[ { "id": 305019, "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": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "## MINUTE\nThe Secretary to The Kew Committee \n2986 \n\nMr. Lucas. 8. March Mr. Wingfield. Mr. Bramston, Mr. Meade, 10 \nMr. Herbert - Lord Cadogan. \nSir M. Hicks Beach. \n\nI am directed by the Lords for the Colonies to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th ultimo on the subject of the results of the Meteorological system established by the Govt. of India.\n\nThe results have demonstrated the utility but the wording of India is distinct in origin and goal from those of the China Coast. Each region is self-coating but indeed has its own established system. \n\nA meteorological class is being gathered by the Jesuit at Tientsin, and another is now in the course of equipment at Zikawei (near Shanghai). But much even more than this is required for the study of Meteorology as influenced by features peculiar to the China Coast, and to it, and we have now accumulated a large amount of data relating to the Indian typhoons to a great extent in the nautical and telegraphic offices, which will be available for discussion when extracts and tabulations in the Hongkong Meteorological office shall be available. But in the case of the latter, information is but little advanced beyond the stage of the proposed observatory at Zikawei (near Shanghai), which will be most valuable additions to the subject.\n\nYours faithfully, \nH. M. Saunders \nMeteorological Reporter to the Govt. of India \n\n### Establishment of a Meteorological Observatory at Hong Kong\nSir Michael Hicks Beach is fully sensible of the scientific advantages which would be secured by the erection of an Observatory, such as has been proposed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348646, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 379, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\nGrant came prominently before the British public. The Committee of the Privy Council, deliberately favouring religious education, had made a regulation which directed that the authorized version of the Scriptures (and no other) should be used in all Schools to which the aid of the Government was extended. This was a rather objectionable regulation, because it deliberately excluded Roman Catholic and other versions of the Scriptures, and therefore inhibited Roman Catholic Schools from participation in the Grant, while it admitted Wesleyan and other Nonconformist Schools as well as those of the Church of England. The educational vote was on this ground fiercely attacked in Parliament by Sir R. Peel, Sir W. Molesworth and men of all parties, and the vote, which had by this time risen from the first grant of £20,000 made in 1833, to £30,000 in 1839 and to £100,000 in 1847, was passed only when Lord J. Russell had pledged the Government to a speedy change of system in regard to the exclusion of the Roman Catholics.\n\nWithin five days after their appointment, the Educational Committee of Hongkong presented their report to Government (11 November, 1847). They stated in this report, that they had visited all the existing Chinese Schools in Victoria, Aberdeen, and Stanley, excepting those supported by the charitable contributions of Europeans (i.e., the local Mission Schools); that at Victoria they found 3 Schools in active operation (in Taipingshan, Sheungwan, and Chungwan) with 67 scholars; that at Aberdeen they found 2 Schools with 27 scholars, at Stanley 3 Schools with 29 scholars. They explained that the system of instruction, which was identical in all these Schools, comprised only Chinese reading and writing, the readers being the Three-Characters Classic and similar elementary books, rising to the Four Books and Five Classics. The Committee stated that the school fees, paid by each individual scholar, varied from $8 to $6 per annum, but they pointed out that in Stanley and Aberdeen the fishing seasons, commencing in the third and ninth moons of each Chinese year, interfered sadly with the attendance. Then, as to the question of religious versus secular education, the Committee unanimously made the following memorable declaration: \"With regard to interference with the religious prejudices of the Chinese, we think that there is no need for apprehension. We cannot think it advisable to separate the knowledge of what we and all the Christian world confess to be the highest truths, from other knowledge. We therefore advocate the ultimate introduction into these Schools of the study of the Bible, and we should regret any measure likely to exclude religious instruction: but at present we think any interference with the existing course of instruction would be injudicious. We suggest that no such interference be attempted at present, but that a Committee, for the purpose of improving the Schools which accept of Government aid, be appointed and that they make from time to time, subject to the approval of the Government, such alterations in the mode of tuition as may gradually lead to the introduction of a better system.\" The Committee concluded this admirable report by stating that they believed that the desire manifested by Her Majesty's Government to provide in some degree for the education of the poorer classes of the population would be appreciated by well-disposed Chinese, but that vigilance would be required to prevent misappropriation of the monthly grant.\n\nThe Government lost little time in acting upon the foregoing report of this Committee, of which Mr. Hillier was the head as Mr. Stanton was its heart. On 10th November 1847, Colonel Caine informed the Committee that the Government approved of the recommendations of the Committee. This statement virtually implied approval of the adoption of a Government Grant-in-Aid system having the definite aim of converting existing secular Schools of the Chinese people into Government Grant-in-Aid Schools, in which, with judicious caution, a religious education, based on the Christian Bible, was eventually to be introduced, so as to reform by insensible steps the native Confucian system of teaching. Such was at any rate the purport of the recommendations which the Committee had made and which the Government now formally approved. There is indeed reason to believe that Colonel Caine meant nothing of the sort, for, when stating that the grant for the Three Schools was to commence on January, 1848, he added the following caution: \"the grant is to be strictly confined to the objects detailed in my letter of 7th instant and always subject to the pleasure of the Government.\" But that letter of 7th November contained not a word justifying prohibiting the introduction of that religious education, which the Committee had made the heart and soul of their recommendations. No further instructions were given to the Committee which was formally appointed on 6th December, 1847, and consisted of Mr. C. B. Hillier, the Rev. V. Stanton, and Mr. J. M. Marques (who had meanwhile succeeded Mr. Inglis as Acting Registrar General). They were merely requested to act as a Committee of Supervision and to send half-yearly reports on the progress of the students and on the fitness and ability of the teachers.\n\n## 1848\n\nDuring this year the Protestant Schools of the Colony consisted of Mr. Stanton's Church of England School, where Mr. F. Drake taught (single-handed, it seems) 27 boys and 18 girls, the cost of the School being $562; the Morrison Education Society's School, which was continued by Mr. W. A. Macy with 22 Chinese scholars costing $1336; and the Anglo-Chinese College under Dr. Legge, who expended $73 on the tuition of 27 Chinese boys and 7 Chinese girls. In September, 1848, Mr. J. Summers (subsequently Professor of Chinese Literature at King's College, London) arrived as the first Head-Master of St. Paul's College, and commenced teaching a small number of Chinese boys, collected from the lower classes of the Chinese population. About the same time Mr. Stanton requested the Trustees of St. Paul's College in England to transfer all their rights and powers to the Lord Bishop of Victoria. This was accordingly done. The Roman Catholic Mission, besides continuing their theological Seminary, now started an Anglo-Portuguese School with 15 Portuguese boys under Father Girard, also a Chinese School with 14 Chinese boys under Chun A-yee and a Girls' School in which 13 European and Portuguese girls were taught English and French by Sisters of Charity. The Roman Catholic Mission thus followed the example of Mr. Stanton's Church of England School in educating the sons and daughters of European residents while the Government and the Protestant Missions laboured chiefly for the benefit of the Chinese.\n\nThe working of the Government Grant-in-Aid Schools commenced on 23rd February, 1848, when Masters were appointed for three Schools for Chinese children (Victoria, Stanley, and Aberdeen). Mr. Marques having resigned his appointment and left the Colony (8 February), the remaining members of the Committee, the Rev. V. Stanton and Mr. C. B. Hillier, presented their first half-yearly report (9 August, 1848). They reported an average attendance of 96 scholars in the above-mentioned 3 Grant-in-Aid Schools, and stated that they had insisted upon Arithmetic being taught and required more explanation to be given of the Chinese reading books, but otherwise left the native methods of teaching intact. They also reported now the existence of 12 private Chinese Schools in the Colony, viz., 6 in Victoria, 2 in Stanley, and 4 in Aberdeen, with a total of 214 boys. From this it appears that, as the activity of Protestant educationists aroused the energies of the Roman Catholic Mission, so the new-born pedagogical zeal of the Government stimulated the educational efforts of the... \n\nPage 373", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG\n\nCollege had a diminished attendance of 21 students under the tuition of Bishop Smith and the Rev. M. C. Odell (now Acting Colonial Chaplain). The Anglo-Chinese College was attended by 36 boys, taught by Dr. Legge and Mr. Ho Pui-chi, at an expense of $1680, whilst Mrs. Legge's Girls-school was attended by 9 Chinese girls. A European Boys School, giving to 8 boys, under the tuition of Mr. J. Stanhope, an elementary English education was started this year but had only a brief existence. It does not appear with what Mission this School, probably Protestant, was connected. The two Roman Catholic Seminaries continued to flourish; the one in Queen's Road, under Bishop Raimondi and Father Rizzolati was attended by 18 students and cost $960; the other, at Sookonpoo, under Father Jaquemin, numbered 13 students and cost $240. The Portuguese Boys School in Wellington Street under Mr. J. J. da Silva e Souza had a reduced attendance of 11 boys, and cost the R. C. Mission, together with the Girls-School, attended by 10 girls, $120. The Chinese School in Taipingshan, under Mr. Wong Pau-lou and Mr. Tong Joannes, was attended by 16 boys, costing the Mission $48. The other Chinese School, attended by 40 boys under Mr. Cheung Ki-chan, continued to receive the Government Grant of $120. The attendance at the five Government Schools declined this year to 105, there being no more than 21 boys in average attendance at each School, which showed that the Committee's attempt to forcibly produce an increase of attendances by a system of fines inflicted on the teachers had failed.\n\nBut the year 1853 witnessed a great change in the constitution of the Committee and in the conduct of the Schools. During the greater part of the year Mr. Medhurst was the only member of the Committee present in Hongkong. Mr. Odell however inspected the Schools occasionally. In autumn (13th September, 1853), Mr. Hillier persuaded the Government to invite the Rev. M. C. Odell, the Bishop's Chaplain and the Rev. Dr. J. Legge of the London Mission to join the Committee. Dr. Legge's accession to the Committee brought about in a short time a complete revolution of the Committee's educational policy. He was opposed, as a staunch dissenter, both to the previous system of working the Government Schools as feeders to an Episcopalian College like St. Paul's and to the principle of spreading the religion of Christ by officers appointed by and invested with the authority of the Government, and finally he was the principal local advocate of combined Anglo-Chinese teaching. So long as Bishop Smith remained Chairman of the Committee, Dr. Legge could not do very much in furtherance of his own dissenting views, diametrically opposed as they were to the ecclesiastical and educational interests represented by the Bishop, but what little he could do he did at once and by persistent effort he started a movement which eventually succeeded in permanently secularizing the education given in Government Schools.\n\nWithin two days after Dr. Legge had joined the Committee, a plan was issued (15th September, 1853) for offering to the scholars of each Government School half-yearly prizes, with a tariff of fixed payments: greatest proficiency in Scripture knowledge, $1.50; in the English language, $1.00; in the Four Books of Confucianism, $1.50; in Geography, $1.60. The first payments under this tariff, amounting to $10, were made at the next prize distribution held at St. Paul's College by Bishop Smith (5th January, 1854). Another remarkable step taken by the Committee, in 1853, consisted in issuing printed instructions to the Masters of the Government Schools, requiring each Master to urge the people to send their children to school, to open school (as heretofore) every morning with prayer, to explain thereupon the Scriptures for half an hour before commencing the ordinary lessons, and to give on Sundays none but religious Christian instruction.\n\nThe list of books now prescribed by the Committee is the same as above mentioned but significantly omits the Church Catechism. The religious conscience difficulty is to be dealt with as follows: 'If the parents of any scholar object to the reading of the Bible, the Master should explain the great benefit of acquiring the knowledge which this Book teaches and he should inform them that the Christian religion is not a foreign religion, that it did not originate in England but in the East, and is common to all the world, having been given by our common Father, God. If they still object, then the boy may be excused from reading the Bible. He must not be turned away from the School, but his parents should be from time to time admonished, and then perhaps they will allow their children to be instructed in this Book which contains nothing but what is truly good.' The rule was now made—and this no doubt became unpopular with the parents and caused diminished attendance—that one half of each week day was to be devoted to the study of the Scriptures and of books composed under the superintendence of foreigners, and the other half of the day to the study of the Chinese classics. But another and even more important change, made consequent upon Dr. Legge's accession to the Committee, was that, since autumn 1853, English teaching was introduced in two of the Government Schools, viz. in the Victoria and Wongnaichung Schools, by means of two Chinese pupil teachers obtained from St. Paul's College.\n\n## 1854\n\nDuring this year, St. Paul's College numbered 21 students, taught by Bishop Smith and Mr. Odell. The Anglo-Chinese College numbered 36 students, taught by Dr. Legge and Mr. Ho Pai-chi, and Mrs. Legge's Girls-School counted 9 Chinese girls in attendance, the two Schools costing the London Mission $1680.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Mission had 18 students in the Seminary in Queen's Road under Bishop Raimondi and Father Rizzolati, and 13 students at the Sookonpoo Ecclesiastical School, the latter costing the French Mission des Etrangères $384. At the Taipingshan School, under Mr. Wong Pan-lo, the Propaganda Society had 16 boys under instruction, costing the Mission $120. In the R. C. Grant-in-Aid School, taught by Cheung Ki-chan, there were 43 boys, for whom the Government paid $120.\n\nThe Educational Committee, now consisting of Bishop Smith, the Hon. C. B. Hillier, Rev. Dr. J. Legge and Rev. M. C. Odell, reported that 5 Government Schools were at work during this year with accommodation for 150 scholars (at Victoria, Wongnaichung, Stanley, Little Hongkong and Aberdeen). In January 1854, the Committee recommended to the Government that the study of English should in this English Colony be encouraged as much as possible. This recommendation was in harmony with a strong feeling now arising once more among the European residents who frequently complained that the whole educational energies of the Colony served almost exclusively to benefit the Chinese and promoted Chinese literature, whilst the children of European and other non-Chinese residents were (owing to their unwillingness to attend what were virtually Chinese Schools) almost entirely neglected. But the Government would not move in the desired direction.\n\nThe Educational Committee also reported that the erection of two School-houses had been commenced by the Surveyor General, one at Wongnaichung and one at Victoria (Western extremity of the present Civil Hospital site). An examination of all the bigger boys from the Government Schools was held at St. Paul's College (January, 1854) and on the basis of the results obtained at this examination, prizes were distributed and seven of the most promising scholars selected by the Lord Bishop of Victoria and transferred, with their entire course...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\n## 1857\nThe number of scholars (among whom there were now for the first time 26 girls) being reported at the close of the year 1857 as in average attendance in 15 Government Schools. In their report for this year the Committee stated it to be their aim to raise the educational standard and not to enter into any antagonism to voluntary efforts in education. As we have seen above that voluntary educational efforts had by this time been reduced to a very low ebb in Hongkong, the foregoing sentence has peculiar significance. The Committee also stated that to the ordinary course of instruction, customary in Chinese Schools, they have added more explanation of the sense of the Chinese characters, a study of portions of the New Testament in Chinese, the meaning of which is explained and special passages committed to memory. As to English teaching, they report that the rudiments of spelling and English reading are also taught in the larger Schools and a few facts of geography taught by finding places on European maps.\n\n## 1858\nThe partial paralysis of voluntary educational efforts, which suddenly set in with the year 1857, continued during the year 1858. St. Paul's College indeed continued, as before, under one English and three Chinese teachers, having an attendance of 30 boys and 10 girls, costing $3000. St. Andrew's School also continued to flourish, under Rev. A. Taylor and Mr. W. Maxwell, and was attended by 118 boys and 19 girls, costing $2,500. But no other Mission Schools appear to have been at work under Protestant management. Of Roman Catholic Schools, likewise, two only appear to have been at work, viz. one, reported as 'the Seminary,' taught by a Chinese teacher and attended by 20 boys and 4 girls, and the Soukonpoo Ecclesiastical School with 30 students under Fère Chagot. The former cost the Roman Catholic Mission $900, the latter cost $750. No other Catholic School appears to have been at work in the Colony. But as to private Chinese Schools, there is a record stating that, apart from the Government Schools, there were about nine private Schools in the Colony, in 1858, entirely supported by Chinese.\n\nThe new Government School Committee appears to have worked with tolerable smoothness. The Committee now consisted of the Protestant Bishop, with the Rev. J. Chalmers and Mr. J. Searl as coadjutors, and the educational establishment included an Inspector (Mr. Lobscheid), a Chinese clerk, 4 teachers of English and 20 teachers of Chinese. The system of fees appears now to have been tentatively introduced in the Government Schools, as a Gazette Notice of 27 November, 1858, informed parents that schools for gratuitous instruction had been established, taught by native teachers, and that no fees were taken 'except 25 cash a month.' The parents were also informed that complaints were to be sent to the Educational Committee for Chinese Schools. The school hours were fixed at 6 hours per diem. In their report for the year 1858, the Committee state that there were 675 scholars under instruction in 15 Schools (with an average attendance of 568 scholars), and that 80 of these scholars received an Anglo-Chinese and the remainder a Chinese education, but that the scholars of all the Schools learned the New Testament in Chinese. The presence of girls (26) among the scholars is mentioned as something very strange. The Committee, however, did not think of opening a separate Girls-School, as the Chinese people were supposed to be—and at that time actually were—averse to the notion of giving girls a bookish education.\n\n## 1859\nThe paralysis which had befallen the educational movement among the Protestant and Catholic Missions continued during the year 1859. There is, in fact, as regards Roman Catholic education, only one School recorded as in operation during this year, viz. the R. C. Seminary in Wellington Street, attended by 8 boys and 12 girls under the tuition of a Mr. de Souza, and that this was merely a private Anglo-Portuguese Day-School (not a Seminary) appears from the statement that this School was self-supporting, each child paying a fee of $2 per mensem.\n\nNo other School, and not even the Soukonpoo institution, is reported as at work during this year in connection with the R. C. Missions. As to Protestant Schools, there was, in 1859, a slight sign of reviving educational interest, as Miss Legge now re-opened the former Anglo-Chinese Girls School of the London Mission, with 9 girls in attendance. St. Paul's College continued its work with a staff of 1 English and 4 Chinese teachers and an attendance of 40 boys. The Girls-School, lately connected with the College, appears to have been closed in 1859. The expenses of the College, amounting during this year to $3750, were partially met by the annual grant from the Foreign Office, and the balance is now stated to have been defrayed practically by rents of houses (College Gardens) built by voluntary contributions. St. Andrew's School, now under the tuition of Mr. E. Giles, was continued at an expense of $3490. The average attendance is not stated, but it is recorded that the principal attendants at this School are Portuguese and Chinese, besides some Parsees and children belonging to other countries. These words appear to indicate that Mr. Shortrede's original idea, in starting this School for the particular benefit of the children of English residents in the first instance, had by this time been found to be impracticable. The School, however, was continued for a few years longer.\n\nThe Government Schools continued to flourish and, through the zealous efforts of the Inspector of Schools, enlisted even the interest and sympathy of the native community, as evidenced by the singular fact that Chinese merchants subscribed, in 1859, the sum of $500 in aid of the Government Schools.\n\nAs many as 937 scholars and among them 61 girls were under instruction during the year in 19 Schools, with a staff of 3 English and 21 Chinese teachers. But the average attendance amounted only to 713 scholars. The total of the expenses, including rent of school houses and cost of inspection, amounted to $6,305. In his report for the year 1859, Bishop Smith states that the course of instruction pursued in these Government Schools embraced the general course of a native Chinese education in the textbooks of their national literature and works prepared by foreigners, and the New Testament and religious works in Chinese, 'except in cases of individual objection from the parents of the children.' Mr. Lobscheid introduced in the Schools a useful edition of both the native Sam-taze-king and of Medhurst's Sam-teze-king with interlinear comments prepared by himself. This work has been perpetuated in countless reprints to the present day. Mr. Lobscheid's relations with the Educational Committee and especially with the Bishop were occasionally strained, and additional cause of friction was created by the permission given to the Inspector of Schools by the Government (18th October, 1859) to assist Mr. Gardner Austin, Emigration Agent for British Guiana, in inducing Chinese from the neighbouring Hakka Districts to emigrate to Guiana with their families.\n\nBut quite a new departure was made by Bishop Smith at the close of the year 1859, in placing a newly started Diocesan Girls School under the Government Grant-in-Aid Scheme. Bishop Smith informed the Government (12th December, 1859) that this School was about to be expanded into a Boarding School under a lady instructress expected from England, and that this Boarding School would also be placed under the supervision of the Educational Committee. Accordingly, he asked the Government to grant a site and funds for building a house for the accommodation of the Chinese girls and the residence of the lady instructress.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348656, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\nlevel of the other Government Schools which remained, as purely elementary Chinese Schools, to act as feeders to the Central School as they had formerly supplied scholars for St. Paul's College. Children of residents were to be admitted into the Central School free of charge, outsiders only were to pay fees. All newly appointed teachers of the Central School were to constitute a definite lower class, and promotion to a higher grade of rank and pay was to be exclusively the reward of merit. All communications between the staff and the Board were to pass through the hands of the Headmaster who was to frame rules for the conduct of the teachers. In accordance with this last Regulation, Dr. Stewart, at the request of the Board, drafted Regulations for the better administration of the Government Schools (outside the Central School), which were amended by the Board on 17th November, 1862, and published in Chinese translation. These Regulations fixed the school-hours in the outside Schools at 7½ hours a day, with 4 hours for the study of the Bible on Sundays when desired by the parents of at least six scholars. Loud bawling at Chinese reading was (to the astonishment of the Chinese) forbidden.\n\nIn their report for the year 1862, the Board state that, by the absorption of 4 Schools in the formation of the Central School, the number of Schools under their superintendence was reduced to 16, showing an enrolment of 889 scholars among whom there were 34 girls. The report points out the low moral principle and careless indolence of most of the native School-masters and the difficulty Dr. Stewart had, in the absence of an English Assistant-Master, to give the Schools an effective superintendence. For this reason the Board resolved to discontinue for the present the Schools at Saiwan, Shankiwan, Shekó and Little Hongkong and to hand over the school-houses in those places to the respective village communities to continue the Schools under their own direction (with the aid, later on, of a small monthly grant from the Government) as Aided Schools.\n\n1863. Mr. Fryer having left for Shanghai, St. Paul's College School, with an attendance of 42 boys, was, during the year 1863, under the tuition of Mr. S. A. Reeve, who reported that he had adopted the monitorial system. The cost of the School was $2,400. The Diocesan Native Training School, under Miss Eaton, which, in autumn 1863, was moved into the newly-erected building on Bonham Road, had an attendance of 31 girls (all boarders) and cost $3,000. Miss Magrath's School, in Mosque Gardens, was attended by 22 children (of whom 17 were girls), cost $1,380. Miss Baxter's Schools included, this year, four separate institutions, viz., a Eurasian Boarding School in Mosque Terrace and another Eurasian Boarding School in Staunton Street, (the European staff of these Schools consisting of Mrs. Talbot and Miss de la Cour, and the boarders including 15 boys and 33 girls), a Chinese Boarding School in José's Lane (Chung-wan) under a Chinese matron with 20 girls, and a Chinese Day School in William Street (Wantsai) under a Chinese teacher and attended by 23 children (16 of whom were girls). The latter two Schools cost Miss Baxter $1,050, but the expenses of the Boarding Schools in Staunton Street and Mosque Terrace are not recorded. The London Missionary Society conducted, in the year 1863, three Schools, viz. a Chinese Mixed School, taught by Mrs. Kwan Tai-shi and attended by 6 boys and 4 girls, costing $84, a Boys School in Taipingshan where Mr. Ho Yuk-ts'ün taught 30 Chinese boys at a cost of $240 and another Boys School at Wantsai with 25 boys under Mr. Leung Cho-tong, costing $144. The Berlin Foundling House School, under Miss Heidsiek and a Chinese teacher, now numbered 11 girls under instruction.\n\nComing now to the Roman Catholic Schools of the year 1863, we find Mr. Rowland, assisted by Mr. T. Terry, conducted an English Boys School, attended by 32 boys, at a cost (to the Propagation Society) of $720, and a Portuguese School (reported as under Mr. Rowland's tuition) of 20 boys, at a cost of $192, whilst Mr. V. Pereira taught another Portuguese School, attended by 30 boys, at an expense of $720 and Mr. Chung Bin-lan a Chinese School of 30 boys at a cost of $144. The foregoing 4 Schools were all located in Wellington Street. The same Society continued also its School in Spring Gardens, attended by 48 boys under Mr. Yung Tim, costing $206, and the Aberdeen School in which 20 Chinese boys were under instruction at a cost of $144. The Seminary in Pottinger Street is again reported as under the tuition of Fathers T. Raimondi, G. Favini and G. Origo and numbering 10 students, the expenses being $600. The French Ecclesiastical School at Sookonpoo was under the tuition of Père J. Jaquemin, and attended by 22 students (expenses not recorded). A new School was opened during this year under the name 'Westpoint Chinese Day School,' under the tuition of Mr. Cha Hin. It was attended by 32 Chinese boys and cost $144. This was probably the germ from which later on the Westpoint Reformatory sprang up.\n\nNo School is reported, for the year 1863, as under the direction of the French Sisters, who would seem to have closed their two Chinese Day Schools. But the Italian Sisters continued their three Girls Schools in Caine Road for English, Portuguese and Chinese children, having altogether 120 girls under instruction, at an expense of $3,000. They continued also their Chinese School at Spring Gardens but transformed it into an Orphanage, where they had 30 girls under instruction, at a cost of $720.\n\nThe Board of Education in charge of the Government Schools consisted, at the beginning of the year 1863, of the Hon. (subsequently Sir) John Smale, the Hon. W. H. Rennie, Mr. J. J. Mackenzie, Rev. Dr. Legge, Dr. Kane and Mr. J. C. Power (Secretary)—all staunch secularists. Scripture portions (in Chinese only) continued to be used as school-books both in the Central School and in the outside Schools. At the beginning of the year the Board had a little squabble with the Colonial Secretary. They had sent in a notice of reprimand of the Master of the Aided School at Sheko for publication in the Chinese issue of the Government Gazette, and the Colonial Secretary had exercised his discretion in excluding the notice from publication. Thereupon the Board coolly informed the Colonial Secretary that they had unanimously resolved that, so long as the privilege of inserting notices in the Chinese Gazette is conceded to the Board, the Board alone are responsible for the effect produced by them. No doubt Dr. Stewart, who had quite lately (16th December, 1862) been authorized by the Government to sign all vouchers of educational expenditure as Head of the Education Department, as well as others, foresaw already that the Board of Education would not be of long duration.\n\nThe point which Mr. Mackenzie's Memorandum had left unsettled, viz. the standard test to be fixed for admission to the two branches of the Central School, was settled by a minute which Dr. Legge prepared and which the Board approved on 17th February, 1863. In this Minute primary instruction is defined to mean instruction in the **千字文** and **幼學詩**. Boys were to pass a viva voce examination in those books before they could be admitted into the Central School. As to those boys in the Central School, who had not yet passed into the English division, they were to study the **中庸** and **論語**, and only by passing a viva voce examination in these books could they enter the English division of the School. The boys in the English division were to study the **五經**, **古文文章** and **史記**. The Chinese examinations should be conducted by a Committee consisting of the Chinese teachers of the highest gradation, under the superintendence of the Headmaster.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348667, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 400, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG\n\nIn 1881 the number increased to 37 Mission Schools (7 Catholic and 30 Protestant Schools) with 2,237 scholars, the religious Grant-in-Aid Schools now mustering more scholars than the secular Government Schools. Thus the development of the Voluntary Schools continued to the present day, there being in 1890 as many as 4,656 scholars attending the Mission Schools (60 Protestant and 15 Catholic Schools), whilst Government Schools were attended by little more than half that number, viz. 2,514 scholars. Moreover the annual competitive examinations amply testify that the teaching given in the Voluntary Schools is not in any sense inferior to that given in the Government Schools, whilst the education thus given costs the Government (apart from cost of Government School-buildings) from $25 per scholar in Victoria College to $8 in the outside Government Schools, but in the Grant-in-Aid Schools only $5.62 per scholar. The principal gain, however, secured by the Amended Grant-in-Aid Scheme, is perhaps to be found in the fact that local education continued to develop steadily, from 1878 down to the present day, without any friction whatsoever.\n\nThe further course of the development of the Schools in the Colony is within the personal recollection of those most interested in them and is perhaps too near to our view yet to admit of impartial historic treatment.\n\nWe take leave of our readers with the consciousness of having impartially noted down the course of events, just as the facts within our reach appeared to us to demonstrate it. But the materials for forming an independent judgment are now before the reader and each will put his own construction upon them. Nevertheless we feel sure that those of our readers who are qualified to judge will agree in at least two conclusions, viz. that the development of local education has on the whole run a course of healthy though slow growth, and that success in the future lies in stimulating voluntary efforts in education. But this, we believe, can only be done by confining directly governmental educational work to gratuitous Elementary Schools and by setting Voluntary Schools of all creeds (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Mahomedan and Confucian etc.) free, with the aid of a liberal Grant-in-Aid Scheme, and without being handicapped by low fees in Government Schools, to overtake the needs of an annually increasing population by the voluntary supply of Secondary and High Schools in proportion as the demand for such may grow.\n\nIn conclusion we would urge upon all local Educationists the importance of a careful study of the course which education has so far run in Hongkong. If we ignore the past, we cannot understand the present nor forecast the future.\n\n**E. J. E.**\n\n*Note. The paragraph headed '1860' requires the addition of the following remarks.\n\nDuring the year 1860, four Protestant Schools were at work. St. Paul's College School was attended by 53 boys costing $3,750. The 'Ladies' Chinese Girls School' at the Albany, under the tuition of Miss Wilson, was attended by 15 girls costing $1,500. St. Andrew's School, under the direction of Mr. J. Kemp, had an attendance of 70 boys and cost $1,200. Miss Legge re-opened the former London Mission Girls School with 2 teachers and 15 girls, costing $200.\n\n## DRAFT\n\nNo 88\n\nHong Kong Six W. Robinson Hiring Mr.\n\n**MINUTE**\n\n3. Lucas 6. April\n\nMr. Fairfield.\nMr. Wingfield.\nMr. Bramston.\nMr. Meade.\nBaron de Worms.\nLord Knutsford.\n\nfor Consideration\n\nMark to be noted in Eastan\n\nApril 92\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch no. 68 of the 27th of Feb: enclosing, with reference to my despatch No. 198 of the 1st of September last, a copy of a further report on Educational matters by the Inspector of Schools.\n\n2. I shall be glad if you will convey to E. J. Eitel my acknowledgements for his accompanying report and for the pamphlet entitled \"Materials for history of education in Hong Kong\". \n\nI do not propose to discuss...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391140, "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": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "97\n\n2\n\n\"Tu'an-lien,\" or local volunteers, rose against them, and, in one particular case, surrounded a band which took refuge in a \"chai-tzu\"—one of the walled refuges so common on the hilltops in Western China. Troops then appeared upon the scene, and, although the volunteers were anxious to attack and exterminate the band, the military officials counselled delay, with the result that next morning the troops, to the consternation of the volunteers, occupied the refuge—the band, through the connivance of the military officials, having escaped overnight. The volunteers were naturally very much incensed, and the result was that two of the military officers concerned were brought here and publicly executed, by command of the Viceroy. The theory of Boxer invulnerability was also rudely shaken by the death of one of the leaders, who was shot by the volunteers.\n\nAt an interview which I had with the Viceroy on the 7th instant, his Excellency assured me that there was no longer any disorder in the province, and that he had taken measures to prevent a recrudescence of the trouble. He had divided up each place into wards of ten families, with a superintending Headman, who is held responsible for the good behaviour of the other nine houses; and that it was his intention to remove all ineffective officials and replace them by men of energy and ability. He said that one of the great sources of disorder was the constant changing of officials, who, owing to their short tenure of office, were necessarily ignorant of what was taking place within their jurisdictions; and that it was his intention, as long as he remained in Szechuan, to keep his subordinates at their posts until they failed in their duty. His Excellency impressed me as being a man who is anxious to do his best for his province, and frankly told me that he is liked by the people but hated by the officials. He made the same remark in the presence of fifteen officials when I dined with him on the 14th instant.\n\nDuring the interview, I took the opportunity of referring to the statements in the foreign press regarding impending trouble in Kansu and Shensi, but his Excellency ridiculed the idea, saying that they were idle rumours, that he knew Tung Fu-hsiang well, and that he had no fear of any trouble in that quarter. He seemed sincere, and advised me, when I heard any rumours of the sort, to come to him, and he would soon tell me whether they were true or false.\n\nIt may be an exaggeration to say that his Excellency is hated by all his subordinates, but he has undoubtedly very bitter foes in the French, who find in him a man whom they are unable to coerce. I understand that the French Mission have lodged a demand for an indemnity of 2,200,000 taels, of which 2,000,000 taels are for the destruction of Mission property and 200,000 taels are for the lives of 2,000 converts alleged to have been massacred last year. The French Bishop demands payment by the Viceroy, whereas the latter insists that it is a matter for the local authorities to investigate and settle. The French, as I understand the situation, declare that no investigation is necessary, as they have already done so themselves. This is a striking contrast to the American claim of 6,525 taels, which was promptly paid locally.\n\nWith part of the proceeds of their last indemnity of 3,000,000 taels, the French missionaries are building hospitals at their chief centres in Szechuan, and the French Colonial Office is supplying these hospitals with military doctors. French Sisters (five for each hospital) are to act as nurses. A French school for imparting Western learning to Chinese was opened at Chungking on the 13th instant. Some have already arrived.\n\nWhen at Hsü-chou Fu, on my way up from Chungking, I made inquiries as to the alleged wholesale buying of land by the French missionaries at that place. It was stated some time ago in the press that this land which they had acquired was intended for the terminus of a railway from Yunnan into Szechuan; but the whole purchase amounts to only five plots of land (the most valuable costing merely 500 taels), situated at long intervals, for a distance of 22 li, to the west of the Nan-kuang River—a southern tributary of the Yang-tsze. The south bank of the Yang-tsze opposite Hsü-chou Fu (or \"Sui Fu,\" as it is called locally) is the only available land suitable for building purposes in the neighbourhood of the city, and the plots were bought in anticipation of Hsu-chou Fu being made an open port by the Commercial Treaty of last year, and as a purely commercial speculation.\n\nFour officers belonging to the French gun-boat \"Olry,\" now at Chungking, are at present engaged on a survey of the Yang-tsze from Ichang to Hsü-chou Fu. They commenced at Wan Hsien towards the end of December, and two are working down and two up-river.\n\nThe Japanese are exceedingly active in Western China, and even in Thibet. Chungking, Hat-chou Fu, and Chengtu.\n\nLast year, a Mr. N. Narita succeeded in reaching Lhassa from the Indian side. He went disguised as a Chinese merchant and had only one Chinese companion. His presence was known to the Chinese Imperial Resident, or Amban, who, I am informed, received the traveller as a guest and was good enough to show him all over the city during his twenty days' stay in the capital. He was so unfortunate as to lose his camera, but was able to make drawings of all he required. He returned by way of India, and is now in Japan planning a second journey into Thibet.\n\nCaptain Idogawa, a Japanese Military Intelligence Officer, resident at Chungking, started with three other Japanese on the 2nd instant, with the intention of making a journey through Yunnan to Bhamo. He travels up the Yang-tsze and proposes to do the land part of the journey on foot, passing south through northern Yünnan to Yunnan Fu, and thence west by way of Tali Fu. He will return by a different route through Yunnan, and cross Kueichou on his way back to Chungking.\n\nThe Chinese Military Academy here, which is capable of accommodating 200 students, is completed, and Captain Matsura and two Japanese instructors are ready to commence work. The register is now open in the Academy for the enrolment of students for examination, and the 28th February has been fixed as the date of opening. The Viceroy will himself examine the candidates, and the qualifications called for are respectability, a fair education, a robust constitution, and suitable age. It is distinctly laid down that no opium smoker need present himself.\n\nMr. Tokimaru, the Japanese Consul at Chungking, recently paid a visit of about a month's duration to Chengtu, leaving in the last days of January. The main object of his visit was to try and induce the Viceroy to place the Arsenal here under Japanese management; but his Excellency refused, stating that, although he would have no objection to a Japanese foreman at a wage of about 100 dollars to 120 dollars a-month, the management must remain in Chinese hands.\n\nA German Commercial Mission, although it repudiates that title, is at present here. It is composed of Dr. Betz, Acting German Consul at Ichang, who is also Acting Consul at Chungking; Dr. Delius, German Commercial Attaché, attached to the Shanghae Consulate; and Mr. Landgrav of the firm of Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. These gentlemen, with a train of seventy bearers and porters, and several Chinese assistants, left Ichang in the beginning of December last, and, travelling by the south bank of the Yang-tsze, arrived at Chungking on the last day of the year. They remained a week in Chungking, and left on the 7th January for Chengtu, travelling by way of Ho Chou and the prefectural cities of Shun-ching, Pao-ning, and Tung-ch'uan. They reached the provincial capital on the 30th ultimo, and are leaving for Kuan Hsien and Ya-chou Fu in a couple of days. From Ya-chou, they will descend the Ya and Tung Rivers and return to Ichang by the Min River and the Yang-tsze. They are making a careful study of the commerce and commercial conditions and possibilities of the country through which they pass, and are specially interested in the pushing of German aniline dyes, notably indigo, and in investigating the subject of Chinese medicines. They were present, like myself, at the dinner given by the Viceroy on the 14th instant, the only foreign guest being Dr. Legendre, who is attached to the French Mission Hospital. Dr. Betz has hinted to me that Germany will, in all probability, send a gun-boat to the Upper Yang-tsze during the present year.\n\nIt is reported here that things are not going smoothly with the Chinese in Thibet. There is said to be trouble on the frontier in the neighbourhood of Batang and Litang, and that the Chinese Assistant Resident is returning to China on account of the treatment he has been receiving at the hands of the Thibetans.\n\nAt the same time, missionaries report that, of late, there has been a tendency, hitherto unknown, on the part of Thibetans to become better acquainted with foreigners and their ways, and they hint that Russian intrigue may account for it; but, as yet, I have been unable to discover whether the rumoured Treaty with Russia in regard to Thibet has any foundation in fact.\n\nUp to January of the present year, the French had three mining Concessions in Szechuan:—\n\n1. For coal and iron in the districts and department of Kuan Hsien, Wei-yüan Hsien, Chien-wei Hsien, Chi-chiang Hsien, Pa Hsien, and Ho Chou.\n\n2. For the five metals in the department and independent sub-Prefecture of Tien-ch'üan Chou and Mou-kung Ting.\n\n3. The exclusive right to prospect for petroleum in the districts of Wan Hsien and Pa Hsien, or any other two districts throughout the whole of the Province of Szechuan, exclusive of Fu-shun Hsien, in which the great brine and petroleum wells of the province are situated.\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428717, "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": 58, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "1. Regulations issued by the provincial opium head warehouse (\"tung-sheng yen-t'u mai-mai tsung-hang\") and the provincial li-kin head office (\"tung-sheng li-kin tsung-chu\") published on the 19th November last, for \"the abolition of the opium duty offices and stations and the prevention of the import and export of the drug,\" Of these regulations I have the honour to enclose a copy together with a translation by Mr. Toller.\n\n2. Revised regulations for the suppression of opium in all departments, drawn up by the police intendant (\"hsun-ching tao\") and issued, with the imprimatur of the Governor-General, last December. Of this document I beg to submit an abstract.\n\nThe two papers set out with such conciseness (this is more particularly the case with the earlier of them) the procedure to be followed that it is difficult to condense them. The salient points, however, would seem to be as follows:—\n\n(a.) The import of opium into Szechuan is to cease from the 10th April next. (\"Opium\" (\"t'u-yao\") here means extra-provincial raw native opium. Neither the native prepared drug (\"kao\") nor foreign opium has for some years been imported into this province.)\n\n(b) The export of Szechuan opium is to cease from the 7th July next.\n\n(c.) The system of licensed retailers (\"p'i-fa tien\"), described in previous reports as \"wholesale opium stores,\" is to be continued. These establishments are licensed to sell prepared opium, but to smokers with police permits only, and not for consumption on the premises. Their supplies of the drug are derived, as before, from an official (or Government) head opium store (\"kuan-kao tsung-tien\"), one of which is established in each city or town. The latter offices have hitherto depended for their raw material (\"yen-t'u\" or \"tu-yao\") on the head Government \"hong\" (warehouse) for the purchase and sale of crude opium (\"yen-t'u mai-mai tsung-hang\") at Chengtu or its branches. From the 7th July these \"hongs\" will cease to exist. The opium stores will have before that date to lay in a sufficient stock of the raw stuff to last out the time of grace for smokers (now, at the most, seven years) allowed by the edicts of 1906. This stock they will obtain either from the \"hongs\" before the latter are dissolved, or from private holders, who, in their turn, are compelled to get rid of their whole supply before the 7th July, either by selling it to the opium stores or by exporting it from Szechuan.\n\n(d) The registration of smokers is to be strictly enforced. It is recognised that a considerable number of smokers have failed to comply with the law, which laid down that application for permits must be made before the 24th October, 1908, after which date none would be issued. Smokers must now have registered—in towns, at the police stations; and in the country, before the tithing-ward—by the 11th January last. The totals registered will be reported to the police intendant, who will then authorise a supplementary, but positively final, issue of permits.\n\n(e.) Permits to smoke.—The earlier permits will continue to be renewable every three months; but the supplementary permits must be renewed every two months. The fee for issue and for such renewal is 100 cash. Permits will, as before, be of two classes, \"A\" and \"B\"; but while holders of the earlier \"A\" permits were allowed three years in which to break off the habit, holders of the new (supplementary) \"A\" permits will be allowed only one year. Holders of \"B\" permits are allowed three months. The object of the new regulations is stated as an endeavour to eradicate opium smoking in Szechuan before the time set by the edicts (Art. 3; see Blue Book, \"China No. 1 (1908),\" p. 5).\n\nConsequent on the proclamation forbidding the planting of the poppy, all regulations of the provincial opium head warehouse relating to the diminution of areas of cultivation were cancelled last September. Permits that had been issued were called in by the branch warehouses (\"yen-t'u fen-hang\"), and all blank forms were returned to the head office at Chengtu. As we have seen, the head warehouse and its branches are to be abolished by the 7th July. The same date sees the dissolution of the opium li-kin establishment—with a month's time for the settlement of accounts—and the dismissal of brokers (agents) at the godowns and receiving rooms, where raw opium was purchased on behalf of the warehouse from the peasant growers, by the taotai.\n\nOther formal steps taken during the past six months are:-\n\n1. The binding over of all official employés to continue to abstain from smoking, or to abandon the habit within two months. All officials below the rank of prefect, and all educational officers, have to submit to scrutiny twice a year for the opium habit. Two such tests have already been held, and certificates granted, and the third examination is now approaching. (For officials in the capital it takes place at the \"chieh-yen ch'a-yen so,\" or anti-opium inspection department, persons reporting themselves for examination between the 22nd and 27th February.) There are still, however, some 500 officials in the province who have not yet received their certificates for the first examination. The registers at the office of the financial commissioner show that over 200 of these can be accounted for as dismissed, or dead, or in mourning. The remainder are exhorted to undergo examination and obtain their certificates as quickly as possible.\n\nIn pursuance of this procedure (which is in harmony with art. 9 of the Imperial Regulations of 1906), on the 20th August, the \"yen-ch'a tao\" (intendant for gabelle and tea duties) enforced the measure for his staff, for the salt transport office, and for the establishments under his control throughout the province. The Commissioner for Education (\"ti-hsueh ssu\") did the same, on the 10th November, and the Financial Commissioner on the 2nd December. As a deterrent, four petty officials were denounced by Chao chih-t'ai to the throne and were dismissed the service in perpetuity, for \"lack of strength to break off opium\" (\"ch'ih yen pu li\").\n\n2. Hospital accommodation has been extended. The opium refuge opened by the Chamber of Commerce was originally intended only for traders and the mercantile class generally. It has, says the semi-official “Chengtu Daily News\" (\"Ch'engtu Jih-pao\") of the 7th October, proved so successful that its operations are to be extended. Anyone who gets a guarantee from a shop may attend and receive medicines, gratis.\n\nAbout the same time the police intendant opened a training college where doctors, or would-be doctors, can learn the best methods of assisting smokers to break off the habit. Doctors study for a month, paying a fee of 4 dollars; they then receive a diploma which permits them, according to the class obtained in the examinations, to take charge of hospitals in the various towns of the province, or to serve as assistants in such hospitals.\n\nOn the 20th December the police intendant reported that several thousand doctors trained at Chengtu will now be sent to take charge of opium refuges throughout the province. The expenses of these refuges will be met as follows:---\n\n(a) From public charitable funds, which will be devoted to the cost of medicines, salaries of attendants, and maintenance of poor people breaking off the habit. Patients who can afford it will pay for their own meals while in hospital.\n\n(b) Where there are no such public funds, by subscriptions collected from the gentry and merchants.\n\n(c) If both these plans fail, the local official may authorise the doctor to sell his medicines, the cost to the indigent being met out of the profits of such sales.\n\nThe \"Chengtu Daily News\" of the 28th December contains regulations, drawn up by the intendant of police, for the establishment of an opium refuge for gentry and merchants. The regulations as issued consist of fourteen clauses, but at the end are the two characters \"wei wan\" (\"to be concluded\"). No further instalment, however, has appeared up to the present.\n\nThe regulations provide generally for good behaviour and order among the patients. Patients are received in batches of from twenty to thirty, and the cure takes five days. Patients must not bring their own servants with them, and on admission, they must submit their luggage and belongings to inspection lest there should be any of the drug concealed therein. Nothing is said about the cost of treatment, except that if patients develop any extraneous complaint, necessitating the use of expensive medicines costing 50 cash or more, the patients themselves must pay for them.\n\n3. The official price of prepared opium was raised on the 11th December from 540 cash per liang to 950 cash for the lowest quality (\"pa t'u\"). Prices for the other qualities are:\n\n(1.) Yünnan from 900 cash to 1,240 cash.\n\n(2.) Ch'en and piao from 600 cash to 1,060 cash.\n\n4. The loss of revenue is partly made good by the increased charge on salt, previously reported. Other taxes to the same end are:\n\n(a) 200 cash on each pig killed, large or small.\n\n(b) 2 cash per catty on pork.\n\nWriting on the 25th October last, Mr. Ricker, who had just returned from a visit to Tzu Chou (about halfway on the main road from Chungking to Chengtu), says:\n\nPage 56", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436797, "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": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "content_text": "HONG KONG 1911 10745 CO 180 Taylor, B Date. 14 May st previous Paper. subsequent Paper h. 15745 & Defalcations in Harbour Masters. Dift Sucloses copy letter from S. Agents claiming 68.11.1 from him in respect of Protest against claim in the circes. 7.005 Mr. Study Cotting. That Cdr Taylor was condemned unheard is not the case as will be seen from enclosure II, but there is nothing to show that he was given an opportunity of at least perusing the substance of enclosure (4), which is a minute reply to his defence. inclosure III ?Inf. 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Mr. Taylor that other haalde hacia the dial Secret's\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477166, "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": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Deep. No255 of 1968 \n`(51933/18)`\n\n\n392 \nMay \n1918 \n255 \n5 Sep.\n\nLast previous Paper. \nSov 43085 \n**HONG KONG** \n51933 \nCO \n51033 \nRack BEE 28 OCT 18 \n\nAfrican Dept. re: application of De J.C. Johnson for post of Rud Uganda \nstudy \n- \n: \nfraud \nJ.U.I. CRNAs can \nhas no \nobjection to transfer if he can be spared without undue \ndelay. \n29. \n\nQuod \nNext subsequent Paper, \nMr. Robinson \nE. African Dept. \nA.E.C. \n30.10.18 \nW. Bomly book Cotting \nGov. Uganda has already telegraphed (`m2, 3005`), #Kong) had copy of the Telegram containing Dr. Johnson's application. \nWe must wait for \nreply from Uganda \non the subject. \n... \n(I should say that there was little hope of \nfinding a \nsuccessor to W. Johnson in Hong Kong) \nwait \n? but 19. AM. 31.10.18 \nEsq. [Shobe that by Coryndon will be able to recommend the acting ...] \n[(29$98—1 k.) Wt. 24861–18. 12m, 9,78. \nD&S. G122/41. \n\nAll once \n6cs \nA&C 1.11.18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493904, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 295, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "2. I have learnt with much interest of the Rockefeller Foundation's offer as you know, I attach much importance to the work of the University, negotiations will move in the hope that the now in progress improvement for the state of the facilities offered by the University for the study of medicine.\n\nFROM 1922 Air Ministry FOR CIRCULATION:— Mr. Beakett, More Cotting, St. Carimay.s, Sir. Read, Instr Maštakt Smith, Juha, Mr. Churchill, S. 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Theunis will be more representative in character than any conference yet held under the auspices of the League.\n\nOver 350 experts from 43 countries, including four States which are not members of the League - the United States, Russia, Turkey, and Egypt-are expected to be present. The conference will be consultative and cannot conclude a convention, for the delegations have been chosen by the various governments for their various capabilities, and not as spokesmen of official policies. They include industrialists, merchants, bankers, economists, agriculturists, and officials and representatives of workers' and consumers' cooperative societies. Four of the members are women.\n\nThe following Slogans, prepared by the Propaganda Compartment at Canton, under date of the 18th inst., reading:\n\n1. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which massacres the Kuomintang members.\n2. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is treacherous to our late Director, Dr. Sun Yat-sen.\n3. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is destroying the People's Revolution.\n4. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is undoing the work of the Northern Expedition.\n5. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is utilizing bandits and labor usurpers to oppress the Peasants and Laborers.\n6. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is insulting and disgracing our late Director, Dr. Sun.\n7. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is plotting the downfall and destruction of the Kuomintang.\n8. To be against the People's Principles is to be Counter-Revolutionary.\n9. To be against Kuomintang is to be Counter-revolutionary.\n10. All power and authority belong to the Kuomintang.\n11. All true and loyal comrades of the Kuomintang must unite and rise.\n12. Down with all Counter-revolutionaries.\n13. Down with Opportunists.\n14. Concentrate the powers of the Kuomintang.\n15. Down with Imperialism in all its forms.\n16. Down with the clique of Militarists.\n17. Eradicate all corrupt officials, greedy gentries, and unscrupulous merchants.\n18. Be on guard against those who lean toward the Right Wing.\n19. To call a strike against the masses of the people is Counter-revolutionary.\n20. Those who refuse to come under the direction and guidance of the Kuomintang Revolutionaries.\n21. The masses of the people must rise and clean up the Counter-revolutionary Chinese Communist Party.\n22. The masses of the people must rise and support the Chinese Kuomintang.\n23. Support the Central Government at Nanking.\n24. Support the Nationalist Forces.\n25. Down with the bogus governments at Wuhan and at Peking.\n26. Down with the most devilish Chinese Communist party.\n27. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which gives up the Special District of Hankow.\n28. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which compromises with the Fengtien militarists.\n29. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is against the Min San Chu (Three People's Principles).\n30. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which utilizes the masses of people as tools.\n31. To clear out all the Chinese communists who are in ambush.\n32. To clear out all the Chinese communists who are in disguise.\n33. The true revolutionary soldiers must rise up and overthrow the Chinese communist party.\n34. Down with those bad characters who take vengeance under the pretext of the \"Ching Tang\" Movement.\n35. Down with those dishonest Kuomintang members who tolerate the communist elements.\n36. Execute Hsu Chien, Teng Yen-ta, and others who betray the party and the country and frustrate the Northern Punitive Expedition.\n37. Execute the unworthy and covetous Sun Fo who betrays the Party and the country.\n38. Execute Borodin who curses and disturbs China and the Kuomintang.\n39. To clean up all the corrupt officials and political opportunists.\n40. To clean up all the covetous official attendants, local Sharks, and unscrupulous gentries.\n41. To deal severely with those who study the \"Cheng-hsueh\" doctrine, i.e., federalism or nationalism, the remnants of Chen Chiung-ming's followers, and any other similar reactionaries.\n42. To dismiss Wang Ching-wei who betrays the party, endangers the country, and is ungrateful to the party.\n43. The Three People's Principles are the principles for national salvation.\n44. To realize all the party principles of the Kuomintang.\n45. It is only the Kuomintang which can realize the welfare of the peasants and laborers.\n46. To reclaim all concessions, leased, and ceded territories.\n47. To emancipate the Tibetans from the oppression of the imperialists and the Mongolians from that of the communists.\n48. To unite all the revolutionary advancing and oppressed People and make joint efforts to overthrow imperialism.\n49. Long live the Success of the National Revolution.\n50. Long live the Kuomintang of China.\n\nAccording to the Government instructions to suppress the communists, Generals Yang and Liang at the West of Hupeh have occupied Ichang.\n\nA joint telegram sent to General Chien Ta-chun by Sergeant majors Yang Ching-ying and Chao Chi-yung, Chief of Staff Yang Fa-chau, Chief of Aid-de-camp I Wa-cheng, and some other military officers of the newly enlisted 1st Division at Kanchow, welcoming General Chien, was worded: \"(Sd) Chia Pei-ta.\"\n\nGeneral Yieh Chien-ying of the newly enlisted Second Division at Kian has left the locality, and a change in the situation is imminent.\n\n## Prof. Soothill's Observation Of China's Progress\n\nProfessor W. E. Soothill, the distinguished Professor of Chinese at Oxford University, refers in an article in \"Contemporary Review\" to the remarkable change in the status of Chinese women. The modern Chinese girl and young woman, he writes, \"is the brightest spot on the landscape, and the most promising asset in the national life. I am not referring to the up-to-date fashionable, hotel-frequenting, cocktail-drinking, dancing, ultra-modern society creation, but to the cheery, happy tripping school-girl.\n\nTwenty years ago, nearly half the population of the country, some 200,000,000 of women and girls, had crippled feet. The effect on carriage, happiness, and character is only made evident now that a new race, absolutely a new race of women, is being evolved.\n\n\"If a sign be sought of progress in China, perhaps the most felicitous is the signboard of the Woman's Boot Store; 20 years ago, it was non-existent, now it is found in every city. Then, every woman made her 'three-inch golden lilies' to cover what remained of her maimed feet. To-day, the boot store supplies her with beautifully made shoes in bewildering variety to wear over her fresh-colored silk stockings.\"\n\n## SEND YOUR MESSAGES BY WIRELESS\n\n**Cheaper and Faster Service**\n\nTO Shanghai, Nanking, Foochow, Hankow, etc.\n\nMessages, official or private, are despatched immediately, day and night.\n\nApply to Office at 50 (old number) Second Bund (Yee-Maloo) Nankwao.\n\nCANTON WIRELESS STATION, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS\n\n二號十五牌門舊路二\n\n## NOTICE\n\nThe S.S. \"Sainam\" and \"Nanning\" will leave Canton for Wuchow every Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8 a.m.\n\nFor further particulars, please apply to:\n\nSAILING NAVIGATION CO. LTD. SHA KEE\n\n## The Film Danger\n\nThat many of the commoner tooth and gum troubles, and most cases of so-called \"off-color\" teeth, are due to a film that forms on teeth which ordinary brushing does not successfully combat, is the consensus of dental opinion.\n\nRun your tongue across your teeth, and you will feel this film-a slippery sort of coating. Film absorbs discolorations and thus makes teeth look dull and dingy. It breeds germs and bacteria and invites tartar, decay, and pyorrhea. It is a menace to tooth and gum health that must be constantly combated.\n\nThus, dental authorities now seriously urge that it be removed at least twice every day-in the morning and at bedtime. One can't expect glistening teeth and proper gum protection unless this be done regularly. To do so, obtain Pepsodent-a special, film-removing dentifrice most dentists favor. It curdles the film, then removes it and polishes the teeth to high luster in gentle safety to enamel. It combats the acids of decay. It acts, too, to firm and harden the gums; thus meeting, in many ways, the requirements of modern dental findings.\n\nPlease accept test tube.\n\nTo prove results, send coupon for 10-day test or buy a tube-for sale everywhere. Do this now for your own sake.\n\n**10-Day Tube Free**\n\nW. S. SHERLY & CO., Dept. CH7-20, 6 Queens Rd. Central, Hongkong.\n\n7-10-2\n\nI enclose 3 cents in postage stamps for 10-day trial tube of Pepsodent.\n\nName\nAddress\nCity\n\nGive full address. Write plainly. Only one tube to a family.\n\n## PETER MUSIC CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL\n\nAll Kinds of Music and Musical Instruments. Sole Distributors: **MORRISON** PIANOS\n\n33, Miu Chin Street, West, Tungshau, Canton.\n\n## Pearl Theatre\n\n(Opposite DUTCH FOLLY, THE BUND)\n\nPROGRAMME FOR Thurs. to Sat., May 19th to 21st. At 2.30, 7.00, and 9.15 p.m.\n\n**BUSTER KEATON**\n\nThe Frozen Face Comedian\n\nin\n\n\"SEVEN CHANCES\"\n\n6 Reels\n\nALSO\n\nOUR GANG\n\nin\n\nTheir Hilarious Comedy\n\n\"THE COBBLER\"\n\nNext Change!- Commencing Sun. May 22nd.\n\nWesley Barry, Mary Carr, and Pat O'Malley\n\nin\n\n\"FIGHTING\"\n\nWatch Out!\n\n**CHARLIE CHAPLIN**\n\nin\n\n\"THE GOLD RUSH\"\n\n院戲畫影珠明\n\n## NATIONAL THEATRE\n\n(North Wing Hon Road)\n\nPROGRAMME FOR Fri. to Mon. May 20th to 23rd.\n\nAt 12.30, 2.30, 7.00, and 9.00 P.M.\n\nTHE LIVING BUDDHA, Part II\n\nA Chinese Picture\n\nNext Change COMMENCING TUES. MAY 24TH\n\nBETTY COMPSON and LEATRICE JOY\n\nin\n\n\"LADIES MUST LIVE\"\n\nA Paramount Picture\n\nComing Attraction\n\nRUDOLPH VALENTINO\n\nin\n\n\"BLOOD AND SAND\"\n\n## 美商美亞保險公司\n\n長堤光樓\n\nThe Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co.\n\nOF NEW YORK\n\nAll classes of Insurance Transacted\n\nGENERAL AGENTS\n\nAmerican Asiatic Underwriters, (South China) Fed. Inc. 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