[ { "id": 221735, "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": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]", "content_text": "of Treaty, after all the Chinese Indemnity shall have been received.\n\nIt would have been well if Mr Martin had taken less liberty with others' opinions, especially those of the alleged supporters of his views. He even states that my views had changed after my visit to the place with which I was perfectly well acquainted before. He very improperly observes that the sentiments of Sir F. Bruce and Shelley on a public question had been altered by \"a recent illness\"; and most authorities whose opinions he cites would be found, on trial, to be no supporters of his views.\n\nBut I do not believe a worse supporter of Mr Martin's opinions could be found than the Treasurer himself. He inconsistently observes that \"almost every one here has bought building allotments, on which they speculate, and they are therefore very adverse to any diminution of Government expenditure, or to any transfer of the seat of Government to Chuson!\" If the Colonists are the best judges of their own interests, your Lordship will perhaps consider this a stranger account of a hopeless Colony, and better supporters of Mr Martin's views than the Major-General.\n\nMy...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228142, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "439\n\nBoard of Trade\n\nE.1\n\nNo. 36.\n\nR. M. Martin, Esq. to B. Hawes, Esq.\n\n18 July 1846.\n\n30\n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION\n\nnotional only, but as a final act binding on you. I am to add, that Lord Grey concurs in the view thus taken by his predecessors.\n\n- No. 36.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed)\n\nB. Hawes.\n\nCOPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to B. Hawes, Esq.\n\nSir,\n\n29, Bloomsbury-square, 18 July 1846.\n\nIN consequence of the observations which you had the goodness to make to-day, I venture to solicit your examination of the enclosed copy of the only Letter, 8 July 1845 letter which conveyed to Governor Davis my conditional resignation of the Treasurership of Hong Kong; \"until I could bring the subject under the consideration of my Sovereign through the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\"\n\nI am now prepared to prove, by Governor Davis's own hand-writing to the draft, and by a letter from the Acting-secretary, that my resignation was received subject to this condition by Governor Davis, who, however, never communicated this fact to Lord Stanley, by whom, as I now learn, my resignation was viewed as absolute. The peculiar grounds on which my resignation was given in, or rather forced from me, have therefore never yet been considered; and I earnestly pray that Earl Grey will, as an act of justice to me, authorize that inquiry into my case for which I have in vain petitioned my Sovereign, and which I have never ceased to seek for the last twelve months.\n\nI am ready to resume my duties at Hong Kong, and to fulfil those of Colonial Secretary there, should it be the intention of Her Majesty's Government to unite the two offices.\n\nI state this, to indicate that the unhealthiness of the climate will not prevent my pursuing any duty which may be prescribed by Her Majesty's Government.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 36.\n\nI have, &c. (signed) R. M. Martin.\n\nColonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845.\n\nTHE decision of his Excellency the Governor on my letters of 19th and 24th ultimo, refusing me leave of absence for six months on public business, and with a view to what I deem the public good, compels me most reluctantly to adopt the only alternative of requesting his Excellency to receive my resignation as Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial and Diplomatic services in China, until I can bring the subject, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, under the consideration of my Sovereign, who was graciously pleased to appoint me to the important office and trust which I have now the honour to place in the hands of his Excellency.\n\nMy quarterly accounts are made up to the 30th June 1845, declared before a magistrate, and passed by the auditor.\n\nI beg that a Board may be appointed to receive from me the monies under my charge, and that his Excellency will state to whom I am to transfer the accounts and books of my department, and the vouchers for payments made by me since 30th day of June last.\n\nIn order that I may be enabled to pass my accounts in England, and to receive for myself and for my sureties the Exchequer quietus, I have the honour to request that a copy of my day cash-book be furnished me from this office.\n\n31\n\nOF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.\n\ntendered to the Governor of Hong Kong a conditional resignation of your office as Treasurer of that colony.\n\nIn reply I am to inform you, that Lord Grey must consider your coming to this country, after having been refused leave of absence by the Governor, as in itself a resignation of your office; and that you could not be allowed to alter the effect of such a step, by describing your resignation as conditional only. His Lordship, like his predecessors, must regard that resignation as final, and must consider the correspondence with you on this point as now closed.\n\n---No. 38.-\n\nI have, &c. (signed)\n\nB. Hawes.\n\nCOPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to Earl Grey.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n29, Bloomsbury-square, 4 December 1846.\n\nI BEG to transmit herewith the first part of a Report on China, which I prepared for the Board of Trade, and which I have caused to be printed, as it may be useful to Her Majesty's Government. The three subsequent parts will be ready on the 1st of each succeeding month.\n\nI still venture to hope that your Lordship will grant me the inquiry which I have earnestly sought during the last eighteen months; the more especially as every mail from China demonstrates the correctness of the views which I came to England to bring under the early consideration of Her Majesty's Ministers.\n\nI am ready to prove before a Committee of Parliament, or before any impartial tribunal, that I have done nothing to forfeit my position in Her Majesty's service; on the contrary, it can be shown that I am entitled to commendation; and I have reason to think that if my case had been fully and impartially placed before Lord Stanley, his Lordship would have seen that my resignation was \"conditional,\" and that I was at least entitled to a hearing before I was condemned to the sacrifice of my appointment.\n\nIt is painfully humiliating to be thus an importunate beggar for justice, which would not be denied to a criminal; but I am desirous to exhaust every means before I appeal to Parliament, as I am unwilling to do aught in opposition to Her Majesty's Government.\n\nSurely, my Lord, by conceding the boon of inquiry, no detriment would accrue to the public service; and your Lordship (to whom I am, personally, a stranger) can have no cause to permit the continuance of the injustice I am now enduring, and which I feel assured, if you were in possession of the whole facts, you would not hesitate to redress.\n\n- No. 39.--\n\n(signed)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. M. Martin.\n\nNo. 38. R.M. Martin, Esq., to Earl Grey. 4 December 1846.\n\nNo. 37.\n\nB. Hawes, Esq. to\n\n27 July 1846.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\n- No. 37.-\n\n1 have, &c. (signed)\n\nR. M. Martin.\n\nCOPY of a LETTER from B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning-street, 27 July 1846.\n\nR. M. Martin, Esq. 18th instant, soliciting a reconsideration of the circumstances under which you tendered\n\nI AM directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the\n\nCOPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n29, Bloomsbury-square, 1 January 1847.\n\nNo. 39.\n\nR. M. Martin, Esq.\n\n1 January 1847.\n\nI BEG leave to place before your Lordship the second part of my General to Earl Grey. Report on China.\n\nI have not been honoured with any notice of my letter of 4th December last. I still entreat the concession of an inquiry into the causes which compelled me to return to England from China.\n\n743.\n\nE 3\n\nI have, &c. (signed) R. M. Martin.\n\n-No. 40.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238782, "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": 191, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "189\n\nI\n\n90\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n...parvenus, assuming an official importance which is highly injurious. Some years ago, he was arrested by the French Government, at Boulogne, and is presumed to have been irritated at this circumstance, for he wrote an violent letter to the police in Paris, in which, after lengthy complaining of this infraction of the Law of Nations, he ended by saying, that the Bourbons had committed an act on his person which might hurl them from the throne.—Journal by T. HAYES, Esq., Vol. 1, p. 243.\n\nThe undersigned in our trade requests that claims against him be sent for liquidation immediately, and that those justified to him likewise discharge relatives due. He begs also to state that he has transferred his business to Mr. HENRY VAUCHER, formerly of Custom.\n\nCHARLES WEISS. Hongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nMR. HENRY VAUCHER, in retiring from the above, solicits the Patronage hitherto bestowed on his predecessor, and gives notice that the Business will be carried on in his Own Name and Responsibility from the date.\n\nHongkong, June, 1856.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\n[No. 23.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThere is some difference of opinion in these two cases. There is in fact a considerable difference between asserting by the Neutrality ordinance No. 1 of 1865 that the ships of war of our Ally the Emperor of China shall be seized and confiscated by the SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE AND CHIEF MAGISTRATE!! if found in the harbour of Hongkong, and the second paragraph of the above opinion. \"We (the Law Officers of the Crown) do not concur in the conclusion of the Acting Attorney General\" \"that the Chinese are to be considered as beyond the pale of civilized nations,\"\n\nTHE CHILD OF FRANCE !\n\nOn the evening of Wednesday last, the 28th ult., an unfortunate accident which caused the death of 26 Chinese passengers happened to the steamer \"Knee\" as she was proceeding up the river,\n\nThe Emperor of France has obtained a son. This is a fact, in no way to be disputed. We can all remember instances when political sagacity and party prophecy\n\nThe \"Rose\" left, this about ten minutes past six o'clock, and had reached the western side of Tonkun bay, when having hugged the land too closely, her starboard bow struck on a sunken rock, opening so much of her side that she immediately filled forward and went down, drowning 26 Chinese in the forecastle, Fortunately for others on board, her stern part hung on the rock, and it was but until the next day that the whole of the body of the vessel went down. Before a coroner's jury held on view of ten of the bodies that had been brought here, the engineer stated that he chanced to be on deck at the time the vessel struck, that he heard the Captain saying \"stop her\" which was immediately done,—that in a minute or so, he heard the Captain again cry \"go on, all right,\" when the engines were put to work, but they had only made three revolutions when the water rushed into the engine room; that having again turned off the steam he was engaged in drawing the fires, but before he was enabled to do so, the water had reached his middle. Hay—\n\n144 Dak Kassa, 15 taels long by 9 in. thick and 11 in. deep TEAK BEAMS, before delivery, in Merchant's packages, weighed at $7,4-7.\n\nHongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nDE SILVER & Co., Auctioneers.\n\n\"EXSAMUEL RUSSELL\" AND \"QUICKSTEP\"\n\nThe undersigned are landing, and offer for Sale,—\n\n150 Punces Gallego CEDAR. 2,500 Gallons American BRANDY. 10,000lbs Winchester SOAP. 50 Pairbanks PLATFORM SCALES—weight from 240 to 1200lbs.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nAn Invoice of OYSTERS, Green PEAS, Fresh PEARS, APPLES, QUINCES, and CRANBERRIES.\n\nHongkong, 2nd June, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED. SUPPLY of Sill's New York BUTTER. Also, Trade Dozen Bus's Triangle ALE.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st June, 1856.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 JUNE, 1856.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of DIVINE SERVICE in the Cathedral Church of St. John are, on Sundays at 7 A.M. and 4 P.M.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of PERLIC WORSHIP in the UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M. on the Evening of every Wednesday at half-past 8\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Camberwell Green, London on the 1st April, the Wife of Captain The JAMARON of the P. & O. Steamer \"Brisbane,\" of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 22nd May, the Wife of Mr. Asterio DUS SANTOS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 28th May, the Wife of Mr. Duxa KIXI E CARNEO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Macao, the 25th May, Mr. J. M. DE FONSECA, Harbour Master, to Miss MARQUISHA LOUREIRO, Daughter of the late Senhor Antonio Loureiro, Esq.\n\nA Victors. Hongkong, on the 1st June, M. HUSIND CHYTHESHEX to Miss FURSA B. DA SILVA SOUZA,\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt the Missionary House, Springfei, on the 4th February, Mr. NICASIUS BAYJIES, of Boston, and late of Stungcar, aged 21.\n\nAt Lackbear, near Exeter on the 1st April, the Sister, of du John Bourring, Governor Hongkong\n\nTHE Government Gazette of 31st Ultimo contains\n\nin the natural course of life and death, and in barran—desa. Wow them not a man named Bradshaw, a great man Canterbury, brawler, years since turned to forth the most villanous epithets upon Queen Victoria ? Did he not talk of Josci, using the name in Highest compare Now, that Bradshaw was of the hopeful school who predicted barrenness to the Queen: they had such unquestionable authority for the inevitable fact. Truly, Her Majesty—as, in due season, we shall learn on the Civil List—very soon confounded these prophets; and, at the present hour, most satisfactorily up—plies the picture of Byron :-\n\n\"A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a sovereign and seven stilling pieces.\"\n\nThus, no delicacy can be more brilliant than the bestowed upon the fanaticism at the Tuileries on Sunday may be only promissary of the many olive-bunches to be vouchsafed to Napoleon and Engine: to the very prophetic party, as in due time rebuked the soothsayer's\n\nThe first flower in this legal parterre is a con—Ordinance No. 2 of 1856, Entitled an Ordinance to explain the law as to the removal of riots—then follows, No. 9 of 1856. Entitled\n\n20\n\nThere can be no doubt of the fact, that Henri Cinq is\n\nas his wife is not yet added a baby—not a sin—\n\nby centricuting to France a boy that, even at Barnum's Baby-show, would, it is said, carry off the first prize for weight and size.\n\nAn Ordinance to explain certain enactments relating to shipping :then comes No. 10 of 1856 Entitled an Ordinance for Lis Pendens and Purchasers; a measure that has duly passed the mock Legislative Council and are in full bloom and lily-bud—\n\nTHE following proclamation appears in the Government Gazette of last Saturday :--\n\nThe Queen, conveyed through The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely—\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1855, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1856, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nNow, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.\n\nOn the death of Sir William Molesworth: as most of our readers are aware, the difficulty of filling the situation of Colonial Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nLord Palmerston was, not so much to\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to—morrow on the Parade Ground, commencing at 6 o'clock, the following:--\n\n1—Grande: Collscom March—Gay'l\n\n2—Cavatina Op. The Enchantress—Balfe.\n\n3.—Negro Quadrille—Tullien.\n\n4—Bird of Paradise Waltzes—Kémewig.\n\n5—Carmen Fiko—Fritze.\n\n6—Caling, T.Kelly.\n\nQu'un puce y déposa, tribut de sa fleur, Verre les portes, et tuinteur tu enches\n\nJeune fille et Jeune fleur\n\nAh! nos los reals Jamais à no monde profane,\n\nà ce monde de deuil, d'angoisse femelle!\n\nLe te bete et flétrir, le soleil brile et fane\n\nJeune fille et jouoc Beur\n\nTudors, pauvre lisa, si l'ère di un éve: Tu ne trains plus\n\nplus à jour le froid et in allen; Elles ont achevé leurs traiches matins,\n\nJeune file et je flaut.\n\nMais ton père, Elisa, ur ta centre incline.\n\nAux ridden front a more la pleur:\n\nEt Vimix caène, le Temps Canche sur sa razine,\n\nJeune file at jeune flour,\n\nChateaubriand.\n\nmost talented man to fill the situation ci Celo—Colonies, not even in Great Britain, than the\n\nto be shoved into the piace. From the awe Eew long that respectability will be maintained, nil Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nAttorneys of the Hongkong Court at present, precious specimen of a proclamation we are when the profession may be overcrowded with strongly led to believe that Lord Palmerston has 20 exactly hit upon the least ignorant of his dy men from the unusual sources of supply which the present Ordinance opens up, it is not easy to say.\n\nI Colony lies.\n\nancs? The cause of it is perfectly plain. The We asked, What was the cause of the Ordin—Attorney General comes from Botany Bay, that\n\nof the deft. The imperial prince is eager to hear the Pope's suck and, doubtless, will be father digna, we should rather say encored, by godfatherty gifta piece of the true cross set in a bit of gold brengt by Siba to Sulomen: or, in a diamond locket, a pinch of iron filings from the fetters of St. Peter and St. Paul. Yet, his loltasse no thought of Henriking, the lineal descen whilst the Pope is godfather to the son of parceny, baa dit of Joris, now somewhere in any? But such is the conversent memory of the Vatican.\n\nfiength of years be grated to Loria Napoleon, he a Kemperor. Pessibly, we say for history tells us not may possibly rear baby now in his crile inte stuff for to look for grecs mea in the sons of great inen. Crom—\n\na son of sufficient alty to ale a pause. It rany wall fefe has le rouse to rate a gdom; and he loft seem odd, and yet destiny pinys such prawks with la hopes an inations—yet even a Seroud of Tecember may bogo First of April.—Lloyd's W. N., March 23.\n\nWIDOWS, FAMILIES, AND RELATIVES OF OFFICERS.\n\nWe annex the rules and regulations appended to the warrant given in a recent number of the Gazette, for\n\neven teli the quarter of the world in which that even if now, a place to which respectablering a £ards of money in lieu of pensions, coti This may seen an extreme saer—Attorneys were likely to go and the govern passionate lowances, and gratuites, to the widows, tion, hnt we must either suppose this extreme ignorance existing in the Colonial Secretary, or in\n\nment very wisely got hold of the next best families, and relatives of officers killed in action or dying substitute in allowing their officials connected of wounds recived in the face of the enemy, within six\n\nmonths after being wounded.\n\nNo body here\n\nthe Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Law with the law to become lawyers—but there is no Officers of the Crown, seeing that on the 15th March 1856 the folowing Notification appeared wante, and nobody has asked for the Ordinance. His in the Government Gazette:-\n\nExcellency the Governor and the Attorney Gen—\n\nan or dying of words received in face of the enemy, 1. The cmount of mousy to be paid to a widow, widow and children, ar other relatives of an officer inted in\n\nbranch of the service be sny bave belonged to, be the within six months after being wounded, shall. Whatever\n\ninfantry of the line, as set forth in the following scale, viz.\n\nTo the willow, widow aut chil—dren, ebilen, filies,mativer. state, or sisters of..............\n\nDiffe\n\nDizto\n\nJitk\n\nDitto\n\nDitto\n\nCawley\n\nTref\n\nLieut Colbel £175...£1500\n\nMajor 4575... 9300 Captain 3625, 1960 Lieutenant 1190 700 Coruat... $10..... Ensign... 450\n\nA question having risen as to the Law by which Con—eral, like true cosinopolites, resolved to legislate tracts ethered into with Her Majesty's Subjects on C irrespective of creed or color,\" and with the strong regulation price sized for commissions in cavalry and nese Territory hy Chinese Subjects for the Cession of Property in China, should be regulated; watter shape of getting for the present a cheap interpre—hert retered by the Barl of Clarender to the law ter, bold out this Ordinance as a bait. It is made Gfficers the Crown, whose opinion is as follows\n\n\"War of opinlot that Brdish Tribunala and Jedrini\n\nin a fine large spirited manner \"Alienage or Chin—Authorices in China are bound to ohmerve the rules and Tu fallowing is the charmeter given of Sir John incipies of Publie ur Enternat Tuw, so they are set to do is to take the usual caths, one of which ese status no disqualification \"ail stunt you have Boaring twenty years ago. There are few people we do and oneur in the conclusim of the noting, Ac Now, the persou for whom this Ordinance was and received by the auton consent of European natione nathes is the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty. who have bad anything to do with His Excellency torny-General, that the Chiness are to be considered as who will not agree that the likeness is a wonder—beyond the pale of civilized nations.\n\nIn a queationa that may evine botere any Kritina Tri—\n\nexpressiy mande is, as we have betise sid bunal in Chung relating to the ownership or occupation of\n\na Morrison school boy who has studied in\n\nBut it sun! in no case exceed the sum of money actually The French Gerament has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nNo. $3.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n91\n\n3. In the event of an offer leaving a widow and Mr. Speerivales four paints which particularly re—children, who may or might have established a claim to quire legislative action at this time. He anys the persion, compassionate allowance, or gratuity, then The number allowed to immigrate to this country and in that case the mouey awarded in lieu thereof shall should not be too great. We may not be prepared to he held in trust by the Secretary of State for War, and afford them weful employment. They any code in ex the interest thereof, at the rate of £3 per cent. per ann cess, and not settle down, and assimilate to our institu all be receivable by the widow, ustil her death, when Haas and Waiks. the money shall be divided, share and share alike, among jadicions ineu, and xot unreasonable, to allow for the It is therefore the preference of many the children than alive of such deceased officer, provided present the law which fixes a capitation tax to re they shall have attrined the age of 21, otherwise the provided it is so administered as not to interfere with money shall still continue to be held in trust and the rutamerce,\n\nbusines event, however, of de witlow anrviving her said children future duty from observation of its nulla, or in com And judgunat only indicate the nosey all than become her sole and absolute pro—plinee with the future wants and desires of our own perty, as Inid down in Article 2; but should such chirou people. survive the widow, yet still die before attaining the age of 21, then and in that case the money, after discharging deserves consideration. The amouai freit by the pre—2. The amount of the license required from minera alt just liabinties, shall become the property of the Crow sent law is uppressive. Few are possessed of good 4. In the event of an officer leaving a child or children, claims. The tax beggars them. It drives them to the but no widow, the mouny shalt he laid in trust, and the\n\nmountsics and tickets like wild beasts. It is the interest thereof, at the rate of $3 per cent. per anner,\n\nwith hanger, sickness and despair. It turns theci, what stated in Article 3, shall be applied by the Secretary\n\ntheir honourable character with our trading population of State for War for the benefit of such child or children,\n\nin the country shows is not necessary, int cheats and antit he, she, or they shal! attain the age of 21, when\n\ndoes. It will in time fill our pisose. It makes them fathe and hase us as a people, and our name, our country, property of such surviving child or children. they understand we profess. If put to the fordicz, stand— and our government and the Christian religion, which share and share alike. Should, however, such child asard of four dollars per month, the sum affords a hand Chronicle, March 20,\n\nagain demandell his goods, tendering the whole wit In a genera! urder, Jated Feb. 25, the Commander-la- of freight us by the bill of lading. for all the goods was thereupun offered him, but subject by a correspondent at Kerteh, of \"inute details of lines A delivery order chier draws attrusion to the publication in a newspaper, to the charges for storage and cartage which had an and works, strength of garrison, and various tallitary crued upon them. The goods had, in accordance with a arrangements;\" and, referring General Vivian to the notice to that effect given by the shr's agent, heen particulars, he authorises him to arrest the individual ceased to slischarge; and it is satisfactorily proved that believe that such folly will nes be repeated. He then laced in a public warehouse each night when the ship and send him away at once, unless he has reason to\n\ntheir salty, but rendered unavoidable by the fact that this disposition the goods was not only necessary for proceeds as folows\n\nThe Commander of the forces has occasionally seen\n\ninterest applied for their benefit up to that age. In the in nered the passage to and ice of those engaged the goods are not suffered to retain on the whart at similar things from this cams. Strength of regimenta\n\nthe\n\nahones, us in the case of the widow, shall become the\n\nchildren die before attaining the age of 21 years, then unul in that case the money, after discharging all just labilities, shall become the property of the Crown,\n\nsobe State and County resece, and they appear willing pay it. Iat lower, as some have prepused, there is danger of new legislation, to two or three gene, to incrense it again.\n\nThis appears, after the brief experience of a fe months, to be suc opinion of the people generally the mining districts.\n\ncease.\n\nmight. The bellent, however, declined to pay his freight sickness, butteries, gins, quuntly of ammunition, the and receive his goods subject to these charges, and there state ui preparation, means of transport, the very situa agon fled bis like: for non-delivery. It is not suggested tion of concealed histories, the strength of pickets, the that the charges upon the goods were any other or\n\nbest mes of attacking them, all recklessly detailed as greater thus expenses necessarily incurred in trans. on purpose to usiruet an enemy. Couaou precace—ng the progress of the disenarge, and the question to porting them to and keeping them in a warehouse dur—tion for the sake of the aring requires that this should he determined is, whether under the clearances, He then appeals to the right sense of duty of alt officers ship owner. these chargee should be borne by the shipper, or the and non-comissioned officers, and concludes by requir—ing the generals of disisiou to bring the tenor of the order The decision was in favor of the defendant. The cou—signnee must pay freight in ace for all his merchant belonging to the arany,\" who are permitted to versin to the notice of the \"known correspondent of newspapers ship, or if the ship master storex the metsandise as it she to the rules of the army under whose protection they dives it by wishes to take it away as he comes from the in the canige, and who toast consider themselves ainen— is discharged until the whole roast is discharged, the c consignze must pay storage, curtage, California\n\nTHE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWe resume consideration of the Itev. Mr. Speer's \"Pica\" for the Chinese in California.\n\nNUMBER OF CBINASE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Speer pablished, some eight or ten months ago, a statement of the cuber of Chinese the\n\nThe Times, as might be expected, is írate at this under, says that it ever too late, and that Generati Codrington has now loat whatever reputation he formerly\n\npossessed.\n\n\"I\" obsives our temporary, \"the abjectionable commivation appeared in our columes, it was written by a military officer, and, if General Codrington has any real ground of complaint, it is pro—hale that the writer, too trenical in his detaile, did not imitate the exudon which is always practised by por—fessional correspondents.\" In these observations, the\n\nis a melter which demands the attention of the Legisino Lere is not materially differeus, or the departures Times averlooks the fact, that the same general order\n\n3. The mode of collecting the Foreign micers' licenses supposed to be in this country. Probably the number\n\nture.\n\nIt is to be feared there, is some thing radically since last spring may have been about equal to the also draws attention to similar exposures of the prepara wrong in the present system. How often do you reat of Chinamen shot, or stabbed, or wipped, or stripped ted with the five well-known Companies.\" Probubig, pressly prohibits teus for the future—Home News, arrivals. the Chinese in California are chiefly contre—lions of the rug by newspaper correspondents, and ex— and searched, or maltreated and insulto in some other says Mr. Speer, there are not a thousand Chiuames in Marele 25, way, by the collerters. How frequently do we reus the State who are not members of our or other of these under the \"items\" head of our newspaper announce ments like this one Three Chinamen Shot—A For eigu miners' tax collector of Lousty, on Wednesday last, shot three Chiasmon who resisted him in the dis—River.\" charge of his duty. The difficuity took place on the→→→→→\n\n5. In the event of an offices leaving at his death neither widow, child, sur children, then the money shall be paid to his father; and if he leave no father, it may be pa to his mother, for his or her sole and absolute benefit. provided that he or she shall establish a claim thereto. And in the event of there being neither father nor mother, then the money shall be paid to the sister or sisters, as the case may be, share and share alike, provi ded they shall have attanned the age of 21 years, aud that cheie claint shall be established. But should any sister or sisters be under that age, in the money shall be held is as by the Secretary of State for War, and the interest be applied, as stated in Article 4, until such sister or sisters shall become 31 years of age, when it shall become the absolute property of the survivors or Survivor. Simuli wo survivors or survivor ritnin the age of 21, then the tanney, after discharging just liabilities, shall become the property of the Crown.\n\nNow it is admitted that these people are provokingly 6 No grast or money undar provisions of this warrant slow; are fearful and suspicious; are cunning in evading sal be made to Ray person who would not be eligible the enllector, and play maoy tricks to wary L. But far pension compassionate allowance, or gratuity under\n\nhave they no excuse? farther, if they have one, the provisions of the royal warrant of the 15th of June, are they so dangers and ferocious: anges that yield: 1958 ( fadier alone excepted whose claim nnst be esta blished as set forth in Article 5), but the ineligibility of of the forest? Does the humane administration of law to no remelin, tad must he dealt with like furious beasts widow to any grant under this warrant shall not affect aot extend west of the Aueries Desert? Are men to the interests of the legitimate child or children of a decensed ulicer, for whose benefit the money shall be\n\nhe murdered at will by an irrespacaible petty officer, for held in trust, and the interest seplied by the Secretary tionalde entstitutionality? Is such as officer licensed resisting se pecuolery obligation, and that of ques. of State for We, as stated in Article 4, except they be to slaughter a man that is not imble; or because he left in such pecuniary errcumstances as wou'd disquely don't cinderstura Buglish; or because he is a stranger, them for the co:upassionate kilowances wider the pro—\n\n*\n\nvisions of Article 3. Should, however, such chill and poos, and sick, and friendless? ebildren die before attaining the age of 21, then and that use the money, after dislarging t just abilities, shult become the property of the Crowd,\n\npazzuities.\n\nCompanies. The following is the computation hy then, buse erived in Csforma; that have returned hence to in a tabular form, of the total number of Chinese that their native land: that have died here; and faully, their estincale of the number in the spring of last year in the\n\nState:\n\nWe read in the Prassing correspondence of the Times: let: I have lately reserved from Hum. santative there, Calone: Hodges, was led to make various burg informs me that, some few weeks back, our repres representations to the senate of the quantities of am—munition that left, flat neutral port for Russia In the course of the examination that these reclamations gave vine to, I am informed it turned out that thees supplies hud in west instaurea been shipped thither frota England 9,200 or that purpose. For.instance, two houses in England 6,807 had suippes to Hamburg two cargoes of lead, three ofẾ 84'petre, und eleven of sulphur. The parties implicated 38.387\n\nin the air are described to me as standing very high in England, andarsong them a member of Parliament.\" Homes News, March 26.\n\nNames.\n\nArrivals. Deartares. Drecna'd Prasat Young-wo Copy...6,900 Couto Company....8,00 Sza-yap Company1,050 Yun-wo Company.......2,500 Ning- euy Company 2,809\n\n2,503\n\n1,300\n\n400 £tu\n\n14.000 6.500\n\n(ii)\n\n160\n\n$780 1.269\n\n300\n\n173\n\n1.780\n\nTotal 18,249 8,522 1,290 Adding to these, the ana,ber of Chinese not members of the Companies, and probably there may be found 40,000 of the race at present in this country.\n\nM. Mazzini lately sent £30 to some friend at Rome. The letter was intercepten or the past-ofice, the bills\n\nTHE US. STEAM FRIGATE NIAGARA.\n\nThe United States steain frigate Niegore was recently seized, cashed, and applied to the fand for ruising a launched from the socklyn Navy Yard. The last mail have absencterised this act as a slawefu: and grant statue to the Immaculate Virgin. The French papers\n\nThere are two things that can be done. First, the from the Rust brought account of the launch, and a robbery Home News, March 26. penalties of an payment of the miners' license may be description of the magnificent vessel. From the New 7. In the event of it being represented and satisfac—efred, and they may be guarded su us to prevent acts! Yor's Herald we take the following:- torily prove to the Secretary of State for War, that any of brutality to encuarage men of a desirable character The Niagara is one of the five steam frigates now in\n\nAllading to the unsightly smallness of the ladies' bon—wilow na wiose bekali money shall be held in trust for to perform the duties; and also so as to be a heu tu\n\nnets, an eminent musical gentleman in London, writing the henefit of herself and children, under the provisions\n\nprocess of construction for the United States Navy. Her to a friend in Bristol, suys:-\"I have to lames the grezi the region. Legal gentlemen can readily devise such main dimensions are: 2oanage, 5.204; extreme length iparcase, among the fetals part of my practice, of tic of this warrant, shall thereafter so conduct hersell' as t\n\nFor instance, ability to work upon the on deck, 24 feet; load le, 323 feet. She is to be county roads, at a certain rule per day, until the demand shipped egged; mainmast, I feet long and 3 feet 4 ining in the ear, injured, I firmly believe, from the present douloureux in the forehead, loss of sigit, and great juffer—of the license is satisfied.\n\nches in diameter; mein yard, 55 feet long, and mizea Secuud, it seems almost equally necessary to consti—spunker boot 67 fest. Fail complement of vinn .\n\nased fashion of neuting hosneta on the week instead of tute an office, or to appoint an officer, to whom those Some kiea of her immense capacity may be formed fo\n\nthe head. During the past month i have been in attend—ordmarily subject to the foreign mers' tax may appeal the following schedule of her masts and spara, which are\n\nance upon zwn young ladies with the the-doalonzēta in erhead, and several others with similar complaints. frora de collector in speriat rases, and who may decide now be.ug ball:- the circus ces that warrant a remission the tax.\n\nIt is high time that the frivolous bonet of the present There are some cases of exceeding hardship aris: from\n\nYards Length Diam. Length, Diam.\n\nday should be done away with.\"-- Home News, Mirch 28, the caprices and the cores of collectors. They\n\nFr. io. In. Ft. in. If.\n\nhave no rules. One told me that holes old tea, boys,\n\nWOMEN AND WArones-Mr. Beunct, the watah-maker 111:00 871 10:05 24 packure, and sick people, go free.\" There are no de\n\nof Cheapside, in a letter to the Times, recommends that 07:08 21 76:11 191 women should be employed as wetch-makers. We give nius, un real responsibilities in the whole mater. Muinroyal It is mere spullation,\n\nthe practical part of his conuication:-\n\nMainmast Maintop\n\nMaiuto gallant\n\nFereskysa?! \n\nMireutop\n\nbeenme unworthy of the Clown, or stall neglect or ill. treat her children, then and in that use the Secretary of Sture for War shall have full power to tasks such arrange ments for apportioning the interest of the money, and making better provision for the children, as in his judge ment may see must advisabic.\n\n8. The allowances to be granted under the authority of this warrant are not applicable to the cases of others kifled in sesion, or dying of weands before the declin\n\non of war with Russia, hur it is to lake n retrospective rfect up to that date; and therefore, say officer's willow to whom there may have been granted a pensior, com—passionate allowances for children, or gratuity for herself\n\nod children, or any other relative of an officer, who may 4 Betler protectios must be extended to Chinese re. Main skil have receive a peusion under the warrant of 15th June, sinents generally. Some means should be devised by Foremast 1855, who tony wish to rotate such pension, allow-whch the statements of Chinese should be received Burstop acers, or gratuities, for the sun fixed wider the provisions regard to crimes affecting their lives, persons au po Puteopgallant of this warrant, shall be permitted to do so; but in that porty. They do dot perhaps understand sufficiently the Porevoval case, whatever suns may have been received by or al care of on oala to be adicuted in our Courts to enjoy aumuns of the widow or exildren, or other relatives, wil at equal privilege with those acquainted with the sanc Mzent be deducted from any amount to be paid under the terrasons of Christianity. But no other maans prepubly of this warrust. But in every case of a sum of money than receiving their affirmation, allowing it the credence. Mzentopgallant being awarded Guder the provisions of this warrant. that, according to internal evidence and the accompany Mccoyal interest inerton at the rate of 63 per cent. per annu\n\ning Creumstances, it seems fairly to deserve, will prevent\n\nMizens kysall wil he allowed how the day of the officer's death.\n\ndegraded and autward centness from rubbing, bruising. U. Should the widow, or any other relative of a deceas. cheating or killing a Chinaman, wien to white witness ed officer wi. prior to 23rd October, 1855, has been granted pension, and other uliowaned, under the\n\nThe protection of the Chinese miners from marauders is vital to their quite, and to their usefulness to our provisions of the warrant of 15 June, 1835, wish to cocinute such pension and lowances by sum of respect for lass, where they are pistered by night av jihoon\n\nthemselves. They can have no heart for industry, and na money in eu therevf, in conformity with the terms of this wherau, it will be necessary that application to the\n\nby day, by fous wretchies, who battly rob a camp in Spanker hoora fect be made to the Secretary of State for War, within\n\nthe five of a hundred, if no lites are present, and who: Spanker ga year from the October, 1855. And shoul the\n\nhave no compunctions in murdmg even the unresisting. Spanker gaff duw, or my other reiative of a deceased offers, whe.\n\nThere are heen hundreds of sua case, An interior Forespunker gaf since 2311 October, 1855, may have already, or\n\nnewspaper says of these cobbers: -\n\nNot camerated hereafter be granted, a prasion and other allywuuees. wish to epimute such penting und allowsares for of money in hen thereof. mudes the provisions of this warrent, it will be acessary that application to tha fert be made to the Secretary of State for War, with a year from the date of the said pens and user allow lances being granted.\n\n1. A return of all sams paid under the provisions of this warrant and be faid nasly briore Parliament an ufter the 1st of Aynl. Gaven at our Court at Sail James's, Ritis ist day of March. 1856, in the 19th year of Our Reign-By Her Majesty's command,\n\nPATHONE.\n\ny\n\nth\n\nis near.\n\nSwinging boom. Maintop stuldingsafl boom Maintop gallantanil hacm\n\ndo. Mainrayal de Bowsprit, outboard Jihkoom\n\n35:04 12) \n\n51.03 134\n\n23:07 81 32:09\n\nE\n\n14:06\n\nbi\n\n21.00\n\nJUI:GO 35\n\n00:09 23\n\n50.00 YO\n\n07:09\n\n54\n\n31.09 7\n\n21:10 214 47:03 21:06 13:03 34 19:06 35; & 32 72:10 50:04 15 Ai:0x 11 27:09 S 34:10 8 13:00\n\n16\n\n4+\n\n55:00 }] \n\n4:00\n\n11:04 TTE 62:00 21 33:00 8 $1.00 } 23:00 51\n\n22.03 10.11\n\n2xtú\n\n17:00 4\n\n20:00 24\n\n38:00 ia\n\nX5:00 -\n\n.67:00\n\n15\n\nThe French Government has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nTHE ENGLISH TOWERZ—The English language has its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\nTHE ENGLISH LANGUAGE\n\nThe English language har its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and Mr. Steers stood at the command of any other language of men.\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\ndevelopment and condition, inve been the result of a It has been erroneously stated that this steamer will surprisingly indmate anion of the two noblest languages be the largest in the world. The Adriatic, now upon in modern Europe, the Teutonic aud Kopanic. It is the stocks at the Messrs. Steers' shipyard, will be larger well known in what relating these two stand to one portion of the contents of his bill of lading by several hundred tons. Her uit diensions are another in the English tongue; the former supplying, estimates that she will go 17 kuols an hour with a good\n\nbreeze, und 18 knots under steamI\n\nted by Di Secretary of State for War, shall be constitu—having been in dieu thereof, and shall be the sole and standing auto—upon the agents of the ship and demanded a delivery of feer: depth of hold, 33 feet 2 inches; tormagt. 5,898, latter, the spiritual conceptions. In truth, the English upon the asters hereis costined; but shall not al or in any way invelidate any act heretvicze per. bed by our Secretary of State for War under the\n\nthe goods so discharging, offering to pay the freight, dur carpenter'z measurement. Like the Niagara, this steamer tunguage, which, be no mere accident, has produced on them. This the consignees of the ship derlined to isions of the last mentioned warrant”—Home News, \n\nis divided into watertight tch 26.\n\nthis our Royal warraul, to be administered and inter—first day aded guan the wharf, he thereupon called Length over all, 352 feet; extreme breadth of hy, sin far larger propuctions, the blaterial groundwork; the\n\nR LEGISLATION WANTED FOR THE CHI—NESE IN CALIFORNIA, continue our notice at the Rev. Mr. Speer's hlet entilled a \"Plea for the Chinese in California,\"\n\nthe whole contents of the bill of lading. The libeliant and cylinders 100 inches. The lenses Steere are rapidly cel poetry (Shakspeare), ans, with ali right, be called a Works, 12 feel stroke, modern times, as distinguished from the audient classi ther, professed his willingness to do so, provided at the hastening the completion of the Adriatic, with all their world language; and, like the English people appears goods were ready for delivery; but he declined to take disposable force, and she will probably be ready fur destined hereafter to pressil with a sway more extensive\n\ndelivery order for the goods and receive them as they laeting by the middle or last of March. offers were repeated from day to day while the vessel about four months.—California Chronicle, bỉarch 26 came out in the usual course of the discharge. These It is thought that the Magura will be ready for ses in was being unladeu; and on the last day the libellam\n\nBorede to, but required him to pay all the freight due on (oscillating) are from the Novelty. Her engines and uphorne the greatest and most predominant poel of\n\nFor in wenith, good sense, and closeness of structure, even than its present over all portions of the globe. no other of the languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241435, "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": 460, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "#.\n\n鏡\n\nand be threatens to have the\n\nwhole matter sifted.\n\nThe Crown Solicitor most\n\nproperly declines that\n\nrequest;\n\nalleging that his position to\n\nhis client, the Crown, de-bars all correspondence with a\n\nstranger, unless\n\nexpressly\n\nsanctioned by His Excellency.\n\nI have not heard that Mr\n\nLyall has made\n\nany reply-\n\nbut it is plain from the tenor of his letter which began their correspondence\n\nthat the communication to\n\nme officially\n\nwas\n\nnot\n\nmade, - nor even\n\nmade\n\n457\n\nfor the purposes of this\n\n—\n\nExcellency's note, - nor in any\n\nmanner sanctioned by His Excellency\n\nIt is contrary to all\n\nprinciple and\n\npractice that the Law Officer of the Crown should be exposed to personal annoyances by such a publication as this, of confidential reports and\n\ncertificates; whether submitted to - or, as here, called for by the head of the Government. I regard this new\n\nprecedent\n\nwith dismay;\n\nand that\n\nfeeling will necessarily impose", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244443, "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": 184, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# The Hong Kong Government Gazette\n\nAnd the same having been read and received.-- \n\nThe Attorney General called the attention of the Council to the prayer of the Memorialists. \n\n[MAY 29, 1858. \n\nIt was thereupon ordered, that the said Memorial be printed, with the Minutes of the Council, in the next Government Gazette. \n\nMr Lyall stated, that he would, before the next meeting, send to the Clerk of Councils notice of Motion, \"for submission to the Council, on the subject matter of the said Memorial. The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 31st instant, at 12 o'clock. \n\n## No. 49\n\nBy Order of His Excellency The Governor, \n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils. \n\n### GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n\nThe subjoined Sections of the Act of Parliament 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 85, relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, which have been extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, (except so far as the said Sections, or any of them, relate to the Dissolution of Marriage,) are hereby published for general information. \n\nBy Order, \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th May, 1858. \n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n## Jurisdiction in Matrimonial Causes\n\n| Section | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| II | As soon as this Act shall come into operation, all Jurisdiction now exerciseable by any Ecclesiastical Court in England in respect of Divorces à Mensa et Thoro, Suits of Nullity of Marriage, Suits of Jactitation of Marriage, Suits for Restitution of Conjugal Rights, and in all Causes, Suits, and Matters Matrimonial, shall cease to be so exerciseable, except so far as relates to the granting of Marriage Licences, which may be granted as if this Act had not been passed. |\n| VII | No Decree shall hereafter be made for a Divorce à Mensa et Thoro, but in all Cases in which a Decree for a Divorce à Mensé et Thoro might now be pronounced the Court may pronounce a Decree for Judicial Separation, which shall have the same Force and the same Consequences as a Divorce à Mensá et Thoro now has. |\n| XIII | The Lord Chancellor shall direct a Seal to be made for the said Court, and may direct the same to be broken, altered, and renewed, at his Discretion; and all Decrees and Orders, or Copies of Decrees or Orders, of the said Court, sealed with the said Seal, shall be received in Evidence. |\n| XIV | The Registrars and other Officers of the Principal Registry of the Court of Probate shall attend the Sittings of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, and assist in the Proceedings thereof, as shall be directed by the Rules and Orders under this Act. |\n| XV | All Persons admitted to practise as Advocates or Proctors respectively in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, and all Barristers, Attornies, and Solicitors entitled to practise in the Superior Courts at Westminster, shall be entitled to practise in the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes; and such Advocates and Barristers shall have the same relative Rank and Precedence which they now have in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, unless and until Her Majesty shall otherwise order. |\n| XVI | A Sentence of Judicial Separation (which shall have the Effect of a Divorce à Mensa et Thoro under the existing Law, and such other legal Effect as herein mentioned,) may be obtained, either by the Husband or the Wife, on the Ground of Adultery, or Cruelty, or Desertion without Cause for Two Years and upwards. |\n| XVII | Application for Restitution of Conjugal Rights or for Judicial Separation on any one of the Grounds aforesaid may be made by either Husband or Wife, by Petition to the Court, or to any Judge of Assize at the Assizes held for the County in which the Husband and Wife reside or last resided together, and which Judge of Assize is hereby authorized and required to hear and determine such Petition, according to the Rules and Regulations which shall be made under the Authority of this Act; ... |\n| XVIII | For the Purpose of hearing and deciding all Applications under the Authority of this Act, the Judge of Assize or Person nominated by him as aforesaid shall be entitled to avail himself of the Services of all Officers, and use and exercise all Powers and Authorities, which the Court of Assize may employ, use, and exercise for the Determination of Causes and other Matters now usually heard and decided by them respectively... |\n| XIX | The Court shall from Time to Time fix and regulate the Fees which shall be payable upon all Proceedings under any Application to a Judge of Assize under this Act; and such Fees shall be received in Money, for their own Benefit, by the Persons to whom or for whose Use the same shall be directed to be paid. |\n| XX | Any Order so entered as aforesaid may be reviewed, and either altered or reversed on Appeal to the Judge Ordinary of the Court, but such Appeal shall not stay the intermediate Execution of the Order, unless the Judge Ordinary shall so direct... |\n| XXI | A Wife deserted by her Husband may at any Time after such Desertion, if resident within the Metropolitan District, apply to a Police Magistrate, or if resident in the Country to Justices in Petty Sessions, or in either Case to the Court, for an Order to protect any Money or Property she may acquire by her own lawful Industry, and Property which she may become possessed of, after such Desertion, against her Husband or his Creditors, or any Person claiming under him... |\n\n# Hongkong Government Gazette\n\n## NEW SERIES\n\n**THE** \n\n### GOVERNMENT GAZETTE\n\nVICTORIA, SATURDAY, 12TH JUNE, 1858.\n\n### GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n\nVOL. III. No. 159.\n\nThe Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that \n\n\"**THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE**\" \n\nwill, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government,\n\nBy Order, \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24 July, 1855. \n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n## VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG\n\n### No. 16 of 1858\n\nTHURSDAY, 10th JUNE, 1858.\n\nPRESENT: \n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FROM INDISPOSITION, AND MR JARDINE, WHO HAD REQUESTED TO BE EXCUSED FROM ATTENDANCE.\n\nThe Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.\n\nRead Resolution of Council of 11th January, 1858,-\"That it is the opinion of this Council, that each Member should be authorized to introduce a stranger, by order under his hand, to the Sittings of this Council; and that the Governor should be authorized to introduce strangers without any such limit.\" \n\nRead Despatch No. 14, of 9th April, 1858, from The Right Honourable Lord Stanley, concurring in the views of the Council, That the Public be admitted to the Sittings of the Legislative Council, on the conditions expressed in the said Resolution.\n\nIt was moved by the Acting Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously,--- That on strangers being admitted to the Sittings of the Legislative Council, the publication of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council in the Government Gazette, be discontinued.\n\nRead Resolution of Council of 19th January, 1858,-\" That His Excellency be requested to recommend that the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be increased to £200 per annum; such increase to commence from the 1st Day of January now instant.\" \n\nRead Despatch No. 18, of 13th April last, from The Right Honourable Lord Stanley, on the subject of the said Resolution; and \n\nIt was unanimously Resolved, That the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be raised to £200 per annum, from the 1st Day of January, 1858.\n\nThe Ordinance \"for Penal Servitude was read a second time,\n\nAnd the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.\n\nSections 1, 2, and 3, struck out.\n\nA new Section was introduced, discussed, and ordered to stand as Section 1.\n\nA new Section was added, amended, and ordered to stand as Section 2.\n\nA further Section was introduced, and adopted as Section 3. Section 4 struck out.\n\nSection 5 being renumbered as Section 4, and amended,— \n\nThe Governor put the question, That the word \"Seven\" before the word \"Years,\" stand part of the Clause.\n\nCouncil divided.\n\n| Vote | Member |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ayes (3) | MR DENT, ATTORNEY GENERAL, CHIEF JUSTICE |\n| Noes (5) | MR LYALL, CHIEF MAGISTRATE, SURVEYOR GENERAL, COLONIAL TREASURER, ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244707, "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": 448, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "2916 \n\ndware. \n\n\n445 \n\nBooks, and by Mr Gilmour the Treasury officials, on \n\nHis Excellency's \n\n4 \n\nhis own Authority, has been already judged by himself, I shall nevertheless cheerfully furnish \nthe members of the Commission collectively, and individually, \nwith whatever Assistance they may think me capable of rendering, in the course \nof their enquiry. \nI cannot close this protestation without including my gross objections to the way \nin which the \"List\" has been prepared: both with respect to what it omits and to what it contains. \n\n1. To what it Omits; - because it does not contain the least reference to some of the stronger accusations, (for His Excellency holds these and \"informations\" to be synonymous), brought formally and forth on the Authority of the Law Officers and Treasury, Corroborated at the last moment by the Confession of Mr Baldwell, and importing against the latter, not only the guilt charged in \"M. 17 of the List,\" and others of its \"Charges\", but also that of a previous receipt of false coin, to which I presume the 14th & \"Charge\" in its extraordinary vague new relates; also the conduct of Mr Baldwell, in his character of \"friend\" of the pirate, after his conviction, in applying for and obtaining the all-important Documents and effects of the Convict, then at the Police Station; also his previous conduct at the Police Court; and the Nolle Prosequi on the Stringer charge; and a number of other matters specified in the letter of the 13th instant which accompanies this.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244716, "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": 458, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## SECOND DAY, Friday, 28th May, 1858, at 12 Noon\n\nPresent,-All the Members of Commission.\n\n(6)\n\n(7)\n\n455\n\nChairman, Where is Beaver now?\n\nMr Lyons,-I believe he has gone to Sydney as an ordinary seaman.\n\nChairman, Do you know who Samkwei is?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes.\n\nChairman, Have you ever seen Mr Caldwell in any of his cruises?\n\nMr Lyons,-No.\n\nChairman, Do you know anything of the Convoy business?\n\nMr Lyons, Only by repute by conversation with Beaver and others.\n\nChairman, Can you specify any one besides Beaver with whom you have conversed?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes; but I cannot give the names of persons who have witnessed anything.\n\nChairman, Do you know the Eaglet?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes.\n\nChairman, Do you know what was done with any of her prizes.\n\nMr Lyons,-Only from hearsay. I have had no conversations with any who witnessed anything done with them. I do not know whether Ma-chow Wong had any share in the Eaglet.\n\nChairman,-Do you know where Shap-lok lives.\n\nMr Lyons,-Opposite Circular Buildings.\n\nChairman,-Have you ever visited Mr Caldwell's house?\n\nMr Lyons,--Never, except on business as Inspector of Nuisances with Mr Caldwell.\n\nChairman, Are you aware that Mr Caldwell is intimate with Ma-chow Wong.\n\nMr Lyons, I do not know except from hear-say; I do not know Ma-chow Wong.\n\nChairman,-Were you present at Eli Boggs' trial?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes.\n\n[Extract of a letter from Attorney General of 13th May, regarding statement made by Boggs in his defence, read. Extract acknowledged by witness to agree with his impression of what took place at the trial concerning Mr Caldwell, although he did not vouch for its correctness.]\n\nIt was accordingly proposed by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Fletcher, and unanimously agreed to,\n\nThat the case to be inquired into by the Commission be placed in the hands of a Barrister to prepare, who shall receive his instructions from the Chairman, and assist the Commission in the inquiry.\n\nThe Public were then informed of the above resolution, and of the postponement of the meeting until 11 o'clock on Tuesday.\n\nMr Anstey said, that Mr Dixson, who had some important evidence to give, intended going to Ningpo in two days; upon which the Commission determined to hear Mr Dixson's evidence.\n\nMr Anstey,I arrived in this colony on the 30th January, 1856. Within 3, certainly 4, months after, I was strongly exhorted again and again by Mr Dixson, to do what he said would be an act of the greatest benefit to the entire community, but particularly to the Chinese portion of it. He said that the Chinese were in terror of their lives and fortunes because of a man, or monster, who had the police of the colony almost at his disposal through the blind trust that Mr Caldwell reposed in him. Not one of them, he said, dared to lay informations against him, or to appear in support of one another when wrongfully accused by him. He was the Jonathan Wild of the place; people were taken up, boats seized, and the one and the other liberated, almost as he thought fit. He was in league with the worst of the pirates who infested these waters, and with villains and robbers of all kinds. He was at the head of a Secret Society or Clan, that served his purposes afloat and ashore as informers and as pirates. Of the date I am quite sure, because Mr Dixson mentioned a scowling look and threatening gesture which Ma-chow Wong had used to him, at the time of a recent fire in Tai-ping-shan. From that time until my unfortunate illness obliged me to go away and abandon the prosecution of that miscreant in July last, I took all the means within my very limited range of ascertaining some tangible fact which should force the executive into action against him; because these statements of Mr Dixson appeared to be so well supported, that they made on me a much stronger impression than that which was afterwards made by the corroborative statement of Eli Boggs. I may be permitted to say what that impression was.\n\n[Read extract from letter to the Acting Colonial Secretary of 13th instant (C), commencing \"surprising volubility,\" and ending \"all false.\"]\n\nThe only difficulty which I had in comprehending Mr Dixson's views, consisted in his belief that Mr Caldwell was the dupe and not the accomplice of Ma-chow Wong in the incidents which he mentioned to me. However, I being a stranger in the colony, for some time continued to hope that this might be so, and that my contrary judgment might be wrong. That hope has been completely dissipated as far as I am concerned during the year and half in which Mr Caldwell has held the offices of Registrar General and Justice of the Peace. That I might not forget my determination to bring Ma-chow Wong to justice if possible, I desired Mr Dixson to write me his name and alias correctly, which he did thus: \"Wong Akee alias Ma-chow Wong,\" and I kept that paper always before my eyes in my private residence, fastened to the wall, where it remained until he was brought to justice in the month of July 1857. My report of the Criminal Sessions of June 1857, contained in my Letter of the 8th of July, 1857, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, and the consequent reports of Mr May, then Acting Sheriff and Assistant Police Magistrate, and Mr Inglis, then and now Governor of the Gaol, will shew the Commission what steps were considered by myself and those two gentlemen necessary to the bringing of this powerful criminal before the bar of public justice.\n\nANDREW S. DIXSON,-Called and examined.\n\nChairman,---Will you tell the Commission what you know about Ma-chow Wong.\n\nMr Dixson, The man had been a notoriously bad character, and I have known him as such almost from my first arrival in this colony. What Mr Anstey has stated of my conversations with him regarding Ma-chow Wong, is perfectly correct. I had heard from many Chinese that he was a notorious extortioner, owner of pirate vessels, and fitter out of piratical expeditions; that occasionally he gave information of piracies to Mr Caldwell, but only when it suited his own purposes, and chiefly in cases in which he had not received hush-money. I frequently received complaints of extortion, but on no occasion could I induce the complainants to appear against him, except in one case, as they said they were in terror of their lives on that account of him.\n\nChairman, Can you hand in to the Commission the names of any of your informants?\n\nMr Dixson,--I intend to quote one instance of extortion, in which Ma-chow Wong professed to act as agent for a Procuress, who had compelled a Chinawoman to acknowledge a debt of $71, out of which Ma-chow Wong levied $30, to raise which sum the woman had sold herself to a brothel-keeper for two years. The balance being demanded on the first charge of piracy, the woman had expressed her determination to commit suicide, as she could not raise the money. The circumstance coming to my ears, I induced the woman to have a summons taken out against Ma-chow Wong for extorting money. The case was tried before Mr Hillier, the Chief Magistrate, and the money and expenses ordered to be repaid—the more serious charge of extortion failing, from the plea of Ma-chow Wong that he was merely acting as agent, and had no direct interest in the matter. The only connection that Mr Caldwell had with this case was, that he told me, when I mentioned the circumstance to him at the time, that Ma-chow Wong had spoken to him...\n\nIt is noticeable, that the first and weaker of the two charges against the pirate was in fact brought in about a week after those reports came in; and that the second and stronger charge, which for some very mysterious reason was not, as it ought to have been, brought forward at the Supreme Court, was laid by other Chinamen about 4 days afterwards. The cases had nearly gone through the Police Court, when I was obliged by sickness to sail for Calcutta; and I have heard that Ma-chow Wong said that, now that I was gone, he was sure of getting off. The Governor stated in Council, on the 10th instant, (as appears by my letter of the 13th,) in my absence, Mr Kingsmill, the Acting Attorney General, afterwards, and before Mr Caldwell's application for the scoundrel's pardon had been decided on, had entered a nolle prosequi on the stronger charge upon which he had not been tried, and this in obedience to orders. His Excellency also stated that Mr Caldwell's application for his pardon was sent up, and purported to come from a number of Chinamen, and that Mr Dixson and others had opposed the application. This was of course after his conviction, and the unseemly spectacle was exhibited in the Executive Council, of trying over again without oath the guilt or innocence of a convicted culprit. I am informed-I think by Mr Dixson, but certainly by some of the witnesses-that every effort was made by the Governor in Council to get the criminal off-the impression having been produced on their minds by Mr Caldwell and his Chinese evidence above, why, I know not, to the prejudice of the sworn testimony taken in the Court below. The result, however, was the signal discomfiture of the application, and the man remains a convict. But I have understood-and again I think from Mr Dixson--that Mr Caldwell was doing now, or was a short time ago, all he could to get Ma-chow Wong pardoned. I would suggest that Mr Dixson be asked whether these circumstances have or have not materially altered his former opinion that Mr Caldwell was only a dupe, not an accomplice, of the criminal.\n\nOn other matters referred to this Commission,-I know that Mr Dixson is able either to give, or to name those who can give, very important testimony. These are for instance those relating to the wife, Chinese relatives by blood, adoption, or usage, and the Chinese associates, of Mr Caldwell-matters which his Excellency has referred to this Commission, but certainly not at my suggestion, and against my opinion. I, not wishing to encumber your minutes with these painful details, will only say, that there is not one of those matters stated in which Sir John Bowring calls the \"list of charges,\" on which I have not at some time or other heard from the lips of Mr Dixson himself the averment of their truth.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244802, "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": 544, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## Mr Baldwate to interfere by sign and gesture, to shew the witness where to stand, to dictate to \nthe interpreter (M Dick), and, recording of the answer to intercept the ... by a personal appeal to \n'the Examiner,' (Mr Day), all which I have submitted to the Commission, cannot fail to be misunderstood and make the worst impression? \nBut the mischief of the impotence of ... was done, and irreparable ... the Commission to protect them \nfrom the vengeance of him against whom they were allowed to give evidence, the Chinese had already \n... to in Mr. Caldwell's answers to questions sent by the ... \n\nMinutes of the 14 & 16th July 1838, p. p. 94-97 ... an example in the disgraceful proceedings referred \nto by the Chief Magistrate on the subject on the last days of the Commission: \nfor it is one of the many noticeable omissions from the minutes of the more important Sittings \nof this Commission, that the minute of Evidence to which Mr Davies's questions and Mr \nBaldwell's answers relate, have not been preserved. \n\nAll that can be learned by a stranger from the jejune and misplaced notices at p. p. 94 and 97, \nMinutes of the 24 June 1858, p. 2 ... is that whilst the Chinaman A... occasionally acting as Interpreter and professing to give his own Evidence against Mr Caldwell before the Commission - which in fact he afterwards gave on the 12th ultimo, - a false charge of receiving Stolen goods was entertained by Mr. Caldwell against the man, and his tenement searched. \n... by Mr. Caldwell in person upon the unsupported evidence alone, and of an anonymous letter in Chinese, alleged to ello baldwell, and to have been addressed to have been received from some one unknown by Mrs Caldwell in her husband's ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244816, "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": 558, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "70 \n\nservices which they have rendered). \n\nMotives are least known to those they influence, and the world can but guess at the former from the acts of the latter. \n\nYet purity of motive I owe it to myself to protect. \n\nMine. In the presence of the accused I declared, and without contradiction, that no personal feeling ever actuated me, could have been none, to ill treat him, and for he was a stranger, that there were no relations for good or for evil existed between us. \n\nI further declared that his personal friend Mr. Dixson, the Government Printer, was a friend he was until alienated (as Mr. May had been before) by the conduct of Mr. Caldwell last October in the case.\n\n## Minutes of Brid... of the 28th May, 28th, 29th, and 30 June 1858 Top 1, 7, 8, 9, 38, 47-50, 54-5.I \n\n100 \n\nMy original informant, that I was unwillingly confirmed by. Near three months later, the facts, which had been forced upon my notice by the first, and that by Mr. Inglis, the Governor of the gaol and acting Marine Magistrate, preceded those of all. I repeat those declarations for myself. \n\nI have neither perverted nor suppressed a particle of the information I have gathered in the course of my experience of this corrupt administration. Nor have I brought it forward without having taken deliberate means to obtain the conviction of its soundness.\n\n71 \n554 \n\nof Mak-chow-wongs principal informant...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245422, "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": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "102\n\nthese shaves,\n\nany\n\n\"trick has been\n\npractised upon my correspondences, Officials and private, above specified.\n\nthem?\n\nor either\n\nTo acquit of\n\ncourse\n\nthe\n\nPost Master General (Mr. Mitchell) of all personal blame in the\n\nI\n\nmatter. But even\n\nthough\n\nduring\n\nvigilance were alive\n\nand I\n\nand I only\n\nthe entire period - a month ago first\n\nI communicated\n\nmy recent suspicions.\n\nto him\n\nhe has admitted to\n\nme\n\nthis\n\nmorning\n\nthat it is\n\nvery easy for\n\nany person-\n\nClerk\n\nor stranger-\n\nRep\n\nto obtain access to the Ansley Bay Abstract, in his office, and\n\nevery\n\nproper letter placed there for delivery to me; - and that, although less\n\neasy,\n\nquite possible that\n\nany\n\nletter\n\nposted by\n\nme, and it is notorious\n\nthat I always post my\n\nletter\n\nin\n\nit is\n\nmay\n\nbe similarly\n\nintercepted\n\non its\n\nway from\n\nthis\n\nthe window; - and all without the knowledge of\n\nmore\n\nthan the actual\n\nthe perpetuator of\n\nthe trick\".\n\nAnxious that the\n\ncalamity to have befallen my\n\nEntire\n\nofficial correspondence may be repaired by this timely\n\n78.\n\n780\n\nDEC", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246184, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "# \nAnd, (fronting out in a general manner the information brought by the Government), I particularly called attention to the iniquities perpetrated at Stanley by Wakelin Wong and his sworn associates in time.\n\nThe opportunity to which I allude was the startling and scandalous defence of himself made in the Supreme Court on the 14th July, by the celebrated American pirate, Eli Boggs, then on trial under which he was convicted of the crime of piracy.\n\nFor two hours and more, he (not denying his presence in company with the Chinese pirated squadron on the occasions found to his charge), with unclean bradness and natural eloquence, criminated upon the informers who had denounced him, and the Government which had brought him to justice. He apostrophized vehemently Mr. Caldwell himself, who, retiring from Court amidst the storm of his harangue, and, having him as a principal resetter of this squadron, insisted on this to the end of the trial, and he remained without a word. With surprising credibility, the pirate related a number of detailed instances, in illustration of his charges; and the impression made on others may be judged by a single illustration, than which there can be none better, that of Mr. Wingrove Cooke, master of such standing on the Hong Kong Bench - a gentleman and a visitor to these shores, and a stranger in England.\n\nThis gentleman, during the narration, left his seat, blind and mute with wonder, came and whispered to me, with great emphasis, \"Good God! there is too much circumstantial evidence in these disclosures to be all false.\"\n\nIn substance, the pirate charged, I. That Mr. Caldwell, in the name of their Government, and through Malayan Wong generally frequenting the waters for piratical purposes; II. that the said Caldwell was aware of, and sometimes participated in the blackmail levied by Malayan Wong from traders and others in consideration of their being offered protection from plunder by these people; III. that there was a secret understanding between them of presents, such (especially on Mr. Caldwell's side) of depredations; IV. that the pirates received intelligence from Malayan Wong of the movements of vessels liable to capture for plunder; and V. that persons, whether filibuster or not, who offended Mr. Caldwell were compelled to comply with his terms, and brought to trial and conviction in terrorem.\n\nIn my report of the trial (Fong Yuen Sessions 1856/7) I briefly informed His Excellency of the effect of those charges, and recommended an inquiry into the impression produced by them on the persons present, and particularly advised His Excellency to ascertain from the head of the Police department, Mr. Caldwell's opinion on the propriety of allowing Malayan Wong to have...\n\n## \nPage 17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246247, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "Most well known to those they influence, and the world can but guess at the former from the \n\nacts of the latter,\n\n\"I owe it to myself to attest the purity of \n\nIn the presence of the accused SooCLUNG, and without contradiction, that no personal feeling ever actuated me \n\nthat there could have been none, for he was a \n\nStranger to \n\nme, and that no relations, good or ill ever existed between us.\n\n1-\n\nfor \n\nMinutes of for \n\nthe 28th May 1th 28th 29 the 185\n\nt \n\n17: \n\n* \n\n8.9\n\nI farther declared that his personal friend Mr. Disson's son, the Government printer, for friend he had been before) by the conduct of Mr. Caldwell about October in the Case of Mathewson Wong th\n\nis my original and principal informant, that W. Molyneux but unwittingly corroborates -near a twelve month later the facts which had been forced upon my \n\nnotice by the first, and that the Communications made to me by Mr. \n\nby Mr. Inglis, the \n\nGovernor of the Gaol and acting Marine Magistrate had preceded those of Mr. Mary.\n\nI repeat those declarations,\n\nFor myself I have neither perverted nor suppressed a particle of the information I have gathered in the course of my sad experience of this \n\nCorrupt administration \n\nNor have I brought it forward without \n\nhaving \n\ntaken deliberate means to obtain the Conviction of its soundness and truth. That Conviction I entertain still, \n\nof \n\nCourse \n\nand I continue in it to the hour of \n\nmy \n\ndeath.\n\n60.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\n80\n\nB\n\nYour sincere and obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) W. Pedder not \n\nAttorney-General for Berkeley \n\nC\n\nD\n\nThe Honorable \n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246388, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "Letter No 2.\n\nD\n\npotential simplification of my duties and addition to my means\n\nI am obliged\n\nmy\n\n17\n\nand believe it will require considerable Economy to\n\nmaintain myself and\n\nmy\n\nutmost energies duly to\n\ndischarge what would be still required of me.\n\nW. J. Mercer,\n\nSir\n\nI have the Honor\n\nto be\n\nYour obedient Servant.\n\nColonial Secretary-\n\nJames John Hickson.\n\nCopy Letter to Mr. Mercer. Colonial Secretary etc.\n\nVictoria, 2nd February 1857.\n\nof remuneration which I find to be absolutely necessary on the increase of my salary having stated his inability to comply with my application for the discharge of my united duties and to support myself, and it is the adequacy of my Salary to meet my necessary expenses in the circumstances in which I find myself placed here in my letter of the 31st ultimo, addressed to His Excellency Sir John Bowring, and having stated at length\n\naccept my resignation of the offices which I hold from the date necessary for my support, I beg you will request of His Excellency\n\nof this communication.\n\nIn addition to the circumstances stated in my letter of\n\nthe 31st ultimo, and although they form the main and important causes of my inability any longer to hold my appointments with justice to myself or to the public service, I must now state that at the interview with which His Excellency honored me last Saturday, namely the extreme difficulty of holding official intercourse with Her Majesty's Attorney General and his very irritating and offensively dictatorial demeanor and language to me while giving all my Energies to the faithful discharge of most arduous duties,\n\nColonial Secretary acting\n\n4. Hong Kong to M. Hickson.\n\nW. J. Mercer.\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nI have the Honor\n\nto be\n\nYour obedient Servant\n\nJames John Hickson\n\nHolywood Road, Jan 18th 1887.\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nI am most willing to be of any use to you in my power whether in the way of advice or otherwise. From what I have myself observed and from Conversations held with others I am of opinion that the several functions at present imposed upon you are beyond the capacity of any one man, unsupported by a good Staff of Clerks, to carry out, and the more so when that man is a Stranger to the Colony as you are:\n\nThe sums which you state you have to pay for Office and a Clerk - 40 Dollars per month - subtract £104 per annum, and when the hot weather comes you will be putting yourself to further expense; you will be obliged to keep two Chair Coolies which will take away another £30. Private practice is, in your Case, quite out of the question as your Official duties must more than occupy your time; The price of everything in the Colony is on the rise, and in the most moderate times I do not consider that a man in your position could have the necessaries of life for less than £400 per annum. With the hot weather will also come a more limited capacity for attending to business; I have therefore", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246414, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "Letter from Engkong to Colonial Secretary)\n\nBridgy the present\n\nMy dear Sin\n\n27 Jam Holly. word Road Saw / 18 1857\n\nI am most willing to be of any use to Carry out and the more so when that man topersoons unsupported by a good staff of clerks. beyond the Capacity of anyone man\n\nwpon you are иртури that the Several functions at present imponed from Conversations held with others. I am of opinion otherwise. From what I have my self observed, and\n\n\"my power whether in the way of advice\n\nThe sums you have to pay for an office and a stranger to the Colony as you are. which you a Clerk 40 dollars per month substract 2104 per Ann - pom you in e and when the hot weather Commences you will be further obliged to keep two chair coolies which will take away other. occupy your time. The price of everything in the Colony is on the rise and u the question as your official duties, must more than £30. Private practice is in your case quite out of the Colony.\n\nMost Arduous duties Mr. Mercer Montle beyz\n\nI have the Honor to be. James S. Hickson. Your obedient Servant be. So,\n\n248\n\na more times I do not consider that a man in your position could have the necessaries of life for less then £400p Ann: with the hot weather will also comes limitted. Capacity for attending to business I have therefore no hesitation in stating that I Consider that every day you Remain in the Colony. likely to add to your difficulties than in a more or any a wife to free you from theirs, You have you state u And furmly dependent upon you at home, while out here you certainly will be of no use to them a pecuniary This view, at home they will at any rate be spared the anxieties of Soperation and you yourself will not have the Shave perils of a Hong Kong Summer before you,\n\ntherefore no hesitations in Saying do not remainin here any longer Send in your resignations giving your reasons at full and the feeling is so strong Among the Community that you have not been fairly dealt with that I know I Can secures a free passage home. I am cominced that procrastination in taking this Step Can be attensted with no good and your position with regard to M. Auster, seems to be far from a pleasant one. Miles to and come and See me whenever you deem it necessary. You may and Believe me\n\nYours Ricerely J. J. Hickson By Mr.J. Bridges", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247659, "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": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "329\n\nChairman, Where is Beaver now?\n\n(6)\n\nIt was accordingly proposed by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Fletcher, and unanimously agreed to.\n\nMr Lyons,—I believe he has gone to Sydney as an ordinary seaman.\n\nChairman, Do you know who Samkwei is?\n\nMr Lyons,—Yes.\n\nChairman,—Have you ever seen Mr Caldwell in any of his cruizes?\n\nMr Lyons, No.\n\nChairman, Do you know anything of the Convoy business?\n\nMr Lyons, Only by repute—by conversation with Beaver and others.\n\nThe Public were then informed of the above resolution, and of the postponement of the meeting until 11 o'clock on Tuesday.\n\nChairman,—Can you specify any one besides Beaver with whom you have conversed?\n\nMr Lyons, Yes; but I cannot give the names of persons who have witnessed anything.\n\nChairman, Do you know the Eaglet?\n\nMr Lyons,—Yes.\n\nChairman, Do you know what was done with any of her prizes?\n\nMr Lyons,—Only from hearsay I have had no conversations with any who witnessed anything done with them. I do not know whether Ma-chow Wong had any share in the Eaglet.\n\nChairman, Do you know where Shap-lok lives?\n\nMr Lyons, Opposite Circular Buildings.\n\nChairman,—Have you ever visited Mr Caldwell's house?\n\nMr Lyons,—Never, except on business as Inspector of Nuisances with Mr Caldwell.\n\nChairman, Do you know the inmates of Mr Caldwell's house?\n\nMr Lyons, No.\n\nMr Dixson's evidence.\n\nChairman,—Can you inform the Commission, Mr Dixson, of anything concerning Ma-chow Wong?\n\nMr Dixson,—I am ready to answer any question that may be put to me.\n\nMr Anstey, said that perhaps the best mode would be, for him to recite all he had learnt from Mr Dixson, who could point out any part of the narrative which he did not approve.\n\nChairman,—Yes, I think that is the best course to pursue.\n\nMr Anstey, I arrived in this colony on the 30th January, 1856. Within 3, certainly 4, months after, I was strongly exhorted, again and again, by Mr Dixson, to do, what he said would be an act of the greatest benefit to the entire community, but particularly to the Chinese portion of it.\n\nChairman,—Are you aware that Mr Caldwell is intimate with Ma-chow Wong?\n\nMr Lyons, I do not know except from hear-say; I do not know Ma-chow Wong.\n\nChairman, Were you present at Eli Boggs' trial?\n\nMr Lyons,—Yes.\n\n[Extract of a letter from Attorney General of 13th May, regarding statement made by Boggs in his defence, read. Extract acknowledged by witness to agree with his impression of what took place at the trial concerning Mr Caldwell, although he did not vouch for its correctness.]\n\nFriday, 28th May, 1858, at 12 Noon.\n\nPresent,—All the Members of Commission.\n\nThe Public being requested to withdraw, a discussion took place as to the mode of proceeding with the inquiry, in consequence of the reception of various documents from the Colonial Secretary's Office, which rendered it absolutely necessary to obtain legal assistance in arranging the evidence therein.\n\nSECOND DAY,\n\nshort time ago, all he could to get Ma-chow Wong pardoned. I would suggest that Mr Dixson be asked whether these circumstances have or have not materially altered his former opinion that Mr Caldwell was only a dupe, not an accomplice, of the criminal.\n\nThe only difficulty which I had in comprehending Mr Dixson's views, consisted in his belief that Mr Caldwell was the dupe and not the accomplice of Ma-chow Wong in the incidents which he mentioned to me. However, I, being a stranger in the colony, for some time continued to hope that this might be so, and that my contrary judgment might be wrong. That hope has been completely dissipated, as far as I am concerned, during the year and-a-half in which Mr Caldwell has held the offices of Registrar General and Justice of the Peace.\n\nANDREW S. DIXSON,—Called and examined.\n\nChairman,—Will you tell the Commission what you know about Ma-chow Wong?\n\nMr Dixson, The man had been a notoriously bad character, and I have known him as such almost from my first arrival in this colony. What Mr Anstey has stated of my conversations with him regarding Ma-chow Wong, is perfectly correct.\n\nMr Dixson, I intend to quote one instance of extortion, in a case in which Ma-chow Wong professed to act as agent for a Procuress, who had compelled a Chinese woman to acknowledge a debt of $71, out of which Ma-chow Wong levied $30, to raise which sum the woman had sold herself to a brothel-keeper for two years.\n\nChairman, Can you hand in to the Commission the names of any of your informants?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247721, "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": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "BRE\n\n391\n\n(133)\n\nDr Bridges.—Yes; if I spoke of the matter, I did it on my own responsibility. The Governor had nothing to do with it.\n\nAttorney General.—Then you assume, as one of your rights as member of the Executive Council, that of publishing their proceedings to all the world?\n\nDr Bridges. If the Governor wished that nothing should be said, then all mouths were shut. As to this matter he made no complaint of any violation of confidence, nor gave any notice of secrecy.\n\n(132)\n\nDr Bridges. It might very possibly have been written by Mr Wilson. The two are not I believe of the same creed in that matter. I have no reason to think it was written by Sir John Bowring.\n\nAttorney General.—This report was published by the Government?\n\nDr Bridges. Yes.\n\nAttorney General.—And all this time the Attorney General was complaining that up to this hour he had no explanation of the precise grounds on which he was to be suspended. Does that article contain a true statement of those grounds?\n\nDr Bridges. It is just like other newspaper accounts, a mixture of truth and error. There is a good deal of truth about it.\n\nAttorney General. You have seen the paper of 26th August?\n\nDr Bridges.—I think not.\n\nAttorney General.—Was it not made a subject of bitter comment on the part of the Attorney General that the documentary evidence was withheld?\n\nDr Bridges.—Yes, I remember that perfectly well.\n\nAttorney General.—Did not Mr Davies state that it was a distinct breach of faith with the members of the Commission, that the printing of these documents was refused, as the evidence was to a great extent based on them?\n\nDr Bridges.—The China Mail is the only paper I ever saw.\n\nAttorney General. Did not the Attorney General on the 23rd of July state in a letter that he could not make any statement unless he had the documents before him on which the committee founded their report?\n\nDr Bridges.—Yes.\n\nAttorney General. You have seen this long and able article, in which he enters upon the Caldwell matter at great length; are you aware of the general nature of Mr Dixson's evidence in the Ma-chow Wong business?\n\nDr Bridges. Yes.\n\nAttorney General.—Do you think it possible this article could have been written by Mr Dixson himself, or by some one taking a very different view of the question, and devoted to the recent conduct of the Attorney General, and we know no reason to cast discredit on the prevalent rumour that that officer was called on to show reason why he should not be suspended; that the reasons he gave in were not considered valid; and that, unless he makes out a case more satisfactory to the Executive, he will be suspended at once.\n\nThis matter so exclusively concerns the reputation and honour of the Government itself, that the less said upon it by outsiders the better; and we trust only that the Executive will act temperately but boldly on its own judgment.\n\nDr Bridges.—I have not read these articles, but they would have made no difference to me.\n\nAttorney General.—Why did you not prosecute the writer of these articles?\n\nDr Bridges. In the first place, you are begging the question that I advised this prosecution; and secondly, I do not consider those articles libellous. They are written in my opinion by a lawyer, who knew exactly how far to go without committing himself.\n\nAttorney General.—The minutes of evidence are unintelligible to a stranger without the documents to which reference is made. The government have in a legal sense published this report?\n\nDr Bridges. Yes, I suppose so.\n\nAttorney General.—In fact everything in the matter was done as publicly as possible?\n\nDr Bridges.—Yes.\n\nAttorney General.—After the 18th of May was it not the intention of the Government that the fullest publicity should be given to both sides of the subject?\n\nDr Bridges.—Yes, certainly, to both sides.\n\nAttorney General. Who communicated the copy of the report to the China Mail?\n\nDr Bridges. I have no idea, I did not even know it had been furnished.\n\nAttorney General.—Do you think Sir John Bowring did?\n\nDr Bridges. I have no reason to suppose so.\n\nAttorney General.—Because it is clear Sir John Bowring must have read and analysed the report before it was sent to the printer.\n\nDr Bridges.—The report was sent direct from the Commission to the press, after which the Government saw it.\n\nAttorney General.—As Executive Councillor, you are not at liberty to give information to any one outside?\n\nDr Bridges. No.\n\nAttorney General. Who furnished the Editor of the China Mail with information on the 5th August, of the grounds for suspension of the Attorney General, which was decided on at the Council Meeting of 7th August?\n\nDr Bridges. I have no idea.\n\nAttorney General. No belief?\n\nDr Bridges. None whatever; the only document I ever forwarded to the China Mail was an account of the trip to Sunon.\n\nAttorney General.—Who furnished this statement?\n\n[A passage from the China Mail, August 5, 1858, discussing the report of the Commission on Mr Caldwell and the suspension of Mr Chisholm Anstey is omitted due to its length and the fact that it is not a direct part of the dialogue.]\n\nDr Bridges.—I know nothing about it.\n\nAttorney General.—As a matter of fact, the writer of those articles has never been prosecuted?\n\nDr Bridges.—No.\n\nAttorney General. Did you never write any of the articles in the China Mail?\n\nDr Bridges.—Never.\n\nAttorney General. Do you know or have you any belief as to whether Sir John Bowring ever wrote any articles for the China Mail?\n\nDr Bridges.—I will not express any belief; I have no grounds to form an opinion one way or another upon the subject.\n\nAttorney General.—Is not the Editor of the China Mail pretty frequently with Sir John Bowring, for the purpose of obtaining suggestions or corrections for his paper?\n\nDr Bridges. I hardly ever saw him at the Government Offices. I have seen Mr Wilson once, and I think Mr Dixson once or twice with the Governor.\n\nAttorney General.—Had you the Governor's sanction for so doing?\n\nDr Bridges.—I never had any communication with him on the subject. I never had any doubt that when the matter was over I might speak about it.\n\nAttorney General.—How could the matter be at an end before any decision was come to about it?\n\nDr Bridges. It was over so far as this place is concerned.\n\nAttorney General.—Was it not one of the grounds of the protest and appeal that the Executive Council had not communicated to the Attorney General the grounds on which they were going to act?\n\n[The article referred to is included here.]\n\nThe Executive Council has held some meetings of late...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248150, "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": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "ESS\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE AND NORTHERN COUNTIES ADVERTISER, JUNE 25, 1859.\n\nCallwell for his sucenda cbr si ku\n\nTlus\n\nsery Betro and a very indies direction was giben to Tay Filati and Clines, in every part of this clogy and the and lathe ca le game complete em 16 happened rideanly under the time is wan movement forming is that they were about to prossud-on province, which Loval Elgin, at willow was, at teplo\n\nthat Mr. Davis, the Govermens printer, who is tho pro earplugin diétly of arrangement that race o coafated to me to effect any period by the position of affis m pinions by those who must to bato Lucy bettoni Clima nets, that Stone Thin si formar Mahebos Wong In the heat setupon I ftowed their dircase, Rod 1 ceased fole solated way way with My Caldar. pr bay of all, but acted with erent tas made Hoes it a rate the deceatens of the Executirs Council, led quietly and won that treaty of peace which he has rectly\n\nor with the Hong Kong putice: 1 zece monded tomto prema, ected thỏ China Mark watch out, but not to Chin te written on pops of 7 eur, tamparately, list I would be very happy to attaul the Ryecond with China--1 Buy it apours to be not ply Bonn fernd, what will cal by the militar term\n\nDamer the Feng Kong Govt tiszts, heard ally rest, and the rod po del doblard' tras sutive Council whenever ont laid upon the Queen's previointion of that treaty, bat a violate of the p poble, deir riske, and I reported to Gem and apply to two pes of big authority is that of a\n\nwith any clut priests war in piracy, Sir, Andry Tui is wherever the auilt as it was sat in a porta Gercent coner. I forged chai to the. Specibody dline TheRD RET, we bag made to er en Cum 21 of all the no person che serpent\n\nxecutive, a repartol in the recently teavad China hours periment. I pushed my inquiries furter, best, it was a Puties, who had been 3 year in a dy, and he Wide, part, a thirds. Mr. C til 1 had been the colony about a year and fed that magistrate, 291 tl korubarist ler Blojek:yol, Ar Mr. Caldwe. tr. U the \"onsel for #1 pol. ) widet. that. It lirat Cell: ano die atramentis le lle [ from an all-ce of lam kipe willwal heing tre\n\nConnell, however, proasted my lace and without giving pera, the turks by Saglish vowele në wa un village va the real state of the case bow and, but 30, a purte: acl & auf: er, at du head of youto! Umi. Mr. Calendars it at the yangperty of being rist Preng the gross in f\n\nhsburs, on the plesat they had earlcared pices Triviy de hocen to me by the fovercrant printer of 2 let this goal of how Wong depend on the report remember chest as you we who Dr. Bridges was er 1,000 Gollers raiving to and therrunt 50 dus een which they were proceeding, di suport\n\nwhich ore pentlemen, when called opon, ali ratke to barciales, ut, as he calls huself, a legal pencationer feat. Coldwellers and items which reqmen, with a the line pod nadering complnews\n\nHac plutter money aget of ir. Caldwell-tas ufficere Kong, all Covernment officer, whu permitted ans le\n\ncod vessels ringte c his name, wao hat piren tidetres of something 26 tim you. This document anting bera land bucre the Caldwell untie the functions: attracy and brister, and culting less crevicted bobow Wang of pirney and of being appendel, was fed l huew of the\n\n\"\"\"\"The misunsorted catury of Colwell toffees, and who I believe is at tila murent Sau Compilation to the subject to the then vry indiferently wells practitioner, in fat, called engaged in the den Trade,\" \"online! This trade maltet. But, gertlemen, there was netuin which ne\n\nwas hail chwired with compliory with praus Old Daney practiones; and his practice lay shot the salve trades every effort made by Sir Je pred the course of the equity, and which has led simme land; artiny his not la Hong Kong. Tee of opinia Hong Kong papers and allowed to be perated by any\n\nms is out these proceedings blr. Caldwell was the dups of stranger who is have the carically to read it. Iture Chise, abest cutirely, and he was greatly indebted to Mr. Bring to shark any faded millise read eile verr subscrit and indepent quiries befinnestesion the curble genting\n\nbelove luve answared the cations which can ge labelu Wang, that he was rulla scecmplici--his will format 18 a dreamed to longer peizeted by f leg and renneita ascota plice, objectcà dílication which estes, but pulslsked by stance of her Majesty Hóux Koaɛgen; fema watsentations among that body. This doesmeat when fails thaioninate pleinls warga duty Iribunes of quite soother falion Lann a parko Camisin\n\ntrous Lavalon 10 answer. I lepe I have decu suflies dated to All the oflice of Con is is és clear the onia elips and the migrat sipeof Hong Kong icials appointed by a dishonest man. 1 Hy\n\namie Ant in lieu de not what Goschent. They dI makerelerence withose two kentk chlor, and Neting Cokersin! Aureurs 3 bed of rik: the Cene siger cut to whether it is in the course of this savastiguin Liga ti Set time for one your that I have aldened ajab 20 prevented me from coming to lie same siomablá consis\n\nEurope, he retailing the besty the labour contracts in Culan ve réxionable or they age of the tuiszton in theit repor- that previous :0 in, king in and statements as true, and he smitted to, 22 (Dave wagertenice dil return their reports and the Celudis Secheterg the difficulter id exist, and tho ba latterly bemorijay went tur begantu 'he points as wel: I la ramended at 1vano Came of polenta piemetine dating as while of the\n\nsiginta melni y la givere, engin of jingle, the sugoistens of the Camicies, sortsin papers comunes steady no que fully salarised, that when bow instider. trouble with doubts. 1 lien auk apan my the depth overnacht to them. They armed my state perind of his trunce et odice. Chargenti, every Chamwig te taky is overall, a tota aurten with 3\n\nWerg's frin, and which might be but 20derstood, that any gardians yo\n\nsolicita farlor infamathai vil, siguity his wear to c man tho give tim b's versiout had che right to conzerve, ce state of the Colica where it to be stupreetervslus to the Countiesien, lost be dotzegel it find trap- ot trans the plate hume, of speaking of Marlow Wegretta tus com the fast of Mchoho, and they in 2nd Di baling is conviction, but try antepriri culpated very procedony Mr.Childwell. odorandut bich End did sure, that is zeliter had both innuente: iseczunder the\n\nof Corps from Cibo to ong Kong bow toket moest kept the act ever contiment. -\n\npire, but the Ceramic forgot to say 18ct the G-fly it wil eeply with. Br. Asey\n\nsmuted dea seat assist Loud appren50. clerance obtain infertilen veto woke on the cape rock of which, diy had harkeen on citythone wid hato zatit, ClineRoy Government. Tola gelen placed me t\n\nStr. Chawalay salt only remained now the he It has been swurn to the chief, M. Levis the bent of the 'wament te blanche perdon of 3aadow plure. Then there is also number of entries relating some pele. It was iftowards wam to by kir 1 hare before spoke, hauling of the Chine\n\ngunpowder, cufim balls mushais, silk peta, everly, Mr. Dixies, others, in flea kuotave the alterom whics hail for Rive vidence against the gres! Jannthon Wild of England USB come the Cowlingly, herwarde #gured enz. Mr. the bed shon this the evilred a little purchases\n\nagainst Tarrant,” and why were piressaar as Lisé Goundli Bjørð, pap by wit'wet lukorg op ee were in their junes ko\n\nhave that statetent jár before Parliamecut. (Applause.) To me in wel: dolezas witute in the Folies Curt is the \"Cura plustering to the past tween Mulicho Wong is all of tens of war thire se reference call\n\nBevel us Tarrant, by then Clankins of the Comics, terms, and air. Caldwell, and, steve, ilere upprated the uskus tunccties with the Saudiar with ag solenyalur the depare cok place, that Air Joh. Bowring and 1. I reduced his pene in writing in the orthography of t Chicos printing, and 1 kept it on the wall before my desk who was 'cient duly a wine at the Police Chart pater a ser elaborate article September, 1857, & unicat, sie which tice, unter I read Beiges noth awe 10 te consail then on the table one to bem chuqur of a tition by Alt Aut\n\nakutsent in Calia, in which of Manche Wu's he hates, world bat underētur This but an index under and guix on the 14th, reler to lure Aide, statement, a petition to be saloptert to the Queen, Landa, Ban Dat also al tipo ili te pra Chert in the and day from the perind my fras receving e fertation down to the day when the Serenowende of caus They desired walk was pridwally crimes were eatmerated and it was adeffus is to be for the prose of tabling the great to see the\n\nand to cry one of the books and papers as existing denominona, foliowa:-- Whold of the pirater boolé àvul phitest. It ja vakit valuable, nculpated by the reports 'bent in by those ta reperierend pardoned for title that this with ke guilt of many aller\n\nes dy sick that notedy 14 av hea soppra but a Navester, JR, \"Police called upon the, and coke You have cried your\n\nés paid offices, ut lite sails or Tiger nature, po bioause there boil un puhe, a have now been destroyed by\n\nlam ny big which feil fron D. Bulgea or frran Si: Jake at Wil Tarrat, publishes of the Long Kong pois as a ave arrested the sedel, and liavoces, and that hardins erment an oath, Pain\n\npill the end of Chin, was in the 'the' hårda\" of the Hung Kane Covergent, this meinenze\n\nBlock Cum by Liu Govername of t that. Quo him to study on two charges of piracy, Applause). I sony to it by Dr durs, oth nemain the Acting his ca, me of whey be provad is dancreationa\n\nthere was any atention to doutor them. On the stray, lbited by the police count and at die trial were looked \"to prelom leninitim. Sorrest replicationswmulleritsbea Laaksi, Will diese papers be forthcoming the is wht hely a mally Trong and public At that very women bu application is 150 pardon was made, but they all lod. The public age when war awer was Coctaily, tasy will ho forthesising Chetumal miny, of a cele d Governint of Hong Kong, to fit the the i pendina brez the Executive Council, bad baľova a do- up in 196 101minant. 1 Setinal From Callejattu.\n\nwat rond to you this watch of Mr. Dixon, printed Celóuipi Seref.tg-roat will be-1 don't say état with hefurret aby Cian, the pepers en bools which šúré éx bdag too mackerel for Sir Juiz Bowring Stahoe Fogg that these utsnoruuda'ha dolroyd, et troch nieruction cangad the apud Wilham Tut\n\nWithin one week triad crossed that 1 u raken\n\nWaficul reported to me that had upperolie\n\nimoweh, af Tan, aldussed an offels, ferie, tu the goverment\n\nmistion zutenu 57th May. 1 cdled for flow, papers, 014\n\nthe sewer still was, huy s pro3acer May,\n\nthe Chairman of the Come-speaking to what\n\nCarls\n\nren ufereeing one of the LM-\n\nTutte and Within Tarrat peale not pully mil. jabetu, te the Willing Thon BOS, 10\n\nCotinal Sury-by umiva with 517 3 wing, do Govern, duce auch pal and coetic pubic papera a vecius cụ #8 burn, le prevent than tror në tuladhand of teatriinal\n\nThomus Bridgun act\n\nin\n\nJUN PO\n\n1.9\n\nby Sir John Bow-no, not thatatemens 6 M Dixson, the truth-bat ecide not beenvelded by them wil'honey, hit which beleg rund him no the tecore of what had or ne'sunted for in any way on the sapotion of an from wat taken older, M.. Disnou stated was purfacily tree-Theese. You are the kratay of my words, Wall, geûtie- Ch'oet were in luence of their liveandbence begins of e, what did the Govereat do! Nacida That term katson hid in ace to that the parden abel to Premye at Hong Kong The Sup of Police\n\nthe Superintendent of Police, vel sia papers they were, in glee taustmankt Midland. Vältweite Regattar tenor of the Water y lo had the police of the long smakt at his dis in the month of July, 1857. We are now in the sofaxuated; hat the articlo was oothie, for the Fals were\n\nang silence, tid, I can't go on wirdwat my papers. wture Colany, Lotion gave a collops plan\" pesul though, the blud frastarlet: Mr. Calder report fort. 1808 after the firfficial repost do mora, but it be dry for Jorn Rawing an\n\nwale wasiporadia Court as a bit of the Queen again\n\nwhich had bain perferred against hum--to the ellệch that de at the Goved mud of twich ought to have beea pend Hic exartition of Flapot, kiha of re\n\nThay ate prodlacil I will pursue my culence. The answer No one of them cool to lay information apolo\n\nback beca u ursave win ons Machowe Wong lan lo hurtu appene ja support of she another when wrong y cotisidered sacou to disqually Me, Ozidwell from the Cicating letter Was oderossed to the peper of the Tarrant, van de turney General &quited that ever wor, \"They all he rearly 1 C\n\nLa participated in los sela of prasy grof, dasiting him to attend Le Coute (they had set power seruitrios cul ales o cursale should eat feralga, and one morning win ga tuy way to 14- accused 171. Ile was the Jattham Wie de ce. Dission of the event; and still be in there, hod\n\nto try him, tot he was the Goverɔment priaser, Real de night aliteed to tempire 10 Ms. Caldri og Ang'oiler friade of head as a speculturefor I was tune ure Espe when The people were inkry out of thick boats, delube and\n\nhe made these repusta are wet cullat\n\nbave lost cle Govorodent CRITIC). And why? To gite Marchew Weg. Iudouter I got was, that my\n\nappeared as a walness at the diting of the Comarisuon * liberated atmost as he thought. He was I league 10 explain their code is making them, or to dalend\n\nKformation whien manche ebatte ilem to judge of the pro- dalien was on hingartuus and nad għɔeld rescivo apery sten- the worst of proles west theic waters and them; ed on deve at the moment this citron frat, villamenters of Aude. He was the rod of the is the outer and the sccused wit together on the same priety of dehang chow Wos? : ut in followed it up by a cheinending Tetter, and the last to by is gentlenus thut was for the Cen va Berriers of State Bar the Clay time derved probe, and the arreman who repeat to the sarafatio of the Count the gly offend it was my own but in the following teoksile into the Coversio's own verlas d 1st the nad Duiel Dichard Aldest a 1stcat and store. Be informatie and his piratea\" The bad out a speed ease forsoort pesed loss to Sale Whig, wich had a proppo. E in Chatwill interfered with the Bantuñer the rot. The papere leve uit bee a burnt.\" I said, ut papula and then: the publication was for the palie The wil, \"Xo the Governor says he bene in der 11 the lawsti poobslupent of che saith Wa poo them the forgot ng se vitut an exquiry.de fast bivice, Me. Dixon It becued as if a pattiouimely dan pocah as where these the Though the Gerranean'dak noriver, stre Chinese di cozel.. bad be used by may trial. My. Dixon, berdear, while it in the \"realevikov ning meirande; but that the cable\n\nelius amgunnelled to try the sald inferrinse,\n\nvolens be the ustuution qu' bothering til legit, apeared, and with a good deal of virgstol good, we sitesine, to the moverslerved to be ail book burne By wum? I did. An licces Scottir warinda, ses to here for borb the G-scrion fine 'statud jrry the guest relay say his order. I sat Very wel; we ra dialed fa verdict for tlu edenduť sa bech plans; unos ellskog palmat Maheton Wong by Chumer, and upon the first termoz at the out the mad, and said that unicos they tinted be tat me, but yet was zur Tega aga leirit. We have a win in our low that against truth of the churges brought against she al\n\nspoliation navirense da things are to be presumed, and i meat Hong Kong, and that it was for the Tabakor\" of these fay be as convicted, and on the weakest of the behaved to Yew with binabar décenay to would give them one, baterie Pentaton se s tamuuttori 10 'miére jäi prisbas\n\nsil psk you as an hormmable man to 3708 That thesa\n\nIs to jure:nlicy Judge anal coul\n\nthose cinga lid on printed and Lwcase, the stroper ese being fat of all hepsi res information to which they expressed a wish to behet for a cuine of genes; and at lie samé tanie a controa\n\nugulaste si Welt: redentes y lisaks formed me sy se Ori- better informed, and he then third them he could per i prestitute of the town Cathie proton-copale au raping too evides of the gall of the Gospeter Gavravent\n\n4' principal for those il Chizes to the deptpl' süter of the Chis wo\n\narxistence. It is 10 luge, eramus justice, and sound That deal. Machow Wong was marred Sister pered with the tatereating investigation into Mahonjw cl.argue is the publikācá odalineseľ pupure of\n\nneut of Latin. had anguired by consulting' lud nine ended inedin pawnslegs the sem bone Hanece dolars, because sea- Weng'e caso had neily reached itu eczaleca in the Pelico\n\ncgrbury evidence of their cutems, through weld e- zuota, prepared, fre the purpose of tildides kehitet Matolaw innen the pawroker who clonged the scen Court. very last day I was suffering excediating paip\n\nfair in yen to sit it, there are 2 us who can kissin\n\ner (Le 2ad way of led by the \n51 Police, Mr. May. Acsonlingly Malay wis keat for sind be the calvo a farette suni unily Dollars for her person celiginal to hout it. I only to the neuted aleht saiut the aid Duum. Richard Cabluit, it me Jame and bropl his mud with dai, and Ure to nie mate. The coins and it proval batus est quicy. The shain so to be of uly proeid tust a long and iniunaté euangetan\" ja esitt\n\nbetween the Last tratat the whi to mars war Connise Terdila, namen Stieg Lol, who had bees in frequene opinion. I did, 'As to the Tetonada, that is a re publishra, the mud contests of the papers, 27.se, youclow witte : Caldwyn in corted, but rust Calanbend, for they are now Lural, en tan Garethe 2016\n\nallen version had been gled zipost ity Mt. Caldwe-insed to be a hacer by Clause Longe of Mrs Calcon, egg where they are, for they beat Lugu in bis 10 ::fic Governor, to the effect that the entries la Cie Laake reteived from his pawshop Lead a of nonly. Th were mi pogut entrcs, that there was curing leatp dildof the fact wing which they ray n tha hery of the pizate to them-acting whatever, and jority of the Commission are of opinion but it wank het\n\nthis bold step, tw zdevastorm of Tresh crimen were fail\n\nthe Chitovas; they always coupled time with seentza, a less tekig climate the Hong Kong: so the ety-f-every one of the Factz; because of the piestembe: vom Ur.l. for weed trout le Fou Tsepse. You have uses 1392 meat what is culed 1867, ad pracy, went transgrated for 1:15 to the purl 160\n\nMr. May, the Superintendent Police as magistrate or Hog Snar, M. Mar hee nos bem suaded for giving evidence al Mr. Catdoll, and he says konw the a, kowa ce allow Wook, was 57. Caldwell'in pol and trees relied upon to formar. During the whole oftaistime-that leave 1980. never reĥrened wa mate to biolohow Wong, either by the subordinate oleum of the police, ky old kuropan dents, or by\n\nepithetlaring selezenne to his bad chamater. Aes multimel repute and retoriety, I know the Mabel Wong hos for Jezz bron vorsiderad sectortionet, & respect of mines 3. from gambling-house keepers, a condectrale of pirates, SON recrow of telek gooo I Mama plastist nerause of ca 1. work bom postiar witlitegazu to Mr{akdwell—winters\n\nCimen in the coinsy very well knew-that Matchc .. Wong wat sopposed to da in possesion of great down, a ut wan belil in gest dread. Ot the exteat of us dread.\n\nbeste faly aware whenever it was my duty tu laverigune the case ignibet him. Igoko to maug Chinese of stundige 1. and property, and shey all exhuired a bowledge of his\n\neni curacter, but a relualase to do more tia This gentleman was a picnes of a juste vľ the porco, wlas navenbetes is considered a proper person to remain in tikt Chu). Geaca, en son as Sir Walter belt dhe\n\n• covered that 3. Gilbert Alusz, tas Laird of Pargowa, had been code of the press D.nks Flatserais, Book vilectual mesum to hee the Commicion of Price i\n\nBland From !be d'agence of his novion; and foetal y that a literary character like Sir Jatin Bos ring might have very robiy been expected to fellow the exacte setli by Bir Walter Scott. App, chinmay\n\nE Mackow Potrg seded ahir vonviction sp\n\ntraneporation. But no mark the prosem, beause this\n\nbring the a bow head of aging, which, theagh\n\nip of two onlilery others to the court clost 1 might dear the ovalent of the pirate book, andard shose hooks send in the Police Court de slag purled open the dose collow me to pass frena the the is on which was carried into the const; so I hoped to Potion Court interpreter in a loud waies, that it the world, motulit. hack him it in interpretation more wrong, read 11:\"Fə\n\n·Sam Kwei' (bet ie, dr. Calduril, the torturing or kerkida, Need) toey\" ist was an estry, earleazen; ju\n\neate an the all to particular\n\nvaid, \"I will go in again.\" He woak in, and the Governor\n\nI share Caldava 1 cher Wong mad the sail\n\n10, soma, by the said commuistion, Dalit Dad Richard Coldwed bad been, until very best À parter with the sad omviet in a lɔrelia, zrul the mirë,\n\nfursher show that the yard She of the sail.com clas\n\n1a jike parcneshly Jai! 16 between basi and the said venyter met lecat fenci yessels, and that a number of una in their day deơn, at vagina timas, guilty of pray\n\nThat die restliny Eve under the sail Cerriku was gevately printre and culo by truong sung Tern, but väheul indoegmentary videtza Taller! ski the sitesi, el coatiars to the protes of th been the, as was statel oa onth by the arimarenie\n\na. Lan, DONT MICRO, T\n\nQty of Sambon, in Suno which, after a calmed\n\nthe\n\nding, resulted in, obra vùng tha prasiat pagundy pic\n\nsud, \"I kus ibing of the benene of the papera. durd calew ware bort, they were bucat by Dr. Hridge, and not lag sa La broke of the pirate then conter excisation. Olier her speed that own the stricle in the China harsh lemore Mr. Careil on the Commisions for lie sansauranda, 3 know nothing of Lin\" \"he w\n\niesasperateri ilia'j aiges, exspe- hear da the eye of the Govenor, he had applied This? stein is to her gun sence to arcs of various kloun; dietasloudly sessionis flat bosh aya sud see if there were taled 194, and its proton avery' Inquest amus alb sead, it daw was open, nant I could boar hits, stud be was very \"C.\n\nany swab cutes in thdia, And why do you tilus be up theur vers partionfctly Tirumakt. itemquatracce e il ficus imputenbel to neve he solint wort of projectile kunwa drog Paliced by this 1000\n\n2. 118 425 of the the to? Wit, of all men, do you this he employed on the subject, and was again divined to fold is proce The Soaking Berhey mast have own full well had been about of stinkt pat\". payee of Life You a rezolves the book thay cured this var tuusuciata winxber there were any entries in the truth in that Dr. Bridge the Acting Unlonal Secretary tune unsay shout thuthum, Laven Laborants pargnuts,Gestalo Bub Sigler's coins, winch pirate's books incupatory either of the pirate the part who advised the censur, id, sir. Davel was eppo wapiz, then he gitty as, Dr. Bojes, Mid Commission on the ane tril of the Quetu . T\n\nareas were ação by the Canis Eigh me as instants need by picator Sam thaques. Why die parmer, gentediet? This fhda. Lattez to whom he apples wx All this was petal catfury ma vida e con exile in\n\nColwell, after the conviction of tar sa Machow 5 appointment discoting to acting Chineze scoretary to go berwuda before the Commission that let linge was aleau works heftest be wrong thement of the si sūdens 118 parla. immanian theme soboto prazposes of desunto. They\n\nand assist - Durdwell in the inquiry which heal. Can a casing about for a further opportunity and relega pole back paneme ta por seul as other this extructed to the api lagi. profile a catcmple as to bewilder their oppo-\n\nmily had been ducted to make sure prudineert bother the afbringing the Government to save tried sidi de pequena co muy first preferring rise toer hie darges against Mr. Rielar wel! bu is expecially charged with did cre nesta a leg who are about to board, in slu anpe of setting in to tie voocel. kere were numero Commission of Inggning, out in my leg, bead aguchi veu dus sirenastade med. The Government at Caldwell and piles in my place in the Legisle is Majesty's cura in motion against persons whol\n\nall vessels wi entries us of dortrustion as illa, and over sidste to be the witness for the Uras, on the trial one disproved of the chair power confered spend Theftey were they me butt with alleges the pirates, and against all\n\nto je, na galust all places where he algimin· anou een oudceived from Skor Koneen spinet Tarerne, and there a bean doubt of the aduc Mr. Caldwell, and we were able to recourt knowles they were och be useful to Path, go drabt, un videre-thane to fact-Mr. Under the related vend kid mal was in committa the accusel sy wers bau after produ\n\nTait in the pic af ar Malety's outers - I have mest enamcuted them to 300 so I went on, I leave\n\ncott Bad Kwag na he is called, of any purchase of and Mr. Mans asked to must fan and Mr. Modzin when I received fine in peritcedent of bien a letter to presturs them had to have them bed by fur produccion vice plus sole multial inflation of the el aladdy hops in my to: The way was thila—A young\n\nGen ego. And what you they deal and Caldwell in all arch of lige Tak Art of educadou, ef grea: personal-I Acer of Jerodox.0, thein arapaiment, there is LLC chart det til him by tomatogne sunce mages of evidcide to the eff chat held i\n\nTai since the signing of che la ray of p asy beunty, her his aprestake was as that of a fede abondamen there to w Any ROVEor, zealous for herpes to lines that no bundle was very hierdie wise his power for Wing, unfortunely, long\n\nGlina, uvasis of the, Chape coast, in violation IT MA one of it, thus the man who had at all, and that ou the other bundle the bestowed what he abuser of thels in this way, hili he was granting the acting Chinese secratur;) is mee to cama inter car\n\n1rea, lava berume Publiwa, guided and directed by Gešti ... of 1925-lure description in kv 63 2. Was\n\nChina **U WIScuration.\" He says is the dish to bredelskont of his down property, and prae- ryceriu desunie mors, fouad to encumber pas Denici Richand Cudil Brave Cock thick acidéy (tor Mr. Cool: wat pituus elite-341 h a secured wae 220; fix to ra\n\nnot cause all the textements he pub to Mr. Cromwell, eating with effect ultricies that there untied, to se ging Clumése Ofies. They diù in bing to the Chase Ofe 15 the following mes ocurral in the wqeriş il 2. At Une trial in Lile book which he beat writea oui Ciminin Quotes of the Fuzon (Apple)\n\nand he does not think Me: Cafdwell torstited tum, chance our prasowe property. According tid The Leugd de Palin fce, it is true might Apr: st: u of uret, as evide and where we believe, was inckie oue stated like being the Ostwall Commi, nd Mr. ther be gh: mot disse his fly in Anzies, she Davies, wind, and when the oil age to know that Mr. Caldwell was bore Wirk, berise se thakter, with the wires, believe sunt them there and ought to take the pubes her Majesty's valicza plesal the sole er upperial allegat of th were of the best cepeccability-in Earth me of Este, even to the poial of the full towards with a number of the when Ireland Council, and I sakithar duodin ruveta test faluzea du bat i asked tise Guarner and he told\n\nDaniel Ric Caldwelt: he had cuker and give to Mic Morgan to perse and Mr. the ordinate for the purse veftig das Legistar merak The Bulger, and De. Trigga yaki • Thụp only ruchan, 1 expediu 10th of Mr fast ga Boys, and he was to my proseptic, at Attorney Genry), I rekla ile ago, at de woods [aan? to tried and evicted-1 au sorry to y, c the 4 were defano I went into the court resapan, without staring them with the date\n\nto heridong any pecay void the ral aid \"Tyler is ofte the dus of the Ladeperdendof the enuio of piracy, the xys this The Antorery Geotul's shot when our they were all rigs and the report was diawn up and eat from the for! size string to aty ko mase Ti said be Tacy are mere end undertaler were banale\n\nwastog : Weng grunt-end volevo che grad-very properly not be Mr. Nenu,\n\nof the power ferret an M. Caldweb...) Deaked wat was uneven plan is the site out of bagi the Loring of opinion dit he had not convicted e\n\nis is feetly opmeet. We has only wired ac, Mr. Chudwell. Mr. Clewell reported to the Govi moric motely, but Me Colwell spent. A lire put of the day due to create der is so that he was merely convicted of piracy, smal\n\nEst addressed her pabely happen ontiment which have sexa, aut wiret 1 hp will be and reported Shubho was hity the azett. Est de properly sting of the cuss in depatruling w \nke,\" Free which cut is Chinnan Day the\n\nvaez the Funga V Danë newspaper, qüuhag fas published at less eleverd het book. You may chuka urtean city of Wade Wig Tit Sourke,\n\n--Fast flokit - statuiest, teic, \"Tuus the pinaka charge, it ALANYAGİLİNDARION I am labouring & avatare wies) 43 30 pacer. w you wish to set pure so to sey e vet toptir He began in crale\" vie\n\n@miate or uw why I did it. We crmitory, o'i chy' way incapatory; if bind when I was spinel Libes Way, seven weeks at that knd la that safe of as they\n\nDodwell come all took us session the Hundwist Bisur ne lastics tim this, bet no cler yet, it is lyriba for his was consolib and date ich t kad mad prizes old bundy, watery Chinese Jesele and good, but of ureja veeeels and get porter on the art flow Cart Mr. Called Buklear?But it get farther on this. Megan, on stated alub, Le way adding the Guercituent, whi\n\n- Thi ly ra cho tiện, việc nghind: 1 Júlio Kucose, is 'nce, 'crite end to abile,\n\nestiollant Wind in partueze of: che meses\n\nhunder to avitas tenser sind, herefte We\" who ale to be thic ecofioing theres to tlit \"bom juscy wi it is entered vesla og Chistice, eye care, trig winds to how were wilt duration et dedans want. 11 ist fuch has evo sing the appointment in these Le\n\nA proceeded to take aud' wakt prizes of Potgier and even of English It could be .icd-bigbut them we were duething to stay away or tu forges they to ir healthy why do te dore Sime' and look us et Mens specifice- these day a wine to the Crown site pircle beta oponed and face way, that even casi toto hepere forts had básn ichkir tó\n\nHe, Caldwell out on so Desk While the Chief Maglenkad bet akarate the dress of pure atentia to the age of her with tweed in the driting, and who was the marterly speeches I ever lado ati ang dile-iliat did no Berred; baie wuld he lied dot the listed og bin rated 1.16 118 REBOZDey-Centrul Zur the Crown, were] Lind Hberation of Mahshow 'Won, fecia the clucose that Fredd2 attunewars I'died the confoluit of Vedelendum is, these referral to, in this case of the Conferuerteve) Non him by a pirate und ( nviting atmose tire pel the bar and file wiends toere le cos hand that i helion well to Sir Bowl of 9. Jest Tarar chat him out from his chues of just\n\nla reging by \"verbering to her Majesty the can.\" -¿Lead cyplinsé:)' Wit By such they preted to ocnyvaz editions, thors bei gwa sila, and otheeatunc\n\ncant Ohmamen ging video liber was the peper or fabricion of do you think the govt to my of Intent freibe becaues te jugs, who always to grow ranting i\n\nsideration they were struck with the vente of barget, or confort of main, lad deteraped that gul angle, jugil a Lehmkomptly honnante unek bad been re- Mr. Davies is an pourable and opright, but u moet olen and that\n\nbuk shio was deo much uses on a Torted in enter to procure the lure or Latest they new grups to into iteme tarp barat tify a splations liel, soit un\n\nLiyur petitioners ate infor not the public pessa ut excuse to for you to judge af ik validity. Bat I have a\n\nthe commutes at the ears Mspite a Grown wines add beca bring to to say the Bar appened to Car, nodingly this was declare is a pufed with the bobeer defence. Br what actity\" do you, the men of\n\nbit, thend or hisgistrate who was on the Benus, said to me the Cow 489, nd he was akhez of lore furodde teulement of ants or inphns; fest to bring the avertent isto uttal i con- Hong Kong was with the gravest sharges against her uro Ebook, I think you ought torkowest Mank is an generally falls ad the fut of Hong Kong sila, banghts one in Secretary of State se ga je ten, Sw, Mr. arrunt ipad vg for alué deine, 1 blogg's local unit, suising out of the sets of the ni Tunel Fabia Caldwell, witasub ny stopa bʊng teken Hong Kong, prosamo to tyo, ka Ararian cisÓN, DE\n\nrest in which ouius fi torebet upan hi h serious, and he been cool of he told the that Me.\" Mag'a ↑ W Many palmerit; trest, siunt is prasandhang no, preg as\n\nAriel enly echte boned having followed the ukamulu saslim\n\njusty's Gurraient at horny, Jby the British comede e period of Jig de good)Malawidity rephormorandy were to the Courel, de milite of should says, whenever let me extence: not a tal on w, by tur ecce as\n\nulo kauly, Theta quite a misuke, Nix. Eug in ne subtitri Coupe,\" ays My Dixsongengrene, mm, Fabere ready to righend what was sad, ra, wana boju til, denying to That you diners e farther informa chot ́́s Youlo en ability hoy resucher: sis cake of Mr. Caldwell, who she promett, Alferplant in Jeppe.tjie\n\nin consequence or be acts Court. The young picafe turbel, un lam with TRON\n\nhar for life. This pewnią kair, whose appearance oply ja ¿very respect most preprenenting, lidil, nesici furlega, \"Litez +the cance of this phraga ditere perods\n\na from the are 1855, 1856, ADG 1857, for as long an x-\n\nde, hoving her treat it the posite by what, gezišlą miejų a\n\nsoftly exjoyment out of a lui Delagian\n\nNalci Poiy,\" and supped fra te te sime with\n\npas pedagowa by the struct\n\nsul collars in money, and welty for cos janda\n\nof those from. Mol whore willing the\n\nof to re\n\nShu or anong gani, the tuik of whic\n\nand Led by resi\n\nHow was unt invest gatal. Batore The Beaton Bona's a li\n\n· Mu brei, nad who exprend is read\n\nto\n\nadjuskuse on the case, and it new apposes fram, eisal decoration of the Case Castor At B\n\nLut the legal piracy Ye\n\nJaw jacc\n\ndatid cerfi-zion of a Sales\n\nat the corn the gastropod the test -1, exquis ook pult, I was pureaued tri the Atrey-\n\nyies distant from Peng Kang, viktse\n\nFWninos 4 ใน Mu\n\nJun+\n\nacity were onwering the waller or city with Chinese cứ duratione pre by me, they m;,\"store, L'insverfus Ceageer be thhed infuñà÷hoi si't the very chané de \"wasture Legs undertaken atlasswise păzi şJelitoraizly, quid rich di alluzbi àltevės ro angelu salt into the saidilir. and dezambiaron und muraus où desituelium and deadh, tiež pevaaja this most Ring'hérorë · Henriečkkaemisă when'] Conkeret ón metody. (Rudnnà těšiai vah tribal with bad de Guabip. Processing wers commod in the Pulica / voliars were under preple\n\nCual will your to a prosecution ser libel of the sail towns with two hours,\n\nlisa proprietor of that jupur Sir Th\n\nasenBalion Charmy of Expeti funt:c:ky m5- per with British dominion), tor property hall 19 bapa luier. tu2+)?) \n\n| peurs ing Lo maid mutes u flazbe Woo), but willing any peccf, or injẢ ĐỀ\n\npref, 13 coline; the sald sewn with this ad allest\n\nto petablish the truth of such si logetion. Towing the said verds in thus suidtuint of\n\nand the prizeutics of clues weioner's Report, i\n\nquica by bis partadi, Sri Culkin Ayplay.j'. Pagkus Mache Wang, M. Caldwelź ext 20 the Bestivité decurrente, the fin# Peľ was tete 10 där fets, abg no wories of hopeat knutý, Ahri saytigt, on rebooveything in the law tit jouds to the liberty or places Five Queed to Ja!! Rhad calli\n\nzeli yua win he riv \"Yes, graden.cu buld centered these pirnoje, I basoetatud may\n\nwell, you shoổ tut teava, the Coat. It 1 sog\n\n- In\n\n-1\n\ncontinue to bold la ulices of epistur-Borland Pro-\n\nfasten object, and Justion of the Pen\n\n-\n\nopas\n\nThat one piles huully pray your Maganly tost The Dichand Sawell as the anodica phed from extresings said does of gist-renca\n\nyour Majesty was fiber, state such sy\n\nut your Alaiys Critical. -\n\ne naved\n\nThis yields totank to tini) zei; flua elitize\n\nTeplagent on board'éco ether piste junk, dist c£5 on krainie Mchoben Wong. I day day i dennepéviter is primasda eru re” Cure of 9.964 Kiz the toho, ability;\">ub' #1 to Flis millest was 13, 11 to jrove the justi ofera zné 'bu fiɔmė gl Gran Maxis, he adopted, amig\n\noy the Mayur se belesif of 11e meetings una chut the See petilien to clean, Lyk Lyness to the fart Bluts for biome Afain the requested to press the abu Bin Silben : the Ainge of Commiting\n\nBog ur Neeraden cephes, 1 for F and Northumberless be formed with appien se sa notition, and requested to support is pron,\n\nthe\n\nNar\n\nsinty ever happened. Toward the end on aller case der is met. Promate. Cats?#eliftektálation Jowy cerunkenyíčel, † sleges vanitý tu da in Boug Kong. · (Apple) I kids in, but afttraing that he wrote dijose only of a 3k)- j offiser of known el which your petitions - Bohinch 1 new before saw equales, and it ben boxks pered to sa ikat is, the Ott hectate)-Mr. ULIENTE This front mas altérfi sa' Mr. Beyond wilmot hafte u work I stukut bajene it. vienmant sälja vasant clue $2000 18 Guseramcul, all hasing ban aakrod to: recueile unencre, - nepest of tetth He Mind My Cali-Gadwol in Mashow Wong's adapter. 2, in may have dr. Moun n this white car; oist I live desires norieteni which sa stuffziest to gue secres, such as, e con las cerefore ether nigrisane ne kely to low.\n\nmil adoped father, I do know 1-made of the teak up del did I bet white m\n\nTelit for the subjput of the thugplit his to take up that they rely institute en iy te teece to have entered this Et any or stannak a the time but the end of the case al beat fit to hy weed the traits de trait in and tie was, beet this honour last selgus, and the Judge of the culpis hold the rare of the petition to the Bouses of Lek's bu Ame of thee. bis are here, you, who quietly to br. Caldwed, are heard thank Mrforcuccino w This is of the resty je dny, day in atribut to delete the honour, Crown gut ferised: me time this career of orhng thall be caldwell, abent, your patios with the vase, was there wadh son why He bave tent with the date the 17th of May, 1938 verli, by the Crava prassence, wild as suid was opes Justine, but the prayer of the polition to the Queen was us aland with the exceeded, wit alig volubility. were sur stod say they wereteeming of nettur-argir the nor this roler received master tour the Secretary or to trove (by gality of the cavenient, and having fo\n\ntions contéptet ut per the indin dietider Sveces of Bahar One you Brus kete but in jautify the bed, for it woul A late costance będe tamu Walbe present at the inquiry, the you le coună-\n\nder wet br, 1 of the you struction by us that promet, pa ih the more in loved in reported. ll, gentlesser, e il be. For m piece of polios of European xures, such pe chara\n\nlierter thing, tid old role puude hink you go. Prot. I said no more excel, had her mull I have no large, penta Tanpired the trial sint tag were decle of in the Chincre, 'and 'which has said lid al com from Mi. chatyour penceration I have inter reeds graminacey kist ever themiubit of ang us Job By illegal enguant nur short pet she hinten, end Faction of ds: Pease pu Caldwell. Els declared his red padon, and I bar. 22201 Wes 11. ca corte e (9-12 chapter conveyed in the hose leidu libus petition is at to the cold try me that tetece prated suit circuled, but nav ar pilkul in the berzerie, in deferi he had shton s prson, popne in which altere med acts. Doudy, Jay, the mind one part of the needs office. I let it has previouidered themed parts as at the agreeing \"The información rize is functions were detepeisles de Messina. *Caldwellende brother, Mulishow Wong, boating Colonel Mexicozy requetudo so take a vase pooch Ms. Monpais. 19isit there is how to me hall work in the Maglażba përt of cha\n\nErs Lovereanett warno longer thrë qi | er himself to have bòân”- chicago-wiens, M. Card it as is May's case. Day Bekles, the Aoting Colegiary'sy And Siver : \"they clä salis dots i had e, mladinkoneiden 2011 (5)\n\nwellen into a sent, ithead of bustin By original par Services, axplained to me that ho-bellevad bir. Any toe papers entrere, but netan ere were states are with her disputs this postion the did not prove it by ban wings, me he was sing Folded in the magnity of policing & levels -pose, and leaving the conce, or pyvalme to the curt te 10 rowe way pajudined sponu (whom day-thak, penele tormeil the subject of agres' o'what's the ahy, for while, at the word things, tien j\n\nditions viice cheek Crowu wănesiép, far, Irlikes, T. Môngán, 1. Youll here: China bưng v? tự nghe Hob Reig I new nit! new show h, tht to chat retr -proteo! kin, or askroje leuve for one in Mr. Calovali? No † sgaipet).MuleLow Wang.\n\nBet him in the end i Amk fasi ya desch wert hate Bowed it, arc wies and a Con Me two tur conuicted to theke animement when the retele dena; be ligicha zaid against in. Caldeuil sound he beerture\n\nstein and tornou mierer the fuse \"szért made bye debet my Bi peace, une with a head & mods Setween fives, and couple it very cosible that would take my are John Bosdag Mi. Wade's reporte feicis alliesenstar and piratant explain is al even un acknow\n\nFred, nad valeur was giche che il sola hile manner carrying witle is convxtion of the truth of the bention to doing so had solely we tras sie dasise: Vitalne the Chilies State Stad ductinenda, no he is bunds: llame Gentieren bi the charse of this wel die tui rilaktin senfessions of Dr. Bridgy instit, Lord Lyndhurst tank they, interes, it is not\n\nSecretaty a theory, lemort me cretary gra street. ket ky eye'sed en thas unter -May focuya sheld poke hazz, nach ki mua jimata'y Ark whit a Na\n\nin the inghest terms the petitions freia this tea Pannte man, an his sat there under the allerlag demanesi\n\narranged that we zi.ould hath with Then it big avil swenney-General Mi; Aditz? tals Rated; wart referred 'te li kiengrity whel, masel tuplasente, at å which they acheidint The jury issing of the morient I 2054 to live Twish His Old Crawstway's) Buty cümiselled h ting if the young pirate, and I saw in's deco the\n\naridanse ho goes on to say shas Mr. Catwell, corac! ene basereperietes bere thou and Bi. \"Caldwell's tagdermit sipan 1992 finds of them on seat or é difractal We donder the bulȚ most abject ped the most complete ecofen his guit, use of the sopranotation which have to the gut being discovered, but on when do that'dule the kit, and which they reledere etract fra jast bed by the evidite of the Chow it to remind apture from the primary f The Fout Atheriyan te vektoriced and prukaḥed, bas it\n\nCoperto, adul not to alter a future, as a note his eye. Note that it is tuc late for a while but when & boy well lavori Urresting bars for the brought to pressure politi\n\nbe maling; and taped that Mr. Edila Janes Skul jameting, thinkingrachtdi duetzibál, eď trials Enlu Karena lester to clears pederskil to inquirero\"\". (Apple) libre o letroduced during de tre petiolo probability which is, you wil of my career what was gutted to Bir Jolin Howalny ió qu consider a very probablu jebak de Walpole, and who is full order dứt the I put me in the of the Combat is the defence et gallly even notice in a los 67 Court on this He herbure, poskirted skal pla ne, was committing to the huge of lesbiete or inferabuty, rape they iron going to jure in the dataset made pés justa 2 Wand they uid, que\n\nquestions of etiquette agits zu Lin waived, st that it Tầng ki the tiásẽ of every mandlily édes of the\n\ndece did de desert-lum Att. Ha di 201 forell possinterpret the Hugh find withly my enter the Ses of Bret' I' prutekidit in die name or Theron appisil to the judge for costs, all. eet the low/high af te dzieje 1.5in pha Sapd bubbly fut he had hail and who had the bài)? Panimadiratokeo Motion Manama wakiel cortese again it that-ridistrikt, The viler bf the | gj\n\n\"Well, under Lord Cupbell's Ko, and appe be there did so the court sec on this Calls. And what bids Mr. Caldwed, aduca be the feat-by-1 Patio, Ingileifilutleie het urituli eie se lest is labele se ili beg capered he wwn sees of the car by giving their day siege the harsin af Mr. Jones. Ep erine Fant doch and maile report of thuto welched magicTalen top? Way, clasped Co. by one dette noen taryf die stider in or on Bareng dati, bis spits against the Crown (ie will it pr. A skal med to add, but Afr. Zuniga, Devoting theesin the principal portion to the trial of mion--. 19 old do not forex Burette, user einiglitz traway! -it we never intended to a tie mors will repect to the asthey sweary of longer euitendag with the misrule of the British\n\ndaily in runt litet habeating cocutare. hát to thee tới mướn that the demandar obale trave power to intulegt at, mal bei 1 600 6. Every harding will invest at long Rog, had exchang Bags, the barone of what the sail, ed I desired, found that the magistrato was in kyler Milmiy's later, and bore the com\n\nsha mabject of a terrenet to Mr. Whe, the belt Crizelse i uthe Sometime of Moet dank the sulfat peckers the pot of the clung being tiled fur by: of han ritate infesty or be a corp\n\nImperio Major the inspaene på.China, al luced by Mr. Gibidwalk to syrept of dreindly low. Ieder\n\nand Ferlinuculary grant. is not er mis to nevid Passion of the peace ng Kai-for 1 yo amend in vana, de haciz Mahshow Wong Seo have here ofered in whichrit-lan at leiðarokk of isim num amzkurt, and then\n\nJr. Pouncilor Disparas had great paying -the grace of attlag is the same commission with Mr.\n\nJuden in your for debt for a few days storm which was, wiesenet was the thing trial selbe just denial, the wasthead like on of Xeconds whey should Gard well stated, I say, die sold pity the time previous levertheless, Mahshow Tong was conan the inquirix: 2 . Monti Multish Mit John da to re e thuit made of this Bits This la cuve of the meta, mut had lead her than su\n\nPA Take y ethere of serall be real, and all\n\nmatic aire dent where of Mr. Anne, Justy par foto bn up and vend au wordt had his bovision, tabe ploca examination every and the by, beg byg\n\n·Topptation and Palipahoy world i purua exopt up this line got store' Jer, that public sandal bed but unt evary at: was made By 31s. Caldwell specə > where: Weijl.\n\nlowers and now; & fou verds buice's lake wave of you a The motion was carried shotiniously. Moines unlock to do this there by the look of saying Whit cheaped in Net of begin by requatuo: there in\n\nMr. To HET. LE. Weid bus tree the ter seun which the-hop gelo x want wien, si mor of 16 slet Buc me to my how much ist das picot's stal\n\nbeing met. Et the dayvalter I had that vidunderlie the prevés szacujalise Kaving Goch. RIMI, o l'alvo,amt ákotek Mr. Caldwell'; but the I imew\n\nMelchion, Fung may Birthink that by as: Alengan akute todo che continue miter which has earninus of miley clite Tr wickelly of churae, that it win pofidetty true that Max. Los reparted LTE WHICH TO: + with lenth of coma de double all ye hi! I want to perfore by suols Bands Racid, the pipe that having bags to the May, des -terpie fri eventibử with the Afti dhanon or getting off???ed:hu nad a perk von Grace | Pelketeart' scathifi. Mit Pulbosat sitt which in med tobeat du the puLE U VARse to you by Mr Crświley. Yən muşť 1.22 sagpry this term\n\nhew Werk, who was storeddy beefed with\n\nTechpod, 30 in abm.com. To juman who actuel far as 37. 3. Tinker went the not by let the great chase motor and bridal suites and find a bygons matter. 1 were, hub is me rent Why 5, whethe\n\ncoction, plow, stall be same. The Constant at se injured into, and the guilty paulühe becue, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TINE: Maya cha kar moer Urinalty.” The » de is a liesing sakit and in werial agent, if\n\nIf not 'somotáing more than my Kingsky was a young maling in\n\n- Str. Gæstwa Pradoodle for disproves in cybe long ng this first of things last né make up r impant, fur Nejeng's Arte Karilor; and (riffet laat, if so vary w pipe of stem of\n\n• A Lake? Kako se kockat ng ma¦¦:00 Unilure - Chelausen | *apen som to neposers' Chaetesi Por jo mirik, kalya Aith is shorty sit bonarofublimitlam of\n\ndot pri e nuhrer, in the jolske dit Manwhere. hald rentours/niche e victime to the fokus, or out apposte, 1 won by oral by allies in a hit doe\n\nGoverment aut tømn-it. Nag hat dare to train so my lets tred that di Ihres most prouxing toidetle in which a slaan Kong. I maat, kovretta, say 'dolara, `· Eltem, hear dibéo be a f“ „Antikks sward and spank the broth, and I näded: \"Thein sa det aru Koz brady, given\n\nEd 9 wat gate yek böcker at Fangio go that they considerare ding with Mr. Cash has drawn ittich, whit szer kle bir that choctagonar Dagisee. Wain of A Kimpoti in his shade-tzat, lac did lesa quets At ja pelamath now to be to ice for Age in weid, and 70 at hall to say one of the praling the last 92 ci ad pedas entry-it-14) beendal this is (open toyiq queue o to me to be not vil poting that stenty of\n\n· Kgreat improvements Fita a intrbelicëdürzatean of GTE\n\nto\n\nis\n\nreach Een the book in the Kunde DL.\n\njust-abs that they havʻstake' is \"die\" \"chinë '18 Do ↑ Deen ashamed to' hace punimi, sext which I povedled agains l'stä! Is your variet 11 yes that ly | Phèz họ to come how chèt couhl as the objects of\n\ncbeth\n\nונו\n\nMaliciru: w' pa oval 10 joule the supension of this en de 1e eit.al Crown gut áľ sestdise Prielled it 4, Grey Strare, by. WALK Winajan k\n\nresiding eV hit; and publisket by biel Atistis Sunet Neroun-Xn-Tymer, 50, Hommed B Sieci: Digli Studi Samiecians; and Kesant g Durban, i am as gunu gharama\n\nSaturday, Jun 25, 1959.\n\n3974\n\n229\n\n\"Hirveastly for 27 1854\n\nI have the honor\n\nto forwurdt\n\nBook Prst le\n\nZen\n\nAug\n\nby\n\n& Pettern\n\nfrom the down yerrwonath\n\nther Miprsty, which\n\non behalf of the public meeting, at which it was allatibit.\n\nA is\n\nmy duty respectfully to mequest", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248501, "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": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "by Sir E. B. Sytten\n\nThis Lordship also informed me that during the illness, and in the absence of the Secretary of State, addresses were made to me without my authority, and property was undertaken on my part by the Secretary of State or on my behalf.\n\nMy letters of the 17th May to Secretary Sir B: Lytton Bart: and of the 2nd June to the Earl of Carnarvon, Her Majesty's Government, have only added to uncertainty. Consequently, I have so advised your Department.\n\n158. The state of health of the late Secretary of State and his prolonged absence from Town having been considered sufficient reason for my being kept in ignorance and suspense, it is needless to add that the promised interviews with Sir E. B. Sytten have not taken place.\n\nBG. Agent, whilst awaiting the performance of that promise, I have read in the Gazette, the appointment of Mr Adams to the Attorney General-ship of Hong Kong, vacant Office. It has occasioned me some surprise, happening as it did, whilst the Secretary of State was ill and absent.\n\nSuch being the posture of the case, at this moment of your accession to the Colonial Seals, I have no resource other than to present it to you, and to ask you to decide that, in all these my actions, I have acted in duty to the post I held and the profession to which I belong.\n\n1111.I shall not here enlarge upon the privations and losses which I have, for Eleven months past, patiently endured, nor on the pain with which I return to the Common walk of my profession here to find myself a Stranger.\n\n142. But I must observe, for this is what I feel more poignantly that, in the Colony, my past actual position towards the course is best understood, my way being misinterpreted to the cause of good Government. Europeans hardly believe and Chinamen cannot be persuaded, even if it were not in Caldwell's Interest to persuade them to the contrary, that the unjust and ruinous sentence which was passed by Sir John Bowring upon me was not intended to condemn exertions to put down Crime.\n\n143. Even if the Proceedings, with which my name having, like for like, and the Other Government Officers threatened me, for giving their Evidence, and for honestly avowing the information I had received from them, are not now to take effect, and I am solely to suffer, still the injustice done to me has its effect with that shrewd and suspicious and selfish people. Any present sanction given or to be given to that injustice will, I have advised your department, utterly deprive Under Secretary, any renewed Enquiry, such as the late Administration proposed at Hong Kong, of all hope or even Prospect of Success, this more Certain, since the resignation of the Excellent...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248605, "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": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "My dear Sir,\n\nCopy sent to Jackson.\n\nLetter from Dr. Bridges to D. L. H., 4th M.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n2040\n\n201\n\nJan 7, 18th 1857.\n\nHolywood Road.\n\nI am most willing to be of any use to you in my power otherwise; from what I have myself observed and from conversations held with others, I am of opinion that the several functions at present imposed upon you are beyond the capacity of any one man, even when supported by a good staff of Clerks to carry out, and the more so, when that man is a stranger to the Colony as you are.\n\nYou have to pay for your Office and a house from your income, and the more so, you will be further burdened. The sums which a Clerk at $40 per month subtract £104 per annum, and when the hot weather comes, you will be obliged to keep two horses which will take away another £30. Private practice is out of the question as your official duties must occupy your time; the price of everything in the Colony is such that I do not consider that your position could have the necessaries of life for less than £400 per annum.\n\nWith the hot weather will also come a more limited capacity for attending to business. I have therefore no hesitation in stating that every day you remain in the Colony is more likely to add to your difficulties than to free you from them; you have, you state, a family dependent upon you at home, while out here you will certainly be of no use to them in a pecuniary view; at home, they will at any rate be spared the anxieties of separation and you yourself will not have the perils of a Hongkong climate before you.\n\nI have therefore no hesitation in saying you should not remain here any longer. Send in your resignation, giving your reasons in full, and the feeling is so strong among the Community that I know you can secure a free passage home. I am convinced that procrastination in taking this step can be attended with no good, and your position with regard to Mr. Anstey seems to be far from a pleasant one.\n\nWrite and come to me whenever you may find it necessary.\n\nBelieve me, yours sincerely,\n\nW. J. Bridges", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251381, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "# AT THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\nCommitted to Petty Sessions, 11th July. \nC. M. Court, No. 1,642. \nWarrant, No. 578. \nP. Sessions, No. 912. \nWarrant, No. 130.\n\nDefendant's recognizance entered into on 8th July instant. \nSureties Koo-yoke-wah, master Kwong-cheong shop; Kwok-akam, master Sory-sing shop.\n\n## Minutes of Proceedings in the Cause in which WONG-SAM-CHI, P.C. is Plaintiff; and LAI-A-CHEONG, 43, of Tongkoon, Silversmith, Defendant.\n\nThat the Defendant not being the holder of a pawn-broker's licence, did at Victoria act as a money-leader in a single transaction of less amount than 500 dollars, and to wit: on 5th July instant, did unlawfully lend $1 upon deposit of one gold pin.\n\n### MEMORANDUM.\n\n| DATH | SPECIFICATION | AMOUNT | DOLLARS | In Bank Notes | DOLLARS | In Silver | RUPEES | CASH | STERLING |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\nOn the Thursday, 7th July, 1859, Wong-sam-chi, being duly warned, deposeth:- I am a Chinese Constable. 5th July instant, I went to defendant's shop, the Tin-sing, Silversmith, Queen's Road West. I took a gold pin to defendant and asked him to lend me 1 dollar upon it. The defendant gave me that amount, and said that he would charge 4 candereins per dollar interest per month, which would be altogether 6 candereens per month. The pin produced is that which I pledged. I did not know defendant.\n\nJ. Shepherd, sworn, deposeth:- I apprehended defendant on warrant. In the drawer of defendant's counter, I found the pin identified by last witness, also three other packets of gold ornaments.\n\n## DEFENCE.\n\nDefendant states: the complainant came to me and said that he wanted to sell the pin. I told him that the night was dark, and I could not tell the value, and he had better come in the morning. He said that he wanted money badly, and I agreed to lend him $1 until the next day.\n\nCommitted for trial at the Petty Sessions on Monday next, to be admitted to bail, two Householders at $200 each.\n\nC. MAY, J.P.\n\n## PETTY SESSIONS.\n\nMonday, July 11th, 1859.\n\nMr. Parsons for defendant. Wong-sam-chi examined, after being duly cautioned. G. Shepherd, Inspector of Police, examined on oath.\n\nMr. Parsons, for defence, calls,-\n\nSee-nchu, I am one of defendant's journeymen. I was in the shop on the night the stranger brought in the pin. He said he wanted to sell it. My master said he could not tell the value as the night was dark. He then said he wanted money, and asked my master to let him have $1 upon it, until morning, when he would come to settle, which my master did.\n\nSoo-achoy, workman in the next door Silversmith's shop, examined, states:- Our shop does no business in the secret pawn-broking line. I happened to be in the Ting-sing, Silversmith's shop on the night in question. Corroborates the last witness exactly.\n\nDefendant is fined $200, default 6 months' imprisonment with hard labour.\n\nW. H. MITCHELL.\n\nHaving further investigated this case, with Mr. May's assistance and advice, under provisions of Section XI of Ordinance 5 of 1850, I reverse the previous decision made upon it, and order that defendant be discharged.\n\nW. H. MITCHELL.\n\n## [Page 81]\n\nMr. Caldwell stated he relied on these depositions alone to show that Mr. May had wilfully made false representations to the Acting Chief Magistrate to induce him to reverse his decision. He had no proof that the first decision of the case by the Magistrate was correct; and he did not know the nature even of the representation made by Mr. May to the Magistrate.\n\nMr. May in reply to this Charge explained that he took evidence in this and two other cases of illegal pawning, and sent them to the Petty Sessions. The evidence in the two cases was clear and conclusive. In the third, No. 912, it was very doubtful. There was only one witness—a Chinese—who was the informant; and there was no proof of general pawning. Mr. Mitchell, the Acting Chief Magistrate, decided against the defendants in all three cases; but subsequently spoke to him (Mr. May) who mentioned his doubts, and Mr. Mitchell on reconsideration said he thought he (Mr. May) was right, and that he would reverse his former decision, which he then did accordingly. He, Mr. May, had known nothing whatever of this case, except what he had gathered from the evidence given in Court, and no representations had been made to him by any person whatever out of doors on the subject, or his interference ever solicited by any one.\n\nThe Depositions in the other two Cases were produced and found to be as stated by Mr. May.\n\nWo-hang, the keeper of a Chinese Opium shop, was called and examined by Mr. Caldwell in reference to some conversation which Mr. Caldwell said had passed between them in reference to this case; but Wo-hang said he had no recollection of anything of the kind.\n\n## The 4th Charge brought by Mr. Caldwell against Mr. May was:-\n\nWith having on the 13th day of August, 1858, when examined as a witness at the Police Court in the case of Regina v. Tarrant, when asked if I possessed a knowledge of the Chinese written character, and whether I had ever translated any Chinese document for him, answered both questions in the negative, whereas he well knew, at the time, that I did possess a knowledge of the Chinese written character, and that I had frequently translated Chinese documents for him at his personal request.”\n\nMr. Caldwell said that he had himself heard Mr. May make the statement contained in the Charge, and in proof that Mr. May knew it to be false, he said that when they were together at the Central Station he had often read Chinese documents for Mr. May.\n\nMr. May in reply called attention to the evidence given on the same occasion in the Police Court by two witnesses (Ying-loong-tun, a Chinese teacher, and Shum-chook-yeen, a writer and teacher in the Chinese Secretary's Office) at pages 307 and 310 of the `Blue Book` that Mr. Caldwell could only speak but not read Chinese. Mr. May stated he had never said that Mr. Caldwell had no knowledge of the Chinese written language, but he had said, and he now repeated, that Mr. Caldwell, to the best of his belief, did not possess such a knowledge of the language as would enable him to make a full and authentic translation of any document. It was, however, unnecessary for him to say more in reply to this Charge than that it formed the subject of an official complaint at the time by Mr. Caldwell. He had replied officially to Mr. Caldwell's letter, and had heard no more on the subject. Both documents would no doubt be found in the Secretariat. He begged a reference to them.\n\nThe following correspondence was then read:-\n\n\"VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 18th August, 1858.”\n\n\"SIR, It is with much regret that I am again compelled to intrude myself upon the notice of His Excellency the Governor, but the circumstance which induces me to do so is of so grave a nature that I trust I may not be considered tedious.\n\n\"On Friday last, the 13th instant, during the investigation at the Police Court in the case of Libel brought against Mr. W. Tarrant, Mr. May was called as a witness; during his cross examination by the defendant, he was asked if to his knowledge I knew anything of the Chinese written language, and also whether I had ever translated any Chinese documents for him,-to both these questions Mr. May gave a negative reply. In consequence of Mr. May's replies Mr. Tarrant spoke in very strong language against me, calling me an Impostor. I will not however repeat all he said on the occasion, but the replies of Mr. May being so palpably untrue I have not the slightest hesitation in charging him with wilful and deliberate intention to injure me, by giving evidence which he must have known to be false, and I bring this matter to the notice of His Excellency because I conceive it to be one which I should be blameable in not representing. I could produce abundance of proof to show that Mr. May is perfectly aware that I have a knowledge of the Chinese written language, because during the many years I was attached to the Police Department with him, I was invariably the referee by Mr. May and the subordinate officers of the Force for a translation of Chinese documents coming into their hands.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252030, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## 473 \n\nlegal proceedings were in progress here which would have been prejudiced by very immediate action; I accordingly delayed the commencement of inquiry ordered until their termination, as reported at the time in my Despatches noted in the margin.\n\nThe mode of making the accessory investigation having been left to my discretion, I determined that the most convenient and constitutional course was to institute a public Inquiry before the Executive Council which consisted, in addition to myself, of the Acting Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, and the Commandant of the Garrison. Of these the only one who was not a stranger to the Colony was Mr Mercer, the Colonial Secretary, and he had been absent in Europe on leave during the greater part of the period within which the transaction to be inquired into had taken place, entirely unconnected with them. I accordingly directed the following Notification to be published in the Government Gazette, both in English and Chinese.\n\nGovernment Notification\n\n\"En compliance with instructions received from His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254633, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12]", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12]", "content_text": "14. and 15 \n\n261 \n\nand \"Atton\" will re-appear at the Treasury on Monday. \n\nAll I have to observe in reference to the investigation at the Police Office is that I received every assistance from the Police Magistrate and that when duly cautioned by Mr. May against making any statement which he might criminate himself, \"Atton\" positively asserted that he had returned to the Treasury immediately after leaving the Bank at 9 o'clock on the first instant, whereas he continued absent from 2 until nearly 4 o'clock P.M. He also accounted for his absence from his house from 10 o'clock P.M. on the 2nd instant until 3 o'clock A.M. on the third instant by stating that he had been out and did not know what had occurred at the Treasury.\n\nThe First Shroff, Ahlong, at the close of the investigation at the Police Court stated he did not suspect the Second Shroff who had access to the notes as well as himself, but that he thought the notes might have been taken off his table by some stranger outside the counter whilst his attention was drawn to some payment on receipt - this might have been done, he thought, by someone surreptitiously passing his hand into the opening through which payments were made and seizing upon the notes whilst he was counting them, with his back turned to an applicant for payment of salaries or to someone paying dues at the Treasury.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255690, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Sie to Roger \n\nSundays after Information Journal with me lepy 77 fortunate for the detection order from the God. 7th Mail, the information I think quite right. No further concentration.\n\nIt was unnatural that the agent 14 of D. and O. company should have an application. Bad for the Government to order the detention. It's clear unprofitable. I think this skill is pointed out by Mr. Miner in answer to the 8th paragraph, and he should be informed that his explanation is unsatisfactory.\n\nBest first (& last) Like.\n\n3/3. Z97.\n\n& the foreman with regard to 14. Left. People suffering those of (62. Mt 63) terms of covenant. It was expected that the Reports at tiny and pay for the detention of the stranger at their own fort, walk with an air at other parts a Reportarten of the Ad Mack foremin Excrall.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261470, "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": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "I respectfully submit that I have been in arrear with my expectations of assistance, and in very subordinate positions within that department. As no other construction can be placed upon my acceptance of such a position, I need not add that I have ever been inspired by the hope of promotion, and I have endeavoured to conduct myself so that my perseverations will be abundantly proved by the full tenor and effect of this correspondence.\n\nPrevious to my initiation into the Government service in August 1863, I had made several gratuitous surveys for the Honorable the Surveyor General, and when my predecessor, Mr. A. J. Alves, was promoted, I was induced to accept the appointment at the insignificant salary attached to it, $81 per mensem, which it was represented was likely to be placed upon a better footing, and the position made a permanent one; at the same time, the appointment of Assistant Engineer at Kowloon was held out to me in perspective. Upon your joining the Department, I was called upon to confine my attention to the professional duties of a Draughtsman, which placed me in an anomalous position with the Chief Clerk; however, I carried out your instructions, and since then have performed outdoor professional duties when called upon to do so, all of which were in addition to those of an Assistant Clerk.\n\nPreviously to the anticipated departure of the Honorable the Surveyor General on leave, he submitted to His Excellency a proposition for the re-organisation of his Department, and forwarded my application for an increase of salary for professional services, which he recommended, and spoke of me in highly complimentary terms, but even this small concession was refused by His Excellency. When the time arrived for the appointment of an Assistant Engineer at Kowloon, it was offered to me at £5 per working day with allowances, and although any advance on my nominal salary was considered, it was actually a reduction to me, inasmuch as I live with my Father and have been enabled to exist upon my present pittance, whilst at Kowloon I should have been compelled to construct and maintain a shed, and to have kept up an establishment; the insufficiency of salary must have been apparent, because no civilian could be procured upon the terms proposed; and I had the mortification of seeing the appointment conferred upon a professed stranger to the Colonial Government, on higher terms ($1839.60) than I was offered, the fortunate incumbent retaining his Army pay and still giving his whole time to his Military duties, whilst my services were required for that service. I then applied to you to forward another application to His Excellency, as to my professional...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262071, "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": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "it is very possible that to a stranger his manner were at all peculiar Wolan may not have given very straightforward or satisfactory answers, but I cannot think that the bona fides of the Tahiti Emigration is affected thereby. \n\nMr. Lobscheid requested Sir Hercules Robinson's assistance in the matter, was referred him to Mr. Hornsett, and as much care and precaution were taken as if the place sought had been Demerara or Trinidad. \n\nThe consignees of the Emigrants were reputed British Subjects, the men were under the supervision of Mr. Lobscheid, their Contracts were fully explained by the Emigration Officer, and if any fraud be perpetrated on these men it will not escape notice and means shall be found for bringing both Mr. Stewart and Mr. Lobscheid to justice. \n\nThe guarantee is sufficient; the only alternative is to forbid these unfortunate men going abroad to better themselves - and to drive them to seek their destination \"from Ports and in Ships not British\". How far this will improve their condition I leave it to others to determine.\n\nAs regards Mr. Lobscheid's explanation, it gives the fullest ### 239", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262074, "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": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "distrusts are less likely to be checked by a comparative stranger like Mr. Sampson than by one like Mr. Lobacheid who has been known to the people of these districts and is familiarly and so long with Mr. Thomsett that \n\nI agree Houstong should be as it originally was the de Port of Emigration allowed to British Subjects, and I believe that had the change not been made there would not have come foreigners forward to compete in the emigration business, and many of the evils with which we are familiar would have been effectually prevented.\n\nI hope I shall not be thought to have borne too hardly on Mr. Sampson to whose activity and general intelligence I am no stranger, but I think he has written hastily, and in fact he admits this to some extent; but in fairness to the Colony I am forced to note the points on which he has been misled.\n\nOne more point only presents itself to me in conclusion, and that has reference to the advertisement inserted by Mr. Sampson in the London Edition of the **Daily Press**. I must be permitted to object to the style of Notification in which the Magistrates Court and the Government of the Colony, both to him, are altogether ignored.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266868, "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": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "content_text": "\"Daily Press\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 18,\n\nto\n\nhis\n\nTHE public meeting has satisfactorily vindicated its dignity and that of the colony by adopting the only course which, if it wished to avoid humiliation, lay before it. Any body of men, as any single man may be liable in this world to defeat, but no one is bound to sacrifice honest convictions without struggling on their behalf, bravely to the last. At one time it seemed not impossible that while the real feelings of the vast majority present were notoriously enlisted on the side of the opposition, there might be a painful collapse of the whole movement because of the reluctance of those who were present to stand forward and take a leading part in the proceedings. Those who organised the programme on the first occasion appeared to be a little touched at remarks which had been made disapproving of the \"cut and dried\" nature of the proceedings at the first meeting, and more or less piqued at this criticism on their arrangements which was certainly never intended to disparage their public spirit in taking the first steps towards a demonstration against the Stamp Act. At any rate, however, they came this time altogether unprepared with resolutions or suggestions, and after the GOVERNOR's reply was read to the meeting there was an awkward pause during which no one seemed disposed to say anything. Encouraged by this, there arose out of the meeting remarks in favour of the Stamp Act from a gentleman who said at the same time that he did not intend to oppose the course of the meeting. It is not given to everyone to be able to sympathise on the subject of the Stamp Act both with the policy of the GOVERNOR and the course a meeting which by an overwhelming majority manifested an unconquerable aversion to measures both in principle and detail, but it must be a very keen satisfaction to feel yourself on good terms with all parties to a dispute, though whether those who were present found themselves enabled by help of the impartial voice from above,—by these gentle pleadings from the Peak, to admire Sir RICHARD's bill and cordially concur with the sentiments of the community as well, is another question. Mr. BARNARD did not, it must be confessed, steer between two courses.\n\nWhether from a chivalrous determination to espouse the weaker side, or from a natural adhesion to the principle of Stamps or from a sincere conviction that the introduction of the proposed ordinance would have the effect of repressing the excessively litigious spirit of the residents in Hongkong—whatever may have been the impulse which led him to take the part he did, Mr. BARNARD, mailed, or perhaps we ought more appropriately to say, nailed his colours to the mast and came forward as the collector,—not exactly of Stamps, but of voices in favour of their introduction. Some little want of familiarity with the past events of the colony led the self-constituted champion of the new duties to draw his arguments from singular sources and he was inclined to think that the affection for the military contribution which had grown up in the minds of the colonists of late was an illustration of the way in which they would eventually come to love the principle of Stamps. As for the argument that he, Mr. BARNARD, when he first came here had said to the Attorney General \"why had the colony not got a Stamp Act,\" the meeting did not seem carried away by it to the extent which might have been anticipated, nor was it seriously impressed by the picture which the speaker drew of reckless and selfish merchants going away from this place after a few years with large fortunes, leaving their \"predecessors\" the taxes to pay. Successors, no doubt the learned gentleman intended to say, but allowances may very properly be made for the heat of debate.\n\nAll this, however, was the fun and chaff incidental to a public meeting in a place where people are so happily constituted as to see the comic element even in a proposal to make them pay an inconvenient tax. The meeting which took place yesterday was ready enough to have a laugh at its own or anybody's expense but not one whit less indisposed to admit the obnoxious principle of laying a burden upon trade, than that which assembled on the 28th of August. The resolution which Mr. BOSMAN moved in a short but highly forcible and pertinent speech embodied all the action which it was necessary on this occasion for the community to take. The GOVERNOR has rejected its appeal; it became a point of honour therefore as well as a matter of expediency to take those further steps which are invited on such an emergency by the regulations of the Colonial Service. If it did not communicate to the Secretary of State, the unchanged conviction of the Hongkong residents that the Stamp Act is dangerous to the welfare of the community and prejudicial to the interests of its commerce, it would stand before the Home government as a community destitute of principles or convictions, swayed by momentary gusts of feeling and unworthy to claim consideration for its most deliberate opinions. Now, however, the case is widely different. By every means in its power, the inhabitants of this colony will, when the memorial about to be prepared goes home, have uttered its solemn protests against the principle of meeting the expenditure of the local government, whether just or unjust, by burdens on trade in any form. It is not possible now for the Colonial Office to throw off on Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL the responsibility for the new policy, sacrificing him if that policy should turn out badly, and taking a due share of the credit, if it should turn out well. The Home government, which it is to be hoped will not be left to act on this matter altogether without a show of solicitude on the subject from independent members of Parliament, will have to consider the policy of the Hongkong Stamp Act on its own merits, with the knowledge that many eyes are watching for its decision. Under these circumstances it is to be doubted whether it will continue to regard the opinion on a commercial subject like this, of one stranger to China, even though he be the GOVERNOR,—as of greater moment, or entitled to greater respect than the collective opinion of the whole mercantile body.\n\nPage 206\n\nPUBLIC MEETING ON THE\n\nSTAMP ACT.\n\nIn compliance with the advertisement in Monday's paper a Public Meeting was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of having laid before it H.E. the Governor's reply to the memorial against the Stamp Ordinance and of taking its views as to what further steps it may be deemed advisable to adopt in the matter.\n\nThe attendance was very large, the Court House being filled, and many were unable to obtain admission.\n\nMr. Tonnochy called the meeting to order, stating that the first business would be to appoint a chairman. Mr. Maclean, proposed by Mr. Bosman and seconded by Mr. Ryrie, was unanimously chosen and accordingly took the chair.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269471, "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": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "content_text": "29\n\n1000\n\nper\n\nCA/WYNWY,\n\nJr.\n\nIt seems to me · for some years to come very important that the Colony should be secured in the retention of Mr Douglas' Services, and this can only be done by enabling him to feel that his services are really recognized, and by somewhat improving his condition, so as to add to the material comforts of himself and family in a climate, where those matters have sanatory importance.\n\nMr Douglas has made no application to me in this matter. I am entirely influenced by the extreme public necessity of securing that the Gaol here, which is conducted as creditably as this result is achieved under serious disadvantages and difficulties is almost entirely due to the special aptitude of Mr Douglas for his duties.\n\nEvery stranger who visits the Gaol, bears the same high testimony to the extraordinary cleanliness and exact discipline which pervades the whole establishment, and I trust Your Lordship will see reason for granting my request.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour Lordship's,\n\nMost Obedient Servant.\n\nSteven Macdonnell\n\nI do not believe that any Public Colonial establishment is so well managed and ...\n\nGovernor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270472, "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": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "page_number": 362, "title": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "content_text": "any one to it - Sam a stranger. A. Fai told me that the mom who brought me here was his relative.\n\n(signed) Cecil H. Smith\n\nRegistrar General's\n\nMagistracy,\n\n14th July 1867.\n\nCopy\n\n357\n\nThe Opinion of the Hon'ble Attorney\n\nGeneral Julian Pauncefote.\n\nThe Government have\n\nno power to comply with the request of the Chinese Magistrate communicated by Mr. Robertson, H.M.'s Consul. The Girl has been examined and objects to return to Canton, or to leave Hong Kong at present.\n\n(signed) J. Pauncefote\n\nAttorney General.\n\n15th July 1867.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274465, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "96 \n\nColony with \n\n'Eccles is a steadfast defender and helper of deserving Colonial Civil Servants, and my opinion as to what NAVO has proposed is not a stranger argument than Mr. May's recommendation to induce the Government to place such a force as the Hong Kong Police in a footing so different from that of the other Colonial Servants of the Colony, and to confer on them pensions irrespective of the merit of their career but to confer such pensions instantly backed by gratuities also, after 10 years service.\n\nThat intended to place the Police Force at an advantage over other branches of the service when the Ordinance of 1862 was framed, Mr. May speaks positively, and states he was consulted by Sir Hercules Robinson at the time. \n\nFor myself, I should have required a man of the most mediocre ability, a vast dead weight on the service, like O'Toole, if he entered the force at 20 years of age, could claim pension for life when he attained 30. Such pensions would not be grat... to other Colonial Servants till they attain the age of 55.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281095, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "have transmitted on \n\non the \n\nthe laxity of the \n\nChinese Officials at Canton and elsewhere \n\ncamping cut the Viceroy's regulations \n\nprohibiting carriage of arms by Native Merchant vessels. 12. Mr. Robertson proposes to \n\na \n\na \n\nbrief resume of the facts and circumstances attending these questions as placing them \n\nintelligible than a \n\na mere \n\nperusal of the map of correspondence. I \n\nquite agree \n\nwith him in thinking such \n\na Course advantageous, provided his resume be accurate. \n\nI think however the enclosed \n\n3 \n\nfrankly mutinously gives \n\nan inexact \n\nversion \n\nof the occurrences, where this Government concerned, and I therefore think it \n\nis \n\n1 \n\nwell to connect Mr Robertson's \n\nere it be filed \n\nto \n\nthe \n\nrecord. \n\n133 \n\nresume \n\n3 \n\nfaithful historical \n\nI feel that a stranger perusing \n\nMr Robertson's account might infer \n\nin reference to the question of disarmament that this Government had been either \n\nindifferent \n\nor in some \n\nsome measure \n\nantagonistic to the policy pursued by \n\nAdmiral and our \n\nour \n\nConsul. Whereas I \n\nbelieve the Contrary has been the Case Mr Robertson at least ignores \n\n5. \n\nin a \n\nsomewhat marked manner the \n\naction of this Government. \n\nand commences \n\nby stating that the scheme of disarmament \n\now \n\nthis part of the Coast of China originated with Admiral Seymour who", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n\nThe following Annual Report on the state of the Government Schools in Hongkong for the Year 1869, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command, \n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN**, \nColonial Secretary \nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th February, 1870.\n\n## HONGKONG, 31st January, 1870\n\nSir, I have the honour of presenting to you the Annual Report on the Government Schools in this Colony for the year 1869.\n\n1. Having entered so fully into the history of these schools in the last Annual Report, I do not deem it necessary to do anything more in the present one than to refer to a few matters of detail.\n\n2. The arrival of a third English Master, in the course of last year, has added very considerably to the efficiency of the Central School. Subjects which, previously, could be attended to with great difficulty have now become a regular part of the school routine. Two new subjects, Chemistry and Geometry, have been added, and all the ordinary branches receive much greater attention than, in former years, could possibly be given to them. The additional assistance also enables the Head Master to have the whole school more completely under his own personal supervision. He is no longer, what he really was before, simply the teacher of three of the classes. It may be safely said that the school has entered on a new stage of progress.\n\n3. After long delay, the Laboratory is at last in full working order. Considerable difficulty was experienced at first, partly from the defective state of the apparatus, which had been lying unused for about two years, and partly from my own inexperience.\n\n4. The Lessons in Chemistry proceed slowly but, it is to be hoped, surely. The aim attempted is not the mere amusement but, as far as may be, the sound instruction of the boys in a department of science to which they have nothing corresponding in their own schools. Much interest in it is taken by them at present. It will be unfortunate if it is allowed to flag. It is not likely, however, that the indifference, real or assumed, of their countrymen to this and kindred studies will be any impediment here. The boys are too young in the art of dissimulation to feel that the gratification of a natural curiosity is a confession of inferiority.\n\n5. Although additional assistance has been obtained, the number of scholars at the school has not been materially increased. This was not intended. With even a smaller attendance, there would be ample work for the present teachers, more especially as the gradual increase in the number of Village Schools necessitates the more frequent absence of the Head Master. The object to be gained is not, at present, the attraction of more scholars, but the thorough teaching of the school in its existing condition.\n\n6. Through the liberality of His Excellency The Governor, The Honourable C. C. Smith, Dr. Murray, Mr. Gerrard, and Mr. W A-kwong, in addition to the sum placed on the Estimates for the purpose, prizes of the value of two hundred and five dollars were awarded to the most deserving, at the recent Public Examination. The encouragement thus given to the school should not pass unnoticed; and the promises made for the coming year give good hope that the school has at last obtained the recognition to which it is not unfairly entitled. It is now time that when a stranger enquires, at public places in Queen's Road and elsewhere, for the way to the Central School that he should not enquire in vain.\n\n7. The presence of a number of the parents and friends of the scholars at the late Examination gives even greater encouragement than the liberality just alluded to. Hitherto, for reasons which it would be difficult to assign, the Chinese residents in the Colony have kept aloof from the school, parents, even when living here, seldom taking the trouble to come and ask admission for their sons. Whatever pleasure it may have given the boys to see this new feature in the day's proceedings, the pleasure felt by the teachers was of the most unqualified description. Nothing that has happened since the school was established has augured so well for its future prosperity.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285885, "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": "CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12]", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12]", "content_text": "## 13. 87\n\nNotwithstanding. \n\nIt may possibly appear stranger and improbable that I, a lot owner merely, just commencing business, should have, without fee or reward, proceeded in such a case and against the Crown to the lengths to which I carried the matter, unless acting under the orders or advice of some influential persons, but I think I can explain that the case would, at a very early stage, have passed into the hands of Counsel or have dropped altogether for want of funds to carry it on, but for the intolerable insolence of the Attorney General in declining, in a manner most offensively personal, to argue the case at all, even in Chambers, and during the vacation when I had as much right to be heard as he had, and, when he found he must submit to the indignity, in absenting himself deliberately and in a manner to be remarked by all, whenever I had occasion during the progress of the case in the Court or before the Judge. I resented the insult and from the date of Mr. Parry's first appearance in the case in Chambers, I needed no orders, assistance, or advice to urge me on, and I determined to carry the case to the ... EC. X.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287009, "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": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Mor. Order \n\nSuljet \n\nObjet · \n\nBeds are \n\nResuelt \n\npieser \n\nRemartes by Captain Superintendent (M. M. & cave) \n\nsupervisions \n\n44. The beds are to be dressed see lives - and as seform of 14 miles is, as four of 1 vicles is, \" 2. Her will heain the suforcicion of the blotting there\" ro2, no2, \" at all times, to be left betionen the best and the wall. \n\n(d) Moy Resin te d for Sefst. 1862. \" With the piour to securing order and clanulingh in the toestral Barracks, this follesning Mens tinand of arranquends will be observed mutil foatter orders - Infor be revive will takes aliange of the expper flour- \n\nalange of the pepper flas- pecus North, 10, 16, and 12.- \n\n\" not to be truend pifs darving the day; accept inlaw mecefsung from \"want of accorinesitations, or unlieve a venit the mattress, \n\nrs, are to be pollect ups - placed against the lead ast -the covalet is to be folded and licked in found it :- 5. \"Men any man is about form sickness, \n\nshanet from sickups, andy cause, his besteding, love, kit, by Stue Sergrout and placed in sac. - \n\narus te? will be later \n\nother- \n\ncharge of \n\nat least, will be attottic to carte prae; as- \n\nX \n\nDaly -Balquy- \n\naust Cook leouses.\" \n\nSy be, J. and Gen ___3. audi 24. witte back-ypad \n\nHery will receive all measury assistaux from the Sapunits, in cleage of tones, who core to be bold perfecweitle for elevatings and good actor in \n\n6. Zeer Pegs; \" als = in plealf on which way be felaced, wathy, wifsins × = They will visit the pores ouce ou excle. \n\n\"All other Articles are to be appointinents in current herfst in Regetative Boxes ; exlich are to the best at the fout of the head \n\nLidl. \n\nnantter. \n\nto visit and \n\nday; sinnectidity after noon- day prarade, whethe larger, freeu is in Barracks, would be the best time for such venit. Any \"ingularities or diandes, will the pinsmedicatily repented to the efficient defpaintinted. \n\nThe other two Surfentors, Griners and Loves, will be directed incrsinually - report on the loud station cohere there is no suspector stationed\":\" \n\n(04) I. Sarwance for the fights lights of Podian The attection of the Sprefactors is agaier dientest to the crater and to offerêt their I. No Straugue is to be activated into Excument Rescaties: afsistance a party of 12 Curaponds and 12 belinace will the most stave (from sail) \n\ndapt by \n\nsome seems living withority, thermic daily to clean the Barracks: \n\n7. No alterations or refries whatever are to be purate the Recrus & Buildings; without the authority of the \n\nRooms \n\nCafstams sussaintundent. \n\n\"er Barracks - \n\n• when will be lulet reefarerible that any such stranger docs \n\nto \n\n\" not bear a clearacter ottiauice thixes perfectable; and may \n\n186600 \n\nis greater \n\n(sd) H. Mr. Deaux. Act. ferfst : Suppt. 24+ + Out: 1866 \n\n-No one is to be allowed to purxien in a Police Station, except for the necessary livion \n\nand the Sunfrietor is to be insundiality, informed should any \n\n• Member of the Hace introduving a fason of disreputable his business requires, \"Character will be famished : - \n\n2. Maw dismissed four the Hace are not to be attend \n\n\"in Barracks. \n\nremain tere\" \n\nHe will see that all poous are \n\n(8 d) Mlll. Deanse, Act. Cast: Suph, 215 Oct - The Offices in Charge of any But station is peghemith for the clenchings of the 10. Washing blotles or hanging these refp to day is not spremiers, and the safety of Recensement ferofraty. \n\n\"farfperly ventilated by the offering of the wiitions daily. We will transmit to the \n\nrach Munday ek and \"Central Stations ou excle Monday morning before game, a report of the one quartand 44... Fler filly habit of Spitting on the flier is at the stations, ofthe timesnationes of the louch and of any proficies poquined or damages \n\nThe strielly polibited; as, also, suncaring, using profane - \"uotit :- \n\nallowed in & Barrack poous; sior. \n\nto \n\nother work or \n\nday. \n\n\" employment perlich sing licet & fomont clexutines \" _ \n\nway \n\nor filthy language and hired, and angry minitions. \n\n12. No tiffpling, ar gambling, of any description, \n\n\" permitted in Benncles; nor is it spermitted to hufp, \n\nया \n\n1. \" Crustables\" boxes are to be of an exciforme size \n\nis \n\nBakeet from Printest Rules, frage 24 of 1869. \n\n22 He (the Stive Surgeant ) will wirit & pafeert con the process, and culleres of the \n\n\"introduon Mereive any Sprints or intoxicating liquors Content Stations tenir during the day -- \n\nof any description except, such as may be autheniged \n\nfor the use of the Mass= \n\n13. All bede, holding, focilure tot, are to be taken out and \n\n\"aired, weather \n\nfor permitting, unry Saturday at gman.- \n\n14. Her confiied to Barracks, at festial Station, \n\nfor misconduct are to be parade at the flearge \n\nRover properly drespect in Reniforme - turce - \n\ned 5. fr.ue., where they \n\ndaily \n\n&ae, and 5, \n\nwill be inspected by the suspector-ou-duty. \n\nDor \n\n21. of 1869.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296448, "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": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "M. Tu Duc.\n\n(12)\n\n12.-The agreement being disputed was not insisted on by Mr. Kingsmill as binding on the plaintiff Landstein, and the order which discharged the Dang Wee from the attachment ceased to be in force and the Dang Wee is now in the custody of the sheriff as security to the plaintiff Landstein.\n\n13.-I have to add that under present circumstances every ship and all merchandise of H. M. the King of Annam that shall come to Hong-kong will be seizable to secure to Landstein the payment of such amount as he shall be able to prove in the Supreme Court to be due to him, Landstein, from H. M. the King of Annam.\n\nLai Tin was then cited by Landstein and ex-officers on board the said steamer Dung Wee secretly became security for him without the knowledge of this Government.\n\nIn the last 11th moon of last year, (February, 1873), this Government sent the steamer Dang Wee to Hong-kong to undergo certain repairs, and according to the report of the Commandant and his assistant, received by this Government, the steamer was seized on account of money due by Un Tak Hau to the Firm of Lanstein & Co., and the repairs to the steamer were in consequence of the seizure stopped.\n\nI sent a despatch to Your Lordship, also one to H. E. the Governor on the subject, which I presume were duly received. It is now more than a year ago, and the steamer has not yet returned. In the 4th moon of this year, (May and June), a gentleman agent of the Firm of Lanstein & Co. came to this country and claimed a large sum of money-the matter was made known to the King who ordered an official to proceed to Hongkong with Un Tak Hau and Lai Afai who were to take with them several thousands of dollars and there to settle the claim with the Firm of Landstein & Co., so that the Dang Wee may be allowed to return for public service.\n\nThe official who was deputed to settle the matter wrote and informed this Government that the Firm of Lanstein & Co. had acknowledged payment of $24,603, but that the sum of $150,000 was still due, and that the firm would not allow time, that they demanded that $75,000 should be paid at once, and desired that the deputed officer should be security for the balance. This surely cannot be just, why should a Government steamer be seized for a private debt, the steamer was seized because the debtors could not be found, but now they are forthcoming and are willing to pay their debt!\n\nIf as is deposed to the Commodore said to have been sold to H. M. Tu Duc and the Dang Wee which H. M. claims to have given up to him, be the same vessel, then it is clear that H. M. Tu Duc has possession of a steamer once the property of Landstein, and as it is not alleged in the letter to the Governor, or to the Chief Justice that the price for the Commodore has been ever paid, then it would seem that H. M. Tu Duc has the steamer of Landstein in his possession and that the price for it ought to be paid.\n\nA like remark applies to the account current for goods supplied. If H. M. has received them there may be questions between H. M. and his servants as to them but if these articles reached H. M. Tu Duc it would seem but justice that H. M. should pay Landstein for them. It is quite open to H. M. to prove that he never received the goods or that the prices charged were too much or that Landstein is not entitled to payment for reasons to be shown, but until such reasons shall be shown why should not H. M. Tu Duc pay to Landstein the sum claimed?\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nwilling to pay a further sum of $20,000 $30,000, when they return to their country and Your Lordship the balance when they have coined money, this appears to be very fair.\n\nIs Chief Justice of a Colony and would entertain complaints from subjects of all nationality and dispose of them justly, how much more would your Lordship not do for the Minister of this country. I am addressing your Lordship as an official of the Annamese Government, and on behalf of the Government not as a private individual, and I hope your Lordship will do justice in order to preserve for ever the dignity of this Government.\n\nYour most obedient and humble Servant,\n\n(Signed) W. H. ALEXANDER,\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nThe Minister of the Mercantile Marine of the Kingdom of Annam.\n\n(APPENDIX H) For the Minister of Mercantile Marine of the Kingdom of Annam makes this communication to His Lordship the Chief Justice of Hongkong and begs his perusal of the same. In former years the steamer Dang Wee belonging to this Government proceeded to Hongkong on public business, and it was stated that Un Tak Hau, who was on board, bought some goods for the purpose of gain--that he secretly bought from the Firm of Lanstein & Co., a small steamer and some ginseng, and also borrowed money of them-Lai Afai and Ng-a-wang who were on board the steamer Dung Wee secretly became security for him without the knowledge of this Government.\n\nIn the last moon of last year, this Government sent the steamer Dang Wee to Hong-kong to undergo certain repairs, and according to the report of the Commandant and his assistant, received by this Government, the steamer was seized on account of money due by Un Tak Hau to the Firm of Lanstein & Co.\n\nasks and will deem it a great favour if your Lordship will order the firm of Landstein & Co. to accept Un Tak Hau and Lai Afai's payment and to allow them to pay the balance when they have made money in trade, and will kindly order the steamer Dang Wee to be released that she may return for public service and save this Government further unnecessary expense, This is my prayer. An answer to this despatch will much oblige.\n\nIn conclusion I beg to tender my best compliments.\n\n15th day of 8th Moon, 27th Year of Tu Duc (25th September, 1874.)\n\nSealed with the seal of the Minister.\n\nPrinted at the \"Daily Press\" Office, Hongkong.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your inquiry whether I have anything to add to my report, I have the honour to submit the following observations.\n\nThe Mandarin Cai Liu has written to me, his Counsel, from Annam, whither he proceeded in the Dangwee as soon as she was ready for sea, announcing his arrival and stating that Mr. Landstein had sent down a complete stranger.\n\nAttorney General's Office 16th July 1875-\n\n104\n\n176\n\nCopy judgment in the Case of the\n\nreturning the...\n\nas sent to the Government by the Chief Justice\n\nto submit the following observations.\n\nThe Honorable Cecil C. Smith\n\nActing Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310699, "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": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 277, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "## \nthe Supreme Court, and lowering its reputation in a manner prejudicial to the most important interests of the colony. Neither can his Excellency permit a member of the Bar, and one who enjoys the position of a Queen's Counsel, to advance such charges against the Chief Justice, couched in language so strong, without calling on him either to withdraw those charges, or adopt the most legitimate means for substantiating them.\n\nIt appears that Mr. Pollard, in accordance with a suggestion of the Governor, petitioned the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, before whom the Chief Justice appeared by counsel, and the proceedings complained of were reversed. None of Mr. Pollard's allegations were denied by the Chief Justice, as appears by the case as reported. (See `2 Law Reports, Privy Council Appeal Cases, p. 116`.)\n\nI may be permitted to give an extract from a leading article in the **Hongkong Daily Press** of July 27, 1880, to the editor of which I am a total stranger. \"Of the merits of the squabble we cannot express an opinion; that we leave to professional hands: but of the absolute impropriety of the scene enacted yesterday even the most indifferent spectator or the most partial of Sir John Smale's partizans and admirers cannot fail to form a very sound estimate. We have never heard the fons et origo mali of the existing feud between the parties concerned in the scene referred to; and, therefore, in whom the offence lies cannot be arrived at; yet we are not without some guide whereby to form a judgment; for while one of the parties is a newly arrived gentleman, of whom we know nothing, save that he seems a most efficient and industrious officer, and of whom those competent to express an opinion affirm that he is the best Registrar that ever held office in this colony; the other is a dignitary subject to ebullitions of passion giving birth to outbursts of intemperance and caustic remarks, some of which have been placed on record in the journals of the colony.” \n\nI may further give one other extract from the **Hongkong Daily Press**, dated January 12, 1881, the day on which I left the colony, as an illustration of public opinion. \n\n\"It was indeed an ill moment that gave Mr. Gibbons the opportunity of joining the official staff of this colony. After a lengthy and honourable professional career in England, the circumstances were indeed calamitous which induced him to leave the path he had thus far safely trod. No doubt in the expectation of greater advantages, he left home and friends to join a community remarkable for intelligence and courtesy, there to lend the aid of his experience and learning to the furtherance of the sacred objects of justice and order. The realization of his dreams proved but the wildest nightmare. In the guise of justice he found oppression, and order he learned to be but an euphemism for contention and strife. Such was the disillusionising of this hapless man.\n\n\"It may be conjectured than in the usual course an inquiry will be held upon the Registrar's conduct. Perhaps for the sake of the gentleman himself it were well that such an inquisition should be made, when he will have an opportunity of making known to Government and the public under what extraordinary circumstances it became possible that a man of years, of learning and activity, a man indefatigable in duty, an official specially selected by the home authorities to set right the entangled condition of the Registry, and the ablest Registrar the colony ever possessed, came, regardless of all personal consequences, to appeal to the public and the press as his only protection.\"\n\nI have endeavoured to be concise at the risk of being obscure, and I have omitted to mention many matters which would be relevant had I any other object in view \n\nPage 272", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317605, "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": "CO129-201 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [6]", "page_number": 286, "title": "CO129-201 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [6]", "content_text": "## 100 \n\n**Becutary** \n\nI beg to transmit herewith an application for the temporary post, which I have received from Mr. P. M. Meco of the Treasury, and should your Excellency be pleased to sanction the arrangement therein proposed, I believe, from my knowledge of Mr Aloco, he would be found competent to discharge the duties that would be required of him at this office.\n\nIt is desirable that whoever may be sent should have some experience of office work.\n\n(Signed) \nJohn Gerrard \nActing Registrar General\n\n## 10 \n## 285 \nCopy of Minute by the Acting Colonial Secretary\n\nSubmitted, \nD. T.\n\nMr. P. M. Meco dated 5th January will do very well as a temporary Clerk in the Registrar General's Office. \nI think it is unadvisable to put a stranger into the Treasury.\n\n(Signed) \nDr. Idly \nActing Colonial Secretary \n5th January 188...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-201 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321125, "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": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "The building of an educational establishment for ... irrevocably bequeathed to ... in trust deed for that purpose. It would not be to the advantage of ... property unless the amount obtained from the government is based on reasonable quotations, laid before the ... Buildings Grant to be deemed adequate. I hope that this scheme, as outlined by the Secretary of that committee, that when approaching the maximum permitted by their ... may regret the loss of ... action ... ids freedom of ... would be too much ... \n\nMy Mission must, however, be supported by the Government's support for the school and school building, for the cause of education and that institution ... when we consider that in the Colony we have done good ... \n\nThe Cor... \"im all ... B Amend address made by ... for many years ... Ang years from the government ... CAM wordly easily be seen by the ... was the resin eco Regis of prizes at St. Joseph's College ... \n\nIn its balance sheet having left the Colony, Acting Inspector of Schools, in reply to an opinion that a grant for the building should be ... Mr. Us. B. Wright expressed his views in our last letter. We ... Mr. Price the ... sathing forth masszony. Although we inspect the building as directed by ... Wright and the site and building ... This breelance ... The Administrator as well as Mr. ... former with love and his report about ... letter his comments ... \n\n... ma Sheet Invited annese hard ... двортія view aalance sheet on Mr. Tried's ... for ... те ... ཅཨ-ཉཱཏྟསཝཏྟཾ ... \n\nYour Lordships will take petition in a ... པོའརྒུ༽ སྙཝང་་འ ... have the honor to be ... ཨཱརཨཱཙཱིཏིཙ༦ ཋཱཀྑུམཱ ཝིང༦༤ཏཾ པཱཛཾ ཨཱདིཙ ... E. Kaimendi ... f ... C.O. 6 920 RECO REGE 24.APP. \n\nThe condition attached to the prize a boy getting it should remain at least one year longer in the school. May I add that next year Mr. Belillos has promised to give to St. Joseph's College two Scholarships. The extreme kindness of him will, no doubt, induce others to follow his good example. (Applause). \n\nWith regard to the Christian Brothers, I think there is no need of speaking of their ability in educating the young. I will only say that last year when I was in America, though I have always appreciated the Christian Brothers, I did not let the occasion pass without watching their works, and I must say I was astonished when I saw the immense amount of good which had been done by them in America. In all the principal cities of the United States, I was shown their magnificent schools, colleges, and academies in which they are authorized by the government to confer degrees to their pupils, where I heard them praised not only by Catholics but by all lovers of America. I met the Christian Brothers at Guayaquil in Ecuador and in Chili, they are doing wonders. While they are thoroughly able to impart solid education, you must not think that the lighter and serious subjects are neglected by them. They teach music and declamation, and today we shall have specimens of the boys' ability in that direction. If you look at the programme, you will find that we are to have music, declamation, and a little farce. I hope these things will amaze you and compensate you in some degree for the time I have taken up, again thanking you for your presence. \n\nTHE CATHOLIC REGISTER. The prizes were then distributed to the fortunate scholars, after which the following programme was put through with credit to all concerned. My Mother.....Master E. Figueriedo, CLASS VI. The Cockatoo ............ Master J. Alves. CLASS V. The Child's First Grief ( Masters H. and F. Figueiredo. CLASS IV. The Vision of Baltassar Master M. Danenberg, CLASS III, Brutus to the Romans......Master I. Leon. Mark Antony.........Master C. Danenberg. CLASS II. The Cork Leg...........Master A. Adams, CLASS I. A FARCE, The Prince of Oresca.....Master G. Jorge Gusman (his Valet) Master M. Danenberg. Master Barago (Chimney Sweep) { A. Adams. Prince's Secretary) Don Cæsar Domingo (Don Diego's Valet) Petitequese (French Dentist) Master L. Cuatro. Master V. Fraire. Master F. Jesus. GOD SAVE THE Queen. \n\nWe are informed on good authority that the Japanese Government has appointed a Minister to the Court of St. James with legation in Lisbon. \n\nEXCELLENT the ADMINISTRATOR -My Lord Bishop, ladies, and gentlemen--In the first place, I must thank his Lordship Bishop Raimondi, and also Brother Cyprian for inviting me to be present at this ceremony-the annual distribution of prizes of St. Joseph's College. To the pupils, I have no doubt that this is the principal event of the year, and I have no doubt the parents of the boys look forward to it with equal anxiety, as it is an occasion which gives them an insight into the progress which their sons have made during the year, and what prizes they have won. I have listened with great interest to the description given by his Lordship, Bishop Raimondi, of the progress which has been made by the boys under the care of the Christian Brothers during the past year under great difficulties, as the school was being transferred from one building to another. I have also listened with much interest to the history I have heard of the great amount of good which has been done in this colony by the Christian Brothers, and I am sure their services are appreciated (applause). To Brother Cyprian and his assistants, who have during the past year done so much, I am sure that the praise which has been bestowed by the Bishop must have been very gratifying. It is sometimes a thankless task to impart education to the young, as boys do not always appreciate education, though they will repent not having done so in after years (applause). This is one of the two principal educational establishments of the colony, and therefore the Government takes great interest in its progress. Now that it is removed to this large building, I have no doubt that its sphere of usefulness will be considerably extended. There is, I see, a long programme to be gone through, and therefore I will not take up your time any longer, as I have no doubt it will be much more interesting to the audience than any remarks I could make.\n\nPage 501\n\nThe Macao Government have approved the project for the erection of a Church and College at the Island of Taipa. We are glad indeed to see that the Portuguese Government have at last returned to their old policy of civilizing the heathen, which made Portugal great in former centuries. \n\nA curious conflict has broken out between the Roumanian Church and the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople. The latter accuses the Metropolitan of Roumania and his flock of falling away from the \"orthodox\" belief and inclining to the Church of Rome. Among other reasons alleged are the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar, and the neglect of the custom of procuring the Holy Oil from the Patriarch. The Metropolitan and people are therefore threatened with anathema. Should the excommunication be fulminated, we shall be curious to see what course the Roumanians will adopt. \n\nWith your Lordship's permission, we will now proceed to the distribution of prizes. \n\nThe Independente of Macao, in its last issue, criticised at great length a small paragraph which appeared in our last number, sent by the Independente of the Macao press. We must confess that the Independente utterly failed in its criticism, which has done nothing less than confirm us in our belief that the mention of the Colonial Secretary in connection with the emigration affair has been avoided in order not to give offense in some quarters. We would simply ask if it is a fair sample of our Macao contemporary's independence, the virulent manner with which it has attacked the Colonial Secretary in almost all its issues, simply because De Corte-Real happens to be in strained relations with some public functionaries in Macao. We admit that the Colonial Secretary has a host of political enemies, as it is always the case when a man in power pursues a vigorous policy, but this is no reason for the Independente to attack that gentleman in such an unjustifiable way. We think every right-minded man will concur with us in supposing that the Independente is simply the mouthpiece of the disaffected public functionaries, and, as we are credibly informed, that paper has been resuscitated by them with the object of attacking ... \n\nUnder these circumstances, we must decline entering into any controversy whatever, and the question, as far as we are concerned, must therefore be dropped. \n\nWe learn that the Jesuit Fathers of St. Louis, Missouri, are to begin in the spring the erection of a magnificent new church and college in that city. The plans have been sent to Rome for approval, and it is expected that the church is to be on the plan of the great cathedral of Milan. College and church are to cost more than a million dollars --£250,000. \n\nAccording to the Bombay Gazette, the coffee plant is threatened with an enemy, just as the potato and the grape are. This enemy is a small and very rapidly growing fungus, which has already done great havoc among the coffee-plants of Ceylon, Java, and elsewhere. In the latter, the local Government has intervened, bought up the infected plantations, and burnt all the plants. \n\nThe great robbery of the treasure of the Church of St. Denis, in which the sacred vessels given by Francis I. and Louis XIV. and his successors, the crowns of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, and--worst of all--a great relic of the True Cross, were carried off, turns out to have been committed by a wandering tribe of Bohemians or gipsies from Germany, called Rantocheills. It will probably not be difficult to trace such peculiar criminals, but we are sorry to see nothing about the recovery of the treasure. \n\nTHE Rt. Rev. Dom Antonio Joaquim de Medeiros, Bishop Elect of Thermopylae, and Coadjutor to His Grace the Archbishop of Goa, arrived in Bombay by the Australian Mail Steamer, Sultany, last Saturday morning. Shortly after the steamer dropped anchor, the Rev. Fathers J. L. Monteiro and N. Clarke, S. J., deputed respectively by the Archbishop of Goa and the Vicar-Apostolic of Bombay, with the Very Rev. the Portuguese Vicar General, the Vicar of Bandora, and the Vicar of Cavel went on board to receive His Lordship and accompany him to the residence of Bishop Morais, whose guest he has been during the week. At 5 o'clock yesterday evening, he embarked for Goa on board the Portuguese troopship India, which is to sail for that port early this morning. The date of His Lordship's consecration has not yet been definitively settled, but we believe the ceremony will take place at Goa soon after Easter. \n\nWe now have an authentic declaration that Mr. Darwin, whose praises have been sung by Bishops of the Church of England, and whose funeral was conducted as a religious ceremony, considered that he had no more a soul than a pig has. \"The controversy as to the exact nature of Darwin's religious belief, which has arisen from the publication of a reply sent by him to a German student, has brought forward Dr. Robert Lewins, who, writing to the Journal of Science, says: \"Before concluding, I may, without violation of any confidence, mention that, both viva voce and in writing, Mr. Darwin was much less reticent to myself than in his letter to Jona. For, in answer to the direct question I felt myself justified, some years since, in addressing to that immortal expert in biology as to the bearing of his researches on the existence of an anima or soul in man, he distinctly stated that, in his opinion, a vital or 'spiritual' principle, apart from inherent somatic energy, had no more locus standi in the human than in the other races of the animal kingdom--a conclusion that seems a mere corollary of, or indeed a position tantamount with, his essential doctrine of human and bestial identity of nature and genesis.\" Those are now the prophets of Israel--we have reached the lowest form of degradation. \n\nEdward Strauss has lately given a telephonic concert in Vienna. The satire orchestra of the Director of State Balls played in a room at a distance of 14 and 30 German miles (or some 60 and 130 English miles) respectively from the audiences. Four microphones were employed, and the music was heard quite clearly; even the tones of the flutes and stringed instruments being perfectly pure. \n\nChristmas at the Vatican has been unusually cheerful. The Pope has received a large number of letters from Sovereigns and great personages in various countries, couched in specially affectionate and cordial terms. An extraordinarily large number of presents has also reached the Vatican--money, articles of value, and vast quantities of eatables of all imaginable sorts. All the eatables were at once distributed among poor nuns, friars, and needy families. \n\nAs an example of the mutability of Anglicanism, scarcely any Anglican now remembers that, about thirty years ago, the Eastern Church was the grand ideal of High Churchmen. Cardinal Newman has just edited a book by Mr. Palmer, or rather, has written a preface to the book, in which he calls to mind the passionate yearning for communion which used to agitate High Churchmen towards Greek Churchmen. Poor Mr. Palmer is not alive; yet he devoted many years in trying to unite modern Anglicanism with that most effete of all schisms, the Greek Church. \"When I was a boy, the Holy Eastern Church was always spoken of as the oasis of Christendom; as that one only ideal in which primitive orthodoxy was united with modern freedom and National Churchism. Nobody now hears of the Greek Church! And the Greek Church hears as little of Anglicanism. I remember meeting Mr. Palmer in Rome, shortly after he entered the Catholic Church, and asking him whether he thought that the Holy Eastern Church had any yearning for communion with Anglicanism. He replied that the great difficulty which he had met with, in the days when he used to try to bring about the union, was that scarcely a member of the Greek Church knew what Anglicanism was, or had so much as heard of the Archbishop of Canterbury. \n\nA case of special interest to Catholics has recently been decided in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. A professing Catholic, named Denis Copper, had bought ground for a grave in the Catholic cemetery of Calvary. Subsequently, he became a Freemason, and died without being reconciled to the Church. The ecclesiastical authorities, therefore, took no part in the funeral, and refused to admit the body to the cemetery, on the ground that the deceased, by his own act, had separated himself from the Church, and had consequently lost all right to a Catholic burial. His heirs or representatives thereupon summoned the priest before the district Court, and pleaded the purchase of the ground, and the Court gave judgment in their favour, and ordered that the interment should take place. But, on appeal to the Supreme Court of the State, this judgment was reversed, and the Court confirmed the right of the authorities of the Church to enforce its discipline against those who had voluntarily submitted to it. Those, said Judge Barrett, who voluntarily quit it, or are expelled from it, lose all the rights conditional on belonging to it; that is a consequence which they must have foreseen when they entered the Church. And the essential rule of the Catholic Church is the submission of the faithful to their spiritual superiors. The Bien Public of Ghent, which records this case, contrasts the action of the American Court with that of the Belgian authorities in analogous cases, and remarks on the difference between the two.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322507, "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": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 379, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "virtues, although unostentatiously exhibited, are deemed worthy of honour by the community in general. (Much applause). Gentlemen, the Hon. F. B. Johnson will next address the meeting.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON—Sir George Phillippo and gentlemen, when I was first invited to follow you, sir, in the remarks that you have made to this meeting, I felt it would be somewhat presumptuous on my part to take any prominent part in these proceedings, considering that during the whole term of office held by the Governor in honour of whose memory we are met together to-day, I was not a resident in the Colony, and that I possessed only a very partial and limited acquaintance with the late Sir Arthur Kennedy. But, sir, I consider that I stand here to-day not in my own name, but in the name of the firm of which I am a member, and which has been identified with Hongkong since the foundation of the colony whose interests the late Sir Arthur Kennedy did so much to promote (Applause.) And, sir, I think I may venture to speak as the representative of my two immediate predecessors in the position I occupy, who had the most ample opportunities of forming a correct judgment and on whose authority I venture to say the character of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy was held by them in the most profound respect, either of whom, if they could have been here to-day, would have given cordial support to the object this influential meeting has met to promote. Perhaps I may also be permitted to say on my own behalf, that although I am a comparative stranger to a large proportion of this community, I have been identified with its interests in one continuous period since the time I landed here, nearly thirty-three years ago. I have watched the progress and prosperity of this place since the time when grass might be seen freely growing in the Queen's-road, and when the germs of the present magnificent city we now know, consisted of long straggling streets, with few bungalows scattered here and there on the hillside, and I venture to say that which I am sure the other speakers, who are more intimately connected with the subject than I am will bear me out in, that the full tide of the prosperity we at present enjoy set in during the administration of Sir Arthur Kennedy (Applause). Sir, though I am convinced that the prosperity of this place does not depend upon the policy, good or bad, of any man—(Hear, hear)—yet it is nevertheless true that a good and impartial administrator, labouring for the benefit of all, is a great blessing. By the testimony of all who knew him, Sir Arthur Kennedy was a courteous gentleman, an able and impartial administrator, and a worthy representative of the Civil Service of the Crown (Applause). Under him race distinctions had not been invented, and class enmities had not been fostered, and though he was not a genius, he possessed, according to the testimony we have heard from the Chief Justice, that better characteristic of a constitutional Governor. He surrounded himself with able counsellors who had complete confidence in him, and in whom also he reposed great confidence (applause), and, sir, I think the highest tribute we can pay to the single-minded character of the man to whose memory we are here to-day to do honour, will be to follow the course suggested by those who have convened this meeting. I am sure could he know of our proceedings here to-day, of all the honours which he obtained during his distinguished career, he would have prized the honour which this assembly proposes to do to his memory above them all—(loud applause)—because it shows his efforts to promote the common good were appreciated by all classes, by all races, by all creeds in this community. I cordially support the proposal to erect to the memory of Sir Arthur Kennedy some fitting memorial which will express the opinion of this meeting as to the beneficence of his rule.—(Renewed Applause).\n\nMr. REINERS, at a call from the chair, said—Sir George Phillippo and gentlemen, as a member of the German community of this colony, it is my desire to add a few words to the able speech of Mr. Johnson; and although I cannot add much to his remarks, I think I am expressing the universal feeling and opinion of my countrymen in saying that they not only approve of the objects of this meeting, but will also with the greatest pleasure assist in carrying out the intention of this meeting, and give their cordial support (applause). Those who were living in this colony during the administration of Sir Arthur Kennedy I think cannot but remember the friendly feeling he has always shown towards every section of the community. (Applause). In erecting a monument to the memory of our late Governor we shall only be too happy to co-operate with you. I have great pleasure in commending the intention of this meeting and asking you to give it your hearty support. (Applause).\n\nMr. A. G. ROMANO, who was next called upon, said—Sir George Phillippo and gentlemen, I beg permission to make a few remarks on the proposal to erect a memorial to Sir Arthur Kennedy. But what can I add to what has been already said, and after such speakers as you have heard? I can say that I am very glad to be present here to-day to support any step that may be taken to accomplish the object of the meeting (applause). I knew the late Sir Arthur Kennedy when he was Governor of this colony, and whenever I had to meet him, either privately or officially, he always showed me every attention and kindness, and I found he acted as a good and genial gentleman and a wise Governor. I have no doubt that all my countrymen in this colony agree that Sir Arthur Kennedy was a wise Governor and a good gentleman, and I am sure they will do all they can towards promoting any project for perpetuating his memory (Applause).\n\nMr. HO KAI, at a call from the chair, said—Sir George Phillippo and gentlemen, it is on behalf of the Chinese community that I now rise to address you. The melancholy news which reached us last week of the death of Sir Arthur Kennedy was received universally with grief and sympathy by the whole Chinese population—(applause)—grief which is most genuine, and sympathy which is most sincere. It is many years—I think over five years since Sir Arthur Kennedy was amongst us, and his memory is still green in the minds of many who had the advantage of living under his benignant and wise administration. We Chinese are very glad to-day to have an opportunity of expressing our opinions and our heart-felt feeling in a public manner (Applause); and I assure you that in the death of Sir Arthur Kennedy we feel we have lost one of the greatest and best men that the English Government have ever had in their service. It is the general desire, I think, that a memorial of some kind should be raised to the memory of Sir Arthur Kennedy. It is true that those who were personally attached to Sir Arthur Kennedy, and those whom he won, by his high administrative capacity, over to honour and respect him, and those to whom he endeared himself by his gentlemanly kindliness, courtesy, and hospitality, need no memorial of any kind to remind them of him who is gone; they could not forget him; but still we wish to find a means by which we may express our feelings most publicly, so that the name of Sir Arthur Kennedy may be handed down from generation to generation. It is for this reason, gentlemen, that I am here to speak on behalf of the large Chinese community of this Colony in support of the motion before the meeting (applause).\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Gentlemen, the Hon. J. M. Price will now bring forward a scheme which he has prepared for erecting a statue in memory of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy, in order that he may submit the same to the meeting.\n\nHon. J. M. PRICE, who was received with warm applause, said—Sir, I fear you labour under some misapprehension in saying I have already prepared a scheme for the purpose of erecting a statue to the memory of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy. Although it is true that I have had the honour of being consulted by several gentlemen, leading residents of the colony, with reference to the probable cost of a public statue. These gentlemen desired to have this information in the event of this meeting arriving at a decision in favour of that description of monument. I cannot boast myself of having had much experience in monumental works of art in bronze, but I have had the opportunity of consulting an able professional gentleman in the government department with which I am connected who has had considerable insight into work of the kind, and of verifying the information given me by him, by data obtained outside this colony; so that I am now in a position to furnish this meeting with an estimate of the probable cost of a statue in the event of your predilections leaning in that direction. The cost of a figure in bronze, of heroic stature, that is, one half size larger than life, executed by the best talent in England, and erected on a pedestal of granite, would come to about $8,000, a sum I think well within the range of the munificence, I may say the proverbial munificence, ever displayed by the Hongkong community in matters of public interest and of public sympathy. Having touched on the form of memorial that...\n\nPage 368", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323215, "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": "CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11]", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11]", "content_text": "REGINA v. LOGAN.\n\nMr. Wise—Are they so much alike that if dressed in similar clothes a person strange to them might mistake one for the other?\n\nWitness—I know them both.\n\nIs there any similarity between the two? To a stranger there might be a little.\n\nFung Lan Kok said—I am a schoolmaster and keep a school above the Yen Wow Sun tea and silk hong, in Nam Ngon. I remember the 12th August; that morning about six or half past I was upstairs and I heard a woman crying in the street. I saw the woman from upstairs, and we had to push our way through them. About 20 feet down the cross-street we came upon the dead body of a Chinese boy about thirteen or fourteen years old lying on the pavement. I noticed that he was wounded but I did not look at the wound. I also saw a wounded Chinaman leaning against the wall nearer to the corner of the street. He was wounded on the hip at the back. At the time I formed an opinion that the boy's wound was caused by a shot. Later in the day I saw the boy's body again in the same place. I was then in company with Dr. Wales. I do not know what has become of Neilsen except by hearsay; I understand he is a Norwegian; as to Johnson, he says he is a Russian Finn. I knew a man in the Customs service of the name of Oehl; I believe he was taken from Canton to the Hongkong hospital, where he died; he was accompanied by Mr. Jochland and Mr. Von der Loiten.\n\nLater in the day I visited the prisoner's house in company with Mr. Duncan, the Constable. The prisoner's door is in the middle of the house. There was then a wire door on the outside, and a wooden door inside it. I do not remember whether there is a fan light over the door, but there are windows on both sides. I went in from the back, and going to the front I noticed that the front door was closed, with an iron bar across it. I disconnected the bell wire as it was constantly being pulled by someone outside. I noticed a lot of stones on the floor of the lower front room. There were about twenty, more or less.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Wise—The street was very much crowded when I first heard the noise in the street. The street was full, and there was great excitement and much shooting. I made out the word \"ta\" being called out. The reports of the revolver I heard came from the back of the house, I don't think they came from the street. I cannot say what Mr. Logan was firing into the pond for; there are lots of fish in the water. I did not see the prisoner fire in the street.\n\nMr. Wise—You saw the stones in the prisoner's house when you went there with the constable; how do you think they got there?\n\nWitness—In my opinion they were thrown there by Chinese. Someone in the crowd threw a stone towards me when I was looking out of my window. I have known the prisoner nearly two years, and as far as I know he has the best of characters. He is a quiet, peaceable man and not at all likely to create a disturbance. The prisoner was dressed in white that morning, Johnson in blue in a material called Spanish stripes, and Neilsen, I think, had a white suit. I do not know Neilsen well, but I have often seen him; he is a little taller than the prisoner and fairer, with a light moustache.\n\nThree foreigners. The woman was crying and the three foreigners put up their hands and told her to go away. They were standing in the street opposite the wire door, which was opposite the tea hong seven or eight Chinese feet towards the west. The woman did not go away, and the foreigners pushed her away, and one of them pointed a short firearm at the woman. One of these foreigners was the prisoner, and it was he who pointed the firearm. The woman was crying out, \"Taipan, you must heal me.\" Towards the east in the street there were ten or twenty Chinamen; some were standing on the bridge, some below the bridge, and some at the corner of my house. They were calling out and telling the woman not to walk away, and to tell the foreigners to heal her.\n\nThe Chinese did not do anything but cry out to the woman, and when the man with the firearm heard the noise of the people calling out he ran back into the house, and in an instant he brought out a long firearm, between one and two Chinese feet in length. Then someone from within the threshold gave him some cartridges with both hands, and then the boy who gave him the cartridges came to the door. The prisoner took the firearm and hastily went to the east. The people in the east ran, and the prisoner went on to the bridge and stood there. I saw him lower his body and heard the report of a firearm. I was frightened and went down and shut the window. I heard the people in the street say that someone was killed. It was the prisoner who fired. The stout one followed him at a distance of several Chinese feet, and the other was still farther back, several feet, than the stouter one. I did not see anything in their hands. The prisoner fired towards the east. After he had taken several steps the people ran to the east.\n\nThe Crown Advocate—Did any of them do anything to the prisoner or threaten him?\n\nWitness—No, they only called to the woman.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Wise—I only heard one shot fired. I had never seen the prisoner before that day. The prisoner had on white clothes, and the others both black coats and trousers.\n\nREGINA v. LOGAN,\n\n16\n\nteach my pupils to speak the truth, and I carry it out myself. I have spoken about the case to the Consul, but I have spoken of it to no one else. I keep a school and do not go out and in. The Crown Advocate objected to Mr. Wise's statement that there was a difference in the witness's statements; there was no difference between the two except some omissions in the statement before the Consul. He wished to have those depositions put in.\n\nMr. Wise said he was willing to accept the statement of the Crown Advocate.\n\nCross-examination continued—The boy handed a great many cartridges to the prisoner, but I did not see what he did with those he had left after loading the firearm. When I was before the Consul I told him I saw the prisoner lower his body at the bridge. I heard a report immediately after the prisoner lowered his body, but I did not see him pull the trigger, nor any smoke come from the weapon, as I am near-sighted.\n\nRe-examined by the Crown Advocate—When I was here before the Consul I answered all the questions that were put to me, and I answered truly, and to-day too. I saw with my own eyes the prisoner bring a longer firearm out of his house, also the foreigners push the woman. I saw with my own eyes the prisoner point the firearm, and heard with my own ears the woman cry out to the foreigners, \"Taipan, heal me,\" and I also heard with my own ears the crowd call to the woman to tell the foreigners to heal her. I have only stated to-day what I have seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears.\n\nMr. Ball, after interpreting this answer, said he heard someone hiss behind him when the witness gave his answer; he was not looking behind at the time, and did not see who it was.\n\nThere were several Chinese in the doorway near the witness.\n\nMr. Wise—Did you tell the Consul you saw the woman? Is not that something you have since learned?\n\nWitness—No, I am telling what I saw myself. I passed last night in my school.\n\nDid you say before the Consul that the expression \"Taipan, hoal mo\" was used?—No.\n\nDid you say the foreigner went into his house and got a firearm?—I said the foreigner stood at the door holding a firearm, and the boy handed him the cartridges.\n\nAnswer the question.—I do not remember clearly.\n\nYip A Piu, deposed—I am unemployed. I was a fruit seller. I remember the 12th August last; on that day I was residing in the chief street of Nam Nguo. I have seen the prisoner before; he was living in the same street as I was, my house being to the west of his about eight or ten houses.\n\nI saw three foreigners passing along the street, and when I saw this I ran also to the east to the cross-street. I passed the prisoner's house and the bridge, and turned into the cross-street, which is two or three cheong past the bridge. After a time I came out to look; I looked along the chief street to the west as far as the bridge. As I did so I saw a foreigner firing a firearm; he was at the bridge, and he was facing towards me when he did so. He was kneeling down with the firearm resting on his arm. I saw that myself. [Witness put himself in the position he described and rested his hand across his left arm in the way a revolver is sometimes rested.] I saw it projecting beyond his arm about...\n\nDid you say so or not?—I did say so.\n\nMr. Wise applied that the interpreter should read to the witness his deposition taken before the Consul, and then he repeated the question.\n\nWitness—It is so long ago that I do not remember; I think I must have said it.\n\nHis Lordship said he thought it was not important; if he had contradicted himself it would be a different thing. He could not say how it would affect the jury, but that was how it seemed to himself.\n\n22", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324917, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "10\n\nsatisfactory condition\n\n6\n\nI will cause the\n\ncreation\n\nof the new Victoria College, which\n\nto\n\nhas been too long delayed owing to causes known at the Colonial Office,\n\nto be proceeded with as\n\nfast as the limited resources of the Public Works Department permit.\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nYour Lordship's Most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nJ. Bowen\n\nPRIZE DAY AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL.\n\nThe annual distribution of prizes at the Central School took place yesterday afternoon. His Excellency the Governor presided, and amongst the visitors present were the Misses Bowen, Mrs. Marsh, Hon. A. Lister, Hon. F. Stewart, Mr. Justice Russell, Rev. W. Jennings, Major Lloyd, Captain Accioni (Italian Navy), Mr. Dejardin (French Consul), Mr. Loureiro (Portuguese Consul), Mr. Machida (Japanese Consul), Mr. Romano (Brazilian Consul), Lieut. Vyryan, A.D.C., Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, Mr. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Rev. Dr. Eitel, Rev. Dr. Chalmers, Rev. E. Faber, Rev. R. Lechler, Mr. R. C. Wilcox, Mr. H. W. Hambling, Mr. Dorabjee Nowrojee, Mr. Lee Tak Cheong, &c.\n\nMr. G. H. B. Wright, M.A., the Head Master, said—Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, it is just two years since I arrived in this colony, and I am now taking part in the third annual distribution of prizes in which I have assisted. I can honestly say the excellent impression produced on me as a stranger at the first examination has deepened on further acquaintance into the conviction that the school is slowly, but steadily and surely, attaining its object of imparting a high-class English education to the youth of this colony. The total number of boys on the roll during the year was 556, and the average daily attendance 394, a higher figure than in the previous year. I do not wish to anticipate the report of the Inspector of Schools, but from the examination of the papers made for prize purposes, I conclude that 96 per cent. of the boys have passed. There has been, I am happy to say, a great improvement in the English subjects—composition, grammar, history, translation from and into English. During the last year, grammar was introduced as low as the ninth class, with excellent results in the examination. I am sure it is not necessary for me, after making these statements, to remark that the masters and assistants of this school deserve the highest credit and warmest congratulation for their work during the last year. I must not omit, however, to mention the zeal and interest displayed by Mr. Chape, who was acting master in the Middle School for ten months of the year. By the addition of Mr. May to the staff, I was enabled to divide the first class, which was a rather unwieldy-sized class, into two divisions. This division has produced marked results in the examination. The trustees of the Bailie's Scholarships have awarded two scholarships this year, the senior to the first boy in the first class and the junior to the first boy in the second class, for proficiency in general subjects. The capital of the scholarship presented by Mr. Neish Bain for engineering has been invested during the year, and the first competition will probably be held this time next year. In August last year, Your Excellency was pleased to approve of a suggestion of mine that four boys should be elected from outside district schools for free education in this school. Four boys were accordingly elected, and I am pleased to say they have all passed a creditable examination, one boy in the sixth class having gained the first prize. I have nothing further to add than to express my thanks to Your Excellency for presiding on this occasion and to those ladies and gentlemen who, by their presence to-day, have testified their interest in this school. (Applause).\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY—Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with much satisfaction that I have come here to-day to preside for the first time at the annual distribution of prizes at the Central School, the chief educational establishment maintained by the Government of this Colony; and in which nearly all the students are Chinese. I assure that you all have listened with interest and pleasure to the remarks just made by the Head Master.\n\nAs already well known, the present very inadequate building will soon be replaced by a handsome and convenient College, furnished with all the necessary appurtenances. (Applause.) Looking to the great and growing importance of this institution, and to the mature age of a large proportion of the students, I have sought and obtained permission to have the new building called Victoria College. (Applause.) I am sure that this entire community will loyally appreciate the honour thus conferred upon it by our gracious Sovereign, the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, the Tai Huang-ti of the English race. (Applause.) It is recorded in the Chinese Classics that the grand philosopher, the Aristotle of China,—Kung Tze, called by Europeans Confucius,—once, when gazing upon a river, compared its pure and ceaseless current to the transmission of sound learning and morality through successive ages of mankind. So let us hope that, under the blessing of Heaven, Victoria College may endure throughout the great future of China, a main source whence will flow the streams of education and knowledge to generations yet unborn. (Applause.) Your own Confucius, my Chinese friends, was the \"Great Master of Knowledge,\" \"Il gran maestro di color che sanno\" in the Eastern world, as Dante said of Aristotle in the Western world. The moral philosophy of Aristotle has for centuries exercised a wide influence over the higher education of the Western nations; and so the teaching of Confucius has held predominant sway over the laws, the feelings, and the general life of the vast Empire of China; which comprises above one-fourth of the entire human race. In fact, the golden words of Confucius have the same force now as when they were first spoken twenty-five centuries ago. You should all treasure in your hearts what the Master said when he was asked—\"Is it not pleasant to learn with never-failing application and perseverance?\" And again, when he laid down the rule that \"A youth when at home should be obedient to his parents, and when abroad respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow with love to all, and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity after the performance of these primary duties, he should employ them in polite studies.\" With regard to the art of ruling men, Confucius said—\"A just Government is like the polar star which keeps its fixed place, while the other stars turn towards it.\" I assure all the Chinese in this island that the Government of Hongkong is desirous to treat them with justice, and not only \"with dry but with sympathetic justice,\" to quote a phrase recently used by an eminent English statesman. (Applause.) In short, the Government desires to extend to them the privileges of British subjects. A most worthy representative of the Chinese race, Mr. Wong Shing, has been appointed a member of the Colonial Legislature. Moreover, I have thrown open the minor posts in the public service to competitive examination without distinction of race or creed. There will thus be a wide field for honourable employment for all the youth of this island. Again, provision will shortly be made at the public expense to send a certain number of the most distinguished pupils of the colleges at Hongkong to complete their studies in England, as members of the legal or medical professions, or as civil engineers. (Applause.) It will be remembered that more than 2,000 years ago your Chinese ancestors had already established a national polity, a national code of law, and a national literature; had built great cities, and had made much progress in many of the industrial arts, at a period when the ancestors of what are now the three most powerful nations of Western Europe—the English, the Germans, and the French—whose magnificent squadrons are now in this harbour, had not yet emerged from barbarism. But in modern times, while China has remained well nigh stationary, the Western nations have made rapid and constant progress in all the arts that can promote and adorn civilization. I hope that a long succession of the Chinese students of this college, after completing their education in England, may have the honour of bringing back with them, and of introducing into their native land, the results of the humane and enlightened jurisprudence, and of the improved medical science of modern Europe, or may, as engineers, help to cover the vast Empire of China, as Europe has already been covered, with a network of railways and telegraphs, those powerful promoters of commercial intercourse and of the arts of modern civilization. (Applause.) And now, my young friends, I will conclude this address by reminding you of two famous and excellent Chinese proverbs:—\"Those persons are only asses and cows in men's clothes who neglect the study of the past and present\"—Jen pu hsiao ku chin, ma niu mien chin chi; and \"learning is far more precious than gold\"—Huang chin yu chia, shu wu chia—Loud Applause).\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY—I am very much pleased with everything I have seen, my young friends, and I think your general appearance, behaviour, and proficiency reflect great credit upon your excellent Head Master and on all the staff of masters. I am very much pleased with all that I have seen to-day. I am requested by the Head Master to announce that your holidays will now commence and last till Friday, the 22nd February. I hope you will enjoy the Chinese New Year, and that you will have much pleasure during that festive time, with plenty of crackers and fireworks of all sorts.\n\nThe boys then gave cheers for the Queen, for His Excellency, for the Head Master, and for the visitors.\n\nPage 175", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330226, "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": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 3\n25th Jany 1913?\n\nI am connected with the examination, one of the First Class. I also forward a report extracted from local papers of the proceedings at the annual distribution of prizes to the Scholars, which took place on the 23rd instant. I would beg to draw your special attention to the remarks made on the occasion by Mr. Hamilton Sharp, a gentleman who is on a short visit to this Colony, and whose flattering testimony to the efficient system of education pursued at this establishment is the more valuable as he is a stranger, and a wholly disinterested witness.\n\nHaving been informed that Mr. Sharp had considerable experience at home in examinations, I asked permission to show him the examination papers set at the Central School and the answers thereto, and that he had taken a great interest in the subject, I invited him to express his views on the subject.\n\n2 I do not remember whether", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330233, "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": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "# PRIZE DAY AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL\n\n## Enclosure 3\n\nThe annual distribution of prizes took place at the Government Central School on Saturday morning in the presence of a considerable number of visitors. The prizes were presented by His Excellency the Acting Governor, who was accompanied by Mrs. Mash. Amongst those present were the Right Rev. Bishop Burdon, Hon. F. Stewart, L.L.D., Acting Colonial Secretary; Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. Wong Shing, Lieut.-Colonel Murray, A.C.G.O.; Mr. A. G. Romano, Consul for Portugal and Brazil; Captain Porter, A.D.C.; Dr. Eitel, Inspector of Schools; Rev. Dr. Chalmers, Rev. Dr. Faber, Rev. J. C. Edge; Brothers Cyprian and Williams, of St. Joseph's College; Mr. Granville Sharp, Mr. Hamilton Sharp, Mr. Wei Yuk, Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. J. H. Cox, and several ladies.\n\nMr. G. H. Bateson Wright, the Head Master, opened the proceedings by speaking as follows:-\n\nMay it please Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, the total number of boys on the school roll for the past year was 596. Of these 499 were present at one time in the month of March. It might be supposed that this increase of numbers was due to overcrowding of the school. It will be therefore as well to explain that the numbers in the Middle, Lower, and Preparatory Schools remained at their old figure; the increase must therefore be attributed to the Upper School and is the direct result of the higher standard of work introduced two years ago into the Middle and Lower Schools. Out of 412 boys just examined 95 per cent. passed, the same percentage as last year, but as more boys underwent examination and the papers were of a more searching character, I think the result may be considered of a higher order. This year I introduced as a novelty into the examination of the first class a \"general intelligence paper.\" The object of this paper was to discover how far the boys' minds were educated outside the general routine. 32 per cent passed, and, considering the novelty of the paper, I hope this may be considered satisfactory. In the past year we may note the arrival of Mr. Jones, from Chester Training College, and the resignation of Mr. Hutchison on leaving the Colony. Mr. Hutchison had for three years proved himself a most energetic, successful, and popular master, and we were all sorry to lose him. A scheme for articling six pupil-teachers, with a view to providing efficient Chinese assistants for the Central School, was approved by the Secretary of State, and we are only waiting for the new building to be fairly commenced to put it into execution. I am happy to be able to report that Mr. Bosman, who was sent home as Government scholar last February, is distinguishing himself at the engineering school in connection with the Crystal Palace. Before I sit down I must express a hope that Your Excellency will be able to make some statement respecting the progress of the new school.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY**-Mr. Wright, ladies and gentlemen, I confess it is with some feeling of disappointment that I find myself called upon to preside here again in this room at the annual distribution of prizes of the Central School, for, if I remember aright, on the last occasion when I presided here, now three years ago, I was able to announce that the Secretary of State had decided the long-vexed question whether there was to be a new Central School and had given instructions for the erection of a new and much larger building than the present on the piece of ground close by here, which was acquired for that purpose many years ago. I confess that at that time I entertained a hope that in three years' time the main building would have been ready, and that this distribution of prizes would have taken place in the hall of the new Central School, or Victoria College, as Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to allow it to be called. The plans were prepared and the ground got ready, and the foundations were laid. The work was then stopped. I believe I am to a certain extent responsible for that - partly responsible, for towards the end of 1884, when His Excellency the Governor was away from this Colony, the finances of the Colony were in rather a bad way, the revenue was not coming in so fast as usual, retrenchment became necessary, and I had to give directions for the suspension of the work. After that some modification of the plans was necessary, and then the officer of the Surveyor General's Department charged with the preparing of these fell seriously ill and I believe has now gone home. The work has been resumed during the past week, and I am informed there are 200 men at work this morning. A sum of $50,000 has been provided in the Estimates for this year for the completion of the building, and I earnestly trust there will be no further interruption of the work, and that by the end of the year, if the new College is not completed, it will, at any rate, be so far advanced as to render it possible without much delay to make use of the building. (Applause). I have in my hand the report of the Head Master for the past year and that report is a highly satisfactory one. The number of pupils attending the School, as the Head Master has just informed you, has been larger than in any previous year, and the percentage of those who passed was 95.38. I propose to read to you only one paragraph concerning a subject to which this Government has always attached great importance, viz., English education:-\n\nThe general result of the English Examination of 1885 is good. In spite of the large number, 412, examined, and in spite of the papers being of a more searching character than usual throughout the school, 95 per cent. passed, which reflects great credit on all the Masters and the Chinese Assistants. I think a special word of commendation is due to the two new masters, Mr. Dealy and Mr. Jones, who in one year have so readily and completely adapted themselves to their new surroundings.\n\nI think this Report, considering all the disadvantages which the School has to contend with owing to confined space, the want of proper ventilation and other causes, reflects great credit upon the management of the School, and I beg to congratulate the Head Master and his assistants on their success. I wish I could express the hope that the distribution of prizes would take place next year in the new building, but I am afraid that would be too sanguine a hope. At any rate, I think within two years' time there will be a very good chance of the building being completed. I will use every endeavour in my power to push on the work. I understand from the Head Master that there is a gentleman present who has been connected with educational matters in England for about 25 years, who takes some interest in this School and wishes to express his views on the subject. I call upon Mr. Hamilton Sharp.\n\n**Mr. HAMILTON SHARP**-Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, there is a little misapprehension. I had no wish nor any thought of intruding any remarks, for I am a mere stranger and visitor amongst you, and do not know much of the working of the school. In the most casual way I have had the pleasure and privilege of looking at the papers, and I remarked then that I only wished His Excellency could see them as I had seen them, but I never thought of being asked to make any remarks here.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY**-We shall be very glad to hear you, Mr. Sharp.\n\n**Mr. SHARP**-If there be any subject in the world I do understand, it certainly is examinations and examination papers, because I have for the last quarter of a century been very much mixed up with examinations held in England at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, at which I suppose some 20,000 of our youths and young men are annually examined. If that gives me any right to speak, I am very glad to say that I visited the school the other day, at least I hoped to do so, but I found the school dismissed, much to my regret, and I was turning away, when Mr. Wright saw me, came forward, and, to my great surprise, asked if I would like to see the examination papers. I at once seized upon the opportunity and spent an hour or two, through his great courtesy, in carefully looking through these papers, and I must say I never saw a series of examination papers - and I have seen a great many hundreds, or thousands - which gave me such unqualified surprise and satisfaction. My first thought was that it was all very fine to write these papers, but I would like to see them answered, because I have seen questions answered very indifferently. I timidly threw out a suggestion, because I knew that this might be a tender point, when to my surprise Mr. Wright at once put a hundredweight of papers before me with the cordial invitation to pick and choose amongst them at random, and I was as much surprised with the answers as with the papers, with the exception, of course, of English composition, which is not first-rate, but when you come to think that English to the Chinese is what Chinese is to us, there is no very great wonder that they write English as they do. I cannot praise the English as such, but otherwise the... \n\nPage 93\nFeb.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331386, "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": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "4.\n\n5 467\n\nto be Stead of the Medical Department and is responsible medical Adviser to the Government,\n\n; \n\nis a native of Calcutta, I believe, and he arrived in Hong Kong only a few months\n\nago,\n\nto seek his fortune in private practice. He is almost an entire stranger here, and he knows almost nothing of the Colony,\n\nits inhabitants, its resources, its special phases of disease, its liability to epidemics,\n\nand its means\n\nof meeting\n\nthem.\n\nHe has no official experience except that for two months he\n\nwas locum tenens for\n\nSome...\n\nHealth Officer of the Port, when his public duties were practically confined to certifying hundreds of Chinese emigrants free from infectious\n\ndiseases\n\n-to, for as far as I know, this constitutes his sole claim to be placed at the head of the Medical Department of the Colony and it is reasonable to believe that his sole object in accepting temporary public employment is the advancement of his private interests. Mr Jordan, as Acting Health Officer of the Port,\n\ndevoted only a portion of his time to the Public Service, and it is now expressly understood that the Colonial Surgeon's duties shall not occupy his whole\n\nattention.\n\n15.\n\nMr. Ceyres in forwarding my remonstrance of 29th May stated.\n\nA\n\ntute by Colonial Surgeon.\n\n27\n\nMins linnual Report\n\nSee in you\n\n14208\n\n- brway & latter 28th May\n\n}\n\nA \"The Superintendent has hitherto\n\ndeclared that his work is too much\n\nfor him. He now\n\nproposes to do my\n\nwork and his own with the assist\n\nM. Marques is medical officer in charge of the Female Lock Hospital and visiting Surgeon under the Act and he has some medico-legal duties as well. The M.D. having been repeated in England must shortly\n\ncome out\n\nhere, and Dr. Moranes would then be\n\nat liberty to take up\n\na large share\n\nof the work of the Government Hospital of which shortage\n\nand this grave\n\nIn\n\nany\n\ncase all Marques' time is not\n\nfully occupied, and he has always shown himself both able and willing to assist in the Medical Hospital\n\n(\n\ndemonstrated in my official Report\n\nfor last year, copy enclosed) that a second Surgeon is required for the regular work of the Civil Hospital but in other departments it's\n\nofficers do double work, and\n\nmy offer\n\nexertions for a few months to enable their colleagues to get a holiday and with Mr. Marques' help to carry\n\non the Colonial Surgeon's duties is not unreasonable\n\nin itself, nor is it incompatible with.\n\n24\n\n \n mu", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333230, "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": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "51\n\n\"institute a full and trustworthy inquiry into the facts, forwarding to me, as soon as it can be completed, a report thereon, and I request that in connexion with \"such report the question may be considered whether any and if so what measures \"should be taken to remove any of the evils that may be brought to light by the \"inquiry.\" (Command paper 3185 of 1882, page 123).\n\nIn illustration of the diversity of opinion which prevails as to the facts, Lord KIMBERLEY points out that \"Sir JOHN SMALE never heard of a case of purchase for adoption in the Colony,\" whilst Dr. EITEL spoke of the demand for young children under the system of adoption and domestic service as being large at an average price of $40, and that Mr. FRANCIS stated \"that boys are bought and sold in Hongkong for adoption.\"\n\nmay be\n\nIn reporting upon the facts of child adoption and domestic service convenient to group what observation I have to make under four heads, as follow :--\n\nWhere the parents or guardians volun- tarily part with their children.\n\ni. Child adoption as existing among Chinese at Hongkong, male and female; abuses connected therewith.\n\nii. Domestic service amongst Chinese living in Hongkong, con- fined to females only; abuses connected therewith.\n\niii. Kidnapping; as partly chargeable to the Chinese system of adoption or service.\n\niv. Suggestions for the prevention of abuses growing out of child adoption and domestic service.\n\nI.\n\nAdoption of male children in China is founded on the necessity of having a male representative to perform sacrificial ancestral rites. So much is it so that if a man dies without male representatives as sons, natural or adopted, a son may be adopted for him by his people. The origin and reason of the requirement will be found fully described in a Chinese petition addressed to the Governor and in Dr. EITEL's learned paper on \"Domestic Servitude in relation to Slavery.\" These documents are published at pages 44-57 of the Blue-book already referred to. The rule among the Cantonese when adoption is decided upon is to seek a nearly related male agnate of a generation younger, generally a nephew. The father as a rule will give any of his boys but the eldest. The second son is the one usually selected. The principal members of the clan are notified of the fact of adoption. Among near relatives no money appears to pass and no \"deed of sale\" is made. If, however, the relations are very poor, a small sum of money may be\n\n\"deed of gift\" given to the parents, called \"compensation money for the expense of rearing the child,\" and in that case, a \"presentation card\" given to the adopting parents, but there is no \"deed of sale,\" properly so-called, or paper reciting the transaction as in the case of strangers, as will presently appear.\n\nIf the head of the family desires to adopt a male child as a son and is unable to obtain a relation, he is apparently at liberty to adopt a stranger-in-blood, for whom, however, he almost invariably pays a price. The stranger may be of the same surname, although of a different clan-if so all the better. A \"deed of sale\" is almost invariably executed and given to the new parents. The surname and name are changed and the clan is notified of the fact. A stranger thus adopted becomes entitled to the same rights and privileges as one adopted from among relatives.\n\nAdopted sons, whether relatives or strangers, have equal rights with natural-born sons, and if after adoption a son is born to the adopting parents the adopted son loses none of his rights, but shares equally in the patrimony with the natural-born son. Sons take equal shares, whether by the lawful wife or by a concubine.\n\nThe Fokienese, Hakka and Chin Chew people in the Colony are apparently not so tied down to seeking male relations for adoption as are the Cantonese.\n\n3\n\nAdoption of female children as daughters,\n\nThe system is conducted in the same manner as the adoption of males; but comparatively few female children are adopted. They have equal rights with natural-born daughters. They are provided with a dowry when married, but, like natural-born daughters, they have no other claim on the inheritance. The daughter takes nothing by an intestacy. Every woman is supposed to get married; on doing so she \"leaves the family\" and is absolutely in manu of the husband, even to a power of sale.\n\nIt is to be feared, however, that a very considerable number of female children are adopted from amongst strangers, (and therefore with a money payment,) with the intent that they should ultimately become prostitutes. These children are called \"pocket-daughters.\" Their so-called mothers are called \"pocket-mothers.\" They are taught Chinese music, and are regularly trained for the profession of courtezans. At an early age they are the victims of debauchees, who \"deflower them in sly brothels,\" paying the \"pocket-mother\" a large price, and the girl is thus launched on a brothel career. These young girls are said to be brought from Canton or Macao at the age of 13 or 14 years, and are deflowered according to bargain and as a regular matter of business for large sums of money, which go to \"their owners, frequently it would appear their own parents. The regular earnings \"of the girls go to the same quarter, and the unfortunate creatures obviously form \"subjects of speculation to regular traders in this kind of business who reside \"beyond our jurisdiction.\" (See Hongkong Contagious Diseases' Commission, 1879, page 45).\n\nII.\n\nDomestic Service amongst Chinese.\n\nThe most careful inquiry shews that no male children are bought and sold here as slaves or servants, and confirms the statements in the Blue-book that \"Boys are sold to be sons not slaves\" and \"that no such thing as a slave boy exists in Hongkong.\" It might too with truth have been added \"nor in Canton.\" By Chinese custom and usage, for the purpose of domestic service Chinese female children are often pledged with a power of redemption, but more frequently purchased out and out from poor parents. The price varies considerably. I have known of a young child being bought at Macao for a dollar. A \"deed of sale,\" or a \"deed of gift\" as it is more frequently called, is given to the purchaser. This \"deed of gift\" of course is a mere euphemism. It is a bill of sale, and purports to sell and convey a title with a warranty. Money is given as the consideration for the control of the services of the child, in most cases \"for ever without redemption.\" The purchaser has a power of re-sale, although some dispute it. It is certainly exercised amongst the Chinese in the mainland, and occasionally in Hongkong. Their books have a common form of re-sale. (See appendix for a number of forms).\n\nIt is not within the scope of this Memorandum to discuss the question how far children of poor Chinese benefit by the existence of their custom of sale, or how far infanticide is checked thereby. That has been done elsewhere, and was the subject of debate in the House of Lords. (Hansard, vol. 253, page 398, of 21st June, 1880). But it is certain that the parents give for money and by deed or other written instrument a complete power over their child, and purport to divest themselves of all control over its future. They make certain stipulations such as that when the girl grows up she shall be married. The Chinese Officials recognise these bargains of pledge and sale as binding, even, it appears, where the child has been previously stolen provided the purchaser has complied with the custom in getting a deed with the go-between as witness and agent. They would restore a runaway purchased servant to the vendee, as will be seen from the correspondence enclosed in a despatch to the Secretary of State in the time of Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL. (See 337 of 29th July, 1867). In that case, a girl was the purchased servant of a Mandarin. She was nearly 19 years. She came to Hongkong because she had been beaten, and the British Consul at the request of the Mandarins asked that she might be sent back, as the master had a \"property in her.\" The Governor very emphatically refused to recognise any such subject of property in this Colony, and said that as the girl was guilty of no crime, and wished to stay in Hongkong, he would not give her up.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333234, "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": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "-10- \n\nAPPENDIX TO REPORT ON CHILD ADOPTION AND DOMESTIC SERVICE AMONGST THE HONGKONG CHINESE.\n\nA.-Form of transfer of a son for adoption, taken from \"Book of Domestic Rites.\" B.--Letter of Instructions to an adopted son, stating how he was adopted. C.-Deed of Sale, in the case of the adoption of a Stranger-in-blood.\n\nD.--Bill of Sale where a boy was decoyed from Canton and sold in Kaulung. The Hawker's case, see page 33 of Blue-book C3185 of 1882, (two women sentenced to 18 months each). E.-Deed of Sale of a daughter as a Servant, from \"Book of Domestic Rites.\" F.-Endorsement of Re-sale of a Servant, from “Book of Domestic Rites.\"\n\nG.-Deed mortgaging a Daughter as a Servant.\n\nH.-Deed of Sale of a Daughter as Servant, where same girl is transferred to another, endorsement on the same paper.\n\nI. Presentation Card\" of a Daughter to be a Servant (Money passes, and the term present is of course only a fiction).\n\nJ-Bill of Sale put forward by a Claimant for a Child.\n\nK.-Sale of a grown-up daughter as a concubine from Sir T. Wann's Documentary Series. L.-Ordinance 6 of 1873, with statement of objects and reasons.\n\nM.-Ordinance 2 of 1875, with statement amended.\n\nN.--Notices to Registered Prostitutes, of their freedom on British soil however they may have got there.\n\nO.-Emigration Officer's Notices of photographs required to prevent personation of Women and Children, who have duly passed for Emigration.\n\nP.-Return of Kidnapping cases in Hongkong from 1872 to June 30th, 1883, including sales of women for prostitutes.\n\n-Return of Kidnapping cases in Hongkong from January, 1883, to July, 1883, including sales of women for prostitutes.\n\nR.-Notices on Steamers with view to prevent kidnapping into or from Hongkong.\n\n11\n\nB.\n\nForm from Vol. 12 of \"Ka-lai-tai-tsün” or “Complete Set of Domestic Rites.\"\n\nLETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS REFERRING TO AN ADOPTED SON.\n\nmakes this document with a view to giving instructions to an adopted son who is to continue the family line. Being wanting in good deeds and virtuous acts, I, the said\n\nhave had no children born to me. In consideration of what an important thing it is to have an heir, I have this day of moon convened a meeting of my nearest relatives to discuss the question of adopting a son, and the said nearest relatives having declined to give any of their sons, although they have several, to be adopted, it is resolved to select a son of a clansman of the same degree of seniority (as myself.) introduces and recommends the second son of\n\nand aged nearest relatives\n\nfamily named years. He belongs to the same clan, and is of a suitable descent. Moreover\n\nand his wife have several sons, and they and their being adopted by dollars to\n\nare all agreeable to as my son and successor. and wife\n\nI have, this day, paid to be taken home by them as compensation for their trouble of nursing and rearing the boy. This letter of instructions is this day executed, and signed by all (present). After arrives at manhood, with me\n\nhas come over to my house, and when he will rest the power of marrying him, so that he may beget offspring by which I may have prosperous descendants. This will be no concern of\n\nIn proof thereof, this deed is executed.\n\nDated.\n\nSigned.\n\nThe person making this letter of instructions. Signed\n\nA.\n\nForm from the Vol. 12 of “Ka-lai-tai-tsün” or “Complete Set of Domestic Rites,”\n\nTRANSFER OF A SON FOR ADOPTION.\n\nNearest relatives,\n\nSigned\n\nGo-between.\n\nSigned.\n\nWitness to the adoption.\n\nSigned\n\nFather giving his son in adoption.\n\nSigned\n\nMother.\n\nSigned\n\nFirst son of parents giving son in adoption.\n\nThis agreement is drawn up by who has a second son\n\naged elan, being in want of posterity, selects (this son) to be his son. I and my wife\n\na junior member of the clan years. A senior member of the\n\ndo hereby give our consent to our second son going over to his family to be brought up by his wife in order to continue his family line. I have, this day, in conjunction with my wife, received dollars for nursing my son, who will this day enter the family, and will obey the directions of the senior member and his wife. When he has attained to manhood, he will be married, and his offspring will for ever be considered the descendants of the senior member. The family inheritance is not to be squandered nor wasted in profligacy by him, and no others are to usurp the same under any pretext whatsoever. This is agreed to by both parties. In future, I will neither go back on my word, nor instigate (the son) to rebel, nor to leave (the family of the senior member) with abundance after he came to it empty handed, nor will I depart from what has been agreed on. But my desire is that he may have a continuous line of descendants. In proof whereof, this agreement is drawn up.\n\nDated\n\nSigned\n\nTransferor of the son.\n\nSigned.\n\nNearest relatives.\n\nSigned\n\nGo-between.\n\nSigned\n\nWitness to the adoption.\n\nSigned\n\nWife of the Transferor.\n\nSigned.\n\nElder brother of the son.\n\nC.\n\nFurnished by the Chairman of Directors of the Tung-wa Hospital, Hongkong- Mr. Li Tak-cheong-July, 1883.\n\nFORM OF DEED OF SALE OF A SON INTO ADOPTION.\n\nVillage in on the\n\nA and Mrs. A of District, the parties executing this deed of permanent sale of a son, being unable to support themselves on account of poverty, and having many children, consulted together, and willingly invited people to purchase their (4th) son as an adopted son, The boy is years of age, having been born in day of the moon, and is named (or is not yet named), and they demanded the sum of dollars as nursing money (or ginger and cake money). He (the boy) was, through the agency of the go-between B, introduced to the family of Mr. C, who expressed his willingness to buy him as an adopted son, and consented to pay the full demand of dollars as nursing-money (or ginger and cake money). The bargain, which was settled in the presence of the three parties (A, B, & C), and agreed to by both parties, was satisfactorily made on this date in the presence of all. This is a clear case of purchase and sale, and is not a case of giving the boy as a set-off against debts. After the boy is once sold, Mr. C is permitted to bring him up to manhood, and give him a name. He must remain as Mr. C's adopted son for ever, and when he is grown-up, Mr. C is likewise at liberty to engage a teacher to teach him. If in future, he attains to fame or becomes illustrious, takes a wife or concubine, and has children and grandchildren, all these concern Mr. C's family. May he follow his (adopted) father's trade, and have a never-ending line of descendants! May he henceforth have a numerous progeny and everlastingly enjoy prosperity! Hereafter, the vendors cannot go back on their word, or redeem the boy, who is for ever prevented from taking back his own father's surname. The purchaser, however, is not allowed to make the boy a slave, or to re-sell him to another person, or to do other", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335111, "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": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "389\n\n7\n\n; one of Li Loi's servants, Savauk, was living in the 李来 house. I was told not to go out because Li Loi told me there was a stranger and there were kidnappers about.\n\nRo examined: --- On the morning after, I was very unwell. I had fever.\n\nMr. L'amps stated that he does not intend to call witnesses.\n\nRemanded to to-morrow. 2 p.m.\n\n(Signed) M.G. Mitchell, Inves\n\n25/8/87\n\nDefendant in Court.\n\nMr. Dennys asks Mr. Wilkinson to put Li Loi in the box. Mr. Wilkinson declines as Li Loi has just been taken up).\n\nMr. Dennys replies.\n\nRemanded for 29/8/87\n\n(Signed) M.G. Mitchell, J.P.\n\nDefendant in Court.\n\nPrisoner committed to Gaol pending receipt of orders from H.E. the Actg. Governor.\n\n(Signed) M.G. Mitchell, Acting Magistrate.\n\nMinute by H.E. the Acting Governor on Magistrate's Letter No. 90.\n\nAfter perusing the evidence in this case, I am not disposed to order the rendition of the accused. Let him therefore be discharged.\n\n(Signed) Frederick Stewart, Actg. Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335260, "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": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "designs. In Lyndhurst Terrace, the premises of Messrs. Belilios & Co. were gay with two gas stars, and the letters V. R. E. I., also in gas, and a display of lanterns. Messrs. H. M. M. Ally & Co. had a rather novel illumination of glass lamps with coloured lustres pendant over the door and lines of small glass lamps ranged round the building. In Peel Street Messrs. R. Habibhoy & Co. had a fine gas star, flanked on either side by the letters V. R. and a large number of Japanese lanterns tastefully arranged. On the opposite side the Parsee shopkeepers had their stores illuminated with lanterns. Mr. Stringer's premises were also illuminated with coloured lanterns. The central portion of Gage Street, which is occupied by Parsee and Indian firms—viz., Messrs. Cawasjee & Co., Tharia Topan, P. F. Tolates, A. M. Apcar, Abdoolally Ebrahim & Co., H. A. Asgar and H. Esmail on one side, and on the other by Messrs. H. H. H. Faack & Co., R. Devjes, R. S. Woonwalls & Co., B. C. Vania, and Abdulcadur Esmaljee—was decorated with lanterns on both sides, and across the street something like a network of lanterns was constructed, which formed a pleasing novelty.\n\nMany of the houses in Gage Street, Hollywood Road, and other parts, which one of the unofficial members would fain see removed outside the town, were gaily decorated, in some instances with little regard for expense.\n\nThe Central Police Station and Superintendent's quarters were lighted with coloured lanterns, and Arbuthnot Road was brilliantly illuminated. The houses of the French Consul and Dr. Stewart were gay with coloured lanterns and Mr. J. A. Carvalho and Mr. J. M. Machado showed gas stars with \"V. R.\" on either side. Remedios Terrace looked most imposing, being simply but tastefully decorated with handsome Japanese lanterns, arranged to show off its arches and proportions; this terrace was conspicuous from the water and elsewhere. \"Duart,\" the residence of Mr. A. G. Romano, Consul-General for Portugal and Consul for Brazil, was ornamented by strings of lanterns round the parapet, and festoons of the same in the arches of the verandahs, while a capital gas illumination over the entrance gate added much to the effect. This consisted of a star in the centre, \"V. R.\" on the sides, the arch being outlined by gas jets and surmounted by a large crown in gas.\n\nThe Lusitano Club displayed a gas star with \"V. R.\", and the Parsee Club a device in little glass lamps of \"V. R.\" and a crown. Several houses in Old Bailey Street and Elgin Terrace were illuminated and some in Staunton Street. The Central School had a device in gas, representing a Crown with the inscription beneath \"Vivat Regina\" and four Chinese characters three feet in height on either side. The expenses connected with the illumination of this building were defrayed by the scholars attending the school.\n\nIn Caine-road, the house of Mr. Remedios and the private house of Messrs. Russell & Co. were decorated with lanterns, the garden of \"Rose Hill\" being also illuminated. The approaches to the Italian Convent were lighted up by coloured lanterns, and the Spanish Dominican Procuration made a goodly show in lanterns, the highest portion of the premises being topped with a lofty cross formed of red lanterns, which was very prominent on that level. The American Consulate was bright with many tinted lanterns, and \"Kingsclere,\" the residence of Mr. E. R. Belilios, was gay with bunting and lanterns arranged all along the handsome and massive iron railings just erected in front of the house. The next two houses and the Police Station were both decorated with Chinese and Japanese lanterns, and Mr. J. H. Smith's residence at the junction with Castle-road was profusely covered with Chinese lanterns of different colours. The two houses beyond in Castle-road were also illuminated, and a string of parti-coloured lanterns stretched all across the upper storey of West Terrace. Mr. A. J. de Rozario displayed a complete and excellent device in gas, a crown on the top, with a star beneath, in the centre being the figures \"50,\" flanked by the letters V. R. The Japanese Consulate showed the flags of England and Japan on either side of the porch, strings and festoons of lanterns, and a transparency over the gateway with the Royal Arms and motto—\"Long life to the Queen, Prosperity to the Empire.\" At Burey Lodge, the residence of Mr. H. N. Mody, there was a profuse display of lanterns ingeniously worked into a well-considered device. In the centre a crown, with likeness of the Queen below, and underneath the words in lanterns \"Long live our Queen.\" On either side of the portico were two large bunches of lanterns on frames, and the railings in front were decorated with flags and lanterns. Forest Lodge was tastefully and neatly illuminated with lanterns, and \"Dinder\" showed up well in long lines of light around the house. The Hon. C. P. Chater's residence was illuminated by white lanterns marking out the arches of the verandahs, while rows of coloured lanterns lit up the garden. \"Craigengower,\" the residence of Dr. Carvalho, and \"Idlewild,\" the residence of Mr. W. R. Loxley, were decorated with lanterns, and the London Mission and Ball's Court in Bonham Road were also illuminated.\n\nAlong Robinson Road illuminations were partial. \"Stonehenge\" was lit up by lanterns, and some fireworks were let off from this residence. \"The Bungalow\" was decorated with flags and lanterns, and \"Rocklands,\" \"Lena Cottage,\" \"Stonehaven,\" \"The Rockeries,\" \"Fernside,\" \"Excelsior,\" \"Burnside,\" and \"Cringleford\" were all illuminated with lanterns. St. Joseph's College hoisted a red cross formed of Japanese lanterns. Only one of the houses in Belilios Terrace was lighted up, but there was quite a display in a small way in Mosque-street and Junction, most of the houses showing coloured lanterns. At his residence in Seymour Terrace Mr. Hancock displayed two fine gas stars with the monogram \"V. R.,\" and in the same terrace Mr. E. J. Coxon had strings of lanterns running up his flagstaff. \"The Castle\" was also illuminated. The houses in the Albany were most of them illuminated and \"Kurrahjeon,\" the residence of Mr. J. M. Armstrong, \"As You Like It,\" the residence of Mr. First, and the Blue Bungalows were gaily lighted by coloured lanterns. Mr. Poesnecker displayed a fine five-light gas star, and several other houses on the upper levels were illuminated, among which may be mentioned \"Harperville,\" where Mr. Bruce Shepherd had a display of lanterns. The Pavilion of the Ladies' Recreation Ground was lighted up, and a string of lanterns stretched down the different tennis courts presented a conspicuous line of light to gazers from below.\n\nPage 13\n\nThe decorations were chiefly confined to the central and western districts, the Wanchai district taking little part in them, being practically cut off from the other part of the town, where the populace congregated. The illuminations at the Barracks, however, well repaid a walk some distance to the eastward. The triumphal arch at Murray Barracks we have already mentioned. The motto on one side was \"The tribute of the nations\" and on the other \"To the Wife, Mother, Queen.\" The Officers' Mess at Murray Barracks was well lit up with lanterns showing Queen Empress on the front in large letters, and \"58,\" the number of the Regiment, on the end facing the Parade Ground. North Barracks were illuminated with red, white, and blue lanterns in strings, and the barracks recently converted from Chinese houses with white and coloured Japanese lanterns. Head-quarter House formed a very prominent feature in the illuminations with its long strings of coloured lanterns running up to the flagstaff. The Naval Yard had flags over the gateway and several anchors in gold on it, lanterns along the workshops, and lanterns in strings running from the flagstaff. The Commissariat buildings were very effectively treated. \"1837 1887\" stood out in figures of gold on a red ground, with \"God save the Queen\" in white lanterns, and transparencies under the arches. The Temperance Hall was illuminated with red and white lanterns, and Ating, the contractor, made a neat display of lanterns and transparencies. The little Police Station here also contributed its quota to the general effect. The Ordnance Store had \"V. R.\" in small white lamps, a shield with field pieces for the device, and lanterns on the face of the building and among the trees. Farther on we noticed that Man Yuen compradore's shop, the French Convent, Mr. Dorabjee Nowrojee's bakery, E-Tack, contractor, several houses occupied by Europeans, and Mr. J. S. Lucas's store were all illuminated with lanterns or glass lamps. The Government School opposite the Wanchai Market was also illuminated at the expense of the pupils, and the market had an ornamental porch erected. From the upper levels we saw several masses of light, which we took to come from Morrison Hill and the East Point Sugar Refinery; and the Hon. J. Bell-Irving's and Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co.'s junior mess were dressed with lanterns, while the Lee Yuen Sugar Refinery had a fine triangle in lanterns.\n\nIN THE HARBOUR,\n\nThe harbour was a goodly sight to see, from whatever point beheld. The fleet of steam-launches and small craft gently gliding over its surface were nearly all decked with white or coloured lanterns.\n\nPage 536\n\n10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338915, "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": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "content_text": "## principle in Hong Kong,\n\n10\n\nI should sanction the two gratuities, observing however that in the case of hai San the amount should have been computed on the average pay of the last 3 years instead of on the final salary as per W. Meade.\n\n8/5/89 see minutes on `21976/py`; neither the despatch on that paper nor the one on `1975/88` alluded to the fact about Wong. In this case, there was no claim at all strictly speaking; the return is headed under \"Pensions Ordinance\" and is misleading. No doubt the difficulty of using a certificate, alluded to by Mr. Brampton, is a good reason for not bringing in the Chinese Levants of the Harbour Department under the pension system at all; but I do not think it can be used to justify doing something which may be more costly to the Govt.\n\nIn other Colonies, the reason for giving small compassionate allowances on a reduced scale to officers who have been employed for a long time without gratuity or pension privileges is to mitigate hardship among the lower-paid community. But if the Chinese employed in Hong Kong are to be treated differently in this Colony, I do not think this sort of argument has much weight. A gratuity of 2 or 3 years' pay, which the present practice of offering a month's pay for each year's service involves, might entail a considerable financial burden if many were to apply for it at the right time, such as when on their deathbed or when officers in failing health were sharp enough to apply.\n\nIn the present case, the gratuities that have been awarded are equivalent to about four years' purchase of the compassionate allowances that we should award in other Colonies. In Lam's case, the Medical certificate is not very clear on the questions in point, such as the value of the man's life; but it is quite possible that from a financial point of view, the Govt has made a bad bargain by giving a large sum instead of an annual allowance. In Stringer's case, the medical certificate is sent, and if he is in failing health, the Govt has probably made a good bargain in his case. But then, I submit that \"over 55\" (the retiring age fixed for Europeans in Hong Kong) is not necessarily a sound basis for giving anything to a Chinese watchman who may have no pension rights at all and may be perfectly fit to earn his living in similar light work; and this point is all the more relevant when men are put to work at 52 years old rather than in cases of Officers having no claim to superannuation at the age of 55.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339139, "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": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "page_number": 575, "title": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "content_text": "# 573\n\nTo attempt to separate the rain water from this sewage, the main drainage proposal of Mr. COOPER (and has already obliged my firm to construct) by a continuous open channel, running from house to house and discharging into the street channels, will be impossible to work in practice.\n\n## Description of Chinese Houses\n\nChinese houses are usually built in blocks, and to drain, by an open channel through the division walls, would cause endless trouble. Should a stoppage of only a few minutes take place, in a division wall towards the end of a long line of houses, the ground floors of these houses would be flooded, and this, with the tropical showers we sometimes get here, such as 9 inches in five hours, and 5 inches in three hours, would not take many minutes, a few leaves on sticks might be sufficient.\n\nThe damage to merchandise, which is always stored on the ground floor of every Chinese house, would be very large, and the Chinese would naturally resent any such system, and block up the openings in the division walls on the higher side of their yards; surreptitiously making some rough drain connecting with the pipe sewer. This when once effected would be very hard to discover.\n\nThe use of the back yards by an open drain would be strongly opposed by the tenants. Each house may be a separate property and it has never been the custom to insert any easement clauses in conditions of sale.\n\nI may mention that I have consulted several Chinese, who are large owners of property, and their opinion is very strong against anything in the nature of a continuous open channel in back yards.\n\nWith the exception of the back yards, the whole of Chinese property is covered by the houses and the kitchens (which are usually 6 feet deep). The number of stories vary from two to four. The more valuable neighbourhood has houses with the greater number of stories. Each story is usually subdivided by an intermediate floor, the subdivision is caused by the old and also the New Building Ordinance, which fix the thickness of walls for each story, instead of for the height of the building. Plans are therefore first made for a three-storied house; each story being made high enough, to allow of subdivision after they are completed.\n\nAccess is gained to the kitchens in the upper floors (in those houses which possess back yards) by bridges, each of which takes 5 feet off the area of the back yard open to the sky. From this bridge, the dirty water and refuse are thrown into the back yard, the down pipes from the kitchens generally being choked or removed. It must be borne in mind that each floor is usually let separately, there being no stairs down the back of the houses.\n\nEven the roofs are very generally used for various purposes, such as drying and curing of fish, manufacturing various articles of food, dyeing and bleaching of goods, and the immense amount of manufactures which require light and air. Latrines on the roof are common, and the usual connection for the urinal of each floor is the down pipe from the roof.\n\nThe minute description and careful plans given by Mr. CHADWICK of Chinese description houses, show, very forcibly, the difficulty of attempting any such refinements and plans of sanitary science as the Separate System involves.\n\n## Chinese Houses Drainage\n\nThe lanes and streets, dividing the houses, are also very narrow and a large amount of dirty water and refuse is thrown into the streets, and consequently finds its way into the drains. Mr. CHADWICK remarks: \"Washing and other domestic operations are conducted on the side walks.\"\n\nThe multifarious occupations, all necessitating the production of refuse and garbage, which are carried on in a Chinese Street would astonish the stranger, unaccustomed to the modes and habits of Chinese life; the consequence being, that the streets are necessarily in a dirty condition, and to allow the washings from these streets and lanes into drains, suitable for rain water only and unprovided with ventilators, would of itself very soon cause a nuisance.\n\n## Sir Robert Rawlinson on Duplicate Systems\n\nSir ROBERT RAWLINSON says: \"The duplicate systems of sewers are seldom required. The sewer proper would then be without the flushing and cleansing given by the roof water during falls of rain and the washing off land, ditches, roads, and gutters during the rate of first falls of heavy rains would in many cases be as polluted and polluting as the sewage in the true sewers.\"\n\nIn a paper printed in the Minutes of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the sewering of Towns on the Separate System by Mr. A. E. WHITE, the following remark occurs: \"It probably is necessary in almost all cases (in order to avoid an unreasonably complicated arrangement of branch drains) to admit the water from back roofs and back yards to the sewers, even where there are separate drains for surface water.\"\n\n## Difficulty of Carrying Out the Separate System\n\nFrom the remarks above on the construction and working of Chinese houses, I trust I have shown how very difficult it is, even with the present Combined System, to effect the drainage of tenements. The Separate System of drainage is a refinement which most towns, even at home, shrink from adopting, and which the Chinese are utterly unsuited for. I have shown that there cannot be, in purely Chinese districts, any rainfall which would not be polluted, and the remarks of Sir ROBERT RAWLINSON on this head are greatly to the point. Therefore, if the rain water drain is liable to pollution, it immediately becomes a sewer, and the carrying out of the Separate System would only mean providing two sets of sewers.\n\n## House Drains\n\nAs the question of house drains has been but briefly mentioned in Mr. COOPER'S report, I will only add my testimony to the badness of their construction and design, speaking generally, but to attribute the chief cause of complaint of foul emanations from the main sewers opening in the streets and elsewhere to the house drains, is hardly fair; as the main sewers are also very defective in places, and practically unprovided with any system of ventilation.\n\nThe course adopted for some years has been, that, wherever foul gas was complained of, trapping the street gullies was resorted to, thus reducing even the small amount of ventilation that existed, instead of constructing proper ventilators.\n\nI again quote from Sir ROBERT RAWLINSON: \"If sewer air at any ventilator or any other point should be offensive, additional means for ventilation on this sewer are required, and should as soon as possible be supplied. Trapping should not be resorted to in any case.\"\n\n## Traps\n\nMy general experience is, that very few traps laid down in Chinese houses are allowed to remain intact. My firm has within the last few years laid down some hundreds of cast iron traps in new Chinese houses, and I will undertake to prove that nearly all the gratings are broken, and the bottom of the traps knocked out. The custom being to make the house drains take refuse of every description, such as vegetable matter, fruit skins, &c., the traps at once become choked and the blame is laid on them. Quite recently I discovered in a first-class Chinese house, the cast iron trap laid down by my firm about four months before had been removed, and a grating of exactly similar pattern on top, but with a plain connection to the sewer had been substituted, the trap having no doubt caused trouble and inconvenience.\n\n## Suggestion for the Government\n\nFrom the above remarks, and my experience generally, which would be borne out by any person interested in and acquainted with Chinese property, it is plain that any house drain and connection must be of the most simple character, and in no case permitted inside the dwelling house.\n\nIf the main sewers in the streets and lanes are thoroughly well ventilated, I would go so far as to say that for the purely Chinese districts, it would be well to use no traps, but to enforce the construction of good pipe connections properly jointed with strong iron gratings at the open ends.\n\nThe drainage, with the rapid discharge, owing to the steep gradients of the streets, the short distance to the sea by adopting numerous outfalls, and the absence of focal matter, would not have time to decompose, therefore, with the sewers fully ventilated, no absolute necessity for trapping is required.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 341174, "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": "CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4]", "content_text": "I am the senior Government officer in the Colony.\n\n9.\n\nWhen I arrived in Hongkong last from leave of absence I found the office of Acting Attorney General occupied by Mr Leach a stranger to the service for he holds only an acting appointment and that of acting Puisne Judge, filled by Mr. Wise a Gentleman greatly junior in every respect, who took up my office of Registrar when I left in April 1888 and whose permanent office is that of Police Magistrate.\n\nSince April 1888 I had been serving under my junior.\n\n10.\n\nIf the system continues I shall in a few years be superseded by men junior to myself with probably less than half my service and with much less experience.\n\nI have now been serving for nearly 10 years without having half pay or any leave. In fact from July 1872 the only leave I had taken was four months vacation leave in 1884.\n\nWhen I learnt that Mr. Goodman had been appointed Attorney General and that Mr. Denis Russell had obtained an extension of leave I represented to His Excellency Sir William Cameron the Governor the fact that I was the senior Civil servant in the Colony, that I had filled the offices of acting Puisne Judge and Acting Attorney General and Registrar.\n\nYet I was serving under Mr. Wise who had only 4 years service and was greatly my junior in every respect, with a consequent considerable loss not only in position but also in a pecuniary sense also.\n\n12. His Excellency replied that he had considered my letter with the attention which was due to the application of an officer who had rendered such efficient services to the Government but he was unable to accede to my request.\n\nThis...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345109, "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": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "214\n\nApril 1889, in which I stated I would \n\n2.\n\nnot engage with self in any public business other than those of my office \n\nand I most strenuously \n\naver that \n\nI have endeavoured to the utmost of my ability to sever myself from \n\nthe meshes of A. E. Suigers\n\nImmediately I gave my \n\nword to \n\nthe Government I supplied Mr. Stranger with a \n\ncopy of the letter I had forwarded to the Government \n\ntogether with a letter vesting in \n\nhim complete control \n\nover all \n\npersonal interests together with a \n\nview of promoting \n\nas far as I possibly \n\ncould a representation of making Brown Jones and Company \n\ninto a \n\nLimited Liability Company (and \n\nwould fall \n\nthat the Secretaryship to him); after waiting upwards of \n\nten \n\nweeks for a reply from him he objected that it was not possible for \n\nthe \n\nproject to come into operation. \n\nIf \n\nhe could wait until the \n\nend of the \n\nyear he thought it \n\npossible he would be able to \n\npurchase \n\nof the business as \n\nalso the interests that Mr George \n\nhad. This more or less \n\nsatisfied \n\nme and I waited \n\npatiently although \n\nin the meantime \n\nI had learned that Mr. Stranger had given away \n\nalmost \n\nin a systematic method of gaming \n\nand had been \n\nsquandering \n\nnot \n\nonly the few dollars I possessed \n\nbut those of the Firm and Mr. \n\nOrley. In the \n\nearly part of 1890 I commenced and tried to obtain \n\na personal enquiry into how \n\nmatters stood in relation to his \n\nfinancial state and he \n\nappeared \n\nable to always represent a very bright side and usually managed to allay my fears, when \n\nagain informed that his \n\nsystem", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345110, "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": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "215\n\nwa I\n\nsystem of double dealing still in operation. Shortly afterwards I received a letter from Mr Orley (May 1890) bitterly complaining that Mr. Stringer had not forwarded him his share in the profits of the Company for the previous year and I then forced him to bring himself immediately under my personal supervision in the expected hope of putting matters straight, allowing him the advantage of extended business; unfortunately the investment proved a failure through Mr. Stringer's incapacity \"I might say undesirability to reveal the mystery which he alone comprehended and arrant foolishness still persuaded me to advance the only remaining savings I possessed, and when trouble rushed me into the vortex from which I had no possible means of extricating myself.\n\nWith reference to the latter part of the charge in my having immediately informed the head of my Department of my adjudication in bankruptcy required by Rule 5 of the Treasury Minute of the 30th of November 1868 and which was republished by Circular No. 144 of the 23rd of September 1889, I must confess ignorance. Possibly the Circular in question came to my hands but I have no recollection of having signed or initialed the Circular and failed (as I did) to notify the Honourable the Surveyor General it was entirely an oversight on my part and I feel that no room is left me but...\n\nTAVAAN", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345771, "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": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\nBeing done throughout the world in regard to this question, it is indeed remarkable that the Chamber of Commerce should have taken up such an antagonistic attitude to the moderate and just requests of the maritime profession employed in these seas. Not only do we unhesitatingly maintain that the seafaring community are entitled to the privilege of exemption from work on Sunday while in this port, on all grounds of justice, expediency, and public sentiment, but we think this portion of the community will be found to possess undoubted legitimate rights in this matter, for—irrespective of other facts—in the days of the infancy of this colony, strict regulations enforcing such cessation of labour formed a chapter in its laws. By what authority and for what reasons these regulations have been annulled we shall doubtless know when the long-promised Ordinance records are published. Then again will arise the question whether a local Ordinance of a Crown colony can override an Imperial Act of Parliament or the Common law of England, on a matter of vital public concern. However, the Labour movement in general is but another phase of the question under review here. What would the British workman say if any interference were attempted in regard to his Sunday's rest? Would any legislation be possible in regard to such a question in Europe? He would indeed be a very courageous, as well as a very foolish, individual who would publicly advocate such a measure. Such being the case, in the name of common sense and justice, why should members of a profession who have done so much towards making Great Britain's commercial position what it is to-day, be placed in a disadvantageous position as compared with what they enjoy in the \"mother country,\" merely because one or two harsh and exacting taskmasters contend that they will suffer somewhat in their pockets! Surely those members of the Chamber of Commerce who so conspicuously defended Sunday work must be singularly obtuse if they cannot see the untenable nature of the position they have taken up, for while in Europe we observe even Emperors sympathising with the demands of employés and influencing concessions towards moderation and conciliatoriness, in Hongkong the representatives of toadying shipping firms and others, whose prosperity has greatly depended on the labour and loyalty of the British mercantile marine, are the bitterest opponents to moderation and conciliation. This is neither an edifying nor creditable spectacle of colonial justice, and it is pitiable to witness the representative of a leading firm reduced to the extremity of falling back on the Chinese for an excuse! Mr. J. J. Keswick must be well aware that the Chinese are quite capable of caring for themselves in this matter, also, that as a matter of fact, the major portion of Chinese traders in the colony appreciate, as fully as they do at Canton and other Treaty ports, the advantages of a weekly day of rest; in fact, it is one of the most remarkable as well as one of the most encouraging facts in the premises—this wide appreciation of Sunday rest by the Chinese at all the Treaty ports throughout the Empire.\n\nEvery expedient having been tried in Hongkong, the question now seems to have resolved itself into this: The principal shipping employers continuing inadmissible to reason, strong representations have been made to the central Federation in England with which the Mercantile Marine Association is affiliated, and through it an appeal can be made to the British public. Further, there can be but little doubt that common cause in this matter will be the result, and the selfish dominant few be speedily brought to a proper appreciation of their position and impotency—a knowledge of the fact that they are powerless to cause Hongkong to remain much longer the very reverse of a centre of light and civilization in the Far East. Of one thing the officers may rest assured, and it is this, that in any struggle that may be forced upon them, the victors will be the coalition that remembers and acts up to the time-worn maxim—\"UNITY IS STRENGTH.\"—\"Hongkong Telegraph,” 21st November, 1890.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.\n\n### TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,\n\nSIR, In the issue of your evening contemporary of the 24th inst. a letter appears from a correspondent who assumes the nom de plume \"Sui Jure,\" dealing with the much-discussed question of Sunday labour in this colony. The subject is one of great interest, and I beg the privilege of replying to him through the columns of your widely-read journal.\n\n\"Sui Jure\" states that \"it is not a matter to be treated by British merchants and shipowners of this place, but by Home Legislation.\" Now, sir, this colony has practically that which Ireland desires, viz., Home Rule, and I think it will amount to a slur upon local law-makers if they allow this matter to be carried to the House of Commons.\n\nAgain, \"Sui Jure\" states that H. E. the Governor brings forth the argument that \"Marine Officers and Engineers are paid for 7 days' work.\" Now if my memory serves me, H.E. said \"that Officers could not do 7 days' work in 6.\" Does \"Sui Jure,\" or any reasonable man, desire them to do this? As to the 4th Commandment, to which he refers, I suppose that the Chinese in Hongkong may be included as \"the stranger that is within thy gates,\" even if officers and engineers only rank as \"thy servants and thy cattle!\"\n\nHe further states that there are only two ports in the East where Sunday labour is not restricted.\" \"Sui\" will find that not only is Sunday slavery permitted in Hongkong and Singapore, but also in Penang and the Straits ports. The \"heathen Chinee,\" whether he be sampan-man or 'ricksha-coolie, demands from the unsuspecting stranger extra pay for work on that day. Only a short time since I was in Swatow when a sampan-man demanded double pay because it \"b'long Sunday\"! The 7th day work may be as Mr. E. Mackintosh says, \"merely an incidence of the voyage,\" but if it was a quiet Sunday it would be a pleasant incidence, instead of being even worse than a Sunday at sea, where the officers only have their watch to keep. There are few shore men that have half the responsibility of an officer on board ship for 12 hours out of 24. He has under his sole charge a magnificent vessel full of valuable cargo, and as many as 500 passengers on board at times. Do passengers, owners, and insurance companies ever think of the consequences of that man (officer of the watch) shutting his eyes for 10 minutes, or even being in that stage of exhaustion when he can walk across the bridge and be to all appearances awake, yet all the time being—as I have heard a sailor describe it—\"shoring his eyelids up with matches!\" And yet, sir, they refuse this man a day's rest when he happens to get a Sunday in this Christian port!\n\nThe Engineers also, though they only keep 8 hours' watch out of the 24, are often called out of their beds to attend to their duties. In port they not only have the superintendence of their subordinates, but have to perform severe manual labour themselves, often working many hours into the night. These men are in a position where the slightest carelessness might either blow the whole ship to pieces, or at least cost their owners thousands of dollars. I ask, is it right to grudge these men their Sunday rest when they happen to be in port on \"the Sabbath of the Lord our God.\" Everyone must know that while cargo is being worked the engineers have to be in attendance on the steam apparatus and machinery.\n\nI have heard it pointed out that at home the tramways and railways run on Sundays; but that form of labour is minimized as much as possible, passengers and mails only being carried. Further, it is not done for private gain, as cargo work on board ship is, but merely to meet the public convenience.\n\nIt is said that the inconvenience of suspending all labour in this port on Sunday is intensified by the fact that this is not a terminal port.\" Surely if all vessels were alike compelled to stop work on the Sabbath it would not affect any particular interests, as one day more or less cannot affect imperishable cargo such as ocean-boats usually carry.\n\nColombo, too, is not a \"terminal port,\" yet the Port Charges for Sunday work have practically put an end to moral slavery there.\n\nTo conclude, I must agree with \"Sui Jure\" that, not only would it be no loss, but, I believe, it would be a positive gain to all shipowners were they to avoid all Sunday labour. \"Let us do unto others as we would they should do unto us.\"\n\nThanking you in anticipation for according space to this.\n\nYours, etc.,\n\nA TRAVELLER.\n\nHongkong, 26th November, 1890.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347994, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## \n\nnor fur. Cooper have been connected with the Surveyors General's Dept for some years, and the others are all men. Except W. Thalock who is not likely to act as ...\n\nWe may ask the four to telegraph to get a response from Stranger Saul. We are sure to get a reply.\n\nAged since ... of Ww. Donny poun ...\n\nmounting my suggested letter for Drury commits us to nothing and will facilitate the decision.\n\n82 Vognell, 310th Rev, Een 6/11, 88 Sloane St., Oct 19, 1891.\n\n433 C.O. 20515\n\nRECD BEC 20 00 91\n\nI have to report that I have examined Mr. R. Dur... He is organically sound; his health is good; and he is physically fit to serve as Engineer of the Town g... \n\nHong Kong, Jan ...\n\nYour Obedient Servant, \nThos Gage Bon ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356625, "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": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\n2089 InEC: 153\n\nColony, both European and Chinese.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord Marquess, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant.\nWilliam Robingry\n\n( The Daily Press. HONGKONG, JANUARY 19th, 1845 )\n\n## MR. JUSTICE ACKROYD ON FINES AND IMPRISONMENT\n\nA meeting of the Odd Volumes was held yesterday afternoon. His Honour the Acting Chief Justice read a paper on the question \"Should imprisonment not be inflicted in default of payment of fines?\" His Excellency the Governor occupied the chair. There was a large attendance and the limited accommodation of the Society's room did not afford sitting accommodation for all, a number of gentlemen having to stand in the doorway. There were several ladies present.\n\nHis Honour's paper was as follows:-The subject upon which I propose to address you today and which I will ask you to consider and discuss is one which perhaps at first sight may not appear as interesting as many which have on former occasions engaged your attention, nor may it at first seem to be of any practical importance. The question is, should imprisonment, with or without hard labour, be imposed for non-payment of fines. For the reasons I am about to give I have been long opposed to it and I trust that before I have finished I will be able to prove that this question has a very practical side and is deserving of your serious consideration. I maintain, first, that imprisonment for non-payment of fines is unconstitutional, it is opposed to the fundamental principles of our law on the subject; and although it has now an appearance of legal sanction, since it is authorised by statute or ordinances, still I contend that it is illegal, since it is against the fundamental law, and that instead of being of any use it is mischievous and oppressive since a person sentenced to imprisonment for non-payment of a fine associates and works with other criminals and offenders, and that such a system is not only bad but positively injurious both to the state and to the individual.\n\nA fine, as you all no doubt know, is a pecuniary punishment or recompense for an offence committed against the Queen or her laws or against the lord of a manor. It is the lowest species of punishment which can be awarded. It is provided as a punishment together with imprisonment for some crimes and misdemeanours, or as the sole punishment which the court can inflict in other cases. The Court may in its discretion inflict a fine as the sole punishment for such a grave offence as manslaughter, whilst it is also the penalty which the legislature has prescribed for the infringement of the most unimportant municipal by-laws or regulations. It is the sole punishment in the vast number of breaches of by-laws and regulations made in order to prevent petty nuisances or to enforce the execution of administrative measures of public importance or to carry out those rules which the necessities of our present state of civilization have called into existence, or which the requirements of public health and safety, education and revenue, and other like matters have made imperative, may at any moment unwillingly, almost unknowingly, bring ourselves within their bounds is therefore a matter of importance for us to enquire what is the penalty to which in those cases each and every one of us may at any moment subject ourselves by our neglect or omission or ignorance.\n\nThe system of inflicting fines as a punishment dates back at least to the Roman Empire. To preserve order and discipline in the great works they were building up they found it necessary and perhaps profitable to resort to this kind of punishment, in praise of which a great deal has been said, for it has been urged that as you may increase it or reduce it as you like it is the most just and equitable punishment you can have. Beathan says that there is no other punishment or penalty which can be so nearly adjusted or fixed with due regard to the fortune of the offenders. But this theory, which looks so easy, is most difficult to put in practice, and equity in the matter of fines is one of the most difficult problems of penal legislation. Many if not all codes have attempted to solve the difficulty, but their provisions have in most cases been insufficient: either they have been too vague or they have placed too arbitrary a power in the hands of the judges.\n\nI have said that the system is an old one. The old laws on the subject had some humane provisions in respect of fines; for instance, excessive fines were absolutely null, judges could lessen the amount thereof or even remit the fine altogether. The poor were exempt from them. The penal code of Austria merely says that the fine is to be proportioned to the means of the accused. In France they have fixed a maximum and I believe that the recovery thereof is subjected merely to civil process. In Prussia the poorest classes are exempt, but in Brazil the legislature has endeavoured to meet the difficulty by enacting that a fine shall always be fixed by what the accused can derive each day from his property, his work, or employment. It touches his revenue only.\n\nWith respect to English legislation on the subject, it is very vague as to the amount of fine and the length of imprisonment which the court may impose. In many cases no maximum is mentioned. Fines were in the early Saxon times the only punishment for many crimes. Stephens in his \"History of the Common Law of England,\" after enumerating the crimes known to Anglo-Saxon laws, says the punishments appointed for them were either fines or corporal punishment, which was either death, mutilation, or in some cases flogging. Imprisonment is not mentioned as a punishment, though it is referred to as a way of securing a person who could not give security.\n\nThe fines were called wer, bote, and wite. Wer was the price set upon a man according to his rank in life. If he was killed the wer had to be paid to his relations; if he was convicted of theft they had in some cases to pay his wer to the king or his lord. Bote was compensation to a person injured by a crime, and wite was a fine paid to the king or other lord in respect of an offence.\n\nGenerally speaking all crimes or offences were punishable by wer, bote, with or without wite. After previous conviction it might no longer be made. Certain crimes were inexpiable, such as housebreaking, arson, open theft, and treason against the law. Certain changes were made between those times and the reign of John, which it is not necessary here to mention, and fines grew in quality and amount, in great measure no doubt on account of the wants of the King's exchequer, until we come to the Magna Charta.\n\nAnd in considering its provisions in this respect, remember that when we read there \"fines,\" it means not fines for the numberless small matters for which they are now imposed, but they were then the only punishment for other more serious offences or crimes. Now Magna Charta says: \"A freeman shall not be fined for a small fault but after the manner of the fault and for a great fault after the greatness of the fault, saving to him his contenement, and a merchant likewise, saving to him his merchandise, and any other villein shall be likewise amerced, saving his wainage if he fall into our mercy.\" This was a rule that obtained even in Henry I's time and means only that no man shall have larger amercement imposed upon him than his circumstances or personal estate can bear, and in order to ascertain this the great Charter directed that the amercement should be set or reduced to certainty by the oath of the Inquest, or by the verdict of lawful men of the neighbourhood, or in some cases it was made by the superior courts this assessment the coroner or sworn officer. In other courts it was fixed by assessors sworn to tax and moderate the general amercement according to the particular circumstances of the offence and the offender.\n\nWhen a pecuniary penalty was inflicted on a stranger in the superior courts the judge appointed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359118, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "## Proportion of Military Expenditure to Revenue, &c., paid by this Colony during the last 10 years.\n\n| Year | Aggregate trade, i.e., imports and exports | Aggregate shipping, i.e., inwards and outwards | Total revenue | Total expenditure | Total military expenditure | Percentage of military expenditure on revenue |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1884 | 218,108,704 dollars | tons | 6,210,687 dollars | 3,516,841 dollars | 239,910 dollars | 6.82 |\n| 1885 | 210,870,018 | 7,860,917 | 3,508,074 | 3,598,149 | 299,606 | 6.83 |\n| 1886 | 225,666,492 | 8,179,238 | 3,847,650 | 3,511,096 | 241,069 | 6.43 |\n| 1887 | 263,664,131 | 8,747,501 | 3,195,689 | ... | 240,116 | 6.24 |\n| 1888 | 293,479,085 | 9,192,855 | 3,858,909 | 9,656,950 | 242,966 | 6.20 |\n| 1889 | 289,418,342 | 4,409,927 | 3,559,864 | 4,289,125 | 242,723 | 5.50 |\n| 1890 | 296,375,855 | 9,678,659 | 3,812,612 | 3,757,693 | 292,493 | 6.85 |\n| 1891 | 279,147,671 | 10,618,058 | 8,826,603 | 4,598,978 | 1,087,649 | 28.42 |\n| 1892 | 293,085,890 | 10,200,135 | 3,652,877 | 4,266,406 | 837,967 | 22.93 |\n| 1893 | 323,771,030 | 10,613,806 | 3,706,307 | ... | 732,522 | 20.30 |\n| 1894 | *302,348,974 | 3,818,170 | +7,200,000 | 3,915,481 | 729,118 | $19.09 |\n\n* Nine months only.\n† Singapore only.\n↑ Military Contributions reduced from 100,000l. to 80,000l.\n\n## Singapore\n\n**The Hon. A. P. Talbot, Acting Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements.**\n\nSir,\n\n4th January, 1895.\n\nThe action of Her Majesty's Government in ignoring the appeal of this Colony for some reduction in the Military Contribution is, in our opinion, calculated to have so disastrous an effect upon the welfare of the Colony, that we feel bound, as the only means in our power of protesting against what appears to us such a grave injustice, to place in the hands of his Excellency the Governor the resignation of our seats as members of the Chinese Advisory Board.\n\nT. JIAK KIM. \nW. JOON SIANG. \nS. LIANG SEAH. \nL. CHENG YAM. \nT. CHENG FOOK. \nK. CHENG TEO. \nG. ENG SENG. \nG. SIN KHO, SIH GUAN. \nNG KWAI PO. \nFUNG YIN. \nC. AH PAT.\n\n**(No. 11.)**\n\n**My Lord,**\n\n**No. 5b.**\n\n**Sir C. B. H. Mitchell to the Marquis of Ripon, (Received 4th February, 1895.)**\n\nGovernment House, Penang, \n9th January, 1895.\n\nI enclose copies of resignations sent to me by 18 Justices of the Peace for Singapore and by the Singapore Chinese Advisory Board.\n\n2. These resignations are caused by the publication of the decision of Her Majesty's Government in regard to the Military Contribution.\n\n3. If, as I believe it to be, this action is based upon a common understanding on the part of the European and Chinese residents of position in Singapore, I shall probably experience much difficulty in filling the vacancies thus caused, but on this point I shall address your Lordship after my return, next week, to Singapore.\n\n**The Hon. A. P. Talbot, Acting Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements.**\n\nSir,\n\nSingapore, \n4th January, 1895.\n\nWe, the undersigned, Justices of the Peace, beg to submit to his Excellency the Governor, our resignation of that office, as a protest against the arbitrary action of Her Majesty's Government in regard to the Military Contribution, as set forth in Lord Ripon's latest despatch.\n\nIt is a matter for regret that this step should be necessary, but in view of the harsh and, in our opinion, unfair treatment of the Colony, showing a great disregard of its present welfare or future prosperity, it seems to us the only course left to us, as a means of protest.\n\nJ. R. CUTHBERTSON. \nJ. BLAIR. \nT. SHELFORD. \nC. STRINGER. \nJ. MILLER. \nA. J. GUNN. \nT. C. BOGAARDT. \nJ. ANDERSON. \nT. JIAK KIM. \nT. KENG SAIK. \nR. W. HULLETT. \nT. S. THOMSON. \nW. G. TAYLOR. \nC. SUGDEN. \nA. GENTLE. \nJ. MACRITCHIE. \nJ. FRASER. \nC. E. CRANE. \nS. LIANG SHAH.\n\n**(No. 13.)**\n\n**My Lord,**\n\n**No. 50.**\n\n**Sir C. B. H. Mitchell to the Marquis of Ripon. (Received 4th February, 1895.)**\n\nGovernment House, Penang, \n10th January, 1895.\n\nIn continuation of my despatch, `No. 428`, of the 29th December,* I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of a letter I have received from Messrs. Shelford, Donaldson, and Seah Liang Seah, tendering their resignations as unofficial members of the Legislative Council.\n\n2. As your Lordship will perceive, they state that they have been prompted to take this step as a final protest against the decision come to by Her Majesty's Government with regard to the amount to be paid by the Colony as Military Contribution during the quinquennial period 1894-98, which was conveyed in your Lordship's despatch, `No. 365`, of the 6th November last.\n\n3. I also enclose a copy of a semi-official letter addressed by Mr. Bogaardt to the Colonial Secretary, in which he regrets his inability, under the circumstances, to accept renomination on the expiration of his term of office. Mr. Bogaardt had previously intimated to me personally his willingness to serve again.\n\n4. Mr. Donaldson had already, before the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, to which I have above alluded, informed me of his intention of resigning his seat, as he was leaving the Colony early in January.\n\n5. Mr. Hüttenbach, a copy of whose letter to the Colonial Secretary I enclose, has expressed a wish to resign his seat for other reasons than those which have brought about the resignation of the gentlemen above named, Mr. Hüttenbach has been much attacked in the local press lately, and I cannot but feel that the treatment he has received is the cause of his wish to retire. I have asked him to meet me on my return to Singapore, and he may then see fit to reconsider his decision.\n\n6. The Penang members, Dr. Brown and Mr. Vermont, have, up to the present moment, shown no sign of following the example of their Singapore colleagues, and I think it probable that they will adopt an independent course.\n\n7. The decision of the Singapore members has, I understand, only been arrived at after long consideration, and with the full knowledge that it meets with the general support of the influential portion of the local European and Chinese community, It will, therefore, I fear, be difficult, if I restrict my choice to Singapore residents, to adequately fill their places, but on this point I will address your Lordship again after my return to Singapore.\n\n* `No. 2038`. \n\nC. B. H. MITCHELL. \n\nPage 31 \nPage 519", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359598, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "365 \n\nBoth Chinese and otherwise were concerned; unfortunately his temperament was so erratic, and his organizing powers so weak, that for want of these qualities he was not deemed competent to take the governing reins of such an institution as the College promised to be.\n\nAt that time (with the exception of Mr. Stewart) there were no University Graduates on the Staff; and as Mr. Falconer had been for many years Head master of the Staff, and had acted on many occasions, making it necessary that the Head master should be a University Graduate, made it less apparent that the late Mr. Falconer was superseded, and thus wrong, the present Head Master appointed.\n\nI am sorry to say that I am not a graduate, which I hand caused by circumstances beyond my control; hence should the present Head master resign at any time, the existing Order might debar me from being appointed as Head Master. At present there are two masters (5th and 6th respectively) on the Staff that are graduates and of only from 6 to 8 years service, and should either of these simply because they are Graduates preside who have served the Government for over 16 years, I am sure that your Lordship sees how hard such a circumstance bears upon me; and even if a stranger from outside the Service should be appointed, it deprives me of any future promotion for my long Service.\n\nFar be it from me to compare my own scholarly attainment with those of the late Mr. Falconer, or those of any other Master on the staff, but I may unhesitatingly say that I have the fortune to possess the qualities necessary for an organizer and ruler of such an establishment as Queen's College.\n\nI have been a teacher in Hong Kong for 20 years and am thoroughly well known as a teacher of ability among the Chinese and a good organizer. And here I beg to point out to Your Lordship that I acted as Head master during the absence (on leave) of the College from April 1890 to November 1891, and from the enclosed Statistics Your Lordship will see that during that period the number of scholars reached its highest point within the ten years mentioned, that the average Daily Attendance was the highest, and that consequently the average expenses were lower.\n\nI do not point out these facts to gain any praise, but only to point out that, as I truly believe, the increase was greatly caused by the confidence the Chinese have in me as a teacher.\n\nI know that the present Head master is somewhat unsettled and may resign, possibly before long; and if he did, I might be rejected because I am not a graduate. And so I take this opportunity, whilst in England, to lay my humble petition before your Lordship.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360426, "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": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 622, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "619 \n\nThe Visiting Justice and the remainder were whipped by order of the \nMagistrate. It may be that the Medical Officer's report has given \nthe Secretary of State a wrong impression as to the true state of \nthe case. In 1895 there was a large increase in the number of whipping. Mr. Thomson, who was Acting Superintendent during my absence \non leave, informs me that he had grounds for suspecting that there \nwas a combination among the prisoners to refuse to labour which had \nto be suppressed by extraordinary measures. \n\nFrom 3 to 12 strokes is a punishment which, unless the \nprisoner is quite indifferent, generally produces the required effect \nas may be seen from the few occasions on which it has been found \nnecessary to call in a Visiting Justice for the purpose of awarding \na heavier punishment, and I venture to submit that it is one which \nmight well be left within the discretion of the Superintendent to \naward. \n\nI can most confidently state that whipping is not \nawarded until minor punishments have been tried and failed. \n\nAs to paragraph 4 of O.O. Despatch No. 47/98, I have \nconsulted Mr. Thomson as directed. He informs me that the Stranger \nwho witnessed the whipping was a reporter on the Staff of the \nDaily Press who was present with His Excellency's permission. The \nprisoner who was whipped was convicted of cutting and wounding and \nsentenced to 3 years imprisonment Hard Labour and to receive 50 \nstrokes in two whippings. The Reporter's idea from what he said \nto Mr. Thomson appears to have been that it was such a bad case he \nthought", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365709, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "given special retiring allowances.\n\nAs I was about to gather the facts, that the case against the subordinate Chinese Police officers specified in Sir W. Robinson's despatch no. 256 of 29 Nov last, who have been allowed to resign, is not stranger than that against the above mentioned European officers, I am of opinion special retiring allowances should similarly be awarded to some of them. I do not think that those whose service was very short need be considered, nor those (outside Police Dept.) whose salaries did not exceed $240 a year; but I approve of the following officers, being besides those specified in my despatch no. 17, being awarded pensions, viz. Chan Kai Ming, late 2nd Clerk in the Magistracy, and Chan Shan, late 3rd Clerk in the Magistracy. The pensions they bear the same proportion to the pensions they would have earned, if they had served till they were 55 years of age, as their actual \n\n## DRAFT. MINUTE.\n\nMr. Cox. \nMr. Lucas. \nMr. Graham. \nSir J. Bramston. \nMr. Wingfield. \nEarl of Selborne. \nMr. Chamberlain.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369621, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# PRESENTATION TO MR. NORTON KYSHE\n\nTwo interesting presentations took place in the Registrar's room at the Supreme Court at noon yesterday. The Registrar, Mr. J. W. Norton Kyshe, leaves for England to-day in the Ceylon on leave, and it says much for the faithful manner in which he has discharged his duties and his unfailing urbanity towards all who have come in contact with him that not only was he the recipient of a token of the esteem in which he is held by the Court staff, but also of an exceedingly flattering testimonial from the Chinese community of Hongkong. The latter presented to him a splendidly prepared address bound in green velvet and mounted in silver, and the former an address in an oakwood frame. Each address made a complimentary reference to the valuable work which was but recently issued from Mr. Kyshe's pen - \"The history of the laws and courts of Hongkong\" - a work which has been received by a chorus of eulogiums throughout the colony, and a work which will serve as a lasting monument to the author. We feel sure all our readers will join with us in re-echoing the hope that Mr. and Mrs. Kyshe will have a pleasant voyage and will be all the better in health for their well-earned holiday.\n\nThe first address presented was that from the Chinese merchants.\n\nMr. CHAU TSENG FAT said - I have been asked by the Chinese merchants to call upon you and to present you with an address. During the few years you have been in this colony as Registrar of Supreme Court, Registrar of Companies, Official Administrator and Land Officer, you have rendered valuable assistance to the Chinese, especially to those who came in contact with you. We cannot allow you to leave us without expressing our gratitude to you, and also to wish you and Mrs. Kyshe a pleasant voyage, and we sincerely hope that you will soon be promoted to a higher position. On behalf of the Chinese merchants who are now before you, I beg to hand you the address, and trust you will be pleased to accept it. But before handing it over to you, I wish you will be good enough to allow one of your officers, Mr. Mok Man Cheung, to read the address.\n\nMr. MOK MAN CHEUNG read the address, which was in the following terms:\n\n\"Hongkong, 12th December, 1898.\n\n\"JAMES WILLIAM NORTON-KYSHE, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Official Administrator, Registrar of Companies, and Officer, &c., &c., Hongkong.\n\n\"We, the undersigned, take the liberty to acknowledge the valuable services which you have rendered to the public in this colony during the time you have been Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong. We can testify that you have performed your various duties with fidelity and unremitting attention, and that the public here are loud in their praises of your ability and faithfulness to duty. We appreciate you not only for your fidelity and integrity in the discharge of your duties as a public officer, but also for your kindness and civility towards us whenever we have had occasion to approach you. We have noted with great pleasure that you have so ably compiled and published a very valuable work designed \"The History of the Laws and Courts of Hongkong.\" The work will certainly ever prove a monument of your industry and will moreover be of use, not only to ourselves, but to the rising generation of English-speaking Chinese. We also note with equal gratification that in all matters both public and private, you have ever been ready and cheerful in affording us the benefit of your advice. Your candour and frankness have ensured for you the good-will of all nationalities, especially the Chinese who have been thrown in contact with you, and all those who know you always feel happy to cultivate your friendship. Your unquestionable ability undoubtedly must have induced Her Majesty's Government to appoint you to the Registrarship of this colony from Singapore, where we have heard you were very much respected and esteemed.\n\n\"Now as you are about to proceed to England with your family, we cannot but express our regret at your departure.\n\n\"We beg to present you with this address as a testimony of the sincere good-will and respect entertained for you, and we venture to hope you will do us the honour of accepting it as an acknowledgment by ourselves of your valuable services.\n\nWe avail ourselves of this opportunity to wish you and your family a pleasant, calm, and safe voyage; and sincerely hope that you will derive rest and great benefit from your sojourn in England. We have the honour to be, Sir, Yours most truly.\"\n\n(Here follow signatures and chops.)\n\nThe address is bound in green plush, with silver corners of dragon design, and a central shield bears the following inscription: - \"To James W. Norton-Kyshe, Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, from the Chinese merchants, on his departure from the colony, December, 1898.\"\n\nMr. Kyshe said - It is gratifying to me as a high official of the Supreme Court to find by the magnificent testimonial which you have presented to me - unknown of your intention but a few moments ago - that you so fully acknowledge the services which I have been able to render to yourselves and countrymen as a public servant in the faithful discharge of his duties. In no department of the service is an official in a better position to make himself appreciated than that connected with the administration of justice, and so far as I am concerned I can assure you that no stone have I left unturned which could make you understand that when entering my office you were there to find yourselves on a footing of equality with any of Her Most Gracious Majesty's subjects seeking what assistance our benign laws could confer upon you. These were my positive instructions to my subordinates on my assumption of duty in Hongkong, and I am pleased to think that on no occasion has it ever been brought to my notice that you were deprived of that assistance whenever you sought for it. For my part, I have done for you what right consonant with justice demanded. Those of you who have sought my advice from time to time well know how earnest I have been in discouraging litigation whenever it was possible to avoid such, and I am glad to know that in several instances I have been successful. I appreciate your testimonial for the little I have been able to do for you. Your allusion to my career in the Straits Settlements brings back very pleasant reminiscences to my mind. I laboured for fifteen years in that colony. There, as here, my services were appreciated by your fellow countrymen, and I now hold up to your view two addresses which were presented to me by the Chinese and other nationalities in Singapore so long ago as in 1884 when I relinquished magisterial duties in that settlement. Although a stranger to Hongkong itself, on my arrival I soon found that the people were no strangers to me. Here, as in the Straits, the backbone of the population is Chinese, and except for change of scene I soon found myself completely at home; and hence the reason probably why, if I may be allowed to say so, I have been able to make my services appreciated. Believe me when I tell you under no Power could the Chinese be a more free people than under British rule. I have often spoken to some of the leading Chinese on the subject, and it is satisfactory to know how much those in that vast empire from which you come appreciate the benefits they derive from being connected with us. This is a matter, gentlemen, that I need not go into further. During my stay here, I have done in my own quiet way, not as a judge in public, but as a Court official sitting in his own Chambers, what good I could, and your kind reference to my recently published work is fully appreciated by me. I shall now carry away with me the highest memento that I could possibly have received, namely, the knowledge that as a public servant specially appointed by the Home Government I have done my duty faithfully towards those who constitute the majority of Her Majesty's subjects and of the foreign community of Hongkong. I thank you for your kind wishes to myself and family and particularly for your magnificent address which I shall hand down to my family as an heirloom.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369772, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# Hong Kong 19th February 1898\n\nThe humble petitioner Harriet Elizabeth Falconer hereby wishes to lay before the British Government my long grievances and to appeal for a fair chance in open Court here to establish our claims and to test the legality of a Bill of Sale I hold. I feel we have been cruelly wronged, neglected, and deprived of our rights, and the protection which the law gives through Mr. Francis and Mr. Bottomley Sharp, formerly Crown Solicitor.\n\nIn Chicago, U.S.A., on the 15th Jan 1882, Matthew Falconer died. He, my husband's brother, and a half-partner in the George B. Falconer & Co. - Watchmakers and Jewellers, Hong Kong. A balance sheet came after his death valuing his share above $30,000 (thirty thousand dollars). I purchased his supposed widow's interest in the Falconer firm for the consideration of a lifetime support - $25 dollars is not mentioned but $75 dollars per month for her lifetime. I paid two hundred dollars on account, and she gave me a Bill of Sale, agreeing to take the balance at $75 per month for her lifetime. \n\nLater, I learned she was not a lawful wife (had no marriage papers). Also, all the property that Matthew, the brother, left lawfully belonged to my husband. In 1870, my husband met with a fall, which weakened his mind, especially when in drink. So, I had to take over business cares. I left home for a long time, instructing my agent to bring my husband to Hong Kong if necessary. On arriving in Hong Kong in the latter part of Sept 1882, I ascertained the state of affairs and placed my case and papers in Mr. Edmund Sharp of the Crown Solicitor's hands, also engaging Mr. J. J. Francis as the barrister.\n\nThe Crown Solicitor notified the Falconer firm of our claims and told me that he had been informed they could not turn over the property forced by law, and for me to send for my husband at once, which I did by letter and telegram. On receiving a reply, I went to the Crown Solicitor and Mr. Francis and told them I had received a letter from home stating my husband could not be found, and I feared Marion Wilson (alias) Staltman and her son had something to do with his disappearance. That Marion Wilson was a woman of ill repute and was no stranger in the Police prisons and Bridewell in Chicago. And entreated them to inform the Registrar and Court of my husband's claims, and to request them to see that the...\n\nPage 360\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377984, "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": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 453, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "# C. O. 40247 \n**RECT** \n**REGE 10 DEC 00** \n\n490. \nGovernment House, \nHong Kong, 9th November, 1900. \n\nSir, \nI have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed Bond partially executed by Mr. W. J. Solly, Postmaster at Shanghai, in respect of his appointment to that office, whereby he binds himself and one surety in the sum of ten thousand dollars.\n\n2. As it is customary to provide two sureties in executing a Bond of this nature, and Mr. Solly who is a stranger in Shanghai has expressed his inability to provide more than one, I have the honour to ask for your instructions as to whether this Bond should be accepted. If it is considered sufficient, the Bond should be completed by the Crown Agents, for which purpose the surety therein mentioned, who is resident in England, should be asked to attend at their office. A certificate as to the validity of the Security should be appended to the Bond before its return to Hong Kong.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nRight Honourable \nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M. P.\n\nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nHumble servant, \nHenry Arthur Blake \nGOVERNOR, &C.\n\n#G11 \n8011", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378907, "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": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 721, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "## \n\nmerci...). \n\nLord: - \n\n**C. O. 27482** \n\nRecd & BANGKOK. \n\nREG? 22 AUG 00 \n\nJuly, 13th. 1900. \n\n711 \n\nDevawongre Tring:16:1900 & Hänger 14:23: 1900 \n\nIn accordance with Article 84(6) of the Siamese Order in Council, I have the honour to forward a Resolution imposing quarantine on vessels from Hongkong, China ports and Manila, made by me at the request of the Siamese Government. \n\nYour Lordship will observe, from the enclosed copies of correspondence between Mr. Stringer and Prince Devawongse, Siamese Foreign Minister, that the Regulation is an adaptation of a Decree issued by the Siamese Government on May 9th. last; and that Prince Devawongse has given the assurance demanded by Mr. Stringer, on the advice of the Medical Officer of this Legation, that proper arrangements are being made for carrying out the provisions of the Decree. \n\nI have said that I am informed by ... German Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of Salisbury, &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384868, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "108\n\nHongkong, but I have got many ideas about what Hongkong will be in the future, and I cannot help thinking myself that Kowloon will some day very shortly surprise everybody by the extraordinary strides it will make. I think you, Mr. Ho Tung, yourself in the speech you made at the laying of the foundation stone, referred to Kowloon as a suburb of Hongkong. Well, it has been a beautiful suburb of Hongkong. It still is a very pretty suburb of Hongkong, but I cannot help thinking that in the near future, before very many years, anybody coming to describe Kowloon will talk about it as the workshop of Hongkong. I think it is impossible not to see how these strides will go in Kowloon, and therefore I think that a gift of this kind, which will increase the educational facilities of the residents of Kowloon, is an enormous boon to those residents.\n\nI congratulate you also, Mr. Ho Tung, on the choice of the headmaster, Mr. James. As was said by Mr. Pearce, Mr. James is no stranger to Hongkong. But from what I know, and from all I hear of him, I fancy that we have got a most excellent man to do the work that is set before him, and I also hope that that work will not be uncongenial to him. When Mr. James left Hongkong to take up another appointment he left the Colony alone. He has returned to the Colony with Mrs. James, and I venture to say from what I know and from what I hear of Mrs. James, that she will be a fitting helpmate to him in the work that lies before them both. I think we are very fortunate indeed in having secured both their services in this excellent public school. (Applause.)\n\nLadies and gentlemen, I do not propose to detain you very much longer. I will only say this. I think anybody who sees, as we all see here, the enormous strides that are being made every day in this Colony, will recognise that of all things we should keep pace with these strides in the matter of education. I certainly am strongly in favour of giving all possible facilities for education. When one finds the number of people that come to Hongkong and Kowloon increasing, one must feel that these must bring with them a number of parents whose children are growing up in Hongkong; and the boon that it will be to those parents to get education for their children on the spot—it is impossible almost to say how great that boon will be.\n\nWell, if you agree with me that we have every reason to be grateful to Mr. Ho Tung for his munificent present, your way of showing your gratitude will be by patronising thoroughly the school, by giving it every chance of success; and as I prophesy that before many years are out this school, as it appears to us to-day, will scarcely be sufficient for the wants of Kowloon, I need only say that the record of Mr. Ho Tung's generosity will find others equally liberal-minded and equally generous with himself to follow in his footsteps, and, if occasion requires, to make equally munificent and practical bequests. (Applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, I would like now, if I may, to lead you up to the school so as to declare it formally open. (Applause.)\n\nThe company then walked up to the door of the school, and His Excellency performed the ceremony of unlocking it and declaring the school open, the consummation of the ceremonial being greeted with cheers.\n\nCake and wine were afterwards served in the large classroom, which was decorated for the occasion. Here,\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY proposed the toast of prosperity to the school and the health of Mr. Ho Tung in the words—I drink prosperity to the school and also the health and prosperity of its giver, Mr. Ho Tung.\n\nThe toast was duly honoured.\n\nMr. Ho Tung in reply said—Your Excellency, I thank you most heartily for the honour you have done me in proposing the toast of my health, and you, ladies and gentlemen, for the kind manner in which you have received it. I trust that the school will prosper and be a boon to the inhabitants of Kowloon. (Applause.)\n\nThis concluded the proceedings, and the company afterwards dispersed. A body of Indian police under Sergeant Garrod was present to receive His Excellency General Gascoigne.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385739, "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": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "# IX. Various Statistics and Reports\n\n## (b.)-PUBLIC HEALTH\n\nIt is significant that while the total increase in the population of the Colony during the five years between 1897 and 1901 was 35,095, the increase during the same period in the population of British Kowloon (which used to be a garden suburb of Victoria) was no less than 16,534, or nearly half the increase for the whole Colony.\n\nThere were 1,088 births during the year, and of that number 848 were Chinese. This is equal to a general birth-rate of 3.6 per 1,000, as compared with 3.3 in 1900, 4.3 in 1899, and 4.7 in 1898. Owing, however, to the large number of Chinese infants who die unregistered, it is estimated that a more correct birth-rate for the past year would be 4.7 per 1,000.\n\n### Public Health Statistics\n\n| Category | Number | Rate per 1,000 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Births | 1,088 | 3.6 |\n| Deaths | 7,082 | 23.5 |\n| Deaths (excluding plague) | ... | 19.03 |\n\nAs compared with the 1,088 births mentioned above, there were 7,082 deaths in 1901. This gives a death-rate of 23.5 per 1,000, as compared with 23.9 in 1900, 23.8 in 1899, and an average of 22.5 per 1,000 during the past five years. The deaths included 1,562 from bubonic plague, which again visited the Colony and ran its usual course. Excluding the deaths from plague, the death-rate for 1901 would have been 19.03 per 1,000. Among the non-Chinese the deaths numbered 412, of which 302 were among the Civil population, 96 among the Army, and 14 among the Navy. This is equal to a death-rate of 20.5 per 1,000. The British deaths among the non-Chinese numbered 116; the rest were chiefly Indians, Malays and Portuguese.\n\nOne thousand six hundred and fifty-one (1,651) cases of Plague were reported during the year, of which all but 89 were fatal. The disease showed an increased tendency to attack Europeans. The chief causes of death among the non-Chinese resident civil community were plague, phthisis, malaria and pneumonia. There were more cases of small-pox than usual, and some cholera cases were imported.\n\nIt is hoped that when the much-needed improvement in the sanitary condition of the City is effected, there will be a large decrease not only in the deaths resulting from bubonic plague but also in those from phthisis and other chest diseases, which are more or less directly attributable to overcrowded and insanitary dwellings.\n\nIt is to be regretted that the experiment of once more sending troops to reside in the building which was originally destined to be a Military Sanitarium, has not proved successful, and the hopes expressed in paragraph-VIII.(4) of my Report on the Blue Book for last year have not been realised. After a brief period of freedom from malaria, the troops stationed there began to be attacked in considerable numbers and had to be wholly withdrawn from the building, which now stands empty.\n\nThe treatment with larvicides of the breeding places of the Anopheles mosquito is being actively continued.\n\n## (c.)-SANITATION\n\nIn spite of the efforts of the Government, the Sanitary Board and the Legislature, during the past few years, the sanitary state of the Colony still leaves much to be desired. The City of Victoria retains its unenvied pre-eminence in the matter of surface crowding, and in spite of the enforcement of the provisions of the Insanitary Properties Ordinance of 1899, the condition of the vast majority of the Chinese dwelling houses is far from meeting the requirements of modern sanitary science. As there seemed to be no prospect of amelioration without the adoption of more radical measures than had hitherto been attempted, and as the Community showed by a Petition which they addressed to you in the course of the year that they were prepared to face the heavy expenditure which stronger measures would certainly involve, Sir HENRY BLAKE asked you to send out an expert to enquire into the sanitary state of the Colony and report upon the steps which in his opinion should be taken to remedy the existing defects. In October, 1901, you informed Sir HENRY BLAKE that you had selected Mr. OSBERT CHADWICK, C.M.G., a sanitary expert of wide experience and not a stranger to Hongkong, for this special work. About the same time you informed him that you had selected Professor SIMPSON, M.D., to pay a simultaneous visit to the Colony with a view to a thorough enquiry being made into the origin of bubonic plague, and the best means of providing against its annual re-appearance. A notice of the work done by these gentlemen, who had not yet arrived in the Colony at the end of 1901 will, it is hoped, appear in next year's Report. A certain result of their visit must be the introduction of legislative measures to consolidate and amend the present Health and Building Ordinances.\n\n## (d)-CLIMATE\n\nThe average monthly temperature throughout the year was 72.1° F. as compared with 71.6° F. during 1900; the maximum monthly temperature was attained in July, when it reached 82.2° F., and the minimum monthly temperature was recorded in the month of February, being 54.8° F.\n\nThe highest recorded temperature during the year was 92.7° F. on August 3rd, and the lowest was 38.4° F. on February 4th.\n\nThe total Rainfall for the year was 55.78 inches, as compared with 73.73 inches in 1900 and an average of 77.2 inches during the past ten years. The wettest month was May with 14.10 inches, while there were also 14 inches of rain in the month of August; the driest month was January, with only 0.535 inch. The greatest amount of rain which fell on any one day was 4.23 inches on April 7th, while no rain fell on 213 days of the year; the relative humidity of the atmosphere throughout the year was 75 per cent, as compared with 77 per cent. in the previous year.\n\nThe average daily amount of sunshine throughout the year was 5.5 hours, and on 35 days only was no sunshine recorded.\n\nIt may be mentioned that the rainfall of 1901 was less than half the rainfall of the year 1891. Taitam Reservoir, the principal source of water supply, was not filled throughout the year, and only one rainfall during the last 20 years (that of 1895) was lower than that of the year under review.\n\n## IX.-POSTAL SERVICE\n\nThe cessation of the Boxer troubles in the North of China gave an impetus to trade, which was faithfully reflected in the steady increase in postal business.\n\nThe monthly sales of stamps showed an increase of $21,765, as compared with 1900, and for the first time since the adoption of the penny postage the revenue exceeded the highest revenue from the same source in former days. The returns from the Branch Post Offices at Shanghai and in China also show gratifying results.\n\nThe Revenue of the Department from all sources in 1901 was $355,912, and the Expenditure $273,685. The nett balance to the Hongkong Post Office on the year's transactions amounted to $82,227.\n\nThe Acting Postmaster General comments on the fact that though many foreign Post Offices were opened at various ports in China during 1901, no new British Offices or Agencies were opened. He is strongly in favour of the establishment of Agencies at Chefoo, Tientsin and Peking.\n\nPage 341", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388790, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Wednesday, 20th May\n\n### IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\n#### BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR HENRY S. BERKELEY (ACTING **Chief Justice**):\n\n##### THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL.\n\nLiu Chui eling Li Kwai Fán was charged with the murder of Yueng Kuo Wán, the Reformer schoolmaster, in Gage Street, on 10th January, 1901.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty.\n\nMr E. B. Sharp, K.C., Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution; and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defence.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:- Messrs. W. Nicholls, P. Dow, R. Saron, J. W. Crouch, P. Hardman, J. A. T. Plummer, and A. S. Anton. Foreman, Mr Dow.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General, in opening the case, said the accused was charged as being a member, in fact the leader, of a gang of four men who committed this deed in concert together. All four of these men had been for some time known to the Crown by name, but the other three unfortunately were not before the Court. They had not been caught, and in all probability would never be found within the jurisdiction of this Colony, so that they could be caught. The prisoner only returned to Hong-kong last month and was arrested.\n\nThe circumstances of the murder were fairly notorious. Deceased lived at 52, Gage Street, in a corner house fronting upon that street and Aberdeen Street. He rented the whole of the first floor, consisting of a large room and two cubicles and a kitchen in the rear. The ground at the back was almost one storey higher than in front. The first floor was entered by the back from a lane and was practically on a level with the lane, which debouched into Aberdeen Street by a short flight of steps. Deceased conducted a night school for the teaching of English to Chinese boys and young men. The classes commenced at six o'clock, in the large front room.\n\nOn the evening in question, deceased was sitting at a table in the centre of the room, reading to a class from a book. The door was on the latch for the convenience of pupils arriving late, and it was consequently easy for anybody to enter without attracting any particular attention. The wife of the deceased man, her daughter, and two small children were in the cubicles at the back of the premises.\n\nAbout half-past six o'clock, a man suddenly appeared in the classroom. He was not noticed for a moment by a few there, but not by the deceased. This man walked a certain distance into the room, fairly close up to the table, and suddenly discharged three or four shots at the deceased. The shots took effect, and deceased fell forward onto the table. The pupils fled in panic, and in the confusion, the man who fired the shots, along with another man who accompanied him, escaped.\n\nHis Lordship: I presume you are going to prove this—that these officials publicly offered a reward for the man's apprehension or assassination.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General: I shall prove that.\n\nThe circumstances of the murder continued. Deceased's wife and daughter rushed into the room, found him in a state of collapse, and called the police. When the injured man was taken to the hospital, Dr. Bell found that his injuries were too serious to allow of the extraction of the bullets. He died the next morning. Three bullets were found in the body, and the cause of death was certified to be internal hemorrhage. Deceased made a dying declaration implicating the Chinese Government, saying that they had offered a reward of $20,000 for his life.\n\nTam Chung, a Yaumati fisherman, said he made the acquaintance of the prisoner on his uncle's marriage boat at Yaumati in April, 1900. Witness went to live with him in the capacity of a cook. He left on the 5th January, 1901, as he was afraid of being implicated. The prisoner had pointed out this Yueng Kus Wan to him and asked him to assist in beating him. Witness refused.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General continued, saying the Chinese Government had sent the man down from Canton, and \"everything was to be done.\" Prisoner reconnoitred the back of the house and presently came down and joined his two companions at the foot of the flight of steps. There they had a short conversation, and then the other two men went up the steps and entered the house, the prisoner mounting guard at the corner so as to command Aberdeen Street and the lane at the back of the house. The shots were fired immediately after these two men entered the house.\n\nPrisoner said he had come from Canton and asked witness to put him up. They refused. The prisoner disappeared and was not seen again. But presently, afterwards, the whole gang were back in Canton, where they stayed in Li Ka Chuk's barracks for ten days or more, during which time the murder was very frequently discussed, and the prisoner frequently referred to it, boasting that he committed the deed and claiming the reward for it.\n\nLi Ka Chuk, the mandarin in Canton, he said, offered a reward of between $10,000 and $20,000 to anyone who would kill Yueng Kus Wan. Prisoner asked the pilot to help him get someone to kill the deceased. Prisoner said that if there was a reward, he would get someone to kill the deceased.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General concluded by saying that the jury must leave out of consideration any sympathy they might have with the Reform movement. Notwithstanding the extraordinary breach committed by the Chinese Government or officials of the fundamental principles of international rights and the intolerableness of having a foreign government's emissaries entering their territory for the purpose of murdering somebody who was under the protection of their flag but was obnoxious to that foreign government, it was conceivable that the Chinese officials who organised this affair were actuated by patriotic motives.\n\nE. W. Carpenter, P.W.D., was the first witness. He put in and proved plans of the house 52, Gage Street.\n\nHis Lordship: Because it is a very serious allegation to make against those officials.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General: I think I will prove it to your Lordship's satisfaction.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General continued, saying this mandarin really organised this murder, although he did not actually come to Hongkong; and some of his braves were in the gang who committed the murder. Yung Ching Kai, captain of the Chinese gunboat Ai Yui, came to Hongkong and acted as intermediary between the mandarin and his emissaries. Prisoner was the leader of the gang who committed the deed.\n\nAfter other witnesses had given evidence, Dr. Bell went into the box. He described the man's condition when brought into hospital and spoke to the dying deposition made by the deceased and written down by witness at the time.\n\nDeceased's deposition was to the effect that he was teaching at the English school in Gage Street when very quietly the murderer came in and shot him four times. He did not know...\n\nThe wife of the murdered man next gave evidence. When she heard the report of firearms, she said, she came out from the cubicle where she had been lying on the bed and met all the pupils running out. When she went into the front room, she found her husband leaning forward with his head on his hands. He was bleeding.\n\nA young Chinese who was a student of the deceased and who was in the room when the murder was committed gave evidence as to the deed.\n\nCross-examined—There was no other stranger in the room but the man who fired the shots. Prisoner was not there.\n\nCross-examined—Witness was a fisherman and had his own boat in Yaumati. He gave up cooking in January, 1901, before which date he had never been a fisherman. His uncle gave him the boat. Witness had a brother named Tam Tai who visited the house where he was cooking for the prisoner, but witness knew nothing about his antecedents, nor whether he was hiding from the police in consequence of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389894, "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": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "# Supreme Court, Hongkong, September 21st., 1903.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to C.S.O. No. `5365/1908`, and His Excellency the Governor's minute of 10th instant thereon, I beg respectfully to enquire when the report of the Commission of Enquiry on the Registry will reach me. I have obtained my leave; but of course, as stated, it is out of the question my leaving the Colony before I know the report, having regard to the fact that a combined effort has been made to damage my reputation locally.\n\n2. In reference to other correspondence of mine, viz:- a 2nd letter dated August 28th, regarding Mr. Sharp, K.C., a member of the Commission of Enquiry interfering with my department without my permission and sending in papers to the Chief Justice, which had been obtained by Mr. Jones, Deputy Registrar, unknown to me, and Mr. Jones allowing a stranger to have access to my records; and a letter of mine dated 3rd September on the increase of revenue in my department and in allusion to the Honourable Mr. Thomson, the Colonial Treasurer; and 3rd, a complaint against His Honour the Chief Justice dated September 16th, for corresponding with my subordinate, Mr. Seth, instead of with myself or his clerk - having received no acknowledgment of these matters, I trust they were duly received and considered.\n\n3. The delaying of the issue of the Report is making my position in my office unbearable and it is a matter to which I beg most respectfully to call the attention of His Excellency the Governor.\n\nThe Honourable \nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nI have etc., \n**(Sd.)** J.W. Norton Kyshe, \nRegistrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390402, "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": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 677, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "82 \n\n\n\n\n670 \n\na sergeant. The man kicked fell on the ground. The man was kicked behind (right buttock) (shows jury) one kick. The man fell down and the defendant went away. The man kicked was a stranger to me. When I last saw him I saw blood running down his trousers. I went away and I went away leaving him there. Next time I saw him was at the Government Civil Hospital and he was then dead.\n\nCross-examined by Mr Slade:- I only saw the man that evening and when he was dead. Twice when Sergeant came out the crowd ran away. The man kicked was on the pavement just in front of the brothel. He stood there looking on. I ran away with the rest. I walked away and remained next door. The Sergeant did not hit me. He waved his two hands. He got some of them on the face. I only saw one other man tumble down, a man who then picked himself up and ran away; that man was not kicked. The police asked me to give evidence. I did not see Lai Shi. The street was crowded that night. It was about 7 p.m. after. It was dark.\n\nMak Kun declared:- I live at 56 Temple Street, Yaumati, Master of a Coffee shop, next door but one from the brothel. I remember 3rd August evening, a disturbance and a crowd collecting, a number of persons ran past my shop. I walked out and on the left side I saw a hawker coming away from the door of the brothel. I saw a police sergeant (prisoner) following and there was an old man between 50 and 60 standing then under the verandah. Then I saw the Police Sergeant give the man a further kick (shows position of kick). The old man fell down and the sergeant went away and the old man got up and went away. I had not seen the old man before. Next I saw him at the Government Civil Hospital when he was dead. It was the same man. I saw him kicked on 3rd, and on the 8th I saw his dead body.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395403, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 740, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "736\n\n4\n\n-received through the British Commercial Attaché is dated the 19th September, and states that if we will put our views in writing, he will find himself in a better position to formulate a fresh request to the Chinese Government, if he considers the circumstances warrant him in approaching them again. On receipt of that letter I consulted with my Committee and suggested that we should ask the British Commercial Attaché to attend to-day, to give us such information as he might consider, from his official position, he might be competent to give. I have to thank Mr. Jamieson for kindly responding to our invitation. After he has addressed you I would invite discussion on any points that you may desire to put before the Committee. A full statement of your views before this meeting will fulfil the object for which it was, in the first instance, called.\n\nWe can then decide what further action this Chamber should take. We have engaged the services of a reporter to take a full report of this meeting, which will in due course be forwarded to all members of the Chamber.\n\nMr. J. W. Jamieson.--Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Committee, and members of the Shanghae General Chamber of Commerce: You have been convened this afternoon for the purpose of discussing a legislative enactment of the Chinese Government, drawn up as the outcome of the Treaty obligations they have recently incurred towards Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. You have been informed that the suddenness of its institution has caused some consternation, and to judge from the tone of the remarks of certain members of the Chamber who have done me the honour to consult me, the proposal would appear to have created a certain amount of undue excitement—in fact, hints have been thrown out that this is a deep-laid conspiracy to upset foreign trade in China. The responsibility for perpetrating such an outrage is variously laid at the doors of the Chinese Government, the Ministers at Peking, the British Treaty Commissioners, and of your humble servant, the Commercial Attaché. It is therefore, in the first place, my duty to try and lay before you a succinct statement of how these Provisional Registration Rules came into being. The initiators of this measure are none of the parties, exalted or otherwise, above mentioned, but purely and simply such members of this Chamber as incited their Governments to insert in the new Treaties with China some provision for the protection of trade-mark rights. Believing that it was the sincere desire of those concerned to have some such protection, the respective Governments addressed saw to it that effect was given to this desire. It may be taken for granted that the Chinese Government is not over anxious to contract new Treaty obligations, and one of the commonest taunts thrown in the teeth of those who had anything to do with the British Treaty is \"when is any provision of your much-bragged-about Treaty coming into force?\" When then, gentlemen, after careful deliberation and previous warning, the Chinese Government do make up their minds to give effect to Article VII of a Treaty signed two years ago, it is somewhat surprising, to say the least of it, to be told that such action on their part is viewed with consternation. If a merchant sends home a firm order for goods to be delivered ten months hence, he can hardly complain if in due course he is drawn against for the full invoice value.\n\nThe first steps taken by the Chinese Government to carry out Article VII were to instruct the Deputy Inspector-General of Customs and two Commissioners to draft Registration Rules. These Rules were, by order of the Inspector-General, submitted to me in February last, and I called a representative meeting of British importers together to discuss them. They were drawn up in English, were complicated with legal and technical phraseology, and were in many respects open to objection. After they had been referred to the powers that be, nothing more was heard of the matter until, in June, the Chinese Foreign Office communicated to the British, American, and Japanese Ministers a copy of the present Regulations in Chinese. They invited observation thereof with as little delay as possible, and Sir Ernest Satow, in forwarding them to me for comment, stated that, as they were provisional in character, and constituted the first step towards the attainment of a very desirable object, he was not prepared to criticize them in a carping spirit, while he at the same time recognized the necessity of eliminating any provisions which seemed likely to prove burdensome or impracticable. It was in such a spirit, therefore, that I requested a second meeting of British importers, convened by me, to discuss them. Those recommendations were at once passed on, and, after correspondence with the Chinese Government, in part adopted. I may say at the same time I informed the Minister that, in my opinion, their elasticity was a strong point in their favour, seeing that they would necessarily have to be interpreted by Chinese Courts. Now, therefore, when the Chinese Government propose, after having consulted those concerned, to put these Regulations into force, it would be invidious to meet them with fresh objections. As you will have gathered from the telegram, in answer to the request of your Committee for a postponement of the coming into force of the Regulations, Sir Ernest Satow is not disposed to put forward an application of this kind unless it can be demonstrated to him that there are cogent reasons for so doing. There is no desire not to meet the views of merchants, as far as it may be possible to do so, but it would serve no useful purpose to put forward anything but serious contentions. And, gentlemen, from what I have heard in the course of the last few days, I am disposed to think that the Rules have not been considered with impartiality, nor perused with a desire to dwell on the many good points they undoubtedly contain. What seems to have been immediately focused upon is the scale of fees, and that looms so large in the minds of members that all other considerations have been left out of account. It does not appear to have occurred to those who feel aggrieved that what you have demanded, and what you have received, is Protection, in capital letters, and to obtain protection, registration is a necessary corollary. I am even told that members are perfectly satisfied with the protection they have hitherto enjoyed. I do not think that this view is shared by those firms who, at great expenditure of money and of time, have had to contest their rights in the Mixed Court at Shanghae. What the measure of protection they would have obtained up-country may well be left to the imagination.\n\n5\n\nNow, may I ask in what respect does Rule 21 leave anything to be desired? Let me read it to you:---\n\n\"21. The undermentioned offences are punishable with imprisonment up to one year and a fine not exceeding 300 taels, but judgment can only be given in a suit instituted by the party aggrieved:\n\n(a.) Any attempt to use a similar class of goods, or to imitate a registered trade-mark belonging to another party, or to offer the same for sale.\n\n(b.) To imitate a trade-mark, or apply it to a similar class of goods, or knowingly to sell such goods, or have the same on the premises for purposes of sale.\n\n\"(c.) To use an imitation of a trade-mark as a 'chop,' or to employ it for purposes of advertisement.\n\n\"(d.) Knowingly to use packages or wrappers bearing the registered trade-mark of others for the same class of goods, or knowingly to offer the same for sale.\n\n(e) To import goods, being well aware of the fact that they infringe the trade-mark rights of others.\"\n\n46\n\nAnother vital point which has been overlooked is the full protection accorded to existing rights. It was certainly never the intention of the British Government or their advisers to put their nationals in a worse position than they were in before the Treaty was drafted, and for such rights they have secured full protection. I will now read you Rule 8 (c):-\n\n\"8. Trade-marks which infringe the following conditions cannot be registered:\n\n\"(c.) Marks already registered, or marks resembling, or of the same nature as, marks which, for over two years prior to the application for registration, have been publicly used in China or have covered a similar class of goods.\"\n\nThis means that any mark in use prior to the signature of the British Treaty is absolutely protected from imitation on the part of anybody.\n\nMr. J. N. Jameson. Without registration...\n\nMr. Jamieson.---Without registration. I think the reading of the Rule in question is quite clear. I have gone carefully over the Rules in Chinese, and this English is a very clear and accurate rendering of the Chinese. A third point which has been made much of by the conscientious objectors is that registration facilitates the pirating of marks. That may or may not be the case, but if it be, then the trade-mark legislation of all countries suffers from the same defect. I do not, however, think that registration in Hong Kong, where similar conditions to those in China prevail, has led to any wholesale pirating. It has also been completely forgotten that, in a country where extra-territoriality obtains, all that the Government can do is to protect the stranger within their gates against an infringement of his rights on the part of their own nationals. They cannot legislate for non-Chinese, and yet even here they have done their best to secure as full a measure of protection as possible. A merchant of Timbuctoo may at any time import, as far as the Chinese Government is concerned, goods with a fraudulent mark on them and sell them in China. The only redress that the aggrieved party has against him personally is to sue him in his own Courts, somewhere in the remote sands of the Sahara, but any Chinese who would venture to handle such goods can be severely punished.\n\nC\n\n(2288 3]\n\n........", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411476, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 653, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "# \nand four messengers to the neighbouring camp for soldiers, not one of whom would stir. Eight of the villagers were killed, and when the place was taken sixty were bound and made to ransom themselves. . . . . I found many villages completely walled up, only a small opening left at the gateways for a single man at a time to go in and out. No stranger would be admitted unless recognized by some of the villagers. Some villages were guarded by men with muskets at the city gates.\n\nThe hsien cities are full of rich men who have moved there for protection. Out of six large villages in one district four had been robbed.\n\nAbout one-half of the robbers are disbanded and deserted soldiers, and in many places they are in undoubted league with the soldiers sent against them. The officials use this to get money out of the luckless farmer, as the robbers will come and demand food at some farmhouse, and get it, of course, without question. The official runners report this to the official, and the unlucky farmer is haled off to the yamên and fined for being in league with the banditti, and accused of aiding and abetting the same. . . . . It is reported that the military official down here in command of all these troops asked the hsien officials of five of the most turbulent districts to present a Memorial to the Governor, telling him that this said military official had entirely cleared the country of robbers. The country has never been so overrun with bandits since the Taiping rebellion as at the present time.\n\n## \nOn the 21st December the Rev. H. Mathews, of the Church of England Mission, wrote to me from Ping-yin Hsien, a city about 55 miles up the Huang-ho from here, regarding the threatening attitude of affairs at that place. The Church missionaries stationed there are Mr. and Mrs. Mathews, Mr. Mawson, Miss (Dr.) Phillips, and Miss Bearder. The mission station is just outside the south gate of the town, and between 2 and 3 miles from the river. Mr. Mathews wrote:-\n\nPing-yin district is in a very disturbed state just now. There are several strong bands of robbers prowling the three districts of Tung-ping Chou, Tung-ngo, and Ping-yin. They number hardly less than a thousand men in all, and the local officials seem entirely unable to cope with them. On the 17th the whole band attacked a large village called Ta-yang, about 20 miles from us to the south, just outside this hsien, and in Tung-p'ing Chou. A party of them, about 300 strong, immediately afterwards came to a place 12 miles from us in the Ping-yin Hsien, called Shang Hsin Chuang, in which we have a little church. Since then we have heard that they have moved westwards into the Tung-ngo Hsien. All the country people who have anything to lose are taking refuge in Ping-yin city, which is now packed full of refugees, while every one is in a state of fear. Our own official seems perfectly helpless, and spends his time in smoking opium. As far as I know nothing has been done to stop the disturbances. The robbers have now been about for three weeks, and constantly increase in numbers and boldness. Of course there is an element of danger for ourselves, and for the time being our work is at a standstill, while our compound might easily be plundered. The presence of some troops would stop the danger, which may grow acute unless the authorities do something. As far as can judge, it is the outcome of the floods and famine in Kiangsu. In Tung-ping Chou, too, there are large flooded districts which may account for the persistent lawlessness there.\n\nI got this letter on the afternoon of the 23rd, and had its contents laid before the Governor that evening. Some soldiers from the camp of the 5th division of the Li-chün were dispatched to Ping-yin at once. Others, from the Governor's own corps, had, it seems, already started in that direction some days earlier, but the men who actually broke up the organized gang of which Mr. Mathews writes were yet a third contingent who had been sent up to Tung-p'ing Chou from Yenchou. The telegram about this affair, which the Governor quoted in a letter to me, suggests a regular battle :-\n\n\"A number of brigand Chiefs were killed, many were shot, and many more drowned in the river, the rest scattering in all directions.\"\n\nI heard later that 140 brigands lost their lives in this encounter. Several letters have passed since both with Mr. Mathews and Bishop Iliff, of Tai-an-fu, regarding the state of affairs at Ping-yin. No further disturbance occurred there, the robbers moving off when the troops arrived. The greater part of the fugitives, however, had rallied, by the 27th December, in the south part of Tung-ping Chou on a hill called Liang Shan, a strong position almost entirely surrounded by water. By the 31st December about a thousand troops, including infantry, cavalry, and artillery, had passed through Ping-yin, while yet others had gone by way of Fei-ch'êng Hsien, all converging on Liang Shan, that is, between the city of Tung-ping and the junction of the Wen-ho with the Grand Canal. There had been no fresh disturbances, but Mr. Mathews thought that the troops had come only just in time, and that, with the famine raging to the south, only their continued presence would keep the country quiet till the spring. Bishop Iliff, writing on the 2nd January, remarks that Ping-yin seems to have settled down to its normal state again.\n\nThese occurrences, being within a comparatively short distance of Chinan-fu, and affecting the safety of British subjects, deserve more than a passing mention, but in fact they are only samples of what has been going on for over a year throughout a large portion of the province. The Governor claims that the brigands in Tsao-chou have been effectually scattered, and would have me believe that the gang that visited the Ping-yiu district in December are merely fugitives from Ts'ao-chou, driven north-east by the success of the troops. Of course it may be so, though a gang of a thousand would, I conceive, be accounted a large one even in Ts'ao-chou. Or it may be that since the crops have been harvested brigandage operations on the scale that was common west of the canal in the summer are no more practicable there, and the gangs, driven from place to place, are now obliged, for want of cover in the plains, to resort to hilly regions where they can entrench themselves in such strongholds as Liang Shan—a place, by the way, which is mentioned as a famous haunt of brigands in the well-known Chinese novel called \"Shui-hu\". By all accounts the south-west of Shantung has never been at peace—the popular saying has it, not since the Tang dynasty!\n\nSo that, even if this region be now more disturbed, as Mr. Thompson alleges, than it has been at any time since the Taiping rebellion, it may still be quite truthfully described as being in its normal state.\n\nFrom time to time encounters with brigands are related in German newspapers, in particular one early in December in the T'ai-an Hsien district, when the courage and promptitude of the Hsien Magistrate had the best results; but it is evident that, if the state of the country is to be really improved, measures will be required on a far more extended scale than has hitherto been attempted.\n\nPage 647", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416714, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "provided that when an Archbishop or Bishop asks for an interview with a Governor-General, Governor, Treasurer, Judge, Taotai, Prefect, Sub-Prefect, Department or District Magistrate, the Chinese official of any of the ranks above mentioned shall return the courtesy in accordance with the rank of the missionary.\n\nThe object of the Tsung-li Yamên in arranging definite rules for the relations between territorial officials and missionaries was to facilitate the settlement of missionary questions. As, however, it cannot be claimed that Bishops and others who are doing missionary work in China have in reality any official position they cannot be regarded as being of equal rank with Governor-Generals, Governors, or other officials. The attitude adopted by territorial officials towards missionaries in recent times has, too, been of quite a different character to that existing at the time when these Regulations were laid down. Furthermore, since these Regulations were promulgated there have been cases where missionaries have arrogated to themselves the use of the official insignia of territorial officials, and have thereby given rise to misconceptions in the minds of the ignorant populace. This was certainly not contemplated when the Regulations were issued, and the time is now opportune for introducing such modifications as will make them entirely satisfactory.\n\nThe Board request, therefore, that Imperial instructions be issued for the annulment of the provisions contained in the Tsung-li Yamên's Memorial regulating the official intercourse between territorial officials and missionaries in accordance with the rank of the missionaries, and that in future it shall only be necessary that the relations between territorial officials and missionaries shall, in accordance with Treaty provisions, be conducted with courtesy. On receipt of Imperial instructions to this effect the Board will at once issue the necessary directions to the provincial authorities for transmission to their subordinates.\n\nOn the 10th April the following Imperial Rescript was received:--\n\nApproved.\n\n<<\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Dr. Morrison,\n\nDURING recent years opportunity has been given me to travel in many provinces of China and to discuss, with all manner of men, every conceivable subject dealing with the Empire and its foreign relations. In all this time nothing has impressed me more deeply than the unanimity with which all disinterested observers have condemned Chinese procedure in connection with the Catholic question. Condemnation has indeed gone to the extent of affirming that, probably never in the history of any country has there been a more astonishing surrender of national dignity than when, on the 15th March, 1899 (4th day, 2nd moon, 25th year Kuang Hsü), Imperial assent was given to the Memorial of the Tsung-li Yamên granting Chinese official rank to Catholic missionaries, proclaiming throughout the Empire that a Catholic Bishop was entitled to the rank and dignity of a Viceroy, commanding that even the simplest priest should be accorded honour to that of a Prefect, and decreeing that Catholic functionaries should have the right to arrange affairs locally with the Chinese authorities. Now, in the great majority of cases the Bishop and the priests are of higher rank than the local authorities, for there are few Viceroys--at that time eight in all, now nine--while there are no less than forty-six Catholic Bishops equal in rank to Viceroys. There are 1,100 Catholic missionaries, a number far in excess of local authorities of equal rank, so that in many large areas the Catholic priest has the highest official rank in the whole district. What is the effect of this? If the Bishop and priest are conceded this authority by Imperial Decree, will they not use it? Will not Chinese of bad character join their Church in order to obtain the support of such high functionaries? It is a well-established fact that the exercise of authority and assumption of rank, voluntarily given by China in the Rescript above referred to, are a source of a large proportion of the trouble with which the authorities are confronted in the internal administration of the Empire.\n\nThis Rescript ought to be cancelled forthwith. No excuse, no apology. It is purely a question of internal administration. The Rescript was in reply to a Memorial of the Tsung-li Yamên. No explanation need be given; the Rescript has been a failure, circumstances have materially changed since that date. Fair trial has been given. The Rescript should now be withdrawn.\n\nI draw your attention to certain considerations:--\n\nThe\n\n1. In the Memorial the words \"France\" and \"French\" do not occur. The Memorial was in the interests of the Catholic religion. It was drawn up by Yu K'eng and by Bishop Favier, the latter negotiating not as a Frenchman, but as a Catholic.\n\n2. The Rescript has been adversely criticized by the best Frenchmen. No name stands higher in France than that of Henri Cordier, who is undoubtedly the leading French authority on China. In his work, \"Histoire des Relations de la Chine avec les Puissances Occidentales,\" vol. III, p. 468, M. Cordier, speaking of this Decree, says: “Jamais la France n'eut dû laisser commettre cette faute\" (Never ought France to have allowed this blunder to have been committed). He stigmatizes the Decree as no insignificant factor in the many causes which led to the anti-foreign outbreak of 1900. And he declares that \"ce Décret intempestif et impolitique doit être rapporté le plus tôt possible\" (this untimely and impolitic Decree ought to be withdrawn as soon as possible). When you have a French authority himself urging the repeal of the Decree you cannot lightly disregard his advice, especially as his words were written before those events in France which have led to the expulsion of the very Congregations whom France is protecting in China.\n\n3. Moreover, the Rescript is, I am certain, condemned by the present French Foreign Minister, M. Pichon. When M. Pichon was in Peking it was no secret that, personally, he condemned the Protectorate as disadvantageous to France, because it led to constant embroilment with the Chinese authorities, in cases in which Frenchmen, as such, had no interest. With M. Clemenceau, the Premier, sympathetic, and M. Pichon more than sympathetic, the time could not be better chosen for annulling the Decree. No true French interests would be assailed. On the contrary, there is not a French official in China who has not experienced the anomaly of his position in relation to the Catholic mission, he, the Representative of France, ranking and holding direct intercourse with the Taotai only, while his subject, the French Bishop, or his protégé, the Dutch or Belgian Bishop, have access on an equal footing to the Viceroy.\n\nYou seized the opportunity of the presence of Mr. John Morley in the India Office to undertake the task of opium suppression. You have the same, or even more favourable, opportunity with M. Pichon at the French Foreign Office to take in hand the Catholic question, and annul the Rescript which has been so subversive of the authority and dignity of your officials throughout the interior.\n\n4. When that Rescript was issued conditions in China were widely different. How could the Nanchang case have occurred if the Decree of the 15th March, 1899, had not been in existence? Moreover, it is the duty of every Chinese to encourage the national ambition, and to press forward the development of the consciousness of nationality, and how could greater help be given than by repealing a Decree which exalts a foreign missionary Bishop of no standing in his own country to the level of a Viceroy in the country in which he is a stranger? Have you ever seen the progress of a Bishop in the interior? He travels with the state of a Viceroy, with the paraphernalia of a Viceroy, and exacts the honours of a Viceroy. It is worth going to Ningpo--to speak of a port easily accessible--to see Mgr. Reynaud in procession, in order to realize how destructive of the national dignity has been that unfortunate Decree of the 15th March, 1899.\n\n5. Repeal of the Decree, without giving any reasons, or excuse, or apology, further than that the conditions have changed, would meet with the support of the entire English, American, and Japanese press, to cite only the three countries where the press is most powerful. Its repeal would be welcomed in Russia, in Germany--whose Throne is Protestant--and I am convinced it would be received without demur by the immense mass of public opinion in France.\n\n6. The Rescript having been repealed, China could then come into direct relations with the Pope. France at one time exercised the undisputed Catholic protectorate in China. Every Catholic missionary, no matter what his nationality, obtained his passport through the French Legation or through the French Consul. China even now recognizes the validity of such passports, although they are in many cases direct misrepresentations of the truth.\n\nA Dutchman, or Belgian, or Spaniard, or Portuguese, being a Catholic missionary, can claim a passport from the French authorities. That passport speaks of the bearer as \"our countryman\"—that is, declares him to be a Frenchman--and affirms that the bearer \"enjoys a good reputation in our country\"—that is, in France, though he may never have been in France. Why should China not dispute these passports? Why should China accept a Minister as \"Plenipotentiary\" when he is unable to issue a passport to his own Catholic missionary?\n\n7. As you know, Germany has renounced this protectorate. In 1882 the German Ambassador in Paris informed the French Government that in future his country would\n\n39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423608, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## Mr. Bellingham does nothing to have the terms altered, and the agreement binds the Chinese and prevents the appointment of another man, though if the corporation were to withdraw their acceptance of Mr. Bellingham's appointment and insist on another nomination, the Chinese would probably select a stranger and force the resignation of Mr. Cox, which is not at all to be desired.\n\nTo make matters more complicated, I have been given plainly to understand by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. that it does not suit their interests to continue factious disputes with the Board of Communications, which I can quite believe, and it is possible that they may influence their partners in the British and Chinese Corporation to avoid a direct conflict with Liang Shih-yi.\n\nMr. Hillier has reported the facts more fully to the corporation, who will probably apply to you soon after the receipt of this despatch. It seems to me that it is for them, who are the trustees for the bondholders, to decide whether the action of Liang is to be opposed or not. For my part I cannot see my way to acquiescence in the matter of Mr. Bellingham's agreement, which, if accepted, will probably lead to other incursions on the control of the engineer-in-chief, and the corporation should, I think, be given to understand that if they acquiesce they do so on their own responsibility.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nJuly 17, 1909.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n#### Mr. Hillier to Liang Shih-yi.\n\nWITH reference to your Excellency's conversation with me on the 10th instant, on the subject of the separation which you propose to make between the post of engineer-in-chief of the Northern Railways and that of general manager, I have carefully considered the effect of your Excellency's proposal in the light of the loan agreement, and of the protocol signed between Sir Ernest Satow and the administrators-general of the railway on the 29th April, 1902, and have now to submit to you the following observations:\n\n1. The functions of the general manager, as defined by the protocol, are \"specially to control the works, native and foreign workmen, the inspection of materials,\" &c. It is obvious from this that the position calls for the appointment of an engineer of high technical qualifications, which Mr. Foley, the nominee proposed by your Excellency, does not possess.\n\n2. The functions of the general manager, regarded as a separate post, overlap and infringe those of the engineer-in-chief as defined in the loan agreement, and it is therefore inadmissible under any circumstances that they should be held by different individuals.\n\n3. On referring to His Britannic Majesty's Legation, I am informed that the intention of the protocol of the 20th April, 1902, was not to create a new post of general manager, but to enlarge the functions of the engineer-in-chief by adding to them those of general manager, an arrangement which had for some time been in practice during Mr. Kinder's occupation of the post, and continued up to the time of his resignation.\n\nIn these circumstances, it seems to me inadvisable that the British and Chinese Corporation should alter the terms of their acceptance of Mr. Bellingham's appointment, namely, as engineer-in-chief and general manager of the railway, and I have therefore to ask that your Excellency will be so good as to reconsider the matter in the light of the observations submitted above. At the same time I have to ask that you will be good enough to hasten the decision of this matter as much as possible, as I am led to understand that the present delay in filling the post of engineer-in-chief is affecting the discipline of the staff to an extent which cannot but be prejudicial to the proper administration of the railway.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nE. G. HILLIER.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n#### Agreement between Liang Shih-yi and Mr. Bellingham.-(Revised by Mr. Hillier, August 23, 1909.)\n\nTHIS agreement is made between his Excellency Liang Shih-yi, director-general of railways, hereinafter called the director-general, of the one part, and Augustus William Harvey Bellingham, Esq., M.I.C.E., M.S.E., &c., of the other part, whereby it is mutually agreed as follows:\n\n1. The director-general engages the services of Mr. Bellingham as engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Imperial Railways of North China, the said appointment having been made in consultation with British and Chinese Corporation in terms of the loan agreement of the 10th October, 1898, and of the protocol dated the 29th April, 1902.\n\n2. Mr. Bellingham shall faithfully serve the Imperial Chinese Government as engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Imperial Railways of North China, and shall fulfil his duties in that capacity to the best of his ability for the period of three years from the date of this agreement, after which time the agreement shall be terminable by either party on giving six months' notice.\n\n3. For such service rendered the director-general shall pay Mr. Bellingham the sum of ... per quarter, paid as it shall become due in Tien-tsin at the rate of exchange of the day, or in London to his credit with the `Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation`.\n\n4. In addition thereto Mr. Bellingham shall be entitled to unfurnished quarters equal in every respect to the present quarters occupied by him in Victoria Park, Tien-tsin. Should it be considered desirable that Mr. Bellingham reside at Tongshan, in the bungalow recently occupied by Mr. Kinder, it shall be cleaned, painted, and colour-washed, and electric light installed.\n\n5. Mr. Bellingham shall be entitled to travelling expenses, medicines, and medical attendance.\n\n6. Mr. Bellingham shall exercise the greatest discretion in the engagement of the employés of the railway, so that only skilled, capable, respectable, and honest men are employed.\n\n7. Mr. Bellingham shall, while giving due regard to the wishes of the director-general, exercise full and sole control over all employés connected with the railway service, and must inspect, and reject if unsuitable, all materials supplied to the railway.\n\n8. All indents for materials from abroad must first be sent into the director-general for his approval, and no order for their purchase may be forwarded to Europe except under his instructions.\n\n9. No construction or expenditure must take place without proper drawings and estimates being duly submitted to the director-general.\n\n10. Mr. Bellingham shall not be held personally responsible for any delays or losses incurred by defects in management of financial matters, cashier's department, or purchasing agents.\n\n11. Subject always to the duties and responsibilities of the engineer-in-chief and general manager to the bondholders, as implied by the terms of the loan agreement of the 10th October, 1898, and of the protocol of the 29th April, 1902, the said Mr. Bellingham shall not divulge private information regarding the affairs of the railway to any party or parties outside the railway administration.\n\n12. Mr. Bellingham shall devote the whole of his time to the service of the administration, and shall not engage in any other business whatever.\n\nIn witness whereof the contracting parties do hereby subscribe their seal and (or) signature on ...\n\nWitness to signatures: \n\nPage 3\nPage 211 \nB 2 \n[2486 p--2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427645, "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": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "83\n\n189\n\nVradoxos2 Intão1o3 .noĦ\n\nsɔnabivo to sojon oɗt détworod brawrot I\n\n.3my dat II raniana sentado odé odal vrispni ode no nodać\n\n9%OW #0378/o owd teilt sát notatqo m ni\n\n.borora\n\non new shaft oqnails brand end of bregar el\n\novisson of caw gure dst tal . sarié wora of su erotød sotshive\n\n(3a/bloƉ .* .notiesup at moltsa oris mort nim vsimɔ04 “Ta\n\nad dari bisa,nottoa oi? ni Tiéntalq erit not mottolio? odd\n\novad tihiin on jade he÷÷imba od jud zelaraq edo beɔubonini (181)\n\nod barkazis en bobbs bail er dypodala mail\" \"ot #6÷engtočni naed\n\n.@veiriadni and to ono de \"bo÷lozo yítseng* od\n\nbetastedat aalstag odd to & botiga onia tol\n\nat ?I .*! at Jasistat on ban off tarid betate oriw o880 off? at\n\nodt at dud bevollod od od ura angaønttw $ oɛods Toditore (tiduob\n\noð eldstur as I entado ode to Progqua al toong Joonib to somonds\n\naaw od tarit toat odd nasit Tonto boyong good and *) Jant \"ova\n\n-bion .*M ja avoltiotat edt at $134 ouce gatist baa z¤ezerq\n\n,usivar 20©A .T (.52)\n\n.Isona0-70%70JIA\n\ninterpreter Cheng Sam ever interpreted, and hence the suggestion that this interpreter would not interpret correctly can have little or no foundation in fact. After the appearance before the Registrar the excitement of Mr. Lei Tak Yung when speaking to Mr. Goldring was so intense, that he Mr. Goldring could not understand him, and turned him out of his office. It seems impossible for a man to get so excited on behalf of a practical stranger, if he was merely acting as a disinterested interpreter.\n\nThe particulars got up for the \"Holstein\" case were fraudulent, it is evident from the evidence in the Admiralty action that the plaintiff did not get up these particulars, but that some \"street lawyer” did. Mr. Lei called no proper evidence to show who got up the case, while he himself knows sufficient concerning the law courts to do so. If the Shaukiwan shopkeepers got a \"street lawyer\" other than Mr. Lei to get up the case, what was the necessity of asking Mr. Lei to introduce them to a good lawyer?\n\nI am of opinion therefore that Mr. Lei Tak Yung was pecuniarily interested in the case, but there was no evidence to point as to how far his interest extended.\n\n(sd.) C. K. Hascar,\n\nColonial Treasurer.\n\n14th November, 1910.\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nCharges (a) and (b) were proved. As regards charge (c), I agree with the minute of the Hon. Colonial Treasurer,\n\n15th November, 1910.\n\n(sd.) Chatham,\n\nDirector of Public Works.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428863, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n202\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n(20109)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[June 6.]\n\nCO 8596\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nRECD 18 JUN 10,\n\n(No. 159.) Sir,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 6.)\n\nPeking, May 19, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a most interesting account published in the \"North China Daily News\" of the 5th and 6th May of an interview with Mr. E. S. Little in regard to his recent journey through the country inhabited by the Lolos on the border of the provinces of Szechuan and Yunnan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"North China Daily News\" of May 6, 1910.\n\nOPIUM CULTIVATION.\n\nMR. LITTLE made special enquiries with reference to the cultivation of opium, and as a result he says that all over the Szechuan province there is no question that opium has almost entirely ceased to be grown. He travelled 1,200 miles through country which formerly grew opium and he never saw a single plant anywhere. He made the most rigid enquiries of officials, merchants, travellers, coolies, innkeepers, farmers, and all sorts and conditions of men, and their reply was always the same that the injunction was so severe that it was impossible for anybody to grow opium. Mr. Little saw proclamations posted up in various places, and they were couched in the most curt and emphatic language--\"You are absolutely prohibited from growing opium. If you do, you will be punished.\" He also saw proclamations forbidding the carrying of opium over the roads either into or out of the country after the 1st of the 6th moon this year. There were no opium dens to be seen in any of the towns in Szechuan, but the fact remained that opium could be got, because Mr. Little's own opium-smoking coolie obtained it from somewhere, but the business is carried on so secretly that a stranger would not be able to get opium. In only one place did he see opium growing, and that was in Hueli, on the far border of Yünnan and Szechuan, where he saw quantities of opium being grown without let or hindrance. Mr. Little mentioned the matter to the official at Hueli, but he professed to be ignorant of the fact, giving as his excuse that he had only just arrived. He said that he would send men into the country to find out the exact state of affairs, but in fact, by that time, the crop had been partly reaped, as it was in the process of being reaped when Mr. Little passed through. The traveller found the same state of strict prohibition through the whole of the district of Yünnan through which he journeyed. Mr. Little is not able to speak so fully of the entire province of Yunnan as of Szechuan, but all his enquiries led him to think that opium growing in Yunnan generally has ceased, but there are some districts in which, for a consideration, the local officials have not been able to see opium growing. Generally speaking one of the most wonderful transformations that any country can show has taken place in these two opium-growing provinces-the word of the Government has been, almost universally, absolutely obeyed. The reply given to Mr. Little universally by the Chinese when he asked them why they did not grow opium was: \"It is forbidden; we do not dare to disobey.”\n\n[2793 -1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429064, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 405, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "6\n\nGovernment by the Chinese Ministers abroad, attributing to the European Powers insidious designs on China's territory and rights. The servile condition of the Chinese vis-à-vis foreigners is a constant theme in leading articles, and the fate of India, Egypt, Poland, and Corea is continually held up as a warning to China. Ceaseless warfare is waged against the extra-territorial rights of foreigners, the failure to recover which is represented as a visible sign of China's degradation; and only a few days ago the \"Shen Pao\" warned its readers that Turkey was now making progress towards the abolition of the Capitulations, and that before long China would be the only country in the world to which foreigners denied the right to rule the stranger within its gates.\n\nOfficials anti-Foreign.-Mr. Little's remarks on this subject are, unfortunately, true of the vast majority of officials, and the few who are well-disposed towards foreigners are, for the time being, forced to conceal their sentiments. The Chinese authorities have so frequently disregarded, with impunity, the rights and privileges accorded to foreigners both by treaty and agreement, that the idea has become firmly implanted in their minds that foreign forbearance in this respect is unlimited.\n\nIn Nanking and Wuhu it is impossible for any foreign merchant to purchase land outside the settlement, and even missionaries are experiencing considerable difficulty in doing so. Anyone purchasing land in Nanking has to obtain a certain form of deed from a Government office, and that office will not issue a deed-form where the purchaser is a foreigner. The Belgian Treaty of 1865 distinctly provides for the opening to trade of the \"ports and cities\" of Nanking and other places; and when I brought this to the notice of the Viceroy, he merely remarked that at that period Chinese had very little acquaintance with foreign languages, and that he could not be bound by it.\n\nHitherto, the opposition to foreigners residing and holding land outside the settlements has not taken an active form, such as it has done recently in Chechiang; but if the authorities succeed in ousting the Japanese from the city of Hangchow, similar measures are sure to be instituted in this and other provinces.\n\nAny request for facilities preferred by foreign merchants is incontinently refused, without any consideration of the merits of the case or even knowledge of the circumstances. The fact that any proposition emanates from a foreigner is sufficient to ensure its veto, generally on the vague ground of \"infringement of sovereign rights.\" Voluntary Subscriptions.-Boxes to receive subscriptions towards paying off the National Debt have been placed in all the schools and some of the streets, but I do not know with what success. In any case, it is a barren phase of the anti-foreign movement. The opinion is held by many Chinese, and has more than once found expression in the press, that while Chinese capital can easily earn from 10 to 12 per cent. in China, it would be unwise to denude the country to pay off a foreign loan bearing only 5 per cent. interest.\n\nChinese Finance.--The impoverished condition of the provincial treasuries is a matter of daily comment in the native press, and this in spite of the undoubtedly heavy taxation to which the Chinese are subjected. Wasteful methods of collection and official peculation are largely responsible for such a small percentage of the taxes levied finding its way into the hands of the authorities; but the whole system of internal taxation is one eminently calculated to prohibit any development of the trade such as might enable the province to bear the financial burdens which are constantly being laid upon it. Every projected work of public utility has to be shelved owing to the lack of funds; the provincial Governments cannot impose fresh taxes, and they have no credit to raise a loan.\n\nFrom time to time the extortionate methods employed by the authorities in collecting the taxes are shown up in the native press. Recently a Shanghai paper reported that in Anhui the land tax and the tax to pay off the foreign indemnities were assessed in cash, but payment was exacted in silver dollars; and although the market rate of exchange was 1,500 or 1,600 cash, the officials only reckoned 900 cash to the dollar. The gentry, the provincial assembly, and the Anhui officials in Peking had protested against this injustice, but so far their representations had not met with any success.\n\nThe Governor of Anhui recently obtained permission from the Throne to raise an internal loan of 1,200,000 taels for six years, at an average rate of interest of 10 per cent., but I now learn that he is anxious to arrange a foreign loan.\n\nThe Loyalty of the Troops.-The 9th division at Nanking is notorious for its state of indiscipline, and recent occurrences at Soochow, Ch'ing Chiang P'u, Canton, and Changsha show that the Nanking troops are not unique in this respect.\n\n7\n\nA matter of serious concern is the weakness of the Central as well as of the Provincial Governments, and the reluctance of any official, great or small, to accept responsibility in any matter. In the face of popular clamour, instigated and led by the gentry, the officials are powerless to pursue any definite policy, and they merely allow things to drift, each attending to his own personal interests, and trusting that the crash will not come during his tenure of office.\n\nFrom every point of view the situation is disquieting, and even serious, and calls for careful watching and firm treatment on the part of the Powers. The officials and the bulk of the gentry are actively engaged in reducing to a minimum the rights and privileges accorded to foreigners by treaty and agreement, and the populace, inflamed by an anti-foreign propaganda, are ready, as at Changsha, to vent on foreigners any grievance they may have against the authorities.\n\nThe one hopeful feature is, I think, the provincial assemblies, and Mr. Little's judgment of these bodies appears to be somewhat harsh, and, at least, premature. There is undoubtedly a very strong public opinion growing up in China in favour of real and effective reform, and I do not think it is too much to say that many of the men constituting these bodies are actuated by other motives than a desire to obtain \"their share of the official plunder.\" The Chiangsu deputies during their autumn session last year talked sensibly and moderately, and pointed with no uncertain finger to the more glaring evils of the present system; amongst other things, they warmly advocated the absolute and entire suppression of lotteries throughout the Empire, and declared strongly in favour of a national currency and the abolition of li-kin. Reform in China will only be brought about by the instrumentality of these or similar bodies, and to dismiss them with the remark that \"they are anti-foreign in all their acts\" is to ignore the actualities of the present situation.\n\nThe anti-foreign feeling now finding expression amongst the Chinese appears to be a curious admixture of mistrust of their own powers vis-à-vis foreigners and confidence in their ability to follow in the footsteps of Japan, and under existing circumstances the dividing line between anti-foreign feeling and patriotism is a very fine one. Reform in China must aim at the removal of these conditions which have made it possible for foreigners to occupy the position they do, and so far it is essentially and inevitably anti-foreign in its nature; and, with the example of Japan before our eyes, we must recognise that this anti-foreign feeling will be ever present in a more or less acute form until China feels herself strong enough to resist aggression and treat with foreign Powers on terms of equality.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHERBERT GOFFE.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Mr. Max Müller.\n\n(No. 11.) Sir,\n\nCanton, April 20, 1910. IN accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch No. 7 of the 6th instant, I have the honour to transmit herewith a short commentary on the views with regard to the existing political situation in China, to which Mr. E. S. Little has given expression in a memorandum addressed to Messrs. Brunner, Mond, and Co.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nNotes on the Political Situation in South China, with Special Reference to certain Points raised by Mr. Edward S. Little, in a Memorandum addressed to Messrs. Brunner, Mond, and Co., dated January 15, 1910.\n\nIN common with the rest of the Chinese Empire, the southern section thereof is passing through an evolutionary process of political development, the outcome of which it would be hazardous to forecast. In so far as this process affects the foreigner, however, there are up to the present few, if any, indications of a disposition to cut his throat. What would appear to be chiefly aimed at is a complete encompassment of his supposed rights, and to the attainment of this object no little pains\n\n402", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437729, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "recipient\n\nMimble's in this should be made for the CO.\n\nI shall be glad to receive further information as to the stranger and the route by which he travels, and the date of arrival in England.\n\nDate: 1912, 3rd April.\n\nLast previous Paper: 12324, 15448\n\nOrdinance Nos of 1912: General Division, C.O. 15443, 20 MAY 12, 373 submits. Encloses copy memo by Mr J. Viggott.\n\nWhy Notation! spare comes to dictionary 13/6. fd 166. If Tennyson (autumn).\n\nW. Stubbs For your reasons Shake Tokenis\n\nThis repeals one 49/11 (are criticisms) & purports to ditch the objections & met own 113/7/12 fame been act (2 Certain Lis 7.7. P. has in fact adopted most four suggestions in substance I thrill however cin Char (5.34 (11) (6) To aud I woke all of any a mis latte amendment mach 32.\n\nunable to Lund fit in med recasting with regard to the where they In S. 3 of the rt subsequent Paper In Sections 7 2/89 Travel Her do met inserted & the Leutenan use of repealed adu II.P's explanation in @,244). Wt.25,946-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nthe word \"hereafter\" andre (49/6). 58 x 57. not very Zug\": 人 merating", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441857, "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": "CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912", "content_text": "## 297 \n\n2 \n\n## IMG 988 1 \n\n2 \n\nA \n\n12. ii \n\nOne year was lost. 22# 31 \n\nJaixe od wx1800 ud Ja \n\nJ blm z \"bacter (0) Wolde \n\nvans felt evelled for 110 i 71: | ས29 | :ཀ 1: \n\nt \n\n1 \n\nA \n\nJ 34 \n\nis tedious bureaucracy row 3997610 \n\n-titled lugeni witches and \n\nSe voljub sil to 90m \n\nMall 91 JA TOTSEN Wouts. \n\nGET I \n\nNIMSTED) M42 to JolantoO ¿A ic outral geo^ MOIJOJ \n\n+ \n\ndam q? ri of wnplan to wedlocked dun cen \n\nrol doel ox 1 101 \n\ns douz Tells avis topici \n\n1 to Janae1301 91 \n\nJESIAL MOL \n\nint, curtas Terwick att act) miwe, si \n\n1 \n\nTakamats and Bow Jaso Mold Det Tula \n\ndré ctutos ** \n\nMo! Mais jei ani na Pravnoo ONN BOTYASUO Bet og Tot aneutuel 01 11 11090 ui meditio 3231 to 109 Lloveras sow bas „Przey ne \n\nThe east and qu \n\na06 2600 \n\n**clerk**, in spite of the protests of Captain Barnes Lawrence (who had just joined the Department) and myself. This clerk, who came to us as accountant and correspondence clerk, was admittedly deficient in knowledge of both English and Chinese, and came from a higher paid appointment at the Treasury. \n\nHis sole claim to promotion, which he desired, as set forth by himself in his application, was that he had written an anonymous letter to the head of his Department, whereby some thousands of dollars had been added to the Colonial funds. The reason, however, why he was selected for this responsible post in the Harbour Department was that he was not considered efficient at the Treasury, and no other head of a Department would have him. \n\n10. In 1906, after the death of Captain Barnes Lawrence, while I was at home on leave, and the officer acting as Harbour Master was a stranger to Hongkong and had no knowledge of the circumstances, charges were formulated against the then senior Portuguese clerk in the Department, Mr Guterres. Sir Henry May was again acting as Governor. I have no knowledge of what were the preliminaries to the formulation of these charges, being, as I have said, absent from the Colony, but the Executive Council, after investigating the charges, suspended Mr Guterres, pending the decision of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State. This decision was to the effect that the officer should be at once reinstated, and was communicated by telegraph. It was followed by a despatch from the Secretary of State, which I have seen, and is no doubt on record. It was received early in 1907. Mr Guterres, also, applied for, and was granted, his pension, after 39 years in the Department, immediately after his reinstatement, for the same reason as in Mr Alves' case. \n\n11. On my return from leave in 1907, I found that all the Portuguese clerks in the Department, with the exception of Messrs Guterres and Botelho, had gone, and their places filled by Chinese. It is not too much to say that, in my opinion and experience, there is no comparison between the two. The former, when good, were immeasurably superior to the latter, however efficient. The removal of the Portuguese, and the substitution of Chinese entailed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445423, "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": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "# No 97.\n\n**C.O.**\n17172 \n**RECO**\nREG 20 MAY \nLexico. \nApril 17th 1913. \n498. \n21526 \nMAY 10 1913.\n\nSir,\n\nIn conformity with the instructions contained in \nyour Despatch No 24, of the 10th ultimo, which only reached \non the 14th instant, I have the honour to transmit to \nyou, herewith, a report on the claim of Mr Hambleton, drawn \nup, at my request, by Mr Consul General Stringer.\n\nI venture to think that Mr Stringer has done \neverything possible in this matter.\n\nI have the honour to be with the highest respect, \nSir, \nyour most obedient \nhumble servant,\n\nTramís Strange\n\nTo \nthe Right Hon \nSir Edward Gray \nBart. \nH.P. \netc. \netc. \netc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445425, "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": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## Document 1\n\n! \n\nVef \n\n498 \n\nI have been instructed to forward claims directly to me for registration, accompanied by a remittance of 5/- to cover the Consular fees for registration, uniting the papers with the Consular seal.\n\nI would write to Mr. Hambleton and advise him to register his claim in this office, but I understand that he has left Mexico, and I do not know his present address. I would have telegraphed to Mr. Vice-Consul Scobell to ask for Mr. Hambleton's address, but I am informed by the Federal Telegraph office that there is no telegraphic communication with Chihuahua.\n\nAs regards Captain Blunt's statement that some of the Chinese murdered in Torreon were British subjects from Hongkong, I have received no official information of this, and if it is true, I presume that such Chinese had no papers to prove that they were British subjects.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble Servant,\n**SIGNED, C. E. W. STRINGER**\n\nP.S. I am writing to Vice-Consul Scobell instructing him, if he can communicate with Mr. Hambleton, to advise that gentleman to file his claim in this Consulate-General.\n\n## Metadata\nPage 498\n\n## Document 2\n\nIt appears that the news is that it doesn't have long a period; the notice is for how it's the first five years, it is months' notice. I gather that he required 12 months' notice. I understand that he wants to terminate at 3 months and he has the power to do so under the notice. It is joint authorities that have the same terms.\n\nI think we can talk about this.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455152, "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": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 545, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "# 541\n\n5. stranger to Hongkong, or resides here but rarely.\n\nMr. Lau Chu-pak's remarks in Council are illuminative of the difficulty of collecting death duties upon the large capital invested in Chinese firms, and the concluding paragraph of his speech leads to the inference that evasion in this respect has been so common, that the Chinese on the mainland have not even been aware that such duties have been for many years past imposed by the law of the Colony.\n\n6. It has been customary for administration of an estate to be applied for by Chinese only when part of such estate, consisting for example of real property or shares in Public Companies, cannot be dealt with except under Letters of Administration; and in the petition no mention is made of any other property; the Administrator being well aware that when once he has his Letters of Administration no further enquiry will be made, in the course of the realization of the estate, as to what property has been disclosed. Section 18 of the Ordinance has accordingly been devised to ensure as far as possible that an Administrator shall not realise undisclosed property.\n\n7. As regards Section 20 the best apology for this drastic measure is perhaps to be found in Mr. Lau Chu-pak's remarks. As he points out, Chinese deposit money in firms in fictitious names or in the names of their wives, their sons, or other relations. On the depositar's death the mere production of the deposit receipt is sufficient to transfer the depositor's interest, and the question of paying death duties does not even occur to the parties interested. There appears to be no means of taxing the large sums of money so invested except by requiring the managers of firms to disclose the interests held by deceased persons.\n\n8. The report of the Attorney-General deals very fully with the Ordinance in detail. This measure is the outcome of prolonged and careful consideration by officers having practical acquaintance", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468861, "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": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "content_text": "HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\non\n\ncompradores. This has been stopped with excellent results. I can hardly credit the hotels taking the place of those compradores, and if they do, that is their affair and they will suffer for it. During your régime, Sir, I maintain that you have done the maximum any Governor could do in the interests of sobriety. You have pushed the improvement of the roads; you have taken a deep interest in and greatly facilitated the making of our golf course at Fanling; in fact you have done everything to widen the scope of healthy outdoor exercise and do away with that cooped up feeling, which in the past must have been a great incentive to intemperance. Don't belittle it now, Sir, with this poor impotent little Bill.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-The object of the Bill is not to stop drinking. The Colonial Secretary never said a word about that, broadly and generally, it is obviously undesirable to multiply classes of offence for which men can be hauled up before a Police Magistrate and fined, and it is particularly undesirable in regard to a matter like this, which affects strangers coming within our gates who, whatever may be thought of residents of this Colony, cannot be expected reasonably to be acquainted with the laws of this Colony. And yet, Sir, what do we find? We find that under Clause 5 of this Bill it is positively and solemnly proposed not that every buyer who does anything wrong, or anything known to be wrong, should be punished, but that a buyer shall be punished because a seller does something wrong.\n\nClause 5 reads, \"Every person to whom any liquor is supplied in contravention of this Ordinance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.\" If a seller supplies liquor contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance the fault of the seller is, by an extraordinary tour de force, transferred to the shoulders of the possibly innocent buyer coming into the Colony in ignorance of its peculiar law. It is a peculiar law, for it is proposed by Clause 5 of the Bill that a stranger within our gates, assuming that the hotel boy mistakes him and takes him for a resident of the hotel and does not ask the seller liable but the buyer also is liable. If the seller commits an offence then the buyer has to be run in and will also be guilty of an offence.\n\nHON. MR. S. H. DODWELL-I grant you it is a measure which is in force at Home, but you know, Sir, as well as I do the reasons for it at Home, and that they do not exist in this Colony.\n\nHON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK-I am opposed to this Bill, and with reference to the reasons for the Bill, Sir, I certainly understood the Colonial Secretary to make some remarks on the question of promiscuous drinking. I do not see how his words could be interpreted in any other sense than that the Bill would tend to lessen drinking. But, now, Sir, I understand he wishes to disclaim that point. If that is so, we do not wish him to hold to anything which he wishes to disclaim. With regard to the question of the reasons of this Bill, I would point out that in the statement of \"Objects and Reasons,\" where we should naturally look for those reasons, they are conspicuously absent.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY-They spoke to me in exactly the same way.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK-Well, Sir, now, with regard to the Hongkong Hotel, I will read their letter, or rather the letter which was written on their behalf by Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harston, their solicitors, on the 27th of last month, with reference to this Bill.\n\nHongkong, 27th September, 1917.\n\nSIR,-We have the honour to address you in regard to the above Bill on behalf of our clients, the Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.\n\n2. Our clients are the holders of a Publican's Licence granted by the Hongkong Government and have continuously held such licence or its equivalent for the period of 50 years.\n\n3. During the period of 50 years referred to in the preceding paragraph that portion of our clients' business which relates to the supply of intoxicating liquor has been very largely carried on by means of what is known as \"chit system\"-whereunder the purchaser is supplied with the liquor desired by him in exchange for an order in writing signed by him.\n\n4. Our clients' experience under the above system-save in a comparatively infinitesimal number of instances-has been such as to enable them to say that the system has worked well and has been a great convenience both to themselves and their customers.\n\n5. The intoxicating liquor supplied by our clients to such of their customers as, if the above Bill be passed, will fall within the purview of its restrictive clauses, is served in the following portions of their premises, viz.: (a) The Public Bar. (b) The Private Bar. (c) The Smoking-room Bar. (d) The Kiosk Lounge. (e) The Large Lounge.\n\n6. Our clients have quite recently removed the Public Bar into a smaller room, thus reducing the area thereof by approximately 75 per cent. In addition, our clients have also quite recently similarly reduced the area of the Smoking-room Bar.\n\n7. In our clients' opinion the Ordinance now proposed will not only directly inflict needless pecuniary loss upon them in regard to their \"takings,\" but will also be the cause of their suffering unnecessary inconvenience and hardship.\n\n8. In addition to the inconvenience and hardship entailed upon our clients as above, it is also the fact that the provisions of the Bill are such as to largely add to the possibility of our clients incurring jeopardy in respect of their hereinbefore-mentioned licence.\n\n9. Our clients respectfully submit that no sufficient reason exists to warrant the passing of the proposed Ordinance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468863, "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": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n103\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—This is not the only instance. I was told that these chits are simply an example of the losses incurred.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY—Yes, these losses which were incurred were brought up as one instance of what takes place.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—At present the hotel is absolutely anonymous.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY—I did not think it worth while to mention the name.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—You say that the Hongkong Hotel assured you that they never made any bad debts?\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—No, I did not say anything of the sort.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—What exactly did they say?\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—The King Edward Hotel said, referring to ships officers, that the chits were invariably paid as soon as they received their wages. The Hongkong Hotel said that their experience under the chit system—save in a comparatively infinitesimal number of instances—had been such as to enable them to say that the system has worked well and has been a great convenience both to themselves and to their customers.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—I only wished to know what was said.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—It would carry more weight or it might carry less weight if we knew which hotel it was. We cannot be expected to give much weight to one hotel having a collection of chits if we do not know what hotel it is. At all events, it would seem on the face of things that that hotel must have given somewhat unwise and reckless credit. They do not seem to have run their business on the careful conservative lines of the Hongkong Hotel and the King Edward Hotel. These hotels—and as I say I have also spoken to two of the directors of the Hongkong Hotel—apparently have very decided ideas that they don't want this Bill.\n\nPage 104\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—What does it come to? We are asked to pass this Bill on that bag of chits which comes from a hotel of which we don't know the name—at least, I don't—and the name has not been disclosed to the other members of the Council—and we are asked to put that in the scale and to weigh down these two hotels which come out very frankly and show perfectly plainly and clearly what it is they object to—the inconvenience which will result from the abolition of the chit system.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—It seems to me absurd. It is just like saying that you will pay more attention to an anonymous letter in the newspaper than to two letters signed by two well-known residents of high standing. On this anonymous hotel's collection of chits we are asked, as I submitted in the commencement of my speech, to create quite a new class of offence.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—We are asked to say that although a stranger may come in and get credit at the stores when he goes to the Hongkong Hotel he must put down cash. That stranger, if he is put up as a member of any of the clubs of the Colony, may sign chits there for drinks, but when he comes to a hotel a special distinction is made and he is to be treated as untrustworthy in the matter of paying his chits for drinks and he must produce hard cash.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—I hope nothing that I said would give rise to a supposition like that, that the Hongkong Hotel in its life has never had bad debts. Both these hotels say they do not wish for this Bill. Why should we, because of this bag of chits brought forward by a hotel the name of which is not disclosed—why in the name of common-sense should we pass this Bill, putting not only strangers coming here but also residents to trouble and inconvenience?\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—As is well-known, a number of residents go to the Hongkong Hotel when there are performances at the theatre. They go to the Hongkong Hotel and have dinner in the grill-room. If they want drinks before dinner they will have to produce cash unless they happen to be residents of the hotel also. It is, therefore, not quite correct to say that this Bill only affects visitors. It will also affect a good number of residents in the Colony.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—Now we have dropped the consumption of liquor question it all comes to this. Do the Hongkong Hotel and the King Edward Hotel know their business or do they not? They claim to know their business pretty well and say that this Bill is absolutely unnecessary, hampering, mischievous and vexatious.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—I think it is quite clear that no sufficient case has been made out for this Bill. The Hon. Mr. Pollock's argument regarding strangers that they would come here and be put to inconvenience because their chits will not be taken was simply grotesque.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK—I put it quite plainly and, adopting the language of my own profession, if one were addressing a Jury one would say; Gentlemen of the Jury, we ask you upon the evidence to say that the case for this Bill has not been made out.\n\nHON. MR. SHEWAN—I did not mean to speak on this Bill at all, because I considered it a very harmless little Bill. I certainly did not expect such floods of eloquence as have been poured forth about such a small matter.\n\nHON. MR. SHEWAN—The Hon. Pollock says that this is quite obvious and that is quite plain, but is quite obvious that this opposition has been got up by the two hotels who have hired solicitors to speak for them.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—Do you remember a case—a very amusing case at the Police Court where two Chinese were had up for some offence. One hired a solicitor and one did not. The magistrate fined the man without a solicitor $10 and the man with a solicitor $100.\n\nHON. MR. SHEWAN—I was merely trying to point out that the arguments of Mr. Dodwell and Mr. Pollock are very bad indeed and require the support of two solicitors in this Colony to help them out.\n\nHON. MR. SHEWAN—I won't go into all the arguments, but will take one or two. I cannot compare myself with the Hon. Mr. Dodwell and the Hon. Mr. Pollock in most things, but of one thing I know as much as they do, and that is the question of drinking in bars.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—This matter is really a very simple one. We are dealing with the law under which persons are licensed for the retail sale of intoxicating liquors.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—The object is to prohibit for sale, except for cash, intoxicating liquors. We are not accustomed, nor are we required, to set out all the arguments we are going to produce.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—The honourable member who represents the Justices of the Peace seems to have overlooked entirely all the instances except one which the Colonial Secretary gave of irregularity.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR—Why should we be called upon to pay a man's passage out of the Colony?\n\nPage 60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468893, "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": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "content_text": "99\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nII. E. THE GOVERNOR--The object of the Bill is not to stop drinking. The Colonial Secretary never said a word about that.\n\nHON. MR. S. H. DODWELL-I grant you it is a measure which is in force at Home, but you know, Sir, as well as I do the reasons for it at Home, and that they do not exist in this Colony.\n\nHON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK-I am convenient or understand hotel-keeping myself, but compradores. This has been stopped with broadly and generally, it is obviously excellent results. I can hardly credit the undesirable to multiply classes of offence presume that these letters, which are written, no doubt, after conference with hotels taking the place of those com- for which men can be hauled up before the managers of the hotels. represent pradores, and if they do, that is the a Police Magistrate and fined, and it is affair and they will suffer for it. During particularly undesirable in regard to a régime, Sir, I maintain that you matter like this, which affects strangers bring in charge of these two big hotels, have done the maximum that any coming within our gates who, whatever Governor could do in the interests of may be thought of residents of this may be taken as reasonably competent sobriety. You have pushed on the Colony, cannot be expected reasonably to judges of how hotel business should be improvement of the roads; you have taken be acquainted with the laws of this carried on and what is a deep interest in and greatly facilitated Colony. And yet, Sir, what do we and convenient in carrying on such business. the making of our golf course at Fanling: We find that under Clause 5 of this Bill, before reading the letters I should make a remark in answer to what the Colonial in fact you have done everything to widen it is positively and solemnly proposed not the scope of healthy outdoor exercise and that every buyer who does anything Secretary, said about the directors of hotels. I have spoken to two of the do away with that cooped-up feeling, wrong, or anything known to be wrong. which in the past must have been a great should be punished. but that a buyer shall they felt in their hearts as the Colonial directors of the Hongkong Hotel, and if incentive to intemperance. Don't belittle be punished because seller does koffie- it now, Sir, with this poor impotent little thing wrong. Clause 5 reads, Every Secretary supposed all I can say is that what they said to me, and the clear and Bill.\n\nperson to whom any liquor is supplied in contravention of this Ordinance shall also definite views they gave me personally, are absolutely at variance with their supposed views as pictured by the lively imagination of the Colonial Secretary. be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.\" If a seller supplies liquor contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance the fault of the seller is, by an extraordinary tour de force, transferred to the shoulders of the possibly innocent buyer coming into the Colony in ignorance of its peculiar law. It is a peculiar law, for it is proposed by Clause 5 of the Bill that a stranger within our gates, assuming that the hotel boy mistakes him and we know that very often there are cases of two people being like one another-for a resident of the hotel and does not ask him for cash-then, Sir, not only is the seller liable but the buyer also is liable to get run in.\" If the seller commits an offence then the buyer has to be run in and will also be guilty of an offence.\n\nWell Sir, understand that the Colonial Secretary does not now wish to raise any point concerned with an attempt to restrict the sale of liquors, and, therefore, it all boils down to that wonderful and very nice brown bag which he produced just now full, apparently, of rather musty-looking chits from which it would appear that one hotel has suffered considerable loss. The Colonial Secretary now bases his plea on the question of protecting the hotel-keeper. Well, Sir, I think that one can safely assume that that particular hotel is not one of the two leading hotels in the City of Victoria, for the reason that I am able to read to the Council, and certainly shall do so, letters of protest from the two largest hotels in the City the Hongkong Hotel and the King Edward Hotel. These hotels certainly do not view this Bill as a boon; they regard it from a quite contrary point of view. I do not pretend\n\nopposed to this Bill, and with reference to the reasons for the Bill, Sir, I certainly understood the Colonial Secretary to make some remarks on the question of promiscuous drinking. I do not see how his words could be interpreted in any other sense than that the Bill would tend to lessen drinking. But, now, Sir, I understand he wishes to disclaim that point. If that is so, we do not wish him to hold to anything which he wishes to disclaim. With regard to the question of the reasons of this Bill, I would point out that in the statement of Objects and Reasons, where we should naturally look for those reasons, the reasons are conspicuously absent. I would also point out, Sir, that that is a very grave and serious omission. Unofficial members ought not to be obliged to wait for the second reading of the Bill before the Government discloses its reasons for the measure. It is not much good, Sir, publishing the Bill for some time previously in the Gazette merely stating the objects aimed at-because any competent lawyer can more or less set the objects aimed at and leaving out all mention of the reasons aimed at. Of course, for every Bill that exists it is desirable there should be good and sufficient reasons. I think every member of this Council will admit that,\" speaking\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - Well, with regard to the Hongkong Hotel, I will read their letter, or rather the letter which was written on their behalf by Messrs. Deacon, Harston, their solicitors, on the 27th of last month, with reference to this Bill. I think it is necessary to read the letter because, with all due deference, I think the Colonial Secretary has given us rather a travesty of their views. The letter is as follows:--\n\nHongkong, 27th September, 1917.\n\nSIR,-We have the honour to address you in regard to the above Bill on behalf of our clients, the Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.\n\n1. Our clients are the holders of a Publican's Licence granted by the Hongkong Government and have continuously held such licence or its equivalent for the period of 50 years.\n\n2. The fee payable in respect of such licence at the present time is $3,500 per annum.\n\n3. During the period of 30 years referred to in the preceding paragraph that portion of our clients' business\n\n100\n\nwhich relates to the supply of intoxicating liquor has been very largely carried on by means of what is known as the \"chit system\" whereunder the purchaser is supplied with the liquor desired by him in exchange for an order in writing signed by him.\n\n4. Our clients' experience under the above system-save in a comparatively infinitesimal number of instances-has been such as to enable them to say that the system has worked well and has been a great convenience both to themselves and their customers.\n\n5. The intoxicating liquor supplied by our clients to such of their customers as, if the above Bill be passed, will fall within the purview of its restrictive clauses, is served in the following portions of their premises, viz.:-\n\n(a.) The Public Bar.\n\n(b.) The Private Bar.\n\n(c) The Smoking room Bar.\n\n(d) The Kiosk Lounge.\n\n(e) The Large Lounge.\n\n6. Our clients have quite recently removed the Public Bar into a smaller room, thus reducing the area thereof by approximately 75 per cent. In addition, our clients have also quite recently similarly reduced the area of the Smoking-room Bar.\n\n7. In our clients' opinion the Ordinance now proposed will not only directly inflict needless pecuniary loss upon them in regard to their \"takings, but will also be the cause of their suffering unnecessary inconvenience and hardship, for the reasons (inter alia) that it will be requisite for our clients to provide additional members to their staff in order to \"shroff\" and \"check\" the money which will be received in lieu of \"chits\" as heretofore, and to ensure that no intoxicating liquor is supplied to any customer who is not residing at the Hotel \"-in which respect It must be remembered that the Hotel is patronised not only by permanent residents but also by transient residents and casual visitors.\n\n8. In addition to the inconvenience and hardship entailed upon our clients, as above, it is also the fact that the provisions of the Bill are such as to largely add to the possibility of our clients incurring jeopardy in respect of their hereinbefore mentioned licence.\n\n9. Our clients respectfully submit that no sufficient reason exists to warrant the passing of the proposed Ordinance, and in this relation our clients would observe that this view is supported by the fact that under the\n\n109", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483327, "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": "CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4]", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4]", "content_text": "007./17181/E.Jang/1920\n\nDRAFT.\n\n4. Merchant\n\nPrice Guild\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nEmmens 9/4/20 fechett 9/4\n\nMr. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Lambert.\n\nSir B. Read.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nCol. Amery.\n\nLord Milner.\n\nSir,\n\n13 April, 20.\n\n137\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Dept. of the 18 Dec. 1919, concerning the employment of aliens as pilots at H. Kong, I am to inform you that a despatch has now been received from the Gov. of H. Kong on the subject.\n\n2. Sir F. Stubbs states that, in the opinion of the Harbour Master of H. Kong, pilotage is not necessary in the Colony. Any Master Mariner, provided with the charts and sailing directions (as he should be), ought to be able to bring his ship into the harbour, and take her out again, without the aid of a pilot, even if he has never visited the Colony before.\n\nFurther, the existing Chinese pilots do not take charge as pilots, but merely assist the Master with local information, such as what buoys are available, and, if he is a stranger, in what part of the harbour it is best for the ship, with her particular cargo, to lie, &c; but of pilotage, strictly speaking, little or nothing is done; and, as was pointed out by the H. Kong Chamber of Commerce years ago, none is wanted in the vast majority of cases.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492004, "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": 541, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "have no difficulty in coming to the conclusion that it was. There were \"three or more persons\". There was a tumultuous disturbance of the peace. The assembly had gathered together to assist each other against any opposition they might meet. Was it violent and was it turbulent? I think there is no question that it was both if you accept the evidence of the police and Captain Bloxham's evidence. Many more persons than one were put in fear. Here is a soldier who has dealt with riots in India. During the 10 minutes when this harangue takes place he could see that the mob was becoming violent. He could see that it was only a question of a few seconds or a few minutes before he would get the order to fire.\n\nCaptain Bloxham arrived at this decision himself and before he received the order from Mr. King he told his soldiers to load their magazines. Leave out Mr. King and Sergeant Darling and Inspector Pitt, it was obvious that Captain Bloxham was in fear and that he knew he would have to fire. I do not think it would be possible to get a stranger piece of evidence as to whether the firing was reasonable or unreasonable. Here is a man not actually being threatened, standing 100 yards away and he comes to the conclusion that in a very short space of time he will receive the order to fire and that firing will be necessary. That is very strong and it comes from a man who is a soldier, an officer in the British Army and a man who has seen a great deal of service not only in war but in civil commotion.\n\nAt the time the order was given to shoot the mob had actually passed Mr. King and Sergeant Darling and was going forward. It was absolutely out of the control of the police: it had broken through and was going on. I suggest to you and to anyone who considers the facts that it was a riotous assembly and a riotous assembly which had to be dealt with. As to violence, if you accept the testimony of Mr. King and Captain Bloxham, they both say that if the shooting had not taken place there would have been a violent assault on the police and probably on the soldiers too, then you have arrived at...\n\nPage 1\n\n4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492276, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "September 3rd, 1921.]\n\nREPUBLICANISM” IN CHINA.\n\nAFTER TEN YEARS.\n\nBY A DWELLER IN THE INTERIOR.]\n\nIV. THE BUSINESS MAN.\n\nCommerce\n\nThe business man of Kwangtung, whether he be engaged in large business or in small, or in manufacture by old or new methods, contrives, in spite of the great military incubus upon him, to maintain his importance. Let it be stated at the outset, that conditions are very different for two men, one of whom is in Canton and the other in the country. The man in Canton has opportunities and problems bound up with the ever-growing closeness of intercourse with \"the West,\" which are not yet felt further away. Easy access to Hongkong is a gain in many ways, but it introduces new conditions of trade, and inevitably a rise in the scale of costs. The existence of the foreign-managed Chinese Maritime Customs is a great boon to merchants in the treaty-ports, for they are thus enabled to evade, legitimately, the hampering likin system, which lies heavily upon the business man of the interior.\n\nAn example of this is the fact that a man in the treaty port of Samshui with goods to ship to Nanning (another treaty port) finds it cheaper to load his goods on the down-river steamer to Hongkong, and pay the export Customs dues, having his goods remain on the ship to pass through Samshui on the return journey, be transhipped at Wuchow, and so to Nanning, there paying the import Customs dues, rather than to send the goods direct to Nanning up-river. By the visit of the goods to Hongkong they become technically \"exported\" and \"imported\" goods, and are thus dealt with by the Maritime Customs under foreign control, instead of passing through the rapacious hands of the likin men.\n\nThe merchant more than saves the extra cost of transport for the double journey between Samshui and Hongkong.\n\nBut the man in the country, not in a treaty port, has other difficulties besides the irritating exactions of the likin system. Labour is cheaper, and there are not yet the same organised labour arrangements to hamper manufacturers and merchants. Businesses are not on the same large scale, e.g., General Stores such as those on the Bund at Canton do not exist. But transportation is generally by river, and slow, though a few towns in the province are touched by railways. The trader's difficulties arise very largely, in the interior, from the unspeakably bad arrangements of so-called Government. (Be it remembered this article does not deal with Canton or the treaty ports). A merchant commences a line of business, and after a while he suddenly finds that some petty military officer thinks a \"squeeze\" possible, and so demands a royalty on every item dealt with, so, of course, the price must go up to his customers, while possibly a rival house remains free from the imposition.\n\nOr a large contract is let for labour, and one fine day hardly any of the workmen appear. It turns out that a political move is in the air, and the authorities are impressing as porters every man who dares to show himself in the streets. This condition of affairs may last for two or three weeks.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nAnother effect of the gross misgovernment is in the prevalence of robber bands who hold the country roads and rivers in their grasp, and either rob or blackmail every party and boat that ventures to pass. Small wonder that communication is uncertain.\n\nA principle upon which recent officials work would seem to be this: to encourage men to commence business and allow them more or less to escape squeezing until the early financial difficulties are overcome and a good return is beginning. By this time the capital has been sunk and the man or the firm is committed to the scheme. Now comes Mr. General or Mr. Magistrate to begin his \"squeeze,\" and gradually to increase it until the unfortunate merchant is obliged to close down and cut his loss.\n\nAs long as a business is carried on along the old-fashioned family idea, where the managers and employés are all connected with the same clan, there is freedom from one great source of risk. All those in the firm have the same interest in seeing prosperity, for all benefit by it. But when it comes to partnership with outside folk, to lending money to other peoples' businesses, then enters in the immovable innate Chinese selfishness.\n\nTwo restaurants were approached for their terms to provide a feast on private premises. A offered a very good menu and made no bones about the difficulty of working at a distance. B offered a much inferior menu and seemed to object to catering anywhere but at their own place. A's price was 20 per cent. below B's, although B was established and presumably anxious to build up a business. The great difference was explained as being due to the fact that B was a kind of joint stock business, while A was a family business. All the employés at A would gain by increased trade, but the employés at B would get just the same, and hence they were not likely to inconvenience themselves over the matter whether a particular job was undertaken or not.\n\nAn interesting question is the relationship to prosperity or otherwise of the complicated written language. As long as each little area remained self-contained, it did not much matter how deeply the business people had gone in their literary studies. But with the increasing contact with distant towns and the growing consumption of foreign goods, a wider education becomes necessary, and one wonders whether in the course of that, the graceful ideograph and the stranger grass character will not have to yield place to less cumbersome mode of correspondence.\n\nBut compared with the questions which have their roots in calibre of the moral character of individuals, whether officials or coolies, other pressing difficulties in the way of progress in this Tenth Year of the Republic fade into insignificance.\n\nV. THE COOLIE.\n\nThe ordinary labouring man in China was not so much befooled during the period of preparation for the 1911 Revolution as was the case with some of his fellow citizens of higher class. Magnificent promises of the Golden Republic when all would be free of taxes and the like left him, speaking generally, in the cold. Whilst, therefore, the rude mental shocks and disappointments which the more educated classes have had during the past ten years, the coolie has escaped, yet we shall not be far wrong if we say that of all grades of society the coolie has perhaps gained least by the change in the nature of China's Government.\n\nEssentially of a contented disposition, willing to live and let others live, the labouring classes have found themselves gradually more and more enclosed in a network of restrictive circumstances. The price of living in the country, based on the staple rice, has risen enormously within the past ten to fifteen years. The internal disorder from Wars, Rumours of Wars, and Robbers, has restricted the normal growth of commerce. Of course, China's Customs returns compare the import and export values one year with another, which in these days of vast variations in exchange is by no means the same as quantities of materials; the reliable Customs figures, moreover, are not an index of the state of trade in the interior of the Provinces.\n\nIn such an area, the coolie's lot is indeed pitiable. A War is declared and soldiers are moved in from the attacking force. They assume the right of entry into every man's house and require that he supply their needs: in the best of circumstances they may pay for their requisitions. After a day or two they move further. But the soldier does not exist to carry the impedimenta, and the maintenance of a system of transport would be much too large a risk and expense for the Armies to undertake, so the troops and the police begin to seize men to carry goods. Resistance is useless, the man seized must go. If he refuses he is beaten and then made to go. If laden with an impossible load he flags, he is beaten again. If he tries to run away, the guard fires at him. He is compelled to go where he is bid, and that may mean three, five, ten days' march: he is given his rice on the journey and enough money to pay for his food on the way back—and the promise has been known to be redeemed. There is no wage. When he is at last able to go home, his way very likely lies through a land infested with brigands, who may likewise hold him up and compel him to work for them for an indefinite period.\n\nDarker than these clouds, however, in the coolie's sky is the relentless and interminable oppression of the military governing classes. Industrial development, at least along occidental lines, is to some extent hampered by Mr. Chairman's moral character, and will be indefinitely postponed until he realises that prosperity does not come from seizing every opportunity to benefit himself at whatever expense to others. It is a strangely short-sighted policy that will induce a carpenter to put a piece of bad wood into some article, and thereby squeeze fifty cents, when a really satisfactory job may be the means of getting a lot of work in the future.\n\nNeither the trade nor the government of the country can reach a very high place until the individuals learn to forget the \"face\" that is now so dear to them. (Were \"face\" synonymous with good character or straight dealing, how grand an institution it would be?) Until that universal love of \"face\" is diminished, Chinese will not learn the difference it makes whether a thing is done properly or not. Face must be saved at present even for the lazy coolie. He may be gently dismissed on some collateral pretext, but he must not be told off for his half-done job.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521178, "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": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "content_text": "250\n\nTHE CHINA\n\nCRITIC\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\n251\n\nand commerce will be seriously handicapped, and the livelihood of the people will be affected.\n\nIt is estimated that the Ministry of War now owes the Ministry of Railways about $12,930,000 for subsidies paid to various army groups and $3,250,000 for military transportation charges within a period of slightly over a year. The Ministry of Railways has sent a bill to the War Department, but the bill remains unpaid.\n\nIt will be recalled that at the Second Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, it was decided to appropriate two-thirds of the entire Boxer-Indemnity Funds for railway construction in China. Sometime ago, a petition was presented to the Administrative Yuan of the National Government suggesting that two-thirds of the Sino-British, Sino-Russian, and Sino-Italian Boxer Indemnity Funds be first appropriated to the Ministry of Railways for the completion of Canton-Hankow, Lunghai, and other lines. If negotiations with the British and Italian Governments had not been completed, it was further suggested that two-thirds of the Sino-Russian Indemnity Funds be handed over to the Railway Ministry. It has been discovered that the Peiping Universities continue to get $350,000 each month from the Sino-Russian Boxer-Indemnity Funds. As it has been decided by the National Government that the Sino-Russian Indemnity Funds shall be used for the completion of the Lunghai Railway, there will be no funds left for the railway construction, unless the Peiping Universities get their funds from some other source.\n\nAs the preliminary part of the Ministry's railway construction program, a number of men have been sent out to do surveying work in different provinces. The men assigned on the proposed Nanking-Canton line have been unable to do any work in Kwangtung and Fukien Provinces on account of bandit activities. Military operations in Kwangsi, Kweichow, and Yunnan provinces have also interfered with the work of the Ministry's staff. Mr. Chao Ya-chen, an expert of the Ministry, was killed last December by bandits at Ta Kuang, in Kweichow Province.\n\nThe debts of the railways run up to a stupendous total of $559,000,000. The loan agreements with various parties differ, and unless steps are taken to reorganize the railway debts, the actual financial condition of the country's railways cannot be ascertained. The creditors repeatedly go to the Ministry of Railways and ask for information regarding the payment of these debts. As the prestige of any government is largely determined by its ability or otherwise to meet its obligations, it is of great importance that the National Government should devise some means for the reorganization of the country's debts.\n\nThe Kiao-Tsi Railway, popularly known as Shantung Railway, has to pay $40,000,000 (Yen) to the Japanese Government within a period of 15 years, beginning from January 1, 1923. For seven years, the railway has paid up regularly the annual interest of $2,400,000 (Yen), but the principal remains unpaid. Before 1938, China must pay up that amount, and so far, nothing has been done towards meeting this obligation. The only thing the Kiao-Tsi Railway can do will be that of cutting down its expenses and of setting aside every year a certain amount of money for that purpose.\n\nTransportation undoubtedly has a lot to do with the development of a country's industries and commerce. While the railways want to increase their revenues, they must in the meantime take into consideration the business condition along the lines. Steps ought to be taken to facilitate the distribution of foodstuffs throughout the country and to encourage the development of native industries, so that severe famines in certain parts of the country can be prevented and the native commercial interests may compete on even terms with foreign business concerns.\n\nMeasures have been adopted for the taking over by the government of the Canton-Hankow Railway. This line was formerly financed by private interests with a capital of approximately $20,000,000. The Ministry of Railways recently submitted a proposal to the National Government suggesting that $20,000,000 worth of bonds be floated using the revenues of Canton-Shaokwan and Canton-Samshui sections of the Canton-Hankow Railway as securities. The proposal was approved by the National Government. The regulations governing the issuance of these bonds were promulgated by the Ministry of Railways on January 1, 1930. Beginning from April 1, 1930, the proposed bonds will be issued by the Ministry.\n\nIn spite of the unsettled conditions throughout the country, the following reports regarding the revenues for 1929-30 of various railways may prove interesting:\n\n \n \n Revenues\n Increase over 1928-9\n \n \n Tientsin-Pukow Railway\n $10,315,000\n $6,143,000\n \n \n Nanking-Shanghai Railway\n $12,328,000\n $1,811,000\n \n \n S.H.N. Railway\n $5,959,000\n $1,959,000\n \n \n Chengtai Railway\n $5,134,000\n $535,000\n \n \n Kiao-Tsi Railway\n $2,153,000\n $1,213,000\n \n \n Lunghai Railway\n $447,000\n $211,000\n \n \n Hunan-Hupeh Railway\n $1,075,000\n $705,000\n \n \n Canton-Kowloon Railway\n $12,569,000\n $610,000\n \n\nThe Pei-Ning Railway, formerly known as the Peking-Mukden Railway, has been instructed to conclude a contract with the Netherlands Harbor Works Company of Amsterdam, Holland, for the development of the Port of Hulutao. Actual engineering work is to start this year as soon as weather permits.\n\nMukden is situated like the hub of a wheel, where a great deal of traffic must pass through. The distance from Mukden to Hulutao is 186 miles, and the distance from Mukden to Dairen is 246 miles. After careful study by experts, Hulutao has been regarded as a natural outlet to the sea for Manchuria and Inner-Mongolia. A proper port development at this place and a consistent rail development of the Three Eastern Provinces must create an enormous traffic for shipment through Hulutao.\n\nRailway development, unlike the activities of most of the other departments of the Government, is a profit-making proposition. Not only it brings larger revenues to the Government treasury, it represents one of the most important factors in the improvement of the economic condition of any country, and in the promotion of general welfare. The later the Government carries out its railway construction program, the greater difficulty it will have in its attempt to bring prosperity to the undeveloped regions in far-off provinces.\n\nThe existing railways can never be run on a business basis if the local military authorities are permitted to interfere with the administration of these lines. Drastic measures must be taken by the Central Government for the suppression of such irregular activities. The road is difficult but it is not impossible.\n\nAttitudes Toward China\n\nBy Hugh McL. Gilmore\n\nThe new and more orderly regime in China is regarded by most foreigners with disfavour. The reason is simple. Great changes have taken place abroad; younger countries have acted energetically and with vision to expedite economic and other \"progress.\" Chinese efforts to effect rehabilitation of her scattered fortunes seem, they think, in comparison, futile and ill-directed.\n\nTo a certain extent, this attitude is excusable. Foreign critics of an Eastern country, who belong to a totally different order of civilisation from those whose weakness they would appraise, cannot keep their minds free from purely national bias of the unreasoning sort; they naturally search for such attributes as are prized among themselves and feel disgusted if these are not in evidence. The result is they see specific faults too plainly while overlooking the very qualities on which greatness is mainly based. China, therefore, has suffered extremely from the stupidity, misstatement, and misrepresentation, from the lack of sympathy and generosity, and principally from the pure ignorance of her critics.\n\nIn the West, Might connotes Right. Western revenues, accordingly, are spent on war, past and to come, and only the residue on useful objects. The people are, have been, and always will be loaded with taxation for the construction of guns, battleships, poisonous gases, and aeroplanes for the purpose of killing each other wholesale.\n\nUntil comparatively recently, China had none of these things. Ergo, China is uncivilised, unworthy of consideration. The West, enforced by those selfsame armaments and gases, calls for \"law and order\" in a country whose efforts to enforce \"law and order\" are hindered by Western pugnacity.\n\nChina, unfortunately, is unable to offset the insinuations of these more pugnacious nations in the only way which they understand and appreciate. She believes in a progress of her own definition. Her belief is fortified by daily illustration of how the West protects \"progress\" with battleships and bluff and frames its ideals, not according to the measure of its altruism, but according to the measure of its ambitions. Hence, China has adopted, mistakenly it is true, a conversational attitude, thinking that constant iteration of her requirements would find a receptive ear.\n\nBut iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat rather than progress. This has happened in China. Unfamiliar with the intrigue which for centuries has supported Occidental diplomacy, her statesmen have more or less relied upon the \"honourable obligations\" of the West; they have spoken when they should have acted, reposed confidence where confidence is adjudged an indication of weakness. \"Honourable obligations,\" unknown to them, have long been buried under a pall of hypocrisy. Iteration of such \"obligations\" has engendered naivete and helped to cloud the issue where a little judicious action would have induced favourable consideration of inherent rights.\n\nIt does not logically follow that China, to attain her rights, should similarly put bloodshed and blood lust before civilisation. The world, happily, is awakening to a realisation of the futility of war and warlike methods and is in a fit state now, after centuries of morbid hate, to recognise that seeds of death planted in a loam of artificial hate have thrust their black heads above the earth all too often. Aggression is receding before world reason. China, accordingly, should so plan her future so that the surfeit of speech which hitherto has hampered her striving after autonomy should be abandoned in favour of pre-conceived and practical action. Speech, as a famous diplomat tells us, is after all but a form of innocuous gas. This innocuity, in China at least, has served to \"Make men lose the good they oft might win by fearing to attempt.\"\n\nIt is strange that no effort has been made to put the proper interpretation on the chief Western argument against Chinese autonomy, the lack of \"law and order.\" It is stranger still that no native statesman has expressed its true meaning. While banditry and disorder exist in every country in the world, China has been singled out for obloquy on that very count. It is natural that disorder in a country of 400,000,000 souls, hampered by foreign jurisdiction, should be greater than in a country of 40,000,000 free from alien restrictions.\n\n85", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554006, "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": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "content_text": "# The Hong Kong Sunday Herald\n\n## HONG KONG, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1937\n\n### Pacific Relations\n\n46B\n\n**THE**\n\nThe visit of Mr. Carter last week to address the Rotary Club and the League of Nations Society on behalf of the Institute of Pacific Relations passed with almost as little comment as the discussion at the Imperial Conference raised by the Prime Minister of Australia on the suggestion of a Pacific Pact, but the subjects discussed dovetail into each other, and are just those on which Hong Kong might be expected to form and express opinions worthy of consideration. Mr. Carter told us that the Institute had come to the conclusion that it was impossible to understand the clash of national ambitions without knowing the internal conditions of the countries concerned, and as that is just what we find elsewhere and in history there is no reason why it should not be accepted as the starting point of any study of the Oriental problem. We may also accept his statement that the whole value of such discussions as were recently held at the Yosemite Valley convention lay in the fact that none of the delegates were official representatives. How could it be otherwise? Every Government is the resultant of traditions and interests that are opposed to each other, but which have to be combined into at least the semblance of unity, of which the official view is the organ. A student is concerned with the forces and their growing or fading ascendancy.\n\nOur visitor, as was natural to one who was a stranger to Hong Kong, looked to the university to take up the impartial study of local and South China conditions, such as overcrowding, excessive rents, and all the other causes of discontent and unrest. Nobody felt inclined to tell him that so far from encouraging such unpopular investigations they would be regarded as entirely improper. One of the things we have to secure or safeguard in Hong Kong is the candour of men like the late Sir Charles Booth's enquiry into the East End of London, or Seebohm Rowntree's survey of York.\n\nThe course of the discussions in London has revealed a rather unexpected trend, at least it would be unexpected to those who have not noted how often political changes have the opposite effect to what their proposers intended. Ever since Parliaments were established in the larger Colonies now called Dominions they have been to all intents and purposes self-governing, while professedly being still subject to the control of the Imperial Parliament. The facade did not correspond with the structure. In return for the purely nominal paramountcy the British taxpayer was expected to carry almost the whole cost of defence. Now that they are nominally independent though still under the protection of the Imperial Navy, they are logically bound to take the task of local defence more seriously. Co-ordination is substituted for subordination. To the outside world it is not easy to see any difference, because the change is not sudden. But it will grow, and with the decentralisation of responsibility will grow the strength of the Empire. From the beginning local forces entirely under Colonial control adopted the \"Queen's Regulations\" as the basis of their discipline, and so were able to work together in wartime. There will now be a regular interchange of ideas, and a common purpose. The access to responsible negotiations at Geneva and London and foreign capitals has opened up new vistas and a new appreciation of perils that have previously only been an anxiety to the Foreign Office. The nett result has not been any inclination towards further separation, but an increase of the influence of the Home Government, without the help of which the bigger problems would clearly be insoluble.\n\nAustralia, for example, seems to have acquired a new appreciation of the danger of keeping that enormous Northern Territory vacant in face of the teeming millions of the other Pacific States. Something has to be done to relieve the barren exclusiveness of the Labour Immigration policy, even in Australian interests. The suggestion of Mr. Lyons that there should be some new \"Pacific Pact\" would have no more effect than the other Pacts of which we have already had too many. It could only provide for things being left as they are, and as long as people are content with things as they are there is no need to have a Pact.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "626 \n\n## THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n\n### MEDICAL RELIEF WORK IN CHINA WAR \n\n#### Illuminating Talk By Dr. W.S. Fu \n\nThe Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association were hosts at a reception given at the Chinese Merchants' Club on Oct. 22 in honour of Drs. W. S. Fu and C. Y. Wu, of Shanghai. Dr. Li Shu-pui, president of the Association, welcomed the guests on behalf of his colleagues, and there were also present Dr. Wu Lien-teh, the famous plague prevention expert and Director of the Chinese National Quarantine Service, the Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan, and Drs. Ma Luk, W. K. Fok, Arthur W. Woo, Chau Wai-cheung, F. I. Tseung, Edward Sun, Eva Ho Tung, S. N. Chau, T. C. Wong, T. Y. Li, S. F. Cheung, Y. K. Wong, L. S. Shin, K. C. Cheng, C. W. Lam, P. I. Chan, K. D. Ling, N. P. Karanjia, K. T. Loke, H. C. Tan, K. F. Ko, Y. Y. Tang, K. C. Cheam, and K. L. Cheung.\n\nThe Chairman said: On behalf of the members of the Association, I take great pleasure in welcoming two well-known doctors here this afternoon.\n\nDr. W. S. Fu, as you know, is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Chinese Medical Association of Shanghai, but you may also be interested to know that he is also Chairman of the Medical Relief Committee of the Association, of the Medical Supply Committee, Medical Supply Department, of the Shanghai Emergency Medical Relief Committee, and Chairman of the Medical Supply Department of the International Red Cross Committee in Shanghai.\n\nHis experiences in Shanghai will be needed in Hong Kong for guidance in our future work of medical relief amongst soldiers and the civilian population.\n\nDr. C. Y. Wu is no stranger amongst us. A distinguished graduate of the University of Hong Kong, his work on preventive medicine has benefited China a good deal. Now he is staying in Hong Kong to represent Dr. J. Heng Liu of the Ministry of Health and also head of the Chinese Red Cross. While he is here, I am sure we shall do our best to assist him in whatever way he desires. (Applause).\n\n### PRESENT CRISIS \n\nDr. Fu, called upon to address the meeting, gave an illuminating and informative account of medical relief conditions since the beginning of the crisis. He said that the war was thrown upon China all so suddenly that the Shanghai profession found itself quite unprepared to cope with the large number of casualties both amongst soldiers and the civilian population.\n\nThe first few days after the outbreak at Shanghai were days of hard work and feverish activity in the organising of emergency hospitals in the Settlement. They had more or less overcome the initial difficulties when at 4 p.m. on August 14, now generally known as 'Bloody Saturday,' bombs landed near the Palace Hotel and also on Avenue Edward VII. There were over 1,500 civilians wounded, apart from the dead, which number completely filled up the emergency hospitals as well as the regular centres. They certainly had a lot on their hands, and the situation was made worse by the closing of the shops, which made the procuring of medical supplies practically impossible.\n\n#### PLANS FOR RELIEF WORK \n\nSubsequently, members of the profession had got together and made certain plans for the work of relief. The general character of how medical relief was being undertaken in Shanghai since then had been: (1) caring for the wounded soldiers; (2) caring for the wounded civilians; (3) caring for the war refugees; (4) the combating of epidemics; and (5) the collection and distribution of medical supplies.\n\nIn the beginning, it was rather difficult to get the wounded soldiers into the Settlement. They found that only those soldiers wounded in the upper body, that is to say those that could walk, came for treatment; there were wounded soldiers lying in the areas of fighting who could not help themselves, and the Red Cross stretcher teams got them in only after much delay and difficulty.\n\nRelief work was more centralized now, and the task had been made easier.\n\n#### SUFFICIENT DOCTORS \n\nDr. Fu said that there were at present sufficient doctors and surgeons in Shanghai. There was a scheme, however, to send the wounded soldiers to base hospitals away from Shanghai, in which case more Chinese doctors would be required as those in Shanghai would be needed at the base hospitals. In this matter, the foreign doctors in Shanghai had agreed to conduct the relief work in the Settlement to the utmost extent possible.\n\n#### NO SHELL-SHOCK CASE \n\nThe speaker said that it might interest people to know that though the Chinese soldiers suffered sometimes from many things, not one case of shell-shock had yet been reported. The Chinese soldiers, he said, were not afraid of bomb or shell, but they did not like dirty water, mosquitoes, and the food.\n\nThe food problem had been a serious one, and had engaged the attention of the Government as well as those undertaking medical relief. Chinese nutrition experts had now perfected a biscuit, which had been approved by Nanking, 15 of which as constituting the diet for one day would be sufficient to produce over 2000 calories in food value.\n\nGauze and bandages are now being produced by Chinese cotton mills in Shanghai, and in this respect, they were self-sufficient. They were short of ether, alcohol, morphia, and anti-tetanus vaccine, said Dr. Fu.\n\n#### COST OF WORK \n\nGiving an idea of the cost of the relief work, the speaker said that the initial cost of a bed was about $20 and the maintenance was 67 cents per day.\n\nThe problem of medical relief for the refugees was largely being undertaken by the Shanghai Municipal Council Health Department, whose doctors were giving every possible attention to the various refugee camps. A hospital for the care of refugee children had just been opened.\n\nThe Chinese Medical Association was empowered to receive actual medical supplies and donations, said Dr. Fu. A plan had been evolved and approved by the National Government, whereby donors of medical supplies and of money handed in to the Association would be given in return the equivalent of their valuable help in National Salvation Bonds. Hong Kong, he suggested, might start a drive in this way to assist the suffering soldiers and others.\n\n#### ACUTE PROBLEM \n\nDr. Fu emphasized in conclusion that the problem was an acute one, and would become even more so as the war went on, and he appealed to all Chinese in Hong Kong and friends of China to help in the humane work that was being carried on. He also appealed to all Chinese doctors to volunteer their aid. It was, he said, very encouraging to see how much Hong Kong had done in the way of medical relief, but he hoped that greater assistance would be forthcoming.\n\nDr. C. Y. Wu, who is a nephew of Dr. Wu Lien-teh, then recounted his experiences during a train journey to Nanking while Japanese were bombing the country along the railway line.\n\nIt struck him as most impressive that the Chinese soldier today was different from his brother in the past. He met some wounded Cantonese soldiers on the train, and the change in their spirit and discipline was wonderful.\n\n#### FOOD PROBLEM \n\nDr. Wu laid great emphasis on the food problem amongst the refugees. He said that the food now consisted of two bowls of plain rice each day, with perhaps a little salted turnip. This diet prolonged over a long period would produce beri-beri and other diseases, and would be most harmful. He hoped that the biscuit mentioned by Dr. Fu might solve the problem, for they might later, if the war continued indefinitely, have to draw on the refugees to serve as soldiers, and it was therefore essential that they should be fit. He reminded the gathering that amongst other things, clothes for refugees were urgently needed now that winter was approaching. He appealed to all for gifts of clothing, which could be distributed where they were most needed.\n\nNews of three Hong Kong doctors who had volunteered their service was supplied by the Chairman, who said that Drs. S. C. Ho and Li Ho-tien were now with the 4th Route Army (Cantonese) at the front, whilst Dr. L. Sung was with the 23rd Emergency Hospital in Shanghai.\n\nOctober 29, 1937 \n\n## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT \n\n627 \n\n### MEDICAL RELIEF WORK IN CHINA WAR \n\n...\n\n### If Gossip We Must \n\n#### (BY ELSPETH)\n\nDear Kate,\n\n... having mixed up my voice for several months in querulous plaint against one Hong Kong climate, I now must eat my words and agree with the residents that October, and I believe November and December weather, can compensate one for typhoons, steam, and any other Act of God. The sudden tang in the air last week sent us all flying prematurely, as it proved, to fur-lined coats and furs. How lovely to push one's tired and limp summer wardrobe into the background and blossom forth in something fresh.\n\nThe cocktail party given by the Deep Water Bay residents was one of the first occasions for the airing of cool weather clothes. The setting for this lovely party was a veritable dream. The sea comes right up to the garden wall, and the moon and fairy lights did all they could to convince nostalgic Shanghai-ites that what Hong Kong loses on the night clubs she makes up on the view. Every lovely person in Hong Kong seemed to have been bidden and to have come.\n\nI saw pretty Mrs. Whitham looking exquisitely soignee in a long tunic of dull metallic brocade. Mrs. Reis Evans clung to white—a colour which suits her admirably. Mrs. Neale, another attractive person, came in something slim and dark. As I arrived late and had to dash on to a dinner party on the Peak, I had no time to do much other than to gasp at the view, swallow an excellent cocktail, and make my regretful adieu.\n\nAgain, I had to drag myself away before I had nearly enough time to enjoy the gay and cosmopolitan crowd with which this popular young couple have already surrounded themselves.\n\nOn Saturday night, after a delightful dinner on the Peak, we betook ourselves to the Grips to dance. The place was packed to capacity, and if our thoughtful hostess had not booked a table well in advance, we should have had either to sit on the stairs or to invade the sacred mysteries of Bessie's Bar. I saw the lovely Mrs. Hobkirk dancing with her tall, good-looking husband. Miss Judith Smith, in a printed dress, was in a coterie which included the Countess de Courseulles and her sister, Miss Chieri. At the same party, we also saw Mrs. McAvoy and her husband and Miss Gerrard. Miss Pestonji was wearing petunia effectively. I saw Mrs. Crokham looking lovely in a graceful printed dress dancing with Mr. Jack Macgregor, who has just come back from Shanghai.\n\nThe amusing entertainers Mahon and Rucker were doing an energetic turn vaguely reminiscent of the circus as we arrived, and I could not but applaud the fortitude of Miss Rucker on the repeated occasions when she was hurled through the air, and then the floor skidded about in a highly painful manner. The panther trainer cracked his whip in a realistic manner rather trying to shell-shocked ears. I saw Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie dancing with Miss Gubbay, who looked charming in white.\n\nThe southern side of the Island drew us all again on Thursday to the Lido for the cocktail party given by the newly married Delaneys. What an asset they are to the community, and how welcoming was the atmosphere of American hospitality which engulfed one on arrival. Mrs. Delaney welcomed her guests in a lovely cocktail tunic of taffeta worn over a slender black skirt. Mrs. Donovan looked delightful in a dark dress and black hat. Mrs. Abbott was wearing something gay and rather South American in colouring.\n\nThe crush was enormous, and not half enough people took advantage of the Terrace to allow me to view the lovely clothes. One lovely person was in pink with masses of white fox fur.\n\nMy dear Kate, my pen has run away with me. I must gird up my loins and flee to Shek-O to bang a golf-ball about.\n\nLove,\nELSPETH,\n\n122", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938", "content_text": "Over previously known to me Mr. Gent.\n\n12137\n\nI had a talk yesterday with Professor Forster, Education Department of the University of Hong Kong, who has recently returned from an educational tour in Germany, and is on his way back to Hong Kong via the United States.\n\nHe told me that he met in Berlin a German, who was a Lecturer in the University, who told him that he would be going out before long as Professor of Geography to a University in Canton. Apparently a German Professor Stranger has been recently in Japan for a year, and Mr. Forster got the impression that as a result of that visit there was a good deal of recruitment to professorial posts in Chinese Universities under Japanese influence going on in Germany at present.\n\nThis, of course, is all hearsay evidence, but you may like to see it.\n\nHe told me also what perhaps you know, that the students and staff of Lingnan University, Canton, are at present using the Hong Kong University buildings when not required by the Hong Kong University.\n\nHe told me also that the Daily Telegraph in July or August this year had published a China Supplement, and that this supplement contained an article by Mr. A. C. Moreing, M.P. advocating financial support from home for the University of Hong Kong.\n\nI did not, of course, refer in my talk with Mr. Forster to the talk that we had yesterday.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 574584, "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": "CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941", "content_text": "36 \n\n12 \n\nnot well founded, but only that they evidence either faults in the system which can easily be remedied, or a momentary petulance which in the circumstances was almost excusable.\n\n31 \n\nThe three exceptions we deal with in two categories. The first consists of the tactless treatment by Mr. Forrest of the Bank of China and of Mr. Ma Tsui Chiu, J.P. We have been permitted to see the telegrams exchanged with the home authorities, our Ambassador in China, and the Chinese Government before the legislation was enforced, and the burden of all these is the necessity for sympathetic treatment of Chinese, at least in the early days of this experiment. When a corporation of the standing of the Bank of China states over the signature of its sub-manager that certain persons are employed by it, it is extremely tactless, to say the least of it, to cast doubt on their word because, forsooth, the names of these employees are not shown in the local directory, nor does it tend to promote amicable and harmonious working to return the Bank's letter unopened and with an unsigned superscription. In Mr. Ma's case, it is strange to find that his recommendation of an applicant is rejected without inquiry or examination and without reason given, and the later explanation given, that Mr. Forrest did not know that Mr. Ma was one of the honest Justices of the Peace, is hardly in the best of taste. Justices of the Peace are among the limited class of persons permitted to vouch from personal knowledge for applicants for British passports. This must have been known to Mr. Forrest, and makes all the stranger his failure to extend similar privileges in respect of immigration documents.\n\n## President Monroe Incident\n\n32 The most serious allegation, however, is that made by Major C. M. Manners and Mr. W. J. Keswick regarding Mr. Forrest's behaviour on board the s.s. President Monroe. It is unfortunate that Mr. Keswick could not appear and be questioned by Mr. Forrest. We have, however, no hesitation in accepting the evidence given that Mr. Forrest, when officially visiting a ship flying the American flag, showed bad temper and irritability, and on deck used language and gestures for which there can be no excuse. We are inclined to the opinion that Mr. Forrest at that time was so overworked and was so suffering from insomnia as to have lost that measure of self-control which is so essential in dealing with the public, and perhaps particularly so when dealing on a foreign ship with those of other races and nationalities. Mr. Forrest's conduct on this occasion may be palliated by the considerations we have just mentioned, but it cannot be excused. It was a most regrettable happening.\n\n## General Administration\n\n33 Under the heading of the general administration of the Department, we took the opportunity, during Mr. Forrest's illness, to visit the main office at Marina House, the passport and deposit refund office, and the depot at West Point. Even at that time, when the flood of applicants was obviously ebbing, there was a steady stream of visitors, and we were able to examine and test the system from the first application for a permit form to the issue of the completed permit. The system, in spite of the extremely unfavourable surroundings in which it had to be carried out, struck us as essentially a good one, adequately safeguarding Government property and public moneys and issuing permits to the public without avoidable delay. In the early days, no doubt the system did not work so smoothly as later when the staff had more experience and the pressure of work was less, but the system as in operation when we visited the office appeared to be adequate, and we see no reason why the department should not have operated normally if only a proper accounting system had been instituted; and perhaps someone a little less temperamental than Mr. Forrest had been in charge.\n\n## Comments and Recommendations\n\n34 In the Proclamation appointing us, we are invited to make such relevant recommendations as commend themselves to us. We avail ourselves of this opportunity to say four things:\n\n35 \n\n## Abolition of deposit system\n\nWe recommend that the deposit system be abandoned or drastically restricted as soon as conveniently may be.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575740, "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": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "**MEMORANDUM**\n\nMr. Namazee, a merchant who lived on the same floor in the Prince's Building, had been helpful to me and made frequent trips to Macao, where he could get in touch with Mr. Reeves for me.\n\nMr. Namazee proved most kind, took messages for me to Mr. Reeves, and gave me money to take to Mrs. Reeves, with the message that she could have all she wanted as he had arranged this with Mr. Reeves and that they hoped to get her out very soon. As Mrs. Reeves was never allowed a pass, I acted as messenger. Mr. Namazee also lent us — this was sometime in March after I had received money from Mr. Oda — two $500 notes, which were then selling at a discount of $370 each. That meant we had plenty of funds in hand and I was able to do something about medicines. Dr. Canaval explained to me before he returned to Stanley that the reason I had not been able to get liver extract for injections for my husband was because Eli Lilly, who was practically the sole distributor of liver extract in Hongkong, had been looted during the war, and that Dr. Wu, the Superintendent of St. Stephen's, whose office was in the same building as Eli Lilly, had bought up the entire supply and had a corner on it, and was holding it for a very high price, and... he was under the impression that we had no money to pay him for any that he might use for my husband. It seems difficult to believe this, but the fact that as soon as I produced the money Dr. Wu produced the liver extract seems to prove the statement. Unfortunately it came after weeks and weeks of delay, only three weeks before my husband's death, and was too late. Dr. Canaval also warned me that there was a great deal of trouble going on in the hospital, and not to let them impose on me in any way, and to report to Mr. Oda if I found myself in any difficulties. Fortunately this was never necessary; I always received the greatest kindness from everybody at St. Stephen's the whole time I was there, and was most of the time unaware of the internal friction which I heard later was the reason the Japanese closed the place down in April.\n\nI had always wondered why I had never received any reply to the letter I had written to Mr. Reeves in January, sent through Mr. Kimura, and asked Mrs. Reeves to ask her husband if it had ever been received. I found later that it had not. Mr. Oda asked one day if I knew anything about a check which he had found. I asked what kind of a check and said if I saw it I might be able to tell more about it. In the letter I had written to Mr. Reeves I had put in a check for $100, with Mr. Kimura's permission, and told Mr. Reeves that our need for money was urgent. Mr. Oda replied, \"The check was for $100 and you signed it.\" \"Oh!\" I said, \"Didn't that ever go off?\" \"No,\" he replied, \"I have it; what shall I do with it? It cannot be sent.\" I replied that it had better be torn up, being a crossed check it was no use to anyone, as it could only be cashed through Mr. Reeves's account. Later on Mr. Oda spoke to me again about the check, and seemed worried about it; I believe he had mislaid it, and it took some explaining to make him understand the meaning of a crossed check.\n\nBut that was the explanation of why I had heard nothing from Mr. Reeves. I was, however, able to send him information about myself and the Blackburns and our need of help through his wife, and later through Dr. Ozorio, as well as Mr. Namazee. About two weeks after my husband's death I was stopped by a stranger on Queen's Road and told that a Mr. Gonzales had a message for me from Mr. Reeves, and wanted me to get in touch with him. I saw Mr. Gonzales, who was leaving that day for Macao, and said he would see Mr. Reeves. Three days later he returned and told me that Mr. Reeves sent me the following messages: 1st — Not to forget that now that my husband was dead I no longer had any diplomatic privileges; 2nd — That under no circumstances would the British Government allow any money to enter enemy-occupied territory; 3rd — That he was working through the Portuguese Governor of Macao and hoped to get me and the Blackburns out to Macao, but that I would not be allowed to be in contact with the Reeves or other people, but would have to be isolated, for fear of my divulging military secrets of the Japanese, and that I would have to give...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575751, "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": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# \n\nThat I must tell the British Government, statistics, recommendations. Dr. Court is a very grave, sober, responsible man — all three of them are in fact. Mr. Evans is a Quaker, and more or less represents them there, although he is too unobtrusive a man to push himself into the limelight. Dr. Griffiths was the Superintendent at the Queen Mary Hospital.\n\n**K**\n\nThey were gravely apprehensive about conditions in Stanley. The physical and mental condition of the people there already showed marked deterioration. They were in no condition, due to severe loss of weight, to stand any epidemics such as dysentery, malaria, cholera. There was no quinine in the Colony, practically no medicines. Food was rapidly giving out; only two shiploads of rice had come to the Colony since the capitulation. The enormous supply of tinned food laid in by the Hongkong Government before the war was seriously depleted, so much had been taken away to Japan, and the town had been living on it for months. The condition of people in Stanley was not good; there would be a great many mental cases by the end of the summer. The months of July and August with the usual typhoons and intense heat would be more than they could bear.\n\nThe British Government must realize that any plans for the rehabilitating of Hongkong by these people after the war were impossible. They would be in no condition either mentally or physically to do anything; a new group would be required as these people would probably be useless for the rest of their lives if left another year in Stanley, if they lived at all. There was no use sending relief ships with food and medicine; the only course was to get them out, as quickly as possible. Every month of delay meant lives lost eventually.\n\nThis was on the 10th of May, and we had many talks in the time after that until I left Hongkong.\n\n**102**\n\nI went on the 11th of May to see Mr. Oda, to thank him for sanctioning my going. He just looked at me and shook his head and said, \"No, you cannot go, it is impossible, you are not eligible, you are no longer an American citizen; that law allowing you to retain your citizenship went through in 1922, and you were married before that date.\" This is the summing up of some conversation. I pointed out to him that he had been informed incorrectly, that whoever told him the date of my marriage was wrong, that I had been married in 1924, and the records of the marriage were in the Consulate General in Shanghai. I begged him to wire Tokyo, informing them of this. He had explained that he had jurisdiction over a case such as Mrs. Reeves, which he took up direct with the Governor, but in my case it was a matter to be decided by Tokyo and that if he did, the reply would be, \"Don't be a fool.\" He talked very frankly.\n\nHe wanted to help, to get me out, but he thought it would be hopeless, so I had to leave it. That same afternoon I was thinking things over, wondering whether there wasn't a possible loophole for another effort. I decided to ask Mr. Gibson to speak to Mr. Oda, and to emphasize again the date of my marriage. He could take it up where I could not. So I wrote to him, and he called in the next morning to say he would do what he could, although he was not at all hopeful. That evening he called in, all smiles, to say that Mr. Oda had wired to Tokyo on my behalf, but had told him not to let me know as he did not want me disappointed.\n\nTo know that he had done that, that he felt that way about things meant a good deal, whether he was successful or not.\n\nOn Saturday, the 16th of May, I have an entry in my diary to say, \"He has fought it through for me.\" Mr. Oda telephoned to say I was to go with the Americans!!\n\nThe moment I heard his voice on the telephone I knew I had it; it was all right and he said, \"This is Mr. Oda speaking. I fought it through for you. I wired Tokyo, and they have replied that you are eligible and can go. You will leave on the 20th of June. I am wiring to let your Government know that you will be going.\" Could any one have done any more for me than that man had done, a perfect stranger, and an enemy at that. He had done as much\n\n**#1**\n\nfor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]