrs. Hollands and Mrs. Sando in A.N.S. uniform, and in spite of Inspector Whant's protest refused to leave the ferry. Approaching Kowloon about 50 Indians and a few British troops were observed firing with machine guns under Lieut Forsyte. These were taken on board and the launch left using the machine guns to cover the withdrawal. In spite of the two European ladies being made to lie flat on the deck Mrs. Hollands received a bullet wound in the abdomen. Mr. Pontig was superficially wounded in the head. \n\nOn arrival in Hong Kong orders were given by the Defence Secretary and the Harbour Master that no further trips were to be made over to Kowloon without special instructions. \n\n12.00 As a result of a warning by the Military given at about 09.00 hours the same day that a Pill Box at Aberdeen had been blown up by hand grenades thrown from two sampans special watch was maintained and at 12.00 hours Police and Military opened fire with effect on the two sampans observed proceeding towards Kennedy Town. Batteries joined in and one sampan was destroyed 12.45 L. S.A.191 Donahue, I. P. C. 607 Santa Singh and I. P. C. B. 727 Waryan Singh were detailed from 76 Belchers Street Dispersal Point, at the request of Mr. Buchanan of Messrs Marsman & Co., to clear No.9 Air Raid Tunnel at Smithfield of members of the public in order to make room for dynamite which was to be transported from Green Island. The party failed to return after carrying out this duty and it was subsequently ascertained that they had been blown up in the S.L. \"Jeannette\". (See report, entry No.30). Neither Inspector Nolloth, Divisional Inspector Western, or P. S. A. 88 Cordeaux, Officer in Charge Belchers Street Dispersal Point, had given any instructions to Sergeant Donahue to board the launch or take any part in the transport of the dynamite. It is not known definitely for what purpose the dynamite was required but it is surmised that it was to be used to create fire breaks. \n\na.m. Several calls were received during the morning for assistance to control crowds at the rice shops in the Morrison Street area. \n\nHong Kong. 14.00 Green Island. 14.00 \n\n23. \n\nEastern. \n\nHeavy shelling of the Island commenced. \n\nPolice assisted Mr. Bailey, Custodian of the Green Island Magazine to carry 400 boxes of dynamite down to the enclosure near the pier ready for removal to Hong Kong by the S. L. \"Jeannette\". \n\np.m. Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, transferred to No.2 Station to be in charge of Sub Area No.2 with Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, to continue duty as Assistant Sub Area Commander.",
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        "content_text": "Date. District.\n\nTime.\n\n46.\n\n22.12.5\n\n62\n\n22.12.1\n\n1.\n\nPolice picketed the entrances and the public were only allowed back at day break.\n\n02.00 P.S.A.185 Galvin and Police party were fired on from the direction of Eastern Street whilst returning to Oaklands Path Dispersal Point. Attempts were made to locate the culprits without success.\n\nEarly Severe shelling of the district took place all day starting at day break.\n\n07.30 Air raids continued. Police were busily engaged in dealing with looters who were still active.\n\n2. Aberdeen.\n\n3. Western.\n\n4. Gough Hill.\n\n5. Upper Levels.\n\nEmergency Unit\n\n6. Hong Kong.\n\n7. Heavy bombing and shelling continued.\n\nPolice were placed on duty at street fountains during the day to control the crowds and ensure economical use of water.\n\nAbout one dozen The Unit searched the Hong Kong Hotel. Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps officers and men, mostly Portuguese, were found and sent back to their Units.\n\nEmergency Unit 08.00 Called to Queen Victoria Street to deal with looters Hong Kong.\n\n8. Police H.Q.\n\n9. looting deserted houses and trying to break into Money-changers shops.\n\nGeneral instructions were issued to Police Water Front patrols only to put up an active resistance to enemy troops while they were attempting a landing. Once the landing was effected Police were instructed to withdraw and report to the nearest Station, leaving a portion of the patrol behind to keep observation on the movement of the enemy.\n\nUpper Levels. 11.00 Heavy shelling of Upper Levels Station and its vicinity took place. The Station received heavy damage along its frontage and slight damage was sustained to the roof. Cars in front of the Station were hit.\n\n10. Upper Levels.\n\n11. Aberdeen.\n\n12. Emergency Unit, Hong Kong.\n\n13. Gough Hill. Aberdeen.\n\nTwo shells landed in Park Road. One fell near the Police Dispersal Point but failed to explode.\n\n11.00 As the result of an air raid the Naval Dockyard was completely wrecked and set afire. All Police turned out. The main road from Aberdeen to the Naval Headquarters was under heavy shell fire with snipers operating from Brick Hill. The Police disposed of the bodies. (The Officer in Charge estimates fatal casualties from bombs and shells occurring in the Aberdeen district, including Ap Lei Chau and the harbour, to this date to have been about 275.).\n\n11.00 The Unit was engaged as stretcher bearers moving convalescent wounded soldiers into the Hong Kong Hotel.\n\n13.00 Sub Inspector Smith, the Officer in Charge, returned to the station at Nos.183 and 184 Mount Kellett Road and found it to have been badly damaged by shell fire. All the Police, including Interpreters and detectives, had deserted the station with the exception of five Weihaiwei men, namely: L.S.D.206 and P.C.Ds 148, 157, 243 and 191. The Police who had gone had left without permission and most of them reported eventually at Police Headquarters.\n\n15.45 On instructions from the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and a volunteer Police party consisting of Sub Inspector Taylor, L.S.A.79 Appleton, L.S.A.73 Haynes, L.S.A.98 Michie and L.S.A.83 MacDonald proceeded to Aberdeen in order to attempt to obtain 1000 hand grenades from the Military magazine at Shouson Hill. The Military however on the...",
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        "content_text": "Date.. 12.\n\nDistrict. Upper Levels.\n\nTime. 13.\n\nmergency Unit Hong Kong. 14.\n\nAberdeen. 15.\n\nEastern. 16.\n\nAberdeen. 17.\n\nEastern.\n\n...\n\n40.\n\n23.12.41 65\n\n12.30 A Police Reservist was murdered in Caine Road near Peel Street whilst on Street Fountain duty. 14.00 Assisted by Naval Officers the Unit searched the Butterfield & Swire building for two hours in an attempt to find a sniper who was engaged in sniping the Naval Yard and had nearly hit the Commodore. It is possible that the firing came from Bowen Road. 14.00 Three houses were gutted at Aplichau by fire. Several persons were injured by shelling directed at the fire. 14.30 Sub Inspector Scrim was wounded by a bomb splinter in Jaffe Road outside the Station whilst engaged with L.S.A.6 McVey in repairing a bus.\n\np.m. A volunteer Police party consisting of Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Sub Inspector Taylor, L.S.A.54 Hewitt and L.S.A.83 MacDonald proceeded to Aberdeen in a fast car to make a third attempt to obtain hand grenades from the Military Magazine at Shouson Hill. Information had been incorrectly given that a Military convoy could be picked up at Aberdeen but the convoy was not there and the Naval Authorities would not allow the party to proceed further than the Industrial School as it was considered too dangerous to advance without a Military escort. (See Aberdeen 00.30 to 04.00 hours on the 25th for 4th and successful attempt, Entry No.1).\n\np.m. Col. Stewart reported that some Portuguese Volunteers had abandoned the pill box at Stewart Road. He requested Police to form two water front patrols, the first from the Station to the Military post at the junction of Gap Road and Percival Street and the second from the Station to the pill box at the junction of Gloucester Road and Arsenal Street Patrol No.1 arranged on 21st December was discontinued as a result, No.2 patrol was split up as described, and No.3 patrol arranged then was maintained.\n\nOn instructions from Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, with a volunteer police party consisting of himself, P.S.A.53 Brown and L.S.A.109 Taylor, A.136 MacPherson and A.113 MacKenzie, proceeded to the Dairy Farm Cold Storage plant at the junction of Great George Street and Pennington Street near the Imperial Chemical Industries' Godowns, with the consent of the Military, and evacuated several European employees isolated there. The operation concluded without incident though Col. Stewart subsequently stated that the Police had passed a Japanese light automatic Post at East Point Terrace and were fortunate not to have drawn their fire.\n\n21.00 Called to MacDonnell Road in connection with a complaint received from the Military that sniping from Fifth Columnists was taking place in the area. After contacting the Military, the Unit searched houses in Bowen Road and MacDonnell Road without result.\n\n21.00 Further reports were received of Fifth Columnists signalling. Police carried out special patrols under the Officer in Charge without result.\n\n22.00 The enemy were rumoured to be in the vicinity of the Dairy Farm Pokfulam. Police patrols were sent to the scene to verify the report but nothing was found.\n\n18. Eastern.\n\n19.00\n\n19. Emergency Unit Hong Kong.\n\n20. Upper Levels.\n\n21. Western.",
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        "content_text": "51.\n\nStrict.\n\nTime.\n\nA\n\nreen.\n\n00.30 to 04.00 Stanley. Early morn-ing.\n\nEastern.\n\n06.00 4. Aberdeen.\n\n08.00 5. Gough Hill.\n\n6. Special Branch.\n\nSpecial Branch.\n\n1\n\n25.12.41\n\n68\n\nA volunteer Police party consisting of Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Sub Inspector Taylor, L. Ss. A.83 MacDonald, A.147 Pope, A.54 Hewitt, proceeded to Aberdeen joining a Military convoy at the University in order to make a fourth (and successful) attempt to obtain one thousand hand grenades from the Military Magazine at Shouson Hill. An armoured car was sent ahead at Aberdeen to scout and as nothing happened the main party followed ten minutes later. The hand grenades were collected and later handed over to Mr. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, at Police Headquarters, except for 36 boxes supplied to the Naval Headquarters at the Industrial School who were very short of them. The Police party assisted the few coolies, six to eight, to do the loading as the Military merely acted as guards throughout the expedition. A short burst of machine gun fire with tracer bullets was loosed off by the Japanese towards the end of the operation, hitting the embarkment on top of the Magazine. Small spasmodic sniping by the enemy was encountered on the return journey. A lorry of dead Indians was seen on the road. The Japanese were still in possession of Shouson Hill itself.\n\nIn the retreat carried out during the early hours of the morning, P.S.A. 69 Simpson and L.S.A. 13 Whitley on instructions from an Officer collected troops and with them occupied trenches below Stanley Fort on both sides of the road. They were separated during the fight which followed whilst the retreat was going on. They met again at the Fort at 19.00 hours when they left the trenches as they were full of troops by then and there was no room for all the men.\n\nA Chinese car driver knowing the exact disposition of the enemy at East Point was taken to Command Headquarters by Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and handed over to the G.S.O.I.\n\nJapanese planes tried to bomb the Motor Torpedo boats. Two shells landed in the Station compound. Police moved to the Dockyard tunnel. The Officer in Charge reports that all the ordinary A.R.P. tunnels were untenable through bad air and filth. Volunteers would no longer work in the open collecting and burying bodies. He had to arrange to dump the bodies at sea after dark.\n\nHeavy bombing, including incendiary bombs, and shelling continued.\n\nThe Special Branch removed the archives from the Japanese Consul General's office to the New Oriental Building.\n\nThe Director of the Special Branch attended a conference at Government House with regard to the living conditions of interned Japanese.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n## 61. \nStation buildings had been abused and neglected during the period of Japanese occupation. Much material and labour were required to put them right, especially the Yaumati station building where the gutters, ceilings, and other woodwork had been looted. As timber was expensive and difficult to obtain, old tunnel shorings were used. Painting was done by the Permanent Way Departmental painting gang, and by the end of the year, the station buildings at Yaumati, Shatin, and Taipo had been overhauled. Those at Fanling and Sheung Shui are now receiving attention.\n\n## 62. \nThe rehabilitation of the European Class \"A\" & \"B\" Quarters under semi-austerity conditions was carried out and supervised by Messrs. Palmer & Turner, a local firm, and was completed in August 1946. The repairs to the native Staff quarters were carried out departmentally under semi-austerity conditions. The only woodwork obtainable at the time for joists, windows, and doors will not last long and must be renewed with suitable hardwood within three years.\n\n## 63. \nTo alleviate the housing difficulty, 7 Nissen huts were erected at Hung Hom to accommodate those of the Loco Department staff who are on call duty.\n\n## 64. \nBefore the war, the maintenance of the Workshops buildings was under the control of the Chief Mechanical Engineer. Since the re-occupation of Hong Kong, this Department was called upon to rehabilitate them and take over their future maintenance. The majority of roofing sheets were found to be rotten, lead flashings were stolen, and 740 sheets of large glass were either broken or missing.\n\nFive different contracts were carried out for the repairs of the workshop buildings. 3133 sheets of roofing, 700 pieces of large glass, as well as other material were renewed. The Erecting Shop, Machine Shop, Carpenters Shop, Wagon Shed, and Running Shed were repaired. The Paint Shop still remains to be done.\n\n## 65. \nA new latrine of the pit-type was erected at Yaumati Station. It was constructed of cement concrete and brick masonry. The old latrines at out-stations were of the bucket-type and were built of steel-work which had corroded during the Japanese occupation period. The structure has been the subject of favourable comment from the Health Officers of the Colony, and with certain minor improvements, it is suggested that it be made standard for other similar erections in Hong Kong and Kowloon.\n\n## 66. \nLand. During the year, permits for land at Hung Hom Reclamation for storage purposes had been issued to the following:\n| Entity | Area (s.f.) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chinese Government Ministry of Communications | 72,739 |\n| China Vegetable Oil Co. | 55,150 |\n| C.N.R.R.A. | 74,070 |\n380,068 s.f. of land in the same locality had been occupied by the R.A.F. and Military, who had paid no rental and had not vacated by the end of the year.\n\n## 67. \nAdvertising spaces. The following spaces were let for advertising purposes:\n| Location | Area (s.f.) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Inside Kowloon Station Building | 504 |\n| Outside Kowloon Station Building | 1,294 |\n| Opposite Nathan Road | 950 |\n| Prince Edward Road Bridge | 888 |\n\n## 68. \nFrom September 1945 to June 1946, essential tools, such as beater picks and cold chisels, had not been supplied. 200 beater picks had to be ordered from a local manufacturer.\n\nThe following plant was received during the year:\n- Two Whitmore Cement Guns\n- One Holman Air-compressor\n- One Wickham Heavy duty Trolley and Trailer\n- One Wickham No. 17 Small Motor Trolley\n- One push trolley\n\n## 69. \nRobbery was prevalent during 1946. Cement weighing 1.5 tons was removed from Taipo Tunnel on 6.4.46. An unsuccessful attempt at robbery of explosives stored inside a magazine at Taipo Station was made on 14.4.46. In both cases, the robbers were armed.\n\n## 70. \nTyphoon Damage. The typhoon of 18.7.46 did considerable damage to embankments and buildings, and repairs were effected by contract. The cost amounted to $69,491.59.\n\n## 71. \nSpeed. The speed restriction over the Main Line was 25 m.p.h. as from 12th January 1946. From September 1946 onwards, there has been a progressive improvement to 35 m.p.h., except for some sections.\n\n## 72. \nH. E. the Governor, Sir Mark Young, inspected the Line and Workshops on 12.7.46.\n\n## 73. \nStaff. During the year, the post of Engineer of Way & Works was vacant, and Mr. K. L. Hu, the Assistant Engineer, acted.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41",
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        "document_key": "CO129-598-2 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 24-6-1948 - 3-3-1949",
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        "title": "CO129-598-2 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 24-6-1948 - 3-3-1949",
        "content_text": "# DIAGRAM SHOWING EASTERN PUMPING SYSTEM\n\n## Map and Legend\n\nThe diagram appears to be a map of the Hong Kong water supply system, specifically the Eastern Pumping System to Mt. Cameron.\n\n| Location        | Feature                        |\n| --------------- | ------------------------------ |\n| Jardines Lookout|                                 |\n| Middle Gap      |                                 |\n| Tai Tam Tuk     |                                 |\n| Mitchell        |                                 |\n| Upper Pump Sta. |                                 |\n| Lower Pump Sta. | Tytam                           |\n| Junior Station  | Mt. Cameron                     |\n| Wong Nei Chung  |                                 |\n| Tai Tam         | Impounding Reservoir           |\n|                 | Service Reservoir              |\n| Barker Road     | Magazine Gap                   |\n|                 | Slow Sand Filters              |\n| Peak Area       |                                 |\n| Tai Tam         | Reservoir                       |\n|                 | Gravity Filters                |\n|               | Pressure Line                  |\n|               | Filters                         |\n|               | Distribution                    |\n| Albany          |                                 |\n| Bowen Road Conduit|                                 |\n| Shouson Hill    |                                 |\n| West Point      | To West Bay                     |\n\n## Distribution Scheme\n\nThe distribution scheme includes conduits to various areas:\n\n| Area            | Distribution                    |\n| --------------- | ------------------------------ |\n| Mid Levels      |                                 |\n| Shouson Hill    |                                 |\n| West Point      | To West Bay                     |\n| Central         |                                 |\n| Kowloon         | From Kowloon                    |\n| University Area |                                 |\n| Garden Road     |                                 |\n| Elliot          | Tunnel                          |\n\n## Legend and References\n\n- `PLATE NO 5`\n- References to various locations and features, including reservoirs, pumping stations, and distribution conduits.\n\n## Other Notable Features\n\n- Aberdeen\n- Jardine's Lookout\n- Mt. Cameron\n- Tai Tam Tuk\n- Bowen Road Conduit\n- Fast Galne (likely a typo or OCR error)\n- Various other locations and features related to the water supply system.\n\nPage 123 \nJardine Kohout 2 Mon 1260 \nPlate No 5 \n75",
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        "document_key": "CO129-603-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-1-1949 - 28-12-1949",
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        "title": "CO129-603-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-1-1949 - 28-12-1949",
        "content_text": "c) \n\n5. \n\n6. \n\n7. \n\n2 \n\nMagazine, and to pay the expenses of Speech Day and Entrance Examinations. How much will be available even for Major Repairs? When it is realised that the School, in addition, has to meet other obligations, such as repayment of the principal of loans, the finding of half the cost of new furniture and equipment, and the laying aside of a sum sufficient for the re-building of the School within a foreseeable number of years, it is quite plain that a sum of £2-2-0 per child per annum, so far from giving the Managers any freedom, does not even enable them to discharge their normal obligations. Most schools also find it necessary to subsidise the salaries of their office staff, as the Code provides salaries for a typist and a bursar which are at least 50% less than any business house would pay.\n\nFurther, even if the Managers can raise from subscriptions half the cost of some desired new equipment or building, they cannot have it without the Director's approval, and the latter may be compelled by the Treasury to refuse grants for equipment and buildings which he may agree are desirable on educational grounds. It follows, then, that the Managers must either forgo the desired improvement or else find the total cost instead of half. The Anglican Schools have been, and would be, willing to take the latter course as far as possible, and thereby save Government money, but they cannot do this with the present proposed limitation on additional school charges.\n\nIn regard to the last part of this paragraph, I must again repeat that I regard it as both morally wrong and, in fact, psychologically impossible to appeal for donations to Grant-aided Secondary Schools (except for the orphan children boarders at the Diocesan Schools). What is wise and moral is that parents who can pay should pay fair fees, and that appeals for charity and donations should go for scholarships; for vernacular schools under the Subsidy Code; for Boys' and Girls' Clubs, summer camps for street children, etc. Mr. Rowell has misunderstood my use of the word 'incentive'. The incentive is: freedom to require parents who can pay to pay reasonable fees; freedom to give more than 10% free places; freedom to spend more than £2-2-0 per child per annum on making each School a school indeed, independent, characterful, and different, and not just one more unit in a centrally directed system. The Director fails to point out that the highest fees in any Anglican School (£7 per term) are not more than twice the 1941 figures. The purchasing power of the dollar is anything from 1/3 to 1/5 of its pre-war value. The number of children granted reductions and total remission of fees further disposes of the contention that poor children are debarred from entry.\n\nMy contention in London stands, and as a citizen of Hongkong, I shall not cease to strive to secure it, that in a city where normal modern taxation is not possible, fair fees should be charged to those who can pay. School Managers can then give to the poorer children more than the 10% free places allowed by the Code.\n\nThe Director has ignored the offer of an immediate cut of 10% in the Grants to Anglican Schools. This would amount to less than £10,000 per annum, but it would go a long way in increased subsidies to primary vernacular education. I was informed that it was my action in initiating workers' children's schools which \"compelled the government\" to erect two new vernacular schools this year. I propose to go on using every ounce of my strength to \"compel\" the government to increase the amount of money spent on the education of Chinese workers' children in Hongkong. One way of doing this is to reduce the grants to Grant-in-Aid Schools, and this can only be fairly done by giving freedom to the Managers who accept a reduced grant. I regret that my calculations do not agree with the Director's.\n\nIt is, in a sense, a gamble. If it is as generous as he suggests, naturally all schools would accept. But he has no right to offer us, for 'other charges', minor repairs, etc., a larger sum than would normally be necessary for this purpose.\n\nI think this point is adequately met in my comments on 2 and 4 above. But at this point, I might recapitulate why this issue is a life and death matter for Anglican Schools.\n\na)\n\nIn order to give security and reasonable salaries to teachers, the Draft Grant Code is both very generous and also very tightly regulated.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "page_number": 38,
        "title": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "content_text": "## \n38 \n\nLubes ey \n\nketor; näum from Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ...\n\nDespatched 3./4/47 \n\nNo.Qu 36/0004 \n\nX \n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs present their compliments to His Excellency and, with reference to Ministry's memorandum No.Cu 7007 of 5th April concerning the case of the soldiers of the Kwangtung Provincial Garrison Forces who were attacked by smuggling ships, have the honour to state that a detailed report has been received from the competent authorities to the following effect: \n\nOn 6th February, Lance-Corporal Kuo Keling-min, superior close soldier Yeh Ch'I-hun, 1st class soldier Tan Kai-sheng and 2nd class soldier Mu Awei-sheng, all of the 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Peace Preservation Corps at Shwachun, carrying one light machine gun, three rifles, and one rifle grenade magazine, in execution of orders received, boarded a boat to seize rice smuggling ships on the sea near Pei Shih Chou, which is within Chinese territorial waters. They met two small smuggling vessels and ordered them to stop for inspection. The small vessels disregarded the order and proceeded straight towards, and berthed alongside, a three-masted vessel which was lying at anchor. Before the boat in which Kuo Keling-min and the other soldiers were embarked had approached near to these vessels, the three-masted ship fired first with a native gun at their boat. At the same time, the two smuggling vessels turned back, closed in on and attacked the boat. As the attack was unexpected, Kuo Keling-min and Yeh Ch'1-hun were killed. Tan Kai-sheng and Mu Awei-sheng, the remaining two soldiers, together with the weapons, were captured by the three-masted vessel, which sailed into Hong Kong waters. The master of the vessel handed over the captives and weapons to the Police Station at Tsinghai, Hong Kong, and falsely accused Kuo Keling-min and the three other soldiers at the local court at Tai Po of the charge of smuggling firearms and attempted arson in Hong Kong waters. \n\nThe Ministry wish to call the attention of the Embassy to the following points: \n| Point | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | The four soldiers of the Peace Preservation Corps were under orders to carry out preventive duties and wore uniforms and badges; |\n| (2) | These soldiers were pursuing smuggling vessels owned and piloted by Chinese nationals within Chinese territorial waters; |\n| (3) | The smuggling vessel fired first, killed two Peace Corps soldiers, and captured two others. |\n\nAccording to international practice, soldiers of one country cannot be tried by the government of another country for any actions done in the course of carrying out their orders. The Chinese Government are therefore greatly surprised and cannot but regret that, according to a report, the Hong Kong Court should have passed sentence of imprisonment on the two surviving soldiers of the Peace Preservation Corps. It is accordingly requested that the Embassy negotiate by telegram for the immediate release of the detained soldiers, Kuo Keling-min and Tan Kai-sheng (not Yeh Ch'i-hun as cited in error in the Ministry's memorandum of 5th April) and for the return of all the weapons which they carried. \n\nThe",
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        "document_key": "CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951",
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        "title": "CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951",
        "content_text": "Page 10\n\n.20\n\nWe see no reason to transfer the control of the Gunpowder Depot at Green Island from the Marine Department. It is, on the whole, efficiently operated and, with the security provisions made by the Commissioner of Police, adequately protected.\n\nThere has, however, been a general lack of supervision of the movement of commercial Explosives, both on water and on land. After the permit had been granted to obtain delivery of the Explosives from Green Island Depot, little or no supervision was carried out of the transport of the Explosives in a small motor-boat through the Harbour, nor of their landing at any point along the crowded waterfront and their transfer therefrom to an Explosives' store. On arrival at the store, the receipt of the Explosives should be entered up in a stockbook, which is inspected regularly by the Police, and issues for use in blasting should similarly be set down, but it is obvious that the loopholes for evasion and illicit issue of Explosives are very great.\n\nWe recommend that the supervision of the importation, conveyance, sale, and use of Explosives should be entirely in the hands of the Commissioner of Police, and we have drawn up Regulations designed to cover not only the storage of Explosives but also their use in blasting.\n\nPending a re-siting of the Gunpowder Depot, we have recommended restrictions in the amount of Explosives and in the type of vessel on which they may be carried through the Harbour with due safety precautions. The removal permit, which will now be issued by the Commissioner of Police, will specify the place where the Explosives may be landed and by what route they may be conveyed to the licensed store. Constant supervision by the Police is essential.\n\nEven if it may not be possible to proceed at an early date with the construction of a new magazine for commercial Explosives on Fu Tau Chau, we recommend the construction of a small sub-store in the neighbourhood of Yau Tong, large enough to accommodate a week's or a fortnight's normal consumption. Transfer from the main depot to this sub-store would be made as required, under Police escort. Conveyance from this sub-store, even to the island, would not require passage through the centre of the Harbour.\n\nPage 17\n\nManufacture of Gunpowder and Fireworks\n\nThe control of the manufacture, conveyance, and sale of gunpowder and fireworks has hitherto been exercised under the Gunpowder and Fireworks Ordinance, No. 14 of 1901, and Regulations made thereunder. It has been argued that there is a conflict between these Regulations and Regulations made under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance. It seems best, therefore, to combine the Regulations under one enabling Ordinance.\n\nThe control of the manufacture of gunpowder and fireworks (as they involve the use of gunpowder) should be in the hands of the Commissioner of Police, and we have followed fairly closely the provisions of the present Ordinance and Regulations, which have proved to be adequate.\n\nThe storage (outside a factory) and sale of fireworks (shop goods), which are included under Category 7(B), Readily Combustible Substances, should, however, be under the control of the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade. Again, we have not made great changes in the present Regulations but have modified them for ease of administration. We stress again that fireworks containing a chlorate must be wholly prohibited from manufacture, landing, or storage in the Colony.\n\nPage 18",
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        "title": "CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951",
        "content_text": "19.\n\n29\n\n34.\n\nService Explosives and other Dangerous Goods\n\nThe presence of a large Service magazine on Stonecutters Island within a commercial harbour is most undesirable and we trust that serious consideration will be given in any future town planning to its removal elsewhere. We refer in this respect to Sir Patrick Abercrombie's Report, paragraph 74.\n\nWe have already commented on the practice of Naval ships taking on ammunition in the Harbour. Before the last war the conveyance, loading and unloading of Explosives in harbours of the United Kingdom were regulated by Byelaws made by the several harbour authorities and sanctioned by the Minister of Transport under the Explosives Act, 1875. In general, these Byelaws did not permit the entry into any dock areas of Explosives but required them to be dealt with at places approved by the harbour authorities outside the dock areas, and usually at anchorages. To meet war conditions in 1939, the Minister of Transport issued an Order under the Defence Regulations which permitted Explosives to be conveyed to and loaded or unloaded in dock areas, and subsequently the Ministry and the Dock and Harbour Authorities' Association negotiated an indemnity providing the various harbour authorities with financial protection against any consequences of the abrogation of their byelaws. While we do not have enclosed docks in Hong Kong, the Harbour is narrow at its central point and many buildings exist in close proximity to wharves and buoys. We consider that the Government of Hong Kong should seek a similar indemnity from the Service Authorities against all risks involved in the handling of Explosives and other Dangerous Goods for the Services within the Colony.\n\nThe Service concerned must, of course, remain fully responsible for the complete supervision and safety of all movements of Explosives and other Dangerous Goods under its control, on land and water.\n\n35.\n\nProposed Dangerous Goods Standing Committee\n\nOwing to the complexities and constantly changing circumstances of the whole subject of Dangerous Goods, we recommend the appointment of a Dangerous Goods Standing Committee whose duties would be to review, modify and keep up to date the new Regulations. While the amendment of the Regulations would, under the Ordinance, require to be made by the Governor in Council, it is hoped that the Government will act on the advice of this Standing Committee on all matters concerning Dangerous Goods.\n\nThe Committee should be competent to deal with the classification and storage, handling, packing and marking standards of local commodities, and with the problem of Dangerous Goods arriving in the Colony under trade or proprietary names.\n\nThe Committee should be a small one, meeting at regular intervals or as circumstances necessitate, and might be composed of the Director of Marine or his nominated deputy, the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade or his nominated deputy, a Government Chemist, the Commissioner of Police or his nominated representative and one representative each of godown interests, shipping interests and Dangerous Goods merchants. The suggestion to constitute this Committee is made in order to provide a medium whereby quick action can be taken on any matter of urgent importance.\n\n36.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31",
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        "document_key": "CO129-628-4 Recreation grounds- grants of land to clubs 1-8-1950 - 31-10-1951",
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        "title": "CO129-628-4 Recreation grounds- grants of land to clubs 1-8-1950 - 31-10-1951",
        "content_text": "56. With regard to the King George V Park, Kowloon and the Memorial Park on the old G.C.H. site, mindful of the fact that these grounds were organized as Memorial Parks from funds raised by public subscription prior to 1941 it is our opinion that their restoration is a public duty and should be no longer delayed.\n\n57. We view with considerable dismay the tendency shown during the last four years towards the alienation of former playgrounds for other purposes instances of which can be seen in the case of area B and the Children's Playground at Caroline Hill, and No. 2 Playground in Wantsai. We note with regret that areas O and P King's Park, recreation grounds which were taken for refugee camps prior to 1941 are still unrestored. We would draw attention to Para. 83 in Sir Patrick Abercombie's Preliminary Planning Report for Hong Kong which states:\n\n\"In no section of planning work must the short and long term policies be more closely combined than in the provision of open spaces. While a broad scheme for a park system is being considered and prepared, there must be no delay in snatching at any small play space or local park that can be preserved from being over-run by the hundred users who in a town are ever ready to grab any vacant plot.\"\n\n58. Para. 84(1) of the same report further says of small playgrounds:\n\n\"Dispersed small playgrounds: these should be proportioned to the population on a target basis of acre per thousand, but in the meantime, every opportunity for a play space should be seized—even to the extent of demolishing obsolete houses and keeping the site open for a playground. This would incidentally be the beginning of a reduction in site density.\"\n\n59. We strongly recommend that fullest consideration should be given the above and that in the case of re-entry into unrehabilitated areas in the Colony, the utmost possible regard shall be given to the necessity for provision of recreational space.\n\n60. Further, we are unanimous in recommending that:\n\n\"all areas such as the former ... and P King's Park, the Ma Tau Chung Camp area and all areas scheduled as reserved for recreation grounds and now being used for other purposes, be restored as early as possible.\"\n\n61. Our attention was drawn to the extraordinary rapid development in North Point Area where a large housing scheme for workers is envisaged. Our investigations show that so far no space has definitely been reserved for recreation in that area, and we therefore recommend that:\n\n\"Should other space not be available, consideration should be given to reserving part, or all, of North Point Camp for recreational purposes when this can be made available”.\n\n62. We are informed that a hard football pitch has recently been allocated to an Aberdeen Youth Organization situated on the new reclamation at Aberdeen. We would urge that as this reclamation develops so additional land adjacent to this pitch should be reserved for recreational purposes.\n\n63. In conclusion we have considered a small area on Magazine Gap Road which is listed in the First Schedule to Ordinance No.29 of 1936 as a Children's Playground. This playground is of a very small size and adjacent to a main road bearing very heavy traffic. We are therefore of the opinion that such is the danger to children using the playground that its use as such should be discontinued and that it should be deleted from the Schedule.\n\nIX. Concluding Remarks.\n\n64. With the exception of Chapter VIII, the substance of this Report is essentially as contained in our Second Interim Report on Grass Covered Recreation Grounds dated 14th March 1950. Our recommendations regarding the Hong Kong Football Club have been amplified by paragraphs 15-19. We have added a firm recommendation regarding the Competent Authority for 'pool' grounds. The Tabular Summary has been moved to Appendix VIII and the paragraphs which refer have been included. The same numbering for the original Appendices has been retained for ease of reference.\n\n65. We were very fortunate in having assigned to us as Secretary Mr. B. J. B. Morahan, Organizer of Physical Education in the Hong Kong Education Department. He not only ensured with unfailing competence that we were very fully and promptly supplied with all possible relevant information, but himself undertook to make a comprehensive survey of all existing recreation grounds and clubhouses. We are also deeply indebted to him for the careful assembling of a mass of complicated material, without the benefit of any extra clerical help, and for the major share he took in drafting this report from the detailed minutes which he has kept of our discussions and recommendations.\n\nARTHUR MORSE, Chairman,\n\nB. J. B. MORAHAN, Secretary,\n\nApril 24th, 1950.\n\nJ. P. FEHILY,\n\nM. S. K. MAUNSELL,\n\nT. R. ROWELL,\n\nJ. C. MCDOUALL,\n\nJ. E. RICHARDSON,\n\nA. M. RODRIGUES,\n\nA. EI ARCULLI,\n\nM. W. Lo,\n\nKWOK CHAN,\n\nTSE YU CHUEN,\n\nMembers,",
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