[ { "id": 218185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "Town Lots \n\nNo By whom \n\nGranted. \n\nTo whom. \n\nGranted \n\non what terms \n\nGranted \n\nPresent Incumbent's \n\nFame- \n\nOn what \n\nacquired by \n\nterans \n\nKines \n\n79 His recolteney \n\nMr. Mercen \n\nThe Governor. \n\n20 Land Committer. \n\nMess Jardine Mattison \n\n82. His Excellency \n\n\"the\" \"overnor \n\nA site for a dwelling Exsentors of the late- \n\nHouse?. \n\nMr. Young Asite for as \n\nSispitusary- \n\nMr Abren \n\nMr Young \n\nAfe. As a site - fora. Mes Jardine Mothis a A Bazaar. \n\nA. Pr. Johnston, leef. A site for a Davelling. A. R. Johnston, Repu \n\nhouve not to be sold! \n\n:without te conscul_of“, Governe mail... \n\n(. R. Stewart, kref.), A site for a Dwelling (R. Hewart, Reg. \n\nhouse-pist to be solde griftiout the content- \n\nMorrison Education A site for a College. Morrison Education. \n\nSociety. \n\nsuch other Building's Socisty.. Arquined by the Society. Aedical Missionary A site for Society \n\nAvspital \n\nfor \n\nmitter of \n\nthe \n\nA site for \n\n\"Hearjesbhoy Hospital - Hospital.. \n\n7 Land Committe Stift Holiday White H \n\n(.. \n\n2 A site for \n\nFuelling \n\nHinto \n\nMedical Missionary Socisty .. for wittee of the \"Howjethhoy\" Hospital- \n\nMop? Holliday, Wise He \n\nEstimated \n\nSum in Dollar General Remarks - \n\nsuponded. \n\nor the lat \n\n.. \n\n$10,000 A large, develling Hause has \n\nbom built. \n\n800A Kauall house built- (See Report.) \n\n5000 Alarge Bazaar has been. \n\nbuilt... \n\n6000ADr. \n\nA Breathing \n\nhouse, built \n\n3,000 Adwelling Mouse built. \n\nLibrary, and \n\n9,000 A College have been built. \n\nSivelling \n\n5,000 A Hospital and House. for- \n\nSurgeon's residence have been. \n\nhillt... \n\n12,000 Seaman's Hospital and \n\nresidence- for as Surgeon built.. \n\n1,000 Adwelling houses built-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 254, "title": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "content_text": "256\n\n57 249\n\narticle – which China and the adjacent territories are able to furnish, and the various varieties of Dyes - Woads and other valuable materials interesting to our Manufacturers will all obtain attention from a properly selected Botanical gardener.\n\nIn my late visit to Siam, I found not only known fruits whose qualities were superior to any elsewhere, but many fruits which we had not seen elsewhere but tasted for the first time. And as regards the floral department, the benefits of a well-directed Botanical garden are too obvious to require elucidation.\n\n# Libraries.\n\n28. My attention has been called to the great desirableness in a community like this of establishing a public library where books under proper regulations shall be accessible to the Community in the locality provided. In their reception, certain classes of books might be allowed a freer circulation. We have the materials for forming a very valuable collection. The Morrison library connected with the Morrison Institution was purchased by the liberality of the Community - but from the absence of adequate precautions, the effects of climate are promptly destructive of books not carefully...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "8+\n\n£70212\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nARRIVED.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 10\n Levant\n Shanghai\n April 29\n Allmaun\n Sundries\n John Burd and Co\n \n \n 13\n Eaglet\n New York\n Nov. 13\n Smith\n \n \n \n \n 13\n Eatont\n \n \n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n 13\n Vinder\n \n \n \n \n Jardine, M. and Co\n \n \n 19\n Wild Dayrell\n \n \n \n \n Jardine, M. and Co\n \n \n 13\n Masick\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Melanie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Nina\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Lanesfell\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Antelope\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Roehampton\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 363\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 14\n Evening Star\n Shanghai\n April 29\n Roberts\n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n \n \n 14\n Alligator\n \n \n Mu\n \n \n \n \n 14\n Casrier\n \n \n Rodgers\n \n Fletcher and Co\n \n \n 14\n Louise Sophie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Neptun\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Sancho Panza\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Daring\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Bayadere\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Resolute\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n P'engula\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 363\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 10\n Mazuppa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n Hermanu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n Surpos\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n Hervalos\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Constancia\n Amoy\n April 29\n Denia\n \n \n \n \n 18\n Sen Rainger\n \n \n Larpoor\n \n \n \n \n April 29\n Vindex\n Shanghai\n April 26\n Shungase\n \n \n \n \n 27\n Comet\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Lorenza\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n May 7\n Roa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSAILED.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 8\n Henry Miller\n \n Putt\n Manila\n Sundries\n Dent and Co\n \n \n 12\n Fncounter\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n Starr King\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Congo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 364\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 14\n Queen Margaret\n 538\n Spence\n Manila\n Sundries\n John Burd and Co\n \n \n 14\n Hellespont\n 336\n Keya\n Shanghai\n Sundries\n L. J. Gutierrez\n \n \n 14\n Cometa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Kroo!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Theodora\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Ellen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Sophia Fraser\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Black Warrior\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Hamlison\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Amistad\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 364\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 18\n Sarah Warren\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Chieftain\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Trees\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Launceston\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSHIPS OF WAR.\n\n \n GUNS\n COMMANDER\n AT\n \n \n Pique, ship\n 36\n F. W. Nickson\n Hongkong\n \n \n Bellona, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Syblle, ship\n \n Comodore Elliot\n \n \n \n Christiana, barque\n American\n Bllis, Master\n Hongkong\n \n \n \n 18\n Smith\n \n \n \n \n \n Hon N. Stewart\n \n \n \n Sibylle, Frigate\n 50\n Captain Maison\n Japan\n \n \n \n \n therve\n \n \n \n Virginie, Frigate\n 50\n Captain Wilson\n \n \n \n \n 12\n Bernard\n Macao\n \n \n \n 14\n Bave\n \n \n \n Juzona, Frigate\n Portagnese\n 20\n Lopez\n \n \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n AT\n TON\n MASTERS\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n April 29\n Alligator, brig\n Hongkong\n 189\n Sinden\n \n Gibb, Livingston and Co\n \n \n May 1\n 106\n Caes\n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n \n \n \n 5\n 11\n Deza\n \n Order\n \n \n \n Sept. 26\n 43\n \n \n \n \n \n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMRS. MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the Name of our Firm in China.\n\nKING & Co.\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partner in our Firm.\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co.,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nN. WEISMANN, is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm in China.\n\nREISS and Co.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1855.\n\nTRUSTEES-Hon. DAVID JARDINE, Esq., U. D. W. McCALMONT\n\nE. Hon. W. T. MERCER Esq., R. H. WALES\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & G. Steam Navigation Company, &c., &c.\n\nTREASURER-G. BENTHAM, Esq.\n\nRESIDENT SURGEON-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Wards..\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n.. $1\n\nper day.\n\n.. $2\n\nper day.\n\n.. $5\n\nper day.\n\nPATIENTS are also admitted on deposits, at the following\n\nrates:-\n\nPublic Wards..\n\nIntermediate..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n.. $16\n\n.. $20\n\n.. $30\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nApply to\n\nDROM, GRAY & Co.\n\nShaughae, 8th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\n(Established in 1843)\n\nNo. 1320\n\nROBERT S. WALLER, Hongkong.\n\nE. WANDEN, Shanghai.\n\nH.T. MASALL. Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love, Calcutta.\n\nROBERT FRANCK, Madras, or James Arnot, Bombay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co. London, 8th January, 1854.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nW. immediate cases, 4 STAMPED THE DWELLING HOUSE and BUSINESS PREMISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAND in the rear of the Godowns, situated in a most eligible position, and fronting the River,\n\nCHINA for The above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES as follows:-\n\n1st-On Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slates, Metal, or other fire-resisting Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,--Rate of Premium, 1 per cent per annum.\n\n2. On such Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at per cent 2 per annum.\n\nAssurances for 6 Months 1, and for 3 Months §.\n\nAnnual rate will be charged.\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the HOSPITAL.\n\nTO LET.\n\nA Hospital Building to be receipted by the Superintendent only.\n\nSituated on part of Marine Lot No. 15. True Bay only.\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nbetween\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON,\n\nTUTE WILLAMETTE.\n\nCaptain W. Conrad, having been fitted up expressly for the River Passenger Traffic, will now run regularly between the above Places, as follows, viz:--\n\nFrom Hongkong to Canton.\n\nevery MONDAY & TUESDAY, at 6 o'clock ..\n\nFrom Canton to Hongkong.\n\nEvery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 6 o'clock ..\n\nFare for Passengers-\n\nEuropean, First-class,\n\nChinese,\n\n$5 each.\n\n$3 each.\n\nEuropean, Second-class,\n\nChinese,\n\n$2 each.\n\n$1 each.\n\nCHANGE FOR REFRESHMENTS, Breakfast, &c., (including Wine and Beer)...\n\n4d:1\n\nOwing to the Willamette's large Cargo Capacity, it is intended that she shall carry Cargo on Freight, as per separate Tariff, to be had on application to the Agents.\n\nCargo, when safely large quantities, will be delivered alongside Vessels, if practicable.\n\nTowage\n\nWill be furnished on Moderate Terms; and intending Consignees will, when possible, be informed by Circular as soon as any such Service has been engaged for.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkong,\n\nMAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton.\n\nHongkong, 24th December, 1855.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nMR. A. J. CAMPBELL is authorized to sign our Firm\n\nFLETCHER. & Co.\n\nCanton, 1st February, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMR. JAMES McCORMICK, is authorized to sign our\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th January, 1856.\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, $20; Six Months, $10; Three Months, $6. To the HONGKONG REGISTER For One Year, $12; Six Months, $7; Three Months, $4. To the OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT also For One Year, $8; all payable in advance.\n\nAGENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTHONS, Esq., London; Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Calcutta; Messrs. BORRADAILLE & Co. Bombay W. S. DUNCAN, Esq., Singapore; Messrs. THOMPSON, ROWES & Co., Batavia; J. P. FUDA, Esq. San Francisco.\n\nEdited, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkong Register Office: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, Tuesday, May 20, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. HERMAN NOTMAN, having taken charge of the\n\nAgency, has ceased to sign our Firm.\n\nMR. COYLE HEBBENBR has been authorised to sign with Firm, per Procuration\n\nL.E. LEBERT\n\nCanton, 8th December, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nOXFORD.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nSUPERIOR TINTO and WHITE WINE, in Casks\n\nex Brigrs from Lisbon.\n\nApply to\n\nBRANDAO & Co., Canton,\n\nJ. C. LUIZ DA SILVA, Macao,\n\nM. DE CARVALHO, Hongkong,\n\nHongkong, 6th March, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFRENCH COGNACS.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLD HERRIES,\n\nCLARETS of Superior quality, Chateau, Margaux, Mouton. St. Estephe, &c. Julian, and Leoville.\n\nApply in Hongkong and Canton\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\n500 Bags Eureka Mill, Superfine Selected,\n\nSAN FRANCISCO FLOUR.\n\nApply to\n\nF. & D. N. CANJOC and Co.\n\nFR GRATIAM ANDERSON joined me as a Partner:\n\non the 1st of January last.\n\nThe business will be carried on in the name of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nCanton, 5th March, 1856.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nALEX. WILSON, Agents, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s Godowns,\n\nEast Point, 1st October, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDESTROYERS and Labuan STEAMERS' QUALITY.\n\nApply to\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, October, 1855\n\nZINC SHEATHING, AND NAILS FOR SALE,\n\nWILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.\n\nFOR SALE SUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s\n\nGodowns.\n\nEast Point, 1st October, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT WINE in quarter Casks, from the\n\nROYAL PORTO WINE COMPANY—just received.\n\nALEX WILSON, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s Godowns.\n\nEast Point, 15th February, 1856.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one risk. And of the 2nd Class-To the extent of £8,000.\n\nAssurances on Buildings and their Contents when together form one Risk. Thus to above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured be entitled to participate in the Profits after Five successive payments.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China.\n\n[Hongkong, 1st January, 1845,\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\nand after this day, M. MAXIMILIAN FISCHER\n\non\n\nCanton, is empowered to sign\n\nPOLICIES\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Agent.\n\nHongkong, 3d March 1854.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room in the Chinese\n\nHall, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock p.m., to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books. Non-members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE,\n\nSecretary\n\nHOME EDUCATION, CHELTENHAM.\n\nLADY, the Widow of a Clergyman, who has\n\nresided in the East, is desirous of receiving Pupils to educate with her own children, with the assistance of a resident Governess.\n\nFurther particulars and references will be obtained on application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE undersigned has received authority by the last Mail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued here by the above Office, payable in THREE Months after notice, in place of Six Months as heretofore.\n\nHongkong. 6th June, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nROB. S. WALKER,\n\nAgent.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720.\n\nTestimonial to be presented to Mr ROBERT RIENAECKEL, now lying at the \"VICTORIA LIBRARY\n\nRooms.\n\nFor Signature.\"\n\nHongkong, 1st March, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nREV. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of English Parents at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the comforts of a HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION,\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Queen Street, Victoria, HongKong.\n\nWHAT SHALL I Fr?--A young lady exiled in a\n\nPOLICIES to do something for a rash of red to the\n\nE undersigned.\n\nAgents at Hongkong for above Corporation, are prepared to ISSUE POLICIES AGAINST FIRE to the extent of £200,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same\n\nDENT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nI have been doctoring myself,' said the languid fair one, with a smile, to the bluff, though kind M. D. while he was feeling her pulse. Why I have taken Morrison's pills, Parr's pills, Cockle's pills, Allen and Bell's pills. Bell's balsam of liquorice, and Powell's cough electuary. I even med Beary's calcined magnesia, Fawcett's nervous pills, and Madam,\" interrupted the astonished doctor, all these to your complaint no good\" Now then what shall I take? inquired the patient. Take, exclaimed the doctor, eyeing her from head to feet, Take, echoed after a moment's reflection, take-why, take of\n\nyour stools!'\n\nNOTICE\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 23d January, 1856.\n\nHONGKONG INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nTHE undersigned hereby give notice, that on and after this date POLICIES will be granted in the above Office, payable in CASH and the various Agents, at THREE Months after first proper notice of Loss is given in lieu of Six Months as heretofore.\n\nHongkong, 13th December, 1854\n\nLINDSAY & Co.,\n\nSecretaries.\n\nWe conclude with the following, which we recommend particularly to all anxious mothers --\n\n\"One day, when Dr. Read was sitting with us, we saw from the open window his own little boy. about four years old, playing on the green with a large hatchet-\n\nWe pointed it out to the father, and urged him to go and take from his child so dangerous a play-thing.\n\n'Well now, I guess, if I did, he would find something else perhaps worse. You know that the other day he had got the percussion caps and gun-powder that your master Frank blew himself up with.' It is impossible to be always looking after them. They must take their chance.\"--(Mr. Beste, vol... 132\n\nCORRESPONDENTS of England.They told us how they should like to see England; but could not bear the idea of living there; and they asked us if we had no fear in living in England When we asked why, they said some of their priests told them that England was only a piece of land like an iceberg and just sticking out above the ice, and which might be overflowed or covered any night when there might be an extraordinary rough sea, which catastrophe they considered must at some time happen. 1 -Carr's Russia.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241295, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX, No. 5.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nINTIMATIONS,\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co., of Canton, China, did, on the 11th day of March, 1856, at the Office of the UNITED STATES' CONSULATE in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all concerned to make payment to us of all sums due to, and to present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nJAMES PURDON & Co,\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAN Assignment of the property, real and personal, of the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Canton, Foo-chow, and Shanghae, China, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, I hereby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of all sums due to, and to present to me any claims against, the said Firm.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY.\n\nCanton, 7th August, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Archives of H. B. M's. Consulate at Canton are for the time transferred to the Government Office, Hongkong, where any Official Communications to H. M's. Consul can, until further notice, be addressed.\n\nBy Order of H. B. M's. Consul,\n\nCHARLES A. WINCHESTER,\n\nVice-Consul.\n\nOFFICE OF THE BRITISH CONSULATE, CANTON,\n\nGOVERNMENT OFFICE, HONGKONG,\n\n22d December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees.\n\nJOSEPH JARDINE, Esq.,\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS, Esq.\n\nHon. W. T. MERCER, Esq.,\n\nH.S. WALKER, Esq.\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company, (ex officio.)\n\nTreasurer.-H. MAGNIAO, Esq.\n\nResident Surgeon, RICHARD G. JACK,\n\nConsulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n75 cents per day.\n\n1 dollar\n\n2 dollars.\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previous to the amount deposited having been expended.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN.\n\n\"Hongkong Register\" Office, 1st January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nTHREE HOUSES known as Bayview.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to\n\nHongkong, 27th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each 13 feet 2 inches in length, and 9 feet 4 inches in breadth. Boilers and Steam-chest sufficiently spacious to work Engines of from One Hundred and Twenty to One Hundred and Thirty HORSE POWER. Each Boiler has 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Sixteen Months in the Vessel, and not having been used more than Six Weeks during the whole of that time.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nOn board the Screw Steamer \"Labuan,\"\n\nOff Whampoa\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself at Tacao, as Merchant, and General Agent.\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1857.\n\nA. J. F. PE CASTRO.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. A. A. DE MELLO Jr., is authorized to sign the Firm's name per procuration.\n\nMacao, 31 January, 1857.\n\nA. A. DE MELLO & Co.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Copartnership ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. The accounts of the late Firm will be liquidated by F. W. LAWRENCE.\n\nJ. M. ARMSTRONG.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE.\n\nHongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\nI have this day established myself as a Commission Merchant and General Agent on the premises lately occupied by Messrs. ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, under the Firm of F. W. LAWRENCE & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMUND ... ceased on 31st December last.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, with one CYLINDER capable of working up to Ten HORSE POWER, fitted with Pump of 7 inches diameter, and Stroke of Piston Rod 6 inches, for pumping out Water Ballast, throwing with ease 20 Tons per hour. Also 2 Cast Iron BARRELS with COG WHEELS, for Loading or Discharging Cargo.\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBULAR BOILER for Engine, standing 5 feet 3 inches high, diameter 3 feet 7 inches.\n\nThe whole in first-rate working order.\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1858.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION,\n\nEstablished by Charter 1720.\n\nTHE undersigned, agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co., Agents\n\nHongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nNo. 1,364\n\nTHE undersigned having been appointed AGENT for the above Company, requests application to be made to him in case of any particular or general Averages on risks insured by them.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.\n\nInvested Capital £650,000.\n\nTHE greatest advantages offered to Insurers consistent with perfect security, as follows —\n\n1. A large Invested Capital as guarantee for the prompt settlement of all claims.\n\n2. Low rates for short term Policies.\n\n3. A Moderate scale for whole Life Insurances without profits.\n\n4. A liberal reduction of premium on Policies effected on the participating scale arising from division of profits.\n\n5. An annual division of profits.\n\n6. Seventy-five per cent of the declared Annual profits apportioned to Policies entitled to participate.\n\n7. Premiums payable half yearly, quarterly, or monthly;\n\nProspectuses and forms forwarded free to any part of India by Messrs. Braddon & Co., Agents and Secretaries, Calcutta, or to any part of China on application to\n\nR. S. WALKER,\n\nAgent.\n\nHongkong, 21st June, 1856.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nPOST-OFFICE NOTICE.\n\nTHE Acting Post-Master regrets to say that owing to the pressure of business at the Post-Office, Hongkong, there can be no delivery for the present of Letters &c., but from the Post-Office window. Hours of attendance being as heretofore from 7 o'clock A.M. to 5 P.M.\n\nPost- The undersigned having been appointed AGENTS in executed with despatch.\n\nSTEAM ENGINES & BOILERS repaired,\n\nSHAFTS of the best English Iron from 5 to 9 inches diameter.\n\nOrders to be addressed to Messrs B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Manila.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 24th September, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nTHE REV. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of such FOREIGN RESIDENTS at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the Comforts of a HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION.\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Gough Street, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room in the COURT House, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock P.M., to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books. Parties, not members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary.\n\nENGLAND AS A ...\n\nPage 318", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241297, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "20\n\nNo. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.—Continued.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS—Continued.\n\nDate of Tave\n\nCORSION BA\n\nSame\n\nArrival\n\n27 Frick\n\nHongkong Jan. 28\n\nSneon Draper\n\nAm. ship\n\n200\n\nAshly\n\n26 Luni\n\n81. Zephyr\n\n31 May\n\nSiilelena\n\nJan. 29\n\nTuss\n\nBrit. ship\n\n24 Middleton\n\nShanglice\n\nJan. 25\n\nBellast Da.\n\nBrit. ship\n\nSimons\n\n81 Sir Jus. Brooke\n\nBrit. ship\n\n8795k: amer\n\nFeb. 1 Carondon\n\n1 Bansive\n\nBrit. xh.\n\n#50 MoGregor\n\nSingapore Dec. 37\n\nGeneral\n\nSingapore\n\nSun. 21\n\nTroops\n\nSanghus\n\nJan. 27\n\nBala River\n\nMina.\n\n207 Bambay,&Jur.\n\nOman\n\n1 Jacob Cornelia\n\nDut, ship\n\n492 Rosenboom\n\nBombay\n\nH31S. Porkowess\n\nCanton\n\nSAILED.\n\n1 Chempion\n\n3+\n\n2 Harraventa\n\nBril. b.\n\n445 Thurs\n\nBrit. at.\n\n1000 Aba\n\nAm. h.\n\n500 Gray\n\nFHA\n\nDAIS\n\nNAXE\n\n| FLLO &\n\nKiu\n\nBonghong Jan. 26\n\nThobe Danbar\n\nBrit. al.\n\n70 Tucker\n\nA Separa\n\n#\n\nFitohormal Ca\n\nP. & D. S. N. Co\n\nOrder\n\nSoler and Co\n\n225yal, Suli and Co\n\n688 Fieber und On\n\nApril 21\n\n120 Tarner sad Co\n\nOrlen\n\nMarinera Hope, Lrg\n\nAu Nile, brig\n\nShanghae\n\nAmericaa\n\nSegnoant, ship\n\nB. R. Milaro, ship\n\nDurrington, ship\n\nChanning, ship'\n\nCompetitor, ship\n\nNorwester, sisip\n\nArrival\n\nDate Tur\n\nCOXSTOMER\n\n535 King and Ca\n\n090Isaac M. Bolf & Co\n\nNov. 125Moner!, O. & Co\n\niBee. 1174jRussell and Co\n\nDuc.\n\n1500. Huar nd Co\n\n740Campton. II. & Co\n\nBall, Nye and Co\n\nDec 10 128 Heard and Co\n\nCormances of Seas ship\n\nDeo. 24782 wall and Co\n\n118 Order 289Dent, Deals and Co\n\nDurch\n\nAlbrecht Beiling, q.\n\nNov. G. C. D. You\n\nTwist, b\n\n700 Schafer and Co\n\n464 Selacier and do\n\n4788chiler and Co\n\n244. D. Sys and Ga|\n\nSmidlow, ship\n\nWhite Swallow, skip\n\nDanish\n\nDanmark, barque\n\nGloriosa, brig\n\nOuto, barga\n\nVirgine. brig\n\nSept. 182 Cracapton, IL & Co\n\nSept. 1012001. Kinard and o\n\n270 W. Pasta and Co\n\n10. uste abi Qə\n\n230iems and Co\n\n21Johe Burd and s\n\nSALO\n\nFLAU&\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nNAME\n\nTURB CAPTAIN FRCM\n\nSURO CARGO\n\nCONSTUNTES\n\nAmoy Brininte\n\nFuhelusu\n\nJan. 24 Teze\n\nrit. g. 20 Jonca\n\nJun. Gener\n\nBrit. 283 Thanpean\n\nSinggu\n\nBrit, ul. 148 Dring !Swaluw\n\nJan. 26kenyal\n\nA. Hoard and Ca\n\nComajou mad Clu\n\nBankno.M. sad Ca\n\nDent and Co\n\nJolie, M. and Co\n\nHardin, 51. and Craner brig\n\nBila, barque\n\nEllen Oliver, barjue\n\nEtama, schooner\n\nEraignent, bowma\n\nNov. Jardine, M.and Candily\n\nAanina, eh.\n\nForerunner, lawonor\n\nOne.\n\nHine Gem, brig\n\nJly\n\nNov.\n\n¡Feb.\n\nJan.\n\nDay.\n\n49Rusell and Co\n\nNor.\n\nJuly 2685 King and Co\n\n165. Fardon & Co\n\nNov, 18180 King acul Co-\n\n140 aprak\n\nEagle, shin\n\n251 Dont, and Co\n\nBuggle Wing, ship\n\n595 Under\n\nGoblen Wert, sip\n\n38u0nder\n\nHenry Harlock, ship\n\nNov. 1\n\n204Aater and Ch\n\nMails, &c.\n\nJau. 17 General\n\nNov. 3 General\n\nHoratio, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\nNymph, Larque\n\nlec.\n\nPet, arque\n\nAng.\n\n400 filmy and Co\n\n375'Urder\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nAri.\n\n680 Russell and Co\n\nclita, schooner\n\nJan.\n\n140 Russell and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n434, Russell and Co\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh.jdet.\n\n134. Heard and Co\n\nSisters, brig\n\nHone\n\n158 is an! Ca\n\nUnele Tom, schooner\n\nept.\n\n1801ail, Still and\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nPA 15\n\nOriaz\n\nCAPESIN\n\nFGa\n\nCANDO\n\nCorrenbes\n\nI'vrluyLave\n\nArora, buoner\n\nMay\n\nPapushon, steuer\n\nJune\n\nLive. 326 and Co\n\n26 Aroat\n\n.bk. 27oct Lam a ale\n\nSingapore iShangrae\n\nHathwa Sundries\n\n27 Remi\n\nBr, str. 229)and\n\nShanghac\n\nSundries\n\nBria ok. 3748{lva\n\n29 Recapont\n\nBrit. str. 336 Crockett\n\nSingapore Sundrice\n\nShanghas\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nSandrian Wm. Pustau and Co\n\nKing end\n\nos n Cz der Sandries Jarine, M, sud Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJan. 14 266 Siemen and Co\n\nCarlow, schooner\n\nSupt\n\nFlorida, big\n\nΚαν.\n\nHado, abip\n\nแบบ\n\n$49 Queboil and Co\n\nUse Lyal. Still and Co\n\n597W.M.Bobinet & fo\n\nSev Jan.\n\n250 Uverweg ad Co\n\n133 W. Pustau and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nFapocanz buraz\n\nau\n\nAdmiral Laman, ship\n\nDes\n\nJaunius), pokaduer\n\nies.\n\n+\n\n20 Lahura\n\nBeit, str. 400jBrowes\n\nIserl, rig\n\nAky.\n\n24 Alapco\n\nBrit, bit. 677 Mason\n\nLindsay and Co\n\nLima, barque\n\nNov.\n\nBonabag, 20. Muila, fc\n\nSleeglina Sundrier\n\nShanghon Sundries\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.--Continued.\n\njatin Long, barco\n\nJune\n\nMary Ralp\n\nThe\n\n404 Biousson and Co\n\nW. Pastan and s\n\nWm. Pusta al Co\n\nFustina, burqve\n\nAng.\n\n337 in Salt\n\nMercarius, arque\n\n1808chur and O\n\nthiader, atque\n\nSenator, b\n\n250W. Put and Tə\n\nPlclades,\n\nJuly\n\nPrussian\n\nAinarika, brig\n\nOcc.\n\n21 Tutmeet and Co\n\nVernel, hig\n\nDea.\n\n21€ Dreyer and Ca\n\nSiamese\n\nDec.\n\n225|Steraan and Co\n\nSCIPS\n\nFhanbury\n\nBouits, brig\n\nNov.\n\n311 John B\n\nBangkok Mark, ship\n\nGodisler, Jarque\n\nAng\n\nEBS Order\n\naly\n\nKing and Co\n\nand Co\n\nSue ship\n\nfang, 9 Stoking sna Co\n\nLaco.\n\n200, Dreyer al Ba\n\nApril\n\n176 Urder\n\nAng. 10385 Kasseli and Co\n\n118 Jardins, and to\n\nNor.\n\nClarita, brig\n\nCora, ship\n\nAvg.\n\nDea.\n\n400 Order\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Hone, que\n\nSian, barque\n\nAug.\n\n430 Order\n\nJuly\n\n32: Order\n\nSpanis\n\n29.\n\nJan. 2 198 W31. Robinet & Co\n\nBan Lorenze, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nJuly 11\n\n220 F. D. Syme and Co\n\n16F. D. Syme and C\n\nTESSEL\n\nAT\n\nFLAG\n\nFubchan British\n\nAcarn\n\nBictor\n\nHhong Scop\n\nAgnes Garland, atque\n\nNor Mady, sing\n\n255,0. L, and Co\n\nCalcutta\n\nAng.\n\n1500. Nathaluoy & Cu\n\nkong Flag Ship\n\n84\n\nMelanie, barqu\n\njau.\n\n18. Heard and\n\nCams\n\n14: Jenkins\n\nNov.\n\n510)Dem and Ca\n\nPantaloon, brig\n\nNev.\n\nSoCamajos and Co\n\nfixcogier\n\nPowai, si\n\nfact.\n\n687ade, M. and Ca\n\n| Mercales\n\nDet. 24] 628A. Heard and Co\n\nH&ret\n\nAng. 20 Gas Gito, L. and Co\n\nMiss\n\nSe Dec.\n\n550 Rassell and Co\n\n31 Bollu\n\n2 Virginie\n\n20 Boulay\n\nB: pr. 600 Curling Bets. bg\n\n107 Makissiek ian.\n\n168 Appon\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nLondoR Smudries Lindsay and Co\n\nTORT Sundries\n\nP. &Ì & N. Co\n\nSmies\n\nAt Hongkong\n\n• British\n\nDate ut! anini\n\nTONS! CONSIUNEES\n\nAlfred the Great, ship\n\nCot. 24 312 Fames Steplanon\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nAulandsle, ship\n\nAeasy, ship\n\nAustralia, ship\n\nAvaca, bargur\n\nJaner, schooner\n\nBanekae, haque\n\nBreshera, Utg\n\nCaldera, ship\n\nCadiz, wamer\n\nCity of Carlisle, ship\n\nClarendon, ship\n\nDeva, ship\n\nPaglub, steamer\n\nBarl Grey, hangne\n\nEena, brig\n\nErin, steamer\n\nEurquie, stip\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nFalco, ship\n\nFous, ship\n\nGlencoe, sp\n\nGood Success, thiş\n\nHoro, abip\n\nJubu Matible, ship\n\nKensington, ship\n\nLady Hayes, barque\n\nLanrick, brig\n\nLord Bagian, ship\n\nLouis, Barque\n\nMaryhull, schooner\n\nMaria Hay, hip\n\nNeure brig\n\nNimrod, ship\n\nPanhua, brig\n\nPerseverance, barque\n\nPrincos Royal, ship\n\nPady Daveon. thip\n\nBamarang, barque\n\nJan. 17 187Gibb, L, and Cu\n\nDec. 7yall, Sail and Co\n\nJan. 1673 Fletcher aud Co\n\nSept. 560 John Bard and Ca\n\nSept. 30 SuRusch and Co\n\nJa, 155ohn Burd and Co\n\nFeb. 14Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 16 2400-der\n\nJan. 820;Under\n\nFeb. 1006P. & O. S. N. C\n\nJau. 15 936 Jardins, M. and Co\n\nFeb. 850 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nJan, 181039 Ruseli and Co\n\nDos. 8 165lemsson and Co\n\nDec. 17 67 Jardine, M.\n\nJan. 26 207 Vaunaice and Co\n\nJua. 850. & G. S. N. C\n\nDec 28 728 Order\n\nNov. 3835 Lyull, Still and Cu\n\nSept. 26 430 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJun. 14 400Order\n\nJau 1784 N. Murray and Co\n\nNay. 5 500Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1| 401| Lindsay and Cə\n\nJou 2 500 Turner and Co\n\nJan. 1a 800Order\n\nGet. 18 318iten. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 282 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17581anline, M. & Co\n\nJan. 11 374Dent and Co\n\nlocs, si 19els. E. Burrows\n\nJan. 31 924 Jardin, M. and Co\n\nDec. 1l 200Order\n\nJan 23 33 Dent and Co\n\nddell\n\n0 14 148o.\n\nHongkong Hamburg\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbis, schoonet\n\nMewor, saip\n\nPerucian\n\nAmireas, brig\n\nAnbitvet, ship\n\nCarmon, barque\n\nCallao, barqué\n\nSantiago, barque\n\nUgarte y Sauiing,\n\nSiamese\n\nNoortol, barque\n\nSan Juan, barque\n\nSiamese Crowa, chip\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpanish\n\nPetua, schooner\n\nBremen\n\nC. Melchers, barque\n\nSoloo, barque\n\nChitian\n\nAlianza, Lurquo\n\nGreyhound. Phip\n\nSaray, enhuoner\n\nNew Granndian\n\n| Anuic. barque\n\nMacao\n\nBritian\n\nRoehampton, ship\n\n1 Date of Town\n\nArrival\n\nDec. 31 W. Postan and Co\n\nNev, 16 aga John Burd and Co\n\nJan. 15 540, Sierunson and Co\n\nHalt and Co\n\nNov. 15 Nov. 12 540 W. M. Robinet& Co\n\nDec. 23 356 J. J. das Henesis\n\nJan. 23248 Wm l'ostau and Co\n\nDec. 193 J. J. des Becicios\n\nSept. 13, 200 Order\n\nNov. 39; 4500ndar\n\nDec. 15 800 Order\n\nAug. 28 250 Order\n\nChico, belg\n\nBuno Ayres, brig\n\nChristiau, brig\n\nFaust, schooner\n\nPavian\n\nRosalia, arque\n\nNov. 37 230 Lyall, Still and Co\n\nNow Era, ship\n\nJan. 24 47NR S. Waller\n\nQel 2 186: John Bard and Co\n\nQueensbury, kip\n\nJan. 23 210Order\n\nNov. 250W. Fustan and Co\n\nD. 22 325 W. Lubinet & Co\n\nJuly 13 907Edward and Balley\n\nPortuguese\n\nEnando Macaense, hire.\n\nMay 251 207 Jose d'Almeida\n\n394. J. das Beridos\n\nMaria Carlota, banque.Tan.\n\nSanyma, barque\n\nTona 21|| 170|§. J. dun Renadioe\n\nSept Tremely, barens\n\n375bindsay and Ca\n\n670 Dont and Co\n\nFraich\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship\n\nOct.\n\nAmerican\n\nHoher Sall, All\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Busiwam, by.\n\nFlyaway, skip\n\nKingsher, ship\n\nMandarin, shin\n\nHamburg\n\nAbardus, barque\n\n250W.M. Robinel & Co\n\n1375|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n126da. Heard and Ce\n\nMay 10 200 Russell and Co\n\nAug. 318&farstine, M. and Co\n\n778A. Jies and Co\n\nRussell and Co\n\nوندی کی\n\n400 Siemsson and Co\n\nSprintma\n\nSanta Leda. Larque\n\nOldeanzung Schlosser, bargue\n\nSept. 3 77W. Pustan and C\n\n550 W. Pustau und Ca\n\nBRITISH SRIPS DE WAR IN CHINA.\n\nCanton Sloop Barratte\n\nHeng P. W. ST.\n\nCloromeda\n\nNankin\n\nNiger\n\nRacehorse\n\nSampeon!\n\nSybille\n\nCanton Sloop\n\nGanton P. W., Str.\n\nCanton Ser. Str.\n\nkong Hospital\n\nCanchor. Str.\n\nH.kong Store Ship\n\nLingue Pigate\n\nCanton Ser Str.\n\nglas Brigato\n\nBubcha Song\n\nAmey P. W. Str.\n\nHogue Priate\n\nט\n\nCOMMANDRA\n\n12 A. W. A. Hood\n\nT. A Furtescue\n\n12 Ticut, Beamish\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n& Douglas 1.W.DO'Callaghan\n\n12\n\nForny fl\n\nJH. T. ER, Master\n\n60 Hon. Keith Stowel\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 Sir S. W. E. Nicolson\n\n14 3. R. Barnard\n\n& G. & Fund\n\n40 Wire. Hon, C. Ellied\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCOMMANDERS\n\nW. T. Bate\n\nG. T. Colville\n\nCa BIGLAND\n\nGolden Racer, ship\n\ni\n\nSamuel Russol, ahip\n\nMay\n\nSarah II. Snow, by.\n\nにし、\n\n420 King and Co\n\nAng. ace! A.A. de Mello & Co\n\nVancouver, ship\n\nJuus\n\n$18 Kussell and Co\n\n$20John Bard and Co\n\n¡SAILED FROM\n\nWedentara, banque\n\nLouisiana, arque\n\nDutch\n\nApril22\n\nNingpo Britian\n\nCornacle, ship\n\n348,W.M. Rebisen&Car, shooner\n\nSolon, banque\n\nArtoon\n\n28 Prigate.\n\nNov.\n\nAerity\n\nH. Kajone\n\n4 Ser. Str.\n\nMar.\n\n632 Dent, Baale and On | Buscaṛd\n\nCWERAD\n\nGun Boat\n\nOct. 25\n\nOct. Oct.\n\n180 kindsay and Co\n\nCamilla\n\n13 Scop\n\nGOJE Bord and Co\n\nCesiser\n\nC. Fellowes\n\nElt\n\nBarcas, brig\n\nLort\n\nDroggrabank, ship\n\nDet.\n\n695 ebaeffer med Do\n\n257. Puslan and Co\n\nWilmingtou, ohuones\n\nFeb.\n\n$6 R and Co\n\nForester\n\nA. J. Lunes\n\nFury\n\nEverdina Elizabeth,bq.\n\nJan.\n\n600 Schaeffer and Co\n\nHaughty\n\nSt. Helena, bug\n\nDee.\n\n1896chauder and Co\n\nLightver\n\nJuflexible\n\nJan. 24 103 James Stephenson\n\nTouis, ship\n\n52:Order\n\nArg\n\n497 J. Bowmen and Co\n\nOposzan\n\nFrow Jolierna, bij.\n\nDet.\n\n530 Beneffer and Co\n\nNo. 28 1247 Darley, W, and 0%\n\nOsprey\n\nHenburg\n\nDec.\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nPlayer\n\nLaum & Louie, by\n\nRase, rig\n\nJau,\n\n248 Dryer and Co\n\nKaleigh\n\nJair 1\n\n1768. Burrowa\n\nNov. 28, 372 Lindsay and Co\n\nBandei\n\nJuly\n\nNar.\n\n7.8 Deb and Co\n\nStarling\n\nJA, J. Villers\n\nSept.\n\n175 Burner and Co\n\nJaas\n\n280 Joan Band and Go\n\nen\n\n100 Holiday, Wis: GÜC\n\n120 121\n\nSept. 15 286 Turner and Co\n\nDec 28 900 Dent and Co\n\nDec. 93 78) Onder\n\nDec. 26 560 Dent and Ca\n\nBir Jamar Broshe, str.\n\nJan 91 73 lecher and Co\n\nSpeedy, ship\n\nSpirit of the North, eh.\n\nNov, 11 67, L. and Co\n\nSollane, barque\n\nTruro, ship\n\nUnicoro, simmer\n\nVizzinie skip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWegsoia, stip\n\nOct. 1 588ebatfer and C\n\nJan. 2469rder\n\nAug. 16 786 Taos. Hunt and Co\n\nJaur 18 830yal, Su, and Co\n\nNov. 143ardine, M. & Co\n\n¡Dee. 24 549 Illiday, Wise&Co\n\nWater Witch, harque\n\nJan. 15) 958). Laprak WP.. Nii\n\nWiki Wave, selvoner\n\nJan. 24. 200/Jardine, M. & Co\n\njosemary -\n\nZepliyi, chonne\n\nFrench\n\nEtaile, Ba\n\nInitia, barque\n\nMansur, Lip\n\nMount Riant, ship\n\nSaceos. ship\n\nJan. 3, 118 Dent and Co\n\nJa 21 389korder\n\nJan. 10j 545;Deas and Co\n\nDec. 26 617ent and Ca\n\n¡Nov. 2) 414jOrder\n\nWillemins, brig\n\n1'/\n\nGimeneze, ship\n\nمشهدال\n\n224 Schacter anti Co\n\net. 15 600 Order\n\nA MEDICAR\n\nShanghae\n\nBritish\n\nAlbert Bowd, ship\n\nAliquis, sp\n\nAlchymies, ship\n\nArrow ship\n\nAngrata, alip\n\nBailarat, li\n\nChallenger, Earque\n\nMara Nativaladept 28 010 M. Rolanes & Co\n\nChieftain, arc\n\nEast Coast\n\nArn, stomer\n\nVille de Dieppe, barqueFan. 2014)yali, St and Co\n\nproste, abip\n\nAmercom\n\nAutonita. schooner\n\nAntelope, steder\n\nBarham, arque\n\nCarben, schooner\n\nChampion, ship\n\nDee. 1134rder\n\nJan. 24 200 iussell and Co\n\nOct 28 248 W. Pustau and Co\n\nDen 26 200. Girly\n\nFeb.\n\n360 Order\n\nC. W. Bradley, Jr., bc, Oct. 9 218A. Heard and Co\n\nDom Quixoto, ekip\n\nDement, ship\n\nFaruka, ship\n\nFrancis P. age, ship\n\nGarland, schooter\n\nHolen Mar, barque\n\nJames Maishail, brig\n\nJ. Godfrey, barque\n\nHate Hooper, shig\n\n2438 King and Co\n\nBan. 18 4003. fleard and Co\n\nNov. 5100, Heard and Co\n\nNov. 12115Jardine, 1. & Co\n\nJan. 15 118s. E. Burrows\n\nDec. 26 saalonder\n\nAnek tan, argue\n\nPorly, ship\n\n16% Robers S. Walker\n\n115andine, M. and\n\nConfums Ship\n\nCrystal Palace, eng\n\nElisse, barqu\n\nBizabeth, brig\n\nFazil Curria, barque\n\nForrtev.sip\n\nCots, ship\n\n537 Curlewine and Co\n\n140Jardins, M. & C\n\nDe 12 25 Birley, W. and Ca\n\nJane 15, 566 per and Co\n\nJan.\n\n207 Viliam P. and Cu\n\n8spt, in 20 Jarding, B. and Co\n\nMay 30 802 Tait and Co\n\nJ.F.C.Hamilton 12 Sicop\n\nC. T. Tudītie\n\nEL V Tamilcar\n\nSer. Str. Sept. 25\n\nFout Sept. 25\n\nKiun Boat Sept. 25\n\nGF.A.Shadwel 21 Scr. St.\n\nST. Corbett\n\nP. W. Str. Oct. 23.\n\n2. A. Campbell Bat\n\n54. 3. m.ield. S.\n\nKeith Stewart. Go Bast\n\nHou. R.Keppel 50 Trigate\n\nNov. 'Willmau\n\nBoat Sep, 25 ina Boot Oct. 25\n\nFOREJON SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA\n\ndid\n\nAT\n\nFisc.\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\n805. 839W.1. Warley &Co\n\nCatinat\n\nSur Are\n\nVirginin\n\nLevent\n\nPortsmouth\n\nJau 16 BJ, Kouper\n\nAug.\n\nGuzole, schooner\n\nQuetonio, bargco\n\nGeralWindham, slap\n\nDo Guinare, ship\n\nHeltespant, 6tomer\n\nIndia, barque\n\nBeta Hip\n\nW.M. Rubinel&Ross\n\nKate Carnie, Ali\n\nKelso, ship\n\nLaviermuir, ekip\n\n11 382 Giinue, B. and Co\n\nGsa Lyall, Stink and Co\n\nJuny 2002 graves and Co\n\n336 Jardine, M, and Co\n\nJau Sept. 15 53 Den, Brule & Co\n\nI. 21 020, Birley, W. and Co\n\nDee. 27560 Galien Co\n\nJou. 75%y Lindsay and Co\n\nSept. 26 952 as, Bowman Co\n\nLuly A. Dort barque\n\nNov. 8 870s. Koney and Cul\n\nLady Mary Wood, str.\n\nLammermuir, ship\n\nLouisa Baltic, ship\n\nMary Wieuheit, sp\n\nDee. 563 P. & 4. S. N. OS\n\nJan Bourns and Co\n\nAng. 24, 494 Gilman, B and\n\n1205 Jarine, M. Co\n\n780 and Ca\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nlungkung. Su. Houghong Fr. Frig.\n\nDangkong U. S. SL\n\nShangbae 17. S. Sh.\n\nR.-A. Gner in 50 Capt. Plas 18 St\n\nJC Fote\n\n(bars, Amtree. A\n\n{ Capt. Beli\n\ntea\n\nHongkong U. S. Str.\n\nFort Brig\n\n20 Cam. Tayfres\n\n21 (0) Daterin\n\nMuiden\n\nSulpicc\n\ndc.\n\nAlaxants\n\nPorthorea Prameel\n\n8. Rer Sp. Bg.\n\nHangkong Peru. Str.\n\n4 Briar.g\n\n14 Doran\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nBritish\n\nJeliz\n\nChin Chin, arque\n\n310,Camajeu and\n\nBanons, schooner\n\nJa\n\n121 Dens zod Co\n\nJan. 21 56sell and Cu\n\nGaver achooner\n\nApril\n\nHart, schooner\n\nFly\n\n4 Y. J. Marrow\n\nHelen, brig\n\nJan\n\n130 Turtar and Co\n\nJuns\n\nMalac, urque\n\nAng\n\n869 lewitz and Co\n\nBlaze pjs, schooner\n\nu.\n\nBear, arhooner\n\nJuly\n\nTriopho, schooner\n\n200 D. Laprik\n\nFrench\n\nAnais, ship\n\nNov.\n\n632 Lyait, Stilt and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJac.\n\n304W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nJaly\n\n1068 A. Huurd neu Co\n\nProgressive Age, rig\n\nNov.\n\n296 A. card and Co\n\nKugleader, shi\n\nMay\n\n1:56 A, Koard and Co\n\nSadie Peaza, ship\n\nSep\n\n875 Bonac Cad Os\n\nWitch, barone\n\nCe\n\n| 4100rder\n\nJan.\n\n100 Scbacter and Co\n\nferiests Marie, gee..\n\n581 Sebaffer and Co\n\nJuly\n\nJane\n\n700, F-W. Lawresno\n\ntopur\n\niwan\n\nNov.\n\nJameson\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\n►\n\nWicusy\n\nSailtea\n\n126 Siemsson anal Co\n\nGerard\n\nDent & Co.\n\nFune\n\n218 John Bund and Co\n\nJord Ambers Anany\n\nBrown\n\nDent & C\n\nJav.\n\n202 Turner and Co\n\nPatlirler\n\n14M\n\nJa\n\n025 W. Pieter and Co\n\nHarleggin\n\nClutches Fitgibbon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Út\n\nTera\n\nParti\n\nDent & Co.\n\nDec.\n\nBremen\n\nBertha, arque\n\nSept\n\n40W, Pastau anil Os\n\nsir E. Aberamby, sb.Man.\n\nya Tamer od Os\n\nMahanolic Tubeca worl\n\nWuter Witch\n\nFalix, barne\n\nClitian\n\nJaz,\n\nJame\n\nKod Lyal, ul auá Ca\n\nVenilia, ship\n\nThen\n\nGaming, M. and Co\n\nHinly\n\nDent & Co.\n\nAnn Woleh\n\nWeorang\n\naircott\n\nA\n\n1. Icare & Co.\n\nVudex, schooner\n\nMa\n\nFully Jane\n\nKing\n\nFulkste\n\nBaylis\n\n478say and Co\n\nNimrod\n\nCobb\n\ni. S. Sons & Co.\n\nSea Horaé\n\nKeppel\n\nP. F. Curas & Ca\n\nHenderson Lindsay Co\n\nMan. 10 13. E Barrows\n\nNev. 18 456Y. J. Murrow\n\nDec. 1488Js. Stephenson\n\nMary Whitidge, chip\n\nNov. 27 07 Russell and Co\n\nMeteor, ship\n\nMins, schooner\n\nMiu, steamer\n\nMosaur ship\n\nNorth Wind, ahip\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nJan. 20088ja. Heard and Co\n\nMar 300rder\n\nJan. 14; 130 Russell and Co\n\nJuno 28 50Thorens Hunt &Co\n\nOct, 21041as Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1100 Rossc aud Co\n\nQueen of Be Res, ship! Dec. 170350 all and Co\n\nBachand\n\nRescate, ship\n\nSimon Dumper, kali.\n\nSpotaran, ship\n\nStar King,\n\np\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYeang America, slip\n\nDutch\n\nAlmonde, Tarque\n\nAnna Justina, ahty\n\nAhna Elizabeth, iq.\n\nChristina, bargne\n\nAug. 25 5303. E. Burrows\n\nSupt. 251 SUGRasseti and Ca\n\nJan. 26 20. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 2u1 826Order\n\nDoa, 11176 Order\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\n8pt 202000). Iesed and Co\n\nDat. 19 600w. Postau and Co\n\nJas. 13 550 Schaeffer a d Co\n\nJan. 161iemisen und Co\n\nNov. 26 648 Schander and Co\n\nGeneral de Stucs, by.\n\nJan. 2 79Order\n\nHollar Astrow, haupe\n\nSept. 79, Schacter and Co\n\nJaenh Cats, banque\n\nOct. 22 800Saborifer and Co\n\nJacoba Coracia, hq.\n\nKlazina, barque\n\nOosterling, legra\n\nFeb. 140Britaefer and Co\n\nJan. 17 Schactor and Co\n\nDec. 15 53 Var der Haven\n\nP. von Baren, barque\n\nFan, 14; 250W. Pastau and Co\n\nProvenz, barque\n\nBegins, barqa\n\nDazisk\n\nHercules, brig\n\nHelena, barque\n\nJan 18 19 Schaster and Co\n\nJan. 173 W. Fustan and Co\n\nMay 1 2siemsson and Co\n\nUan. 91 e Win.Plan and Co\n\nDutch\n\nDiana, submer\n\nPogosophyr, bq.\n\nVienesha, ship\n\nDanish\n\nBaldar, schooner\n\nLoots\n\ne, schooner\n\nHumbury\n\nElizabeth Ross, brig.\n\nDet\n\nLisa, barque\n\nMcibido, ig\n\nSiusness\n\nParagon, ship\n\nFrolic, actuoner\n\nSwatow British\n\nChina, ship\n\nFazel Carram, barque\n\nJune\n\nNama, schooner\n\nAug.\n\nAmoy\n\nBradish\n\nAbbotsford, barque\n\nAun Kay, rehvoner\n\nAs F. W. Lawrenceklo\n\n4. Puatau and Co\n\nW. Pustau anu Ca\n\n708|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n!April\n\n80gOrder\n\n250 Order\n\n1, Lapraik\n\n! \n\nNov.\n\nApra\n\nAutoinette, barque\n\nSept.\n\n430E. D. Syme and Co 121 Tait and s\n\nBlack River Facket, be\n\nApril 19 25:Order\n\nConfucius, ship\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nCaluchow, ellip\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nSept\n\n21Sebaftor and Co\n\n51allay, Wine &Ca!\n\nNapoleon II, sip\n\nNia, schooner\n\nNie, ship\n\nNightingale, ship\n\nPaculise, varque\n\nFabr.gra, barque\n\nPeba, banque\n\nPiuto, alcamer\n\nIve.\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Bard and Lo\n\nDee.\n\n70s fling. 1. und Lu\n\nDec. 16 Juzeline. M, and Ce\n\nVESSEL.\n\nAr\n\nCAPTALS.\n\nJuly 320, Wet more and to\n\nNov. 28 705 Captam\n\nJan 11 1890. C. Schmuva\n\nJune 41st, 3a and Co\n\nPrinces Koyal, chipet.\n\nPruth. sip\n\nRemi, stoster\n\nRutin, brig\n\nLal Still\n\nJan. 12 A8Limisty and Co\n\nJAS\n\nJail.\n\nSual Lucy, sequely 10\n\nSauel Stosur, bg.\n\nSept. 11 Salvetin ship\n\nSir James, bargue\n\nWhampoa, lurque\n\nWild Flower, slip\n\nFrench\n\nCanton, saip\n\n322 N. Dogs and Ca\n\nOWALKE\n\nHart Willia. Longkong MDerant ||F. & C. 8. N. Co.\n\nJofon Adria\n\nGama Family\n\nCooray\n\nJa Wa. Posh and Co\n\n45 Water and Co\n\n42rpent, Banky and Ce\n\n647 Lindsay awi Osi\n\n179 Dent and Co\n\nSept. 10 375mler\n\nDea.\n\nDec. 638 Dent and Co\n\nKopanál\n\nAnteyeca\n\nHongkong\n\nSwailow\n\nD. S. Sens & Cu\n\nP. H. Cha & Co.\n\nEusseit & Co.\n\nJuri, M. & Co.\n\nJardine, M. & Ca „Jardine, M. & Linke\n\nDem, Beale & Co.\n\nJarding, M. & Coi\n\nTERMS OF SUKSCRIPTION to the HONOKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT:-For One Year, 829, Six Mouths, $19. Three Manthe, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER-For One Year, $15; Six Montuz, $9; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRIOD CURRENT slone-Por One Year, $8; all payable in advance, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER —Advertisements, not exceeding i lines,\n\neach insociic. $1, each additional line 20 cearts; van halt of these charges for Repetitica AGENTS for the DONGKONG REGISTER S OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTIO, Paq, Lomion; Mesars. JARDIN, SKIN & Co., Calcutta; Marrs. Emisoras à. Co. Bourbag; W. S. Danska, Esq., Singapors; Mesary, TAXON, Researy & Co., Batavia; J. P. PE, Esq. San Francisco.\n\n76 Jawline, M. and Colltel, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACILAN, at the Hongkong Register Offer: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkang. Tuesday, February 3, 1857.\n\n76,P. D. Syme and Ca\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 6.\n\nENTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1867.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHERRAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co. MR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our\n\nWHERE the Futva the 11th day of March.\n\n1866, at the fine of the UvITAL STATES' CONSULATK in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in frust for the benefit of their Ureditore, to the undersigned: We bestby giva potica to all voneer el to make payment to ma of all sums due to, and lo present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co. JAMES FURDON & Co. Canton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n-\n\nPum.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTH\n\nHE undoraigned has this day established himself at\n\nMac, as 3 Berchant, and General Agent\n\nà. 1. §. na CASTRO,\n\nMac, 1st January, 1857,\n\nNOTICE\n\nInstant\n\nAssignment of the property, real and personal, of. A. A. Du MELIO JE, in authorized to sign the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Chatou, Too- name of our Piru per procuration frost the chow, and Shanghuse, Chiux, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the\n\nA A, D MELLO & Co. beatit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, 1 horeby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of sii sume due to, kand\n\nclaims against, the said Firm. to prescut to m\n\nCantan, 7th August, 1856.\n\nOLIVER IL PERRY.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBeamen's Hospital. Trustees. Jostra farming, faq., C. D. WILLIS, Esq. Hon. W. T. Mesca, Esq., R.S. WALLER, E Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Coa pany. (ex oficio.j\n\nTrauren-d. Maantaa, Esq.\n\nBriuent burgeon-Renard G. JACK. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.]).\n\n*\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION, Paltic Warda,****\n\n75 cents per day, fazermediate Wards...\n\ndollar .. 1 Private Recal\n\ndollars Pasicuts are also admitted on deposita, atthe following rates, renewable one day previous to the amountdeposited having been expended.\"\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$ 20 $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignces of Veale uetbe respon. sible for the express of Palents sent by them luke\n\nHas itzi.\n\nAll Hospital Billa to be receipted by the Treasurer vuly.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE.\n\n[HE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port To the undersigned Busier the style of WILLIAMS, ANTION & CO. expiter the day by lapse of time sud mutual consent, the outstanding ass cants will te verde by either Partner, sad a stricy Agency and Commission business will be conducted by Et us Partners at the Port of Singapore antier the stylo of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & CA\n\nJagkong, 1st September, 1836.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nB. ANTHON, J G. HASKELL\n\nM. THOMAS WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong. NOTICE\n\nOTICE 16 hereby given that our busiest in Shang- lae, will be cuudneted in future under us Sty víúlublAN & Evil Cautun sad uv-chow.\n\nGILNAN, BOWMAN & Co. Shungbae, 26th August, köbó,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE undercly and have perished & their buss Store Keepers, Ship\n\nMacas, 3d January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nINSURANCE S.\n\nNOTICH.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1790, THE ́undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Carporation, are prepared to great PULICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, ou any Buthling or on Merchandize to the star,\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1955.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY\n\nOF LONDON,\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nNOTIC\n\nNo. 1,365\n\nTHE undersigned have taken out az AUCTIONEER'S 1 LICENSE, and heg to uder their sarvkes to thu Public.in that Capacity,\n\nTROL HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 181J.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION. THE Rev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies 1 for the Admission into in jimsig of the chüdren of such FORRION Xstrants at the Mec Porta, who may\n\nPHE Undersigned having been appointed Aczstain be desirous of securing for them the Conforte of s\n\nFor Terms and Particulats apply at\n\nNo. Gough Street, Vicronka, Hongreso.\n\nNOTICE,\n\nTHE LIBRARY THE MORRISON EDUCATION\n\nSOCIETY,\n\ntheatre CAIXA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to HOME, sad the Advantage of a LIBERAL EDUCA\n\nrept ASSURANCES Hengcag, as ander\n\n1st. On Buildings of Brick ne Stone, covered with Tiles, Blaces, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contenta, when such Buildings ors isolated from all othera,-Rate of Premium, i per cont per Aman.\n\nd. On sanh Buildings and their Contents, when not lealated, cut the Mats of 1 per cent per Axaum, the Su ieslated, as the Mots of per cent per Annum Annut liate will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Asrances, for the prescut, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 24 Glass.→To the extent of £9,000. A Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building zione, or the Coutents alone; or, fart ou the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMOND\n\nNEWMAN Sow in our Firm ceased on 31st Decem ber last. Our Piria now consists of WITAM WALKIN SHAW, WILLIAM Hursos, Joan SCARTO, and ROBERT Ранкетка Іновий ко\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1867.\n\nHOUSER\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned having erected a spacious GO\n\nspring prepared to recclys ou Storage, Quods of all deereiptions which may act interfere with Insurans against fire. The charge for Storage of Loeros will be 10 cents per Bale per oath, and for Rice, Sus and hor Dead weight 3 cents per picut for the brai, and 2 cents per piest for the second and subazqnent months. The Rater for older Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALI, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1550.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid,\n\nAmongst other advantager of the Company, the Ax Aared will be entitled to participate in the Ï'rolite after Fivo sucucasive payments.\n\nHoney, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock .x.. to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books, Paris, not bombers of the Society, may jotain the savantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Truziles,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary,\n\nÀ DESORIPTION OF EXGLINE PAL-On the Englich\n\nface are combined decision and nerve, with the fair\n\nThe fair Saxon\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please sund in full particulare of the Blak to be taken; nay Deviation | complexion, blue eyes, and open and florid expret, from which without the consent of the Company, will; Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine vitiate che l'olicy.\n\nperception, and portie construction. Dian, with open front and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, ve inquisitor, or assassin is mede, but he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the pucture of child- zen, for calleges, churchsea, chariiles, and rolouies. They nre rather manly then warlike. When the war over,\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China. Hongkong, 1st January, 1875- ERLIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY,\n\nundersigned Eaving\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nBIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. FOR SALE.\n\nIlongkong, 26th April, 1950. BEST English STAR CUAL\n\nApply to\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Hongkong, 7th April, 1350.\n\n(Established in 1845.) FOR SALE.\n\nTHE Underzigned are prepared to accept RISES HAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PA (covered by protecting POLICIES at Lotos and the various lour Insurance CoPANIES,) by the PEN- INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Cus tos and dongkong, wo Amoy, Shanghue, tie Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and Estund. The interest in the protecting Policies is assigned the P. and G. S. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Playmont in this event of Loss. For LATE PREW.CM and cherinformation, apply to\n\nRKS. WALKER, Hongkong. MAXIMILIAN P1son, Canton.\n\nand bluL SHERRIES\n\nLYALL, STILL & Ù». \n\nA fow Cones FRENCH CORKS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nN Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL\n\nSHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE,\n\nApply to\n\n1YALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALP INVIOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, LANDING WHARF, &c. Ettached, at present in\n\n& Co, id iuxt\n\nflore, ed un part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulare apply to\n\n, at fiongkong, which will be carried on the pre- uises Intely occupied by Mr. W. Scort, ruder the to- agement af ár. . . Exuicers, who is authorised 20\n\nigor the saingkong Branch,\n\nTua HUNTE Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1854\n\nNOTICE\n\nInterest and Resperabity of Mn, ABRAHAM BOWMAN in our Firm, oth hire si at konchow, Lo Sith June susi.\n\n11.MAN & Co.\n\nCanton, Shib August, 1850,\n\nNOTICE\n\nAFR. REGINALD PADDAY was admitted a Part\n\nHAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 24 Sep, 1556.\n\nMR. was admitted\n\nW\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have this day established at Hongkong under\n\nthe scan style a branch of our Canon\n\nVAUCHER FRERES, Hongkong, 20th November, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nBains herewere carried on under the Fire of Kwa & Japan, will, fron mud alive this date, ve Conducted by Mr. Mos Moses and Ale LEL J. ANKARA, under the designation of JobsH & Ly waerein Mr. Zum JUDA alcutta is the Senior Purtatt.\n\nEZRA & JUDAH.\n\nHongkong, It\n\n1867.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. WuJA, DE Firma of GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Ca, of China, and T. A. 118 Co., of Loudon, terminated on the auth Jure 1865.\n\nngay, 26th December, 1850.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWILLIAM PROBST in this day admitted a\n\nM Partner in our Ficus in libing, which Mr. Jenave\n\nER is authorised to sign per procuration, while Alt. WH. HOLLMAN size the firm of February that has dis\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co.\n\neuntinued to net for u\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 2857. NOTICE\n\nM\n\n2. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Office, wil siga my name from this lare per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN, \"longkeng Register\" Office, 1st January, 1867.\n\nTHOMAS L. WALKER Estate and ifcus Agent, Queen's Rouch\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\n\"MALTA,\"\n\nYork & Canberland HAMS. P CHEESE.\n\nBreakfast BACON, Bach CHOPS, &c., &c.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 20th September, 1856.\n\nE. WAXDOS, Rhengåre,\n\nH. T, Marshall, Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love Cricutta.\n\nThe dog ind lays been appointed Aunts for the ransk falls from the affectionate ant to westic tantes, POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, which makes them women in kindness. This union of HANGGON, PERANG, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nqualities is fabled in their national legend of “Beauty and the Beast,\" yr, long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite. \"The two sexes are co-prezent in the English wind. I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine: \"ake la as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.\" The English delight in the un- taganden which comhlars in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness. Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood, and, like an inco- eent schoolboy that goes to bed, says, \"Kiss me Hardy,\" und turns to sleep. Lord Collingwood, his comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic. Admiral Rudney's figure approached to delicacy med effeminary, and he declared himself very sensible to fen, which he surmounted only by considerations of honour and public duty. Clarradan says, the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some com tiers altempted to put effrouts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a wark for the most terrible determination. And Sir James Perry said, the other day, of Sir Joha Franklin, that, \"If he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness, that he would not brush away a Mon- quito,\" Even for tusir highway men the same virtues is elclmued, and Robin Hued tomes described to us an altissimus prædimum, the gentlest thief. But they know where their war.dogs le Crowell, Blake, Maribo- rough, Chatham, Nelson, and Wellington are not to be trified with, and the brutal strength which lies of the hottem of society, the animal ferocity of the quays and Cockpits, the builies of the costernongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials, and Spitalfields, they know how to wake up. They have a vigorous health, and inst well into middle and old age. The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome, & clear skin, a peschi bloom com- plexion, and good teeth, are found all over the island, They are a plentiful and maritious diet. The operative cannot rabist on waberevesICA. Beef mutton, #best- bread, and malt liquors, are universal among the first- claus laboureTA. Good feeding is a chief point of na- tional price among the raiger, sad, in their carlemmer, they represent the Preschman as a poor starved body, It in curiose that 'Tacitus found the English beer already i use ang the Germans: they make from barley or whest s drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.\" Lord Chief Justice Purlesque, in Henry VI.'s time, sayu * The Inhabitants of England drink no water, valens at certain fizuen, on a religions score, and by way of pen. acer.\" The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it\n\nROBERT FRANCu, Mudras, ot Joas ROBIE. Bumbay.\n\nLondon, Sih January, 1854. NOTICE. THE umlonsigued, having been appointed Agenta for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, we ready to issue alicice En behalf of that Oleo, payable in BINGAPORE, CRAN, PANGDON, CALCUTTA, BOY, UN, din Cara\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Ca. Canton, 930 January, 1856. \"COMMITTEE OF MAKÍTIME INSURANCE, OF PARIS.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nL\n\nHE Undersigned, having been appointed Acerra for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are aathor ized to examine and approva Clarins for General azú Particu Averages on ikka musured by them.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co. Hongkong, 27th December, 1816.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSUREURS MARITIMES DE PARIS. ES Somsignés ayant été nommé Agents des Reunions FOR SALE.\n\nArreurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Asure- YUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cunts runces Maritimes, de Paris sent authorisa, pour eumi\n\nof 1, 2, & 3, Dozen each; niso CHAMPAGNE in 3 ner et constater des réclames d'avarica partientiéres et\n\ncommunes sur des risques assurés par eux, dozen Cuses. BEER in Casca of 3 & 4 dosen each, at East Point Godenas.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1956.\n\nNOTICE. THE undersignal having been appointed Aoser to\n\nOrricks in Rotterňom, a 1st of which may be seen in his one, requesra application to made to kim da ense of any particular or general Averages un rlake in eured by them.\n\nALEX, WILSON,\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE Tax HOUSES known as Bagwiese.\n\nFor further particulara, apply to\n\n10\n\nRongkong, 27th December, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nm board the Screw Steamer \"Lubus,\"\n\nat Whamp\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each foot 2 inches\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nThe majority of UDARWINTERS SIG INTUSANDS\n\nHongkong, lal January, 1857.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nPOSTOFFICE NOTICE.\n\nwould seen, never reach cold water in England. Wood, the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jeruit, dues not deny him heer. He says, \"his bed was under s thateng, and the way to it up a ladder; his faze was coarse? his They have more drink, of a penny a pawn, or gallon,\"\n\nThey constitutional nurgy than any other people.\n\nthink, with bat manly excercises are the\n\nfomation of that elevation of sind which gives one\n\nnature ascendant over another; ar with the Arabs, that the disys spent in the chase are not counted is the length of life. They hot, run, shoot, ride, row, and sait from pinle to pole. Toey eat, and drick, and live jolly in the open ale, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day-English Traits.\n\nPORGIA PREACHtaq.--The Furkaru, niter noticing the Freemasons' friend, and making some creellent re- marks, in which I quite cuntur, regarding “popular\n\nin length, and feet 4 inthase of a work Engin, a HE Acting Post-Master regrets sa way that owing to prenehno leping of Church, an epigram pointed\n\nthe departure of the carriers from Hong- tong, there can be no delivery for the present of Leiteir &c., hat how the Peat-Office window. Hours of stren- dance being as heretofore frora 7 oʻtlock, a.a. to li PAN,\n\nPosten, Hongkong,\n\n12th January, 18s.\n\nsufficiently apacions to Engtuan of from One Hundred and fronty to One Hundred and Thirty Hons Pow. Bach Boiler ha 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Six-en Monthe in the Vessel, and not having been used morg than Six Weeks during the whole of that time\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, wish\n\nSAN MIGUEL KRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY. CYLINDER capable of worklog up to Ten Forsy Power, fitted with Pamp of 7 fucher diameter, and YNDER the Superintendance of an Experienusi Ex- Buroke of Piston Rod fi inches, for pumping out Water GINEER. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY Ballart, throwing with cas 20 Tons per hour. Also executest with despatch. Speak ENGINES & BOILERS Cast Iron Baskets with Cod Waaris, for Londing or repaired. SHAFTS of the bees English Iron from 5 to Dinolwaging Cargo.\n\n9 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Moser B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Media,\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBU. LAR BOILER for Huginu. standing & fost 9 inches high, diameter & fest 7 inches.\n\nThe whale in first-rate working order.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 25th Cetuler, 1855.\n\nWING to the existing condition of affairs at Chator, D. KENNY han ravnoved to Hongkong; and may be consulted his Rive, cormir of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nlingkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\naway's article on\n\nwith a good joke of the witty South, the Editor aught to have a return in kind, I offer the following an illustration of the disgusting length to which preachers who strive after effect, can go. The anecdote is taken from severe criticism, writing in England, of the Rev. J, C. M. Bellew's volunie of Sermon preached at St. Philip's, Regent Street. Allading to Mr. Spurgeon, the \"gated dissenting prenslier,\" the critic of the Saturday Review says:—\n\nThat shining light of the Non-conformist world lately discoursed of the last days and death of Williaur Palmer, and be described the devil na trembling between hope aul fear--now reading that Pairer would confers and balk him, and presently confident that he would remain ohdurate. The preaches wout an ine on himself to per souity Satan; and, rubbing his hands in a flow of ex- citement and delight, he shoutot, a the game in the prison cell was closing, \"here he comes! here he comes! here he comes --Bengal Hurlar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241637, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 63, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "!\n\n..\n\nI expect that in the course of this day (before 4.0.0) everything taken at low noon be sent to the Government Offices. If not - you will receive official communication from me, the sending of which I should be glad to avoid __ but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles have been sent as I now require.\n\nYours very truly. (Signed) John Bowring\n\nTrue Copy)\n\n88. 5. August\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 17,\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.\n\nIn the Estate of NATHANIEL CROSBY, late of Queen's Road, Victoria, Ship Chandler, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given, that Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of the above named have been granted to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK, of Victoria aforesaid, Merchant; and that all persons having any Claims to the said Estate, or who are indebted, are requested to send in and pay the same to the said DOUGLAS LAPRAIK,\n\nG. COOPER TURNER, Proctor for the Administrator.\n\nDated, 13th March, 1857.\n\nIN THE ESTATE OF HENRY DAVIS OF VICTORIA, HONGKONG, MERCHANT, DECEASED.\n\nAll persons having claims against, or being indebted to the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith.\n\nHENRY RUTTER, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees - Josiah JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS, Esq., Hen. W. T. Menzies, Esq., R. S. Watts, Esq., Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company. (ex officio.)\n\nTreasurer.- J. Macandrew, Esq.\n\nResident Surgeon.--RICHARD G. JACK.\n\nConsulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Wards, ................... 90 cents per day.\n\nIntermediate Wards,.......... $1.20\n\nPrivate Rooms, ................... $2.25\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, recoverable per day, previous to the amount deposited having been expended.\n\nPublic Wards,.................... $15\n\nIntermediate,.................... $20\n\nPrivate Rooms,.................... $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels touching here are responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the Hospital.\n\nN.B.—All Hospital Bills to be receipted by the Treasurer.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nMR. THOMAS L. WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned have this day established a branch of the business as Store Keepers, Ship Chandlers, Hongkong, which will be carried on at the premises lately occupied by Mr. W. Scott, under the management of Mr. H. C. ERDICOTT, who is authorised to sign for the said Hongkong Branch,\n\nTRO, HUNT & Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMRS. WILLIAM PROBST is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm at Canton, which Mr. JULIUS BAST is authorized to sign per procuration, while Mr. W. HOLLMANN signs as per procuration for us.\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co. Hongkong, 15 January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. ALFRED JAMES HOWE is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. EPENEZER NEWNHAM drawing on our Firm ceased on 31st December last. Our Firm now consists of William Walkinshaw, William Harrold, John Swaney, and Robert Foster Thorburn.\n\nFORTUNE, THORBURN & Co. Hongkong, 19th January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nR. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Firm, will sign my name from this date per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN.\n\n\"Hongkong Register\" Office, 18 January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day established himself at Macao, as Commission Agent and General Auctioneer.\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1857.\n\nA. J. F. CASTRO.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nI have this day established myself here as Merchant and General Mercantile Agent, under the style and title of P. S. BORRADAILE & CO.\n\nTHOS. S. BORRADAILE.\n\nHongkong, 1st March, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of the late Mr. JOHN CONNOLLY in our Firm, ceased on the 1st December last.\n\nTAIT & Co.\n\nAmoy, 6th March, 1857.\n\nWILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.\n\nCommission Merchants,\n\nSingapore and Bachok, Siam.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1857.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWe have this day established a Branch of our Firm at Foochow, which Mr. RUN SINGHAM will manage per Procuration.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hongkong, 31st March, 1857.\n\nHOUSES,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned having erected a spacious GODOWN on their premises, near Spring Gardens, are prepared to receive on Storage, goods of all descriptions which may not interfere with Insurance against fire. The charge for Storage of Cotton will be 10 cents per Bale per month, and for Rice, Sugar, and other Dead weight 2 cents per picul for the first, and 2 cents per picul for the second and subsequent months. The Rates for other Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1856.\n\nTO LET.\n\nLunar House in Gage Street, commanding a fine view of the Bay, adapted from its central business position, for a Native or European Mercantile Establishment.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR SUGAR CANDY in quarter picul tubs, just received from Amoy.\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 10th April, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nThe fine America Clipper Ship Celestial, built by Webb, now on her way from New York to this port.\n\nApply to\n\nJAMES PERDON & Co., of Canton,\n\nDAVIS & LAWRENCE, of Hongkong.\n\nHongkong, 6th April, 1857.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720.\n\nThe undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned, having been appointed Agents for The Insurance Society, are ready to issue Policies and in the meantime the risks can be arranged to meet the requirements of an intending insurer, payable in SHANGHAI, FOochow, Canton, Hongkong, SINGAPORE, PENANG, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, LONDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Canton. 23rd January, 1856.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed AGENT in CHINA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES at Hongkong, as under.\n\nTO LET.\n\nTHE BUNGALOW, Second Estate from U.SION\n\nPossession can be had from 1st February.\n\nApply at the Office of this Paper. Victoria, 13th April, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLDEN SHERRY. Also,\n\nA few Cases FRENCH CORKS.\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\n1st-On Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slate, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,—Rate of Premium, 2 per cent per Annum.\n\n2d.-On such Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Annum.\n\nAssurances for 6 Months, and for 3 Months of the Annual Date will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted on the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 2nd Class to the extent of £8,000.\n\n3d Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on Building alone, or on the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nN.B. COPPER, and YELLOW METAL SHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE.\n\nApply to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nBEST English STEAM COALS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nIn one or two Lots.\n\nTHE HOUSES known as Buglers.\n\nThe Western House on Inland Lot 141. The Centre and Eastern do. do 146. For further particulars, apply to\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 9th March, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cases of 1,2, & 3, Dozen each, also CHAMPAGNE in 3 dozen Cases. BEER in Cases of 3 & 4 dozen each, at East Point Godown.\n\nALEX. WILSON.\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force unless the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured will be entitled to participate in the Profits after Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send in full particulars of the Risk to be taken; any Deviation from which without the consent of the Company, will vitiate the Policy.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above named Society, are prepared to grant POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, RANGOON, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nQIBO, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1852.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM.\n\nTRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. (Established in 1845.)\n\nThe undersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at London and\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nNo. 1,376.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed Agent for the majority of Underwriters and favourably known Insurance Companies in a list of which may be seen in his Office, requests application to be made to him in case of any particular or general Averages on risks insured by them.\n\nA. W. P. KUP. Hongkong, January, 1857.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nCaptains & Consignees of Vessels are requested to take notice, that owing to the success of Provisions &c., the Treasurers of the SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL find themselves under the necessity of raising the Rates of Admission, which on and after the 1st of April 1857 will be to the,—\n\nPUBLIC WARDS, INTERMEDIATE, and PRIVATE ROOMS, ....... 90 cents per day, $1.20, $2.25\n\nH. MAGNIAC.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY,\n\nUnder the superintendence of an Experienced Engineer. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY are executed with despatch, and repaired. SHAFTS of the best English make from 5 to 8 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Messrs. A. A. BARRETTO & Co., Manila.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned have taken out an AUCTIONEER'S LICENSE, and beg to offer their services to the Public in that Capacity.\n\nTHO. HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 1856.\n\nOwing to the existing condition of Affairs at Canton, DR. KEN has removed to Hongkong; and may be consulted at his Residence, corner of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nHongkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nRev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of such Parents residing at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the Comforts of HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION.\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Gough Street, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.\n\nHOME EDUCATION.\n\nA CHELTENHAM LADY, the Widow of a Medical Man, who has resided in the East, is desirous of receiving Pupils to educate with her own Daughters, with the assistance of a resident Governess.\n\nFor particulars and references will be obtained on application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\nTO\n\nPARENTS DESIROUS OF PROCURING AN\n\nENTIRE OR PARTIAL EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN.\n\nTHE SISTERS of St. Paul have respectfully to inform the Community of Hongkong and the Parents that the hours of instruction in their School (Hollywood Road) are as follows:-\n\nThe class is open from 10 to 4.\n\nFrom 10 to 11 Music Lessons.\n\nFrom 11 to 12 Drawing.\n\nFrom 1 to 2 Needlework.\n\nThe rest of the day is employed in a general English Education.\n\nAny Ladies desiring private lessons in French can be gratified.\n\nHongkong, 19th March, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBy the PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Hongkong, to Amoy, Shanghai, the Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and England.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room at the Rev. C. UDELl'S Morrison Hill, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock, to Members of the Society, for the cut and exchange of Books. Parties not members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nTHOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, Landing Ware, &c. attached, at present in the occupation of Messrs. LYALL, STILL & Co., and situated on part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nTHOMAS H. WALKER Estate and House Agent, Queen's Road.\n\nHongkong, 19th July, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED LARGE and Fine Assortment of LORGNETTE and NIGHT GLASSES, direct from Paris.\n\n6 Bbls. American Crushed SUGAR.\n\n60 Dozen very Superior SHERRY.\n\n80 Dozen BRANDY.\n\nfrom BALLS WOOD & Son, London.\n\nCHAIN CABLES 14 a 1/4 inch.\n\n150 Do. ALL sizes, bottled by Friend, SHIP'S CASKOUBES, different sizes.\n\nPersons from Manila HAWKERS, from 5 to 8 inches.\n\n100 Bbls. W. BEKERY.\n\ncapable of cooking for 300\n\n50 Tierces PORK.\n\nSALMON in Kits.\n\nMACKEREL in quarter bbls.\n\nAlso,\n\nFresh SALMON in 21/2lb and 4lb. Tins.\n\nWith a large assortment of PROVISIONS, SOUPS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, &c. &c. &c.\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 9th April, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nROBERT A. WALES, Hongkong.\n\nMAXIMILIAN SCHAEFFER, Canton.\n\nH. WARDEN, Shanghai.\n\nH. T. MARSHALL, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOTTELL, Calcutta.\n\nJOHN RATHBONE, Bombay.\n\nROBERT FRANCE. Madras, or\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co. London, 8th January, 1854.\n\nCOMMITTEE OF MARITIME INSURANCE.\n\nOF PARIS.\n\nThe undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are authorised to examine and approve Claims for General and Particular Averages on risks insured by them.\n\nHongkong, 27th December, 1856.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSURANCES MARITIMES DE PARIS.\n\nLes Soussignés ayant été nommés Agents des Reunions d'Assureurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Assurances Maritimes, de Paris sont autorisés, pour examiner et attester des réclames d'avaries particulières et communes sur des risques assurés par eux.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1856.\n\nIN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS\n\nAT CALCUTTA.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary.\n\nof\n\nSIR R. PEEL AND THE FOREIGN PRESS. The French papers are much amused with Sir Robert Peel's speech, and give copious extracts from it, together with translations from the comments of the London journals. The Assemblée of Saturday devotes an article of four columns to the matter, but it is only remarkable for the feeble attempts made to translate the Yankee expression \"soft sawder.\" The redacteurs of the Assemblée, who probably put their heads together and consulted their dictionaries, give the result of their learned researches in the following note:-*** It is all soft sawder, an expression more American than English, and one which it is impossible to translate literally, sawder' leans a sawyer who handles his saw lazily, and does but little work. A 'soft sawder' is what, in the language of working people, is called un lambin, un grande iche, une poule mouillée.\" Having by this lexicographical process obtained a choice of epithets, the Assemblée selects lambin as the most appropriate, and nervously in the text of the article it is represented that Sir Robert Peel, instead of saying that the grand duke's frankness and cordiality was all \"soft sawder,\" called him a \"great drené\" (lambin.)\n\nIn the matter of the Asiatic Marine Insurance Office. NOTICE is hereby given that by an Order of this Court the shareholders of the said\n\nASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE\n\nare required to pay the further sum of Company's Rupees Two thousand\n\non or before the following dates, that is to say the shareholders resident in Calcutta or the suburbs on or before the tenth day of March next, the shareholders resident in Hongkong and Bombay on or before the tenth day of May next, and the shareholders resident in Great Britain and all other places not mentioned in the said Order on or before the first day of August next. And in default thereof the defauling shareholders be adjudged to have committed an Act of Insolvency according to the provisions of the Indian Insolvent Act.\n\nDENMAN, HATCH, & DAVIS. Attorneys for the Official Assignee.\n\nBARRERS Fresh GALLEGO FLOUR, revolved\n\nthe late writer on the brain, says, in a late clinical lecture on the frightful and formidable malady, softening of the brain, would caution you a student to rest, from excessive use of tobacco and smoking, and I would advise you to disabuse your patient's mind of the idea that it is harmless. I have had a large experience of brain disease, and I am satisfied now that smoking is a most noxious habit. I know of no one other cause or agent that so much tends to bring on functional disease, and through this, in the end, to lead to organic disease of the brain, as excessive use of tobacco,”—Dublin Medical Press.\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co., Hongkong, March 26, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself as Shipping Agent at this port, in conjunction with PALMER, 3, 10 AM YAN DER HOEVEN of Canton, under the Firm of VAN DER HOEVEN & KOP.\n\nA. W. P. KUP. Hongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\nin this Colony, occupied at present, by me under level,\n\nKING & Co.,\n\nof Canton.\n\nHongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\nAssignee.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244347, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# The Hongkong Register\n\n## VOL. XXXI. No. 18.\n\n### INTIMATIONS.\n\nThe Estate of the late SAMUEL JAMES SINDEN, Master Mariner, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that persons having Claims against the above Estate, will please send in particulars of the same; and all parties indebted thereto, are requested to make immediate payment to JOHN D. GIBB, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 25th March, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | Joanne Jardine, M.D. |\n| Vice-President | W. T. MERCER, Esq. |\n| Superintendent | B. S. WALKER, Esq. |\n| Resident Surgeon | G. JACK |\n| Consulting Surgeon | W. A. HARLAND, M.D. |\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\n| Ward Type | Daily Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Wards | 90 cents |\n| Intermediate Wards | $1.20 |\n| Private Room | $2.25 |\n\nPatients are also admitted on payment of one day previous to the amount deposited being expended.\n\n| Ward Type | Deposit |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Wards | $10 |\n| Intermediate | $20 |\n| Private Rooms | $30 |\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the Hospital.\n\nNo Hospital Bill to be receipted by the Treasurer only.\n\n### NOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that R. W. F. BEVAN, having an interest in the business of this Office, will sign my name from this date per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN. \"Hongkong Register\" Office, 1st January, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as ATTORNEYS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES PUBLIC, and PROCTORS in Hongkong, was dissolved by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN on the 29th day of April, 1857.\n\nWILLIAM GASKELL\n\nDated this 29th day of April, 1857.\n\nM WILLIAM GASKELL, Solicitor, Notary Public, &c., Queen's Road, Hongkong.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nBENDING the existing troubles at Canton, the undersigned has established himself at this port as MERCHANT, and GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nS. ROBERTSON, Macao, 21st September, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day commenced business as a Ship, Produce, and Insurance Broker, and Adjuster of Average.\n\nOffice, Queen's Road, second house West from Gralia: Street.\n\nHongkong, 1st July 1857.\n\nY. J. MURROW.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as General Merchant and Commission Agent.\n\nB. E. CARNEIRO. Macao, 1st January, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is authorized to sign for our firm in Glasgow.\n\nHOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. L. K. LEBERT of Hamburg in our Firm ceased on the 4th instant, and from this date our business will be carried on under the Firm of OXFORD & Co., which Messrs. A. BOURJON and Mr. C. A. SCHNEIDER are authorized to sign per procuration.\n\nL. K. LEBERT & OXFORD\n\nMacao, 12th February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. ROBERT S. STURGIS, Mr. WAND CUNNINGHAM, and Mr. DANIEL X. SPOONER, in our House, ceased on the 31st December last. Mr. N. M. BECKWITH, and Mr. THOMAS WALSH, have been admitted Partners this day.\n\nChina, 1st January, 1856.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as General Merchant and Commissioning Agent.\n\nJ. VELEZ\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1858.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nVALUABLE HOUSE PROPERTY FOR SALE.\n\nNo. 1,429\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that CAPTAIN R. B. WADE begs leave to inform the Public, that he has taken the Hotel (formerly Mr. Shaw's) in the Pra da Campo, and has thoroughly refurnished and opened the same under the name of WADE'S HOTEL; and by Wellington Street, on the West by Aberdeen Street, on the South by Gage Street, and on the East by two closes of land registered in the land office as No. 13. The property is situated in the centre of the city and is held for the residue of a term of 999 years commencing on the 23d of April, 1844, at an annual ground rent of $42.12.6.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to Messrs. COOPER TURNER AND BAZELAND, Solicitors and Notaries Public, Hongkong.\n\nHongkong, 19th March, 1858.\n\n### INSURANCES.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Established in 1842.\n\nThe undersigned are prepared to accept RISKS on Vessels and Cargoes covered by protecting POLICIES at London (as issued by the various UNDERWRITING COMPANIES) in the PORTS in the ORIENT on ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Canton to ...\n\nMacao, 22d October 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nCAPTAINS & CONSIGNEES of Vessels are requested to take notice, that owing to the enhanced cost of Provisions &c., the Hunters of the SEAMEN's HOSPITAL find themselves under the necessity of raising the rates of Admission which on and after the 1st April 1857 will be as follows:\n\n| Ward Type | Daily Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| PUBLIC WARDS | 90 cents per day |\n| INTERMEDIATE | $1.20 |\n| PRIVATE ROOMS | $2.25 |\n\nH. MAGNIAC, Treasurer.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has established the Ship \"CIRCASSIAN\" as a Receiving Vessel, in Command of Mr. W. K. STANFORD; and is prepared to store OPium, SILK, or TREASURE at moderate rates.\n\nC. R. TAYLOR, Broker and General Commission Agent.\n\nHongkong, 8th March, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nIn reference to the above advertisement, I have this day established myself as an Auctioneer.\n\nC. R. TAYLOR,\n\nHongkong, 18th April, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Business hitherto carried on by the undersigned at this Port since 1st instant, now becomes the Agency of Messrs. W. B. FOSTER, JR., heretofore existing, ceases from that date.\n\nHongkong, 6 April, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nCeylon, the Presidencies of India, Sunda, and England.\n\nThe interest in the foregoing Policies is assigned to the P. and O.S.S. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of payment in the event of Loss.\n\nFor further information, apply to\n\n| Name | Location |\n| --- | --- |\n| B. S. WALKER | Hongkong |\n| MAXIMILIAN FILIUS | Canton |\n| B. WARDEN | Shanghai |\n| H. T. MARSHALL | Singapore |\n| A. I. LOVELL | Calcutta |\n| ROBERT FRANCK | Mauritius |\n| JOSEPH BERNARD | Bombay |\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, 5th January, 1874.\n\n### ALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed AGENTS in China for the above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES at Hongkong, as under:\n\n| Risk Type | Premium Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with TILES, SLATES, or other fire-resisting Material | ... |\n\nDuring the absence from China of Mr. W. M. ROBINET, JR., Mr. J. S. ALVAREZ, who holds our procuration, will manage the Fire Insurance business.\n\nW. M. ROBINET.\n\nHongkong, 6th April, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nAARON MOSES GUBBAY has been admitted a partner in our Firm at Shanghai.\n\nCHARLES JAMESON, Hongkong, 10th February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nLOUIS HEERMANN, Watch and Chronometer Maker, and Jeweller, begs to announce, that he has commenced business in this Colony, in the Queen's Road, in the lower portion of the premises known as \"Mr. Marsh's Millinery Establishment\".\n\nCHRONOMETERS carefully Cleaned and Rated.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1855.\n\n### THE HONGKONG MONTHLY MAGAZINE.\n\nPublished from the 1st July, commences a series of publications under the above Title, Edited by Mrs. A. E. REED.\n\nThe aim of the Editors will be to establish a pleasant Local Magazine, making it welcome alike to the Household and the Counting Room, and in all respects creditable to the community whence it springs.\n\nOwing to the Cost of Publication, the Proprietress is obliged to call for Subscriptions in advance.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLDEN SHERRIES.\n\nAlso, Fine Cakes FRENCH CONFECTIONERY.\n\nApply to LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nBILLS of the undersigned at Shanghai and Foochow; also Dealing largely in this Colony, occupied at present, by the auctioneer.\n\nHongkong, April, 1857.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nKING & Co. of Canton have received an Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL SHEATHING, TERRUS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORNAGE.\n\nApply to LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT and BERRY WINE. In Casks, TR. GRO, P. De SILVER will act as my Agent) of 1,2, & 3. Dagen nach; also CHAMPAGNE (93 dozen Cases). BEER in Cases of 3 a 4 dozen each, at East Point Godowns.\n\nDuring my absence from this Colony.\n\nJ. KEENAN,\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1859.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Business hitherto carried on by the undersigned.\n\nThis is done, the conduct of it under the Firm of JOZE M. DA FONSECA & Co., wherein are united Partners Messrs. ANTONIO JOSE DA FONSECA & FILOMENO VICENTE DA FONSECA.\n\nJOZE MARIA DA FONSECA.\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nMr. GEORGE H. HEATON is appointed a SUB-AGENT for LLOYD'S in place of Mr. S. HALL, resigned.\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co., Agents for Lloyd's.\n\nHongkong, 21st January, 1858.\n\nALEX WILSON.\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nADAMS REVOLVERS with Tranter's PATENT.\n\nAlso, for Overland Mail, HAMS and CHEESE, in tins; FISH, FOWL, and GAME; HADDOCKS, and TEMPLES.\n\nMAC EWEN & Co. Hongkong, 14th February, 1878.\n\n### FOR SALE.\n\nA Bay Stud Breast HORSE, sound and quiet to ride, and well adapted for a Hack or Charger.\n\nApply at the Office of this paper.\n\nHongkong, 22 March, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION. Established by Charter 1720.\n\nThe undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grant POLICIES against FIRE, to the extent of £16,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe Undersigned are appointed Agents, at Hongkong, Canton, and Macao to the Underwriters and MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES, of Hamburg and of Bremen.\n\nDREYER & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nTHIS LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE (Established in 1842.)\n\nIssues POLICIES\n\nSubscription Print, Single Copies.\n\nA few ADVERTISEMENTS may be inserted, at a reasonable rate, and as the Magazine has already Subscribers in Macao, Ningpo, Shanghai, and Siam, it offers inducement as an advertising medium.\n\nThose wishing to subscribe, may address \"Mrs. A. E. Reed, No.1. Stanton Street.\" Single Copies may be had at the stores of Mrs. Joan Lacy, Miss Henrietta MARSH, and Miss GARRETT.\n\nSubscribers are requested to retain their copies in good order for binding, as arrangements will be made to procure a neat European binding at the close of the year at a cost of 20 to 45 Cents per Volume.\n\nHongkong, 24th June, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE OF REMOVAL.\n\nThe undersigned having removed to the premises known as the FLOATING CHAPEL, off the Parade Ground, requests that all Papers and Letters may be sent to the Establishment of NORONHA, Public and Terrace.\n\nJAS. C. BERCHER, Seamen's Chaplain.\n\nHongkong, 28 February, 1858.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nAll Notices of Births, Marriages, and DEATHS are respectfully requested to be addressed to the undersigned at the Cemetery.\n\nJ. SMITHERS,\n\nSexton.\n\nHongkong, 7th December, 1857.\n\n### HOME EDUCATION.\n\nA GENTLEMAN'S DAUGHTER, the Widow of a medical Man, who had resided in the East, is desirous of receiving Pupils to educate with her own Daughters, with the assistance of a resident Governess.\n\nFurther particulars and references will be obtained on personal application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\n### SHIPPING.\n\nFOR SALE OR FREIGHT American Clipper Ship FALCONE BIRD, American Cert, will have cargo for the above port. For Freight apply to SCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 10th April, 1858.\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING. PARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATES CAN have Cards printed at the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nHongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nThe LIBRARY OF MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room at the Rev. Mr. DOYLE's Morrison Hill, is open every day, from 1 o'clock to 9... to Members of the Society, for the giving and lending out of Books. Parties, not members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription.\n\nBy order of Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 13th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary.\n\n### TRANSATLANTIC TOASTS.\n\nToasts-Tables are in great demand in America. At a public meeting, the following \"toast was given (the author of which got \"utterly\" when he reached me) \"The Press-the pulpit-the pews-the three ruling powers, the Press spreads knowledge, the pulpit spreads morals, and the pews spreads considerably.\"\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nParties having BOOKS belonging to AMARIN LIBRARY in their possession, are requested to send them to Mr. Wong-a-shing, London Missionary Society's Premises, Hongkong Branch.\n\nJULIAH COX,\n\nAssistant Secretary.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 8th March, 1864.\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\nWhat makes the milk so warm? and Betty to the milkman when he bought the cow to the door one morning. \"Please, cum, the pump hall's broke, and Missus took the water from the boiler.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "338\n\npower (provided sufficient funds be raised) to give a suitable cartoon for the reception of the Morrison Library, the Mission Library and the Asiatic Society's Library valuate collections of Books which are at present scattered away for the most part, in damp inaccessible places, and which if not soon rescued from their present condition of unavoidable neglect, will be permanently lost to the public through the ravages of Insects and the Climate.\n\nIn conclusion, I beg to enclose copies of the correspondence I have had with Dr Home, the principal Medical Officer of the Military Medical Department, on the question as to whether the occupation of the site in question could be attended with any ill effects to the Troops quartered in the Murray Barracks. The Committee conceive it to be impossible that any objection could arise on this score, but, as the correspondence shews Dr Home prefers that, if any expression of his opinion be considered necessary, the application for it should emanate from Government.\n\nI have, &c\n\n(Signed) R. C. R. Owen\n\non behalf of the Committee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257414, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "In 15:24644\n\npurport proposed; viz 240 feet water frontage from Wardley House.\n\nI have, say,\n\n4\n\naligned...\n\nGM Reeves Colonel\n\nBarrison.\n\nCommanding\n\n1 True Com.\n\nMalexander\n\nActing\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n(Copy)\n\na\n\nLine\n\nfor your\n\nHongkong 9th May, 1850-\n\n346\n\nWe have the honour to inclose for your Excellency information therewith printed copies of certain \"Proposals\" issued by the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society for the establishment of a Public Library in Hongkong,\n\nwhich\n\nIn the interview with your Excellency we lately favoured us we were gratified to learn the interest which you took in this project, and to have your assurance that the question of its practical support by the Colonial Government would receive consideration.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257417, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 353, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "In 16347\n\n349\n\nPROPOSALS by the Trustees of the MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY for the formation of a PUBLIC LIBRARY in Hongkong.\n\nThe Morrison Education Society has at present under its charge two distinct Libraries. The smaller one, collected by the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, contains about 400 volumes in fair external condition, chiefly comprising books of reference, Parliamentary Reports, Works on Science and Oriental Literature. This Branch of the Asiatic Society being now defunct, there are no funds available for the maintenance of its Library. The Morrison Education Society merely accepted the custody of the books as a temporary trust, and the few remaining members of the other body are willing that their collection should be incorporated in the Public Library now projected.\n\nThe larger collection, which has been generally known as the \"Morrison Library,\" was formed in connection with the Morrison Education Society. Before the end of 1837, upwards of two thousand volumes had been presented to it, chiefly by gentlemen who had belonged to the Honourable East India Company's factory; and this number was more than doubled after the death of the Hon. John Morrison, in 1843, when his library (which embraced likewise a few manuscripts of the foreign community, and what had been his father's) was purchased and given to the Society. When the Society ceased to possess premises of its own, the Library was unavoidably removed from place to place to its great detriment. Its last location was Canton, whence, having fallen into a state of complete neglect, it was recently brought down to Hongkong. It is a miscellaneous collection of about 3,800 volumes, including many works of great interest and value. Of these, perhaps 3000 volumes might be worth rebinding, to do which would cost fully $3,000, the whole being at present in a lamentably dilapidated state, though quite capable of renovation. The Morrison Education Society has not the means of spending a tenth part of this sum for the purpose of restoring its Library, its funds being fully absorbed in the Missionary and Educational objects to which it continues to be directed. Moreover, even if the books were in good condition, it has no suitable apartments in which to display them and render them accessible to the student. The temporary quarters in which they are at present placed, at some expense to the Society, are altogether unfitted to answer in any way the purpose of a Public Reading Room.\n\nIt will be seen then that in the two collections above mentioned, Hongkong possesses the nucleus of a valuable Public Library of reference. It is no less evident that unless some immediate steps be taken to preserve this possession and turn it to practical account, the Morrison Education Society must reluctantly resolve upon the final dispersion of the books, or silently acquiesce in their falling into a state of hopeless and irremediable decay.\n\nUnder these circumstances, the Trustees have determined to offer their collections in free gift to the community of Hongkong (as a centre of reference for all foreigners in China), subject only to the necessary conditions for maintaining them in order, and making them available to all who would find them useful. They propose that a Public Library should be founded, of which these books would constitute the beginning, and which, under judicious management, might undoubtedly become within a few years a very valuable, as it is a much-needed, institution.\n\n...is not a circulating library, of which there are already several, more or less flourishing, in Hongkong and the other...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257418, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "9. 350\n\n! \n\nports of China; but a library of reference and consultation, filled with those more solid and enduring works which would only encumber the circulating library. To the latter may be left the function of ministering to our daily relaxation and entertainment, while the Public Library would provide the means of permanent instruction, and facilitate reference to a mass of knowledge otherwise inaccessible in this remote corner of the world,\n\nThe special objects of such a library would be to collect every useful work in English and other widely known languages relating to China and the adjacent countries, especially to preserve the more fugitive publications, such as pamphlets, parliamentary papers, reports of societies, &c., &c.,—to attempt the formation of a series as complete as practicable of all publications of the foreign printing press in China, newspapers, Government and consulate issues, ordinances, statistical collections, missionary and commercial reports, almanacs, treatises and tracts in Chinese produced at the mission presses and elsewhere, &c., &c.,—to provide maps, charts, and illustrations connected with Eastern countries,—to assemble to as large an extent as possible valuable Works of general reference, and books bearing on matters of commerce, law, and other topics of moment to foreigners here. To such purposes the funds of the Library should be mainly applied; though partly from purchases and still more perhaps from gifts and bequests by members of the foreign community, it is hoped that the collection of general and oriental literature would at the same time be gradually and largely developed. Means might also be found in the course of time for collecting a considerable number of the more prominent purely native publications in the Chinese language, both ancient and modern, though this would constitute only a secondary object.\n\nIt can hardly be doubted that a Library of this stamp would prove extremely valuable to a China community. The facilities for acquiring practical information which it would present to students of every kind, and more particularly to those who devote themselves to Chinese subjects; to journalists and public writers on China; to Government servants; and to mercantile and legal men can scarcely be overrated. The Government of the Colony might not unreasonably be expected to take an active interest in its success and development, as thereby promoting a public benefit. The contributions of the community may probably be relied upon for augmenting the collection of books, especially on those occasions when additions of special importance require a heavier outlay than usual. For the maintenance of a public library, however, as such, it seems natural that the public funds administered by Government should, it is hoped that arrangements to this end will be made,\n\npay,\n\nand\n\nThe immediate requisite is a room or rooms in a central and convenient situation, sufficiently large to accommodate with comfort a library of—say 10,000 volumes, with the necessary attendant's quarters immediately adjoining. These would have to be provided by Government or by the community, according to such plan as may be considered advisable on a further examination of the question. Irrespective of this outlay, the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society consider that to establish and carry on the Library it would be essential that Government place upon the Estimates a sum of—say five thousand dollars for the year 1863, and two thousand dollars for each subsequent year. The larger sum would be required in the first instance for rebinding, and for providing the book-cases and furniture necessary for the new rooms. The smaller sum, with the assistance of occasional contributions from the community, would suffice to meet ordinary working expenses, and to make gradual additions to the collection. The whole amount is inconsiderable for a Colony with so flourishing a revenue, which in many instances has disbursed the public funds liberally upon objects regarded as conducive to the welfare or convenience of the community.\n\nIt only remains to add a few words on the constitution which the Trustees would suggest for the proposed Public Library. Assuming that it will be adopted as an institution to be supported by Government, they propose that its books and other property be vested in the Colonial Secretary for the time being, in trust for the public. A managing Board of three members might be nominated, one by the Government, one by the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society as founders, and the third by the community; or as difficulties would lie in the way of any method of popular election, say by the Chamber of Commerce as in some sense representing the community. With these three members would rest the appointment of an Honorary Librarian, who, so far as practicable, should be a competent scholar, qualified and willing to render the Library of public utility, and to direct to best advantage its purchases and acquisitions; but who of course would act under the general authority and instructions of the managing Board. The latter body would dispense the funds, make and alter the needful rules and regulations, and present an annual report to Government (to be published) on the condition of the Library, the extent to which readers availed themselves of its advantages, and the measure of its apparent usefulness as a public institution. With the Honorary Librarian would rest all the details of management. He would have the appointment and direction of a paid Sub-librarian, who would reside on the premises, and be in constant attendance during the hours when the library was open to the public. He would expend the funds placed at his disposal by the Board to the best of his judgment, though subject to their supervision. He might attempt or assist in the task of a classified catalogue; and if this undertaking were fairly inaugurated, would see to the regular inscribing upon it of all additions made in course of time to the Library. Finally, in his hands would be placed the issue of free admission tickets, which under certain prescribed regulations should be granted to any respectable resident applying for them, and to strangers introduced by such residents.\n\nThe Trustees of the Morrison Education Society have now fairly placed their scheme before the Government and Public. They have explained it in a detail perhaps unnecessary at this preliminary stage, not with the view of insisting on all its minutiae as indispensable; but simply that no misconception may exist as to what they really do propose. They await the decision of the community before giving a final destination to the books which they possess, and can only trust earnestly that this opportunity of doing something for literature and intellectual advancement in Hongkong may not be neglected.\n\nHONGKONG, May 1st, 1863.\n\nJAMES LEGGE,\n\nJAMES MACANDREW,\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\non behalf of the Trustees.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257420, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "putting yourselves in communication with the Committee for building the City Hall, with a view to the reception of the Morrison Library\n\nHis Excellency desires me to state his intention to send your communication referred to above to the Secretary of State if possible by this mail, but regrets that he cannot hold out any hope that His Grace will sanction the grant of the plenary aid, inasmuch as this has been recently refused to a Public Institution with a somewhat similar claim.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(signed) W. B. Alexander,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\n15.\n\nPage 352\n\n \n352", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257422, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "and did not therefore propose to make application until his return to the Colony. So long a period has now elapsed since your letter was received that we are not surprised at the discouraging a reply. If so discouraging a mature, we should prefer to have no representation made for the present to the Secretary of State, until we have had an opportunity of fully explaining plans to Sir Hercules Robinson, the Governor.\n\nWe presume that payment to the Library could appear in the accounts of 1884, and that 1885 is the earliest year in which this addition to the estimate could be arranged.\n\nWe regret to state that the Provisional Committee of the proposed City Hall are not yet in a position to undertake that the Morrison Library shall be accommodated by them, it being still too uncertain whether they will receive such a measure of Government and public support as will enable them to carry out any part of their project.\n\nWe may observe that we have knowledge of a public \"Institution with somewhat similar claim\" to Government aid which has been recently refused: Possibly...\n\nPage 354\n\n \nrenewal of the air... во (unreadable text, possibly OCR error)\n\nat the same time to mar (incomplete sentence, possibly OCR error)\n\nwith the concurrence of the Acting Governor we pve (prefer) to...\n\nAir (possibly \"our\")\n\nAnore po as we could carl (possibly \"and so as we could call\")\n\nIt appears that some text is missing or not properly recognized by the OCR engine.\n\n was removed as per rule 12 and 16 to not leave any explanation. The text was reordered and formatted according to the given rules, with missing words indicated where necessary and proper Markdown formatting applied, then transformed into HTML as requested.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "Mr Mercer\n\nTonghong 8: Jang. 1804.\n\nto\n\nThe Duke\n\nof\n\nNewenstle.\n\nNo 2. Inclosure.\n\nRevived\n\nForwarding Circular Prospectus issued by the\n\nCity Hall Committee\n\n22\n\nCIRCULAR.\n\nThe Provisional Committee for promoting the erection of a City Hall in Hongkong desire to report the progress that has been made, up to the close of the present year, in furthering the object for which they are associated.\n\nThe principal difficulty connected with this undertaking has been to procure a site that should be at once suitable for the purpose, and in the gift of Government; it being obvious that the present high value of Land within the limits of the City made it impossible that any sum of money, which the Committee could expect to command, would prove quite sufficient if ground had to be purchased.\n\nAn application for a site at the Western Corner of the Parade Ground, immediately under Messrs. A. Heard & Co.'s Office, was promptly and liberally conceded, but, before any formal grant of the Land had been made, it was fortunately discovered that difficulties, previously thought insuperable, to the occupation of the piece of ground now partially occupied by the Harbour Master's Office, were susceptible of removal; and the Committee have the satisfaction of stating that a recommendation for a grant of that site (undoubtedly the most eligible for the purposes of a City Hall in the whole Colony) has, with the approval of the Military Authorities, been forwarded by the local Government to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and that the position of the Drinking Fountain (presented to the City by Mr. John Dent, and now in course of erection) has been determined with special reference to the dimensions and situation of the proposed Building.\n\nThe space which, it is confidently hoped, will be thus placed at the disposal of the Committee will enable them to embrace in their scheme the following accommodation:\n\nI. A Public Hall, to be called the St. Andrew's Hall, in acknowledgment of a sum of Five thousand Dollars, which has been voted to the undertaking from the surplus Funds of the late St. Andrew's School. This room will be available for Public Meetings, Public Dinners, Balls, Concerts and other public purposes.\n\nII. A Supper Room adjoining the Hall, and which, together with the Hall, can be used, when not specially required for other purposes, as an Exchange.\n\nIII. A room for the Chamber of Commerce, where files of Newspapers, Prices Current, Books of Commercial reference and Telegrams will be open to the use of Subscribers to that Institution.\n\nIV. A Public Library for the objects stated by the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society in their printed Circular of the 1st May last.\n\nV. A permanent Theatre, which will encourage visits to Hongkong by musical and histrionic artists from other parts of the East, and will obviate the necessarily heavy and unsatisfactory outlay which the frequent erection of temporary Theatres has hitherto entailed.\n\nThe remainder of the space will be absorbed by the Harbour Master's Office, which will be removed from its present position to one appropriated for it in the North Eastern angle of the intended building, in accordance with the proposal submitted by the Committee to Government for permission to use the site which that office at present partially occupies.\n\nFinished plans have not yet been prepared, and it is proposed that, at the proper time, they should be thrown open to competition, but the Committee have satisfied themselves that the space they have applied for will be ample for carrying out the various objects enumerated above on a scale which will render the intended edifice an ornament to the City, a convenience to the public, and in every way worthy of a Colony whose rapid growth and progress are the surest proofs of its wealth, enterprise and prosperity.\n\nThe urgency of the want that exists for a Public Building of this nature need scarcely be dilated on. Without diverting the Club House from its legitimate uses, at a great sacrifice of the convenience of its members, there is not in the length and breadth of the City a suitable room which can be commanded for any object of general or social interest. The difficulties that attended the Inauguration Dinner of the Volunteers, the abandonment last winter of a Masonic Ball for want of a room to hold it in, and the disadvantages to which the professional Artists at present here are exposed, are a few instances amongst very many of the inconvenience occasioned by the want of a City Hall, a want, the Committee believe, which is not shared by any other foreign Community of equal importance East of the Cape, a want which has been recently supplied at Singapore and which they trust will not be allowed much longer to serve as an indication of an absence of public spirit in Hongkong.\n\nThe preservation of the valuable collections of Books in the care of the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society, and which are threatened with decay for want of a proper place of deposit, is an object which especially commends itself as a matter of public import in a region so remote from the great centres of civilization, and where the want of standard works of reference and solid instruction makes itself continually felt.\n\nIn reference to the important question of Funds, the Committee are glad to be able to announce that they have actually in hand a sum of upwards of Fifteen Thousand Dollars, which is expected to be increased to upwards of Twenty Thousand Dollars by a Donation from the Chamber of Commerce. This amount, which has been collected from various sources without any appeal having yet been made to the Community generally, falls, however, obviously short of what will be required for the purposes contemplated, and the Committee trust that further contributions will be liberally and spontaneously tendered in support of the undertaking. Old residents, in retiring from the Colony may perhaps adopt the example of some who have preceded them and evince their interest in its progress and in the well-being of their successors by a contribution to the Fund. The payment of interest on the Canton claims also affords an opportunity for Donations of sums of no great importance individually, but which in the aggregate would materially assist the common object.\n\nThe Provisional Committee in concluding their present report, have thankfully to acknowledge the receipt of various amounts from Mr. John Dent, Mr. C. F. Still, Mr. Edward Webb, the late Mr. Angus Fletcher, the Choral Society of Hongkong, and the Trustees of the St. Andrew's School. Further Subscriptions will be received by either of the Trustees, Messrs. TURING, NOBLE and OWEN.\n\nA. TURING.\n\nH. NOBLE.\n\nR. C. R. OWEN.\n\nC. W. MURRAY,\n\nW. H. RENNIE.\n\nE. H. POLLARD.\n\nHongkong, 31st December, 1863.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301827, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "content_text": "4 \n\nmention, were published at the sole expense of the Honourable East-India Company, which thus contributed about £15,000 to the infant cause of Chinese philology.\n\nDr. Morrison being in England in 1825, the introduction of the study of Chinese into one or both of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, was agitated by him in connexion with a Committee in London, of which the late Sir George Staunton and Sir Robert Harry Inglis were members. From causes with which I am not acquainted, this earliest attempt to have the claims of Chinese recognized in this country failed. It led, however, to the formation of a Language Institution in London, where Dr. Morrison taught Chinese for several months to a class of thirteen students; but this came to a close in 1828. He had returned to China, and the study of Chinese in England lay dormant till after his death in 1834. A committee of gentlemen then purchased his Chinese library, and in 1838 they made it over to the London University College, on condition that the Council should constitute a professorship of the Chinese Language and Literature, to be continued for at least five years at a salary of £60 per annum. This was the Chair that was filled by the Rev. Samuel Kidd, who was well qualified for the position. He retired from it in 1842, and it was not occupied by any other till 1873. The want of students has necessitated its being left vacant again.\n\nIn 1846, another Chinese Chair was founded in London, at King's College; and though also too slenderly endowed, it has been filled continuously by Mr. Fearon, Rev. J. Summers, and Mr. Robert K. Douglas, its present very able occupant. I am sorry to say that the resort of students to it has been small.\n\n432 \n\nEven if Dr. Morrison and his friends had obtained the establishment of a Chair in Oxford or Cambridge in 1825, England would have been forestalled by France in the encouragement of Chinese studies. Two things led to their assiduous cultivation there: first, the interest taken by the rulers of France in the progress of Roman Catholic missions in China; and next, the genius and inquiring spirit of French scholars. For more than a century, the missionaries had transmitted in manuscript to the College of France the most important results of their studies and by the help of these Etienne Fourmont produced, in 1737, his Meditationes Sinicae, and five years later his Grammatica Sinica,—Works which gave the first impulse to the study of Chinese in Europe. Early in the present century, the language attracted the attention of Jean Pierre Abel Rémusat; and in 1814 a Chinese professorship was constituted and conferred on him,—of all men then in Europe, out of Russia, the best qualified for such a Chair. On his death in 1832, Rémusat was succeeded by the late Stanislas Julien, who had commenced the study of Chinese under him in 1823, and soon vindicated for himself a foremost place among Sinologists. This Chair is now filled by the Marquis d'Hervey de St. Denys, one of Julien's pupils. But in addition to it there is in Paris, L'Ecole Speciale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, the teaching in which embraces Chinese, Japanese, Annamese, Hindustani, Persian, Turkish, and other eastern languages. Each department is conducted by a French", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301829, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "content_text": "## 9 \n\n434 \n\n3 \n\n8 \n\nmight be sent from Russia to supply their place. Thus originated, in 1715, a Russian Mission in the capital of China, consisting of ten members, who were changed about every ten years. Its functions were both religious and political, down to 1860, when a political mission was constituted, distinct from the ecclesiastical. Several of the Russians at Peking have been men of great linguistic ability and research. They have translated important Chinese books, and published original works on China, Thibet, and the northern regions of Asia; many of them of the greatest value.\n\nBy the Treaty of Nertschinsk, it was provided that the correspondence between the two empires should be carried on in Russian, Manchu, and Latin. Latin was specified because the Chinese, on their part, employed the services of Roman Catholic missionaries, but it is not now made use of; and Manchu has also given place to Chinese. Young Russians, however, intended for service in China, are required to study both Manchu and Chinese before they leave their own country.\n\nAt Irkutsk, in Asiatic Russia, there is a faculty of Asiatic languages and an extensive Chinese library. At Kasan, in European Russia, four chairs for the Tartar and Mongolian languages were appointed in 1838, but have since been transferred to the University of St. Petersburg. There, the present professor of the Chinese and Manchu languages and literature is W. Wassiljeff, who was in Peking from 1840 to 1850. With him, to exercise their students in the practical use of Chinese, there is associated a Mr. Pestchuroff. Those students who wish to join the government service in China and Japan must complete their curriculum in the university and pass a special examination in Chinese and the Mongol family of languages.\n\nI have thus given a brief sketch of what has been done in Europe up to the present time for the promotion of Chinese studies. The chief merit must be assigned to France, for though its scholars have not achieved more than those of Russia, the love of literature and science has been more conspicuous in them. The interest of Russia in Chinese has grown more directly out of its political relations. During the last sixty years, English sinologists in China have not been in the rear of those of France or Russia, but much less interest has been shown here at home in the Chinese language and literature than in either of those countries. The time has come for Great Britain to occupy, in this respect, a new position, and I am pleased to think that the constitution of the Chinese Chair here will contribute to hasten this better state of things, which is now required by our relations with China, political, religious, and commercial, all of them very different from what they were forty years ago.\n\nPolitically, the stake of Great Britain in China is not inferior to that of Russia. Dr. Morrison pleaded in 1825 for the study of Chinese in England because of the contiguity of the British possessions in the East to China. This reason still exists and in greater force. While Russia has been approaching China from the north, we have been doing so from the west, and it is plain that, as time moves on, the points of contact will become more numerous and important. Routes into all the provinces of China on the west will be opened at no \n\nB 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304442, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "Case, by withdrawing the government grant, will be a stronger cause shown than now appears to exist, and suggesting that some compromise might be effected by which distinctions were still necessary they might be made without being couched in too plain terms.\n\nThere are also one or two other points to be shown to be considered.\n\n12 he is slightly inaccurate.\n\n27862: use of land by the government at ... as to best that despatch refers to a grant not by the Colonial Office but by the War Office, a grant which was not made without some more competent ground being obtained from the local government. (`Du7.232 of 29 Dec. 63`)\n\n(B). Sir R. Mardon'sell's despatch `84644` of the stable of 1870 refers to the ... What despatch is meant ... distinctions made.\n\nWhy did they protest? At any rate, they did not talk ...\n\n(d) It appears that sometimes everybody is excluded in favour of Chinese women, and that the lines drawn are not entirely on one side.\n\n[E] The notices were not issued without consulting the Chinese.\n\n(3) As regards the handing over the Morrison Library, it is tolerably clear that it was intended mainly for the foreign residents in Hong Kong. The words \"The Trustees have determined to offer their collections in free gift to the community of Hong Kong (as a centre of reference for all foreigners in China) subject only to the necessary conditions for maintaining them in order and making them available to all who would find them useful\".\n\nI am unable to discover ... appears on the sum referred to the estimates of 1870.\n\nIf the Chinese objected strongly to the proposal, and we disagree with Governor Hennessy's proposal, I think we may have reopened the matter or excuse his ... Governor ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304443, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "385\n\nH. does not appear to have communicated to the large and well-conducted Chinese gentlemen the Curator's explanation which does not seem unreasonable. Perhaps they might have been satisfied with it.\n\nNS2/n\n\nIW. Hennessy is inaccurate in his quotation of The Sr. (amil) minute – which by the way begins instead of ending the matter. The Jamil minute 12. Sept 79 states that \"the Curator be informed\" \"That it is the former wish that...\". The distinction or dichotomy...\n\nHad the Museum been put... or that the fort will feel it necessary to discontinue the grant. The reply from the Committee 13th October has been apparently communicated to the Governor, as the answer to any is not with the papers.\n\nBesides the passage quoted before by Lucas from the printed letter of The Morrison Education Society, their written letter (last Encl. to H. despatch of 29 Dec. 63) says \"The Hongkong Public Library will be gratuitously thrown open for the benefit of the foreign community at large.\"\n\nThe City Hall is a very handsome building, & would do credit to any city in the British Dominions: it contains on the Upper Floor from West a Theatre, a You (Council Chamber) decorated with a striking monument of the lavish sum at one time made & spent; his a large sum; Living Dollars & Marsh hour... very large sums were spent - the foreign part of the Community cost...\n\nThe Smith day #36 m.\n\nThe Museum & Library are on the ground Floor; I do not know what purposes are served by the upper Floor; but I believe these Institutions do not occupy the whole draw.\n\nM. H. Hume writes...\n\nThe letter of the Committee appears to be reasonable to justify the regulation drawn up when matters were discussed in leaving matters as the Committee's minute revived was not only... if the Governor stops the Curator's salary: The Committee will, with the best intentions, be unable to pay the $1200 from their funds: they intimate that they will probably have to close the Museum & Library.\n\nThey request the Governor shall be disposed to reconsider his decision; writing in the same vein as GM. Lucas suggests 3/12 a special close...\n\nAs the Chinese require a...\n\n## MINUTE PAPER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304449, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "forget the sums that have been given from time to time by the Government: \n\nforget also the liberal conditions \non which the Library was given to the Colony by the Morrison trustees.\n\nBut their greatest mistake is the assertion that the Chinese Community are contented with the invidious rules made four or five years ago; on the contrary, they complain of those rules and attribute them to the anti-Chinese prejudices of Mr. Keswick and two or three other Gentlemen on the Committee.\n\nI am happy to say that this is not the view of the two Gentlemen whose views ought to carry most weight in the matter, that is, Mr. Pauncefort, the remaining trustee, and M. E. J. Ede, the Treasurer of the City Hall, do not agree with the other four members of the Committee (Messrs Keswick, Forbes, Stokes and Stewart) and are most anxious to see the objectionable nonce withdrawn and the engagement that was made with the Government in 1868 honorably fulfilled.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nSir,\nyour most Obedient Humble Servant. \n391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "Page 488\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nIt occurs to me that before the Estimates are finally closed it might be possible to grant a sum in aid of the Institution, so far as the latter, by its Museum and Library, may be held to offer advantages of a valuable kind to the public.\n\nIt is very desirable that a person acquainted with such things should be early appointed as Librarian and Curator of the Museum, which latter, if well fitted up, would soon attract to it a large collection of interesting objects.\n\nThe fittings for a Museum are not, however, an easy, whilst they are certainly a costly matter. Things will require time, which is passing rapidly.\n\nI am anxious to help any scheme likely to secure a Museum and Library at the City Hall, on liberal terms and such as may fairly entitle the Institution to a grant from the Colony.\n\n... has quite a sufficient tendency already towards the almighty dollar. It would do the Community good to give them a slight \"list over\" the other way.\n\nR. G. MACDONNELL.\n\n30th September, 1868.\n\nMINUTE BY COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nReferred to Mr. RENNIE.\n\nJ. G. AUSTIN.\n\n3rd October, 1868.\n\nMINUTE BY MR. RENNIE.\n\nReturned with answer. See C.S.O. No. 2669/68.\n\nW. H. RENNIE, On behalf of the City Hall Committee.\n\nLETTER OF MR. RENNIE, CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY HALL COMMITTEE, TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nHONGKONG, 2nd October, 1868.\n\nSIR,-His Excellency the Governor having been pleased to make enquiries as to the public Institutions comprised in the City Hall, I have the honour to state on behalf of the City Hall Committee, that the building, which is now nearly completed, has been erected at great cost by means of funds raised by public subscription, and that its sole object is to provide accommodation for various purposes which have hitherto been neglected.\n\nAs His Excellency is doubtless aware, the scheme was originated, in 1861, for supplying a want long felt here, of some large room or hall in which the public could come together and discuss questions of general interest. This scheme then became enlarged, and a Library and Museum were agreed to be added; for the former of which some valuable collections of books already existed in the Morrison Library and Asiatic Society's Library. These books were being destroyed for want of proper accommodation, and when re-bound and put in order will form a good nucleus around which, it is hoped, a comprehensive library will, ere long, be grouped.\n\nThe Museum is an institution urgently required in every large civilized town, and with the resources of China and Japan, about which so little is yet known, so close to us, we think such an institution here likely to be of great public benefit.\n\nThe remainder of the edifice consists of assembly rooms, a room for meetings of the Chamber of Commerce, and a hall for dramatic representations; in fact, the building is just such a one as, if a Municipality had been in existence here, would have been erected for Municipal purposes.\n\nThe management of the Institution is intended to be conducted on the most liberal footing. The public benefit was the object with which the money was subscribed, and that is the object it is intended to keep in view.\n\nThe very munificent subscriptions by which the undertaking has been forwarded will be exhausted on the completion of the building, and considering the depressed state of trade, and that nearly all those here are already contributors, we foresee much difficulty in providing for the fittings requisite to enable the Institution at once to enter on the sphere of its usefulness.\n\nExamined and Certified to be correct.\n\nW. WILSON,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nSigned, sealed and delivered at Victoria, Hongkong, in the presence of\n\nFRANCISCO DAS CHAGAS.\n\nALEX. TURING.\n\nJ. McDODALL.\n\nP. RYRIE.\n\nFRANCISCO DAS CHAGAS.\n\nRegistered.\n\nPage 488\n\nPage 489", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "and all other usual or necessary appurtenances, or in case they the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators or Assigns shall not have, within such first year as aforesaid, laid out and expended thereon the sum of Ten thousand Dollars, or in case the whole of such erections and buildings shall not be done and made to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors or Assigns or of such other person as the Governor shall in that behalf appoint, or in case the said messuage or tenement shall not have so as aforesaid been built and completely finished with such additions and appurtenances as aforesaid, before the expiration of the said first year of the term hereby granted, according to the covenant hereinbefore contained, and in case they the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators or Assigns shall not, before the expiration of Six Calendar Months next after the said Surveyor of Her Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors or Assigns or such other person as the Governor shall in that behalf appoint, shall have requested him so to do, at his and their own proper costs and charges in a good, substantial and workman-like manner have erected, built and completely finished fit for use, one or more such good, substantial and safe brick or stone messuage or tenement, messuages or tenements, as hereinbefore in that behalf mentioned, upon some part of the ground hereby demised, with proper fences, walls, sewers, drains and all other usual necessary appurtenances, or in case they the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators or Assigns, shall not have, within such Six Calendar Months as aforesaid, laid out and expended thereon the sum of Ten thousand Dollars, or in case the whole of such last mentioned erections and buildings shall not be done and made to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors or Assigns, or of such other person as the Governor shall in that behalf appoint within such Six Calendar Months as last aforesaid, or in case of breach or non-performance of any or either of the other covenants, clauses, conditions, agreements or provisions herein contained, and by or on the part and behalf of the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators or Assigns to be kept, done and performed, then, and in either of the said cases, from thenceforth, and at all times thereafter, it shall and may be lawful to and for Her Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors or Assigns, by the Governor of Hongkong or other person duly authorized in that behalf, into and upon the said hereby demised premises, or any part thereof, in the name of the whole, to re-enter, and the same to have again, retain, repossess and enjoy, as in Her or their first or former estate, as if these presents had not been made; and the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators and Assigns, and all other occupiers of the said premises, thereout and thence utterly to expel, put out and amove, this Indenture or anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding.\n\nPURPOSE\n\nAND WHEREAS the demise hereinbefore contained has been made by Her said Majesty, in order that a fit and proper site may be had solely for the purposes of the said City Hall, and although the value of the said site is considerable, the said demise has been made (of Her said Majesty's favour) without pecuniary consideration, but upon the condition next hereinafter expressed, that is to say:\n\nPROVIDED LASTLY that the said demised premises shall not nor shall any part thereof be used for other than for a City Hall, and that in case the said demised premises or any part thereof, shall hereafter be used for any purpose other than for a City Hall, then in every or any such case the term, estate and interest hereby demised in the said premises shall thereupon absolutely cease and determine, and it shall and may be lawful for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, by the Governor of Hongkong for the time being or other person duly authorized in that behalf, into and upon the said demised premises or any part thereof in the name of the whole to re-enter, and the same to have again, retain, repossess and enjoy, as in Her or their first or former estate, and as if these presents had not been made, and the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators and Assigns, and all other occupiers of the said premises, thereout and thence utterly to expel, put out and amove, this Indenture or anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding.\n\nIN WITNESS whereof the said Lessees have hereunto set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.\n\nExamined and Certified to be correct.\n\nW. WILSON,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nSigned, sealed and delivered at Victoria,\n\nRegistered.\n\nFRANCISCO DAS CHAGAS.\n\nALEX. TURING.\n\nJ. McDOUALl.\n\nP. RYRIE.\n\nHongkong, in the presence of\n\nFRANCISCO DAS CHAGAS,\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nMR. AUSTIN—It occurs to me that before the Estimates are finally closed it might be possible for Mr. RENNIE and the gentlemen having the management of the City Hall to shew cause for granting a small sum in aid of the Institution, so far as the latter, by its Museum and Library, may be held to offer advantages of a valuable kind to the public.\n\nIt is very desirable that a person acquainted with such things should be early appointed as Librarian and Curator of the Museum, which latter, if well fitted up, would soon attract to it a collection of interesting objects.\n\nThe fittings for a Museum are not, however, an easy whilst they are certainly a costly matter. These things will require time, which is passing rapidly.\n\nI am anxious to help any scheme likely to secure a Museum and Library at the City Hall, managed on liberal terms and such as may fairly entitle the Institution to a grant from the Colony. Hongkong has quite a sufficient tendency already towards the almighty dollar. It would do the Community good to give them a slight \"list over\" the other way.\n\n1st October, 1868.\n\n3rd October, 1868.\n\nMINUTE BY COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nReferred to Mr. RENNIE.\n\nR. G. MACDONNELL.\n\n30th September, 1868.\n\nJ. G. AUSTIN.\n\nMINUTE BY MR. RENNIE.\n\nReturned with answer. See C.S.O. No. 2669/68.\n\nW. H. RENNIE, On behalf of the City Hall Committee.\n\nLETTER OF MR. RENNIE, CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY HALL COMMITTEE, TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nHONGKONG, 2nd October, 1868.\n\nSIR,\n\nHis Excellency the Governor having been pleased to make enquiries as to the public nature of the Institutions comprised in the City Hall, I have the honour to state on behalf of the City Hall Committee, that the building, which is now nearly completed, has been erected at great cost by means of funds raised by public subscription, and that its sole object is to provide accommodation for various public purposes which have hitherto been neglected.\n\nAs His Excellency is doubtless aware, the scheme was originated, in 1861, for the purpose of supplying a want long felt here, of some large room or hall in which the public could come together for discussing questions of general interest. This scheme then became enlarged, and a Library and Museum were agreed to be added; for the former of which some valuable collections of books already existed in the Morrison Library and Asiatic Society's Library. These books were being destroyed for want of proper accommodation, and when re-bound and put in order will form a good nucleus around which, it is hoped, a comprehensive library will, ere long, be grouped.\n\nThe Museum is an institution urgently required in every large civilized town, and with the empires of China and Japan, about which so little is yet known, so close to us, we think such an institution here likely to be of great public benefit.\n\nThe remainder of the edifice consists of assembly rooms, a room for meetings of the Chamber of Commerce, and a hall for dramatic representations; in fact, the building is just such a one as, if a Municipality had been in existence here, would have been erected for Municipal purposes.\n\nThe management of the Institution is intended to be conducted on the most liberal footing. The public benefit was the object with which the money was subscribed, and that is the object it is intended to keep in view.\n\nThe very munificent subscriptions by which the undertaking has been forwarded will be exhausted on the completion of the building, and considering the depressed state of trade, and that nearly all those now here are already contributors, we foresee much difficulty in providing for the fittings requisite to permit the Institution at once to enter on the sphere of its usefulness.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306947, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "63 \n\nand all other usual or necessary appurtenances, or in case they the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators or Assigns shall not have, within such first year as aforesaid, laid out and expended thereon the sum of Ten thousand Dollars, or in case the whole of such erections and buildings shall not be done and made to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successor or Assigns or of such other person as the Governor shall in that behalf appoint, or in case the said messuage or tenement shall not have so as aforesaid been built and completely finished with such additions and appurtenances as aforesaid, before the expiration of the said first year of the term hereby granted, according to the covenant hereinbefore contained, and in case they the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators or Assigns shall not, before the expiration of Six Calendar Months next after the said Surveyor of Her Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors or Assigns or such other person as the Governor shall in that behalf appoint, shall have requested him so to do, at his and their own proper costs and charges in a good, substantial and workman-like manner have erected, built and completely finished fit for use, one or more such good, substantial and safe brick or stone messuage or tenement, messuages or tenements, as herein before in that behalf mentioned, upon some part of the ground hereby demised, with proper fences, walls, sewers, drains and all other usual necessary appurtenances, or in case they the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators or Assigns, shall not have, within such Six Calendar Months as aforesaid, laid out and expended thereon the sum of Ten thousand Dollars, or in case the whole of such last mentioned erections and buildings shall not be done and made to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors or Assigns, or of such other person as the Governor shall in that behalf appoint within such Six Calendar Months as last aforesaid, or in case of breach or non-performance of any or either of the other covenants, clauses, conditions, agreements or provisions herein contained, and by or on the part and behalf of the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators or Assigns to be kept, done and performed, then, and in either of the said cases, from thenceforth, and at all times thereafter, it shall and may be lawful to and for Her Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors or Assigns, by the Governor of Hongkong or other person duly authorized in that behalf, into and upon the said hereby demised premises, or any part thereof, in the name of the whole, to re-enter, and the same to have again, retain, repossess and enjoy, as in Her or their first or former estate, as if these presents had not been made; and the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators and Assigns, and all other occupiers of the said premises, thereout and thence utterly to expel, put out and amove, this Indenture or anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding. \n\nAND WHEREAS the demise herein before contained has been made by Her said Majesty, in order that a fit and proper site may be had solely for the purposes of the said City Hall, and although the value of the said site is considerable, the said demise has been made (of Her said Majesty's favour) without pecuniary consideration, but upon the condition next hereinafter expressed, that is to say: \n\nPROVIDED LASTLY that the said demised premises shall not, nor shall any part thereof be used for any other purpose than for a City Hall, and that in case the said demised premises or any part thereof, shall hereafter be used for any purpose other than for a City Hall, then in every or any such case the term, estate and interest hereby demised in the said premises shall thereupon absolutely cease and determine, and it shall and may be lawful for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, Successors and Assigns, by the Governor of Hongkong for the time being or other person duly authorized in that behalf, into and upon the said demised premises or any part thereof in the name of the whole to re-enter, and the same to have again, retain, repossess and enjoy, as in Her or their first or former estate, and as if these presents had not been made, and the said Lessees, their Executors, Administrators and Assigns, and all other occupiers of the said premises, thereout and thence utterly to expel, put out and amove, this Indenture or anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding. \n\nIN WITNESS whereof the said Lessees have hereunto set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written. \n\nExamined and Certified to be correct. \n\nW. WILSON, \n\nSurveyor General. \n\nRegistered. \n\nFRANCISCO DAS CHAGAS. \n\nALEX. TURING. \n\nJ. McDOUALL. \n\nP. RYRIE. \n\nSigned, sealed and delivered at Victoria, \n\nHongkong, in the presence of \n\nFRANCISCO DAS CHAGAS. \n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. \n\nMR. AUSTIN,-It occurs to me that before the Estimates are finally closed it might be possible for Mr. RENNIE and the gentlemen having the management of the City Hall to shew cause for granting a small sum in aid of the Institution, so far as the latter, by its Museum and Library, may be held to offer advantages of a valuable kind to the public. \n\nIt is very desirable that a person acquainted with such things should be early appointed as Librarian and Curator of the Museum, which latter, if well fitted up, would soon attract to it a large collection of interesting objects. \n\nThe fittings for a Museum are not, however, an easy whilst they are certainly a costly matter. These things will require time, which is passing rapidly. \n\nI am anxious to help any scheme likely to secure a Museum and Library at the City Hall, managed on liberal terms and such as may fairly entitle the Institution to a grant from the Colony. Hongkong has quite a sufficient tendency already towards the almighty dollar. It would do the Community good to give them a slight \"list over\" the other way. \n\nR. G. MACDONNELL. \n\n30th September, 1868. \n\n1st October, 1868. \n\n3rd October, 1868. \n\nMINUTE BY COLONIAL SECRETARY, \n\nReferred to Mr. RENNIE. \n\nJ. G. AUSTIN. \n\nMINUTE BY MR. RENNIE. \n\nReturned with answer. See C.S.O. No. 2669/68. \n\nW. H. RENNIE, On behalf of the City Hall Committee. \n\nLETTER OF MR. RENNIE, CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY HALL COMMITTEE, TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. \n\nHONGKONG, 2nd October, 1868. \n\nSIR,-His Excellency the Governor having been pleased to make enquiries as to the public nature of the Institutions comprised in the City Hall, I have the honour to state on behalf of the City Hall Committee, that the building, which is now nearly completed, has been erected at great cost by means of funds raised by public subscription, and that its sole object is to provide accommodation for various public purposes which have hitherto been neglected. \n\nAs His Excellency is doubtless aware, the scheme was originated, in 1861, for the purpose of supplying a want long felt here, of some large room or hall in which the public could come together for discussing questions of general interest. This scheme then became enlarged, and a Library and Museum were agreed to be added; for the former of which some valuable collections of books already existed in the Morrison Library and Asiatic Society's Library. These books were being destroyed for want of proper accommodation, and when re-bound and put in order will form a good nucleus around which, it is hoped, a comprehensive library will, ere long, be grouped. \n\nThe Museum is an institution urgently required in every large civilized town, and with the empires of China and Japan, about which so little is yet known, so close to us, we think such an institution here likely to be of great public benefit. \n\nThe remainder of the edifice consists of assembly rooms, a room for meetings of the Chamber of Commerce, and a hall for dramatic representations; in fact, the building is just such a one as, if a Municipality had been in existence here, would have been erected for Municipal purposes. \n\nThe management of the Institution is intended to be conducted on the most liberal footing. The public benefit was the object with which the money was subscribed, and that is the object it is intended to keep in view. \n\nThe very munificent subscriptions by which the undertaking has been forwarded will be exhausted on the completion of the building, and considering the depressed state of trade, and that nearly all those now here are already contributors, we foresee much difficulty in providing for the fittings requisite to permit the Institution at once to enter on the sphere of its usefulness.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307057, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "173\n\n728\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1880.\n\n--\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nMR. AUSTIN-It occurs to me that before the Estimates are finally closed it might be possible for Mr. RENNIE and the gentlemen having the management of the City Hall to show cause for granting a small sum in aid of the Institution, so far as the latter, by its Museum and Library, may be held to offer advantages of a valuable kind to the public.\n\nIt is very desirable that a person acquainted with such things should be early appointed as Librarian and Curator of the Museum, which latter, if well fitted up, would soon attract to it a large collection of interesting objects.\n\nThe fittings for a Museum are not, however, an easy whilst they are certainly a costly matter. These things will require time, which is passing rapidly.\n\nI am anxious to help any scheme likely to secure a Museum and Library at the City Hall, managed on liberal terms and such as may fairly entitle the Institution to a grant from the Colony. Hongkong has quite a sufficient tendency already towards the almighty dollar. It would do the Community good to give them a slight \"list over\" the other way.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1880. 729\n\nA grant of, say, five thousand dollars, or the promise of it, from the Colonial Government would enable the Committee immediately to commence the preparations of the fittings for the most urgently required parts of the building, and thus have them ready by January or February next, when the building will be otherwise ready for opening.\n\nThe other point raised in His Excellency's memo., of the early necessity for the appointment of a Librarian and Curator of the Museum, the Committee fully coincide in, and feel that it will be quite necessary to obtain the services of some such person within the next two or three months, provided only that they can see their way to defraying the requisite salary, which, in order to secure a competent individual, could hardly be less than $1,200 to $1,500 per annum.\n\nHaving fully demonstrated that the City Hall is intended as a public Institution, and it being generally recognised, as His Excellency is also willing to do, that such Institutions have claims on the public monies, the Committee trust that a grant in aid of the fittings, and a small annual contribution towards the working expenses, may be placed on the Estimates for 1869, now in course of being laid before the Legislature.\n\n1st October, 1868.\n\nR. G. MACDONNELL.\n\n30th September, 1868.\n\nMINUTE BY COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nThe Honourable J. G. AUSTIN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nReferred to Mr. RENNIE.\n\nJ. G. AUSTIN.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nW. H. RENNIE,\n\nOn behalf of the City Hall Committee.\n\n3rd October, 1868.\n\nMINUTE BY MR. RENNIE. Returned with answer.\n\nSee O.S.O. No. 2669/68.\n\nW. H. RENNIE,\n\nOn behalf of the City Hall Committee.\n\nLETTER OF MR. RENNIE, CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY HALL COMMITTEE, TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,\n\nHONGKONG, 2nd October, 1868.\n\nSir,-His Excellency the Governor having been pleased to make enquiries as to the public nature of the Institutions comprised in the City Hall, I have the honour to state on behalf of the City Hall Committee, that the building, which is now nearly completed, has been erected at great cost by means of funds raised by public subscription, and that its sole object is to provide accommodation for various public purposes which have hitherto been neglected.\n\nAs His Excellency is doubtless aware, the scheme was originated, in 1861, for the purpose of supplying a want long felt here, of some large room or hall in which the public could come together for discussing questions of general interest. This scheme then became enlarged, and a Library and Museum were agreed to be added; for the former of which some valuable collections of books already existed in the Morrison Library and Asiatic Society's Library. These books were being destroyed for want of proper accommodation, and when re-bound and put in order will form a good nucleus around which, it is hoped, a comprehensive library will, ere long, be grouped.\n\nThe Museum is an institution urgently required in every large civilized town, and with the empires of China and Japan, about which so little is yet known, so close to us, we think such an institution here likely to be of great public benefit.\n\nThe remainder of the edifice consists of assembly rooms, a room for meetings of the Chamber of Commerce, and a hall for dramatic representations; in fact, the building is just such a one as, if a Municipality had been in existence here, would have been erected for Municipal purposes.\n\nThe management of the Institution is intended to be conducted on the most liberal footing. The public benefit was the object with which the money was subscribed, and that is the object it is intended to keep in view.\n\nThe very munificent subscriptions by which the undertaking has been forwarded will be exhausted on the completion of the building, and considering the depressed state of trade, and that nearly all those now here are already contributors, we foresee much difficulty in providing for the fittings requisite to permit the Institution at once to enter on the sphere of its usefulness.\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nMR. AUSTIN,-This memorandum omits to answer my principal inquiry, which I shall now put in plain words. Are the Museum and Library to be managed on liberal terms, and, if so, on what? Is any subscription to be necessary to entitle any member of the Community who behaves himself quietly and is decently dressed, to visit the Museum and Library and even to read in the latter place, as is the case in Melbourne, where one of the noblest institutions in the world is free to all the world?\n\nIf perfect freedom of access is not to be allowed, as is probable, what are to be the restrictions?\n\nR. G. MACDONNELL.\n\n3rd October, 1868.\n\nREPLY OF THE CITY HALL COMMITTEE,\n\nThe whole of the arrangements upon which the City Hall is to be managed have not been definitely fixed, but there never has, I believe, been any thought of having the admission to the Museum and Library otherwise than perfectly gratuitous, and open, as His Excellency states, to all well-dressed and well-behaved persons.\n\n3rd October, 1868.\n\nW. H. RENNIE,\n\nOn behalf of the City Hall Committee.\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nMR. AUSTIN,-As this expenditure is regularly provided for in the Estimates of the current year, I see no objection to payment of the money to the Trustees, as requested by Mr. Rennie,\n\nR. G. MACDONNELL.\n\n(6 rur\n\n11th May, 1869.\n\nDec.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348643, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 376, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\nPoor and lawless as most of the Chinese inhabitants of Hongkong were at the time, they were not forgetful of the value of education. For at least a century before the British occupation of Hongkong, there were already small Chinese Schools in existence in the villages of Wongneichung, Stanley, Little Hongkong, and Aberdeen. Each of these Schools counted probably, year by year, an average attendance of some ten boys. These scholars, on an average 50 per annum, with their five teachers, represented, previous to the advent of the English, the entire school-going population of Hongkong, less than one (about 0.89) per cent. of the whole of the inhabitants.\n\nEach of those 50 scholars used to pay to his teacher, apart from small presents of eggs, fruit, or fowls, given at certain festivals, a monthly fee consisting of 30 cash and 4 catties of rice, representing the value of about 12 cents. In return for this fee, the young Hongkongites were taught to read and commit to memory a list of clan names (`Pak-ku-sing`), the Three-characters-classic (`Sam-tsze-king`), the Four-characters-classic (`Sze-taze-man`), and, in the rare case of boys attending school for more than three years, some of the so-called Four Books of ancient Chinese literature. In addition to reading and memoriter exercises, the scholars were taught to write Chinese characters, on wooden tablets at first, and, in the case of the few who could afford the additional expense, even on paper (by means of copy slips which had to be traced through tissue paper). During harvest time in the Hakka villages, and during the annual fishing seasons among the Punti fishermen, the schools were closed, and the teachers left without fees, excepting what they earned by acting as letter-writers, accountants, fortune-tellers, and geomancers for the people in general.\n\nHowever little positive knowledge, apart from mere reading and writing, was disseminated by these Schools, the teachers' personal influence, rather than their teaching, served to keep alive among the people of Hongkong the national respect for Confucian tenets of morality and ceremonialism. Thus, these little Schools did, after all, a small modicum of genuine educational work by partaking of the general character of Chinese education, which leans on ethics as European education leans on religion.\n\nSuch was the state of education in Hongkong previous to, and at the time when, the British flag was for the first time hoisted at the foot of Taipingshan, on Tuesday, 26 January, 1841, and when formal possession was taken, for all time, of the whole Island of Hongkong, in the name of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.\n\nThere is no record of any new School having been established in Hongkong during the first year of the Colony's existence. The attention of the Government and of the European community was much engrossed with the removal of property and personnel from Macao to Hongkong, with the selection and laying out of building lots, and with the erection of residences, offices, and storehouses. Everything was altogether too unsettled yet to admit even of the thought of any measures towards improving the educational condition of the inhabitants. The Chinese alone, the refuse of whose lowest classes began, early in 1841, to flock to the site of the present city of Victoria, consisted, during the first few years of our Colonial history, chiefly of boat-people, common labourers, coolie-builders, bricklayers, carpenters, stone-masons, blacksmiths, and provision dealers, all of whom had come to Hongkong, in defiance of Mandarin prohibitions, for temporary employment rather than as settlers, and left their families on the mainland. They naturally had neither time nor inclination to think of the education of the young. Some Protestant Missionaries, however, and notably Drs. Bridgman, Ball, Hobson, and Revs. W. J. Boone, W. C. Milne, and J. L. Shuck, who were settled at Macao at the time, came over to Hongkong on sundry occasions in spring and summer 1841, to prospect the future expediencies of the Island and to report to their respective Societies as to their making this new British Settlement the headquarters of their future evangelizing operations. Plans were formed and recommendations were made by the Missionaries, but none of them appears to have commenced any educational work in Hongkong during this first year of the young Colony's existence.\n\n## 1842\n\nThe first to take active steps in this direction appear to have been the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society: Messrs. Lancelot Dent, Th. Fox, William Jardine, A. Matheson, W. Leslie, G. T. Morrison, and Dr. G. S. Bridgman. This Society, organized by British and American merchants in Canton (9 November, 1836), to perpetuate the memory of the late Dr. R. Morrison (the famous pioneer of Protestant Missions in China, who had died on 1 August, 1834), had a distinct educational object, viz., the establishment and improvement of Schools in which Chinese youths should be taught to read and write the English language in connection with their own. The Society started, in 1836, with a subscribed capital of $6,000 and a library of 1500 volumes (the first nucleus of the present Morrison Library in the City Hall), and, whilst commencing operations by subsidiary educational efforts made by Protestant missionaries in Macao, Malacca, Singapore, and Penang, resolved now at once to procure two teachers, one from England and one from America, in order to start a School of their own.\n\nNo suitable teacher could be found in England, but on 23 February, 1839, the Rev. S. R. Brown (from Yale College, New Haven, Conn.) arrived, and commenced, at Macao, the study of Chinese. They started, on 1 November, 1839, the Morrison Education Society's School with six Chinese scholars. The attendance slowly increased to 12 boys (in 1840), to 13 boys (in 1841), and to 18 boys (in 1842), who were located as boarders in the Society's House next to St. Paul's at Macao. On 21 February 1842, the Trustees of the Society passed a resolution to the effect that the British Settlement of Hongkong presents a peculiarly eligible opportunity for extending the operations of the Society, as there alone in this country can exist protection and scope for carrying out its views to advantage. On the same date, the President of the Society, Mr. L. Dent, wrote to Sir Henry Pottinger in this sense and applied for a grant of land at Hongkong for the purpose of erecting a School building. The next day (22 February 1842), Mr. Dent was informed that Sir H. Pottinger would at once select and appropriate a suitable locality for the purpose. A site on the hill, thenceforth called Morrison Hill, having accordingly been granted, a deputation of the Committee (Dr. Bridgman and Messrs. A. Matheson and W. Leslie) waited on Sir H. Pottinger (5 April, 1842) to thank the Governor for his favour and to beg him to accept the post of Patron of the Society, which nomination Sir H. Pottinger cheerfully accepted. A few days later (9 April, 1842), the Trustees resolved to procure an additional teacher from Yale College as coadjutor to Mr. Brown, and when Mr. Dent made a donation to the Society of $3,000 for building purposes, the erection of a College was at once commenced on Morrison Hill (3 August, 1842), whilst the School was for some time longer continued at Macao. But on the expiry of the lease of the School-house there (1 November 1842), the School was removed to temporary quarters in Hongkong, with a loss of 6 out of 17 scholars.\n\n## 1843\n\nNo additional educational effort appears to have been made by the European community in the year 1843, but a small number of Chinese families (shopkeepers, artisans, and boat-people) having by this time settled in the new city of Victoria, four or six Chinese elementary Schools appear to have been established in Hongkong, in addition...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348644, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 377, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG\n\ntion to the previously existing native Schools in the villages. An article in the August number of the Chinese Repository of this year, discussing the subject of Schools at Hongkong, mentions, apart from the Morrison Education Society's School, which by this time had 21 scholars under training, that there were a few native Schools at Hongkong, perhaps eight or ten in various parts of the Island, chiefly in Victoria. In the same article, the Editor called the attention of the Government to these Schools and suggested the appointment, by Government, of an Education Committee. The death of Mr. J. R. Morrison (October, 1843) was a great loss to the educational interests of Hongkong and especially to the Morrison Education Society, whose Recording Secretary and Librarian Mr. Morrison had been, besides supporting four of the scholars by his own means. After his death, his well-stocked library was embodied in the Morrison Education Society's Library (now at the City Hall).\n\nThe funds of the Society, which were very low at this time, were at the end of the year opportunely increased by a grant made by H. M.'s Superintendent of Trade, Sir H. Pottinger, who promised (12 December, 1843) to give to the Morrison Education Society annually the sum of $1,200, 'being the amount of one year's allowance formerly assigned to the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca.'\n\nAbout this time, the London Missionary Society resolved to transfer its operations from Malacca, Singapore, and Penang to China and to establish its headquarters at Hongkong. This measure brought to Hongkong a man who was destined to exercise a most powerful influence on the future educational system of Hongkong. The Rev. J. Legge, having succeeded the Rev. J. Evans as principal of the Anglo-Chinese College (1841) at Malacca, removed, at the close of the year 1843, the students of that College, together with their principal teacher, the Rev. Ho Tsun-sheen, to Hongkong, where he formed them into a Seminary for the training of native ministers.\n\nThis Seminary, together with a Preparatory School started at this time in Hongkong, formed the nucleus of the establishment thenceforth known as the London Missionary Society's Anglo-Chinese College of Hongkong (`Ying-wa-shü-ün`).\n\n### 1844\n\nThe year 1844 was particularly fruitful in the way of educational efforts, put forth in Hongkong by Missionaries of all denominations. The Morrison Education Society's institution on Morrison Hill prospered under the energetic direction and able tuition of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, and its funds were in a flourishing condition (25th Sept., 1844), there being a surplus of $3,000 in hand. The Rev. J. P. Happer, M.D., strengthened the staff of the School by giving his assistance to Mr. Brown for six months (November, 1844 to April, 1845). The London Mission's Anglo-Chinese College had an attendance of 18 Chinese boarders to be trained for the ministry, in 1844, all of whom were engaged during the forenoon of every day in English studies and devoted the afternoons to their Chinese lessons. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Shuck of the Baptist Board of Foreign Mission opened (23rd September, 1844) a newly built two-storied house in Gough Street (on the premises of the future Government Central School) as an Anglo-Chinese School with 20 boys and 6 girls. The Rev. W. Deane of the same Mission had also started, in the year 1844, a small Chinese School in the Western District, and over 80 Chinese scholars, all taught and supported by the benevolence of the European community of Hongkong, were present at the opening of the Gough Street Schools. Another American Mission, the Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, represented by Dr. Ball, also commenced at this time a School in Hongkong with 6 Chinese pupils. The Roman Catholic Mission is reported to have had a School at work in Hongkong in 1844 and also a few theological students, but no details are recorded as to the actual date when this Mission commenced its educational operations in Hongkong.\n\nIn addition to the foregoing institutions already at work in Hongkong during the year 1844, the newly appointed Colonial Chaplain, the Rev. V. Stanton, made energetic efforts during this period to establish in Hongkong a School (subsequently known as St. Paul's College) for the training of a native clergy in connection with the Church of England. He was one of the most energetic Missionaries and Educationists of Hongkong's early history. With an intimate knowledge of Chinese life and character, much of which he acquired during a six months' close confinement in a prison in Canton, having been kidnapped by Chinese soldiers whilst acting as tutor in the Turner family in Macao and as Chaplain to the English community there, Mr. Stanton combined the indefatigable energy of a warm-hearted Missionary, and the methodical industry of a professional teacher, with the quiet dignity of a clergyman. Filled with the correct notion that the conversion of the Chinese must be the work of native preachers rather than of foreign missionaries, and having formed the design of a clerical training school which, whenever worthy of its name, should grow into a College, he raised, after his return to England, subscriptions to the amount of $3,070, to which he subsequently (1849) added from his own means $4,800 and a donation of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge to the amount of $1,020. These sums he formed into a Building Fund, which, together with the contemplated buildings and other property of the proposed School, were vested in the Earl of Chichester, the Earl of Harrowby (then Viscount Sandon, M.P.), Lord Ashley, M.P., and Sir R. H. Inglis, Baronet, M.P. Having secured the appointment of Colonial Chaplain and (as it seems) addressed the Colonial Office on the subject of his educational schemes, he returned to Hongkong and made (6th June, 1844) a formal application to Sir H. Pottinger for the grant of a site for the erection of a College and Schools for the education of Chinese youths in connection with the Established Church. In reply, he was informed (9th July, 1844) by the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. F. W. A. Bruce, that Sir H. Pottinger had already, in October 1843, addressed a dispatch on the subject to Lord Stanley, for whose instructions he must wait. But later on (2nd September, 1844), the Colonial Secretary, when writing to Mr. Stanton for detailed information as to the objects of the intended foundation and the locality which Mr. Stanton might wish to be assigned for the purpose, very appropriately pointed out to Mr. Stanton that the Governor would consider very favourably the claims of any institution which would embody a scheme to remedy the want of any means of education for the children of the European residents here, the Government considering this want as a defect which operated as materially against the prosperity and best interests of the Colony. It is indeed characteristic of the unselfishness of European philanthropy that so far all the efforts of Protestant and Catholic educationists in Hongkong and the liberality of the local European community and of the Government were exclusively devoted to the education of Chinese children, to the neglect of a number of European children left without the means of education. It redounds to the credit of Sir H. Pottinger that he drew attention to this radical defect in the educational movement.\n\n### 1845\n\nSir H. Pottinger's suggestion was not wasted upon a man like Mr. Stanton. He started, in 1845, by means of voluntary subscriptions supplemented, with the express sanction of the Governor (27 September, 1845), by the appropriation of the marriage fees due to the Colonial Chaplain, a **Children's School**.\n\nThis School, located in the central part of Victoria (Chungwán), was conducted by Mrs. Miller, as a Church of England School, under the supervision of ...\n\nPage 372", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352428, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "19\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n\"Sir James Russell yesterday\"\n\nAs the late Chief Justice was so well and highly respected in this Colony it is hardly necessary to add that this sad news has been received by the Community generally with profound sorrow.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, William Robinson\n\nGovernor.; No. Corrison 180\n\nDate: 5 Sep 1893\n\nLast previous Paper: No 14113\n\nNext subsequent Paper: No 166:14\n\n(Subject.) Ordinance 12 of 1893 (O.O. 171/93) Statutory Declarations\n\n(Minutes.) W. Wingfield Jurupo Library Tubel Noted 4.m. 114/10 Sanction EwHort\n\n \nPage 19\n\n \n(no further text is given, assuming '2' is page number notation)\n\nPage 20 (or subsequent page number if '2' indicates that)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492037, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 573, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "14 candidates were available. Just such a post figured for some time in the Budget in connection with the Chair of Physiology and was recently suppressed because it had remained unfilled.\n\n16. As regards the Chair of Anatomy, dealt with by Dr. Pearce in his paragraph 2 (b), although the proposed Chair of Surgery has been spoken of as a new Chair, the intention is that it should be occupied by the present Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, so that in speaking of the salary necessary to attract suitable candidates for the new Chair it has really been the Chair of Anatomy I had in mind. As regards Dr. Pearce's suggestion as to a re-distribution of work between the Professors of Anatomy and Physiology, I am in a position to say that the two Professors concerned concur in the suggestions and anticipate that no serious difficulties will arise in connection with the sharing of a laboratory for certain purposes. The suggestions are entirely in accord with modern practice.\n\n17. The status of the Chair of Pathology (paragraph 2 (c)) raises certain difficulties. Technically, there is at present no difference between the status of the three Chairs referred to. The three professors were recruited upon identical terms, although it happens that two of them, owing to length of service, have a purely personal advantage. It is further the case that the holders of other Chairs were recruited at practically the same time, upon the same terms, and any formal modification of the status of the Chair of Pathology on abstract grounds would raise very difficult questions which, as I verbally informed Dr. Pearce, I should be reluctant to face.\n\n18. On the other hand, I have already drawn attention to the need for pathological facilities in connection with the hospital, and the attempt to teach pathology in entire disassociation from the hospital is undoubtedly opposed to the best modern practice. My personal conviction is, therefore, that when the matter comes to be worked out, the pathological department will be found to require re-organization and that, brought into closer touch with the hospital, it will assume a new importance. It is fortunate that the present Professor of Pathology is no less well qualified for such wider work than for that to which he is at present restricted.\n\nHostel Accommodation\n\n19. Two points raised by Dr. Pearce remain to be dealt with. He refers in paragraph 2 (e) to the provision of a hostel in the neighbourhood of the hospital. I have already indicated in a footnote to his letter my reasons for considering that there had been some misunderstanding on the point, though the matter is of lessened importance as the particular scheme then in contemplation has proved unrealisable. In the meantime, the whole hostel problem has entered upon a new phase, owing to an increase of numbers which could not be foreseen last May but which gives every promise of being emphasized in the future. Additional hostel accommodation will shortly be an imperative necessity, so far as our finances may permit, and if there should be any choice as to location the needs of the medical students ought to be borne in mind. There is in any case a very considerable difference between the hostels as regards access to the hospital. St. John's is only five minutes distance from the hospital and is on the same level as the Foundling Hospital, while Morrison is a quarter of an hour away and several hundred feet higher up. Much may be done by centralising medical students in their final years at St. John's, especially if, as is proposed, that hostel is enlarged, or, when religious feeling stands in the way of resort to St. John's, then at Lugard, which is the lowest of the three University hostels.\n\nPage 15\n\n570\n\nMedical Library\n\n20. In paragraph 2(e) Dr. Pearce alludes to the unsatisfactory condition of the medical library, a condemnation I gave him full permission last May to extend to our library as a whole. We have since appointed a full-time Librarian and I have drawn her special attention to the medical library. We have also more than doubled our library grant for the purchase of books and periodicals and for maintenance. I am satisfied that as much is at present being done as our resources permit, and I have convinced myself by inspection that a very definite improvement has taken place. I none the less admit that there is room for further improvement whenever money is available.\n\nFinance\n\n21. The question of finance is, of course, of essential importance. Were it possible to obtain for two of the three intermediate Chairs endowments upon the scale adopted by the Foundation, I should be satisfied that not only could we meet the obligations proposed to be placed upon us in connection with the Faculty of Medicine but that a certain sum would be liberated for general purposes out of the monies at present devoted to the departments in question. The raising of any such sum is, however, a matter for our forthcoming appeal, the preparation of which has been delayed by the death of the late Mr. Sharp, and the question now arises whether any part of the scheme can be prudently put into force pending the result of the appeal. To that question my answer would be an affirmative one. I should myself recommend proposing to the Foundation the immediate endowment of the two Chairs of Surgery and Medicine, the University undertaking on its side to carry out the proposed programme, with the exception of so much as relates to Obstetrics and Gynaecology, with such expedition as may be. I should venture to hope that the Foundation would be more concerned with our acceptance of a sound programme than with the immediate putting into force of the whole of it, while the fact that the Chair of Obstetrics was held in reserve would at once be a strong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497572, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "## Science and Learning\n\nThe provision of higher education, the development and formation of the character of students of all races, nationalities, and creeds.\n\nThe late Sir Hormusjee Mody bore the entire expense of the erection of the main building, and additions have been made through the liberality of benefactors of varied nationality and domicile.\n\nThe University includes the three Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts. Admission to all faculties is conditional upon passing the matriculation examination of the University or some examination recognised as equivalent thereto.\n\n### Faculty Details\n\nThe Faculty of Medicine provides a five-year course of study in the usual pre-medical and medical sciences, supplemented by clinical work in the Government Civil and Tung Wah Hospitals, leading to the degree of M.B., B.S. The degrees of M.D. and M.S. may be obtained for post-graduate work.\n\nThe degrees above-mentioned are recognised by the General Medical Council for registration in Great Britain.\n\nThe Faculty of Engineering provides a four-year course in practical and theoretical engineering, leading to the degree of B.Sc.(Eng). Fourth-year students specialise in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.Sc.(Eng).\n\nThe Faculty of Arts includes departments of pure Arts and Science, Education (including practical teaching), and Commerce. The course is in all cases one of four years and leads to the degree of B.A. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.A.\n\n### Examinations and Degrees\n\nWith a view to better securing the maintenance of the desired standard, which in the Faculty of Medicine is that of an English University degree and in the Faculty of Engineering that of the corresponding degree in the University of London, external examiners are, in all Faculties, associated with the internal examiners in all annual and final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineering, but not in other Faculties, degrees with honours are granted, the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\nThe degree of LL.D. is also granted, honoris causa.\n\n### University Premises\n\nThe site of the University was given gratuitously by the Colonial Government. As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, it includes an area of some 25 acres, looking out upon the harbour over the City of Victoria.\n\nIn the main buildings are housed the Chemical, Physical, and Biological Laboratories, the University Library, and portions of the Engineering Laboratories. They further include a Great Hall, a Senate Room, and the Lecture and Class rooms used by the Faculty of Arts and for general purposes.\n\n### Specialised Buildings\n\nSpecial medical buildings include schools of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Tropical Medicine, erected at the cost of Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. In the case of each of the three schools last mentioned, a larger or smaller sum still remains available for further equipment.\n\nSpecial engineering buildings include:\n| Building | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Power Station | Generating light and power for the estate, energy being supplied by internal combustion engines of varied types which are available for instructional purposes. |\n| (b) Prime Movers (steam) and Hydraulics Laboratory | At present housed in a converted Pumping Station, formerly the property of the Government. |\n| (c) Workshop | Including a small machine-shop, smithy, and carpenter's shop. |\n\nElectrical machinery (other than the main generating plant), electrical technology, the testing of materials, and experimental mechanics are dealt with in the main building.\n\nThe larger part of the engineering equipment was the gift of British engineering firms.\n\nOther buildings upon the estate include:\n| Building | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Vice-Chancellor's Lodge | |\n| (b) Staff-Quarters | |\n| (c) Residential Hostels | |\n| (d) University Union Building | |\n\nUnless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's \"manner of life is not such as is catered for in the hostels\"), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University or in a recognised Hostel.\n\nThe University Hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall, and May Hall.\n\nRecognised Hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situate immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nEach student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual Common rooms. Each University Hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident Warden.\n\nPage 22\nPage 23\nPage 14\nPage 248", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# \n## V.-PUBLIC WORKS\n\n### BUILDINGS\n\nDuring the year under review the following works made fair progress:- The Senior Officers' Quarters on the Homestead Site at the Peak, and at Leighton Hill, the former under Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood, and the latter under Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs; and the new Offices for the Public Works Department. Good progress was made with the following works:- In Hongkong, foundations of the new Fire Brigade Station, opposite the Central Market; Maternity Block and alterations to the Sisters' Quarters, Victoria Hospital; site formation for the new Queen's College Building; and the Miniature Rifle Range at The Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. In Kowloon, new Police Stations at Yaumati and Mongkoktsui; and the underground Seismograph Room at the Royal Observatory. The undermentioned works were completed:- In Hongkong, additions and reconstruction of the Kitchen and Garage Blocks at Government House; Outpatients Department, Government Civil Hospital; Quarters for Scavenging Coolies, Belchers Street; Temporary School for Chinese Boys, Morrison Gap Road; Married Quarters for Police, Caine Road; Gardeners' Quarters, Colonial Cemetery; accommodation for Chinese Linesmen at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station; and various Public Conveniences. In Kowloon, Extension to the Fire Brigade Station; new Class Rooms at the Kowloon British School; and various Public Conveniences. In the New Territories, the Land Bailiffs' Quarters, Ping Shan, and the Clerks Quarters, Taipo. Other smaller works of minor importance were also accomplished. The reconstruction of certain sheds at Laichikok for purposes of a prison was nearing completion.\n\n### COMMUNICATIONS\n\nThe 2nd and 3rd miles of the road from Taitam Gap to Shek O and Cape D'Aguilar; the extension of the road contouring the hillside in Wongneichong and Tai Hang Valleys; and the diversion of the road leading from Pokfulam Road to Victoria Road were completed. Broadwood Road was extended to connect with the new Motor Road contouring Wongneichong Valley. Substantial progress was made with the undermentioned works- Improving and widening road through Quarry Bay Village; a low level road (25 feet wide) from Island Bay to Big Wave Bay and another of equal width to effect a junction with it, and link up the 3rd mile with Shek O Gap; and the 1st Section of the Road contouring the hillside above Conduit Road. Fair progress was made with the extension of the 20-foot road from Magazine Gap to Peak Tram Station, Chamberlain Road.\n\n## \n-24 -\nNo University Hostel at present exists for women students- whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921: but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.\n\nUniversity fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chibli, Yunnan and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China and Australasia.\n\nDuring 1922 honorary degrees were conferred upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G., and the late Mr. E. H. Sharp, c.m.g., a member of the Governor's Executive Council. A benefaction of $500,000 was received from the Rockefeller Foundation for the foundation of full-time Chairs in Medicine and Surgery. The complete scheme includes a grant of a further sum of $250,000 for a full-time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and provides for the creation of complete medical units for the teaching of the three subjects in the Government Civil Hospital. The University is to make provision out of its own funds for assistants to the professors of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology and it is desired to erect a Hostel for medical students in proximity to the hospital. Eight scholarships of $200 each were founded by the China Medical Board for medical students who shall have carried out their pre-medical studies at the Canton Christian College, the University undertaking to remit fees to the extent of $100 a year. A sum of $10,000 was presented to the University Union by the Hon. Sir C. Paul Chater, Kt., c.m.g., for the foundation of a Library in memory of the late Dr. Jordan, formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor in the University. A sum of $5,000 was collected for the extension and partial refurnishing of the Athletic Ground. An appeal was issued in the course of the year asking for a sum of from four million to five million dollars for the general purposes of the University.\n\nThe total cost of the land, buildings and equipment of the University may be placed at approximately $1,750,000 and their replacement value at not less than $2,500,000, while the invested endowments exceed $3,000,000.\n\n- 25 -\n## Page 249\n## Page 24 \n\n## Page 25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497946, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "# \n## 24\n\nThe Faculty of Arts includes departments of pure Arts and Science, Education (including practical teaching) and Commerce. The course is in all cases one of four years and leads to the degree of B.A. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.A.\n\nWith a view to better securing the maintenance of the desired standard—which in the Faculty of Medicine is that of an English University degree and in the Faculty of Engineering that of the corresponding degree in the University of London—external examiners are, in all Faculties, associated with the internal examiners in all annual and final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineering, but not in other Faculties, degrees with honours are granted, the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\nThe degree of LL.D., is also granted, honoris causa,\n\nThe site of the University was given gratuitously by the Colonial Government. As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, it includes an area of some 25 acres, looking out upon the harbour over the City of Victoria.\n\nIn the main buildings are housed the Chemical, Physical and Biological Laboratories, the University Library and portions of the Engineering Laboratories. They further include a Great Hall, a Senate Room and the Lecture and Class rooms used by the Faculty of Arts and for general purposes.\n\nSpecial medical buildings include schools of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology and Tropical Medicine, erected at the cost of Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. In the case of each of the three schools last mentioned a large or smaller sum still remains available for further equipment.\n\nSpecial engineering buildings include:—\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | a Power Station, generating light and power for the estate, energy being supplied by internal combustion engines of varied types which are available for instructional purposes; |\n| (b) | a Prime Movers (steam) and Hydraulics Laboratory, at present housed in a converted Pumping Station, formerly the property of the Government; and |\n| (c) | A Workshop, including a small machine-shop, smithy and carpenter's shop. |\n\nElectrical machinery (other than the main generating plant), electrical technology, the testing of materials and experimental mechanics are dealt with in the main building.\n\nThe larger part of the engineering equipment was the gift of British engineering firms.\n\n## 25\n\nOther buildings upon the estate include: -\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge |\n| (b) | Staff-Quarters |\n| (c) | the resident Hostels, and |\n| (d) | the University Union Building. |\n\nUnless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's \"manner of life\" is not such as is catered for in the hostels), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University, or in a recognised Hostel.\n\nThe University Hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall, and May Hall.\n\nRecognised Hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situate immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nEach student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual Common rooms. Each University Hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident Warden.\n\nNo University Hostel at present exists for women students—whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921: but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.\n\nUniversity fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chihli, Yunnan and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China and Australasia.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502492, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "The University of Hong Kong has a close association with the University of London. For corresponding degrees, external examiners from the University of London are associated with internal examiners in all annual and final examinations across all Faculties. In the Faculty of Engineering, degrees with honours are granted, with the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\nThe degree of LL.D. is also granted honoris causa.\n\nThe site of the University was given gratuitously by the Colonial Government. As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, it includes an area of some 25 acres, looking out upon the harbour over the City of Victoria.\n\nThe main buildings house the Chemical, Physical, and Biological Laboratories, the University Library, and portions of the Engineering Laboratories. They further include a Great Hall, a Senate Room, and the Lecture and Class rooms used by the Faculty of Arts and for general purposes.\n\nSpecial medical buildings include schools of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Tropical Medicine, erected at the cost of Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. In the case of each of the three schools last mentioned, a large or smaller sum still remains available for further equipment.\n\nSpecial engineering buildings include:\n\n(a) a Power Station, generating light and power for the estate, energy being supplied by internal combustion engines of varied types which are available for instructional purposes;\n\n(b) a Prime Movers (steam) and Hydraulics Laboratory, at present housed in a converted Pumping Station, formerly the property of the Government; and\n\n(c) A Workshop, of dimensions 90′ × 96′ for practical instruction of students.\n\nElectrical machinery (other than the main generating plant), electrical technology, the testing of materials, and experimental mechanics are dealt with in the main building.\n\nThe larger part of the engineering equipment was the gift of British engineering firms.\n\nPage 21\n\nOther buildings upon the estate include:\n\n(a) the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge;\n\n(b) Staff Quarters;\n\n(c) the resident Hostels; and\n\n(d) the University Union Building.\n\nUnless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's manner of life is not such as is catered for in the hostels), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University or in a recognised Hostel.\n\nThe University Hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall, and May Hall.\n\nRecognised Hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situated immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nEach student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual Common rooms. Each University Hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident Warden.\n\nNo University Hostel at present exists for women students—whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921—but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.\n\nUniversity fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chihli, Yunnan, and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah, and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China, and Australasia.\n\nPage 178", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502510, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "20\n\nThe University of Hong Kong has a corresponding degree with the University of London; external examiners are associated with internal examiners in all annual and final examinations across all Faculties. In the Faculty of Engineering, degrees with honours are granted, with the standard assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\nThe degree of LL.D. is also granted honoris causa.\n\nThe site of the University was given gratuitously by the Colonial Government. As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, it includes an area of some 25 acres, looking out upon the harbour over the City of Victoria.\n\nThe main buildings house the Chemical, Physical, and Biological Laboratories, the University Library, and portions of the Engineering Laboratories. They further include a Great Hall, a Senate Room, and the Lecture and Class rooms used by the Faculty of Arts and for general purposes.\n\nSpecial medical buildings include schools of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Tropical Medicine, erected at the cost of Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. In the case of each of the three schools last mentioned, a large or smaller sum still remains available for further equipment.\n\nSpecial engineering buildings include:\n\n(a) a Power Station, generating light and power for the estate, energy being supplied by internal combustion engines of varied types which are available for instructional purposes;\n\n(b) a Prime Movers (steam) and Hydraulics Laboratory, at present housed in a converted Pumping Station, formerly the property of the Government; and\n\n(c) A Workshop, of dimensions 90′ x 90′ for practical instruction of students.\n\nElectrical machinery (other than the main generating plant), electrical technology, the testing of materials, and experimental mechanics are dealt with in the main building.\n\nThe larger part of the engineering equipment was the gift of British engineering firms.\n\n21\n\nOther buildings upon the estate include:\n\n(a) the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge;\n\n(b) Staff Quarters;\n\n(c) the resident Hostels; and\n\n(d) the University Union Building.\n\nUnless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's manner of life is not such as is catered for in the hostels), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University or in a recognised Hostel.\n\nThe University Hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall, and May Hall.\n\nRecognised Hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situated immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nEach student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual Common rooms. Each University Hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident Warden.\n\nNo University Hostel at present exists for women students—whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921—but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.\n\nUniversity fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chihli, Yunnan, and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah, and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China, and Australasia.\n\n196", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12", "content_text": "Cleans and Disinfects in One Operation. REMEMBER\n\nNO SOAP, NO STRONG CAUSTICS.\n\nNO DANGEROUS DISINFECTANTS\n\nARZ WANTED THE \"CARBOLACENE\n\nREGULARLY\n\nWALKER\n\nREGO CARBOLACENE\n\nFRAGRANT\n\nCLEANSER DISINFECTANT\n\nAn Active Disinfectant and Cleanser for use in Hotels, Institutions and in the Home,\n\nUsed by the British & Foreign Governments.\n\nSole Makers for -\n\nW. & F. WALKER, LTD., Liverpool, England.\n\nSole Agents- ANDERSON & ASHED.\n\nQue's Buildings.\n\nINSURE\n\nFOUR\n\nMOTOR\n\nCAR\n\nWITH\n\nGILMANS.\n\nTHE\n\n\"OCEAN COMPREHENSIVE POLICY\n\nhousehold.\n\n[24\n\nA Welcome Visitor\n\nat any\n\ntime in\n\nevery\n\nEvery\n\nBug, Flea, Beetle, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with\n\nKEATING'S\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.\n\nChemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietors MARTIN, Chisholm, Southampton Row.\n\nUNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.\n\nAT THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nFROM\n\nADURYS ED Petrovitch, 32, Nathan Rd. Shanghai\n\nfragoon Sheinm\n\nTokyo Shouzhai Shanghai\n\nKisty Simpson\n\nBorghie Cassic\n\nBang\n\n-hal\n\nJAR\n\nMercery...\n\nAndrew Tr\n\nJonicbole\n\nL\n\nAbig Amay Totolas Chicago, Ulincin\n\nAT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nADDRESSED\n\nHeatley Rinorez Yardley Celly\n\nFrom\n\nLender\n\nDaina\n\nSu Franciaco\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nstedssful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nNOVEMBER\n\n5FR.\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\n\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\n\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\n\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\n\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\n\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\n\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\n\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\n\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\ntrientales, upon the Sensor for the Depertinent, and japon Colonel Blachere, military erminander of the region, stat ing that he had been instapeter to par-\n\nClub de Racrei ad XI. r. 8.0.\n\nAlhalic Association,\n\nis referising reels to the cost of the case saputorial on position is loux searching stab and corridors that too kung land. Endell, wuite apart from must is spent in searching steamers for the wase; supp's question, the cablu, the inutividani in question call-id. P. Fuertes, A. Losang. J. M. da ours and list grugs I would emorye box of the vatani sets very strict iuits the Prefect of die Pens | Siha, and A. J. Brown, than relive service is absolutely to the practicability of hoana babita neentary in a port of this slae and in\n\nnon. There art, moreover, engout re portiure, closely insted his in to a\n\nSoge #gatus, maxing the islami dependan foreign contry. Search has to on made for its water apon the maidand. There for exciele and antialle articles and fore, akhough. I fear that we shall never for prohibited imports. We have also be able to dispense with rider auine certain interjunal obligations in these the flan, het web doubties will utiere, cod shine ang sourched on operate as encouragement to add matter of routine. It is quive itaposiole tonal population to settle in Kaulugu questions raised by y Honourable duty to exannine all j Friend. The fact thar, 4,30 pounds of water storage on the sand itself, and which be made an ratensive four of the Accumpeau.\n\nThie match will be payed on the Re-1 chaec a villa on the Côte Vermeille Forreio's groun, Kiug's Park, Lo-earrow, the Peince of Wales.\n\nkick-not at 245 pudar.\n\nA pram of noble boating, speaking\n\nThe Secret team wall be:--L. M.\n\ncat, Hankey, Light Weish. Sergt Steyer, Seval Bruno. Beveridge and Mefatyre.\n\nHOCKEY.\n\nTODAY'S GAMES.\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\n} \n\n$100.\n\nthe Calous and with the remarks of hon, I supply bien. 21 furnishing all the etubers on that subject. One more data secessary for foenutatley our leture should like\n\nto thank\n\ngfficul collenges for their veys flattering rewound he premature to take a tal desi poliny in this respect. Until then it marks on the way the budget was intro- dowed and for the very restrained tona of their reasonable criticism and, espe einily, for their generous appreciation of the services of the virions Government departmente.\n\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\n\nEducation.\n\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply. Ever since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\n\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\n\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\n\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\n\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\n\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\n\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\n\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\n\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\n\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\n\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\n\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\n\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\n\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\n\nCONFERENCE.\n\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\n\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\n\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse. According to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\n\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\n\nBRITISH POLICY.\n\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\n\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\n\nFLIGHTS.\n\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\n\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\n\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present State laws enter having their aspirations seamed up A norcher of distinguished mebers of prohibition were apparently carried in the vertsnational dependenes\n\nPARIS, Noriber 4th.\n\nto\n\nTile\n\nRetar, November th A series of darmonstration Aights by a An experienced į De Havilland Hevents three-engines air- un on layder patiated that even if a thead which will operate on the new six her bare cameź the right to tive hy working unionista quatribaled one penny cute from Egypt to India were carried fiving rails fuas of execation for five per lay only th0,000 per week weidi bejut yesterday. By the end of new years, aviiside for the miners. This wou week The first of five machines ordered\n\nTHE PLOT AGAINST SPAIN,\n\nTRAISE FOR FRENCH POLICE,\n\nNO BRITISHERS INVOLVED.\n\nLeros, November 3rd. A furiber essage from Perpignan, exklatance from other unions they muallack in the trapies, nad a noticeable that alloguer Sparish and Italian mostly the former have begu - be prepared to accept the ambition of the fextare is the special arra gements Gade rested onion in connertion with coal dispute as suggested 15 the Prades for the comfest of poesengers. Not only\n\nthe Spanish plat. Con Congress as representing those is the cnbir waliloted at a greater exure British, e was at Erst stated,\n\nElection earle 264 Sone of those arrested suggested\n\nthe Paris bar bare signed an appeat to California ad Mouting wile Favela\n\noverwhelmingly voted for a resolation only, & legitinute in a very laudable the United States against the expertos encumeing de present federal law and\n\ncbject of aspiration.\n\nPossibly the T.L.C. and a great, any of Sacco and Vanzetti, They point out deadede e apendress of\n\nother persons as well wit be surprised Cantul Sterns Constirution regards to less that the national independence thek even the Americas judges are int ernhibition Missouri al Colorado ap\n\nof the Chinese people bus from the very sure of their gul, and even guilty.pear to have led down measures in first been one fine principal objeers of\n\n2 the morifiration of the State law.\n\nBibel policy, and that the so called LATER. \"uceque beates of 1801-models of Belated election retains indieste a re- moderation and good will-wore bamed dacties of six and 13 respectively in the carefully to interfece as ele as possible Republican ajrity in the Redste aval with China's covereign rights and to ca House of Representatives. alay sents courage bei ndicals and people to tread are still in the ballot and i the Deaerata be one wh that could pensione less hu capture a few core the western Repub-indeperasuste. Buevey, is the ba Bean urgents, ied by the Wiannokin coutrageglible Int, to be verbied by any grow of which the late Sepstor La Lane who takes the trouble to glady who Folette was leader, will undoubtedly be history of our relations with China. in a strong strategic position, by holding Unfortunately, it gestas to hyve been the balance busween the Demorats autorgattan not by Chinese statesmen and the orthodox Repu>Ticana\n\ndelunatists alone that sovereignty\" Latest Figures.\n\nCalot be confereed by a magician's wand, or ever by u Washington Conier New York. November 4 ence is our state to be enjoyed, but a\n\navailable show fandtion to the expreised. Mercins, Dai the next Serace be composed of deed, mamed it only to the Wise and #7 Detrocrats, one of the Parser Labore | Benevolent Water! Turky, 48 Repathesne, whereof eight are\n\ninsurgents, ad bence thorns To the i The French podion are being honored dech of the Amulsation Six sela\n\nweek for each wirer sad on strike.\n\nthe\n\nunions Disforöuation was expressed to tent than usoni, bor a special sir scoopi belp the wires to preing an unpreât is provided which Altera sir for din adio struggle. Ja London in 15 generally catatan: Marwughout the lateries.\n\nbelieved that the Conference will be con-\n\nCredit for Polica.\n\n| \n\nPn. November d\n\n| wills credit. Für fromvating lous of the is the Honee are duabital bat hitherto most entermined punish evolutionary the Replicas bure a more tears than\n\nand for their teed until\n\nsiderably tolesced by the failure of the EARL. BEATTY'S RESIGNATION 618 For hutched on French territory the Doucurals,\n\nforlorn hopes of the miners leaders,\n\nnuts, regarding the crcburgo ou servign i\n\nPOSTPONED,\n\nBrgey, November 4th.\n\nthe itapliunted non more salely within\n\nthe Le The conspiracy is attributed\n\nin a Cnts ex-Dopyty named Macia.\n\ncost and the compulsory lexy and by the East Beauty who has been Fiza Sawhoy however, caped. The arrested men plain weaking at to-day's craterence. 1\n\nLoud of the Advising and Chief of concertedly attempted 10 sayape when im\n\nInfantry was dented in to mount guard.\n\nis arassidered highly probauls that Winore Nasal Staf siree November, 151, has tied in Phun trap dalyahaw of Our dirilisation has produced so any\n\nFoxerulivo will senk authority to connivade | expreazeri kis desire to be allowed to le Similar Senegade Tailleurs wHIS TO disorders, from weleer to courtoiss which these its \"ery existence that, a settlement on the bush forms that can sign office on complaing a period of\n\nnidecod, baffed, wise to see the uhtalked in districts with the safe - civilization for the Bandos, we hostin\n\ngeintioned at\", Parpagena to control thep imprisona) there, who were revolt\n\nSOUTH AFRICA-INDIAN\n\nCHINA AND THE TREATICS.\n\nNAKIPO THE MOST OF GENEVA,\n\nThe Geneve\n\nthe Forrespondent of Hugging Fest states that Belgiumie ap- per to the Hugue Court against China's quilatere donandiation of the nuequal Customs Fronty daỡng bon 139 wil m no way jafurice Pekang's decision tu maka ben action cortive from Velour 27th at prevent the denunciation of the Spanish and fortuguese treaties later in the year and other une jou treaties as saur as the six wonths' denunciation\n\nto me by Wang King Ky, the Chinese Minister In Bruznets.\n\nEurocan cRITER'S AGENCI\n\nTHE NEW BETTING TAX-\n\nBOYCOTT BY BOOKMAKERS.\n\nPICKET SYSTEM THREAT.\n\nLONDON, November 3rd. There was practically no business in Weating so day, and consequently it was impossible to turn any starting prices. According to Wang, Chien wil: javuke\n\nis is understood that this was due to\n\na boycost of Belgia gucds it themsets the fat that buckmbuers are unable toetuse lo sgiate Customs at and agree ang themselves haw Die betting reciprocat inri fronties along the lines\n\nA geais ated in the reynolic asing on the greani of the unsuitability of Tattoreult's Ming as the Windsor Rave Perise aries. This net was unle Glen shrug our shoulden, out of sheer self-guarding provision lec national privriples. the maximan ing which an officer will the food. Defence\n\nThis, adiy, is for antlement angested in rescined on the Board of the Ad- If we parties in shrugging everything out of dar attention, we shall en bis the Trades Brion Congress. The miraty except a sprint elryumstances. withous abonlines to ghrag, but some granding of auch authorisation by The bay however commented, so the request things, such as (for me) Clška, must be iamisted in the riot of staying we\n\nPolagate tonference woul se an inport of the l'inst Lord, a defer bia vesigns. that we call the world.\n\nant intve towards prese. GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.\n\nDEATH AGAIN REPORTED.\n\nLatest Developments.\n\ntion.\n\nNATIONAL FINANCE, SPRCIAL COMMUNTRE'S FINDINGS.\n\nCose\n\nof treaties already noncladed\" with Gor many and Autria. The British treaties anies be denom.sed legally for eight years, bat Wang believes that credm.\n\nThe\n\nthar\n\nThe incidence of existing tesañon with special aminion conferees at the luneseen. The bet the police piloted him to safety with of the world.\"]\n\nCOAL STOPPAGE AND LIFE ASSURANCE.\n\nACTION BY THE PRUDENTIAL.\n\nPROBLEM.\n\ntax Redd be applied. The altitude of PROSPECTS OF GETELEMENT.\n\n[başkaskers vulndning from oftering prices was gonerally condemned, and ibe Lenox, Novemùre Srd.\n\nopinion was freely expingsed that their We need have no fear of those difi-ion is making the strangest posible tamee wilt serant of abregation before enities or evenally befog antiled to GY, November 4th.\n\nFor the Satroad jau the satisfaction of the one to the other.\n\nterafiarto, Considerable innvortance attacles to\n\nGeneral Herzog, speaking at lun-\n\nMeaza hile. A is evident that Chinese the Miners Delegais Conferemer in holly\n\nWe Want the Wato.\" Seen in Lendos go-üny giver By the Br\n\najataşıman one seaking the most of their SHANODAL, Necember 4th. dou -day and strong hops, restrained Marshal San Chusn Farer's form head-only by the manory of pue disappoiti\n\nBrors, Novezier 4th. uish fudian Buion in the Indian de\n\nL352. ajestien og the Leagur Council. They will quarters have received a faspatch from mente, entertained hot at Set the British system of National furco has Margas of Bouding persided.\n\nAn exhuastive examination of the gates of the Imperial Coulrease. The There is a grong disposition as the vas ienova js a publicity centre, vuiting\n\nmoment, aming the booktankers in Putter į the azue unday Article is of the Core Marahel stafing that the Superin way all be clenged for a puzon effort, tendent of the Aurican Mission les The main out for decision is the date the chainauship of Lord Colwyn The\n\nDuw been coaj leted by a committes urner The function was notable, as being calle Ring to stay away pliogether from ant. mai dertzog's first appearance at i now Windsay Jomorrow. Using the stone | According to dis article of the Coven- pital at Changsha resta essure to the gates will free their exentive finance Caiutee was t Amican Copen at Nanking on October ariesiona and power in to proused in\n\noc by Mr. Philip South African function, while his queeri steps of the staed as a rostrum sproval at the Assemby may from the to Snowder, who was then Chancellby of was noteworthy we the test subiely aggrieved bookmakers halangued the time use the reconeidéention to mera- S to the affect thay General Ching sonich of a sectieraons along the lives the exliegues to February 1994 and its indication feren anyone inside the red and from bets by drifted to burs of the League of treaties which have Fai Shek had died from wounds.\n\nangusted by the Frado Union Congress, terms of incedenes were to rotate and Conference of the faanly froling strong | polities with violens petsons on Mr. Win become inapplicable, and the considere. There is no question of the Conference report on the National Debt and the the conferens,\n\nFurthermore, General sing Churchill. One man who shouted ties of antineliopal conditions where BRITISH PROPERTY DESTROYED\n\nwing specifig patce temps.\n\n\"We Esans to be decried is whether the excreference to their egg on brade, indus\n\nHerring was the sole representative of the Fe want the Tote \"jut a roug's sime dispostimages wight endanger the peace IN HUNAN.\n\nshat Le Sudorised in by for a try, oplosment, and National credis.arquis of Reading, in a speech, wanbly no hum done. AP.C. BUILDING BURNED DOWN.tries, and whether such autherias. It is undergo that the cum titles med Gotural Herizon\n\nfun. if garsed, shall be conditional\n\nBookmakers' Organise Bogenot. dindings are embodied in too reports entirely wrihout restriction.\n\nGeneral Hortzog's Speech, LATRA. which will shortly be handed to the A division of opinion is hely but the Choreitor of the bandoquer,\n\nGeneral Fartzog, regtrias, canplssied It is now resised that the action of deleges are bed with the knowledge The newapapers state that the majority\n\nthol vryne of clase contact in ravoving the hackmakes at Windsor, which thew that any attempt to renew the demand report deals with the gezocal ducis (endersienbuch, presie and hicker the whole carration of holding in a for calling out the safety me or for system in a way that is in nerd witheria) Cuntrance, lure the delegaces to organisal boyants, and acom of there\n\nvandstill throughout the county, was The Prudential Assurance Company ings. That was why he ngareciated the widge\n\nnorances that, \"Bubject to certain easy and secusly accepted pripsiplex, and Sark rentact giving the uneasy or threatened that his would be costumed conditions, policy holdiers au have the thet veldrags Gatsibutions of trade commends unly minor alterations and\n\nnoisy will not alone exabin the dis-djustments the existing methods GẼ deurs and anderstanding. He added to the end of the dat soon wates the arrears of preuvame the base accuupa-\n\nBIAA South Afries and die were try- froth to be cenzused with any hopes of textian 14 minted that the fluding ing to come into closer contact. They is exported at Tattersall's at Winter to-\n\nBax is favouerbiy altered. No okiakerated during unemployment resulting success. Yesterday nearly ons roure by the majority will not, in the existing had had considerable diferences in the grow, while it 24 uuderstool one on their industrial branch policies, from the coal dispune deducted from the dus went back to work, the biggest freinstances, reveamend the inposi-past, but he was convinced that with, single day heat for some tion, and there ton of a capital lovy, but will declare better fual understanding they would publie not to eate thongs Heel of the payments already mute, or suffer, picket system will be organised to induce fustend of heving, forfeit horsfé THE ILL-FATED \"KIANGYUNG.ed with 256,000 a week ago, and 16.000 taxation. is success, however, must de\n\nnow in the pits over 2,000 corpur- that it is a practicat ethed of seducing he appared to mel oue Juncher's re-me en helt or will be held as a reduction in the capital amount of anouth o The miners employed\n\naaghout the entry, appending for read largely or its general acceptance General Hering was boudly cheered today,\n\nfor the etion of the Windsor Before the dispute numbered 1,and evő by the Nation, mat as a potiosi creed when he made the remark noted at\n\nIn a fasacial expedia.\n\nbeginning. He concluded la hoping that\n\nOBITUARY.\n\ndiving the sermainder of their library ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.\n\nthey would contine u the happy spiri in which M. Baldwin and the Dominion} Gelegentes had been getting oa at the Con- ferenze, Whers they looked one another face to face and had not been afraid in connection with the anniversay in say what they wanted in\n\nsay Aristine Play next Thursday, which, as\n\n(Applause.) Ja former years will be celebrated roughout 12 fixpire y religious ser. Mr. A. J. Cock has nude the state- vices and the observance of two minots!\n\nSHANOR November 4th. A message received her From Changsh states that the Asiatic Petroɔlepa Com- pany's property at Packing has been brut dewn Also that Messrs. Butter- feld And Swim's property at Changra\n\nve been deatroyed,\" and that soms Wesleyan mizzinecies at Linyang have\n\nem faced to deadpate\n\nAll the awna mentioned chore are in the occupation of Southero troops.\n\nCOMPENSATIOS DEMANDED\n\nw! bo Funile,\n\nABOHAN RECTER'S AGENCY. piy boatsion is AvoidaÄ\n\nJDON, November 3rd.\n\nMarshal Son Chaan Prag is the re ripient of telegrama Tozs the Chis Merchants' Secor Navigation Compeny asking comprenantion for She loss of their\n\n6 appears that the Unions decided vessel, the Kinoguey, which went, done will: 12 hops af Kinking After only to permend and not to ingor Longon coinde n momiantion, she was in levy, because the non-payment of s comptiary by would eutui penalties energing, explored).\n\nLATAR.\n\nHron, November 4th. the last erremony in Whitehall, Louien, Avrangements are now coupleted for\n\nThe angry was coemendered in the stripe of the dis-affiliation of the Ly Suo's troops and the steamship you. Taions not felting the instruction.\n\nas officials requear him to inquire into the actual uning of the futafity. There was a crew of 118 men on road of whichment that the Mind Executive bussenes Accerpanied by the Prince of only were resoned and the company never diesed the question of district Wales, the Duke pants arch starked for the torped of settlements, which thes the remaining se who are believed Josongor honis. and proper wapensation made to the vie is families. They also requnal, in the telegram, th your other of their hips, comorandzerest by Mitula troops,\n\nreipt:S],\n\nhe\n\ngubamunpre\n\ninsur the re-emering employment the policy- holders will. azider the scheme, have his Reggars reduced to four weeks, and wil only have to meet the regular weekly payments; the outstanding balance will BISHOP OF ST, DAYIDE.\n\nbe covered by a suitable deduction to be (made when à clain ansee In the rase The death is announced of the Bishop of a with profit policy this deduction will of St. David's, the Right Rev. John made, noi frain the sum assured, but Usen\n\nGum the bons thereon, and no the huit The Right Rev. John Owen, M.A., bad of the insurances isped by the Pradentind bear Bistry of St. huvida ei.co 1867. me of this description, the vane of the He was born in 1854. And was thus 72 coomon cannot, it is oicially stated, years of age. He was an Oxford scholar. be over-estimated. The deduction can He was ordained Desuon in 1879, Priest, be vanilovi by a silabic payment at 16; Walsh Professor and Classica Loe any time before a claim arises. turer at St. David's College. Lampeter, It pointed on that most of those 1679 Warder and Headmaster of affected by the coal drupate will ron Llandovery College, 1985 $8; Dean of St. work under a heavy burden of kahffity, 4pl, 185 68; racial of St David'sant that lets of the Pedential will College, Lamuser; Cason of 6. Asaph, rethze that the way has been made\n\neasy for them to maintain their policies. i loze.\n\nTHE ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI.\n\nWAS WRONG MAN LYNCHED: York and other wen meutered the Royal Family; the King will\n\nPants, November ul. lng a wreath at the Cenotaph and wil be\n\nA vemarkable statement is mache in present daring the brief service that will\n\na tieuna telagenas to the Paria Widi that be endented there. Surrounding the the boy Zumboni was not the real asi Menotaph will be representative detachant of Msanii but that he was yached\n\ntents of the Eighting services, Mercantile when he was frightened by the aid of 1999-97; when he was mised to th Slatine, and ex-Servicemen,\n\nthe shot and trier to Ben.\n\nBishopvie. I\n\nNearly 800,00 Miners at Work,\n\noxnoy, November 3rd.\n\nA total of 290,67 ders am working, I to-day.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5FR, 1926\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1926\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD).\nPage 3\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nsuccessful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\nHOCKEY.\nTODAY'S GAMES.\nPage 4\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\nEducation.\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply.\nEver since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\nCRICKET.\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\nCONFERENCE.\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse.\nAccording to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\nBRITISH POLICY.\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\nFLIGHTS.\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "content_text": "# The University of Hong Kong\n\nThe University of Hong Kong was incorporated under a local University Ordinance, 1911, and opened in 1912. It is a residential University and open to students of both sexes.\n\nThe late Sir Hormusjee Mody bore the entire expense of the erection of the main building and additions have been made through the liberality of benefactors of varied nationality and domicile. The latest addition to the buildings is a workshop built out of a contribution from Sir Robert Ho Tung.\n\nThe annual income of the University now amounts to about $420,000 of which about $115,000 comes from endowment and $50,000 from Government. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire gave £40,000 to the original endowment fund and subsequently $100,000 for engineering equipment. The Rockefeller Institution has endowed the University with three chairs in surgery, medicine, and obstetrics, the endowment being in each case $250,000.\n\n## Faculties and Admission\n\nThe University includes the three Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts. Admission to all faculties is conditional upon passing the matriculation examination of the University, or some examination recognised as equivalent thereto.\n\n### Faculty of Medicine\n\nThe Faculty of Medicine provides a six-year course of study in the usual pre-medical and medical sciences, leading to the degree of M.B., and B.S. The degrees of M.D., and M.S., may be obtained for post-graduate work. The degrees above mentioned are recognised by the General Medical Council for registration in Great Britain.\n\n### Faculty of Engineering\n\nThe Faculty of Engineering provides a four-year course in practical and theoretical engineering, leading to the degree of B.Sc., (Eng). Fourth-year students specialize in civil, in mechanical, or in electrical engineering. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.Sc., (Eng.).\n\n### Faculty of Arts\n\nThe Faculty of Arts includes departments of pure arts and science, social science, commerce, and a department for training teachers. The course is in all cases one of four years and leads to the degree of B.A. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.A.\n\n## Examinations and Degrees\n\nWith a view to securing the maintenance of the desired standard, which is in all three faculties that of a British University degree, external examiners are, in all faculties, associated with the internal examiners in all annual final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineering, but not in other faculties, degrees with honours are granted, the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\nThe degree of LL.D., is granted, honoris causa.\n\n## University Estate and Buildings\n\nThe site of the University was given by the Government of Hong Kong. As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, the University estate covers an area of 709,789 sq. ft. The view from the grounds over the harbour is magnificent, and the grounds are naturally beautiful.\n\nIn the main buildings are housed the chemical and physical laboratories, the University library, and portions of the engineering laboratories. They further include the Great Hall, a Senate room, and the lecture and class rooms used by the Faculty of Arts and for general purposes.\n\nSpecial medical buildings include schools of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and tropical medicine, erected at the cost of Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. Clinical instruction is given at the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nSpecial engineering buildings include:\n| Building | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | a power station, generating light and power for the estate, energy being supplied by internal combustion engines of varied types which are available for instructional purposes; |\n| (b) | a prime movers (steam) and hydraulics laboratory, at present housed in a converted pumping station, formerly the property of the Government; and |\n| (c) | A workshop, for practical instruction of students. |\n\nElectrical machinery (other than the main generating plant), electrical technology, the testing of materials, and experimental mechanics are dealt with in the main building. The larger part of the engineering equipment was the gift of British engineering firms.\n\nOther buildings upon the estate include:\n| Building | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge |\n| (b) | Staff-quarters |\n| (c) | the resident hostels, and |\n| (d) | the University Union Building. |\n\n## Residence Requirements\n\nUnless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's \"manner of life\" is not such as is catered for in the hostels), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University or recognised hostel.\n\nThe University hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall, and May Hall.\n\nRecognised hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situated immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nEach student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual common rooms. Each University hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident warden.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511914, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927", "content_text": "be obtained for post-graduate work. The degrees above mentioned are recognised by the General Medical Council for registration in Great Britain.\n\nThe Faculty of Engineering provides a four-year course in practical and theoretical engineering, leading to the degree of B.Sc.(Eng.). Fourth-year students specialize in civil, in mechanical or in electrical engineering. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.Sc.(Eng.).\n\nThe Faculty of Arts includes departments of pure arts and science, social science, commerce and a department for training teachers. The course is in all cases one of four years and leads to the degree of B.A. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.A.\n\nWith a view to securing the maintenance of the desired standard—which is in all three faculties that of a British University degree—external examiners are, in all faculties, associated with the internal examiners in all annual final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineering, but not in other faculties, degrees with honours are granted, the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\nThe degree of LL.D. is granted, honoris causa.\n\nThe site of the University was given by the Government of Hong Kong. As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, the University estate covers an area of 709,789 sq. ft. The view from the grounds over the harbour is magnificent and the grounds are naturally beautiful.\n\nIn the main buildings are housed the chemical and physical laboratories, the University library and portions of the engineering laboratories. They further include the Great Hall, a Senate room and the lecture and class rooms used by the Faculty of Arts and for general purposes.\n\nSpecial medical buildings include schools of anatomy, physiology, pathology and tropical medicine, erected at the cost of Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. Clinical instruction is given at the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nSpecial engineering buildings include\n\n(a) a power station, generating light and power for the estate, energy being supplied by internal combustion engines of varied types which are available for instructional purposes;\n(b) a prime movers (steam) and hydraulics laboratory, at present housed in a converted pumping station, formerly the property of the Government; and\n(c) A workshop, for practical instruction of students.\n\nPage 21\n\nElectrical machinery (other than the main generating plant), electrical technology, the testing of materials and experimental mechanics are dealt with in the main building.\n\nThe larger part of the engineering equipment was the gift of British engineering firms.\n\nOther buildings upon the estate include:\n\n(a) the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge\n(b) Staff-quarters\n(c) the resident hostels, and\n(d) the University Union Building.\n\nUnless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's \"manner of life\" is not such as is catered for in the hostels), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University or recognised hostel.\n\nThe University hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall and May Hall.\n\nRecognised hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situated immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nEach student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual common rooms. Each University hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident warden.\n\nNo University hostel at present exists for women students—whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921; but some arrangements for the accommodation of a few women students in a rented building have been made by the authorities of St. Stephen's Girls' College, a Church of England girls' school which is near the University. The nuns of a neighbouring Italian convent are also prepared to house a few women students.\n\nThe tuition fee is $300—the hostel fee which includes board and lodging is $300. A student who is allowed to live in a hostel during a vacation—some have to because of their work, e.g. medical students, and others because their homes are too far away—pay at the rate of $8 a week. When a student joins he is required to deposit caution money to the extent of $25, and to pay a registration fee of $5. The annual subscription to the University Union is $15 and this covers the annual subscription to practically all the athletic clubs. The graduation fee is $25. Probably about $1,200 represents the minimum amount which at present prices would cover a student's annual expenses including vacations. It would cost a\n\nPage 25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515884, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928", "content_text": "The University includes the three Faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Arts. Admission to all faculties is conditional upon passing the matriculation examination of the University or examination recognised as equivalent thereto.\n\nThe Faculty of Medicine provides a six year course of study in the usual pre-medical and medical sciences, leading to the degree of M.B. and B.S. The degrees of M.D. and M.S. may be obtained for postgraduate work. The degrees above mentioned are recognised by the General Medical Council for registration in Great Britain.\n\nThe Faculty of Engineering provides a four year course in practical and theoretical engineering, leading to the degree of B.Sc.(Eng.). Fourth year students specialize in civil, in mechanical or in electrical engineering. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.Sc.(Eng.).\n\nThe Faculty of Arts includes departments of pure arts and science, social science, commerce and a department for training teachers. The course is in all cases one of four years and leads to the degree of B.A. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.A.\n\nWith a view to securing the maintenance of the desired standard—which is in all three faculties that of a British University degree—external examiners are, in all faculties, associated with the internal examiners in all annual final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineering, but not in other faculties, degrees with honours are granted, the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\nThe degree of LL.D. is granted, honoris causa.\n\nThe site of the University was given by the Government of Hong Kong. As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, the University estate covers an area of 709,789 sq. ft. The view from the grounds over the harbour is magnificent and the grounds are naturally beautiful.\n\nIn the main buildings are housed the chemical and physical laboratories, the University library and portions of the engineering laboratories. They further include the Great Hall, a Senate room and the lecture and class rooms used by the Faculty of Arts and for general purposes.\n\nSpecial medical buildings include schools of anatomy, physiology, pathology and tropical medicine, erected at the cost of Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. Clinical instruction is given at the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nSpecial engineering buildings include:\n\n(a) a power station, with internal combustion engines of varied types which are maintained for instructional purposes;\n\n(b) a prime movers (steam) and hydraulics laboratory, at present housed in a converted pumping station, formerly the property of the Government; and\n\n(c) A workshop, for practical instruction of students.\n\nElectrical machinery, electrical technology, the testing of materials and experimental mechanics are dealt with in the main building.\n\nThe larger part of the engineering equipment was the gift of British engineering firms.\n\nOther buildings upon the estate include:\n\n(a) the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge\n\n(b) Staff-quarters\n\n(c) the resident hostels, and\n\n(d) the University Union Building.\n\nUnless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's 'manner of life' is not such as is catered for in the hostels), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University or recognised hostel.\n\nThe University hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall and May Hall.\n\nRecognised hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situated immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nEach student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual common rooms. Each University hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident warden.\n\nNo University hostel at present exists for women students—whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921: but some arrangements for the accommodation of a few women students in a rented building have been made by the authorities of St. Stephen's Girls' College, a Church of England girls' school which is near the University. The nuns of a neighbouring Italian convent are also prepared to house a few women students.\n\nThe tuition fee is $300—the hostel fee which includes board and lodging is $300. A student who is allowed to live in a hostel during a vacation—some have to because of their work, e.g. medical students, and others because their homes are too far away—pay at the rate of $8 a week. When a student joins he is required to deposit caution money to the extent of $25, and to pay a registration fee of $5. The annual subscription to the University Union is $15 and this covers the annual subscription to practically all the athletic clubs.\n\nPage 26\n\nPage 27\n\nPage 34\n\nPage 35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515903, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928", "content_text": "## The University of Hong Kong\n\nThe University includes the three Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts. Admission to all faculties is conditional upon passing the matriculation examination of the University or some examination recognised as equivalent thereto.\n\nThe Faculty of Medicine provides a six-year course of study in the usual pre-medical and medical sciences, leading to the degree of M.B. and B.S. The degrees of M.D. and M.S. may be obtained for postgraduate work. The degrees above mentioned are recognised by the General Medical Council for registration in Great Britain.\n\nThe Faculty of Engineering provides a four-year course in practical and theoretical engineering, leading to the degree of B.Sc.(Eng.). Fourth-year students specialize in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering. The degree for postgraduate work is that of M.Sc.(Eng.).\n\nThe Faculty of Arts includes departments of pure arts and science, social science, commerce, and a department for training teachers. The course is in all cases one of four years and leads to the degree of B.A. The degree for postgraduate work is that of M.A.\n\nWith a view to securing the maintenance of the desired standard—which is in all three faculties that of a British University degree—external examiners are, in all faculties, associated with the internal examiners in all annual final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineering, but not in other faculties, degrees with honours are granted, the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\nThe degree of LL.D. is granted, honoris causa.\n\n## University Estate and Buildings\n\nThe site of the University was given by the Government of Hong Kong. As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, the University estate covers an area of 709,789 sq. ft. The view from the grounds over the harbour is magnificent, and the grounds are naturally beautiful.\n\nIn the main buildings are housed the chemical and physical laboratories, the University library, and portions of the engineering laboratories. They further include the Great Hall, a Senate room, and the lecture and class rooms used by the Faculty of Arts and for general purposes.\n\nSpecial medical buildings include schools of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and tropical medicine, erected at the cost of Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. Clinical instruction is given at the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nSpecial engineering buildings include:\n| Building | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | a power station, with internal combustion engines of varied types which are maintained for instructional purposes; |\n| (b) | a primemovers (steam) and hydraulics laboratory, at present housed in a converted pumping station, formerly the property of the Government; |\n| (c) | a workshop, for practical instruction of students. |\n\nElectrical machinery, electrical technology, the testing of materials, and experimental mechanics are dealt with in the main building.\n\nThe larger part of the engineering equipment was the gift of British engineering firms.\n\nOther buildings upon the estate include:\n| Building | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge |\n| (b) | Staff-quarters |\n| (c) | the resident hostels |\n| (d) | the University Union Building |\n\n## Residence Requirements\n\nUnless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's \"manner of life\" is not such as is catered for in the hostels), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University or recognised hostel.\n\nThe University hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall, and May Hall.\n\nRecognised hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situated immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nEach student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual common rooms. Each University hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident warden.\n\nNo University hostel at present exists for women students—whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921—but some arrangements for the accommodation of a few women students in a rented building have been made by the authorities of St. Stephen's Girls' College, a Church of England girls' school which is near the University. The nuns of a neighbouring Italian convent are also prepared to house a few women students.\n\n## Fees\n\nThe tuition fee is $300; the hostel fee, which includes board and lodging, is $300. A student who is allowed to live in a hostel during a vacation—some have to because of their work, e.g., medical students, and others because their homes are too far away—pays at the rate of $8 a week. When a student joins, he is required to deposit caution money to the extent of $25 and to pay a registration fee of $5. The annual subscription to the University Union is $15, and this covers the annual subscription to practically all the athletic ...\n\nPage 40\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "196\n\n197\n\ned in 1927, one is a mill engineer in Java and the other is a student apprentice with the British Thomas-Houston firm, Rugby, England. One of the two mechanical engineers who graduated in 1927 is also a student apprentice with the same firm.\n\nSooner or later China will have to carry out all sorts of public works; some activity is apparent even now. When this day of real development arrives, the University will undoubtedly be called upon to deal with a steadily, and even rapidly, increasing demand for admission on the part of those young men who want to be engineers. Meanwhile, the problem of taking into the University indentured apprentices from local engineering workshops is no nearer solution. The Employment Committee of the University has addressed Government with an urgent request for the establishment of an efficient institution in which apprentices and other workers could continue their education during their off-hours. No reply has as yet been received to this communication.\n\nments.\n\n# FACULTY OF ARTS\n\nThe Faculty comprises six groups of studies and two departments. The number of students on the rolls of the Faculty on the 31st December, 1928, was 95, as compared with 90 on the same date in the preceding year. Twenty-two of the 95 students were women.\n\nThe number of students taking English in the Faculty of Arts during 1928 was 83. The Professor of English remarks that the standard of attainment in the first year classes is very unequal and that this constitutes one of the chief difficulties of the English department. He observes that the difficulty could be overcome by demanding a higher standard of English in the Matriculation examination, but that this would mean excluding from the University many Chinese of considerable mental calibre who, although backward in English at the beginning of the course, sometimes succeed in drawing level with the others, or even surpassing them, before the course is finished.\n\nThe Professor of Education remarks on the great number of students who take the science, rather than the general, course. He thinks that this is probably in accordance with the general trend in China towards scientific method, but that it is in part due to the better provision in staff and equipment made for the science side of the University.\n\nThe most urgent needs of the Faculty of Arts are a chair of philosophy and a readership in geography. Logic and ethics are taught, but for this purpose, a part-time lecturer has to be engaged. This is a most unsatisfactory arrangement. Indeed, it is ludicrous that a University whose obvious business it is to bridge over the chasm which now yawns between Western and Chinese culture should have no philosopher on its staff. It is almost equally ludicrous that there should not be on the University staff anyone with any special knowledge of geography. For some three years previous to May, 1928, geography was taught by a member of the English staff who had been specially trained in the subject, but he resigned last year, and such teaching of geography as is now being attempted has had to be left to the voluntary efforts of the Professor of Political Economy (who has recently resigned), the Professor of Physiology, and the Reader in History.\n\nBy the end of 1928, the Faculty of Arts was in a position to admit students into a Chinese school. At present, this school is controlled and directed by the Chinese School Committee—a sub-committee of the Faculty of Arts. It is hoped that from this school, a Chinese faculty will eventually develop. But such a development is a costly one.\n\n## THE LIBRARY\n\nAt the end of 1928, the Library contained some 25,061 volumes. This figure excludes some 663 sets of Chinese books in 27,865 volumes and some 2,000 which came to the University with the Morrison collection. The amount of money which the University can afford to spend on books is lamentably inadequate, for the range of the University's interest is a wide one, and there is no other serious library of any sort in the Colony. The University received some generous gifts during the year, notably some 150 publications from the Hispanic Society of America.\n\nThe medical library is not housed in the main University building but in one of the outlying medical schools. This is not a good arrangement. A student who goes to look up some medical matter must often require some general books of reference. The accommodation in the Medical School now devoted to the medical library is badly required for the more specific medical purposes for which the building was provided.\n\n9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524697, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "226\n\n227\n\nFINAL EXAMINATION, PART 1.-18 candidates, 10 passed, 7 failed and one was absent. Percentage of passes 55.5.\n\nFINAL EXAMINATION, PART 2.-21 candidates, 16 passed, 2 failed, and 1 was absent. Percentage of passes 76.2.\n\nThe number of graduates in Arts in 1928 was 16.\n\nM.A. EXAMINATION.\n\nTwo of our graduates, one in Japan and one in the Federated Malay States, are at present, with the approval of the Faculty, preparing work which they mean to submit for our degree of M.A.\n\nDEVELOPMENT.\n\nIt is gratifying to report that during 1928 the University authorities found means to make good some of the deficiencies in staff indicated in the report for 1927. A Reader in Biology, a Lecturer in Chemistry, and a Lecturer in Physics were appointed during the year. These appointments, however, concern the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering, quite as much as Arts. The other deficiencies indicated in the report of 1927 are special needs of the Faculty of Arts. It is hoped that they will be the next to be made good. The most urgent are a Chair of Philosophy and a Readership in Geography.\n\nTo what has already been said about the necessity for a Professor of Philosophy some interesting and important observations are this year added by the Professor of Education in the report on his department. It is, for example, most desirable that subjects like Logic and Ethics should be taught by a full-time member of the staff instead of being left, as they are at present, to a part-time lecturer. To a Faculty of Arts situated as we are a Chair of Philosophy is essential. Whoever provides this chair will deserve the credit of putting the keystone in the bridge between Western culture and Chinese culture. During the session 1928 His Excellency the Chancellor made a gracious movement in this direction by delivering at the University a course of public lectures in Philosophy.\n\nBelieving that the aim of studies in a Faculty of Arts is to \"know ourselves and the world,\" the Faculty is convinced that the needs in Geography are almost as urgent as the needs in Philosophy. This is particularly so in a Faculty of Arts which includes a Department of Commerce. But the position as regards Geography has not improved during the year. At the beginning of 1928 Geography was taught by a member of the English Department who had special qualifications in Geography. By the end of the year this arrangement had to be discontinued, and the instruction in Geography was left to the voluntary efforts of the Professor of Political Economy, the Professor of Physiology and the Reader in History.\n\nBy the end of 1928 the Faculty of Arts was ready to receive students into the Chinese School from which it is hoped that a Faculty of Chinese will eventually develop. At present this Chinese School is controlled by the Chinese School Committee, which is a Sub-Committee of the Faculty of Arts. The aims and courses of the Chinese School are outlined in the Report on the Work of the Chinese Section of the Faculty of Arts.\n\nROBERT K. M. SIMPSON,\n\nMarch 9, 1929.\n\nDean, Faculty of Arts.\n\nREPORT ON THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE YEAR 1928.\n\nThe Library received a grant of $4,500 for the purchase of books and periodicals and a Maintenance grant of $800 for book binding, book-cases and other equipment, repairs, etc.\n\nThe number of volumes, government publications, pamphlets, etc. received into the Library up to December 31st, 1928 was 25,061. This figure does not include the Morrison Collection of over 2,000 volumes. The total accessions of volumes, government publications, etc. for 1928 have been 1,350. Of these 716 volumes, government publications, pamphlets, etc. have been received as gifts and 454 volumes have been purchased. Volumes made by binding periodicals are included in these figures.\n\n180\n\nThe Library has subscribed to 148 literary, medical and scientific periodicals and others have been kindly donated.\n\n38\n\n39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524698, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "225\n\nOne hundred and fifty publications have been generously donated by the Hispanic Society of America. The other gifts include numerous government publications received from all parts of the world and various publications have been kindly presented by Members of the University, Residents of the Colony, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the University Tutorial Press, Learned Societies and by other Universities and Institutions.\n\nDuring the year much repair work on the Morrison Collection has been carried out by the Library Staff.\n\nREPORT\n\nM. E. M. RING,\n\nLibrarian.\n\nON THE STUDENTS' HOSTELS OF THE UNIVERSITY\n\nFOR THE YEAR 1928.\n\nLUGARD HALL.\n\nThe number of students resident in Lugard Hall during the year 1928 has averaged about 40. The health and discipline have been good and there is nothing further to report.\n\nELIOT HALL.\n\nM. H. ROFFEY, Warden.\n\nNUMBER IN RESIDENCE:-The number of students residing in Eliot Hall during the two terms of 1928 were as follow:-\n\n \n \n Opening\n Closing\n \n \n First Term\n 60\n 59 (One left for England).\n \n \n Second Term\n 59\n 59\n \n\nDISCIPLINE:-The discipline of the students has been quite satisfactory throughout the whole year.\n\nHEALTH:-During the period under consideration there was no epidemic of any kind in the Hostel and only one illness of a serious nature. This one case, however, shows clearly the need for the appointment of a Medical Officer to whom a Warden can appeal directly a resident reports sick. Had such an officer existed during 1928, the student in question would have been examined and the necessary operation performed 24 hours earlier than it actually was, thus avoiding the complications which placed a life in danger for several days.\n\nHOSTEL ACTIVITIES:-The two social events of the year were the Annual Concert and Dance held on February 11th, and a Tea Dance which took place on October 27th. Both these ventures were very successful and allowed the residents (those from overseas in particular) to repay in some measure the hospitality they receive in Hong Kong. The Hostel has entered fully and with fair success into University Sports and athletics. Mr. Cheong Tuck Wing, the ex-chairman of the Hostel, again won the Individual Championship Cup, and it was chiefly due to his efforts that Eliot Hall finished runners-up for the Inter-Hostel Championship Cup. In addition the Hostel carried off the Inter-Hostel Tennis Championship, and put up good fights in other Inter-Hostel events.\n\nCHINESE CLASS:-Early in the year an evening class in Chinese was arranged by these students from the F.M.S. whose knowledge of Chinese was scant, and an average attendance of 10 was maintained throughout the year.\n\nHOSTEL IMPROVEMENTS:-Both the English and Chinese sections of the library have had several volumes added, and the common room has been made more comfortable by the addition of new furniture. To make this possible subscriptions were given by the residents.\n\nDuring the long vacation the Hostel was re-decorated and improvements carried out in the kitchens and pantry.\n\nP.S.\n\nW. FAID.\n\nWarden.\n\nFIRE FIGHTING APPLIANCES:-I should like once again to stress the need for providing both fire fighting appliances and fire escapes.\n\nAs regards the former an adequate supply of water is not available for use at the Hostels, and with regard to the latter there is no fire escape of any description.\n\n41\n\nW. FAID.\n\n229", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527530, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## EXPENDITURE AND REVENUE\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Government Schools | $1,181,924.00 |\n| Aided Schools | $331,503.00 |\n| Direction and Inspection | $112,307.62 |\n| University Students in Training | $29,966.00 |\n| Miscellaneous | $6,478.93 |\n| **TOTAL** | **$1,662,179.55** |\n\nUnder \"Miscellaneous\" are included a grant of $1,500 to the Hok Hoi Library, a grant of $2,360.75 paid to the Kowloon Canton Railway as compensation for loss on cheap tickets for schoolchildren and a contribution of $2,618.18 (£210) towards the cost of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.\n\nThe figures on Table IV show the financial assistance afforded to Grant in Aid schools in 1931 in respect of 1930. The figures in the foregoing summary show actual expenditure in 1930.\n\nDetails as to school fees and school fees remitted will be found in Tables III and V.\n\n## SCHOLARSHIPS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS II\n\nThese may be either Internal Scholarships implemented through remission of fees by Government or External Scholarships provided by individual benefactors or groups of benefactors. Internal Scholarships may be:--\n\n(i) Scholarships from Vernacular Schools to Government English Schools—free education for five years: \n(ii) Scholarships from each class in Government Schools to the one above—free education for one year: \n(iii) Scholarships from Lower Grade Schools to District Schools—free education for two years; \n(iv) Scholarships from Class 4 in District Schools, Queen's College and King's College to the upper classes at Queen's College and King's College—free education for three years: \n(v) Scholarships from the Garrison School (classed in Table I as \"uncontrolled\") to Central British School: \n(vi) to which may be added a number of \"free places\" which are not strictly speaking scholarships but granted for eleemosynary reasons.\n\nDuring 1930 the fees remitted by Government as above amounted to $20,486.50.\n\nThe External Scholarships tenable in Government Schools are as follows:- \n\n(i) \"Lugard Scholarships\" tenable at Queen's College. (Some of these are tenable at the Diocesan Girls' School, Italian Convent School, St. Mary's School, French Convent School and St. Joseph's College). \n(ii) \"Ho Tung Outlying Schools Scholarships\" tenable at Tai Po, Un Long and Cheung Chau Schools. \n(iii) \"Wu Hay Tong Scholarships\" tenable at Queen's College, King's College, Ellis Kadoorie School, Belilios Public School, Yaumati School, Wantsai School, Gap Road School, and others from the three outlying schools to higher grade schools. \n(iv) \"Tsoi Kung Po Scholarships\" awarded at discretion of the Director of Education, \n(v) \"Fung Ping Shan Scholarships\" tenable at the Vernacular Middle School. \n(vi) \"Ellis Kadoorie Scholarships\" from the Indian School to Queen's College. \n(vii) \"Ellis Kadoorie Scholarships\" tenable at the Indian School. \n(viii) \"Belilios Trust Scholarships\" tenable at Belilios Public School. \n(ix) \"Kotewall Scholarships\" tenable at Gap Road School. \n(x) The following scholarships tenable at Queen's College only: Senior, Junior \"Morrison\", Senior and Junior \"Belilios\", \"Ho Tung\" (Queen's College), \"Ho Kom Tong\" (Queen's College), \"Ralphs\" (Queen's College), \"Wright\", \"Alfred May\", \"Grant\", \"Dealy\", \"Ng In\", \"Tsung Chung\", \"Kong Ki Fai\", \"Ho Fook\", \"Ho Wing\", \"Ho Iu\", \"Ho Kwong\", \"Lee Hy San\", \"Tai Yau\", \"Lau Chu Pak\", \"Sheung Hing\" and an anonymous scholarship for boys from the Pun Yu District.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528172, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "content_text": "# REPORT ON THE FACULTY OF ARTS FOR THE YEAR 1930\n\nIt is gratifying to report that the Pure Science side of the Faculty of Arts is now on a much firmer basis. The appointment of Lecturers in Chemistry and Physics, which was made in 1929, has been justified in that these departments can now deal with a limited number of advanced students, and in 1930 the Faculty of Arts was able to turn out the first Group 2 graduate who had completed a full four years course in these subjects. Again, the Reader in Biology reports that there is now much more material available for laboratory work.\n\nThe School of Chinese Studies, the institution of which was the chief development reported in 1929, has now successfully completed its second year of work. This School still exists on a grant made by Government for one year at a time together with the interest on a $200,000 Subscription Fund, and under these conditions, as was indicated in the report of 1929, it is impossible to do more than make provision and organisation for each current year. Thus the regulations for the school have now been extended to embrace the third year of study, but desirable changes in the administration, which is still vested in a Committee of the Faculty of Arts, await the time when the future of the school becomes assured. However, in spite of the present insecure position of the School of Chinese Studies, the generosity of Mr. Tang Chi-ngong has made it possible to erect a magnificent building in which all the Chinese subjects of the University will be taught. This building is nearing completion and should be ready for occupation in the second term of 1931. Another notable event on the Chinese side of the Faculty of Arts is that final arrangements have now been made for the building of a new Chinese Library. This has been made possible by the generosity of Mr. Fung Ping Shan, and the work of construction will soon be under way.\n\nChanges in staff, including those completed during the year and those imminent due to resignations, have been dealt with in the Departmental Reports. Of these, the arrival of the Lecturer in Commerce completes the re-organisation of staff in the Departments of Social Science and Commerce.\n\n## W. FAID, \n### Dean, Faculty of Arts\n\n# REPORT ON THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE YEAR 1930\n\nThe Library received a grant of $4,500 for the purchase of books and periodicals and a maintenance grant of $800 for book binding, book-cases and other equipment, repairs, etc.\n\nThe number of volumes, Government publications, pamphlets, etc. received into the Library up to December 31st, 1930 was 26,892. This figure does not include the Morrison Collection of over 2,000 volumes. The total accessions of volumes, Government publications, etc. for 1930 have been 1,009.\n\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total accessions | 1,009 |\n| Received as gifts | 713 |\n| Purchased | 170 |\n| Bound periodicals | 126 |\n\nThe Library has subscribed to 153 literary, medical and scientific periodicals and others have been kindly donated.\n\nThe gifts include Government publications received from the Hong Kong Government and from Governments of all parts of the world. Various publications have been kindly presented by Dr. W. B. A. Moore, Members of the University, Residents of the Colony, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Learned Societies and by other Universities and Institutions.\n\nMarch 9th, 1931.\n\n## M. RING, \n### Librarian\n\n# LUGARD HALL REPORT FOR 1930\n\nThe average number of students in residence in Lugard Hall for the year 1930 was lower than it has ever been; only 30 of the available 45 rooms were occupied. This may have been due to the opening of a new hostel and to the extension of one of the existing hostels.\n\nThe health and discipline of the residents was good.\n\n## M. H. ROFFEY\n\n29 \n\n150 \nPage 149 \nPage 150", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "25\n\ntions and later to revise the conditions of service for the University Staff.\n\nMr. C. Mc.I. Messer retired from Government service last year and his place on the Finance Committee has been taken by the Hon. Mr. E. Taylor who succeeded him as Colonial Treasurer.\n\nThe University Council.—Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau has become a member of the Council of the University and H.E. the Chancellor has also been pleased to appoint Sir Shou-son Chow as an additional member of the Council.\n\nThe University Court. The following new members were appointed to the Court of the University during 1931—Professor L. J. Davis (ex-officio), the Hon. Mr. E. Taylor (ex-officio), Mr. G. S. Archbutt (ex-officio-acting).\n\nGROUNDS AND BUILDINGS.\n\nDuring the last long vacation, advantage was taken of the improved financial position to carry out a complete renovation of the University's main buildings. Another improvement effected was the substitution of the underground for the overhead system of lighting on the estate. Certain improvements were carried out in the lecture rooms of the English Department and in those of the Departments of Physiology and Anatomy. A reading room for engineering students has been provided in the Ho Tung Workshop.\n\nSeveral of the staff residences and University buildings were rewired and it can now be said with some confidence that the fabric of the University is in good condition.\n\nWater supply arrangements have been overhauled and fire-fighting appliances installed in the University hostels.\n\nThe completion of the Tang Chi Ngong School of Chinese has relieved the congestion in the main building. The Departments of Chinese, Education, History, and Geography are now accommodated in this building. The need for space for the expansion of the main University Library is a pressing one, as is also that for the provision of further laboratory accommodation in the Medical Schools.\n\nIncreased laboratory and lecture room accommodation is badly wanted both for Chemistry and Physics.\n\nThe need for the expansion of the Ho Tung Workshop to provide for a satisfactory Prime Movers Laboratory is an urgent one. The erection just above Bonham Road of the fine building which is being put up for the Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library makes the present Prime Movers and Hydraulics Laboratory, which is still housed in a derelict pumping station, look more disreputable than ever. The library is now nearing completion.\n\nTHE UNIVERSITIES CHINA COMMITTEE.\n\nLast year, the Universities China Committee in London received from the Boxer Indemnity a grant of £200,000. The next step was the incorporation of the Committee as a recognised society. The Committee then met and decided to send out a delegation consisting of Sir Reginald Johnston, K.C.M.G., C.B.E. (Professor of Chinese, School of Oriental Studies, University of London, and an honorary LL.D. of this University), Professor W. G. S. Adams, Gladstone Professor of Political Theory and Institutions, Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor P. M. Roxby, Professor of Geography, University of Liverpool. Sir Reginald Johnston and Professor Adams both visited the University. The latter lived in the University for several days.\n\nOTHER VISITORS.\n\nGeneral Sir Arthur Currie, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.E., Principal, McGill University, Montreal, visited the University on the 18th March, 1931. Dr. Foo Ping Sheung, the University's first Chinese honorary doctor of laws, came to the University in 1931 and delivered a lecture before the Engineering Society on the Development of China.\n\nTHE LIBRARY.\n\nThe University contrived to raise the grant for 1931 for the purchase of books and periodicals for its library by $3,000—the grant for the year being $7,000. The number of volumes, Government publications, etc., received into the Library up to the 31st December, 1931, was 27,947. This total does not include the Morrison collection of over 2,000 volumes.\n\nThe Librarian stresses the urgent need for increased accommodation and improved equipment.\n\nTHE UNION AND STUDENTS' ACTIVITIES.\n\nThe Union, with its various literary, athletic, and social organisations, continues to flourish.\n\n9\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532805, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year\n\n \n Medical Faculty\n 21\n 25\n 39\n 23\n \n \n Engineering Faculty\n 7\n 4\n 4\n \n \n \n Arts Faculty\n I\n \n \n \n \n\nDuring the year additional accommodation has been provided in the chemical laboratory by the removal of the store room from the laboratory itself to a small room outside the main building.\n\nThe space thus released has been utilized for analytical balances for which, previously, there was insufficient room.\n\nThe teaching of Physical Chemistry has been developed by Mr. R. Ashton Hill as far as possible with the resources at his command. An endeavour must now be made to provide him with equipment and suitable laboratory accommodation for the development of practical work in this important branch of Chemistry.\n\nI take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to Mr. Hui Pak Mi, B.A., the Honorary Demonstrator, for his valuable and welcome assistance with the instruction in practical chemistry throughout the session.\n\nREPORT\n\nG. T. BYRNE, Professor of Chemistry.\n\nREPORT ON THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY\n\nFOR THE YEAR 1931.\n\nThe Library received for the purchase of Books and Periodicals a grant of $7,500, an increase of $3,000 over the previous annual grant. The maintenance grant of $1,080 included the cost of certain book binding, book cases, and other equipment, repairs, etc.\n\nThe number of volumes, Government publications, pamphlets, etc. received into the Library up to December 31st, 1931 was 27,947. This figure does not include the Morrison Collection of over 2,000 volumes. The total accessions of volumes, Government publications, etc. for 1931 have been 965. Of these 694 volumes, Government publications, pamphlets, etc. have been received as gifts and 183 volumes have been purchased. 88 volumes made by binding periodicals are included in these figures.\n\nThe Library has subscribed to 154 literary, medical and scientific periodicals and others have been kindly donated.\n\nThe gifts include useful Government publications received from the Government of Hong Kong and from Governments of all parts of the world. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell, C.I.E., M.A., has donated some valuable books to the Library during the year. Various publications of value have been presented by Mrs. J. Fenton and W. M. Kay, Esq., M.A., by Members and Societies of the University, Consulates and Residents of the Colony, the British Museum, the Carnegie Institute of Washington, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Learned Societies and by other Universities and Institutions.\n\nNew author card catalogues of the General Library and of the Medical Section are nearing completion. The entries in the old author card catalogues had been made in different ways by different people.\n\nGood progress has been made with the new shelf list, the books being arranged on the Library shelves according to the numbers of the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Cutter Sanborn Author Tables.\n\nMany new author, subject and title entries have been added to the dictionary card index during the year.\n\nIt is most essential that provision be made at the earliest opportunity to provide the Library with suitable accommodation for expansion and the funds necessary for equipment. The present General Library accommodation of three rooms has the best central position for all purposes, and when any space, near the Library in the Central Building, at present occupied by other Departments is vacated, it is hoped that such space will be allocated to the Library for expansion.\n\nFebruary 4th, 1932.\n\nM. E. M. RING,\n\nLibrarian.\n\nPage 72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533057, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "On the 12th February, 1980 Sir Cecil Clementi left Hong Kong to take up the Governorship of Malaya and on the 9th May, 1980 Sir William Peel arrived. Certain Chinese friends had subscribed to have Sir Cecil's portrait painted and it was his wish that the picture should hang in the Great Hall of the University. On the same day as that on which he opened the biological laboratory, Sir William Peel unveiled the portrait which now hangs in the Great Hall. Other portraits hang in the Great Hall, for every subscriber of $50,000 is entitled to have a portrait or bust of himself set up there, but they are all coloured photographs.\n\nIn 1926 the University's senior lecturer in Chinese (a Hanlin) and the Vice-Chancellor visited Malaya. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Chan Wing and Mr. Lai Weng Chee of Kuala Lumpur and of the Executors of the Estate of Mr. Tye Kee Yoon of Penang a sum of H.K. $40,000 was collected. Further contributions were received from Mr. Ng Wah and Mr. Kwok Chung Yeung of this Colony. It was decided to do something at once to improve the teaching of Chinese. These collections were therefore not invested, but spent on buying Chinese books and on providing for the teaching in the Arts Faculty of Chinese Language and Literature up to the degree stage.\n\nDuring 1928 a sum of $170,000 was collected mainly through the efforts of the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow and the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall for a Chinese School. This sum was subsequently increased to $200,000. During the same year, Mr. Tang Chi Ngong contributed $60,000 towards a building for the Chinese School. On the 28th September, 1931, His Excellency the Governor opened the Tang Chi Ngong School of Chinese.\n\nEarly in 1929 the University received a donation of $120,000 from Mr. Fung Ping Shan for a Chinese Library. The original gift was $100,000 for the building and $20,000 for the Library's endowment, but Mr. Fung subsequently increased the endowment to $50,000. At the same time he made himself responsible for the equipment and furnishing of the library. Mr. Fung died on the 31st August, 1931, but his widow accepted the full obligation. The library, which was opened by His Excellency the Governor on the 14th December, 1932, is to be open to the public. The University has already transferred to this building its Chinese library of some 31,000 volumes.\n\nWhen the University started, the Church Missionary Society placed St. John's Hall at its disposal. Lugard Hall was opened in 1913, Eliot Hall in 1914, and May Hall in 1915; these three hostels are maintained by the University and controlled by resident wardens who are members of the University staff. In 1913 the London Missionary Society opened Morrison Hall. On the 16th December, 1929, Ricci Hall was opened by the Governor. This hostel was provided by, and is under the management of, the Jesuit Fathers of the English Assistancy. When in September 1921 the University first opened its classes to women, some accommodation for these students was provided at St. Stephen's Girls' College and at the Italian Convent. A small hostel in rented premises for women students was subsequently provided and is still maintained by the Church Missionary Society.\n\nSir William Peel became Governor of Hong Kong and the University's Chancellor at a time when the University was passing through a grave financial crisis.\n\nSIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E. Chancellor.\n\n14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533068, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "53\n\nThe University Library which in 1921 contained 15,000 books now contains about 29,500. In 1924 the library of Dr. Morrison which had for some years been lodged in the City Hall, was handed over to the University. Unfortunately some of the books of this collection had during their residence at the City Hall disintegrated, but some 2,800 volumes still survive. These volumes are not included in the total of 29,500.\n\nDuring the last eleven years some $77,500 have been spent on the purchase of books and journals. The library is now subscribing to 190 journals; in 1921 it could not afford to subscribe to more than 80. The annual grant of the University to the library amounts to $10,000 a year.\n\nThe general library is housed in the main building, but the medical library is accommodated in the School of Tropical Medicine. This is not an ideal arrangement.\n\nThe University has recently bought the Chinese Section of the Hankow Club Library. This is a unique collection of some 3,000 volumes about China; many of which are now very rare, some practically unobtainable. All these books being in some European language will become a part of the University's general library and not of the Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library. The 3,000 Hankow volumes are not included in the total of 29,500.\n\nThe University's general library represents a useful collection of books and journals but there are gaps—gaps which must be filled up, if the University is ever to become the home of serious scientific and other research. Additional accommodation and equipment are also urgently needed. What is wanted is, in fact, a new building for the University's general library—a building worthy to stand beside the Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library.\n\nMention has already been made of the Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library and of the various purchases of Chinese books which during the last few years the University has been able to make. Some 944 sets of Chinese books consisting of some 81,163 volumes are now in this library. The library is, comparatively speaking, strong in Chinese Classics and philosophy. There are various sets of Chinese Classics with full commentaries, also a complete set of \"The one hundred Ancient Chinese Philosophies,\" a complete set of Taoist writings, and two editions of the Tripitaka. On the other hand, the library is weak in history and geography.\n\nThe Fung Ping Shan Library is to be open to the public and the University looks forward confidently to receiving gifts of books and periodicals. Modern Chinese writings, translations, and journals are badly needed.\n\nMrs. Fung Ping Shan has set an excellent example, having on the 15th February, 1938, presented the Fung Ping Shan Library with about 7,000 volumes of modern Chinese books, the value of these books being $2,242.\n\nTHE GREAT HALL.\n\n28\n\nA ROOM IN THE GENERAL LIBRARY.\n\n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545473, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "content_text": "# THE UNIVERSITY\n\n11. The University of Hong Kong was incorporated under a local University Ordinance, 1911, and opened in 1912. It is a residential University and open to students of both sexes.\n\n12. The University hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall and May Hall. There are also three recognized hostels for men, St. John's Hall, Morrison Hall and Ricci Hall. No university hostel at present exists for women students.\n\n13. The late Sir Hormusjee Mody bore the entire expense of the erection of the main building. Additions have been made through the liberality of benefactors of varied nationality and domicile. The latest additions to the buildings are a School of Chinese Studies, the cost of which was borne by Mr. Tang Chi Ngong, a local Chinese merchant and banker, and a Chinese Library named after the late Mr. Fung Ping Shan, who provided a sum of $100,000 for the building and $50,000.00 as an endowment fund for its maintenance.\n\n14. The income of the University for 1933 amounted to about $966,055.92, of which about $432,000 was derived from endowments and $350,000 from Government. Messrs. John Swire & Sons Ltd. gave £40,000 to the original endowment fund and subsequently $100,000 for engineering equipment. The Rockefeller Institute has endowed the University with three chairs in surgery, medicine and obstetrics, the endowment being in each case $250,000. The annual expenditure in 1933 amounted to about $971,922.71.\n\n15. The University includes the three faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Arts. Admission to all faculties is conditional upon passing the matriculation examination of the University or some examination recognized as equivalent thereto.\n\n16. The Faculty of Medicine provides a six-year course of study in the usual pre-medical and medical sciences, leading to the degree of M.B. and B.S. The degrees of M.D. and M.S. are awarded on examinations but are subject to the proviso that every candidate for the degrees shall produce evidence of special post-graduate experience in the subject which he presents. The degrees above mentioned are recognized by the General Medical Council for registration in Great Britain.\n\n17. The Faculty of Engineering provides a four-years course in practical and theoretical engineering, leading to the degree of B.Sc.(Eng.). Fourth-year students specialize in civil, mechanical or electrical engineering. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.Sc.(Eng.).\n\n18. The Faculty of Arts includes departments of pure arts and science, social science, commerce, a department of Chinese studies and a department for training teachers. The course is in all cases one of four years and leads to the degree of B.A. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.A.\n\n19. With a view to securing the maintenance of the desired standard—which is in all three faculties that of a British University degree—external examiners are, in all faculties, associated with the internal examiners in all annual final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineering, but not in other faculties, degrees with honours are granted, the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\n20. The degree of LL.D. is granted honoris causa.\n\n## CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS\n\n21. The following are the best-known Charitable Institutions:\n| Institution |\n| --- |\n| French Convent Orphanage |\n| Italian Convent Orphanage |\n| Maryknoll Convent, Kowloon |\n| St. Louis Industrial School |\n| Po Leung Kuk—Chinese |\n| Victoria Home and Orphanage |\n| Society of Precious Blood Hospital |\n| Home for Aged Poor, Kowloon |\n| La Calvaire Home for Aged Poor, Happy Valley |\n| Eyre Refuge |\n| Salvation Army Home |\n| Industrial Home for the Blind, Pokfulam |\n\n## RECREATION AND ART\n\n22. Most of the schools contrive to hold Annual Sports either on their own grounds or on grounds generously lent by local Cricket and Football Clubs. Some schools are granted free use of Government Bathing Beaches for four afternoons a week during the Bathing Season. Lawn Tennis, Football, Swimming, Volley Ball and Basket Ball continue to increase in popularity. Cricket is played at a few schools. Physical training is given by qualified instructors. Art is taught in the Government British Schools by Trained Art Mistresses.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545495, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "content_text": "# THE UNIVERSITY\n\n11. The University of Hong Kong was incorporated under a local University Ordinance, 1911, and opened in 1912. It is a residential University and open to students of both sexes.\n\n12. The University hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall and May Hall. There are also three recognized hostels for men, St. John's Hall, Morrison Hall and Ricci Hall. No university hostel at present exists for women students.\n\n13. The late Sir Hormusjee Mody bore the entire expense of the erection of the main building. Additions have been made through the liberality of benefactors of varied nationality and domicile. The latest additions to the buildings are a School of Chinese Studies, the cost of which was borne by Mr. Tang Chi Ngong, a local Chinese merchant and banker, and a Chinese Library named after the late Mr. Fung Ping Shan, who provided a sum of $100,000 for the building and $50,000 as an endowment fund for its maintenance.\n\n14. The income of the University for 1933 amounted to about $966,055.92, of which about $432,000 was derived from endowments and $350,000 from Government. Messrs. John Swire & Sons Ltd. gave £40,000 to the original endowment fund and subsequently $100,000 for engineering equipment. The Rockefeller Institute has endowed the University with three chairs in surgery, medicine and obstetrics, the endowment being in each case $250,000. The annual expenditure in 1933 amounted to about $971,922.71.\n\n15. The University includes the three faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Arts. Admission to all faculties is conditional upon passing the matriculation examination of the University or some examination recognized as equivalent thereto.\n\n16. The Faculty of Medicine provides a six-year course of study in the usual pre-medical and medical sciences, leading to the degree of M.B. and B.S. The degrees of M.D. and M.S. are awarded on examinations but are subject to the proviso that every candidate for the degrees shall produce evidence of special post-graduate experience in the subject which he presents. The degrees above mentioned are recognized by the General Medical Council for registration in Great Britain.\n\n17. The Faculty of Engineering provides a four-years course in practical and theoretical engineering, leading to the degree of B.Sc.(Eng.). Fourth-year students specialize in civil, mechanical or electrical engineering. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.Sc.(Eng.).\n\n18. The Faculty of Arts includes departments of pure arts and science, social science, commerce, a department of Chinese studies and a department for training teachers. The course is in all cases one of four years and leads to the degree of B.A. The degree for post-graduate work is that of M.A.\n\n19. With a view to securing the maintenance of the desired standard—which is in all three faculties that of a British University degree—external examiners are, in all faculties, associated with the internal examiners in all annual final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineering, but not in other faculties, degrees with honours are granted, the standard being assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external examiners in the University of London.\n\n20. The degree of LL.D. is granted honoris causa.\n\n## CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS\n\n21. The following are the best known Charitable Institutions:\n| Institution |\n| --- |\n| French Convent Orphanage |\n| Italian Convent Orphanage |\n| Maryknoll Convent, Kowloon |\n| St. Louis Industrial School |\n| Po Leung Kuk—Chinese |\n| Victoria Home and Orphanage |\n| Society of Precious Blood Hospital |\n| Home for Aged Poor, Kowloon |\n| La Calvaire Home for Aged Poor, Happy Valley |\n| Eyre Refuge |\n| Salvation Army Home |\n| Industrial Home for the Blind, Pokfulam |\n\n## RECREATION AND ART\n\n22. Most of the schools contrive to hold Annual Sports either on their own grounds or on grounds generously lent by local Cricket and Football Clubs. Some schools are granted free use of Government Bathing Beaches for four afternoons a week during the Bathing Season. Lawn Tennis, Football, Swimming, Volley Ball and Basket Ball continue to increase in popularity. Cricket is played at a few schools. Physical training is given by qualified instructors. Art is taught in the Government British Schools by Trained Art Mistresses.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "COLLEGE OF THE SEA\n\nHonorary Director\n\nSEAFARERS' EDUCATION SERVICE\n\nPresident Sir WILLIAM CRAWFORD CURRIE\n\nALBERT MANSBRIDGE, C.H., M.A., LL.D.\n\nAssistant to Honorary Director Mrs. KATHLEEN EVANS, B.A.\n\nResident Adviser\n\nSir WILLIAM HORNELL, C.I.E., LL.D.\n\nCOLLEGE OF THE SEA\n\n104 62\n\nSELWYN HOUSE,\n\nENDSLEIGH STREET,\n\nLONDON, W.C.1\n\nTelegrams: Crewslibra, London\n\nTelephone: EUSton 2539\n\n23rd November, 1945\n\nDear Gent,\n\nwho\n\nI have just had a letter from Kenelm Digby, who has been for many years Professor of Surgery in Hong Kong. He is now in Canada with his wife and daughter. He writes:\n\n\"You will have heard all about the vicissitudes of the Hong Kong University and of the deaths of so many of our colleagues. When I saw the buildings just before I left, there was less damage than I had expected.\n\nNevertheless, the Great Hall had no roof and most of the buildings had lost equipment, furniture, wooden floors, and lavatory fittings. The School of Surgery was in better shape; so also many of the Staff Houses, and the library was not damaged, and a certain number of books remained, but the Nips had stolen the Morrison collection of books.\n\nDigby adds:\n\n\"When I left, there was a certain amount of pessimism and defeatism in the air. 'The Colony would be returned to China, the University ought to go bankrupt and close down.' All this is absolute rubbish. The Colony must remain British and will be more prosperous in a few years than it has ever been. The University could easily restart in September at the latest, though it would only be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 597972, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951", "content_text": "SECTION I\n\nGENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS\n\nSub-section i EXISTING BUILDINGS\n\nName | State | Used for\n\n---|---|---\n\nMain Building | Great Hall derelict; Derelict | Senate; Library; Staff Common Room; Administration Offices; Store; Faculty of Arts; Lecture Rooms; Students Union. Dept. of Economics & Political Science; Resident Medical Office for Student Health; Dept. of Psychology.\n\nCommerce Building | In use | \n\nStudents' Union | | \n\n23 Staff Residences * | | \n\nVice-Chancellor's Residence | In use | \n\n1. Old Lodge converted to 3a, b, c, d, University Path. 2. New House in process of erection.\n\nMay Hall | University | In use\n\nEliot Hall )Men's Lugard Hall) Hostels St. John's Hall) Attached Morrison Hall Ricci Hall | | In Use Men's Hostels St. Stephen's Hall Attached Women's Hostel | Partly in use | In process of erection\n\nStaff accommodation | | Staff accommodation\n\nAccommodation of students | | Accommodation of students\n\nAccommodation of students | | \n\nHo Tung Hall | University Women's Hostel | \n\nOld Biology Block | In Use | \n\nFung Ping Shan Library | In Use | Chinese Library\n\n13 Garages | In Use | Staff cars\n\nServants' Quarters | In Use | Servants' accommodation\n\nX | Temporary accommodation of women students | \n\n1a and 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, University Path; \"Haldon\" (Upper and lower), \"Woodside\", Gate House, East Gate Lodge, Wardens' quarters at May Hall, Eliot Hall and Lugard Hall, Annexes to May Hall and Eliot Hall, Lugard Hall additional flat.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-625-5 Hong Kong University- establishment fund 1-3-1950 - 31-1-1951", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-625-5 Hong Kong University- establishment fund 1-3-1950 - 31-1-1951", "content_text": "SECTION I\n\nGENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS\n\nSub-section i\n\n—\n\nEXISTING BUILDINGS\n\n \n Name\n State\n Used for\n \n \n Main Building\n Great Hall derelict\n Senate; Library; Staff Common Room; Administration Offices; Store; Faculty of Arts; Lecture Rooms; Students Union.\n \n \n Commerce Building\n In use\n Dept. of Economics & Political Science; Resident Medical Office for Student Health; Dept. of Psychology.\n \n \n Students' Union\n \n 23 Staff Residences\n \n \n Vice-Chancellor's Residence\n \n \n \n \n May Hall\n Derelict\n \n \n \n \n In use\n 1. Old Lodge converted to 8a, b, c, d, University Path.\n \n \n \n \n 2. New House in process of erection.\n \n \n University\n In use\n \n \n \n Eliot Hall ) Men's Lugard Hall) Hostels\n \n Staff accommodation\n \n \n \n \n Accommodation of students\n \n \n St. John's Hall) Attached Morrison Hall\n In Use\n Men's Hostels\n \n \n Ricci Hall\n \n Accommodation of students\n \n \n St. Stephen's Hall\n Attached Women's Hostel\n \n \n \n \n Partly in use\n \n \n \n Ho Tung Hall\n In process of erection\n Accommodation of students\n \n \n University Women's Hostel\n \n \n \n \n Old Biology Block\n In Use\n \n \n \n Fung Ping Shan Library\n In Use\n \n \n \n 13 Garages\n In Use\n Staff cars\n \n \n Servants Quarters\n In Use\n Servants' accommodation\n \n \n *\n Temporary accommodation of women students\n \n \n \n Chinese Library\n \n \n \n\n1a and 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, University Path; \"Haldon\" (Upper and lower), \"Woodside\", Gate House, East Gate Lodge, Wardens' Quarters at May Hall, Eliot Hall and Lugard Hall, Annexes to May Hall and Eliot Hall, Lugard Hall additional flat.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-625-5 Hong Kong University- establishment fund 1-3-1950 - 31-1-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]