[ { "id": 217057, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "the Bay in fint, and being open to the Valley of [bong-hi behind ) the extent of the ground, which would suffice for all the specified purposes, and- its proximity to the Town of Victoria. \n\nWe have been led to understand that the above mentioned site is still at the disposal of Government : If it shall be found that it is already disposed of, we would beg Your Excellency to refer the an attor, to the anembers of the Land - Committee with instructions to them to select \n\nin Communication with ourselves, such other \n\nsile as m \n\n- may seem Eligible for the purposes \n\nintended. \n\nWe are \n\nYour Excellency's \n\nObedient humble Sevente \n\nSigned \n\n(Signed) Samuel Dyer. \n\n\" \n\nBenjamin Hobson. Jannes Legge \n\nW. H. Medhurst.. \n\n4. C. Milner \n\nAlexander Stromach \n\nJohn Stromach- \n\ntrue Copy. \n\nNichen Wooshani \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217058, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Inclosure I in despatch 13 of 18243. \n\nLondon Missionary Society. \n\nKelles from certain Members of the \n\nn 1288 \n\nPRO \n\nPlonial department. \n\n' \n\nMy Ne63. \n\nGentlemen. \n\nGovernment House Victoria \n\n5. \n\nHong Amy ) 21. August 1885. \n\nI am directed by Sir Henry Pottinger to acknowledge the receipt of your confount heller of the 18th Brabant detailing your views and objects, in having assembled in this Colony, and applying for a piece of land. \n\nIn reply. His cellency desires me. \n\nto inform you, \n\nthat wrider the Instructions \n\nwhich he has received from. Wer Majesty's \n\nGovernment he is precluded from granting any \n\nThe Neverend Mr. H. Medhurst \n\nвід \n\nJames Legge \n\nMore", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Since the enclosed. letter was received. I have ascertained from the Principal. of the School, whose Report has been concurred in by Mr. Modhurst, \n\nfour. Boys well. \n\nthat there are \n\nadvanced, and that two of them. \n\nproceed with mo to \n\nmay \n\nnow \n\nShanghai . _ The other two continuing. \n\nto \n\nue their Studies at school. to \n\npursue \n\nrelieve in a few month's the two who \n\naccompany \n\nme - \n\nto \n\nthe North-, a. plan- \n\nwhich appears to me- likely to prove. of great benefit eventually to the \n\nPublic Service, and involving trifling additional \n\nexpence \n\nI have to. \n\n(Signed) G. Balfour. \n\nTrue Copy) \n\na. very \n\nNichard Woornam \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220876, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 471, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Na \n\nDate \n\nTo whom \n\n| \n\nPurport \n\n60 19th Aught A. F. Gordon, Ref. Directing him to select - a Site - for a House for 4- Chinese Pilots. \n\n61 19th Augut. Lord Sattoun. Conotying sanation to an \n\nenlargement of the w Cantonments at Chet-Choo. \n\n62 19th Augh: A. T. Gjordon, hop. Convoying sanction_ to his \n\nEstimate.. for building but Houses \n\nat the fovernment House. \n\nNo Date \n\nTo whom \n\nPurport. \n\n+ 68-25 th August Lieut. Pedder, R. M. Replying to his litter \n\nHarbour Master \n\nregarding the case of distressed... British Seaman 69 26th August Vice Adm. Sir M. Parker Regarding Postage that \n\n62 d. 19th August Post Master General Regarding the refuzal_ of the at Bombay- Frenchs foment to receive (and \n\n70 26th Augt \n\nhay Postage on) some Parcels received_ to his address by the Brosland Mail.n. \n\n71 30th Augt \n\n63 21th August the Per? Meft\" \" Already transmitted _ in- Medhurst and Jigge. Despatch N. 13, of the 222 \n\nof Agust 1843. \n\n64. 21th hot . Lient: Onakterlony Replying to his letter requesting \n\nMadras Engineers to be remunerated for. a \n\nbuilt by hire and resumed - \n\nM.. \n\nMarket Plave unauthorizedly \n\nby \n\nGovernment. \n\n65 21th Augt \n\nLieut \n\nBuchterlong \n\nReferring to \n\nto N.51, of the \n\n8th Instant, ond \n\nnegativing \n\napplication_ for additional_ \n\nhis Alloréascoes. \n\n66 21th Augh Lord. Saltown Forwarding, N. 65 under a \n\n67 25th Augh \n\nflying Seal for His Lordship's perusal. and information. \n\nLord- Saltown Replying to his letter regarding \n\ncertain Timber just arrived. from Manilas, and declining to receive it for gost purposes. \n\n72 58th Arg \n\n794 6th Septe \n\nis ordered to be collected \n\non all letters raxeived by \n\nThe Bverland Mail via \n\ndorsk. \n\nBondbag, and laying \n\nthe subject. \n\nrules DL- \n\nLord - Saltown Forwarding a topy, of at \n\n69, to be applied to Her \n\nMajesty's \n\nLand Foxes. \n\nLord Saltour Firewarding \n\nhom \n\nletter the His \n\nLordship's address found \n\nPacket received from. \n\nho \n\nthe Colonial Office. \n\nLord. Sattann - Meady Minnemitted - \n\nDespatch No 16 of the \n\n12t of September, 1843. \n\nM \n\nLord. Saltown Referring to No. 65 and 66 \n\nof the 20th of August, and Explaining \n\nMore \n\nfully osby \n\nGovernment will not receive. the Timber alluded to in- those letters. \n\nto \n\n73 6. Super A. J. Horren Buf Anthorizing him li bay \n\nThe Timbers alluded to in \n\nN. 72, if as good and \n\nas can be purchased \n\ncheap sliewhere. \n\n74. 19th Septro Mica Adve? Sir W. Parker Referring to N. 31, of \n\nthe \n\nthim \n\n4 July, and informing m", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223529, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "This is for the information of the Treasury with draft despatch. Davis re\n\nLord Grey. Murchison.\n\nMay 22.\n\n414\n\nFrom\n\nsay\n\n7\n\nAcknowledged W2. Gladstone.\n\nFor J. H Davis,\n\nI am sure.\n\n1.78.\n\nReceived\n\nto a\n\nReplying as to Mr Caldwell's Salaries from the short query\n\n20th June, 1845.\n\n1657 Having\n\nE. Grey to Sir\n\n1846\n\nForwarded by Aug?\n\nMurray 25\n\nMedhurst\n\n25-\n\nEarl Grey\n\n29\n\n70. Rs June 14th\n\n28 Aug: 1846.\n\nWith reference to your\n\n437\n\nletter of 844\n\nMarch last. I\n\nam directed to transmit herewith Despatch from\n\nSir J. Davis explaining\n\nthe circumstance, under\n\nwhich Mr Caldwell drew\n\nat the same time\n\na\n\nSalary as Supernumerary\n\nInterpreter of\n\nthe Supreme\n\nCourt and\n\nInterpreter to the Police Magistrate. I am also to state the expression of Lord Grey's\n\nopinion\n\nthat under\n\nthe\n\ncircumstances stated\n\nby\n\nSir J. Davis, this charge\n\nshould be admitted in the accounts\n\nof the Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "58\n\nREPORT ON\n\npeninsula, the Kurile islands, &c.* Our free intercourse with these regions would benefit the Chinese and Coreans, as well as ourselves.\n\nIt might be thought irrelevant were I to descant further on the Anglo-Chinese policy†. In the remarks which I have made, I have been desirous of demonstrating that, in my humble opinion, the course hitherto adopted is not that which will secure a permanent peace, and a beneficial and friendly interchange of commercial resources, and of intellectual advantages.\n\nTo avoid, or at least to mitigate, the evil consequence attending a rupture between England and China, our continued occupation of Chusan seems to me the most desirable course. There are many fair and forcible reasons which would justify this occupation, and which would enable us to prove to the Chinese Government that it would be for their immediate and permanent interest and national safety, that we should remain in possession of Chusan. It is a trite remark on England, that what she gains by war she loses by diplomacy. If we abandon Chusan, the truth of the remark will be forcibly illustrated; should we quit the island in December, 1845, I have not the slightest doubt that it will be occupied by the French. This opinion is universal at Chusan, and at Ningpo, Shanghai, and Amoy, even among the Chinese themselves‡. It would be unnecessary to cite opinions on the subject. I may observe, however, that Lord Suirdale stated to me at Chusan, 7th August, 1844, that he was recently informed by two officers, of lieutenant's rank, belonging to the French frigate \"Alemène\" (which has been at anchor for many months in Chusan harbour), that it was their intention to occupy Chusan on its evacuation by the English. Lord Suirdale enquired on what plea such a step would be adopted; he was answered-- \"the Chinese Government have granted an island to England; they must also grant one to France, and this is the only island on the coast worth our acceptance and colonization.\"|| The Rev. Father Daunicourt, the French Roman Catholic priest at Chusan, admitted to me that the above intention was to be acted on.\n\nIt would be unnecessary to propound the question, would it be advantageous for England, or for China, that France had military possession of Chusan: I say military, because she has no trade on this coast, and is not likely ever to have any worth the occupation of an island like Chusan, for mere commercial purposes.* A brief remark on another point appears necessary. It has been supposed by some that the Chinese empire is on the eve of dissolution, and that any foreign aggression, or pressure from without, would cause a rebellion and anarchy throughout the whole country. China is a decaying nation is evident to those who attentively examine its present condition and past history. We see no new intellect, no improvement in anything: in the military art, or in nautical affairs, the skill of past ages is not exercised; and the people point with pride to monumental or triumphal arches (as at Ningpo), bronze castings, sculptures and carvings, which they are at present unable to execute. Although abounding in authors and literature, no work has been written on the Anglo-Chinese war-nothing in fact was composed or appeared from the numerous printing offices of China, but the lives of two or three generals who had committed suicide or were killed in action. Wealth, individual and national, is diminishing, and the influence of Government (at least of the executive Government) decaying. In these opinions, the Rev. Mr. Medhurst, Dr. Gutzlaff, Mr. Lay, Mr. Thom, and other Chinese scholars agree. But although the mass of the Chinese people are either stagnant or retrograding, there does not appear any ground for supposing that the complete and final overthrow of the Tartar Government would cause general disorder, plunder and anarchy, in China. It is impossible to examine the economy and police of a Chinese city and not perceive how carefully life and property are preserved by their \"watch and ward” system, and to admit that if left to themselves, and not obliged to flee in terror to save their lives from a foreign \"barbarian,\" how fully adequate the Chinese themselves are to the maintenance of the municipalities that exist in each city in China. The idea, therefore, that the Chinese empire is likely to fall, and to be destroyed, if England persevered in seeking a freer intercourse with the people, is, I think, untenable; that the Tartar authority might in time be shaken, or put aside, is not altogether improbable, but that would not affect the mass of the nation, except perhaps beneficially, by giving them an impetus and vivification which they have long required.\n\nThe French plenipotentiary has obtained from the Chinese Government authority for any of the French ships of war to enter, refit, and visit any port in China; I think there is also an understanding that a French merchant-vessel may enter any port in China for recruitment. It is specially provided that if China and England be at war, or France and England, the ports of China are at all times to be opened to French vessels as friendly ships.\n\nOne of the best-informed men in China corroborated fully my views that democracy and despotism are co-existent in China, although the whole executive Government at Pekin is cast in an iron mould,-one mode of doing anything,-one thought stereotyped. This makes the Chinese automatons: a Government man dare not move or think for himself, but must do as he is taught; so also his speech and behaviour. The study of ceremonial is the most important duty of life. Centralization is the leading principle of the Government. Anything like a military power in China would end in the destruction of the Government; lawless armed bands would spring up, and raise the military above the literary. The law is therefore the great weapon of Government, and the most powerful instrument of revenge, malice, and hatred in the people. Women, when they dislike their husbands...\n\n59\n\nCHUSAN.\n\nThat ...\n\n* The Americans are now proceeding to the northward of 32°, and we have thus thrown the trade in the hands of our rivals on this coast.\n\n† Among our other errors, we did not even think of stipulating for a revision of our treaty after ten or fifteen years this was obtained by the Americans; we did not require immunity for our Christian servants and followers; for authority to erect places of Christian worship, or to form cemeteries. These points were granted to the French and to the Americans, almost as soon as asked; and the Emperor has finally acceded to the wish of the French plenipotentiary, and granted perfect toleration for Christianity. Such thoughts never seem to have entered the mind of the British plenipotentiary.\n\nOn this important point I obtained much additional information, which I communicated to Her Majesty's Government on several occasions,\n\nThe same observation was made by Monsieur Lagréné, the French Minister to the Court of China,\n\n...\n\n434", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 226145, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-022 - Public Offices - 1847", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-022 - Public Offices - 1847", "content_text": "The highest seats of honour were assigned to us, and on that and other occasions, a full acquiescence was expressed in the benevolence of the Missionary work.\n\nI venture to submit this topic to your Lordship's consideration from the knowledge that in some of the cities visited Missionaries have gained a considerable and a rapidly increasing moral influence. I need not point out to your Lordship how important this influence with the intelligent portion of the Chinese may prove to British interests at this important crisis of national intercourse, and therefore how expedient it is that the most cordial relation should exist between the Consular authorities and the Missionaries.\n\n19th. I beg to explain to what extent the Consul is bound to verify or correct the statements of the latter.\n\nI have the honour to remain,\n\nMy Lord\n\n15 Feby.\n\nW. H. Medhurst\n\nSee the accompanying Enclosure.\n\n15 Feby.\n\nre: preceding\n\nLegge sent bundle last year for\n\nAberdeen in\n\nThe Amer\n\nD\n\nYou have the\n\nAmerican\n\nhands. Quote\n\nAll that is contained in\n\nmaps of\n\nmore than\n\ncensus being wanted in\n\neach the Status\n\nYour Lordship's\n\nMost obedient humble Servant\n\nGeorge F. Maclean", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-022 - Public Offices - 1847.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231394, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "content_text": "REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nReturn of the Number and Description of Chinese Vessels-continued.\n\nSAIWAN and SHOWKEWAN.\n\nTOTAL.\n\n \n Description of Boat\n No. of Boats\n Males\n Fem.\n No. of Children\n \n \n Junks\n 4\n 2\n \n 13\n \n \n Trading Boats\n 4\n 10\n \n 97\n 71\n 549\n \n \n Passage Boats\n 3\n 17\n 102\n \n 3\n 51\n 651\n \n \n Salt Boats\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stone Boats\n 3\n \n 7\n 65\n \n \n \n \n \n Fishing Boats\n 78\n 34\n 23\n 18\n 194\n 1,287\n 624\n \n \n Cargo Boats\n 20\n 112\n 60\n 9\n 40\n 6\n \n \n \n Wood Boats\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fast Boats and Hakows\n 3\n \n 122\n 363\n 181\n 174\n \n \n \n Cooking Boats\n 5\n 9\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sampans*\n 8\n 15\n 41\n 854\n 2,075\n 1,079\n 782\n 480\n \n \n Lorchas\n 4\n \n 41\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Water Boats\n 3\n \n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total\n \n 140\n 39\n 31\n 22\n 18\n 54\n \n \n \n 1,361\n 5,409\n 2,081\n 1,772\n 1,117\n \n \n \n\n* Upwards of 200 employed in fishing.\n\n(Signed)\n\nCHARLES MAY,\n\nOfficiating Registrar-General.\n\n(True Copy,)\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 723\n\nRETURN of the average Number of Prisoners confined in Victoria Gaol during every Day of each Month of the Year 1850.\n\n \n Months\n Europeans\n Chinese and Coloured Prisoners\n Total\n Number of Deaths\n \n \n January\n 24\n 140\n \n \n \n \n February\n 26\n 131\n \n \n \n \n March\n 25\n 155\n \n \n \n \n April\n 14\n 87\n \n \n \n \n May\n 17\n 112\n \n \n \n \n June\n 17\n 122\n \n \n \n \n July\n 19\n 110\n \n \n \n \n August\n 26\n 119\n 3\n \n \n \n September\n 25\n 165\n \n \n \n \n October\n 19\n 145\n \n \n \n \n November\n 17\n 138\n \n \n \n \n December\n 13\n 144\n \n \n \n \n Total\n 242\n 1,567\n 1,809\n 8\n \n \n Average Number in each Month\n 150\n \n 8\n \n \n \n Mortality\n 5.33 per cent.\n \n \n \n \n\nRemarks.\n\nOne Indian died of dysentery.\n\nOne Chinese died of dysentery.\n\nOne Indian died of suppuration of lungs.\n\nOne Chinese died of cholera.\n\nOne Chinese died of congestion of lungs. One Chinese died of natural causes.\n\nOne Chinese died of hospital gangrene. One Chinese died of dysentery.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. H. MITCHELL, Sheriff.\n\n(True Copy,)\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure 8 in No.\n\nMEMORANDUM showing the Number of Deaths which have occurred in the Garrison of Hong Kong during the Year ended 31st December, 1850.\n\n \n PERIOD\n Description\n Average Strength during the Year\n Number of Deaths during the Year\n Proportion of Deaths to average Strength\n \n \n Quarter ending 31st March\n Europeans\n 710\n 22\n \n \n \n \n Malays and Natives of India\n 412\n 2\n \n \n \n Quarter ending 30th June\n Europeans\n 694\n 19\n \n \n \n \n Malays and Natives of India\n 608\n 84\n \n \n \n Quarter ending 30th September\n Europeans\n 499\n 30\n \n \n \n \n Malays and Natives of India\n 625\n 144\n 23.04\n \n \n Quarter ending 31st December\n Europeans\n 422\n 15\n \n \n \n \n Malays and Natives of India\n 410\n 7\n \n \n \n \n \n 392\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n 409\n 41\n 10.02\n \n \n \n Europeans\n 1,034\n 185\n 17.89\n \n\nSIR,\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\nEnclosure 9 in No.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, April 5, 1851.\n\nWe have the honour to reply to your letter of 1st April 1851, by the following Report on the Government Chinese schools for the past year.\n\n2. The average number of scholars under instruction has been 93; 30 at Victoria, 18 at Stanley, 20 at Aberdeen, and 25 at Wongneichoong.\n\n3. The teacher at Aberdeen having been dismissed for gross misconduct was replaced by another, with whose success in the instruction of his pupils we have reason to be satisfied. The teacher appointed to the school at Wongneichoong, opened during the year, is an elderly man, a native of the village, a schoolmaster by profession, and a Christian convert. He had for many years taught in that neighbourhood, and was recommended by the villagers themselves as a fit person.\n\n4. The system pursued in the Victoria school not meeting with our approbation, Mr. Moncrieff proposed to the teacher to remove to St. Paul's College and there receive instruction, as well in the arts of teaching generally as in the truths of the Christian religion. The offer was accepted, and the school served for the time by a teacher from the establishment of the College. After a fair trial, however, it was considered improbable that the original teacher would soon be able to conduct the school in a mode of which we could approve, and as the Bishop of Victoria had a vacancy for a teacher in the College, and kindly agreed to take this man permanently into connexion with him, we thought it better that his relation to the Government should cease, and that the teacher who supplied his place should be continued in charge of the school. We regret that in consequence of this change the number of scholars decreased for a time. The former teacher received the 10 dollars a-month only in aid of his school, which before any Government assistance was granted consisted of more than 30 scholars, but the present teacher stood upon a different footing. Latterly the number has again increased, and it now corresponds with that which by the effect of the Government grant was added to the original school.\n\n5. The teachers of the four schools are now, therefore, all nominees of the Government, not receiving, as far as we are aware, any compensation from their pupils, and they are all professed Christians.\n\n6. Christian books have been introduced into all the schools, but it is not compulsory on the scholars to learn them. If the parents object, the course of study is confined to native reading.\n\n7. The following are the principal books now used:\n\nNative Works.\n\nThe three character Classic.\n\nThe one thousand character Classic. The four books and five Classics.\n\nChristian Works.\n\nMedhurst's three character Classic. Bishop Boone's Catechism. The Bible.\n\n8. The progress of the scholars has been, on the whole, tolerably satisfactory; we hope, however, by a more effectual supervision, and by the introduction of a few elementary works on various branches of useful knowledge, as soon as Chinese literature shall have been enriched by these, to work some improvement. The great distance of three, or at least two, of the four schools, coupled with our imperfect knowledge of the language, renders the supervision difficult and unsatisfactory. We can, however, only suggest one remedy that lies beyond ourselves, and this is, that the school Committee should be remodelled, and that to the Bishop of Victoria should be accorded the entire superintendence of the schools, or at least a joint superintendence.\n\n9. The most serious impediment to progress is the fluctuation of the scholars in each school, owing to the caprice, but principally to the avarice or the necessities of the parents, who are unwilling to allow children to remain at school who may be employed elsewhere, with a, to them, more tangible prospect of pecuniary gain, for the importance attached by Chinese to the acquisition of knowledge, though great, is, we fear, secondary to that attached to the acquisition of money.\n\nWe are, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. B. HILLIER,\n\nE. T. R. MONCRIEFF, LL.D.,\n\nCommittee for superintending Chinese Schools.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nBrigade Office, Hong Kong, 6th April, 1851.\n\n(True Copy,)\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nA. E. BURMESTER, Captain,\n\nBrigade Major.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231422, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "content_text": "4. The curriculum encompasses all the schools, but it is not compulsory for the scholars to learn all subjects. If the parents object, the course of study is confined to native reading.\n\n7. The following are the principal books used:\n\nNative Works:\n\nThe Three Character Classic,\n\nThe One Thousand Character Classic,\n\nThe Four Books and Five Classics.\n\nChristian Works:\n\nMedhurst's Three Character Classic,\n\nBishop Boone's catechism,\n\nThe Bible.\n\n8. The progress of the scholars has been, on the whole, tolerably satisfactory; however, by a more rigorous approach to work, some improvement can be expected.\n\nThe great distance of three or at least two of the schools, coupled with our ineffective knowledge of the language, renders supervision difficult and unsatisfactory. We can, however, only suggest that which lies beyond ourselves; and that is that the School Committee should be remodelled, and that to the Bishop of Victoria should be accorded the entire superintendence of the schools, or at least a joint superintendence.\n\nThe most serious impediment to progress is the fluctuation of the scholars in each school, owing principally to the avarice of the parents, who, unwilling to forego the immediate pecuniary gain from their children's employment, hope to remain at school. Effective supervision and the introduction of a few elementary works on various branches of useful knowledge are needed. As soon as Chinese literature shall have been sufficiently mastered to allow children to be employed elsewhere with a tangible prospect of pecuniary gain, the importance attached by Chinese to the acquisition of knowledge, though great, will be put to the test.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233414, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "content_text": "12 \n\nby the Bishop of Victoria. A report by Mr Midhurst, one of the members, on the progress of these institutions, is herewith appended.\n\nTrade.\n\n15. By the Harbour Master's Return, at page 193 of the Blue Book, it will be seen that the total number of vessels which arrived in the colony during the past year was 1097, of an aggregate burthen of 433,385 Tons, which, compared with 1851, shows an increase of 15 vessels and 56,299 Tons.\n\n7\n\n313\n\nThe Returns following the above, at page 197, prove that 74 vessels imported and 79 exported goods to and from the Colony.\n\np.11. 16. This Return shows that Treasure to the value of $6,074,845, or £1,265,592.14.2 has been remitted to India during the past year by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamers. A large amount of Specie, chiefly in return for the Opium which is brought thence, and sold to the Chinese along the Coast; the quantity of this drug imported by the same vessels is also shown.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233450, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "content_text": "354\n\nhas already had, he tells me, a very good effect. During the past year 1 scholar from the Victoria school and 4 from that at Wongneichoong have been admitted into St. Paul's College school, making with those taken into that institution during past years a total of 11 boys who have been thus privileged: one of these has been lately elected to a Government scholarship.\n\nThat much is yet required to make the schools real instruments of good is, I believe, the unanimous opinion of the Committee; but, apart from the suggestion above made, I cannot, in the absence of the gentlemen with whom I am associated, venture upon any more important recommendations with a view to their improvement.\n\nThe Government's grant appears to be well appreciated by the natives of the different villages; I conceive no measure is better calculated to conciliate and give them confidence, and every effort should therefore be given towards placing the schools upon the most efficient footing possible.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed) W. H. Medhurst.\n\nA member of the Committee for supervision of Government schools,\n\n(Fine Copy)\n\nMana Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234680, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "135\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nWHEREAS the interests of the Public Service require the temporary absence from this Colony of His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., it is hereby notified that the Superintendency of Trade will be removed until further notice to the Port of Shanghae, to which all communications must for the present be addressed. Such communications if sent to the Government Offices to the care of J. Hyndman, Esq., will be forwarded to their destination. By Order,\n\nSuperintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th May, 1854.\n\nW. H. MEDHURST, Officiating Secretary to H. M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe Subjoined Message from Her Majesty The QUEEN to both Houses of Parliament, together with two Supplements to the London Gazette, are hereby published for general information.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th May, 1854.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nMessage from the Queen to both Houses of Parliament, March 27, 1854.\n\nVICTORIA REGINA,\n\nHER Majesty thinks it proper to acquaint the House of Lords that the negotiations in which Her Majesty, in concert with her allies, has for some time past been engaged, with His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, have terminated, and that Her Majesty feels bound to afford active assistance to her ally the Sultan against unprovoked aggression.\n\nLords\n\nHer Majesty has given directions for laying before the House of Commons copies of such papers, in addition to those already communicated to Parliament, as will afford the fullest information with regard to the subject of these negotiations. It is a consolation to Her Majesty to reflect that no endeavours have been wanting on her part to preserve to her subjects the blessings of peace.\n\nHer Majesty's just expectations have been disappointed, and Her Majesty relies with confidence on the zeal and devotion of her faithful Commons:\n\nHouse of Lords and on the exertions of her brave and loyal subjects, to support her in her determination to employ the power and resources of the nation for protecting the dominions of the Sultan against the encroachments of Russia.\n\nTUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1854.\n\nDECLARATION.\n\nV. R.\n\nIt is with deep regret that Her Majesty announces the failure of Her anxious and protracted endeavours to preserve for Her People and for Europe the blessings of peace.\n\nThe unprovoked aggression of the Emperor of Russia against the Sublime Porte has been persisted in with such disregard of consequences, that after the rejection by the Emperor of Russia of terms which the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, and the King of Prussia, as well as Her Majesty, considered just and equitable, Her Majesty is compelled by a sense of what is due to the honour of Her Crown, to the interests of Her People, and to the independence of the States of Europe, to come forward in defence of an Ally whose territory is invaded, and whose dignity and independence are assailed.\n\nHer Majesty, in justification of the course she is about to pursue, refers to the transactions in which Her Majesty has been engaged.\n\nThe Emperor of Russia had some cause of complaint against the Sultan with reference to the settlement, which His Highness had sanctioned, of the conflicting claims of the Greek and Latin Churches to a portion of the Holy Places of Jerusalem and its neighbourhood. To the complaint of the Emperor of Russia on this head, justice was done; and Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople had the satisfaction of promoting an arrangement to which no exception was taken by the Russian Government.\n\nBut while the Russian Government repeatedly assured the Government of Her Majesty that the Mission of Prince Menchikoff to Constantinople was exclusively directed to the settlement of the question of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, Prince Menchikoff himself pressed upon the Porte other demands of a far more serious and important character, the nature of which he in the first instance endeavoured, as far as possible, to conceal from Her Majesty's Ambassador. And these demands, thus studiously concealed, affected not the privileges of the Greek Church at Jerusalem, but the position of many millions of Turkish subjects in their relations to their Sovereign the Sultan.\n\nThese demands were rejected by the spontaneous decision of the Sublime Porte. Two assurances had been given to Her Majesty; one, that the Mission of Prince Menchikoff only regarded the Holy Places; the other, that his Mission would be of a conciliatory character.\n\nIn both respects Her Majesty's just expectations were disappointed.\n\n136\n\nDemands were made which, in the opinion of the Sultan, extended to the substitution of the Emperor of Russia's authority for his own, over a large portion of his subjects; and those demands were enforced by a threat: and when Her Majesty learnt that, on announcing the termination of his Mission, Prince Menchikoff declared that the refusal of his demands would impose upon the Imperial Government the necessity of seeking a guarantee by its own power, Her Majesty thought proper that Her Fleet should leave Malta, and, in co-operation with that of His Majesty the Emperor of the French, take up its station in the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles.\n\nSo long as the negotiation bore an amicable character Her Majesty refrained from any demonstration of force. But when, in addition to the assemblage of large military forces on the frontier of Turkey, the Ambassador of Russia intimated that serious consequences would ensue from the refusal of the Sultan to comply with unwarrantable demands, Her Majesty deemed it right, in conjunction with the Emperor of the French, to give an unquestionable proof of Her determination to support the Sovereign rights of the Sultan.\n\nThe Russian Government has maintained that the determination of the Emperor to occupy the Principalities was taken in consequence of the advance of the Fleets of England and France. But the menace of invasion of the Turkish territory was conveyed in Count Nesselrode's Note to Rechid Pacha, of the May, and re-stated in his Despatch to Baron Brunnow, of the ... which announced the determination of the Emperor of Russia to order his troops to occupy the Principalities, if the Porte did not within a week comply with the demands of Russia.\n\nThe Despatch to Her Majesty's Ambassador, at Constantinople, authorizing him in certain specified contingencies to send for the British Fleet, was dated the 31st May, and the order sent direct from England to Her Majesty's Admiral to proceed to the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles, was dated the 2nd of June.\n\nThe determination to occupy the Principalities was therefore taken before the orders for the advance of the combined squadrons were given.\n\nThe Sultan's Minister was informed that unless he signed within a week, and without the change of a word, the Note proposed to the Porte by Prince Menchikoff on the eve of his departure from Constantinople, the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia would be occupied by Russian Troops. The Sultan could not accede to so insulting a demand; but when the actual occupation of the Principalities took place, the Sultan did not, as he might have done in the exercise of his undoubted right, declare war, but addressed a Protest to his Allies.\n\nHer Majesty, in conjunction with the Sovereigns of Austria, France, and Prussia, has made various attempts to meet any just demands of the Emperor of Russia without affecting the dignity and independence of the Sultan; and had it been the sole object of Russia to obtain security for the enjoyment by the Christian subjects of the Porte of their privileges and immunities, she would have found it in the offers that have been made by the Sultan. But as that security was not offered in the shape of a special and separate stipulation with Russia, it was rejected. Twice has this offer been made by the Sultan, and recommended by the Four Powers, once by a note originally prepared at Vienna, and subsequently modified by the Porte, once by the proposal of bases of negotiation agreed upon at Constantinople on the 31st of December, and approved at Vienna on the 13th of January, as offering to the two parties the means of arriving at an understanding in a becoming and honourable manner.\n\nIt is thus manifest that a right for Russia to interfere in the ordinary relations of Turkish subjects to their Sovereign, and not the happiness of Christian communities in Turkey, was the object sought for by the Russian Government; to such a demand the Sultan would not submit, and His Highness, in self-defence, declared war upon Russia, but Her Majesty nevertheless, in conjunction with Her Allies, has not ceased her endeavours to restore peace between the contending parties.\n\nThe time has however now arrived when the advice and remonstrances of the Four Powers having proved wholly ineffectual, and the military preparations of Russia becoming daily more extended, it is but too obvious that the Emperor of Russia has entered upon a course of policy which, if unchecked, must lead to the destruction of the Ottoman Empire.\n\nIn this conjuncture, Her Majesty feels called upon by regard for an Ally, the integrity and independence of whose empire have been recognized as essential to the peace of Europe, by the sympathies of Her people with right against wrong, by a desire to avert from Her dominions most injurious consequences, and to save Europe from the preponderance of a Power which has violated the faith of Treaties, and defies the opinion of the civilized world, to take up arms in conjunction with the Emperor of the French for the defence of the Sultan.\n\nHer Majesty is persuaded that in so acting she will have the cordial support of Her people; and that the pretext of zeal for the Christian religion will be used in vain to cover an aggression undertaken in disregard of its holy precepts, and of its pure and beneficent spirit.\n\nHer Majesty humbly trusts that Her efforts may be successful, and that, by the blessing of Providence, peace may be re-established on safe and solid foundations.\n\nWestminster, March 28, 1854.\n\nDECLARATION.\n\nHER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having been compelled to take up arms in support of an Ally, is desirous of rendering the war as little onerous as possible to the Powers with whom she remains at peace.\n\nTo preserve the commerce of neutrals from all unnecessary obstruction, Her Majesty is willing, for the present, to waive a part of the belligerent rights appertaining to Her by the law of nations.\n\nIt is impossible for Her Majesty to forego the exercise of her right of seizing articles contraband of war, and of preventing neutrals from bearing the enemy's despatches, and she must maintain the...\n\n89", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234763, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "His Excellency Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, is pleased the Year ending 31st December 1852, be published for general information.\n\nSuperintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th December, 1853.\n\nW. H. MEDHURST, Officiating Secretary to H. M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., &c. direct that the annexed RETURNS of British TRADE at the PORT OF SHANGHAE during\n\nBy Order,\n\nDIRECT TRADE IN BRITISH VESSELS FROM AND TO GREAT BRITAIN AND BRITISH COLONIES. No. II. ABSTRACT OF RETURN No. I. PORT OF SHANGHAE, ENTERED.\n\nCOUNTRIES WHENCE ARRIVED\nTOTAL NO. OF VESSELS\nTOTAL TONNAGE\nTOTAL NO. OF CREW\nTOTAL VALUE OF CARGOES\n\nGreat Britain\n21\n9,459\n417\n849,606\n\nColonies\n31\n11,282\n1,109\n93,417\n\nTOTAL\n52\n20,741\n1,526\n943,023\n\nCOUNTRIES TO WHICH DEPARTED\nTOTAL NO. OF VESSELS\nTOTAL TONNAGE\nTOTAL NO. OF CREW\nTOTAL VALUE OF CARGOES\n\nGreat Britain\n43\n19,361\n1,678\n1,677,014\n\nColonies\n31\n8,882\n862\n416,960\n\nTOTAL\n74\n28,243\n2,540\n2,093,974\n\nINDIRECT OR CARRYING TRADE IN BRITISH VESSELS FROM AND TO OTHER COUNTRIES.\n\nCOUNTRIES WHENCE ARRIVED\nTOTAL NO. OF VESSELS\nTOTAL TONNAGE\nTOTAL NO. OF CREW\nTOTAL VALUE OF CARGOES\n\nChina, 5 Ports\n33\n8,767\n558\n...\n\nSingapore\n12\n4,807\n247\n...\n\nIndia\n1\n414\n21\n...\n\nNew York\n1\n541\n...\n93,857\n\nCalifornia\n...\n...\n...\n...\n\nMacassar\n1\n172\n11\n...\n\nManila\n1\n290\n...\n...\n\nTOTAL\n61\n18,646\n1,020\n1,104,882\n\nCOUNTRIES TO WHICH DEPARTED\nTOTAL NO. OF VESSELS\nTOTAL TONNAGE\nTOTAL NO. OF CREW\nTOTAL VALUE OF CARGOES\n\nChina, 5 Ports\n14\n6,235\n261\n...\n\nSingapore\n1\n433\n...\n...\n\nManila\n1\n756\n...\n...\n\nSouth Sea Islands\n3\n3,506\n342\n...\n\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n\nTOTAL\n62\n34,383\n2,303\n2,141,845\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,—Consul.\n\nNo. III. RETURN of the Quantities and Value of MERCHANDIZE IMPORTED into the PORT OF SHANGHAE, in 104 British Vessels of 36,761 Tons, from the Countries and Places undermentioned, during the Year ending 31st December, 1852.\n\nNo. IN TARIFF\nDENOMINATION OF ARTICLES\nQUANTITIES\nFROM WHAT COUNTRIES AND PLACES IMPORTED\nVALUE IN STERLING AT 5/ EXCHANGE\n\n1\nManufactures of Cotton\n...\n...\n...\n\n...\nLongcloths, Grey\n1,207,477 Pieces\nLondon, Liverpool and Hongkong\n633,975\n\n...\nWhite\n196,523\n...\n108,187\n\n...\nPrinted Cottons\n19,095\n...\n9,547\n\n...\nDrills\n8,900\n...\n35\n\n...\nFancy\n...\n...\n6,675\n\n...\nVelvets\n...\n...\n...\n\n...\nHandkerchiefs\n2,217 Dozen\n...\n554\n\n2\nManufactures of Wool\n...\n...\n...\n\n...\nBroad Cloths, &c.\n80,995 Chang\n...\n70,870\n\n...\nLong Ells\n52,869\n...\n15,104\n\n...\nCutlets\n65,170\n...\n23,250\n\n...\nBombazettes\n800 Pieces\nLiverpool, Canton, and Hongkong\n...\n\n...\nInferior Woollens\n...\n...\n4,200\n\n£1,104,882\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,—Consul.\n\nNo. IV. RETURN of the Quantities and Value of MERCHANDIZE EXPORTED from SHANGHAE, in 101 British Vessels of 34,383 Tons, to the undermentioned Places, during the Year ending 31st December, 1852.\n\nNo. IN TARIFF\nDENOMINATION OF ARTICLES\nQUANTITIES\nTO WHAT COUNTRIES EXPORTED\nVALUE IN STERLING AT 5/ EXCHANGE\n\n38\nNankeens\n46 Piculs\n...\n...\n\n...\nSilk, Raw\n16,913 Bales\nGreat Britain, North America\n1,268,475\n\n...\nSilk Piece Goods\n56 Cases\n...\n...\n\n35\nTeas\n22,960,933 Lbs.\nGreat Britain, North America, New York, Sydney, Hongkong, and Canton\n61,035\n\n...\nWool\n186 Bales\nLondon and Liverpool\n...\n\n...\nHemp\n650 Piculs\n...\n...\n\n...\nChinaware\n864\n...\n4,320\n\n...\nBrassware\n566\n...\n...\n\n...\nMiscellaneous\n...\n...\n990\n\n£2,141,845\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,—Consul.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "content_text": "Admiralty\n\nAGEN\n\nV\n\nLaw Officers\n\nForen\n\n\" who discovered it some two hundred years since.\" \n\nTrue Loves\n\n(signed) to Amudhurst_\n\n \n\n4\n\nCopy\n\nLiri\n\nJn2187/54\n\n70\n\nMr. S. Stemmen Frigato Sanguebainig\n\nHong Kong Decr. 23. 1855.\n\nReferring to the Conversation which I had the honor of holding yesterday, I had the honor of holding with you, as also to your communications with accompanying papers this morning received,\n\n7\n\nthey are remarks that the account given by Herrlumipsow is far from being correct.\n\nThat gentleman has omitted to name all the white persons who\n\nJ. Bonham\n\nEmbarked", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235430, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "content_text": "105\n\n: John Bowring inclosing copies of his correspondence with the Bishop of Hong Kong upon the above subject, and of a report which Mr Medhurst and M. S[illegible: likely \"Sirr\" or \"Sitten\"] , in pursuance of instructions from Sir John Bowring, have drawn up respecting St Paul's College, and the benefit likely to be derived to the Public Service by the Government Grant.\n\nAir George Grey will perceive by this report that Mr Medhurst and ... Sitten(?) are of opinion that it is impracticable to provide, by means of this College, a sufficient number of European Linguists to supply the place of Native Chinese Linguists now employed in the various Government Establishments in China.\n\nAs regards, however, the education of Native Linguists, Messrs Medhurst and Sitten(?) consider that St Paul's College might afford the greatest assistance to the Public service, though hitherto from want of sufficient ...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and assuming \"Sitten\" is a likely OCR error for a name like \"Sirr\", and correcting other minor errors:\n\n105\n\n: John Bowring inclosing copies of his correspondence with the Bishop of Hong Kong upon the above subject, and of a report which Mr Medhurst and M. Sitten, in pursuance of instructions from Sir John Browring, have drawn up respecting St Paul's college, and the benefit likely to be derived to the Public Service by the Government Grant.\n\nAir George Grey will perceive by this report that Mr Medhurst and Sitten are of opinion that it is impracticable to provide, by means of this College, a sufficient number of European Linguists to supply the place of Native Chinese Linguists now employed in the various Government Establishments in China.\n\nAs regards, however, the education of Native Linguists, Messrs Medhurst and Sitten consider that St Paul's college might afford the greatest assistance to the Public service, though hitherto from want of sufficient...\n\nLet's correct and reformat according to the rules:\n\n105\n\n: John Bowring inclosing copies of his correspondence with the Bishop of Hong Kong upon the above subject, and of a report which Mr Medhurst and M. 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Sitten, in pursuance of instructions from Sir John Browring, have drawn up respecting St Paul's College, and the benefit likely to be derived to the Public Service by the Government Grant.\n\nSir George Grey will perceive by this report that Mr Medhurst and Sitten are of opinion that it is impracticable to provide, by means of this College, a sufficient number of European Linguists to supply the place of Native Chinese Linguists now employed in the various Government Establishments in China.\n\nAs regards, however, the education of Native Linguists, Messrs Medhurst and Sitten consider that St Paul's College might afford the greatest assistance to the Public service, though hitherto from want of sufficient...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235431, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "content_text": "AGEN\n\nLaw Officers\n\nFore\n\n?\n\n: sufficient Patronage from Government :such a result has not been obtained.\n\nremedy\n\nThe Report points out, as a remedy for this defect, the establishment of scholarships with the promise of future Government appointments to such of the Scholars as may be duly qualified.\n\nThe education of Native Chinese for such Appointments, however, would necessitate the Establishment of training Schools for native Masters, and with this view Messrs Medhurst and Gillier thoroughly urge upon Her Majesty's Government the creation at St Paul's college of a sufficient number of Scholarships, or apprentice Teacherships, open to free competition, with an adequate amount of remuneration to ensure these scholars remaining in the college until their education is sufficiently advanced to admit of their being employed in the Public Service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235432, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "content_text": "107\n\nLaw Officers\n\nFore\n\nPublic service.\n\nIn order to\n\ncarry out the Ran...\n\nto carry in this Report suggested in this\n\nadditional outlay\n\non the part of\n\nGovernment would become necessary; and I am to request\n\n1. that you will acquaint Sir George\n\nGrey that Lord Clarendon is disposed to agree in the recommendation\n\nof Messrs Medhurst and Williams,\n\nand if Sir George Grey concurs in\n\nthis view of the case, and is\n\nof opinion\n\nthat it would be expedient\n\nto apply to the Treasury for a further\n\nGrant, His Lordship would\n\nrecommend that the\n\nexisting grant\n\nshould also be devoted to the\n\nobject proposed; instead of being\n\nclogged with the condition respecting\n\nthe education of Europeans\n\nnow attaching to it.\n\nSir George Grey\n\nwill doubtless observe that advantage\n\nhas", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "content_text": "Mr Mercier reform the writer that Mr Mr. Michell has telle confined in the \n\nIf the arrsonants filling the Office having been made Megh G. Grips Prodcefor.\n\n28 Rey Jay well\n\nGAZETTE SUPPLEMENT\n\nTO\n\nThe China Mail, No. 485.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nHONGKONG, 1ST JUNE, 1854.\n\n(From the Hongkong Government Gazette.) PROCLAMATION.\n\nWHEREAS I, John Bowring, Knight, LL.D., Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral of the same, Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, have been officially informed that War has been declared between Her Britannic Majesty and the Emperor of all the Russias, I do hereby announce to all Her Majesty's Subjects that,—\n\n1. The Ports, Waters, and Territories within the Jurisdiction of His Majesty the Emperor of China, are to be considered as entitled to the Protection which by the Law of Nations is accorded to Neutrals; and that all Invasion of such Ports, Waters, or Territories, in the pursuit of the Persons or Property of any of the Subjects of the Belligerent Powers, is to be deemed a violation of International Law, and will be punished accordingly.\n\n2. That Arms, Munitions, or Contraband of War intended for the use of the Enemy, will be liable to Seizure and Confiscation wherever found.\n\n3. That the Property of Belligerents in Neutral Vessels, such vessels not being in Neutral Harbours, is liable to seizure.\n\n4. That all Commercial dealings, all negotiations of Bills of Exchange or transactions for lending aid or furnishing Supplies or communicating Information or in any other way forwarding the objects of Her Majesty's Enemies are strictly prohibited and will subject the offending parties to the rigors of the Law.\n\n5. That all Vessels conveying Public Despatches or Official information to the Enemy are liable to forfeiture.\n\n6. That all persons engaged in Fitting out or otherwise expediting the Equipment of Vessels of War, with a view to act under any pretended Letters of Marque or other Authority from the Emperor of Russia, and all persons in any way engaged in working or navigating such vessels of War, excepting only bona-fide Russian Subjects, will be treated as Pirates.\n\nAnd I hereby call upon all Subjects of Her Majesty to whom these presents may come to lend their Aid and Co-operation to Her Majesty's Government.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 25th day of May, 1854.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\nDiplomatic Department. WHEREAS the interests of the Public Service require the temporary absence from this Colony of His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., it is hereby notified that the Superintendency of Trade will be removed until further notice to the Port of Shanghae, to which all Communications must for the present be addressed. Such Communications, if sent to the Government Offices to the care of J. HYNDMAN, Esq., will be forwarded to their destination.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. H. MEDHURST, Officiating Secretary to H.M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th May, 1854.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nBy His Excellency Sir John Bowring, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China,\n\nWHEREAS the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, conveyed through His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming Ordinance No. 3 of 1853, entitled An Ordinance to extend the duties of Chinese Tepos appointed under Ordinance No. 13 of 1844, to determine their Emoluments, and to provide for the amicable settlement of Civil Suits among the Chinese Population of Hongkong; and likewise Ordinance No. 4 of 1853, entitled An Ordinance to amend Ordinances Nos. 11 of 1844 and 5 of 1845, and to improve the Regulations for the Sale of Spirituous Liquors by Chinese and the Regulations for the Retail and Preparation of Opium :-- Now therefore it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 22d day of May, 1854.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nHis Excellency Sir John Bowring, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, on the occasion of the Birthday of Her Most Gracious Majesty, is pleased, in the name and on the behalf of the Queen, to grant a Free Pardon to Retum, Saleemen, Cong-ah-foong, and Jose Alvares, at present confined in the Gaol of this Colony.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN,\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 24th day of May, 1854.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nDuring the absence of the Honorable W. T. MERCER, Esquire, the duties of Colonial Secretary and Auditor-General will be performed by The Honorable C. B. HILLIER, Esquire.\n\nBy Order,\n\nC. B. HILLIER, Officiating Colonial Secretary.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency The Governor and Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to appoint Mr E. R. MITCHELL to be Harbour Master, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government.\n\nBy Order,\n\nC. B. HILLIER, Officiating Colonial Secretary.\n\n269\n\n7.7488754\n\nza:\n\nOf\n\nh ster", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235778, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4]", "content_text": "Hong Kong.\n\nAccount of Robert Hooper received, and paid on account of the Colony of Her Majesty's Government.\n\n(Preliminary Balance brought down on 12 January, 1854)\n\nLand Revenue\n- Receipts -\n\nExclusive of Land.\n\nLicenses.\n\nTaxes.\n\nFines Forfeitures & Fees of Courts- Fees of offices.\n\nSale of Government Property - Reimbursements in aid of Revenue.\n\nMiscellaneous (Receipts)- Special Receipts.\n\nYear from 1st January to 31st December 1854. Colonial Treasurer in respect of all Monies Diplomatic and Consular Services in China during 1854.\nSalaries.\n\nFixed.\n\nProvisional.\n\nTemporary\n\nTotal.\n\nEstablishments - 22348 14/04\n\n#54\n\n \n 11.825\n 10\n 3/2\n \n \n 12\n 10\n 651\n \n \n 6823\n 7\n 7\n \n \n 2.2.75\n 10\n 10\n \n \n 5401\n 2\n 67\n \n \n 4327\n 0\n 9\n \n \n 2,038\n 11\n \n \n \n 241\n 13\n 4\n \n \n 2.517\n \n \n \n \n 25\n 14\n 24\n \n \n Total Colonial Revenue —\n 27.033\n 17\n 57 1/2\n \n\nParliamentary Grants—\n\nfor Superintendency of Trade and Consular services in China for 1853/54.\n\n1854/55.\n\nColonial Services — 1853/54.\n\n \n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n V/ 0,0 0 0\n \n \n \n \n 3,200\n \n \n \n\nAdvance Received from the Honble East India Company.\n\nDeposits available\n\nDeposits not available.\n\nPensions retired Allowances and Gratuities Revenue Services. Exclusive of Establishments-\n\nAdministration.\n\nof Justice\n\nCharitable allowances.\n\nEducation\n\nHospitals\n\nRent\n\nPolice and Gaols\n\nTransport\n\nConveyance of Mails\n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\nRoads streets and Bridges-\n\nMiscellaneous services.\n\nSpecial Services\n\nTotal Colonial Expenditure\n\n \n 202\n \n \n \n \n S\n \n \n \n \n 19313\n \n \n \n \n 7,333\n 3\n \n \n \n 1.081\n 13\n \n \n \n 225\n \n \n \n \n 127\n \n \n \n \n 1748\n \n \n \n \n 4,580\n 5\n \n \n \n 6485\n \n \n \n \n 32,318\n 12\n \n \n\nPurchase of Land or Houses-\n\nCavendar services.\n\nSuperintendency of Trade.\n\n \n 7.840\n 14\n 0%\n \n \n 14167\n 2\n 1\n \n \n 22.007\n 16\n 14\n \n\nDeposits available.\n\nAdvance on account of the Honble East India Company.\n\nDeposits not available.\n\n \n 16200\n \n \n \n \n 5.257\n \n \n \n \n 864\n \n \n \n \n 514\n 8\n \n \n \n 1777\n 15\n 1\n \n \n Legb\n \n \n \n \n 1987\n \n \n \n \n 1.2.90\n 8\n \n \n \n 10.\n \n \n \n \n 7347\n 2\n 13\n \n\nI, Robert Riccacci, do Solemnly and sincerely declare that the foregoing Account of Receipts and Disbursements is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.\n\nDeclared and Subscribed before me this\n\n(Signed) W.SC. Medhurst.\n\nJJ.\n\nBalance on hand on the 31st December, 1854-111151\n\nI declare that the foregoing Account is true and correct. I conscientiously believe the same to be correct.\n\n(Signed) R. Riccacci.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236462, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "content_text": "in the knowledge of the Mandarin dialect, or whom your Lordship is able to recommend as promising candidate for public employ. Should there be any whom your Lordship deemed qualified to be submitted to examination, I would appoint two gentlemen to report on their progress for the information of the Secretary of State.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI have, &c. John Bowring.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nCopy\n\nNo. 8352\n\n55.\n\n319\n\nSt. Paul's College, Hong Kong\n\nJune 16th, 1835\n\nIn reply to Your Excellency's letter of the 11th Instant I have to state that I cannot report to you favourably of any immediate prospect of Chinese Interpreters being available for Her Majesty's Government that would satisfy the high place which Government appears to expect.\n\nYours Excellency,\n\nOn the 13th of September last the Revd. B. Hallier, W. H. Medhurst, Esq., were deputed by your Excellency to visit, examine and report upon the state of education in our College;\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir John Bowring, LL.D.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236482, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "content_text": "We have &c. (Signed) W. H. Medhurst - \n\n# \n\n(True Copy) \n\nMamont \nColonial Secretary \n\n\n\n493 \n1) \n8354. Hong Kong. \nMiscellaneous. \n\nRECEIVED \nSER 6 1855 \n\nMy Lord, \n\nColonial Offices, Hongkong, 25th June, 1855. \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on the 28th ultimo, of the following despatches bearing the signature of Sir George Grey - \n| No. | Date | Description |\n|----|------------|--------------------------------------------------|\n| 4 | | Letter |\n| 5 | 25th April | |\n| | 1855 | |\n| | Circular | |\n| A1 | 2nd May | Despatch from your Lordship |\n| | 1855 | |\n\nThe Right Honorable \nLord John Russell, M.P., \n&c. \n&c. \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236613, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "content_text": "M. Sticht\n\nBoord\n\nTrace who with I inajen\n\nbestle Treign Office har var dout the Gree Accy official copy of the Treaty with\n\nJapan\n\ndraft Msout\n\nBangkong\n\nNEW SERIES.\n\nTHE\n\n91\n\nGovernment\n\nGAZETTE.\n\nVICTORIA, SATURDAY, 4TH AUGUST, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nVOL. I. No 5.\n\nThe Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that\n\n\"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE\"\n\nwill, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nNo. 15.\n\nTHOMAS FRANCIS WADE, Esquire, having been appointed to act as Chinese Secretary in this Department, pending reference to Her Majesty's Government; His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary has been pleased to appoint Mr MARTIN CROFTON MORRISON, Interpreter in the British Consulate at Canton, to act as Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at that Port until further notice.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th July, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nTREATY WITH JAPAN. NOTICE.\n\nA Treaty having recently been concluded between Her Majesty and the Emperor of Japan, whereby the latter agrees to open the Japanese ports of Nagasaki and Hakodadi to British ships for the purposes of effecting repairs, and obtaining fresh water, provisions, and other supplies of any sort that they may absolutely require, provided that they are furnished with a given Stamp License...\n\nThe following Notification has been circulated by Her Majesty's Consul at Foochowfoo, on the subject of a piratical fleet cruising on the Chinese Coast in the Fookeen province, and is now published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. WOODGATE.\n\nSuperintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d August, 1855.\n\nCopy No. 70.\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE, FOOCHOW FOO, 11th July, 1855.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\n \n ...\n Certificates of Registry in the form determined by Her Majesty's Government will be exchanged for existing Certificates, on application to this Office.\n \n \n Commander BARNARD, R. N., commanding H. M. S. Racehorse, having advised H. M.'s Consul that a formidable fleet of West Coast Pirate-Junks, numbering 35 vessels, and powerfully manned and armed, is cruising among the groups of Islands between this and Amoy...\n ...\n \n\nW. H. MEDHURST.\n\n(Signed,)\n\nTo\n\nBRITISH CONSIGNEES AND MASTERS\n\nOF VESSELS,\n\nTrue Copy,\n\nW. WOODGATE.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNo. 14.\n\nWanted a Passage to Singapore for Thirteen Chinese Convicts.\n\nTenders will be received at this Office.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th July, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nUnder Instructions from The Secretary of State for the Colonies His Excellency The Governor directs the publication of the following letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trade to the Board of Customs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st July, 1855.\n\nNo. 79-1855.\n\nOFFICE OF COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE,\n\nMARINE DEPARTMENT, 25th May, 1855.\n\nSIR,\n\nVarious communications having been made to my Lords concerning the inconvenience sustained with respect to Ships registered in the British Possessions abroad...\n\nPage 91\n\n...\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240814, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "No. 29. -JULY 15, 1856.]\n\ndoubt of that he can attend at the Chinese chapel of the London Missionary Society and have his doubt removed. As to the lucre derived by Dr. Legge, we suppose it does not amount to the pay of a raw boy of a second or third clerk in the Superintendency or a Consulate. There must be some high principle which keeps such men as Dr. Medhurst and Dr. Legge from following the example of the Gutzlaffs and the Parkers, and that principle must be a principle superior to the mammon principle.\n\n\"but rather seek\n\nOur own good from ourselves, and from our own\n\nLive to ourselves,\"\n\nThe knowledge of Chinese has not gained Dr. Legge much money, but that, and his bearing as a Missionary, Minister, and Man has gained him the respect and esteem of every one whose respect and esteem is worth having.\n\nWe understand that the Acting Surveyor General, Captain Cowper, R. E. is now actively engaged in illustrating the truth of the report of the Praya Commission that subjects are not to put faith in the words of Governors or Surveyors General. A case of nuisance came on the other day supported by the whole power of the office. After three days enquiry there was such a doubtful nuisance established, that the offender was fined ONE DOLLAR, The whole matter, we are informed, is of that nature that it is clearly seen that Captain Cowper is totally unfitted to fill the office of a Civil Engineer. If any one\n\nPage 253\n\nCaptain Cowper's letter to the Colonial Secretary\n\nOffice of the Surveyor General,\n\nVictoria Hong Kong,\n\n16 May, 1855.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to report for His Excellency's information that having frequently visited and inspected the Chinese locations and burying Ground South of Staunton Street and The Police Station at Treacherous Point and having done so more particularly during the last few days I find nothing surprising in the fever afflicting that neighbourhood except that it is not so virulent and extended in its action as might have been reasonably anticipated.\n\nThe Ground is on the surface covered with filth and at an average depth of two feet below the bodies of Chinese putrefy and infect the air. The Stream running down the centre of the Valley is tainted both by the surface filth and exhalations of putrid carcases.\n\nAlong the side of and over the stream itself, numerous huts of squatters nevertheless exist when the water reaches Hollywood Head charged although it be with poison it is taken in pails by the Chinese for domestic purposes.\n\nI solicit His Excellency's earnest attention to these matters.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "380\n\nMakes it impossible for\n\nto do Amore.\n\nThe Commission which\n\nI nominated to inquire into\n\nour Educational System has produced results - One\n\nof its Members is dead (Mr. Hillier)-another (Mr. Medhurst) has left the Colony and is now in Europe:\n\nand Mr. Wade (the only Member left) informs me that enquiries on various points on which no Report has been made_but Mr. Wade's time is so occupied with the peremptory duties of his Secretaryship and with the claims which the public services and \"sacrifices that it is impossible he should complete the work - we must therefore, get on as well as we can through these times of perplexity and resume the general subject at a more opportune moment.\n\nI have the honor to be, with the highest respect, Sir,\n\nYour Most obedient, Humble servant,\n\nJohn Bennet\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "confidence to a satisfactory futurity. 10. Whatever remains to be done for this amelioration of the public health, and there is much required - the small average mortality of the Colony is the best answer to those who are constantly demanding more than we are able to concede.\n\nI have had great satisfaction in receiving late frequent testimonies to the great superiority in the salubrity and general appearance of the portions of our Colony inhabited by the native population, as compared or contrasted with similar localities such as the towns and cities of British India or other Oriental regions.\n\n11. I am as ever dissatisfied with the state of public education in the Colony. The Commission I nominated never made any report and lent no assistance whatever in this great work. W. Milne was removed first to Siam, and then from this world's cares. Mr. Medhurst was shifted to Foochow. Milne has been absolutely overwhelmed with his own duties (and has been rendering habitually great and gratuitous assistance to the Colonial department). To confess the truth, I have wholly failed in discovering any really efficient...\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "if the necessity for \n\na new Treaty were to arise, it may be doubtful whether it would be expedient to stipulate for any such \" Instrument for a cession \n\nof Territory. Parties might consider the distinction \n\ninvidious one if a stipulation to this effect were inserted in \n\nthe English Treaty with China and not in the French one & might seek to remove it by preferring \n\nsimilar claim. \n\nThe least objectionable mode of acquiring the Kowloon Peninsula would probably be to accept it in part payment of the indemnity \n\nwhich \n\nwe \n\nare about to \n\ndemand from the Chinese Govt, & I shall be glad to know whether Mr Medhurst approves of my making such an arrangement if I should find it to be practicable to do so. \n\nHave \n\nthe honour to be \n\nYour \n\nObedient \n\nAgent \n\n* Kincardine \n\nPage 180\n\nMiscellaneous \n\nOffices.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251477, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "481 \n\nMr Meadows determining that he could no longer allow the assistant of the Consulate to act as agent for the Post Office, which post had been filled by that officer for many years with the sanction of the Home Government at a salary of £150 paid from the Imperial postal revenue was accordingly made. A temporary arrangement was made with the agent of the Peninsular and Oriental Company at Shanghai to carry the duties of the Office, and I am endeavoring to make a permanent arrangement through the assistance of Admiral Sir James Hope, by which the postal business of the Port will be conducted by the master in charge of the Receiving ship stationed there, at no greater expense than that sanctioned by the Post Master General.\n\nIf, however, I should be unable to make the services of this officer available, the only alternative will be again to employ one of the Assistants in the Consulate - but this, as will be seen from Consul Medhurst's letter enclosed, will involve an expenditure in salaries of £400 a year, while but £150 is sanctioned by the Imperial Government to be charged against the Imperial Postal revenue for this service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251486, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 496, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "## 9.\n\n**Excellency**\n\nIt has occurred to us that perhaps the Municipal Council of Shanghae might feel disposed to undertake the management of Local Port Office, receiving the expense of such an establishment, an amount equivalent to that hitherto incurred on account of the Packet Agency, say £250 per annum; such an arrangement might perhaps be made available for sorting the mails and the advantages of the security of our postal systems, might probably be combined with greater promptitude in delivery than hitherto been possible.\n\n## 10.\n\nPending the receipt of a reply, a temporary arrangement has been made with the Agent of the T. I. O. Co. to receive and distribute such mails as may be sent to him from this Office, Hongkong, and also to despatch such mail matter as may be handed to him for that purpose, but as the Agent of the T. I. O. Co. declines to keep any Post Office accounts, all Letters for Shanghae must be prepaid at this Office, and such as are not prepaid, and Registered Letters, must be forwarded to Shanghae from Hongkong, and it will be seen that the present temporary measure is of considerably less advantage to the Shanghae community than any of the plans herein suggested.\n\n(signed) J. W. Mitchell \nAding Postmaster General \n\nW. N. Medhurst Esqre \nH. B. M's Consul \nShanghaes.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 503, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "# \n497 \n\nDis \n\n**General Post Office, Hongkong.** \n\n23 May 1861. \n\nI do myself the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 144 dated the 18th instant, and to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency the Governor for the suggestions it contains for the establishment of the Port Office Agency at your establishment; however temporary arrangements have been made by which the Emergency has been met subject for the present. The matter remains under consideration and I will again communicate with you.\n\nI have, &c., \n(signed) J. M. Mitchell, \nActing Postmaster General. \nW. N. Medhurst Esq., \nH. M. Consul, \nChanghae.\n\n**British Consulate, Shanghai, July 3rd 1861**\n\nReferring to my letter of the 18th March addressed to you on the subject of the Packet Agency for this Port, I beg to acquaint you, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, that Mr. Bruce has signified his approval of that letter and the arrangements proposed therein.\n\nI have, &c., \n(signed) W. H. Medhurst.\n\nJ. M. Mitchell Esq., \nActing Postmaster General, \nHongkong.\n\nTo be true copies.\n\n**P. A. G. [illegible]**\nFor Circular...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "# No 382.\n\nMe konsul Medhurst, to Colonial Secretary \n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | | 77 |\n\nSir,\n\n**British Consulate** \nShanghae September 21st 1861.\n\nI beg to lay before His Excellency The Governor the accompanying copies of a correspondence I have had with the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, relative to the establishment of a Packet Agency here, regarding which His Excellency did me the honor of consulting me during his recent short stay at this Port.\n\n**[Received by]** \nSir Hercules Robinson \nKongtorp, 8 Oct 1861. \nTo \nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\n## No 182.\n\n| Received | Respecting the establishment of a Packet agency | To |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | | George Baker |\n\nShanghai, and reporting appointment of Packet Agent at that Port.\n\nI have the honor to be, \n(Signed) \nM. H. Medhurst, \nThe Honorable H. M's Consul.\n\nM. J. Mercer, Cooper \nColonial Secretary.\n\n**True copy** \nPolish Secretary.\n\nPage 180 \nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## No 324.\n\n**Mr. Medhurst to Mr. Antrobus**\n\n**Sin**\n\n**British Consulate**\n\n178\n\n**Shanghai 7th September 1861**\n\nIn a conversation I had with Sir Hercules Robinson a few days ago during the hurried visits he made at this Port on the subject of a Post Office for Shanghai, he informed me that if the Community would provide suitable accommodation for a Clerk and his office, and find one for a Port Office, he would undertake on his part as Governor to place and to salary such Clerk on the establishment.\n\nTo R. C. Antrobus, Esq., \nChairman to the Chamber of Commerce.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Mr. Antrobus to Mr. Medhurst \n\n179 \n\n**(Copy)**\n\nOn account of the Colonial Government he authorized me to sound the Chamber of Commerce as to their opinion of the mode of getting over the existing difficulty. I shall be glad to know your or those of the chamber on the subject.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, \nYour obedient servant, \nM. Middleton.\n\n**British Chamber of Commerce:** \nShanghae, 9th September, 1861 \n\nAt a meeting of the Committee of the Chamber on the 7th instant, I had the pleasure of laying before it your dispatch No. 344 of the same date conveying to the Chamber the substance of a conversation which you had had with Sir Hercules Robinson on the subject of the establishment of a Post Office at this port under the management of a clerk from the Hong Kong Post Office, the Government of the Colony undertaking to salary the clerk if...\n\nM. H. Medhurst, Esq., \nH. M. Consul, \nShanghae.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251737, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Colonial Secretary & Mr Medhurst,\n\n181\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo 765\n\nIt is understood that the power of supervision which the Colonial Government confer upon Her Majesty's Consul here would be but a limited one and the real Control would thus remain in the hand of a Subordinate Clerk of the Hong Kong Post Office to this Chamber and it feels - certain the whole community also would much prefer the rate of 16... M. Consulate.\n\nI have been...\n\n(Signed) R.C. Antrobus,\nChairman.\n\nP.S. All Members of the Committee were present except Mr. Whitall.\n\n(This copy) (Signed) M. Middleton\n\n(Another copy)\n\nM... Jolonial Secretary\n\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n1st October, 1861.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No 382 of 21st ultimo forwarding Copies of Correspondence had with the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at Your Port relative to the establishment of a Packet Agency at Shanghae.\n\nIn reply I am directed to observe that the Chamber of Commerce appear...\n\nM. H. Medhurst, Esqre,\nH. M. Consul,\nShanghae", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Colonial Secretary to Mr. Medhurst\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong**\n2nd October, 1861.\n\nSir,\n\nI had the honor to acknowledge yesterday your letter M882 of 20th ultime, and to convey to you for communication to the Shanghai Community the decision of His Excellency The Governor on the subject of the Shanghai Packet Agency.\n\nIn continuation of that letter, I have now the honor to announce that you, Mr Geo: Baber has been selected to proceed.\n\nW. H. Medhurst Esq \nH. M. Consul \nShanghae.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254316, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 419, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "# \n\nI therefore beg to give my application that the Government will recognise these notes and be received in payment of Government dues.\n\n(Signed) \n**Walter Medhurst** \nArranger.\n\nColonal Secretary's Office, \nHongkong, 17th September, 1862.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date requesting that Notes of the Chartered Mercantile Bank may be recognised by this Government.\n\nIn reply, His Excellency the Acting Governor desires to state to you that pending a reference to Her Majesty's Government...\n\n(Signed) \nWalter Orniston, Esqre., \nManager of the Chartered Mercantile Bank.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254462, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12]", "content_text": "92\n\nin October last year, but finding matters still in a state of obstruction I thought it advisable to send up Mr. Mitchell the Post-Master General to communicate in person with the Cinout and the Chamber, and explain what might have occasioned a prolonged correspondence without perhaps a satisfactory settlement in the End.\n\nMr. Mitchell accordingly left Hangthong in the 4th August, furnished with a letter to Mr Consul Medhurst (Copy enclosed).\n\n3. You will see by the enclosed letter that the municipal Council of Shanghai had agreed to grant the sum of $2,500 for one year towards the Packet Agency at that Port. This Municipal Council is a Body without Statues or Authority, and I presume had no legal power to make any permanent arrangement, and I have therefore decided to be satisfied with the promised subsidy for one year.\n\nI have on Mr. Mitchell's recommendation appointed Mr. D. Inglis Assistant Packet agent at Shanghai. He returned on the 23rd August and reported in the enclosed Communication the success of his mission.\n\nNo official communication was received from Shanghai till the 10th instant when Mr. Mitchell reported that Mr. Inglis had been allowed a Salary of £250 and I have to request Your Grace's sanction of this measure.\n\nI have the honor to be\nMy Lord Duke,\nYour Grace's Most obedient Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255476, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "## Consular Establishment at the Port of Amoy\n\nI proceeded with the Consul to that destination, on the opening of the Port in the same year, and, under every reasonable expectation that Sir Henry Pottinger's provisional appointment would have been confirmed by the Foreign Office, I applied myself diligently to the study of the Chinese language, and made such progress in it, that I was named by the Consul officially to the Superintendant of Trade for the office of Interpreter, for which, to use the words of his despatch, I \"showed myself qualified within very few months more\".\n\n186\n\nIt was not to be, however. After a lapse of several months devoted to an unproductive study at my own expense (for there were no indentured Interpreterships in those days), I found myself superseded in favor of the late Mr. Frederick Harvey of the Treasury.\n\nI thus entered the service and entered upon the study of the language, contemporaneous with my friends Mr. Harry Parkes, Dr. Medhurst, and Sir. Guel, and others, whose acquisition of it at that early day promoted the public interests. If I was displaced in the sense, and my career in life diverted...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "content_text": "22\n\nI\n\n14.\n\nOn the latter point I have had conversations with General Staveley, who is of opinion that the Chinese Government would purchase them, but I have grave doubts of the power of that Government to pay for them, if they reached any considerable quantity, for I am informed by Mr. Medhurst, Consul at Shanghae, that even at that port, where the Customs Revenue is enormous, the Government are unable to meet their liabilities.\n\nIt is partly the object of the present despatch, which is likewise intended to place before your Grace a narrative of our present position with reference to the \"Proclamation of February 28th\".\n\nI have the honour to be My Lord Lake, Your Grace's,\n\nMost Obedient Servant,\n\nMemorandum\n\n15.\n\nI should therefore be glad to receive your Grace's instructions on this head, and to ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256456, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "content_text": "1862.\n\nBrought forwards 477\n\nAugust 20th Attending Court informing Registrar that I appeared\n\nSimilar attendance on his Pollard.\n\nAttending hur Pollard on his applying to me for copy of affidavits and papers\n\nFair Copy for him - folios 86 @ $0.23\n\nAttending burr Pollard therewith.\n\nAttending Registrar lodging affidavit and papers with him.\n\nSeptember. Attending on Judge with his Pollard on rule when he postponed hearing till after vacation\n\nNovember. Wir Owen having visited Petting\n\n21. Attending him in consultation on his informing me of the view of His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson (formerly Sir Hercules Bruce) on the Case.\n\n25 Paid his Owen's fee thereon\n\nRetainer to his Owen\n\nConsultation with his Owen with a view to its approaching argument | $20\n\nCarried forward $228.75\n\nNovember. Fee to counsel on consultation.\n\nFee on hearing rule for Grand Court's long argument when court refused to give The respondent costs. | $200\n\nFee to his Owen on Argument. | $150\n\nLong letter to His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson (formerly Sir Hercules Bruce) informing him of the result\n\nSimilar letter to his Medhurst (True Copy)\n\n(Signed) John Markham, Vice Consul.\n\n(True Copy)\n\n(Signed) W. H. Rennie, Auditor General\n\n(The Copies)\n\n$007.75\n\nMalexander\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nPage 2\n\nBrought forward $228.75\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 267224, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "content_text": "The first letter gives details of the scheme, and the second offers a reward of 200 Taels for restoration of the second letter, on hearing that the first had been intercepted.\n\nI enclose a statement drawn up by A. D. R. Bidwell to whom the letters were originally brought.\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\n167\n\n\"300 men in iron Armour to proceed along by the sea and seize and slay??\n\nThe original documents, prepared by whomsoever, were exceedingly well executed and at first puzzled W. H. Medhurst and his advisers when subsequently shown to them by Mr. Meadows, the Vice-Consul.\n\nAs there was an uneasy feeling explaining the supposed accidental circumstance by which the first letter miscarried and came into his possession.\n\nThe attack, originally fixed for the 23rd ultimo, was certainly extremely original in its conception and no doubt would have been eminently successful if the European Community had been content to remain quiescent and allow amongst the Chinese at the time, a feeling which I believe not unfrequently arises and passes off with equal rapidity its appearance and disappearance.\n\nAnd as several rumours of a severe attempt to fire the town - a scheme never utterly impossible, I did not think it prudent to allow the town...\n\nPage 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269882, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6]", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6]", "content_text": "General has movcidably fallen into a series of anticipated.\n\nsuch as might have been\n\nThus he states, that in December last he had transmitted: a valuation of Fletcher's lots and assets it to be \"an undoubted fact that a clear and distinct \"plan of the proposed enlargement of the \"Military Cantonments\n\n... agreed to and \"signed by the Surveyor General in 1865, who in conjunction with Mr Medhurst drew up \"a valuation of Fletcher's Buildings for the \"express purpose of rendering the property for \"sale to the War Department.\n\n16.\n\nThe unsafe nature of any argument built solely on a man's estimate of the extent of another man's information from any enclosure.\n\nvide Enclosure 95\n\nThe subject is well exemplified by the fact that there are more errors direct and indirect than lines in the above paragraph, whilst each of them is fatal to the justification attempted by the General.\n\n11.\n\nIt is clearly incorrect to state that any information however ample and complete of intended dealings with Fletcher's lots could amount to \"a clear and distinct \"plan of the proposed enlargement of the Military Cantonments, because (as the excluded plan shows) that \"proposed enlargement comprehended a much more extensive scheme for including other Colonial property, viz: beyond the Harbor. In point of fact the acquisition of Fletcher's lots is but a small part of the plan. The proposed line of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273012, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 570, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "## LOBSCHEID\n\nAim, the mark or target 把, 打把的, 紅心, 正鵠, 射把; object, 意思, 大意, 大志; scheme, 謀計, 謀; to take aim, 描準, 描正, 描中; to learn to take aim, 學描頭, 學準頭; to have taken a good aim, 好描頭; to be elever at aiming, 好眼法, 好眼界; to miss one's aim, 打不中; to fail in one's object, 不得已意, 唔謀得成; to aim at a mark, 描把, 打把, 描準; to point at, 指向; to attempt to obtain, 求得; to aim at gain, 圖利; to aim at one's destruction, 敗人名節, 立意損害, 陰毒害人; to aim at in conversation, 暗指; to aim at much, 求多; to talk without aim, 三言四語; to aim at excelling, 求勝, 不肯輸人, 唔分輸; to aim high, 凌志, 在凌人; to aim at by improper means, 求僥倖\n\n## MEDHURST\n\nAim, the mark at which a person shoots ; the object of pursuit, ; intention, design, 謀\n\nAim, trust not, at much, .\n\n## MORRISON\n\n## CHALMERS\n\nAim, [the latter character is wrong; the word together conveys no meaning.]\n\nIt would be difficult for Mr. Mayers to show me a single dictionary published without any pronunciation of one of the Chinese dialects. The dictionaries of Morrison, Medhurst, and Williams are as much Mandarin colloquial as mine and are yet published with the pronunciation of that dialect. Medhurst's so-called Hokien dictionary is no more Fokien than Williams' Canton Vocabulary is Mandarin, and yet nobody has ever attacked him on that ground; hence people must conclude that there is only one man in China who understands what he says about Chinese affairs, and with him wisdom is surely to die.\n\nThe supposed difficulty of distinguishing between the two pronunciations is only imaginary. Every person knows that each character is followed by two different pronunciations, of which the Punti is the first and the Mandarin the second. Unless you have the two pronunciations printed with two different characters (which would have increased the labour enormously), a full stop was the best mark that could be used, and only a person who is determined to detract from the value of the work can possibly raise any objection to so simple and practical a distinction.\n\n## next\n\nAs to the renderings of the various religious denominations, Mr. Mayers must know that when the Chinese shall have studied Church history and made themselves acquainted with what an Englishman understands under orthodox and what a Russian or Italian means by the same term, that then shorter definitions can be substituted for the present renderings; whilst now they would be as unintelligible as Greek or Italian. If men acquainted with the Chinese language cannot distinguish between Mandarin colloquial and Mandarin pronunciation, as Mr. Mayers, people will not wonder at the ease with which a reviewer as the present can misguide the public as to the character of a work. His remark on the Justice of Peace is a specimen of that kind. If in a prefecture you ask: \"Who is the Police Magistrate?\" the answer will be: ; if you ask; \"Who is the Judge of Summary Jurisdiction?\" you will hear that it is the same functionary; ask: \"Who is the Treasurer?\" and you will be referred to the same person, who besides unites a dozen more appointments under the one title. The most ridiculous thing is, that the heads of the various departments in Hongkong, as the Registrar General, the Superintendent of Police, &c., are all called and call themselves . The same is applicable to the assistants in the Consular offices, who all, however young and unexperienced, pass under the venerable title, . [Is that in accordance with the Treaty?] These distinctions are now as inseparably attached to those appointments as the same term is to a man who exercises his powers over several millions of people. The office of Justice of the Peace cannot be defined by an equivalent in any Chinese term. We must look for men who have at times duties to perform similar to that expressed by the English term and thus express the idea approximately, until laws and institutions in China have been changed. The two characters which Mr. Mayers renders by aid-de-camp have here in the South and particularly in the districts, also a different meaning, and are applied to persons who have from time to time to go on a tour of inspection for the purpose of investigating matters and of reporting them to the proper authorities, whenever their importance exceeds their limited powers.\n\n(the latter character in the `Herald` is wrong) Mr. Mayers does not fare better. A person has power or authority in the same degree as he is punishable for not exercising it. The payment of taxes, public order, &c., is demanded of the , who played so conspicuous a part in the late war of China with England and France, and are the municipal powers in the towns and districts throughout China. The terms which he proposes under \"complaint\" (viz: and ) do occur in petitions and law-suits, but have nothing to do with \"complaint\", and Mr. Mayers cannot give a single instance in which these words are rendered or can be rendered “complaint.” Another specimen of inaccuracy of the existing dictionaries so much lauded by Mr. Mayers may be seen from the following extract. Dr. Medhurst calls a Governor-General \"governor of two provinces,\" and governor of a province he calls \"lieutenant governor of one province,\" and applies to him the term , a title of honor which belongs to the Governor-General. He further states that anciently was equivalent to , whilst the Imperial Statutes of the present Dynasty state that is equivalent to or perfect.\n\nAccording to the preceding designation, we must call the Governor-General of British India Governor of four presidences, and the Governor of Madras Lieutenant governor of Madras. Such definitions would have been styled \"German\" by Mr. Mayers, though now they are not only given by an Englishman, but by the best Sinologue of China. Even Mr. Chalmers has been unfortunate enough to render Governor by and .\n\nI would in conclusion advise Mr. Mayers to attend to his duties of Consular Assistant, in order to avoid the necessity of dragging him before the public as a slanderer, as such an epithet is sure not to advance his promotion.\n\nW. LOBSCHEID.\n\nPage 570\nPage 571", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 695, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "12\n\nWhen no other means are available, the bystanders, in the absence of a jumping sheet, should collect such blankets, bedding, &c., as are at hand, and thus be prepared in case the inmates should throw themselves from the windows. In the event of there being a scarcity of bedding, a blanket or carpet, held and stretched out by several persons, will serve the purpose.\n\nThe great difficulty of getting horses from a stable, when adjacent buildings are on fire is well known; and many horses have perished in the flames in consequence.\n\nWhen a stable is on fire, the horses should be immediately removed; the usual harness put on, the eyes bandaged, a damp or wet cloth placed over the nose and mouth, then led out as if they were going to their regular work; and they will generally do so without difficulty. This has been done on several occasions with great success.\n\nMERRYWEATHER & SONS, STEAM AND HAND-WORKED FIRE ENGINE MAKERS, Long Acre, and York Street, York Road, Lambeth, LONDON.\n\nReferences may be had from the following Volunteer Fire Brigades:\n\nHodges'. Surrey, Alton. Uxbridge. Northampton. Isleworth. Peterborough. Hastings. Port Dinorwic. Carnarvon. Banbridge. Gravesend, Holloway. Buckingham. Kenilworth. Twickenham. Valparaiso. Brisbane. Plymouth. Canterbury, Coleshill. Croydon Local Bd. Hendon. Malling. of Health. Saffron-Walden. Cliffe (Lewes). Hythe. West of Eng. Fire Thirsk. Office at Liverp). Brompt, & Chelsea Rye, Mexbro'. Windsor. Towcester. Salisbury, Scarboro', Tunstall Outwell. Holbeach. Tunbridge Wells. Coventry. Hartlepool. West Hartlepool. Ballymena. Margate. Guildford. Midhurst. Cardiff, H.A. the Prince Leyton, and of Wales at Sand- Tewkesbury. Notting Hill. ringham.\n\nJ. W. ELLIOT, PRINTER, 8, WHITE HART ST., CATHERINE ST., STRAND.\n\nTHE FOLLOWING \"FIRST PRIZES\"\n\nHAVE BEEN AWARDED TO\n\nMERRYWEATHER & SONS,\n\nFOR THE BEST\n\nSTEAM AND HAND POWER FIRE ENGINES.\n\n1\n\nThe First Prize and “only” Gold Medal at Paris Exhibition, 1867.\n\nThe Special First Prize, 500 Thalers, Cologne Exhibition, 1865.\n\nThe First Grand Prize £250, Crystal Palace, London, 1863.\n\nThe Netherlands Prize Medal 1864\n\nDitto Money Prize 1864\n\nThe Prize Medal Great Exhibition 1851\n\nDitto Paris Exhibition 1855\n\nDitto International Exhibition 1862\n\nDitto Dublin Exhibition 1865\n\n691", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277551, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Daily Press\n\nHONGKONG, JANUARY 11TH, 1869.\n\nOPENING OF NEW PORTS.\n\nThe following copy of a despatch from His Excellency Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., H. M's Envoy Extraordinary, &c., &c., to H. M's Consul at Amoy, in reference to the opening of additional ports on the Sea coast, and the establishment of landing places on the Yang-tsze, is published in the Shanghai papers. A copy has been communicated to the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Medhurst, H.B.M. Consul, invites individual opinions on the subject from any member of the mercantile community who may feel desirous of expressing his views, or affording any information or suggestion that may be of service to Her Majesty's Minister.\n\nPEKING, December, 18th, 1868.\n\nSIR,-In the Memorial to my address from the Merchants at Amoy, forwarded to me last year, there are two paragraphs, the one relating to the opening of an additional Port at Wenchow, and another, of much larger scope, proposing the opening of all the principal Ports on the Coast, not as regular Treaty Ports, but “as subsidiary to them.”\n\nFrom various other sources, opinions have been conveyed to me on the part of the Mercantile Communities in China, more or less distinctly deprecating the opening of any more Ports on the Coast, as likely to be productive of expense incommensurate with any advantage to be anticipated.\n\nIn this conflict of opinion among those more immediately concerned; there is room for doubt as to the course of action which would best meet the interests of British Trade. It seems desirable, therefore, before any revision of the Treaty is actually entered upon, to learn with greater certainty the views of the Mercantile Communities generally on this subject. And, as regards the Memorialists at Amoy, I have to instruct you to ascertain more precisely what they mean by \"Subsidiary Ports,\" and to what places on the Coast they allude?\n\nI may as well state that, were other difficulties overcome, I have ascertained, from recent discussions with the Foreign Board at Peking, that the Chinese Government will not voluntarily consent to open any Port without stipulating for the residence of Consular Agents, and without themselves placing a Customs establishment at each place.\n\nOn the other hand, it is in contemplation to open to Foreign boats or vessels, not propelled by steam, all inland waters leading to and from any place, within the limits of any Customs district, where British Merchants may trade, in order to facilitate the transport of Foreign goods, or Foreign-owned produce; and, for the better security against unauthorized or unnecessary obstructions and delays. Assuming such a concession to be ultimately agreed upon, it would appear that, under another name, the advantage sought by Subsidiary Ports, so far as I understand what is meant, would, in effect, be obtained. That is, a privilege which would enable Merchants settled at any Treaty Port to trade directly with all the places along the Coast, or up the rivers, in the vicinity of their own ports, and in boats of their own, which they can build large or small, according to the ascertained requirements of such local trade.\n\nThe Amoy Memorialists appear to have contemplated, in connection with the system of Subsidiary Ports which they propose, that it should be imperative on all vessels going to any of these Ports to go to and from the nearest Treaty Port, where they would deposit their papers, give bond, take out a special permit, and afterwards return to the same Treaty Port to clear out in the usual manner.\n\nI do not see very clearly how such a system of permits and obligations could be carried out without the intervention of a Foreign Customs Establishment and a Consular Agency, one or both, at each Port of call; and it may, further, be a question whether any vessel would find it expedient and profitable to go to a Subsidiary Port which could, very probably, neither take nor give a full cargo, and return direct to the Treaty Port at which her papers were left.\n\nOn the Yangtze, something of the nature of Subsidiary Ports has been under consideration, so far, at least, as the erection of landing places at certain points where cargo and passengers may either be taken up or set down, would supply a means of Trade. Yochow, Nanking, Tating and Wuhu, have been pointed out as desirable places for such an experiment.\n\nIf any new Port were to be opened on the Coast, Takau Shan, Taichow, Wenchow, Kiatchi, Shinting, and Pakhoi have been spoken of as the most eligible; but it is entirely an open question, yet, whether any or which of these shall be open, in the event of a general revision of Treaty stipulations being determined upon.\n\nThese possibilities are here referred to because, as they have already been under discussion, and have now been submitted to Her Majesty's Government for consideration, it would seem desirable that the Mercantile Communities in China, generally, should have a further opportunity of stating their views more specifically on points of so much importance in their bearing on the final results of any revision.\n\nI shall accordingly forward a copy of this Despatch to H. M. Consul at Shanghai, directing him to communicate its contents to the Chamber of Commerce there, and otherwise to ensure such publicity as will give any members of the Mercantile Communities in China an opportunity of expressing their opinions, and affording information for my own guidance and that of H. M. Government. That there may be no unnecessary delay in communicating the result, you are authorized to forward a copy of any communications you may receive from individual Merchants, or any Mercantile body at your Port, direct to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nH. M's Envoy Extraordinary, &c., &c., &c.\n\nW. H. Pedder, Esq.,\n\nH. M's Consul, Amoy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281215, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "state of affairs, it becomes more than ever the duty of the British Government seriously to consider what will be the probable result should the policy advocated at home be persisted in. We fear that it must infallibly lead to a war, and at no very distant date, between England and China; and, therefore, it is that we feel it incumbent on us to give expression to our opinion upon this momentous subject.\n\nThe question to be decided is, has the time arrived when the Chinese ought to be compelled to observe in its integrity the Treaty of Tientsin? We say that, though a grand opportunity of doing so with the utmost facility was lost some years ago on the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion, it can still be done without the exercise of undue pressure. The longer, however, the matter is postponed, the greater will be the difficulty of dealing with it, and the more imminent will be the danger of a war. Like all Eastern nations, the Chinese are destitute of any sense of political honor: and the only obligations their Rulers will ever acknowledge, are those they are enforced to observe. Delays on our part to insist upon our rights, far from being considered as an indulgence for which they ought to be grateful, are simply construed to be signs of weakness; and, therefore, the longer we defer to exact from them the strict performance of the Treaty, the more firmly will they be impressed with the idea that we are afraid of a rupture, and the more obstinate will they be in evading or violating its provisions. We cannot do better than quote the following forcible expressions used by Sir Rutherford Alcock in his despatch of the 5th of February, 1869, to Lord Stanley, your Lordship's predecessor as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:\n\n\"Experience leads infallibly to the conviction that where Treaties have been imposed by force upon an unwilling government, as all with China have been, they can only be upheld by similar means.\"\n\n\"The diplomatic instrument has no binding power with Chinese when its stipulations may be evaded with impunity, or whenever it is believed that the force that imposed them is no longer extant or available.\"\n\n\"Diplomacy in such circumstances means armed reason, the only evidence of power or title to respect a true Oriental freely recognizes, and in order that foreign Powers may not have to resort to such rude instruments for proving their title, it behooves them to find means of preventing accumulative violations of Treaty, since continued impunity brings with it a conviction of weakness.\"\n\n\"It is weakness, or the suspicion of it, which invariably provokes aggression, and with Eastern nations, is a far more fruitful cause of bad faith and danger than either force or the abuse of it.\"\n\n\"The desire to avoid complications and wars in the far East should suggest, not an unreasoning recoil from the assertion of Treaty rights from fear of the troubles it may bring, but a steadfast adherence to such conditions of intercourse as experience has proved to be best calculated in the end to ensure respect for engagements.\"\n\nWe deprecate a further delay in compelling the due observance of the Tientsin Treaty, because we fear that it will only tend to those \"accumulative violations,\" which the British Minister declares too often occasion hostilities.\n\nThis leads us to the consideration of those provisions of the Treaty of Tientsin, of the infraction of which we have long complained; and which we think ought in future to be strictly enforced; and we shall take them in their numerical order.\n\nThe 9th clause by which British subjects are authorised to travel for pleasure or trading purposes to all parts of the interior is wholly inoperative except to some extent as regards the former object. The time has arrived when all unnecessary restrictions on travelling, which were perhaps necessary in some portions of the Empire during the Rebellion of the Tai-pings, ought to be done away with. No injury possibly can accrue to the Chinese Government by their removal; because in all cases Passports must be issued by the Foreign Consuls, who would exercise their discretion in granting permits, and withhold them when applied for by dangerous or suspicious characters. The right to trade in the interior was undoubtedly acquired by the Treaty of Tientsin, and the privilege having been withheld in practice from British subjects is as much the result of the retrogressive foreign policy as of conservative action on the part of the Chinese.\n\nThat great benefit would be derived by the countries from increased intercourse between British and Chinese subjects, is certain. The experience of the past proves it. In spite of the vexatious restrictions which have so improperly been imposed by the Chinese Government, and the narrow limits within which we have hitherto been permitted to carry on our trade directly, it has increased enormously within the last few years; and if the vast and fertile Provinces still closed to us were opened to the foreign merchant, it is almost impossible to calculate what dimensions our commerce with China would attain. Take, for instance Sze-chuen, the largest as well as the richest Province of China; in size it surpasses many a European State; its population is rich and numerous; its soil of exuberant fertility; and its natural productions most various and valuable; why should we not be permitted to carry on unrestrictedly trading operations there? From the valuable and interesting report recently published by the Delegates of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce on the trade of the Upper Yangtsze, it is clear that the people themselves are most anxious to trade with us; and that if no opposition was shown by the Mandarins not the least difficulty would occur in commencing operations.\n\nBy article 10th, the Yangtze river was opened to British merchant ships as far as Hankow. We strongly urge upon your Lordship the expediency of opening still more of that magnificent river, as also the other navigable ones, with the great Poyang and Tung Ting lakes. Were that done, we should rapidly acquire an enormous trade with the rich Provinces bordering on those waters, which are now virtually closed to foreign merchants; and the most brilliant results might fairly be anticipated.\n\nWe should, however, premise that inland navigation will be nugatory unless permission be conceded to use steam vessels. Sir Rutherford Alcock in a letter dated the 23rd of March, 1869, to Consul Medhurst, says, \"that no efforts hitherto made by me or by my colleagues in Peking, and they have been both earnest and continuous, have prevailed with the Chinese Government, or succeeded in removing their objections to initiatory steps in the direction of Railways, Inland Steam Navigation, &c.\" We give the British Minister full credit for having done all in his power to induce the Chinese Government to accede to the views so universally entertained by the foreign residents in China upon the vital importance of employing steam vessels for inland navigation; and we can well believe that all such efforts will be resisted by the Authorities at Pekin with their usual obstructiveness; but at the same time we feel convinced that by the legitimate use of the influence which Great Britain ought to possess in this Empire the opposition could easily and quickly be overcome. \"If the Chinese Government object, as stated by Sir Rutherford Alcock, to take initiatory steps in that direction, let permission be obtained for us to do so, and we venture to predict that in a very short time, steamers will ply on all the navigable Chinese inland waters.\n\nThe subjects of steamers leads us naturally to Railroads and Telegraphs; and we fully endorse the opinion which has been so constantly reiterated by all who know anything of the country, that nothing will benefit it more, or tend more to develop the boundless resources...\n\nPage 253", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 277, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "10th Article, Opening of Kivers and \n\n(4) \n\ninstance Sze-chuen, the largest as well as the richest Province of China; in size it surpasses many a European State; its population is rich and numerous; its soil of exuberant fertility; and its natural productions most various and valuable; why should we not be permitted to carry on unrestrictedly trading operations there? From the valuable and interesting Report recently published by the Delegates of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce on the trade of the Upper Yangtsze, it is clear that the people themselves are most anxious to trade with us; and that if no opposition was shewn by the Mandarins, not the least difficulty would occur in commencing operations.\n\n13. By article 10th, the Yangtsze river was opened to British merchant ships as far as Hankow. We strongly urge upon your Lordship the expediency of opening still more of that magnificent river, as also the other navigable ones, with the great Poyang and Toong-Ting lakes. Were that done, we should rapidly acquire an enormous trade with the rich Provinces bordering on those waters, which are now virtually closed to foreign merchants; and the most brilliant results might fairly be anticipated.\n\nInland Steam Navigation Necessary.\n\nRailways and Telegraphs ought to be introduced.\n\n14. We should, however, premise that inland navigation will be nugatory unless permission be conceded to use steam vessels. Sir RUTHERFORD ALCOCK in a letter dated the 23rd of March, 1869, to Consul MEDHURST says \"that no efforts \"hitherto made by me or by my colleagues in Peking, and they have been both \"earnest and continuous, have prevailed with the Chinese Government, or succeeded \"in removing their objections to initiatory steps in the direction of Railways, Inland \"Steam Navigation, &c.\" We give the British Minister full credit for having done all in his power to induce the Chinese Government to accede to the views so universally entertained by the foreign residents in China upon the vital importance of employing steam vessels for inland navigation; and we can well believe that all such efforts will be resisted by the Authorities at Peking with their usual obstructiveness; but at the same time we feel convinced that by the legitimate use of the influence which Great Britain ought to possess in this Empire, the opposition could easily and quickly be overcome. If the Chinese Government object, as stated by Sir RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, to take \"initiatory steps\" in that direction, let permission be obtained for us to do so, and we venture to predict that in a very short time, steamers will ply on all the navigable Chinese inland waters.\n\n15. The subject of steamers leads us naturally to Rail-Roads and Telegraphs; and we fully endorse the opinion which has been so constantly reiterated by all who know anything of the country, that nothing will benefit it more, or tend more to develop the boundless resources of the vast Chinese Empire than Railways; and we do not believe that any insuperable difficulties would be met with in establishing them. The Chinese are undoubtedly a self-sufficient and prejudiced race, so fully impressed with the conviction of their own superiority as to be inclined to consider any improvement in their antiquated institutions as impossible; but on the other hand, they are eminently shrewd and practical, and easily adapt themselves to altered circumstances. Where in a position to do so, they have most readily availed themselves of the facilities afforded by the Coast and River Steamers, for travelling from Port to Port; and we do not entertain a doubt that they will just as eagerly make use of Railways and Telegraphs when introduced. The fact that permission has been conceded by the Mikado of Japan for the formation of a Railway in the neighbourhood of Yeddo, is an additional reason for urging on the Chinese Government the importance of granting a similar privilege.\n\nWorld easily be\n\n16. It is possible that there may at first be some local opposition, and the superstitious dread of irritating the Fung-Shuey may give rise to partial disturbances; but we feel assured that by judicious management all such would soon be allayed; and we should see the natives of China crowd the Trains as numerously as do the inhabitants of India, who are to the full as superstitious, and who have moreover their caste distinctions to overcome. It is in no mere selfish spirit that we so strongly advocate the introduction of Steamers and Railways; we should undoubtedly derive great advantages from the increased Trade which\n\nImpossible now\n\nfor any country\n\nto remain isolated.\n\nObligations of Great Britain\n\nas regards\n\nChina.\n\n11th Article, Importance of Kiungehow as a Port.\n\n28th Article, Transit Dues.\n\nIllegal charges levied by the Chinese Mandarins.\n\n(5)\n\nwould inevitably ensue; but the benefits to China would be infinitely greater. The vast resources of the country would rapidly be developed; its Coal and other mineral treasures would be brought to light; and its artificial productions improved and multiplied.\n\n17. We do not wish to enter here upon a discussion as to the abstract right, that one country has, to close her Ports to other Nations, and rigorously to exclude from her territory all Foreigners, whatever may be their motives in visiting her; because it is manifest that such isolation is virtually impossible in this age. Besides our intercourse with China is far too extensive, and too long established for her Rulers now to strive successfully to curtail or restrict it.\n\n18. We have high duties cast upon us by the position that Great Britain occupies in the East; and when we behold a vast country overflowing with natural wealth, teeming with an industrious and intelligent population, and yet sunk in political and social degradation; suffering from constant and extensive outbreaks, and with perpetually recurring famines devastating its largest Provinces; we must ask ourselves, can nothing be done to change its state, and improve the condition of its inhabitants? We ought to take the lead here; it is for us gradually to introduce the various mechanical appliances which have made England what she is, and so, by developing the resources of China, increasing her material wealth, and introducing our civilization, raise her in the scale of nations, and elevate the political, social and moral condition of her people.\n\n19. The 11th Article of the Treaty provides for the opening of several additional Ports, one of which however-Kiungchow in Hainan,--still remains closed. We see no reason why the Chinese Government should have been permitted, for over eleven years, the Treaty having been signed at Tientsin in June, 1858,-to leave this Clause partly unfulfilled. We believe that Kiungchow would be of great advantage as a Port, especially to Hongkong, as it would be the means of opening to foreign trade, the large and fertile Island of Hainan, and the adjoining Provinces from which extensive and valuable imports would certainly be derived. The position moreover of Hainan, and its vicinity to Tonquin and Annam render of the first importance, the retention of the only Treaty Port which exists on the Western Coast of China.\n\n20. The most important however of the Articles, and the one, from the glaring and systematic violation of which we have most suffered, is the 28th; by which it was provided that British Imports, which had paid the Tariff Duty, should be conveyed into the interior free of all further charges except a Transit Duty which was not to exceed two and a half per cent on the Tariff value. The Merchants of every Port in China, have loudly and constantly complained of the manner in which, in the teeth of this Clause, heavy Duties have regularly been imposed upon foreign Imports on their way to the interior from the place where landed. In some Ports,-Amoy and Foochow for instance--they have become so excessive as virtually to put a stop to the importation of British goods at either of those places.\n\n21. In all the Ports the charges levied under various names, have been largely in excess of the Duty imposed by the Treaty; and the natural result has been that our Trade with China has never attained the dimensions which the makers of the Treaty anticipated, and which would have ensued, if the Transit Duty had not been so arbitrarily and improperly increased. This grievance is the greater because of the difficulty of devising any plan by which the local Mandarins can be prevented from extorting these illegal charges. It is therefore an additional reason for again impressing upon your Lordship the importance of insisting on the strict observance by the Chinese Government of the 9th and 10th Clauses before referred to; with liberty of residence in the interior, under proper restrictions; and with the more rapid means of locomotion that steamers and railways would supply, foreign Merchants would not be so completely at the mercy of corrupt Chinese officials as they unfortunately are at present.\n\n276", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282004, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL\n## HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1870\n\nMURDEROUS ASSAULT BY CHINESE ON FOREIGNERS AT TIENTSIN. THE FRENCH CONSULATE AND CATHEDRAL DESTROYED.\n\nThe following was issued from this office as an extra, this morning. The news it contains was conveyed in an extra of the N. C. Daily News, dated Shanghai, June 27, brought down by the S. S. Nile, which put in here last night to land despatches.\n\nNews of a startling nature has reached us from Tientsin. It appears that for several days past there has been a great excitement among the Chinese against foreigners at that place. It was openly said, that the French Cathedral would be burnt and the foreigners exterminated. To a certain extent this is sadly verified. By a special courier via Taku overtaking the steamer Dragon, which left Tientsin on the afternoon of the 21st instant, the news was conveyed that the French Consulate, and French Cathedral were in flames; and that the French Consul, several other Frenchmen, and Sisters of Mercy, had been murdered. H. M. gunboat Opossum was lying at Chefoo when this news arrived, and started at once (on the night of the 23rd instant) for Tientsin. H. M. G. Dwarf leaves Shanghai this afternoon for Tientsin, in consequence of this news, and the French gunboat Flamme will start tomorrow morning. In the meantime the Aspic and Scorpion remain in port; and H. M. Zebra at Nagasaki has been requested to come over.\n\nWe learn by private information, that a meeting was held at Shanghai convened by Sir Ed. Hornby (late commandant of the Volunteers) and resolutions passed thereat, in consequence of which the Volunteers were called out in order to defend the settlement in the absence of the gunboats.\n\nThe steamers Manchu (Russell & Co., S. S. Navigation Co.) and the Appin (Jardine's) were detained in Tientsin to give as much protection to foreign residents as possible.\n\nNo cause is assigned for the murderous assault at Tientsin.\n\nIt is reported that M. Rochechouart, who holds the position of Minister at Peking had been also a victim; but this is not so correctly ascertained as the other facts. One of the victims at Tientsin is stated to be a French medical man, but we have not learnt his name.\n\nThe steamer Nile left early this morning, and we understand that she carries despatches to Saigon from the French Consul here. Among other rumours, it is said that the wife and child of the French Consul at Tientsin also fell victims to the rage of the infuriated Chinese. Mr Robert Hart, it is expected, will at once leave Hongkong for the seat of the outrages. A rumor is also current that Mr. W. H. Lay (British Consul) has been wounded; but this, it is to be hoped, may prove an exaggeration. The statement that Count Rochechouart had been murdered at Peking also appears to require confirmation, though the occurrence of a simultaneous outburst at Tientsin and the capital is not unlikely.\n\nThe steamer Chu Kiang, which left Shanghai at 5 am, on the 1st, arrived this afternoon, but she brings little more than corroborative evidence of the terrible affair and the consequent excitement at Shanghai. The gunboat Diberf was the first ship of war which left for the scene of the disturbances, the two French gunboats following her next morning. Messrs Russell & Co. (agents for the S. S. N. Co.) had placed the Shantung at the disposal of any residents who desired to go to Tientsin. The mail steamer Sunda had been postponed until the afternoon of the 1st, and she may possibly be in this harbour to-night. The Manchu, from Tientsin, was hourly expected in Shanghai, and the greatest anxiety prevailed in that settlement. No reason whatever has yet been assigned for this sudden attack on foreigners in a Treaty Port.\n\nOur latest news from Shanghai is from the Daily News of June 30, which says...\n\nA Ningpo correspondent writes that the native merchants are much disturbed by the news from Tientsin. They fear war may follow, and consequent interruption to trade.\n\nThe Courier of June 29 says—\n\nNo further news has come to hand to-day about the Massacre at Tientsin; and the arrival of the Manchu which is now expected hourly, is looked for with great anxiety.\n\nThe following version, substantially the same, is from the Shanghai Courier:\n\nVery serious news has reached us to-day by the Dragon. The Chinese have risen against the French. An official despatch, the very brevity of which is a significant commentary on its contents, says that the French Consulate, the residence of the Sisters of Mercy, and the French Cathedral were burning at the time the despatch was being written. The French Consul, (Mons. Fontanier,) all the Sisters of Mercy and several other Frenchmen (Missionaries) had been murdered. The steamer Appin and Manchu were detained (well armed) to afford some protection to foreigners. Mr. Lay, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, was collecting all the foreigners together.\n\nIn addition to the above official information, there is a rumor that Count Rochechouart, the French Minister, and some Russians had been killed at Pekin. Immediately on the receipt of this news H.M.S. Dwarf got up steam, and Mr. Medhurst, H.B.M. Consul, considerately issued a circular giving those who have connections in the North an opportunity of writing by her. She left at 4 p.m. Meanwhile some degree of protection would have been afforded to the foreigners at Tientsin by H.M. gunboat Opossum, which started for Tientsin immediately that the Dragon arrived there on the night of the 23rd inst. The French Gunboat Flamme leaves to-morrow morning, and Messrs Russell & Co. have placed the S. S. N. S. Shantung at the disposal of the French authorities as a transport. In view of the departure of the Dwarf, leaving the Foreign Community here without British protection, Sir Ed. Hornby, as the last commandant of the Shanghai Volunteers, has issued a circular calling on all resident members of the corps to hold themselves in readiness should their services be required. Meanwhile we have the protection of the French Gunboats Aspic and Scorpion, and the Zebra has been sent for from Nagasaki. No explanation is given of the cause or origin of these dreadful occurrences.\n\nPage 123", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, JULY 6TH, 1870.\n\n### MASSACRE OF THE FRENCH CONSUL AND OTHER EUROPEANS AT TIENTSIN.\n\nThe following was issued in the form of an \"Extra,\" yesterday morning :\n\nThe steamer Nile from Shanghai arrived last night, and was to start this morning, having left that port on the morning of the 28th ultimo. Captain Wright, who at considerable trouble consented to bring the despatches down, has courteously handed us the Shanghai Courier of the 27th ultimo, which contains the following startling intelligence :~ \n\nVery serious news has reached us to-day by the Dragon. The Chinese have risen against the French. An official dispatch, the very brevity of which is a significant commentary on its contents, says that the French Consulate, the residence of the Sisters of Mercy, and the French Cathedral were burning at the time the dispatch was being written. The French Consul, (Mons. Fontanier), all the Sisters of Mercy and several other Frenchmen (Missionaries), had been murdered. The steamers Appin and Manchu were detained (well armed) to afford some protection to foreigners. Mr. Lay, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, was collecting all the foreigners together. \n\nIn addition to the above official information, there is a rumor that Count Rochechonart, the French Minister, and some Russians had been killed at Pekin.\n\nImmediately on the receipt of this news H.M.S. Dwarf got up steam, and Mr. Medhurst, H.B.M.'s Consul, considerately issued a circular giving those who have connections in the North an opportunity of writing by her. She left at 4 p.m. Meanwhile some degree of protection would have been afforded to the foreigners of Tientsin by H.M.S. gunboat Opossum, which started for Tientsin immediately after the Dragon arrived at Chefoo on the night of the 23rd inst. The French Gunboat Flamme leaves to-morrow morning and Messrs. Russell & Co. have placed the S.S.N.S. Shantung at the disposal of the French authorities as a transport. In view of the departure of the Dwarf, leaving the Foreign Community here without British protection, Sir Ed. Hornby, as the last commandant of the Shanghai Volunteers, has issued a circular calling on all resident members of the corps to hold themselves in readiness should their services be required. Meanwhile we have the protection of the French Gunboats Aspic and Scorpion, and the Zebra has been sent for from Nagasaki. No explanation is given of the cause or origin of these dreadful occurrences.\n\nThe steamship Nile leaves at daylight with a full cargo, including 119 bales of Silk. She goes direct to Suez, calling only at Hongkong to deliver Government despatches relating to the news of the massacre at Tientsin.\n\nCapt. Wright also reports that the greatest excitement prevails at Shanghai, in consequence of this news. There was a further rumor that the whole of the foreign Legation buildings at Pekin were in flames. The news arrived at Shanghai at 2 p.m. on the 27th instant, when the Nile was clearing for sea, and Captain Wright immediately proffered his services to the English and French Consuls to bring down the intelligence to the Senior Officer on this station. He had previously no intention of calling at Hongkong, as he was bound home with a full cargo, a large portion of which was engaged at the high freight of £6, on condition of his making the voyage in 60 days, and for the remainder he was under guarantee not to call anywhere until he reached the Red Sea. This guarantee was waived, however, in consideration of the urgency of the case, but the Nile is still to arrive in 60 days from Shanghai or to lose £1 of her freight. Under these circumstances Capt. Wright's offer to bring down the news must be thoroughly appreciated, utterly disinterested as it is, and proceeding from motives of pure courtesy and humanity. The offer was duly appreciated by the French Consul, who was politeness itself, and full of acknowledgments of Captain Wright's courtesy. The English Consul, on the other hand, was pleased to communicate with the captain through a subordinate, who was good enough to take off three from the list of four distressed seamen going home by the Nile, in consideration of the proffered service. It was impossible to do more, as the last \"distressed seaman\" remains on board to testify in mathematical language to the three-quarters-hearted kindness of British consular officers at Shanghai, in a case in which an hour's delay in delivering the despatches, which none but the Nile could take at the moment, was fraught with danger to the whole foreign community of Tientsin.\n\nOrders have gone to England for the immediate despatch of men of war.\n\n## Enclosure No. 2 in Major-General Stoneral Whitfeild's Despatch No. 447 of 6th July, 1870.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282762, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 400, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "# \n## Nr 445 \n392 \n\n**Government House, Hongkong,**\n11th October 1870.\n\nSir\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge your despatch of the 9th of September, drawing my attention to a communication which you had received from Earl Granville relative to the transference of distressed seamen from certain Ports in China to the Port of Hongkong, enclosing the copy of a despatch on the subject which had been addressed by Mr Consul Medhurst to the Assistant ... \nJ. F. Wade, Esq., C.B.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288834, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "810\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nSUANGHAI SILK SHIPPERS, From 1st June to 28th Sept., 1879,\n\nAdantson, Bell, and Co. Balfour, Butler and Co. Barnet and Co. Birt and Co. \nBirley, Worthington, & Co. Bain and Co. \nBower, Hanbury and Co.... Bourjau, Hubener, and Co. \nBovet, Brothers and Co. ... Bull, Purdon and Co. Butterfeld and Swire \nChapman, King and Co. \nCoutts and Co. \nDent and Co. \nDickinson and Co. \nEssex and Co. \nFindlay, Wade and Co. \nFogg and Co. \nGamwell, F. R. \nGibb, Livingston, and Co..... Gilman and Co.\n\nBales.\n\n352 Jardine, Matheson, and Co. 276 Jarvie, John, and Co. \n57 Skeggs, C. J. and Co.\n\nTEA CARGOES AFLOAT.\n\nBales.\n\n[Nov, 18, 1872]\n\nShipping Intelligence.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nAt YOKOHAMA.—From London, Sept. 23, Florence Nightingale.\n\nAt SHANGHAI.—From London, Sept. 25, Foutenaye; from Swansea, 23, Daylight; from Liverpool, Nov. 10, Agamemnon (str.); from Cardiff, Whinfel; from Southampton. Deccan (str.).\n\nAt HONG KONG and CANTON.—From London, Oct. 1, Golconda (str.), James Vinicombe; from Callao, Emigrante; from Boston, 4, Europa.\n\nAt SINGAPORE.—From Liverpool, Oct. 11, Agamemnon (str.); from Glasgow, 7. Saltes (str.); from Sunderland, 8, Stanley; from Hamburg, 11, Harmonia.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\nFrom YOKOHAMA.—For London, Sept. 7, Audax; for New York, 16, Emulation; 18, Etta Loring; 23, Leander; 30, Ceylon.\n\nFrom HONG KONG.—For London, Sept. 15, Penrith; for New York, 18, Jessie Isabel.\n\nFrom SHANGHAI.—For London, Sept. 21, Priam (str.), Woodlark; From Foochow.—For London, Sept. 29, Zibu; Oct. 1, Eme.\n\nFrom HONG KONG and CANTON.—For Falmouth, Oct. 2, Hermine.\n\nFrom SINGAPORE.—For London, Oct 4, Eleanor; Nov. 12, Hector (str.).\n\nSHIPPING POSTSCRIPT.\n\nDEPARTURES.—Nov. 14, from London, for Yokohama and Hiego, Glamorganshire; 13, from Cardiff, for Singapore, Proserpine; 14, Massimo d'Azeglis, Elizabeth Child.\n\nLAID ON.—At London, for Shanghai, Carmarthenshire.\n\nSPOKEN.—Esperance, Newport to Hong Kong, Aug. 12, 33 S., 25 W. Franklin, Batavia to London, Sept. 28, 20 S., 60 E. N. C. D. H. (Amicizia, Italian three-mast schooner), Cardiff to Ceylon, Sept. 29, 16 S., 29 W.\n\nLEGAL.\n\nJUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.\n\nHART V. VON GUMPACHI.\n\nThis appeal from Her Majesty's Court for China and Japan came on for hearing, and presented some remarkable features. The appellant is a British subject, and occupies an important position in the service of the Emperor of China as inspector-general of customs.\n\nThe respondent is a naturalised British subject, and is an astronomer and mathematician. Both met in London in August, 1866, and it was alleged that Hart represented to Von Gumpach that he was entrusted with the formation of a college and observatory at Peking, which college was to be an institution for the teaching to the Chinese of Western sciences and learning, \"with a view to the regeneration of China,\" and that he was to procure a library and appoint professors.\n\nIn consequence of these alleged representations, Von Gumpach went to China, and his salary was to be £600 a year. He alleged that there was no such institution, and that he was willing to discharge the duties of his appointment.\n\nHe alleged that Hart represented to the Tsang-li Yamen, or Foreign Board, that he had absented himself, and he received an intimation from the Chinese Government that his services were no longer required; and since the 30th September, 1868, he had been unable to obtain any salary.\n\nHe brought his action against Hart in Her Majesty's Court, and claimed £3,000 as compensation besides his salary.\n\nThe cause was tried before a jury, and they gave £1,800 as damages and 176 taels for money payable to Von Gumpach.\n\nThere had been a demurrer and further litigation, and one point urged for the present appellant was that these were privileged communications from him as to the office he held under the Chinese Government.\n\nThe Court, after further litigation, decided in favour of the plaintiff (the present respondent), and the defendant (the present appellant) has obtained special leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council.\n\nHe denied the alleged misrepresentations, and stated that the Court at Peking had found in his favour as to the representations, and gave damages to Von Gumpach for the loss of his situation, and for money due on account stated.\n\nHe appealed on several grounds—that the verdict was against evidence, on misdirection, and on the privileged communications.\n\nSir John Karslake, Q.C, with whom was Mr. F. Herschell (instructed by Messrs. Murray and Hutchins), appeared for the appellant; Mr. Benjamin, Q.C., and Mr. Myburgh (instructed by Messrs. Brooks and Co., of Doctors' Commons) were for the respondent, the plaintiff in the original action.\n\nMr. Benjamin discussed the several points. He urged that the appellant was liable to the respondent for the wrongs he had committed against him.\n\nThe Chinese Government had not adopted the acts of the appellant as their servant, and therefore it was not an Act of State.\n\nIt was idle for the appellant to say that what he did was by order of the Chinese Government, and that, therefore, he was not amenable to the laws in Her Majesty's Court for China and Japan.\n\nHe cited various authorities in support of his contentions that unless a Government adopted the acts of their servant, the servant was liable, and could not shield himself under the authority of an Act of State and justify the wrong he had committed.\n\nFurther, the learned counsel submitted that Her Majesty's Treaty with the Emperor of China gave all British subjects a right to resort to the Supreme Court for redress; and it was no answer for the appellant (the original defendant) to say what he had done was as servant of the Emperor when malice was alleged against him.\n\nThe question of privilege would not go to such an extent as to shield a man from false representations, and none of the cases cited would support the points raised by the other side.\n\nMr. Myburgh followed on the same side.\n\nSir John, in reply, cited several cases in support of the view he had submitted—namely, that the original action could not be maintained, and that the demurrer ought to have been allowed.\n\nIt was not an action between two British subjects, as was contemplated by the Treaty, but an action against a Minister of China for an act done as such Minister.\n\nBoth parties had been in the service of the Emperor, and the reports made by Mr. Hart were privileged communications, and it was not by merely alleging malice that the protection extended to such documents was to be removed.\n\nThe matter was of importance, and he asked their Lordships to allow the appeal.\n\nSir Montagu Smith, on the conclusion of the arguments, announced that their Lordships would take time to consider their judgment.\n\nCOURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.\n\nIONIDES V. PENDER.\n\nThis was a case (tried last term) of some mercantile importance as to marine insurance, especially with reference to over-insurance.\n\nIt was an action on several policies of insurance, on goods, on profits, on charterparty, and of commission, amounting altogether to some thousands of pounds.\n\nThe defence set up was that there had been enormous over-insurance, and that the ship was not lost by perils of the seas, but had in reality been scuttled.\n\nThe policies were affected by a firm at Hamburg, who had chartered and loaded the ship for a commercial adventure to a port La Sineria.\n\nOn the voyage the vessel sprang a leak, and is making four inches water per hour in still water.\n\nCASUALTIES.—The Carolina (Spanish barque), from Manila to Cadiz, with tobacco, went a bore on Sandalwood Island. Sept. 15, but got off without damage, after remaining on the reef seven days.\n\nThe Hebe (ship, of Rotterdam. Meermans, from Batavia, to Rotterdam, put into Mauritius, Oct. 5, leaky, having encountered a very heavy N.E. to N.W., and S. W. gale Sept. 21st, in lat. 12 S., lon. 93 E., during which\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n811\n\nNov. 18, 1872.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM MEDHURST'S \"FOREIGNER IN FAR CATHAY.\"\n\nAfter what I wrote in my last letter of the negotiations between the commissioners of the two legislative bodies of this city having been broken off because they could not come to an agreement on the vexed question of the Bank Valuta, your readers will no doubt be greatly surprised to hear that, after all, the affair has been finally set at rest and disposed of by a compromise, both sides having given way to a certain extent.\n\nThe draft of the Bill sent by the Senate to the Burgerschaft, but rejected by them, served as a sufficient basis for a rapprochement, and as both parties were agreed in principle, and only differed on certain, though important, points, the door was again opened for discussion.\n\nAn abstract of the amended Bill as agreed to is as follows :--\n\nLaw for the Alteration of the Hamburg Bank Valuta.\n\nArt. 1. Closing of the Accounts based on Silver Bars.—The date is fixed for the 15th Feb., 1879, the Burgerschaft originally wishing it to take place within eight days, and the Senate inclined to keep them open for six months longer.\n\nAfter the above date the balances of accounts can only be repaid in silver bars.\n\nArt. 3. Denomination of Payments in the New Currency made through the Bank.—In all agreements and contracts where payment is stipulated to be made through the Bank, it is required to write after the amount the letters B.Z., which stands for Bank Zahlung, or Bank payment.\n\nI have dwelt thus much upon the characteristics of the servants employed by foreigners, not only to show how they fare in this particular, but because these servants are the only natives with whom the foreign merchant comes more immediately into contact.\n\nThe opinion prevalent at home that foreigners mingle in Chinese society generally is altogether a mistaken one.\n\nThe conventional rules of the Chinese are so constituted, and their habits of thought and customs so peculiar, that there is little or no encouragement to court acquaintance on either part, even were the entire ignorance of each other's language not to present a serious bar in the way of an interchange of ideas.\n\nThere is a class of Chinese brokers and middle men who haunt the offices of the merchants, but they are mostly shrewd, clever upstarts, whom the difficulties of interlingual communication have introduced into the trade, and, with rare exceptions, they lay no claim to respectability even with the Chinese themselves.\n\nThe language employed between these brokers and the merchants is a jargon made up of English, Portuguese, Chinese, and Malay words, tortured into unrecognizable shapes and constructions, and it is little fitted to sustain any conversation beyond what appertains to the mere technicalities of trade.\n\nI have frequently expressed to our merchants the opinion that it is a pity they do not take the trouble to learn the Chinese language.\n\nIt is an acquirement in the spoken form to an extent sufficient for all practical purposes; offers no difficulties that an average intellect and a moderate share of determination cannot surmount, and familiarity with it would have the effect of freeing the foreigner from the domination of roguish brokers and compradores, at whose mercy he now lies, whilst it would open the way to a more extended acquaintance and friendly intercourse to the mutual advantage of both parties.\n\nThere is perhaps no country in the world frequented by the English-speaking race in which merchants are so lamentably ignorant of the customs and resources of the locality in which they live as they are at this moment in China, and this is entirely to be attributed to a want of familiarity with the language.\n\nTHE SUEZ CANAL.\n\nThe Suez Canal Company will continue to insist upon its recent advance of tolls, and declares that it will appeal to the decision of the Government.\n\nThe Ottoman Porte has protested, by order of the Sultan, against the competency of the Tribunal de Commerce de la Seine to interpret the Act of Concession of the Canal—a power which belongs to itself alone.\n\nThe Turkish Government also maintains that, the company being an Egyptian association, subject to the Ottoman jurisdiction, and having its headquarters at Alexandria, cannot admit a foreign jurisdiction in respect to its differences with third parties.\n\nThere is some idea of inviting the Marine Powers to hold a conference at Constantinople, in order to agree upon a uniform system for the measurement of tonnage.\n\nForeign Intelligence.\n\nGERMANY.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nHAMBURG, Nov. 12.\n\nArt. 4. Belehnungen (or advances on deposits).—After the close of the silver accounts the Bank is authorised to receive as deposits the foreign coin hitherto accepted, as well as gold and silver bars, and credit the depositors for the amount in the new currency, according to the regulations drawn up by the administrators of the Bank and having been approved of by the Senate.\n\nArt. 5. Deferred fulfilment of obligations to pay in Banco.—After the closing of the silver accounts, all still outstanding engagements in Hamburg banco or in species banco, whatever may be the period of their origin and the nature of the claim, must be settled by Bank payment in Imperial gold coin, or in double or single silver thalers of German mintage, at the fixed rate of 150 marks new currency for 100 marks banco, with an agio of 18 per mille for species banco.\n\nBills of exchange falling due on the 15th of February, but not presented for payment till after that date, are to be calculated at the officially quoted price of silver on the day of their maturity.\n\nArt. 6. Transitory Regulations.—During the period of transition, viz., from the date of the opening of the accounts in the new Imperial currency till the 15th of May, 1873, creditors of the Bank may have the amount of their balance in Banco transferred, partly or entirely, to their account in the new currency at the fixed rate of 145 marks Imperial currency for 100 marks Banco, as such transfers are to be considered as Belehnungen, or advances on deposits.\n\nThe sum thus transferred may, at any time during the period of transition, be re-transferred to the silver account of the owner; but all such re-transfers must be made before the expiration of the period of transition, in default of which the Bank is authorised to realise the silver for account of the proprietor.\n\nDuring the period of transition only those who have paid in gold coin or silver thalers are at liberty to withdraw their balances in the same money.\n\nDuring the period of transition no charge will be made by the Bank on Imperial gold coin or silver thalers paid in or taken out.\n\nThe publication of this new law will take place in the course of this week, and the date to be fixed for the opening of the accounts in the new Imperial German currency is expected to be the 15th inst.\n\nBut this arrangement has no effect on cash payments made in Hamburg and Lubeck currency, which retain their value as hitherto, till a sufficiency of the new money is coined, which, as the minting operations proceed but slowly, may be deferred for two or three years longer.\n\nIt will be seen by the above that the Bergerschaft have abandoned one of the principal points on which they were at issue with the Senate, and that is that the loss sustained by the conversion of Banco into new currency, the agio on silver being at present rather more than one per cent. above par, should be borne by the State.\n\nAs it now stands everyone who has Banco will only get 150 marks new currency for every 100 marks Banco, and must bear the loss himself.\n\nThe sharp and somewhat bitter remarks made by certain organs of the press in England respecting the award of the Emperor of Germany in his capacity of Arbitrator in the Anglo-American dispute about the San Juan question have found a responsive echo at Berlin; and if these counter remarks have not been translated and reprinted in the English papers, it is perhaps owing to the editors remaining reticent, not to aggravate and increase the ill-feeling between the two countries.\n\nOne of your contemporaries says that the award is remarkable for being written in the German language, instead of the customary diplomatic French\" to which the Germans reply that this is an exploded idea, quite out of date; that the despatches of the German Government—railway companies have received instructions to discontinue, from December 1, the eddies hitherto praised to emigrants, of a reduction in the fares—amounting in some instances to 50 per cent.—and double allowance of luggage (100 lb. per head).\n\nThe number of emigrants that passed through this city to the end of October, 1871, is officially stated to be 37,324 persons, whilst at the same period this year it has risen to 65,151, and before the end of the year will no doubt have reached 80,000.\n\nDr. Hilgendorf, a native of this city, and formerly director of the Hamburg Zoological Gardens, and now professor at the Royal Polytechnic at Dresden, has received a call to go to Japan to prepare young natives for their subsequent studies of medicine at German universities.\n\nA considerable number of Japanese are now studying at Berlin, Leipzig, and Heidelberg.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290816, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "content_text": "Hong Kong, 15 February 1873\n\nPostmaster General (P. W. Mitchell)\n\nto\n\nActing Colonial Secretary (D. Cecil Smith)\n\nShanghai\n\nAs to continuing to pay rent for Post Office premises and whether it is considered expedient to erect a new Post Office at Endlaure No 1 in Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy's Despatch No 67 of 19th March 1873\n\nConsul Medhurst to Acting Colonial Secretary\n\nCopy\n\nNo 7\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your despatch No 102 dated the 19th Ultimo.\n\nAll Government lands and buildings having been transferred to Her Majesty's Office of Works, I have submitted your letter to Mr Bayce, Government Surveyor here.\n\nTREASURY\n\n9183\n\n-4047\n\n73\n\nREG 17 JUN\n\nConsulate,\n\nShanghai\n\n6th March, 1873\n\nTo\n\nThe Honorable\n\nCecil C. Smith,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nHong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290817, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "content_text": "452\n\nand\n\nhe\n\ninforms me in reply, that\n\nunder date 10th and 22nd of July,\n\n1871\n\nhe furnished\n\nM. Mitchell,\n\nHer Majesty's Post Master General,\n\nwith all particulars respecting lot in question with\n\na view\n\nto\n\nthe\n\nsame\n\nas a site\n\ntowards it's being employed for a Port Office, a proposition which Mr Boyer also tells me he is entirely favorable to...\n\nan\n\nShould the object of your Letter be simply to procure expression of my own opinion in the matter, I have the honor to state that I fully concur in the expediency of the proposed modification, unless it should be the intention\n\nof\n\nthe Government to realise upon\n\nthe lot, which is exceedingly valuable.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) W. A. Medhurst,\n\nH. B. M's Consul.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nList\n\nJohn\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\n77", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291658, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "## \n\nenquire into the working of the Monopoly that Tenders for continuing it for three years were advertised for the Gazette.\n\nin \n\n15. M. Whittall did not then think proper, though there was ample opportunity, to condemn the policy of the Government, and it is only since he has found it profitable to support the interests of the Opium Farmers at Macao that his views on the subject have been brought forward.\n\n16. I must express my deep regret at having to trouble your Lordship at such length, but I could not permit such a Letter as that now transmitted being laid before Your Lordship without submitting in detail the action, which I had taken in a matter of so great importance.\n\n### 335\n\nI have the honor to be \nMy Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient \nhumble Servant, \nJ. W. Medhurst \nGovernor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292898, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "content_text": "! Sending back, via Hong Kong, to their native province, Canton.\n\nThis fact Mr. Vice Consul Alabaster reported to Mr. Wade shortly after the correspondence arising out of the circumstance took place.\n\nI have, &c.\n(signed) W. Medhurst\nH.M.B.M.'s Consul\nWuchow\n\nForeign Office\nState...\n\nForeign Office\nMINUTE.\n\nAdm de Robeck Dec 23,*\nLetter\nLords. Meade. Mr. Holland.\nMr. Herbert. 23 her Lettr. Hugessen.\nFord Fimberley.\n\n-448670\n34/74\n5428\nIndexed\nHay Raq\nJL.\n326\n24 Dec 1873\nGil\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 25th March and yours of the 15th ultimo, I am directed by the Earl of Kimberley to request that you will state whether you have been informed of a communication from Sir Wade on the subject of the transportation of Cantonese coolies for Formosa.\n\nCopy Gov- n° 2..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294912, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "## Correspondence Regarding Deportation of Chinese to Hongkong\n\nChinese from Shanghae to Trong Trung, which was complained of by the Government of that Colony, November 1872, and forwarding correspondence on the subject.\n\nAnd I am to request you to inform His Lordship that Lord Derby proposes, with his concurrence, to approve them to do all in their power to prevent the deportation of Chinese of bad character to Hongkong.\n\nI am,\nYour most obedient humble servant,\nFister\n\nDespatches addressed by Mr Wade to Sir A. Kennedy and Mr. Medhurst on the 1st of March, and the Circular which he has issued to Her Majesty's Consuls in China instructing them...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294916, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "138 \n\nFor A. Kennedy. I have the pleasure of knowing Mr. de laun & his very able subordinate W. C. Smithe. I draw the highest respect for both gentlemen, & nothing could be farther from my wish than to state anything in the form of a complaint against either. I adhere, notwithstanding, to my opinion that it is best, where the Colonial Govt may have to complain or reflect upon conduct for which a Consul is responsible, that its complaint or remonstrance be first addressed to the Legation.\n\nI shall here leave this matter un... The other matter, the \"prevention of the shipment of objectionable Chinese to Singapore\", as I now understand the Correspondence, is far more difficult to deal with. If all that the Colony desired were prevention of shipments as in this particular case complained of, shipment from a port in charge of a cosmopolitan Police force (in the control of which the Brit: formal will always have some voice), & by direction of that Police, this no doubt can be achieved; but I did not take blame on myself at once & promise to instruct the Consul to be vigilant in this regard, because I thought the case exceptional & a most unlikely one to recur. It may not be too late to repair my error & I enclose copies of letter to Sir A. Kennedy & of instructions to W. Medhurst, apropos the subject, which I shall be glad to learn have been approved by G. L. The letter to Sir A. Kennedy goes farther than such cases, & I must think that perusal of it will show G. L., if general regulation of wayfaring emigrants be contemplated, how impossible this would be anywhere except in the port of the Colony itself.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294917, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "## \n\nI have addressed a circular despatch to the Commander in the same terms that I have addressed to Mr. Medhurst.\n\nCopy of a circular despatch.\n\n(Sd) J. F. Wade.\n\nI have directed by &. ?. The four enclosed copy of an extract from the Fai... \n\nSevily un form you Prevo J the 6th inst: & b S. that from the S.S. \"Ganztage\" 16 Chinese coolies were landed in the Colony on the 30th ult.\n\nThe Gov... can with difficulty believe that under any circumstances such characters as are referred to in this report had received official sanction being sent down to this Colony without any communication being made to this Govt. It is, however, stated by the Charterers or Consignees & to have been placed on board by the Police at Shanghai, & that $5½ were paid for each passenger as a \"poor sure.\"\n\nB.M. \n5877 \nColonial Sec's Office \nHongkong hour 8/2.\n\nE \n139", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294920, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "Mr. Alabaster was intended as a censure of the conduct of the latter gentleman.\n\nI will deal with the last question first. I can assure you that in the suggestion that in any matter, in which the Colony might see reason to complain of the act or omission of a Police Officer, thislegation that be the first instance appealed to, was actuated by nothing but a desire to prevent misunderstanding. Two services that have but a common interest and duty would be by no means concerned if any remark of mine had appeared in any way to reflect upon a capable Subordinate. I am very sorry if it has.\n\nAs regards the question of promiscuous immigration, I may have been to blame for looking rather to the particular instance that occasioned the correspondence with Mr. Alabaster, than to the larger difficulty in the absence of control over the arrival of objectionable Chinese, which might place the Colony. I accepted Mr. Alabaster's explanations as satisfactory, and thinking the case very unlikely to recur, characterized the proceeding as \"unprecedented\". I must admit that I dismissed it too readily, and to repair my error, I have now written to Mr. Medhurst, a copy of which I beg to enclose. I am instructing our Consuls at the ports, as far as in them lies, to act in the spirit of my instructions with Mr. Medhurst.\n\nIf, as I understand the correspondence, J.E. Govt is still apprehensive that the Colony may be inconvenienced by the importation unchecked of objectionable Chinese, I confess that I see no defence against such an evil except in the ports of the Colony itself, were the ports of China open to British trade or frequented exclusively by British ships alone.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294922, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "# 5872 \n## 74 \n### Peking. March 11/74.\n\n**Earl Granville**\n\nEarl Granville's attention has been directed by correspondence between the Govt of Hongkong & a certain Chinese; 16 in number, alleged to have been forwarded to the Shanghai Colony by the Superintendent of Police. They were believed by the Colonial Govt on the authority of the Shanghai \"Towner\" to belong to the criminal class. Mr. Alabaster contended that although their need might have driven some of them to petty theft, they were not professional thieves or wrong doers, but a troupe of unsuccessful actors from Canton, for whom their fellow-provincials had charitably provided a passage home.\n\nThe case at the time appeared to me to be exceptional, that it did not occur to me... \nof Medhurst Expr to Shanghai.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294925, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "concurs in the Earl of Derby's proposal to approve the despatches addressed by M. Wade 1st April to Sir A. Kennedy, Mr. Medhurst, and others on the 11th of March, and the circular despatched by him to H.M. Consuls in China with reference to a complaint by the Governor of Hongkong.\n\nH. Rawson 1°41 \nMr. A. Kennedy \n\n## MINUTE\n\nHales 5 June \nMr. Meade, \nJ.S. R. I. Hlas \nMr. Herbert \nMr. Lawther. \nLord Carnarvon \n\nWm \n25 May 18/4 \nNo. 6.7.0. \nFo. \n5077 \nAkay \nS \n147 \n10 June 1874 \nIndexed \n\nwith reference to previous correspondence respecting the deportation of certain Chinese from Shanghai to Hongkong.\n\nIn the autumn of 1872, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, enclosing a report from M. Wade on the case in question, together with copies of despatches addressed by him to H.E. and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294926, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "## DOMESTIC.\n\nW. Medhurst on the 11th of March and a circular, the Hon. Mr. Consul in China, Consul, I have signified to the Earl of Derby my concurrence to his approval of the abovementioned documents, and I trust that the steps taken will remove all ground for complaints in the matter of interest to the government or individual.\n\n### (Subject.)\n\n### RECEN\n3 JUN 1974\n\nOffer New Treaty between France and Annam\n\nDate. 1874 me 2\n\n148\n\nTerrevor Despatches from the Minister, the subject of previous Paper Paris 5821\n\n8 COB for Peach- June:\n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nWt Meade Traurant aspy to Swemer d. 7 (east) with the Mar 2 letters which are going. J.. 3/6 J.M.3/6\n\nVeur Lead but this Treaty and of him. atome Uafb RM +/6 9.3 174 & 8029);\n\nPage 150 \nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298584, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "content_text": "is little, if anything of the Kind Your Excellency requires, obtainable up here : I shall however continue my enquiries.\n\nAt Shanghai something has been done, and is doing, in the direction indicated. I am therefore forwarding Your Excellency's Letter to Mr. Medhurst, Her Majesty's Consul at that Port, with a request that he will communicate directly with Your Excellency.\n\nMr. Hart, Inspector General of Customs, to whom I have applied, has furnished me with a list of works compiled or translated from foreign writings, but I am not sure that the books are of the Kind you wish for. However, I enclose copy of the list. The Geography at the head of it is from the hand of a Chinese Official, who, when he produced it in 1852, was Governor of Fuchau/Hien (Fujian). He was discredited at the time, but reappeared in 1866, and was made a minister of the Yamen of Foreign Affairs.\n\nI have … (signed) Thomas Francis Wade.\n\nP.S. Since the above was written…", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299046, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "content_text": "(14)\n\nto let engines for it come into China duty-free. Messrs. Jardine and Matheson have made this railway; Sir Thomas Wade was at Shanghai when it was opened, and was staying with that firm. He was invited to the opening ceremony, and he did not go; but Mr Medhurst, Consul at Shanghai, was present, and drank to the prosperity of the railroad. Are Messrs. Jardine and Matheson more powerful than the Chinese Empire, because this railroad of theirs has been made in defiance of treaty? From documents which have been published by the Shanghai papers, I gather the following facts. The prospectus of the company, which stated that the Chinese authorities were favourable to the scheme, stated that which was untrue. In 1872 the British Consular authorities asked the prefect of Shanghai, on behalf of the company, to take steps to re-open the old carriage road. In March 1873, the American Consul, who is, I believe, a shareholder in the company, made a similar application to the prefect. The prefect, in assenting to the road, objected to the levying of tolls upon it, as being contrary to Chinese custom, but made no other difficulty. In May 1873, the road began to be called a tramway by the papers. The prefect wrote to Mr Medhurst to call his attention to this fact, and to repudiate the rumour that the Chinese Government had given its consent to such a scheme.\n\nIt is something more than regrettable that a man of Sir Charles Dilke's position and intelligence should have undertaken to present so false a picture of events regarding which his information could not be but scanty and proves to have been inaccurate. There was no pretence whatever that there was any intention of re-making an ordinary road. The railway, to begin with, does not follow an old line of road at all! It was explicitly stated to the Chinese Taotai in office when the scheme was projected that a \"steam tramway\" was contemplated, and his permission was given for the works to be proceeded with. The first heard of a \"railway\" (no distinction existing in Chinese between a \"steam tramway\" and a \"railway\") was not the request to let the locomotives be admitted duty-free. Months before, the foreign and Chinese papers had contained frequent notices of the projected road, while news of the shipment of the engines was given in both the Hongkong and Shanghai press. The actual fact so ingeniously distorted by the Baronet was that the Chinese officials on the spot approved of the construction of the railway, but preferred to limit their support to a personal absence of hostility. No official report was, I believe, made to the Central Government or if made no orders were received to\n\nFor some\n\n(15)\n\ncheck the construction of the works. But the Chinese, as usual, reserved to themselves the right of objection if popular clamour should prove too strong. When Sir Thomas (then Mr) Wade left Peking, the intentions of the projectors were perfectly well known to the Peking authorities from informal sources, and the Minister himself, though not seeing fit to be present at the opening ceremony, expressed his full concurrence with what had been done, and even communicated his views to that effect to the Secretary of State. Let those who most uphold Sir Thomas Wade's action in China explain the riddle proposed by Sir Charles Dilke—that H.M. Minister in China should have openly approved \"unfair dealings\" with the Chinese and the construction of a railway \"made in defiance of Treaty;\" and that H.B.M. Consul should have been present at the opening ceremonies and drunk success to the line. The assertions are too wildly improbable to find belief even amongst the most rabid \"advanced radicals.\" I leave aside here the improbability of a house like that of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. engaging in any enterprise \"in defiance of the treaty,\" while the British Minister, moreover, was accepting the hospitality of their table. That firm stands too high to need justification otherwise than by a flat contradiction to the untruthful assertions of their detractor. But now comes the most disingenuous part of the accusation. In May, says the paper, \"the Prefect (Taotai) wrote to Mr Medhurst to call his attention, &c., &c.\" Would any home reader understand that this official was a new man, the successor of him who had given permission for the road to be constructed? Yet such was actually the fact! The man who granted permission for a steam tramway was named Shên. The writer of the despatch alluded to by Sir Charles Dilke was named Fêng.\n\nRather different this from the \"untrue statement\" of the Baronet. When he knows more of China—enough at least to enable him to write about it, he will be aware that Chinese officials, like those of many Asiatic nations, do not deem themselves bound by the acts of their predecessors as do those of Western\n\nPage 388", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "content_text": "(16)\n\npeoples. The new Taotai (though not personally ill-disposed) was afraid of provoking Imperial censure or punishment if he did not protest against an undertaking which possessed only local official sanction. Hence his letter to the Consul—a very different document to that which Sir Charles Dilke would have us believe it to be. But I have not yet done with the tissue of misstatements contained in the railway paragraph of Sir C. Dilke's article. He goes on to say that, according to the Taotai, \"in the formation of the Woosung railroad a number of public roads, pathways, and water-courses have been destroyed, to the great inconvenience of the population. Bridges have been built over creeks, and the passage of boats laden with cargo prevented,\" and these allegations seem, he says, \"unanswerable.\" He may be astonished—some of his readers certainly will be—to learn that they do not contain one grain of truth. No public road, pathway, or water-course whatever has been destroyed. On the contrary, whenever met with they have been carefully preserved and essentially improved. Not a single bridge has been built where it did not previously exist, and in all cases they have been made superior to their former height so as to less than ever impede boat navigation! Yet, Sir Charles Dilke \"does not know how\" Mr Medhurst or Sir Thomas Wade can clear themselves of the imputations he has seen fit to cast upon them in this connection.\n\nIt is somewhat difficult to write with gravity of our learned critic's apprehensions concerning a Russian \"alliance\" with China, and the consequent ruin of our commerce on the China Coast. His study of Russian progress in China must have been deep indeed, and his knowledge of the conditions of Russian trade on the frontiers of China, something that passes average acquirements. He deplores our \"high-handed proceedings towards the Chinese Government,\" inferentially contrasting it with a contrary action on the part of Russia. Such ignorance of the actual facts—Russia being described by the unanimous voice of Mandarindom as the most high-handed and least just of all Western Powers with whom China comes in contact—while placing the critic beyond the pale of consideration, does not exempt him from the strongest condemnation. Ignorance is no excuse for dogmatism when the ignorant man essays to teach others without even pretending to adequate knowledge.\n\n(17)\n\nUpon the Blockade question Sir C. Dilke falls into the same blunders as those entertained for a long period by officials more able than himself to affect the well-being of this colony. For readers in England only is it necessary to observe that recent representations have convinced the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the complaints made were well founded; and a full recognition of this fact is implied in the arrangement made under the Chefoo Convention whereby it is agreed that a Consul, Chinese Official, and Officer appointed by the Hongkong Government shall meet to discuss the Blockade, and if possible unite in suggesting a means of removing all causes of future complaint. The logic of facts is unanswerable, and in this case no arguments are needed to show that Sir Charles Dilke has condemned this Colony with the same intemperate haste as that which distinguishes so much of his comment on Chinese matters in the paper under review.\n\nSir Charles Dilke's generally correct appreciation of other matters as regards Hongkong and Canton rather justifies than renders unnecessary the refutations of his misstatements which I have felt impelled to bring forward. His remarks as to the probable decrease of the import trade, directly the Chinese undertake to manufacture for themselves the goods they now obtain from us, his regret at the discontinuance of the Hongkong Mint, and his sketch of Canton, are written in a way that makes one deplore the extent to which hasty generalization and inaccuracy have conspired to render his other comments injurious and most unjust.\n\nWith reference to the Yunnan question, Sir Charles Dilke, it may be premised, appears to have been curiously misled regarding one very important point. \"Many who well know the facts,\" he observes, \"believe, as I believe, that we have a bad case.\" I am not aware that, as regards the facts, any concealment has been practised on the general community; and Sir\n\n389", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305679, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "content_text": "# Extract from The Foreigner in Far Cathay\nMedhurst, London, 1872\n\n## My Observations\n\nAs regards the question of courage, again, it must be admitted that the Chinese possess more of the quality than they have hitherto had credit for. In almost every engagement between our men and theirs during the time that we were at war with them, instances were observed of really valorous conduct both in individuals and bodies of men, often expressed by those competent to judge, that had their armies and fleets been better found, crewed, and officered, our successes might have been somewhat less easily won.\n\nThis was clearly exemplified by the coolness with which the \"coolie corps\" attached to our transport or army performed in the ... Campaign.\n\nPage 420\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348648, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG\n\nIn addition to Medhurst's Christian Sam-teze-king, Bishop Boone's Episcopalian catechism (in Chinese) had to be committed to memory by all the scholars. The Chinese boys and their parents did not in the least object. The more books are read, the better for the boys, was the verdict of the parents who did not believe that any amount of Christian teaching would pervert their boys from ancestral worship.\n\n## 1851\n\nThe annual grant of $1200 which the Superintendent of British Trade in China used to give to the Morrison Education Society was this year transferred, with the approval of the Foreign Office, to St. Paul's College and thenceforth punctually paid every year until 1868, after which year it was withdrawn. The College had now an average attendance of 30 Chinese students under the tuition of Bishop Smith and the Rev. E. T. R. Moncrieff. But to the original aim of training up a native clergy, there was now added, as a condition connected with the above-mentioned annual grant of $1200, the further aim of training student interpreters, for which purpose the Governor of Hongkong received power annually to nominate six students. The first students so nominated were two European lads, Henry Collins and Robert Collins, who were recommended for the purpose by Mr. Hillier (August, 1851). The College Buildings were completed this year and all the surplus funds invested with Dent & Co. Miss Mitchell's European School continued a precarious existence, attended by 3 boys and 4 girls, but was closed before the end of the year for want of public support.\n\nThe Anglo-Chinese College, under Dr. Legge and Mr. Ho Poi-chi, was attended by 50 Chinese students, serving the purpose of a public school rather than that of a theological seminary as originally intended and costing the London Mission $1776. The Girls School under Mrs. Legge numbered 10 Chinese girls learning English.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Seminary in Queen's Road, under the tuition of Bishop Raimondi and Father Rizzolati, was continued as before, with 14 students, at a cost of $960. The R.C. Portuguese Boys School in Wellington Street, numbering now 30 Portuguese boys, was taught by Mr. J. J. da Silva e Souza and cost $240. At the same time Mrs. J. J. da Silva e Souza taught a Girls School, also in Wellington Street, attended by 12 Portuguese girls, at a cost of $240. The R.C. Chinese School, in which Mr. Cheung Ki-chan taught 28 boys, received the usual Government Grant of $120, but as to the other School, in Taipingshan, where Mr. Hau A-wan taught 18 Chinese boys, there is no information as to whether the cost of the School (stated to have been $120) was paid by the Government or by the Mission.\n\nWith regard to the Government Grant-in-Aid Schools, the Committee (Mr. Hillier and the Bishop's Chaplain) stated (6 April, 1851) that there was (in 1850) an average attendance of 93 scholars in 4 Schools (viz. 30 in Victoria, 18 at Stanley, 20 in Aberdeen and 25 at Wongnaichung) but complained that the attendance was very fluctuating. The Committee informed the Government that all the teachers are professed Christians, receiving their whole pay from Government and, as far as the Committee knew, no compensation from their scholars. The report mentions the following list of books used in the Schools: the Sam-tsze-king, Ts'in-tsze-man, the Confucian Four Books and Five Classics, Medhurst's Sam-tsze-king, Bishop Boone's catechism, and the Bible. The Committee suggested (5 April, 1851) that the School Committee should be remodelled and that to the Bishop of Victoria should be accorded the entire superintendence of the Schools or at least a joint superintendence. But the Government was in no hurry acting upon this suggestion. On 24th December, 1851, the Committee (Mr. Hillier and Mr. Moncrieff) reported that a new School had been opened at Little Hongkong, and that the average attendance in the four Schools was 113 (viz. 28 in Victoria, 20 in Wongnaichung, 24 at Aberdeen, 14 at Stanley and 27 in Little Hongkong). To free the teachers to exert themselves to secure a larger attendance of scholars, the Committee deducted from the salary of each teacher a certain sum for each scholar less than 30, and used the money thus saved for the purchase of Chinese books on Astronomy and Geography. The Committee also hinted that they were weary of the work by expressing a 'regret that they cannot give more effectual supervision to these Schools.' Selections were also made during this year of the most promising boys of these Government Schools and the boys so selected were transferred to St. Paul's College.\n\n## 1852\n\nDuring this year the Protestant Schools of the Colony consisted only of St. Paul's College with 34 students (mostly Chinese but now including a few European boys), and the Anglo-Chinese College with 45 Chinese boys and 10 Chinese girls in Mrs. Legge's School, both together costing the London Mission $1080.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Mission started, in addition to their Seminary under Father Rizzolati which, with its 16 students, cost $960, another Ecclesiastical School at Sookompoo, with 13 Students, under Father Ch. Jaquemin. As the former continued to furnish, from time to time, native priests for the Italian Mission (De Propaganda Fide), so this new Seminary commenced to do the same work for the benefit of the French Missions des Etrangères. The Portuguese Boys School was continued as before by Mr. J. J. da Silva e Souza, teaching 48 boys at an expense to the Mission of $240, whilst his wife continued to teach the Portuguese Girls School numbering 8 girls and costing the Mission the same amount. The Roman Catholic Chinese School, taught by Mr. Cheung Ki-chan, continued to receive the Government Grant of $120 (number of scholars not noted), whilst the other Chinese School in which Mr. Hau A-wan taught 15 boys, cost the Mission $120.\n\nAs to the Government Grant-in-Aid Schools, Mr. Hillier reported at the beginning of the year (30th January, 1852) that Mr. Moncrieff had withdrawn from the Committee (for reasons not stated), that he himself was now the only member of the moribund Committee and he recommended, once more, that the Bishop or Warden of St. Paul's College be appointed Visitor of the Government Schools. Mr. Hillier explained that he could not say whether the Bishop would accept the offer, His Lordship having never spoken to him on the subject, but he argued that, as the Bishop received in aid of the College a Government Grant of $1,200 a year, he would naturally be anxious to render those elementary Government Schools efficient as nurseries from whence promising pupils might be chosen for the higher course of education obtainable at St. Paul's College.\n\nAccordingly the Government requested (March, 1852) Bishop Smith to act as permanent Chairman of the Educational Committee, with Mr. Hillier and Mr. W. B. Medhurst (Chinese Secretary to the Government) as members of the Committee. At the same time, the Bishop's new chaplain, Rev. M. C. Odell, gave his aid to the Committee in visiting the Schools under their charge at irregular intervals. Soon after (20 July, 1852), Bishop Smith as representing the Committee for superintending Government Schools recommended that the Government should build School-houses at a small outlay. The average attendance at the Schools amounted, during this year, to 136 boys (viz. 40 in Victoria, 28 at Wongnaichung, 13 at Stanley, 28 at Little Hongkong, and 27 at Aberdeen). Half-yearly examinations were introduced, partly to test the quality of the teachers' work and partly to ascertain the fittest boys to be drafted into St. Paul's College. Prize distributions were held at the Bishop's residence and eleven boys were transferred during this year from the Government Schools to St. Paul's College.\n\n## 1853\n\nDuring the year 1853, St. Paul's...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG\n\nCollege had a diminished attendance of 21 students under the tuition of Bishop Smith and the Rev. M. C. Odell (now Acting Colonial Chaplain). The Anglo-Chinese College was attended by 36 boys, taught by Dr. Legge and Mr. Ho Pui-chi, at an expense of $1680, whilst Mrs. Legge's Girls-school was attended by 9 Chinese girls. A European Boys School, giving to 8 boys, under the tuition of Mr. J. Stanhope, an elementary English education was started this year but had only a brief existence. It does not appear with what Mission this School, probably Protestant, was connected. The two Roman Catholic Seminaries continued to flourish; the one in Queen's Road, under Bishop Raimondi and Father Rizzolati was attended by 18 students and cost $960; the other, at Sookonpoo, under Father Jaquemin, numbered 13 students and cost $240. The Portuguese Boys School in Wellington Street under Mr. J. J. da Silva e Souza had a reduced attendance of 11 boys, and cost the R. C. Mission, together with the Girls-School, attended by 10 girls, $120. The Chinese School in Taipingshan, under Mr. Wong Pau-lou and Mr. Tong Joannes, was attended by 16 boys, costing the Mission $48. The other Chinese School, attended by 40 boys under Mr. Cheung Ki-chan, continued to receive the Government Grant of $120. The attendance at the five Government Schools declined this year to 105, there being no more than 21 boys in average attendance at each School, which showed that the Committee's attempt to forcibly produce an increase of attendances by a system of fines inflicted on the teachers had failed.\n\nBut the year 1853 witnessed a great change in the constitution of the Committee and in the conduct of the Schools. During the greater part of the year Mr. Medhurst was the only member of the Committee present in Hongkong. Mr. Odell however inspected the Schools occasionally. In autumn (13th September, 1853), Mr. Hillier persuaded the Government to invite the Rev. M. C. Odell, the Bishop's Chaplain and the Rev. Dr. J. Legge of the London Mission to join the Committee. Dr. Legge's accession to the Committee brought about in a short time a complete revolution of the Committee's educational policy. He was opposed, as a staunch dissenter, both to the previous system of working the Government Schools as feeders to an Episcopalian College like St. Paul's and to the principle of spreading the religion of Christ by officers appointed by and invested with the authority of the Government, and finally he was the principal local advocate of combined Anglo-Chinese teaching. So long as Bishop Smith remained Chairman of the Committee, Dr. Legge could not do very much in furtherance of his own dissenting views, diametrically opposed as they were to the ecclesiastical and educational interests represented by the Bishop, but what little he could do he did at once and by persistent effort he started a movement which eventually succeeded in permanently secularizing the education given in Government Schools.\n\nWithin two days after Dr. Legge had joined the Committee, a plan was issued (15th September, 1853) for offering to the scholars of each Government School half-yearly prizes, with a tariff of fixed payments: greatest proficiency in Scripture knowledge, $1.50; in the English language, $1.00; in the Four Books of Confucianism, $1.50; in Geography, $1.60. The first payments under this tariff, amounting to $10, were made at the next prize distribution held at St. Paul's College by Bishop Smith (5th January, 1854). Another remarkable step taken by the Committee, in 1853, consisted in issuing printed instructions to the Masters of the Government Schools, requiring each Master to urge the people to send their children to school, to open school (as heretofore) every morning with prayer, to explain thereupon the Scriptures for half an hour before commencing the ordinary lessons, and to give on Sundays none but religious Christian instruction.\n\nThe list of books now prescribed by the Committee is the same as above mentioned but significantly omits the Church Catechism. The religious conscience difficulty is to be dealt with as follows: 'If the parents of any scholar object to the reading of the Bible, the Master should explain the great benefit of acquiring the knowledge which this Book teaches and he should inform them that the Christian religion is not a foreign religion, that it did not originate in England but in the East, and is common to all the world, having been given by our common Father, God. If they still object, then the boy may be excused from reading the Bible. He must not be turned away from the School, but his parents should be from time to time admonished, and then perhaps they will allow their children to be instructed in this Book which contains nothing but what is truly good.' The rule was now made—and this no doubt became unpopular with the parents and caused diminished attendance—that one half of each week day was to be devoted to the study of the Scriptures and of books composed under the superintendence of foreigners, and the other half of the day to the study of the Chinese classics. But another and even more important change, made consequent upon Dr. Legge's accession to the Committee, was that, since autumn 1853, English teaching was introduced in two of the Government Schools, viz. in the Victoria and Wongnaichung Schools, by means of two Chinese pupil teachers obtained from St. Paul's College.\n\n## 1854\n\nDuring this year, St. Paul's College numbered 21 students, taught by Bishop Smith and Mr. Odell. The Anglo-Chinese College numbered 36 students, taught by Dr. Legge and Mr. Ho Pai-chi, and Mrs. Legge's Girls-School counted 9 Chinese girls in attendance, the two Schools costing the London Mission $1680.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Mission had 18 students in the Seminary in Queen's Road under Bishop Raimondi and Father Rizzolati, and 13 students at the Sookonpoo Ecclesiastical School, the latter costing the French Mission des Etrangères $384. At the Taipingshan School, under Mr. Wong Pan-lo, the Propaganda Society had 16 boys under instruction, costing the Mission $120. In the R. C. Grant-in-Aid School, taught by Cheung Ki-chan, there were 43 boys, for whom the Government paid $120.\n\nThe Educational Committee, now consisting of Bishop Smith, the Hon. C. B. Hillier, Rev. Dr. J. Legge and Rev. M. C. Odell, reported that 5 Government Schools were at work during this year with accommodation for 150 scholars (at Victoria, Wongnaichung, Stanley, Little Hongkong and Aberdeen). In January 1854, the Committee recommended to the Government that the study of English should in this English Colony be encouraged as much as possible. This recommendation was in harmony with a strong feeling now arising once more among the European residents who frequently complained that the whole educational energies of the Colony served almost exclusively to benefit the Chinese and promoted Chinese literature, whilst the children of European and other non-Chinese residents were (owing to their unwillingness to attend what were virtually Chinese Schools) almost entirely neglected. But the Government would not move in the desired direction.\n\nThe Educational Committee also reported that the erection of two School-houses had been commenced by the Surveyor General, one at Wongnaichung and one at Victoria (Western extremity of the present Civil Hospital site). An examination of all the bigger boys from the Government Schools was held at St. Paul's College (January, 1854) and on the basis of the results obtained at this examination, prizes were distributed and seven of the most promising scholars selected by the Lord Bishop of Victoria and transferred, with their entire course...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\n## 1857\nThe number of scholars (among whom there were now for the first time 26 girls) being reported at the close of the year 1857 as in average attendance in 15 Government Schools. In their report for this year the Committee stated it to be their aim to raise the educational standard and not to enter into any antagonism to voluntary efforts in education. As we have seen above that voluntary educational efforts had by this time been reduced to a very low ebb in Hongkong, the foregoing sentence has peculiar significance. The Committee also stated that to the ordinary course of instruction, customary in Chinese Schools, they have added more explanation of the sense of the Chinese characters, a study of portions of the New Testament in Chinese, the meaning of which is explained and special passages committed to memory. As to English teaching, they report that the rudiments of spelling and English reading are also taught in the larger Schools and a few facts of geography taught by finding places on European maps.\n\n## 1858\nThe partial paralysis of voluntary educational efforts, which suddenly set in with the year 1857, continued during the year 1858. St. Paul's College indeed continued, as before, under one English and three Chinese teachers, having an attendance of 30 boys and 10 girls, costing $3000. St. Andrew's School also continued to flourish, under Rev. A. Taylor and Mr. W. Maxwell, and was attended by 118 boys and 19 girls, costing $2,500. But no other Mission Schools appear to have been at work under Protestant management. Of Roman Catholic Schools, likewise, two only appear to have been at work, viz. one, reported as 'the Seminary,' taught by a Chinese teacher and attended by 20 boys and 4 girls, and the Soukonpoo Ecclesiastical School with 30 students under Fère Chagot. The former cost the Roman Catholic Mission $900, the latter cost $750. No other Catholic School appears to have been at work in the Colony. But as to private Chinese Schools, there is a record stating that, apart from the Government Schools, there were about nine private Schools in the Colony, in 1858, entirely supported by Chinese.\n\nThe new Government School Committee appears to have worked with tolerable smoothness. The Committee now consisted of the Protestant Bishop, with the Rev. J. Chalmers and Mr. J. Searl as coadjutors, and the educational establishment included an Inspector (Mr. Lobscheid), a Chinese clerk, 4 teachers of English and 20 teachers of Chinese. The system of fees appears now to have been tentatively introduced in the Government Schools, as a Gazette Notice of 27 November, 1858, informed parents that schools for gratuitous instruction had been established, taught by native teachers, and that no fees were taken 'except 25 cash a month.' The parents were also informed that complaints were to be sent to the Educational Committee for Chinese Schools. The school hours were fixed at 6 hours per diem. In their report for the year 1858, the Committee state that there were 675 scholars under instruction in 15 Schools (with an average attendance of 568 scholars), and that 80 of these scholars received an Anglo-Chinese and the remainder a Chinese education, but that the scholars of all the Schools learned the New Testament in Chinese. The presence of girls (26) among the scholars is mentioned as something very strange. The Committee, however, did not think of opening a separate Girls-School, as the Chinese people were supposed to be—and at that time actually were—averse to the notion of giving girls a bookish education.\n\n## 1859\nThe paralysis which had befallen the educational movement among the Protestant and Catholic Missions continued during the year 1859. There is, in fact, as regards Roman Catholic education, only one School recorded as in operation during this year, viz. the R. C. Seminary in Wellington Street, attended by 8 boys and 12 girls under the tuition of a Mr. de Souza, and that this was merely a private Anglo-Portuguese Day-School (not a Seminary) appears from the statement that this School was self-supporting, each child paying a fee of $2 per mensem.\n\nNo other School, and not even the Soukonpoo institution, is reported as at work during this year in connection with the R. C. Missions. As to Protestant Schools, there was, in 1859, a slight sign of reviving educational interest, as Miss Legge now re-opened the former Anglo-Chinese Girls School of the London Mission, with 9 girls in attendance. St. Paul's College continued its work with a staff of 1 English and 4 Chinese teachers and an attendance of 40 boys. The Girls-School, lately connected with the College, appears to have been closed in 1859. The expenses of the College, amounting during this year to $3750, were partially met by the annual grant from the Foreign Office, and the balance is now stated to have been defrayed practically by rents of houses (College Gardens) built by voluntary contributions. St. Andrew's School, now under the tuition of Mr. E. Giles, was continued at an expense of $3490. The average attendance is not stated, but it is recorded that the principal attendants at this School are Portuguese and Chinese, besides some Parsees and children belonging to other countries. These words appear to indicate that Mr. Shortrede's original idea, in starting this School for the particular benefit of the children of English residents in the first instance, had by this time been found to be impracticable. The School, however, was continued for a few years longer.\n\nThe Government Schools continued to flourish and, through the zealous efforts of the Inspector of Schools, enlisted even the interest and sympathy of the native community, as evidenced by the singular fact that Chinese merchants subscribed, in 1859, the sum of $500 in aid of the Government Schools.\n\nAs many as 937 scholars and among them 61 girls were under instruction during the year in 19 Schools, with a staff of 3 English and 21 Chinese teachers. But the average attendance amounted only to 713 scholars. The total of the expenses, including rent of school houses and cost of inspection, amounted to $6,305. In his report for the year 1859, Bishop Smith states that the course of instruction pursued in these Government Schools embraced the general course of a native Chinese education in the textbooks of their national literature and works prepared by foreigners, and the New Testament and religious works in Chinese, 'except in cases of individual objection from the parents of the children.' Mr. Lobscheid introduced in the Schools a useful edition of both the native Sam-taze-king and of Medhurst's Sam-teze-king with interlinear comments prepared by himself. This work has been perpetuated in countless reprints to the present day. Mr. Lobscheid's relations with the Educational Committee and especially with the Bishop were occasionally strained, and additional cause of friction was created by the permission given to the Inspector of Schools by the Government (18th October, 1859) to assist Mr. Gardner Austin, Emigration Agent for British Guiana, in inducing Chinese from the neighbouring Hakka Districts to emigrate to Guiana with their families.\n\nBut quite a new departure was made by Bishop Smith at the close of the year 1859, in placing a newly started Diocesan Girls School under the Government Grant-in-Aid Scheme. Bishop Smith informed the Government (12th December, 1859) that this School was about to be expanded into a Boarding School under a lady instructress expected from England, and that this Boarding School would also be placed under the supervision of the Educational Committee. Accordingly, he asked the Government to grant a site and funds for building a house for the accommodation of the Chinese girls and the residence of the lady instructress.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354577, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 311, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "com Powell.\n\nMohd Sewart.\n\nHoury Humphreys. G. H. Potcs.\n\nH.A. S. Thompson.\n\nF.6.Cox.\n\nD. Wortes Smitt.\n\nJas: Spruce.\n\nChas: Graut. My.u. Jeffries. R. B. Joyce. Geo: B. Godwell. J. P. Dorolung.\n\nGeo: H. Medhurst.\n\nF Jas: East.\n\nA. M. Botellis,\n\nJ.M.B. Botelho. Paul Jordan.\n\nH. J. Dowler,\n\n8.6. Ray.\n\nH. Burton.\n\nRoss Housou. Awv. Robertson. Edw. F. Maskay\n\nHarry Wicking. Ed Robuison.\n\nW. Parfitt.\n\nH.C.A. Harris. A. W. Hall.\n\n4. Huster.\n\nJ. W. Fritti.\n\nJ. C. Peter.\n\nJ. Brown.\n\n7. 7. Raper\n\nA. Sharp.\n\nG.S. Brady. W.KK. Low. J. Stapier.\n\nWalter H. Brewer,\n\nJ.H.Chesney.\n\nI. cúchain.\n\n307\n\n6. 7. Robrison.\n\nC.cluray Adancóov.. Chas A. Thompson. P.C. Settina.\n\nD. Fr Jumboby.\n\nM. P. Falati,\n\nH. E. Banji. Dinshaw Moroso jer. Rol.oluchta. It Dotabice Llisty. H. G. Gotta.\n\nJoll. Vajifdar. E.D. Kotewal.\n\nJ. Fr. Jalati. S.B. Bhabha\n\nD. D. Guzdar.\n\nC.B. Mowrawalla.\n\nOlias: N. Co. Kew.\n\nDotabjer tousto-cl. J. Pestorjee.\n\nAlear Simming. W. G. Darby.\n\nAlear Gouald\n\nZ.-W. Lammert. G.C. Fullerton. M.P. Dipple. f. Grimble.\n\nW. St. John Hancock. H.S. Kavajaux,\n\nB.M. silenta.\n\ncr.d. Mance.\n\nA 6. Vania.\n\nIP varania. R.oh. Shalia.\n\nJolur Hastings.\n\nY. 6. Greiq.\n\nGB. Jumbolze.\n\nRelo. Thitt.\n\n7. Jaunsetje.\n\nJ.is. How.\n\nH Rutto jec\n\nJ & Sausou.\n\nJ.J. Blake.\n\n4.6.S.cilammes.\n\nAuctiony Babington. Regs Fuckm.\n\nAlfred, W. Dyer.\n\nFresjor.\n\noll & Polishwalla.\n\nChamatha.\n\nIt Grimble.\n\nCosu Ramsay", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359802, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 573, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "# List of Names\n\nROBERT JACKSON. \nGEO. A. CALDWELL. \nROBERT MITCHELL. \nR. COOKE, \nW. WILSON. \nD. MACDONALD. \nJ. WILKIE. \nJ. HAND. \nG. PATTON. \nGEO. S. KNOCKER. \nR. V. RUTTER. \nT. CURRAN. \nW. M. DEAS. \nT. C. HUTCHINGS. \nA. EWING. \nW. McASLAN. \nJ. WALLACE. \nJ. STENHOUSE. \nA. G. AITKEN. \nWILLIAM STEWART, \nALEX. ROWE. \nJOHN KYLES. \nR. LOGAN. \nGEO. WHITE. \nA. HARVIE. \nH. SMITH. \nE. J. MAIN, \nC. F. MENDHAM, \nW. HUTCHISO\n\n--12-- \n\nJNO. HUMPHREY. \nW. MASON. \nH. E. HOLLE. \nC. TOMLIN, \nW. E. CLARKE. \nJ. W. HUTCHINSON, \nJ. SMITH, \nJ. A. SCULTHORP. \nR. L. BLIGHT, \nJ. S. LEWINGDON. \nJ. C. CHEETHAM. \nWM. GEORGE. \nWM. S. BAILEY. \nJ. H. LOGAN. \nG. W. KEW. \nGEO. B. LEFAVOUR. \nT. WEBSTER. \nTHOMAS CLARK \nJ. A. CORDUS. \nJ. SUTHERLAND, \nJ. GALBRAETH. \nTHOS. KERR. \nG. J. VOWLES. \nG. C. COX. \nD. WARRES SMITH. \nCHAS. GRANT. \nH. U. JEFFRIES. \nR. B. JOYCE. \nGEO. B. DODWELL. \nJ. P. DOWLING. \nGEO. H. MEDHURST, \nF. JAS. EAST. \nA. N. BOTELHO. \nJ. M. B. BOTELHO. \nPAUL JORDAN. \nH. G. DOWLER. \nE. C. RAY. \nH. BURTON. \nROSS THOMSON. \nH. W. ROBERTSON. \nEDW. F. MACKAY, \nALEX. CUMMING. \nALEX. DONALD. \nF. W. LAMMERT. \nG. C. FULLERTON. \nWILLIAM J. STEWART. \nR. P. DIPPLE. \nG. GRIMBLE. \nF. GRIMBLE. \nWM. RAMSAY. \nT. E. SANSOM. \nP. PLAGE. \nR. H. HEARD. \nE. E. DA SILVA. \nJ. H. STEWART. \nH. E. MACKENZIE. \n\n--13-- \n\nARCHD. STEWART, \nG. H. POTTS. \nH. A. S. THOMPSON, \nJAS. S. BRUCE. \nHARRY WICKING. \nED. ROBINSON. \nW. PARFITT. \nC. A. HARRIS. \nF. W. HALL. \nH. HUNTER, \nF. W. FIRTH. \nJ. C. PETER. \nT. BROWN. \nF. F. RAPER. \nA. SHARP. \nG. S. BRADY. \nW. K. LOW. \nJ. NAPIER. \nWALTER W. BREWER, \nCHAS. H. W. KEW. \nW. G. DARBY. \nW. ST. JOHN HANCOCK. \nB. K. MEHTA. \nR. C. VANIA, \nJOHN HASTINGS. \nF. C. GREIG. \nR. W. KITT. \nJ. W. KEW. \nA. C. S. MANNERS. \nANTHONY BABINGTON. \nJ. J. BLAKE. \n\n567", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361924, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "*\n\n12\n\n2\n\n*\n\nshould pay all inland dues and charges on its way to the Treaty port but should be entitled to the return of any amount that might have been paid over and above the Treaty Transit due (2½ per cent.), provided it were exported to a foreign port within twelve months.\n\nArt. V excluded Chinese produce shipped from Hongkong to a Treaty port from the benefit of the Transit due privileges; China, \"on the other part, agreeing to issue to native produce shipped by British merchants from Treaty ports to Hongkong, the ordinary duty proofs, and to collect on such produce, on arrival at a second Treaty port, the ordinary coast trade (2½ per cent.) duty.\"\n\nRatification of this Convention was refused by the British Government, at the instance of the merchants concerned, who had no confidence that the provisions of Clause III would be observed. The arrangement, therefore, did not become operative.\n\nComplaint that the stipulations of Art. 28 of the Treaty of Tientsin regarding transit privileges were ignored by the Provincial Authorities, continued to be rife. Mr. Canny notably collected a mass of evidence of their violation by the local authorities of Kiangsu. The matter was made, by Mr. Medhurst, an incidental feature of his negotiations with the Viceroy of Nanking regarding the anti-missionary riot at Yangchow; and in November, 1868, Tseng Kwo-fan issued, in his capacity as Superintendent of Trade for the southern ports, a Note laying down that Chinese as well as foreigners have the right to take foreign imports inland on payment of the fixed Transit due, in the following terms :-\n\n\"I, Tseng Kwo-fan, &c., acting Superintendent of Trade, received a communication from the Tsung-li yamen stating that the first Article of the Regulations which were established in the 11th year of Hienfung demand that Foreign merchandise entering the interior shall pay duty at the Customs barriers, &c.\n\n\"Notwithstanding that this article has this language, it stands in force only when the merchant is unable to produce a certificate from some one of the various Custom Houses showing that he has paid the regular duty and the half-duty (Transit due). If he is unable to produce his duty certificate, that is proof that he has not paid duty. In that case this rule should be enforced.\n\nBy carefully examining and comparing the 28th Art. of the English Treaty with the 7th Art. of the Supplementary Treaty you will find that after foreign goods enter at the sea port, and pay the regular duty and half-duty, the merchant has only to exhibit his certificate of having so paid duty to be allowed to proceed to any distance without further demand.\n\n\"As to Chinese merchants purchasing foreign goods for an interior market, the 10th Art. of the Nanking Treaty and the 28th Art. of the Tientsin Treaty clearly show that all foreign goods, after they have paid the regular duty, may, at the pleasure of Chinese merchants, be carried to the ends of the Earth (i.e., to any part of the Chinese Empire).\n\n\"Again, in regard to duty on foreign merchandise in the interior, if the goods have paid the Transit duty at the seaport, and a certificate of the fact is given, no further evidence or fraction thereof (i.e., of any other kind) shall be demanded at any other station.\n\nThus it\n\n13\n\nis evident that foreign goods entering the interior, whether in the hands of Chinese or foreign merchants, if they hold a certificate showing that the Transit duty has been paid, then no further duty or likin shall be demanded.\n\nBut it may be urged that if native merchants purchase foreign goods and hold a certificate of having paid the Transit duty, and do not pay the Likin, that will be defrauding the Government, &c. This is a regulation of the Likin stations. There is no such treaty stipulation. In the 46th Art. of the English Treaty it is stated that the Superintendents of Customs at the various ports shall have the right to devise any means they may think desirable to prevent smuggling. The intent of this article points to the regulation deemed necessary for collecting the regular duty and Transit duty once, and has no reference to establishing Likin regulations.\n\n\"In regard to Transit certificates. When the Customs half-duty shall have been paid, then the Customs will issue the Transit Pass.\n\n\"In regard to the proclamation issued by the English Minister Bruce in the second year of Tungchih, twelfth moon (January, 1864), with reference to foreign merchants purchasing foreign goods for an interior market, the gist of it consists in two points; if the foreign merchant is not inclined to pay the half-duty at the seaport, then he can pay it and the Likin at the interior stations. If he is unwilling to pay the demand in the interior, then he must pay the Transit duty in advance. In this matter he can have his choice.\n\nIt is imperative that the Treaty stipulation be observed, and under no circumstances the Likin be made to violate the existing treaties and provoke constant disputes with the Consuls.\"\n\nThe effect of these instructions seems to have been still slight, except in the precise district (Tsing-kiang-pu) to which Mr. Medhurst's remonstrance pointedly applied. The local officials generally continued their old habits, until the question was raised and strenuously fought by Mr. Markham in 1871. It is not, in fact, till 1871 that Foreigners became aware of Tseng Kwo-fan's Note being in existence. It was discovered, in that year, in a collection of Treaties and Explanatory Despatches which had been published by a Taotai of Shanghai. The question seems then to have been brought to the notice of the Tsung-li yamen by Mr. Hart, and renewed instructions to have been issued, which were fairly obeyed in Kiangsu.\n\nClause IV of the third Section of the Chefoo Convention, negotiated by Sir Thomas Wade in 1876, consecrated the understanding expressed by Tseng Kwo-fan, in the following terms ---\n\n\"The Chinese Government agrees that Transit Duty Certificates shall be framed under one rule at all ports, no difference being made in the conditions set forth therein; and that, so far as imports are concerned, the nationality of the person possessing and carrying them is immaterial.\n\n\"Native produce carried from an inland centre to a port of shipment, if bona fide intended for shipment to a foreign port, may be, by treaty, certificated by the British subject interested and exempted by payment of the half-duty from all charges demanded upon it en route.\n\n\"If produce be not the property of a British subject, or is being carried to a port not for exportation, it is not entitled to the exemption that would be secured it by the exhibition of a Transit Duty Certificate.\n\n*\n\n5\n\n145", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 671, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Wedd\n\ndependent as it is upon the business incidental to a great shipping port of call. The Governor observes with satisfaction that the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce are prepared to accept cheerfully the increased taxation that will probably be necessary to meet the heavy expenses of contemplated measures for the general improvement of sanitation.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nChamber of Commerce.\n\n31.The foregoing statements prove that the local Government has failed to give effect, save in a very qualified form, to the measures so frequently urged upon it by its own Medical Officers and other experts; its efforts, so far, have met with so little result, indeed, that the Colony is now suffering severely from the annually recurring visitations of plague and, in a lesser degree, of enteric fever and small-pox. The inadequacy of the measures adopted by the local Government in dealing with so grave a crisis may, we submit, be regarded as equivalent to a tacit admission on its part that it is beyond its Power, of its own initiative, to undertake the gigantic task which a thorough and efficient reform of the Sanitary conditions of the Colony, with the heavy expenditure and sacrifices attending it, would involve\n\nThe conviction has consequently been forced upon us that no really effectual measures will be taken to grapple with the Sanitary problems of the Colony and to arrest the progress of disease until an appeal is made to the responsible Minister of State for his intervention. These annual epidemics are pressing acutely on the Commerce and Industries of the Colony, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain labour, whether European or Chinese. This year the Plague has again produced a cessation of Emigration, and the loss to the Shipping and Trade generally through quarantine restrictions and other delays has been very great. Native workmen are leaving Hongkong in thousands, and there is not an important industry or commercial undertaking in the Colony, employing and dependent on Chinese labour, that has not suffered.\n\nUnder the circumstances hereinbefore referred to your Petitioners most humbly Pray that you will be pleased\n\nthis 25th day of June, 1901.\n\n1.-To appoint a Commission consisting of a person or persons wholly unconnected with the Colony to proceed forthwith to Hongkong to investigate and report\n\n(a) On the Sanitary Condition of the Colony; (b) On the measures to be adopted for the improvement of the City of Victoria and of the Colony as it at present exists.\n\n2.That you will be pleased to attach to the said Commission some independent Sanitary Expert to advise.\n\n3. That after receiving and considering the Report of such Commission, you will give directions for the Recommendations of that Commission to be forthwith carried into effect.\n\nT. H. WHITEHEAD, J.P. (Mem. Legislative Council)\n\nJ. C. VICTORIA (Rt. Rev. Bishop of Victoria)\n\nL. M. PIAZZOLI (Rt. Rev. R.C. Bishop of S. China)\n\nNO. J. FRANCIS, K.C.\n\nEDWARD OSBORNE, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nC. GERLACH, M.D.\n\nWILLIAM HARTIGAN, J.P., M.D., D.P.H.\n\nF. OSMUND STEDMAN, J.P., M.D., B.Sc. (LOND.)\n\nJ. W. NOBLE, D.D.S.\n\nFREDERIC H. BOWERS, D.D.S.\n\nG. MONTAGU HARSTON, J.P., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (LOND.)\n\nR. MACBEAN GIBSON, M.D., C.M. (EDIN.)\n\nL. R. BELL, D.D.S.\n\nROBERT LAMORT, M.D.\n\nG. APACIBLE, M.D., B.A.\n\nF. P. SOARES, P.M.\n\nHERBERT W. BIRD, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nCHRIS. B. THOMAS, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nWM. DANBY, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nA. DENISON, J.P., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nL. GIBBS, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nB. BROTHERTON HARKER, C.E.\n\nW. H. WICKHAM, A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nR. K. LEIGH, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nED. ROBINSON, J.P.\n\nH. W. SLADE, J.P.\n\nH. A. RITCHIE, J.P.\n\nW. HUTTON POTTS, J.P.\n\nJ. ORANGE, J.P., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.AM. Soc. C.E.\n\nCLEMENT PALMER, J.P., F.R.I.B.A.\n\nAGOSTINHO G. ROMANO (Consul-General for Portugal)\n\nJ. J. LEIRIA (Vice-Consul for Brazil)\n\nW. D. BRAIDWOOD, M.A.\n\nJ. A. SWANN, L.R.C.S., L.M., L.R.C.P., L.M.\n\nF. MAITLAND, J.P.\n\nJ. H. COX, J.P.\n\nW. J. McLOUGHLIN, P.H., C.H.\n\nB. BYRAMJEE, J.P.\n\nM. G. SASSOON, J.P.\n\nE. SHELLIM, J.P.\n\nA. J. RAYMOND, J.P.\n\nC. S. GUBBAY, J.P.\n\nD. E. BROWN, J.P.\n\nR. L. RICHARDSON, J.P.\n\nR. SHEWAN, J.P.\n\nJ. A. MCKAY, J.P.\n\nG. W. F. PLAYFAIR, J.P.\n\nCHAN A FOOK, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nD. MACDONALD, C.E.\n\nA. E. GRIFFIN, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. G. CLARKE, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. POATE, J.P.\n\nD. GILLIES, J.P.\n\nC. S. SHARP, J.P.\n\nT. H. REID, J.P.\n\nA. S. GOMES, M.D., M.R.C.S.\n\nW. H. SHIRRIFF, M.B., C.M., L.S.A.\n\nB. FITZALAN HOWARD, B.A.\n\nR. CHATTERTON WILCOX, J.P.\n\nFRAMJEE H. ARJANEE, J.P.\n\nC. W. DICKSON, J.P.\n\nB. LAYTON, J.P.\n\nF. HENDERSON, J.P.\n\nG. C. ANDERSON, J.P.\n\nJ. C. COHEN, J.P.\n\nD. K. ROHRMANN\n\nWM. A. CRUICKSHANK\n\nE. BRUCE SHEPHERD\n\nA. H. RENNIE\n\nALFRED CUNNINGHAM\n\nH. T. WILGREES\n\nPHILIP W. SERGEANT\n\nT. COCHRANE\n\nJ. A. LEE\n\nJ. J. JUDAI\n\nGODFREY C. CO.\n\nMASTER THOS. ARNOLD\n\nA. CAMPBELL MACMILLAN\n\nHENRY HUMPHREYS\n\nE. NIEDHARDT\n\nF. W. R. LEMM\n\nE. D. HASKELL\n\nW. H. RAY\n\nA. TURNER\n\nG. H. MEDHURST\n\nJ. D. AULD\n\nG. R. EDWARDS\n\nA. ELLIS\n\nS. FULCHER\n\nR. T. HEAD\n\nW. PARFITT\n\nH. P. WHITE\n\nL. S. LEWIS\n\nP. A. COX\n\nA. A. SKELTON\n\nT. HALL\n\nC. J. TYNDALE-LEA\n\nA. SINCLAIR\n\nJ. GALT\n\nJ. KIRKWOOD\n\nJ. R. WILSON\n\nC. KLINCK\n\nR. O. RUTHERFORD\n\nH. JEWITT\n\nE. O. MURTHY\n\nF. P. DE V. SOARES\n\nA. MCINTYRE\n\nJ. DOUGLAS\n\nE. JOHANNSEN\n\nC. BELL\n\nJ. I. ANDREW\n\nW. S. BAILEY\n\nJ. ANGUS\n\nW. McCLURE\n\nD. MACDONALD\n\nG. L. TOMLIN\n\nC. PEMBERTON\n\nH. PINCKNEY\n\nJ. HASTINGS\n\nJ. SCOTT HARSTON\n\nC. EWENS\n\nH. F. R. BRAYNE\n\nO. D. THOMSON\n\nW. J. HUMPHREYS\n\nM. J. D. STEPHENS\n\nV. H. DEACON\n\nF. B. DEACON\n\nF. C. BARLOW\n\nP. W. GOLDRING\n\nA. FAIRALL\n\nA. BABINGTON\n\nC. D. WILKINSON\n\nE. J. GRIST\n\nH. K. HOLMES\n\nF. H. YEATS\n\nE. F. GROS\n\nH. E. TOMKINS\n\nC. FITTOCK, JR.\n\nT. G. WORCESTER\n\nF. R. SMITH\n\nR. FLINT\n\nGEO. ECKLEY\n\nE. A. KATSCH\n\nE. G. BARRETT\n\nE. J. LIBEAUD\n\nA. E. WHEELEY\n\nCHAS. E. MALIGNY\n\nR. KOZHEVAR\n\nJOHN PRESTAGE\n\nH. HYNDMAN\n\nF. GOMES\n\nH. KUMMEL\n\nF. LANDOLT\n\nJ. GRANT SMITH", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381605, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "316\n\nbe adjusted in such a way, that those who desired a higher education should pay higher fees. It must be remembered that the Queen's College provides the Chinese with more than a Primary Education. (4.) We consider that it should be possible for the children to obtain Christian teaching in the school. At present the only religion taught in the Government Schools is Confucianism! Europeans may justly claim that their children should have the opportunity of Christian teaching. Some arrangement such as exists in Board Schools in England, by which teaching in the Christian Scriptures should be given by the Ministers of various Denominations to the children of such parents as might wish for it, would in our opinion be essential.\n\n(5.) In view of the manner in which the European population is scattered, and the difficulty of locomotion, especially in the summer, we consider that it would be necessary to make some arrangement for the boarding of some of the children. This is very largely done in Government Schools in India.\n\n6. In conclusion, and on account of the foregoing considerations, we venture to appeal to your Excellency for the establishment of a school for Europeans only, where people of small means may be able to obtain a suitable education for their children. Whatever may be advanced in argument as a matter of theory, we do not believe that any European in the Colony, from your Excellency downwards, can really consider that the system of mixing a small number of European children with vast numbers of Asiatics in the same schools is really beneficial. As a matter of practical politics such a school as we have advocated is most urgently needed. We most earnestly hope, therefore, that your Excellency will be able to give a favourable response to our appeal.\n\nWe have the honour to remain,\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient Servants\n\n[signed] H. Thom lives.\n\nRobert Shewan.\n\nA. M. Pollard Colonel.\n\nA. Hughes, Lt. Colonel.\n\nH. V. O'Gorman, Colonel.\n\nJohn A. MacKens.\n\nHenry May.\n\nMr. Blade.\n\nR. L. Richardson.\n\nA. A. Wood.\n\nDr. E. Browne.\n\nG. H. Medhurst.\n\nG. S. Playfair.\n\nJ. M. Beattie.\n\nAlhas Lunninngham.\n\nJun J.\n\n(signed) R. Croke.\n\nJ. R. Craig.\n\nJ. Smith.\n\nN. Mikon.\n\nW. J. Ford.\n\nM. Nicholls.\n\nM. C. Jack.\n\nThames Teave.\n\nJane H. Cox.\n\nJ. M. Henderson.\n\nD. Jogan.\n\nJames D.\n\nJ. White.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384248, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, HONGKONG OFFICE,\n\nK. OLDORP.\n\nTHE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED,\n\nTHO. ARNOLD,\n\nSecretary.\n\nNIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,\n\nA. S. MIHARA,\n\nManager.\n\nDODWELL & Co., LD.,\n\nG. H. MEDHURST, Acting Manager.\n\nAgents: Northern Pacific S.S. Co.\n\nMogul S.S. Co.'s Line.\n\nWarrack S.S. Co.'s Line. China Mutual S. N. Co.\n\nBarber & Co.'s Steamers.\n\nJEBSEN & Co.,\n\nfor Jebsen Line of Steamers.\n\nGIBB LIVINGSTON & CO.,\n\nAgents: \"Ben\" Line of Steamers,\n\nEastern & Australian S.S. Co., Ld.\n\nPORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO.,\n\nALLAN CAMERON,\n\nGeneral Agent.\n\npp. MCGREGOR BROS. & Gow,\n\nE. H. HINDS,\n\nAgents: \"Glen” Line of Steamers.\n\nÁRNHOLD KARBERO & Co.,\n\nAgents: Shell Line of Steamers.\n\nCARLOWITZ & Co.,\n\nAgents: Navigazione Generale Italiana.\n\nU.S., China & Japan S. Line. (Sloman).\n\nMitsui Bussan Kaisha,\n\nN. INUZUKA, Manager,\n\nAgents: Osaka Shosen Kaisha.\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents: Ocean Steamship Co.\n\nChina Navigation Co., Ld. Nord-Deutscher Orient Line. Californian & Oriental S.S. Co. Taikoo Sugar Ref'g. Co., Ld.\n\nPage 5\n\npp. DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,\n\nW. PARFITT,\n\nGeneral Managers, Douglas S.S. Co., Limited,\n\nBRADLEY & Co.,\n\nAgents: Shan Line of Steamers.\n\nFuen Fat Hong,\n\nChan Chun Tsun.\n\nDAST ASIATIC TRADING COMPANY,\n\nG. HARLING, General Manager,\n\nOwners and Agents: Chinesische Küstenfahrt Ges.\n\nHanseatische Dampfschiffart Ges.\n\nLAO TZE SAU,\n\nManager, China Merchants S. N. Co.\n\nTUNG KEE & Co.\n\nTang Kee & Co.\n\nTHE KWONG WAN STEAMBOAT Co., LD.\n\nKwong Wan Steamboat Company Limited.\n\nTai On S.S. Co.\n\nHongkong, Nov. 8th, 1901.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405424, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 619, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "# WEST RIVER PIKACY.\n## China Association's Strong Protest, Rousing Addresses.\n\nAn extraordinary meeting of members of the Hongkong Branch of the China Association was held on Saturday, to which the Press were invited, for the purpose of discussing the question of piracy on the West River. There was a large attendance. Mr. Murray Stewart, Chairman of the Hongkong Branch of the Association, presided. Among others present were: - Hon. Mr. W. J. Gresson, Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, Messrs. D. R. Law, A. G. Wood, H. N. Mody, W. G. Humphreys, T. F. Hough, H. P. White, T. P. Cochrane, E. J. Grist, Geo. Simms, Geo. Tomlin, C. D. Wilkinson, J. Scott Harston, Capt. W. E. Clarke, M. W. Slade, T. Skinner, H. W. Looker, H. H. J. Gompertz, J. Hastings, H. E. R. Hunter, E. J. Barrett, H. Pinckney, W. Parlane, Geo. H. Medhurst, F. Smythe, G. C. Moxon, H. W. Slade, W. J. Saunders, J. W. Kew, W. Ramsay, and others.\n\n## THE CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS.\n\nMr. M. Stewart said: Gentlemen, In calling this meeting together, your committee have no other motive than an earnest desire to strengthen the hands of those whose official duty it is to assist in obtaining satisfaction for a gross violation of the British flag; to bring to justice the perpetrators of a diabolical outrage; and to insist that in future the Chinese authorities responsible for the safety of traders on the West River shall be made to fulfil their repeated promises of providing adequate protection.\n\nI am a believer in the friendly-watchdog theory of this Association. I conceive it to be no part of our business unnecessarily to worry British officials who are doing their utmost to further the interests committed to their care. As a rule, in my view, it is only incumbent on us to offer an opinion when, looking at matters from a commercial standpoint, we are impressed by aspects possibly in danger of being obscured by consideration of a different order. On the subject which we are here to discuss, it may seem to some of you inconceivable that there possibly exist any difference between official and mercantile views. It may seem to you a matter of certainty that every British official concerned, high or low, at home or abroad, from the Secretary of State in London to the Vice Consul at Canton, must see eye to eye with those who are endeavouring, mainly out of patriotic sentiment, to develop a difficult, dangerous, and so far unprofitable carrying trade between Canton and Wuchow, or between Wuchow and Hongkong. Your committee have every hope that this will prove to be the case. They hope that our authorities clearly perceive where the real responsibility rests, and they confidently anticipate the presentation of a united front and a firm attitude in fighting down the inevitable opposition of the Chinese authorities to our just demands. Nevertheless, they consider it their duty to invite discussion on a resolution which I shall presently propose, with a view to making local mercantile opinion perfectly clear. If we succeed in doing this, we shall then have done what is required of us by the objects of the Association. The first object of the Association is to represent and express the opinion of the British mercantile community. The circumstances leading up to the Sainam piracy demand such an expression of opinion.\n\nTo understand and appreciate all circumstances, it is necessary to think back over a decade. No one who came only yesterday to China can possibly understand or appreciate these circumstances unless he is gifted with a quick imagination. Without that gift, newcomers will naturally be apt to regard the Sainam incident as an isolated event. Those of us who were here when the West River was opened realise that it is nothing of the sort. We know that it is merely the natural outcome of events which have taken place since then - that it is simply the culminating point in a long series of incidents following one upon another in logical sequence. It would be tedious if I were to dwell in detail on all these incidents. Moreover, time does not permit of it. Time only permits me to indicate briefly certain broad and significant aspects of the question.\n\nBroadly treated and briefly stated, the circumstances may be summarised thus. The West River was declared open to trade in June, 1897, by Imperial Edict. At first, many difficulties were encountered - ill-conceived regulations, shifting channels, no buoys, no lights, and other similar inconveniences incidental to pioneering; but that any danger existed of piratical attacks on steamers flying the British flag was not reckoned with seriously. No one who went to Wuchow in those days ever thought of it, any more than if the voyage had been to Macao. I was an early passenger. I remember the trip as if it had been made yesterday. The idea of danger never entered my head.\n\nBut in a little time, things began to change for the worse. Chinese launches, then entering upon the trade, offered good plunder to adventurous robbers, and cases of piracy became frequent. Anyone who cares to study the records of the Chamber of Commerce and the China Association, or to consult the files of the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405550, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "## 13\n\n(Y 9 J 01 \n\n88 \n\nJ': *CH .4 k .9% now \n\nPOPLARBERT eetara) \n\n101 MALNO NOITURE \n\n* Chund 211000 \n\nide? The ATOCE \n\n.16 **** [928FQ \n\nPlusen ajeldeo00 \n\nSCUIMING \n\nthe Bokkien Provincial Authorities: the contracts were approved by them and the Mexican Authorities were in full accord with the immigration, but the charter fell through for the reason that under British Laws British vessels cannot carry contract labour to a foreign country, and the German steamer \"Erna\" secured the business. We have therefore before us the fact of a British steamer wanting employment being unable under the laws to accept the business mentioned although the same was sanctioned by the Chinese Government, and by the Government receiving the coolies.\n\nIt is almost certain that in the near future the United States Government will require large numbers of coolies for Panama, and will enter into a convention with the Chinese Government in connection with Chinese migration, probably under some such regulations as apply between the British and Chinese Governments with regard to coolies for South Africa, and unless the laws are altered British Shipping cannot participate in the transportation of these coolies.\n\nFrom the above you will realise that the present laws constitute a serious injury to British Shipping. What is required is amending Ordinances, modifying the obsolete sections, bringing the Law into line with modern conditions and requirements, and where two Governments agree together such as the Chinese Government and the Mexican Government, or the Chinese Government and the United States Government, as regards Chinese Emigration under satisfactory conditions and terms, we venture to suggest that our Consuls and other Authorities should be authorised to allow British ships to carry coolies.\n\nThe matter is one of great importance, and we trust the Chamber of Commerce will see its way to bring it before the notice of the Legislative Council.\n\nI have, etc.\n\n**DUDWELL & CO., LTD.**\n\nG. H. Medhurst,\nManager.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "10 July 1869\n\nMeeting of Directors\n\n1st Resolution.\n\nProposed by the Chairman\n\nSeconded by Mr. Medhurst\n\n\"That it is desirable to increase the Bank's Capital and that the necessary steps be taken forthwith in that direction\".\n\n2nd Resolution.\n\nProposed by the Chairman\n\nSeconded by Hon. Mr. W. J. Gresson\n\n\"That the Chief Manager apply to H.E. the Governor to amend the Bank's Ordinance to allow of an increase of Capital from $10,000,000 to $30,000,000 and to extend the same for a further period of 21 years from the 14th August, 1909, on which date the existing period of 21 years expires\".\n\n3rd Resolution.\n\nProposed by the Chairman\n\nSeconded by Mr. Raymond\n\n\"That the Bank's Capital be forthwith increased to $15,000,000 by the creation of 40,000 shares of $125 each to be issued at the price of $30 each to shareholders in the proportion of one new share to two old shares, and that the necessary steps be taken to effect this\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 450, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "Suit \n\ndi \n\n448 \n\nMr. G. H. Medhurst, Head of Messrs. Dodwell and Company, Limited, and Director of Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited.\n\nMr. D. R. Law, Head of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.\n\nMr. R. Shewan, Head of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Company.\n\nMr. J. R. H. Smith, Chief Manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nMr. W. Dickson, Manager of Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.\n\nMr. E. A. Hewett, Superintendent, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ... \n\nand had asked them whether they would support legislation to make compulsory on British subjects of British race in Hongkong Military training on the lines of the training of members of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps. All except Mr. J. R. M. Smith had expressed themselves as in warm sympathy with the proposal and had stated that they would be prepared to favourably consider proposals to give effect to it provided the scheme were a reasonable one which would not unduly handicap British Merchants and Traders in their competition with Foreign Merchants and Traders. Mr. J. R. M. Smith had informed me that he would consider the matter and inform me of his views later. Sir F. D. Lugard afterwards saw him but failed to remove his evident objection to the proposal.\n\n3.\n\nSubsequently Sir F. D. Lugard decided to appoint a representative Committee to consider the\n\nPage 450\n\nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "Cosuere !\n\n449\n\nthe question, and, after consulting Major-General R. G. Broadwood Commanding the Troops, drew up a Memorandum, copy enclosed, to be communicated to the Committee. The proposed scheme of training based on what is required of Territorial Troops in the United Kingdom, was on further consideration and to meet objections of employers to absence of their employees in Camp, modified as in the proposals by the General Officer Commanding, copy of which is attached to the Memorandum. A further attempt was made to induce Mr. J. R. M. Smith to join the proposed Committee but without success. He, however, allowed Mr. F. J. Stabb, who on his departure on leave was about to succeed him as Chief Manager, to represent the Bank.\n\nThe following Gentlemen were eventually appointed to the Committee:\n\nSir F. H. May, Colonial Secretary, Chairman,\n\nHon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, Supt., P. & O. S. N.\n\nHon. Mr. M. Stewart, Exchange Broker.\n\nHon. Mr. E. Osborne, Secretary, Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.\n\nMr. H. V. Robertson (in place of Mr. D. R. Law who had left the Colony)\n\nHead of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nMr. G. H. Medhurst, Head of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd.\n\nMr. R. Shewan, Head of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.\n\nMr. N. J. Stabb, Chief Manager, Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nMr.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426113, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "Page 480\n\nY 10:\n\nthe direction of applying compulsion to young men in the Colony below a certain age who had not yet entered upon their life's work.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government said that before considering any modifications of the scheme he desired to take the vote of the Committee upon the modified scheme which had been put forward by Major Hart-Synnot as requiring the minimum of training which Military opinion could accept. His Excellency emphasized the fact that all efforts to make volunteering more popular had failed and that in the words of Mr. Shewan the voluntary system had been tried and found wanting. Some form of compulsion was, therefore, necessary. In the scheme before them he had endeavoured to meet objections of employers of labour by eliminating continuous training lasting over several days and by confining the training to Sundays and holidays. His Excellency then put the modified scheme, which was moved by Mr. R. Shewan and seconded by Mr. B. Osborne, to the meeting. There voted:-\n\nFor.\n\nMr. Shewan.\n\nMr. Osborne,\n\nMr. Hough.\n\nMr. Humphreys.\n\nMr. Shelton Hooper.\n\nMr. E. C. Vilks.\n\nLieut.-Col. Chapman.\n\nAgainst.\n\nMr. Keswick.\n\nMr. Robertson.\n\nMr. Stabb.\n\nMr. Hewett.\n\nMr. Dickson.\n\nMr. Medhurst.\n\nMr. M. Stewart.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government declared that the votes were equal; but that it could not be denied that those who were unable to support the scheme represented the larger interests from the point of view of the employment of labour. The Government could not, His Excellency added, press a scheme like this unless it commanded practically the unanimous approval of the Mercantile Community. He did not wish to record his vote against the scheme as he was in favour\n\n$130\n\nPage 584", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426114, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 483, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "481\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government then suggested that perhaps the Sub-Committee would be willing to consider an alternative scheme which would commend itself to those who had found themselves unable to support the scheme they had been considering. Mr. Hough's suggestion that compulsory military training should be applied to young men below a certain age had much to commend it. He asked what age limit Mr. Hough had in mind. Mr. Hough said he had not considered the matter in detail. He suggested 22 years. Mr. Osborne suggested 30 years, but to this demur was made in more than one quarter.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government said that in addition to Mr. Hough's suggestion he would ask the Sub-Committee to consider how Volunteering might be made more popular. He thought that means might be found of inducing men in the same social scale, or in the same employment, to combine together into units.\n\nThe members of the Sub-Committee intimated their willingness to take these suggestions into consideration and to submit a report.\n\nMr. E. A. Hewett begged, owing to pressure of business, to be excused from sitting on the Sub-Committee. He was not, in any case, a large employer of labour and suggested that his place be taken by Mr. G. H. Medhurst. The latter expressed his willingness to serve. Mr. Shone suggested that Mr. T. F. Hough be invited to join the Sub-Committee. Mr. Hough said he would have much pleasure in serving.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government suggested that the name of Mr. Osborne should be added. Mr. Osborne, however, thought that the Sub-Committee was already sufficiently large.\n\nThe Committee agreed that the Sub-Committee, re-constituted as above, should consider the question of (a).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426118, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "Page 485\n\nMeeting of Sub-Committee held on the 29th June, 1910.\n\nPresent:\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. H. Keswick.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel A. Chapman.\n\nMajor Hart-Synnot.\n\nMr. H. W. Robertson.\n\nMr. V. Dickson.\n\nMr. N. J. Stabb.\n\nMr. R. Shewan.\n\nMr. G. H. Medhurst.\n\nT. F. Hough.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government said that the Sub-Committee met to consider his memorandum of the 22nd instant drawn up after consultation with Lieutenant-Colonel A. Chapman and Major Hart-Synnot, and asked if members had any suggestions to make thereon.\n\nMr. Keswick expressed the opinion that the success of any scheme of volunteering depended on the personality of the Officers. If the officers commanded respect and were popular volunteering would flourish. If not it would languish.\n\nIn this connection Mr. Hough asked whether the rank and file in the Hongkong Volunteers had any voice in the selection of their Officers. Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman said that in the selection of officers the Commissioned Officers were consulted, they being in touch with the Non-Commissioned Officers and men, that the names to be forwarded for approval by the Governor were those of men who were acceptable to the particular units in question provided always that they were efficient and competent. He said that the rank and file had no direct voice in the selection of officers. Mr. Keswick explained that in Shanghai the officers were nominated by the rank and file and provided that the nominees were competent to efficiently discharge their duties as officers they were always appointed.\n\nPage 486", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 490, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "Page 2\n\nLis mt va ot be. M \n\nattoo duct to bed mro' \n\n2 \n\n8 20a8o co bas vitorlar! ml beatest ed of \n\nour to vigangoyos writ to ogbolvem rigautorit \n\nX OISO \n\nof bowofIM od film etimr won to atelimon quit bootonebre el 1 \n\n*** vit0 boaotentes:00-no!\" bre #1001nto two to stealmon \n\n•Tool?20 pathnamed ett to ferotges en? of tooldus \n\nto mainland vacciugnoo to zoltasp od \n\n.bouziaib mod: sm. 08 km SI o pose odd moovbod arituoy \n\nubokker Grow uterit telt blua folvao.. \n\n•Ikzoqonq od: of anotzoetdo \n\nfithw more ole aland of bonoqu'sy new *1 *1 \n\n- poo Teknu stow oriw mem onore to ouroborq ade,arooduslov sdt \n\nvi-tnulov to oiqtoning o't qoʻsaor bluow evIDE 03 notɛing- \n\netetilla blow bee bovios atstumIGV ore Foldy Tobou :DiVIDE \n\n•ņuÀKOOSHMIɔy Juniag6 \n\nI 600 binow eritwo; WHoy Baurt Schworld of \n\nbrit matékaws bo:‡ybs bar echt\" et obair so of Isovite out nobru \n\n.Logga tant to wa01 \n\nTo mottoliqus eric dar cihwort nevert .** \n\n! \n\nflora & fora new moltuoup ni androg end o* gatate > \\toalognoo oyamosue of adotte Tial cothrrtong con blNow I tuit Tostar \n\n•gnizes:mulov \n\n488 \n\nparentage between the ages of 18 and 20 years be compelled by law to undergo Mili- \n\ntary training of the same standard as is required of the Hongkong Volunteers for a period of 3 years from date of beginning of such training: Provided that if he leaves the Colony before such period of 3 years and does not return before their expiration he shall not be required to complete the training; and provided further that any Member of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps who shall render himself efficient shall be exempt from such compulsory training. \n\nAgainst the Resolution. \n\nThe Members present voted as follows:- \n\nFor the Resolution. \n\nR. Shewan. \n\nMr. G. H. Medhurst. \n\nMr. T. F. Hough. \n\nLieut.-Col. A. Chapman. \n\nMajor Hart-Synnot. \n\nHon. Mr. H. Keswick. \n\nMr. N. J. Stabb. \n\nMr. H. W. Robertson. \n\nMr. W. Dickson. \n\nThe Officer Administering the Government thanked the members for their attendance and said he would issue the Circular and lay the replies before them in due course. \n\n(Sd.) F. H. May. \n\nINGLINTSVO\" out gutro: zlutuba Toolt70 ont \n\nDor: In100 eric babatnet 6) .Iesogong ond to rolayobs ott begru \n\nalot of new guleton vi beucotreqze odmoritic vetusitnih sit to ak daliustao of suite now di difquorit ed bun en trulo and A'atif -ismit no bor: dne rolls unoted non minor; to it ofqisming \n\n.galaland merili ugrobar of bellogros ad bisora froW \n\n29th June, 1910. \n\nbis es erit of as note malb ene¤ MOURA \n\ngultu,aluinbA œ»itt0 ore,aninland boboqing orit to noidstub -Jufoeur getuofio\": and therio orig ront bevOLI NOHA JIRammevod art \n\n.mol- \n\nsaidia to ynofa! mit at Refst Je 3802\n\nPage 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426545, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nEnclise 1. End Based\n\nRECP\n\nRro19 SEP 10\n\nMeeting of Full Committee held on the 15th August in Council chamber.\n\nPresent: The Officer Administering the Government, The Colonial Secretary, Major Eaton (in the place of Major Hart-Synnot absent from the Colony) Lt. Colonel Chapman, the Hon. Mr. H. Keswick, Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, Hon. Mr. M. Stewart, Mr. H. W. Robertson, Mr. W. Dickson, Mr. R. Shewan, Mr. G. H. Medhurst, Mr. W. Humphreys and Mr. B. C. Wilks.\n\nMr. N. J. Stabb excused himself on the ground of pressure of business.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government informed the Committee that a certain measure of success had attended the appeal made to Employers of labour to encourage their employees to join the Volunteers, and to the general British public to come forward and volunteer. Mr. C. H. Ross, of the Firm of Jardine Matheson & Co. had succeeded in raising a Corps of 61 mounted and foot scouts. This was a great source of satisfaction since Mr. C. H. Ross had earned the reputation of being a very efficient officer, who had worked the former Mounted Troop up to a state of efficiency which was made the subject of comment by His Excellency the General Officer Commanding and other Military Officers under whose observation the Troop had come. He felt sure that in Mr. Ross' Corps the Volunteer Force would receive a really useful and efficient addition.\n\nMr. E. R. Hallifax had at the Officer Administering the Government's request endeavoured to raise a Maxim Company drawn principally from Civil Servants, but had failed to obtain the necessary 25 recruits, partly owing to the fact that some had joined Mr. Ross' Corps and partly because the Civil Service already contributed 42 Volunteers to the Volunteer Corps.\n\nRecruiting", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426549, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 330, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "# \n\n326 \n\n*voted and ni dem gtung diteaed qlusses Stuow bezobl.cnn Loserong art dragqus birov od tadt olas fɔlvusni* \n*profed and ni dem gtung diteaed qlusses Stuow bezobl.cnn Loserong art dragqus birov od tadt olas fɔlvusni* \n\nThese voted for the resolution, Messrs. Keswick, Robertson, Medhurst, Humphreys, Osborne, Shewan and Lt.Col. Stewart and Dickson, Chapman voted against it. \nThe Colonial Secretary, Major Taton and the chairman did not vote.\n\nMr. Osborne asked what was meant by the words \"British percentage\". The Officer Administering the Government said that it meant that both parents must be of European extraction. Eurasians would not be covered by the resolution.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government then thanked the members of the Committee for the time and attention they had devoted to the subject which had been under their consideration. As much had not been attained as some of them had hoped at the outset of their deliberations, but in the result something useful had, he thought, been obtained.\n\n(sd) F.H.May. \n16/8/10.\n\nPage 330", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "Extract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" of 18th March, 1912.\n\nPage 46\n\nSIR FREDERICK LUGARD'S FAREWELL.\n\nTOUCHING SCENES.\n\nOn Saturday, Sir Frederick and Lady Lugard bade farewell to Hongkong, and the regret felt by the community as well as by Their Excellencies in having to say \"good-bye\" was deep and poignant, culminating in scenes which were most touching and most impressive. The regard and affection in which the occupants of Government House have been held by the entire Colony is perhaps unprecedented in the history of Hongkong, and while their departure was viewed with sadness it was also tinged with sympathy—sympathy for Lady Lugard in the long and trying illness which has afflicted her here, and sympathy for her husband, whose domestic grief was not allowed to interfere with the discharge of the many duties which His Excellency saw in his high office. Thus it was that the departure of Their Excellencies on Saturday had a solemn aspect; it was more impressive than many where a \"good send-off\" was given. The occasion was too sad even for the cheers which were called for in the City Hall. Most throats felt too husky to allow of that volume and ring which should characterise such compliments. Everybody was sorry, and none more so than Sir Frederick and Lady Lugard.\n\nPRESENTATION OF THE ADDRESS.\n\nThe regret of the Colony at the departure of H.E. the Governor and Lady Lugard and its appreciation of their beneficent stay here was expressed in the Address presented to Their Excellencies on Saturday morning.\n\nThe ceremony took place in the City Hall, where were attended most of the leading residents of all races. The route from Government House to the Hall was lined by troops drawn from the K.O.Y.L.I. and the R.G.A., and on the arrival of the gubernatorial party at the Hall they were met by Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., Sir Kai Ho Kai, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. Rees Davies, K.C., the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., the Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, the Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G., and Messrs. C. Montague Ede, N. J. Stabb, W. Dixon, T. F. Hough, G. H. Medhurst, J. W. C. Bonnar, Murray Stewart, E. Shellim, and others including many ladies.\n\nLady Lugard, whose presence at the City Hall was hardly expected in view of her illness, was carried upstairs in a chair, and when she was assisted out of it to take her seat in the chair alongside her husband on the red carpetted dias the audience was deeply affected by the touching scene. Her Ladyship, however, smiled on the gathering, and so far as appearances went gave little indication of her suffering. There was a good colour in her cheeks, but this was probably the flush of excitement. She was fashionably attired in a cream satin costume with black revers and wore a black picture hat with large upstanding ostrich feather. She carried a bouquet of red roses. When the gathering was seated,\n\nSir PAUL CHATER, addressing His Excellency, said:-We have asked you to come here to-day, Sir, to present to you on your departure from the Colony which you have served so eminently an address of farewell from the community. That the duty of reading that address has fallen upon me is an honour of which I am vastly proud. With your permission, Sir, I shall now read the address.\n\nTo His Excellency SIR FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD, Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, Companion of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.\n\nYour Excellency:\n\nHis Most Gracious Majesty the King having summoned you to serve as His Representative in another part of the Empire, we, residents in the Crown Colony of Hongkong, desire, on this the occasion of your departure, to testify to our appreciation of the advantages which we have derived from your tenure of the high office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief.\n\nThat high office you assumed nearly five years ago, and, ever since, we have been learning to realise more and more your merits as an administrator. The fame of these was world-wide before you came among us, but it rested upon success achieved in dealing with administrative problems different from those arising here. The problems which arise here demand from the Head of the Administration not only firmness; not only a high sense of duty; but also broad sympathy with, and wise consideration for, the thoughts, the feelings, the customs and the faiths of our heterogeneous population.\n\nIn dealing with our administrative problems you have displayed that sympathetic insight which is the secret of their effective solution. Especially was sympathetic insight needed to solve the problems presented to you on arrival, arising out of the state of the law relating to the preservation of the public health. The need for revision had been already acknowledged, and the work begun, but upon you fell the task of completing it, and of inspiring confidence that all unnecessary rigour in carrying out necessary reform would be systematically avoided. The assurances given by your Excellency in the Legislative Council, together with the example of your earnest endeavours to secure efficiency without inflicting hardship, earned the gratitude of the community in general, and of the Chinese section of the community in particular. (Applause.)\n\nPage 225", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460388, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "Harrison, E. J. Harrold, P. Harrold, T. P. Haraton, J. S. Harstou, W. E. *Harwood, H. G. **Harwood, W. Haskell, D. **Haskell, J. S. \n\n*Haslam, W. 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J. \n\n518", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "British Trade with China,\n\nA\n\nAn address on the above subject was delivered before the members of the Far Eastern Section of the Chamber and of the China Association by Mr. THOMAS M. AINSCOUGH, M. Com., F.R.G.S. (Special Commissioner of the Board of Trade in China), on Wednesday, November 24, 1915, at 3 p.m.\n\nMr. FREDERICK ANDERSON (Chairman of the Far Eastern Section and of the China Association) presided, and among those present were:-\n\nMr. Gershom Stewart, M.P., Mr. Byron Brenan, C.M.G., Mr. A. P. Simpson, Mr. H. S. Hancock, Mr. R. H. Hill, Mr. F. M. Shaw, Mr. R. P. Dipple, Mr. H. J. Algar, Mr. E. A. Stanton, Mr. H. S. Aspinall, Mr. F. T. Bone, Mr. J. R. Michael, Mr. E. E. Hills, Mr. W. Carter, Mr. C. Watney, Mr. Kerr, Mr. Herbert Hutchinson, Mr. G. A. Richardson, Mr. F. H. Jefferd, Mr. H. C. Wilcox, Mr. R. C. Wilcox, Mr. G. H. Medhurst, Mr. D. T. Keymer, Mr. E. J. Carroll, Mr. H. D. C. Jones, Mr. A. Heckling, Mr. A. Campbell, Mr. F. O. P. Bland, Mr. C. S. Moore, Mr. H. Hickling, Mr. M. S. Salinger, Mr. C. W. Salisbury, Mr. J. Penzer, Mr. N. Hayakawa, Mr. F. Lange, Mr. C. H. Bates, Mr. D. C. Rutherford, Mr. L. Chotzen, Mr. J. W. Jamieson, C.M.G., Mr. C. J. Longcroft, Mr. C. F. Angus, and Mr. C. E. Musgrave (Secretary),\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN said he had much pleasure in introducing Mr. Ainscough, of the Board of Trade, who had promised to deliver an address on \"British Trade in China.\" Very nearly up to the close of last century the attitude of both the Chinese Government and the Chinese people towards foreigners who desired to bring about closer relations with the country was one mainly of passive resistance. They looked upon any attempt on the part of foreigners to draw closer relations with their country, and the development of the resources of China, as foreign encroachment, so that practical business men came to the conclusion that it was a waste of time and energy to spend very much of either in endeavouring to\n\n79", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487390, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# The Humble Petition of the Undersigned Chinese Firms and Merchants of the State of North Borneo\n\nTo **The Court of Directors** of the State of North Borneo.\n\nSHEWETH as follows:-\n\n1. Your petitioners are Chinese Firms and Merchants resident in the State of North Borneo.\n\n2. Some of your petitioners have been so resident for the past 40 years and can recall the time when the State of North Borneo was first opened up as a country under British Protection. It was in August, 1882 that a public notice to the Chinese was printed in the **Hongkong Daily Press** by Sir Walter Medhurst on behalf of the British North Borneo Company giving a history of the acquisition of the country, explaining the plan and intention of the British North Borneo Company with regard to emigrants and settlers from China, and appealing to the Chinese to settle in the territory in question.\n\n3. In response to this appeal and in reliance upon the Charter granted by Her late Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, to the British North Borneo Company, and upon the traditional fairness and justice of British Administration, the Chinese first began to settle and have continued in increasing number to settle in British North Borneo.\n\n4. Your petitioners do not propose to go into the history of the part taken and being taken by the Chinese settlers in helping to develop the country generally, but to confine themselves to a short statement of the development of the timber business which is the subject-matter of this petition. It may, however, be mentioned here that, at the present time, the Chinese Community in North Borneo are, as it were, the backbone of the country,\n\nPage 357", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487392, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 366, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## Petition to His Excellency\n\nThereupon a Committee meeting was held when it was unanimously agreed to address your Excellency on the subject on their behalf, and to urge the following points for your Excellency's kind consideration.\n\nIn August 1882, Captain S. G. Green of B.S. \"Tannadice\", the first steamer that called at Sandakan en route from Australia to Hongkong, wrote a graphic and interesting account of the attractions and capabilities of the port of Sandakan. Another advertisement of equal if not greater importance appeared in the Chinese issue of the Hongkong Daily Press. It was a public notice to the Chinese by Sir Walter Medhurst, on behalf of the British North Borneo Company, explaining the history of the acquisition of the territory and the plans and intentions of the Company with regard to emigrants and settlers from China, and appealing to the Chinese to hasten to avail themselves of so favourable an opportunity for seeking their fortunes out of their own country.\n\nOn or about the 15th September 1882, the pioneer steamer the S.S. \"Haitan\" of Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., sailed from Hongkong with a general cargo of merchandise and a good number of Chinese tradesmen and merchants, the latter mainly came down here on prospecting principle, to see with their own eyes, the resources and requirements of the country, and encouraged by the fact that the new country bears the name of British North Borneo, meaning to be under British control the same as other British Colonies. Thereafter, a large number of our countrymen began to pour in, under the able management of Sir Walter Medhurst who remained in Hongkong to superintend. Our countrymen in fact did all the rough work in opening up this country and did most of the trade with the neighbouring colonies. Many have flourished and many failed, but sorry to say the latter predominated, and many have also buried their bones and thousands of dollars in this country.\n\nIt may be mentioned that our countrymen did the first pioneer work in timber cutting in North Borneo for export to Hongkong by sailing boats under the name of Kwong Fat & Co., the business was eventually taken upon or transferred to Messrs. Kim Eng Watt, who are still operating to this day.\n\nOnly a few lucky old firms survived in their attempt, and with the usual characteristic have gone further to improve their trade for the benefit of themselves as well as for the benefit of the country by taking up the timber trade, and after expending much time and trouble and a good deal of money over this new enterprise, are now suddenly told to stop cutting and exporting after the expiration of their existing timber licences, because a monopoly of State land has been given to a new Company only started at the beginning of the year, ousting out all our countrymen from partaking in a legitimate trade which they have already undertaken and dropped a good sum over it, and intended to carry on for an indefinite period as long as their capital would last.\n\nWe respectfully beg to submit that such withdrawal of privilege from the Chinese from a legitimate trade, will discourage the present and future capitalists, traders and merchants from putting any or more money into this country, either to improve their trade or start any new undertaking. Moreover, we are afraid that if the above news gets into the ears of the people especially in South China and elsewhere, it may to a certain extent cause a stumbling block to intending emigrants and settlers from coming to this country to try their luck. Why not live and let live?\n\nWith these few remarks, we respectfully beg your Excellency to kindly review this order as notified by the Acting Conservator of Forests and to permit the existing Chinese timber cutters to continue their avocation as hitherto carried on by them, or give them the same privilege as the New Company.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servants,\n\n**TSANG PING KWONG**\nPresident.\n\n**KWAN YUK KWONG**\nHon. Secretary.\n\n359", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487407, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# The Court of Directors \n## of the State of North Borneo,\n\n### The Humble Petition of the Undersigned Chinese Firms and Merchants of the State of North Borneo,\n\nSHEWETH as follows:-\n\n1. Your petitioners are Chinese Firms and Merchants resident in the State of North Borneo.\n\n2. Some of your petitioners have been so resident for the past 40 years and can recall the time when the State of North Borneo was first opened up as a country under British Protection. It was in August, 1882 that a public notice to the Chinese was printed in the Hongkong Daily Press by Sir Walter Medhurst on behalf of the British North Borneo Company giving a history of the acquisition of the country, explaining the plan and intention of the British North Borneo Company with regard to emigrants and settlers from China, and appealing to the Chinese to settle in the territory in question.\n\n3. In response to this appeal and in reliance upon the Charter granted by Her late Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, to the British North Borneo Company, and upon the traditional fairness and justice of British Administration, the Chinese first began to settle and have continued in increasing number to settle in British North Borneo.\n\n4. Your petitioners do not propose to go into the history of the part taken and being taken by the Chinese settlers in helping to develop the country generally, but to confine themselves to a short statement of the development of the timber business which is the subject-matter of this petition. It may, however, be mentioned here that, at the present time, the Chinese Community in North Borneo are, as it were, the backbone of the country,\n\nPage 1 \nPage 374", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487409, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 383, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## Petition to His Excellency\n\nThereupon a Committee meeting was held when it was unanimously agreed to address your Excellency on the subject on their behalf, and to urge the following points for your Excellency's kind consideration.\n\nIn August 1882, Captain S. G. Green of S.S. \"Tamuadice\", the first steamer that called at Sandakan en route from Australia to Hongkong, wrote a graphic and interesting account of the attractions and capabilities of the port of Sandakan. Another advertisement of equal if not greater importance appeared in the Chinese issue of the Hongkong Daily Press. It was a public notice to the Chinese by Sir Walter Medhurst, on behalf of the British North Borneo Company, explaining the history of the acquisition of the territory and the plans and intentions of the Company with regard to emigrants and settlers from China, and appealing to the Chinese to hasten to avail themselves of so favourable an opportunity for seeking their fortunes out of their own country.\n\nOn or about the 15th September 1882, the pioneer steamer the S.S. \"Haitan\" of Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., sailed from Hongkong with a general cargo of merchandise and a good number of Chinese tradesmen and merchants, the latter mainly came down here on prospecting principle, to see with their own eyes, the resources and requirements of the country, and encouraged by the fact that the new country bears the name of British North Borneo, meaning to be under British control the same as other British Colonies. Thereafter, a large number of our countrymen began to pour in, under the able management of Sir Walter Medhurst who remained in Hongkong to superintend. Our countrymen in fact did all the rough work in opening up this country and did most of the trade with the neighbouring colonies. Many have flourished and many failed, but sorry to say the latter predominated, and many have also buried their bones and thousands of dollars in this country.\n\nIt may be mentioned that our countrymen did the first pioneer work in timber cutting in North Borneo for export to Hongkong by sailing boats under the name of Kwong Fat & Co., the business was eventually taken upon or transferred to Messrs. Kim Eng Watt, who are still operating to this day.\n\n- 1 -\n\nOnly a few lucky old firms survived in their attempt, and with the usual characteristic have gone further to improve their trade for the benefit of themselves as well as for the benefit of the country by taking up the timber trade, and after expending much time and trouble and a good deal of money over this new enterprise, are now suddenly told to stop cutting and exporting after the expiration of their existing timber licences, because a monopoly of State lands has been given to a new Company only started at the beginning of the year, ousting out all our countrymen from partaking in a legitimate trade which they have already undertaken and dropped a good sum over it, and intended to carry on for an indefinite period as long as their capital would last.\n\nWe respectfully beg to submit that such withdrawal of privilege from the Chinese from a legitimate trade, will discourage the present and future capitalists, traders and merchants from putting any or more money into this country, either to improve their trade or start any new undertaking. Moreover, we are afraid that if the above news gets into the ears of the people especially in South China and elsewhere, it may to a certain extent cause a stumbling block to intending emigrants and settlers from coming to this country to try their luck. Why not live and let live?\n\nWith these few remarks, we respectfully beg your Excellency to kindly review this order as notified by the Acting Conservator of Forests and to permit the existing Chinese timber cutters to continue their avocation as hitherto carried on by them, or give them the same privilege as the New Company.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servants,\n\n**TSANG PING KWONG**\nPresident.\n\n**KWAN YUK KWONG**\nHon. Secretary.\n\n376", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "36\n\nMedhurst College (L.M.S.), Rev. E. J. Malpas, B.A. Medhurst Girls' School.\n\nNOTE.-In Shanghai there are the following schools provided for by the Shanghai Municipal Council from the rates, but under the control of British teachers entirely:\n\n| School | Head |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public School for Boys (foreigners) | G. M. Billings |\n| Public School for Girls (foreigners) | Miss Patterson |\n| Thomas Hanbury School for Boys (Eurasians) | A. J. Stewart |\n| Thomas Hanbury School for Girls (Eurasians) | Miss Mayhew |\n| Public School for Chinese | G. S. F. Kemp |\n| Ellis Kadoorie Public School for Chinese | R. G. Dowie |\n| Nieh Chin Kuel Public School for Chinese | L. H. Turner |\n| Polytechnic Public School for Chinese | G. S. F. Kemp |\n| Shanghai High School (for foreign girls) | Miss J. M. Fraser, B.A. |\n| Shanghai Jewish School | Miss Perry, B.A. |\n\nKwangtung-\nCanton:\n\n| School | Head |\n| --- | --- |\n| Holy Trinity School (C.M.S.) | Rev. W. W. Rogers |\n| Wesleyan Girls' Boarding School | Miss F. A. Britton |\n\nHong Kong (See Government Education Report.)\n\nManchuria-\nFakuting: (viâ Newchang), Christian Middle School (Irish Pres. Miss.).\nHaicheng: San Yu Middle School (U.F. Church of Scotland).\nHulan: (Heilungkiang), Christian School for Boys (U.F.C.S.), Rev. D. C. Davidson, M.A.\nKuangchengtzu: Middle School (Irish Miss.), Rev. W. H. Gillespie, M.A.\nKwangning: High School for Boys (Irish Miss.), Rev. W. Hunter, B.A. \nDitto for Girls.\nLiaoyang: Wen de High School (U.F.C.S.), Rev. G. Dougles, M.A.\nMoukden: \n- Manchuria Christian College (U.F.C.S.) (Irish Miss.), D. T. Robertson, M.A.\n- Medical College (U.F.C.S.), Dugald Christie, C.M.G., F.R.C.S., &c.\nYushuting (Kirin): Wen Shu Middle School (Irish Miss.), Rev. A. Weir, B.A.\n\nShansi-\nTaiyuanfu: Baptist Miss. Soc. Middle School, Rev. H. R. Williamson.\n\nShantung-\nChefoo: China Inland Mission Schools for Foreign Boys and Girls.\nChowtsun: Kwang Pei Middle School (Eng. Bap. Miss.), Rev. A. G. Castleton.\nPeichen: English Baptist Middle School, Rev. A. E. Greening.\nTaianfu: C. of Eng. Mission School, Rev. J. W. Hunter, Rev. C. R. Burnett, M.A.\nWei-hai Wei:\n- The Government School (for Chinese boys).\n- Wei-hai Wei School for Foreign Boys, L. H. Beer, L.C.B.\n- Wei-hai Wei School for Foreign Girls, Mrs. Bruce Shepherd.\n\nShensi\nSianfu English Baptist Girls' School, Mrs. Shorrock, B.A.\n\nSzechwan-\nChungking Friends' Mission High School, R. L. Simpkin, M.A.\nFowchow Boys Christian School (Can. Meth. Miss.), Rev. R. S. Longley.\nMienchow: \n- Anglo-Chinese School (C.M.S.), Rev. F. J. Watt, B.Sc.\n- Girls' Boarding School (C.M.S.), Miss V. C. Mannett.\nPenghsien: Canadian Mission School, Rev. F. Dickinson, B.A.\nTehyang C.MS. Boys' School, Rev. A. E. Seward.\n\nNOTE. There are several schools throughout the country conducted under the auspices of the China Inland Mission, but the members of this mission are not in all cases British.\n\n37\n\nOmitted from Chekiang\nWenchow: United Methodist College, T. W. Chapman, M.Sc.\n\n## German Schools in China\n\n152\n| Location | School | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking, Chihli | Deutsch-Chinesische Mittel Schule (Old Peiyang University) | ... |\n| Tien-tsin, Chihli | Kaiser Wilhelm Schule | Boys and Girls of European parentage, 180 |\n| Hankow, Hupeh | Deutsch-Chinesische Schule | Boys 30 |\n| Hankow, Hupeh | Kaiser Wilhelmi Schule for European children | 22 |\n| Shanghai | German Engineering and Medical School | Teachers, &c., 50; Boys, 570 |\n| Shanghai | German School for Chinese, Kiangse Road | ... |\n| Shanghai | Kaiser Wilhelm Realschule and Kindergarten for European children | 226 |\n| Tungsun viâ Canton | Rhenish Mission Middle School | ... |\n| Hokshiha viâ Canton | Basel Mission School | ... |\n| Kaying: Kwantung | Basel Mission Middle School | Men, 20 |\n| Kowloon (Hong Kong) | Blindenheim (Mission School for Blind) | Girls, 62 |\n| Kuchuk via Canton | Middle and Normal School (Basel Mission) | Boys, 77 |\n| Linpingchow: viâ Canton | Basel Mission School | ... |\n| Lukhang: viâ Canton | Berlin Mission School | ... |\n| Shuichowfu | Berlin Mission School | Girls, 46 |\n\nNOTE. During 1915-6-7 many of the above schools were closed. During 1914 many were closed, of which details cannot now be obtained. Prior to 1914 the various German Missionary Societies were very active in Kwangtung and Shantung.\n\n## American Universities in China\n\n| University | President | Students |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking University | Rev. H. H. Lowry, D.D. | Men, 800 |\n| University of Nanking | Rev. A. J. Bowen, LL.D. | Men, 460 |\n| St. John's University, Shanghai | Rev. F. L. H. Pott, D.D. | Men, 483 |\n| West China Union University, Chengtu, Szechwan | Rev. J. Beach, D.D. | Men, 355 |\n| Boone University, Wuchang, Hupeh | Rev. A. A. Gilman, B.A. | Boys, 316 |\n| Shantung Christian University, Weishien | Rev. J. P. Bruce, M.A. | Men (including Medical School), 216 |\n| Soochow University, Soochow, Kiangsu | Rev. J. W. Cline, D.D. | Men, 420 |\n\nNOTE. Peking and Nanking Universities are Unions institutions, and controlled by American missions. The West China Union University and Shantung Christian University have British missionaries acting with Americans on the faculties, St. John's University and Boone University are under the American Church Mission. Soochow University is under the Methodist Episcopal Mission of America.\n\nApproximate number of American men and women engaged in teaching in mission and other schools and colleges of all grades: ...\n\n## American Colleges in China\n\n| College | Location | Students |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hangchow Christian College | Chekiang Province | Men, 200 |\n| North China Union Women's College | Peking, Chihli | Women, 37 |\n| Union Medical College for Women | Peking, Chihli | 53 |\n| Tungchow North China Union College of Arts | Peking, Chihli | Men, 87 |\n| Palmage College (Kulansu) | Amoy, Fukien | Boys, 87 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490243, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 734, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# Kiangsu\n## Shanghai:\n36\n\nAnglo-Chinese School (C.M.S.), W. A. H. Mouie. Cathedral School. S. P. G. Barrow. Medhurst College (L.M.S.). Rev. E. J. Malpas, B.A. Medhurst Girls' School.\n\nNOTE.-In Shanghai there are the following schools provided for by the Shanghai Municipal Council from the rates, but under the control of British teachers entirely:\n\n| School Name | Head/Teacher |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public School for Boys (foreigners) | G. M. Billings |\n| Public School for Girls (foreigners) | Miss Patterson |\n| Thomas Hanbury School for Boys (Eurasians) | A. J. Stewart |\n| Thomas Hanbury School for Girls (Eurasians) | Miss Mayhew |\n| Public School for Chinese | G. S. F. Kemp |\n| Ellis Kadoorie Public School for Chinese | R. G. Dowie |\n| Nieh Chin Kuel Public School for Chinese | I. H. Turner |\n| Polytechnic Public School for Chinese | G. S. F. Kemp |\n| Shanghai High School (for foreign girls) | Miss J. M. Fraser B.A. |\n| Shanghai Jewish School | Miss Perry, B.A. |\n\n## Kwangtung-\n### Canton:\nHoly Trinity School (C.M.S.), Rev. W. W. Rogers. Wesleyan Girls' Boarding School, Miss F. A. Britton.\n\n## Manchuria\nFakuting: (via Newchang). Christian Middle School (Irish Pres. Miss.). Haicheng San Yu Middle School (U.F. Church of Scotland).\n\nHulan (Heilungkiang), Christian School for Boys (U.F.C.S.). Rev. D. C. Davidson, M.A.\n\nKuangchengtzu: Middle School (Irish Miss.). Rev. W. H. Gillespie, M.A. Kwangning: High School for Boys (Irish Miss.), Rev. W. Hunter, B.A. Ditto for Girls.\n\nLiaoyang Wen de High School (U.F.C.S.), Rev. G. Dougles, M.A. Moukden: Manchuria Christian College (U.F.C.S.) (Irish Miss.), D. T. Robertson, M.A.\n\nMedical College (U.F.C.S.), Dugald Christie, C.M.G., F.R.C.S., &c: Yushuting (Kirin): Wen Shu Middle School (Trish Miss.), Rev. A. Weir, B.A.\n\n## Shansi-\n### Taiyuanfu \nBaptist Miss. Soc. Middle School, Rev. H. R. Williamson.\n\n## Shantung-\n### Chefoo: \nChina Inland Mission Schools for Foreign Boys and Girls. Chowtsun: Kwang Pei Middle School (Eng. Bap. Miss.), Rev. A. G. Castleton. Peichen: English Baptist Middle School, Rev. A. E. Greening. Taianfu C. of Eng. Mission School, Rev. J. W. Hunter, Rev. C. R. Burnett, M.A.\n\n## Wei-hai-Wei:\nThe Government School (for Chinese boys). Wei-hai-Wei School for Foreign Boys, L. H. Beer, L.C.B. Wei-bai-Wei School for foreign girls, Mrs. Bruce Shepherd.\n\n## Shensi\n### Sianfu \nEnglish Baptist Girls' School. Mrs. Shorrock. B.A.\n\n## Szechwan-\n### Chungking \nFriends Mission High School, R. L. Simpkin, M.A. Fowchow: Boys' Christian School (Can. Meth. Miss.), Rev. R. S. Longley. Mienchow: Anglo-Chinese School (C.M.S.), Rev. F. J. Watt, B.Sc. Girls Boarding School (C.M.S.), Miss V. C. Mannett. Penghsier Canadian Mission School. Rev. F. Dickinson, B.A. Tehyang: C.M.S. Boys' School, Rev. A. E. Seward.\n\nNOTE. There are several schools throughout the country conducted under the auspices of the China Inland Mission, but the members of this mission are not in all cases British.\n\n37\n\n## German Schools in China.\n\nDeutsch-Chinesische Mittel Schule (Old Peiyang University), Peking, Chibli. Tientsin, Chihli, Kaiser Wilhelm Schule, Boys and Girls of European parentage, 180.\n\nHankow, Hupeh. Deutsch-Chinesische Schule, Boys, 50. Kaiser Wilhelm Schule for European children, 22.\n\nShanghai: German Engineering and Medical School, formerly in the French Concession. now at Woosung Forts; Teachers, &c., 50; Boys, 570. German School for Chinese, Kiangse Road. Kaiser Wilhelm Realschule and Kindergarten for European children, 226. Tungsun viâ Canton. Rhenish Mission Middle School. Hokshiha: viâ Canton, Basel Mission School.\n\nKaying Kwantung. Basel Mission Middle School; Men, 20. Kowloon (Hong Kong). Blindenheim (Mission School for Blind); Girls, 62. Kuchuk: via Canton. Middle and Normal School (Basel Mission); Boys, 77. Linpingchow via Canton. Basel Mission School. Lukhang via Canton, Berlin Mission School. Shuichowfu. Berlin Mission School; Girls, 46.\n\nNOTE. During 1915-6-7 many of the above schools were closed. During 1914 many were closed, of which details cannot now be obtained. Prior to 1914 the various German Missionary Societies were very active in Kwangtung and Shantung.\n\n## American Universities in China.\n\n| University Name | President | Number of Men |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking University | Rev. H. H. Lowry, D.D. | 800 |\n| University of Nanking | Rev. A. J. Bowen, LL.D. | 460 |\n| St. John's University, Shanghai | Rev. F. L. H. Pott. D.D. | 483 |\n| West China Union University, Chengtu, Szechwan | Rev. J. Beach, D.D. | 355 |\n| Boone University. Wuchang, Hupeh | Rev. A. A. Gilman, B.A. | 316 |\n| Shantung Christian University, Weihsien | Rev. J. P. Bruce, M.A. | 216 |\n| Soochow University, Soochow, Kiangsu | Rev. J. W. Cline, D.D. | 420 |\n\nNOTE. Peking and Nanking Universities are \"Union\" institutions, and controlled by American missions. The West China Union University and Shantung Christian University have British missionaries acting with Americans on the faculties. St. John's University and Boone University are under the American Church Mission. Soochow University is under the Methodist Episcopal Mission of America.\n\nApproximate number of American men and women engaged in teaching in mission and other schools and colleges of all grades:-\n\n## American Colleges in China.\n\nHangelow Christian College; Men. 200 (Chekiang Province).\n\nPeking. Chihli: North China Union Women's College; Women, 37. Union Medical College for Women, 53.\n\nTungchow: North China Union College of Arts; Men, 87. Amoy, Fukien: Talmage College (Kulansu); Boys, 87.\n\n732", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493956, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "# Names of Schools. \n\n## Number of Students. \n\n## Location. \n\n## Nationality. \n\n \n Names of Schools\n Number of Students\n Location\n Nationality\n \n \n Yale College in China\n \n \n American (now one)\n \n \n Griffith John College\n \n \n American and British\n \n \n William Nast College\n \n \n Chinese, Canadian\n \n \n \n \n \n American\n \n \n Anglo-Chinese College\n 472\n Foochow, Fukien\n \n \n \n Foochow College\n 426\n \n \n \n \n Trinity College\n 850\n \n \n \n \n Women's College of South China\n 120\n \n \n \n \n Provincial Normal School\n 100\n Hwaiyang, Honan\n \n \n \n St. Andrew's College\n 56\n Kaifeng, Honan\n \n \n \n Higher Normal School\n \n Changsha, Hunan\n American\n \n \n \n 190\n Hankow, Hupeh\n British\n \n \n \n 160\n Kiukiang, Kiangsi\n American\n \n \n Fu-tan College\n 279\n \n \n \n \n \n 306\n Shanghai, Kiangsu\n Chinese\n \n \n McTyeire High School\n 289\n \n \n \n \n Medhurst College\n 220\n \n British\n \n \n Shanghai Baptist College and Theological Seminary\n 190\n \n American\n \n \n Shanghai Min-Lih School\n 520\n \n \n \n \n St. Ignatius Roman Catholic College\n 400\n \n \n \n \n Lowrie High School\n 90\n \n \n \n \n St. Mary's Hall\n 240\n \n \n \n \n Wu Pen Girls' School\n 200\n \n \n \n \n Kiangsu Provincial College\n 283\n Soochow, Kiangsu\n Chinese\n \n \n Laura Haygood Light School\n 105\n \n American\n \n \n Ellis Kadoorie College\n 300\n Canton, Kwangtung\n \n \n \n Kwangtung College\n 80\n \n \n \n \n Queen's College\n 700\n Hong Kong\n British\n \n \n Hong Kong College\n \n \n \n \n \n Canton Christian College\n \n Canton, Kwangtung\n \n \n \n St. Stephen's Girls' College\n 170\n Hong Kong\n \n \n \n Anglo-Chinese College\n 115\n Swatow, Kwangtung\n \n \n\n## Profesional and Technical Schools\n\n \n Profesional and Technical Schools\n Number of Students\n Location\n Nationality\n \n \n Medical Training College\n 56\n Hangchow, Chekiang\n \n \n \n North China Union Medical College for Women\n \n Peking, Chihli\n American and British\n \n \n Union Medical College\n 23\n \n \n \n \n Army Medical College\n 310\n Tien-tsin, Chihli\n \n \n \n Peiyang Medical College\n 900\n \n \n \n \n Union Medical College (merged in Shantung Christian University)\n \n Hankow, Hupeh\n Chinese, British\n \n \n Women's Medical College\n 10\n Soochow, Kiangsu\n \n \n \n Hackett Medical College for Women\n \n Canton, Kwangtung\n \n \n \n Medical College\n 66\n Mukden, Manchuria\n \n \n \n Union Medical College\n \n Tsinan, Shantung\n \n \n \n Government Engineering College\n 170\n Tangshan, Chihli\n \n \n \n Van Kirk Women's Industrial School\n 75\n Foochow, Fukien\n \n \n \n Honan Agricultural College\n 140\n Kaifeng, Honan\n \n \n \n Government Institute of Technology\n 600\n Shanghai, Kiangsu\n \n \n \n Nanyang Railway and Mining College\n 200\n \n \n \n \n Industrial College\n \n Canton, Kwangtung\n \n \n \n Technical Institute\n 600\n Hong Kong\n \n \n \n School of Agriculture\n 481\n \n \n \n \n Government College of Law\n \n Peking, Chihli\n \n \n \n Government Agricultural College\n \n Yunnanfu, Yunnan\n \n \n\nThe great impression made by the beau geste of the United States Government, as stated above, and its obvious success as a propaganda measure, suggested at once to many, who perhaps imperfectly realised the different bases on which the British and American indemnities had originally been estimated, the desirability of remitting the whole or part of the British share also for educational purposes. Mr. Clive's memorandum of the 12th August, 1919 (Confidential Print, \"Affairs of China,\" the 12th August, section 1), clearly sets forth the history of the indemnity, the proposals for its remission from 1912 onwards, and the attitude of His Majesty's Treasury. In brief, the Treasury regard the indemnity, quite correctly, as reimbursement for a definite expenditure, and as earmarked for the reduction of debt incurred thereby. On the 11th November, 1919, a question on the subject was asked in the House of Commons, and the Treasury, on being consulted, gave it to be understood that they adhered to their position and would yield only to a Cabinet decision. The Treasury ask the pertinent question: \"Is it desirable that the British taxpayer should be asked to provide for the establishment and endowment of a university in the centre of China?\" Stated in this form, it will be difficult to persuade the average British citizen that any such scheme is not a fresh and virulent outbreak of squandermania.\" Yet those best qualified to know are agreed that education of Chinese on British lines is not mere humanitarianism but a commercial investment of untold possibilities.\n\nThe arguments in favour of a remission of the Boxer indemnity are given in Mr. Clive's two memoranda (Confidential Print, \"Affairs of China,\" the 12th August, 1919, section 1; and the 4th February, 1920, section 1). Briefly they are (1) the danger and pressure of American competition, to which French competition may now be added; (2) the advantages to China, and to the world at large; (3) the gain to British political and commercial interests. These arguments apply equally to any educational scheme, however endowed. But more clearly affecting the question of the indemnity itself, is the fact that other countries may take a similar step (Japan has already intimated her intention of doing so). It is most undesirable that Great Britain should find herself forestalled by other Powers. To this, Sir Charles Eliot (in his criticisms attached to paper 158944 of the 5th December, 1919) adds the following cogent argument: \"It is very important that any funds given for educational purposes in China should take the form of a remission of the Boxer indemnity, and not, as I have heard it suggested, of a grant for special purposes in China. People in the Far East have become accustomed to this idea of remitting an indemnity, whereas any special grant would suggest both to the Chinese and to foreigners in China that Great Britain was attempting some new and perhaps aggressive schemes.\n\nIt must be remembered, too, that in consequence of China's entering the war, all payment of the indemnity was suspended for five years from 1917. In 1922, therefore, the question of a recontinuance of payment will arise. In 1917, His Majesty's Treasury was prepared to remit the indemnity altogether as an encouragement to China to join the Allies; and in 1922, strong opposition to recontinuance may be expected, not only from the Chinese Government, who will plead that they have no money to pay with, but also from sections of enlightened opinion at home, who will object to the continued mulcting of an allied and democratic Power for the sins of the absolutist Manchu Government, by means of an indemnity, which appears to be an inheritance from the bad old days of militant imperialism. The changed spirit of the times may be so opposed to a recontinuance of payment, that it may be advisable to cut an inevitable loss by remitting the indemnity as an act of grace and for definite educational purposes.\n\nThere are undoubtedly very strong arguments on the side of those who wish for an immediate remission of the indemnity for the education of Chinese. But it must be open to doubt whether Chinese education in itself would be sufficient ground for asking the Treasury to forego a substantial part of the indemnity in the present state of our finances. England has suffered much more from the war than China. But, if for general reasons of policy, and among them we may properly include those based on Chinese educational grounds, it is decided to forego some or all of the indemnity, then it is perfectly clear that this would be the best way of financing an educational scheme.\n\nThe point which must be made perfectly clear, however, in this connection is that the Boxer Indemnity Fund is not a treasure trove, a windfall for light-hearted spending; but that every penny of this fund which may be remitted to the Chinese, is equivalent to a tax of an equal amount on the citizens of the United Kingdom.\n\nThe balance of our share of the Boxer indemnity (including interest at 4 per cent.) is approximately 11,000,000l,* payment being spread over a period of twenty-three years.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFinally, the education of Chinese on British lines is undoubtedly a national and, indeed, an imperial interest. Such a policy must tend to promote British influence both directly, through the Chinese who receive the education, and indirectly, through those with whom those Chinese come in contact. It must be good propaganda, as being evidence of our goodwill towards the Chinese and as affording a practical expression of our interest in them. On the intellectual side, it should tend to create respect for British cultural and political attainments. On the political side, it should incline the Chinese to regard their powerful neighbour, Japan, in a truer perspective; and, at the same time, it should encourage China to help herself and to achieve a greater measure of administrative order and efficiency. On the economic ...\n\n* The exact amount in May 1921 was 9,740,600l. 9s. 2d., including principal and interest. Payment should be completed in 1945.\n\nPage 28\n\n...\n\nPage 91\n\nF 342 E", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571826, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940", "content_text": "## ROYAL DOCKYARD\n\n| WIFE'S NAME | CHILDREN | DESTINATION | HUSBAND |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | MALE | FEMALE | |\n| ATKINS, M.A. | 1 | | MELBOURNE | 17 |\n| AU TIN, D.P. | 2 | | ** | |\n| BUCKINGHAM, A.I. | 1 | 1 | BANYU, B.A.M. | |\n| BURROWS, L.R. | 1 | | | 19 |\n| BOWEN, F. | | N | | ** |\n| BULLIMORE, A.M. | 2 | | | 11 |\n| BRADLEY, C. | 3 | 1 | | 11 |\n| BOWLES, P. | | 00 1 | | 11 |\n| CROTHERS, G. | 3 | | | = |\n| CHANDLER, L.M. | 1 | | | ## |\n| CHANDLER, W.V. | | | | 要 |\n| ELPHICK, E. | | | | = |\n| EUSTIS, P.M. | I | | | = |\n| PENTON, A.L. | 1. | | | !! |\n| FRENCH, D.B. | 1 | | | |\n| GILLMAN, V.B. | | | | |\n| HALL, R.M. | | | | |\n| HOLLOWAY, E.\". | 1 | | | |\n| HURST, E.M. | 1 | | | |\n| JACKSON, K.I. | 1 | | | |\n| KELLY, A. | 1 | | | |\n| LOT, M. | 1 | | | |\n| LANE, L.G. | | | | |\n| LAMB, M.3. | 1 | 1 | | |\n| LAMBERT, C. | 1 | | | |\n| MARSH, E. | 1 | | | |\n| MEDHURST, C.M. | 1 | | | #1 |\n| MORTON, J.H. | 2 | | | \" |\n| MCNEILL, J.M. | | | | |\n| PHILLIPS, D. | 1 | | | |\n| PECKHAM, G. | 1 | | | |\n| QUIGLEY, E.C. | | | | |\n\nATKINS, E.A. Departmental Clerical Officer.\nAUSTIN, V.J. Foreman of Storehousey.\nBUCKINGHAM, A.T. Sergeant of Police. \nBANKS, R.J. Chargeman of Engine Fitters. \nBURROWS, J.A. Arch. & Civil Engineering Asst.\nBOWEN, A.E. Chargeman of Electrical Fitters. \nBULLIMORE, P.. Chargeman of Elec. Fitters. \nBRADLEY, F.W. Chargeman of Elec. Fitters.\nBOYLES, R.W. Storehouseman.\nCROTHERS, F.. Chargeman of Engine Fitters.\nCHANDLER, L.C. Laboratoryman.\nCHANDLER, G.L. Storehouseman.\nELPHICK, G.W. Foreman of Yard.\nEUSTIS, J. Storehouseman.\nPENTON, A.”. 2nd Class Draughtsman.\nFRENCH, J.#. Storehouseman.\nGILLMAN, W.K. Chargeman of Armament Fitters.\nHALL, C.A. Elec. Stn. Supervisor.\nHOLLOWAY, I.. Foreman of Boilermakers.\nHURST, J. Asst. Foreman of stores.\nJACKSON, H. Storehouseman.\nKELLY, E. Chargeman of Engine Fitters.\nLOTT, H.W. Chargeman of Boilermakers.\nLANE, S.T. Inspector of Engine Fitters.\nLAMB, T. Chargeman of Engine Fitters..\nLAMBERT, R.E. Storehouseman.\nMARSH, P.O. Chargeman of Shipwrights.\nMEDHURST, R.N. Chargeman of Engine Fitters. \nMORTON, A. Departmental Clerical officer.\nMCNEILL, *. Storehouseman.\nPHILIPS, J.H. Master R.P.A. SONOL.\nPECKHAM, P.A. Chargeman of Armament Fitters.\nQUIGLEY, H.P. Chargeman of Shipwrights.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]