[ { "id": 219853, "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": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "ht h \n\nBritish Flag in all her voyages, and to class the protection of that Hag national deitiiction in all matters relating to the rights of proporty - But I do, at the same time, make known that by this \n\nsailing Letter, there are \n\nдней gwen to the said Vepel no rights of trade or navigation which are by the Laws of England confined to British Ships properly so called, and provided with certificates of Dühich repritzy, which in the only legal evidence of their \n\nbibles to that character ; nor to exercise \n\nany privilege of trade or navigatin which \n\nis \n\nby the laws of England confined to the theps of any foreign Country owned and ravigated by the subjects of rack Country. But, masmuch as the Britit laws of navigation & registry do not preclude Brickel \n\nSubjects \n\n3ን \n\nIubjects from employing these other than \n\nregribered this, in vogager between neige \n\nні \n\nForeign \n\nCountries, between which they trade, nor in \n\nthe sailing Letter is \n\ncertain other cases;. granted to the said sekel \n\nHi order \n\nthat the may be daly protected as British Property, while employed in any fruch unrestricted voyages . And for the more certain identification of the said reful, for which this sailing Letter in granted, I do hereby certify that the has decks, and __ marts; that her length, from the fore part of the main stem to the after part of her stern port toph abaft, is — feet English: her breadth at the broadest part is — feet English; her depth of hold in _ English: Thach \n\nthe \n\nDEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219856, "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": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "It is right, however, to acquaint four hardships that in the year los ! [ Sept. 3] when the form of Sailing Letters for repels belonging Skritik Subject in the Pacific becan was under for consideration, it was recommended by the \n\nLords of the home to omit the invested \n\nan ex \n\nof \n\n- prep permission to wear the British Plage, Their Lordships conceiving that this might legally be done in all cases wherein the \n\nReguity & havigation Laws, were not in any way infringed. It does not appear & me to be of any material Importance, whether \n\nграну \n\nthe clause as \n\nto the wearing \n\nwearing the Hay be insectest, or not, but perhaps your Ladrlicht \n\nwould think it right out of deference \n\nB \n\nthe suggestion of the Lords of the Romiralty to direct it's omission \n\nI have ver \n\n(signed) \n\nI Dodson \n\nRef \n\nI \n\n2079 trong hàng \n\nRECEIVED \n\nDEC. 16 \n\n18:44 \n\nForeign Offic. \n\nDecember. 14. 1844. \n\nam directed by The Earl of Aberdeen to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter \n\nof the 12th Instant, transmitting a (apy \n\n$2, 22 lugh 44y of a Despatch which Lord Stanley has \n\nreceived: from Int. Davis stating \n\nthe steps which he had taken with reference \n\nb \n\nthe creation of buildings by American and British Subjects, on the Cowloon Peninsula, and I am to acquaint you, on reply, for \n\nthe information of Lord Stanley, \n\nthat \n\nLad \n\nG. W. Hope Ear \n\nVi \n\ndr", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\n152\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nThe large vessels which arrived in summer from Canton to go to Teintsin, and brought the large quantity of piece-goods formerly reported, were originally Fokien craft, and chartered by Shantung and other merchants. At present, the prices of our cotton manufactures at Shanghae do not much differ in price from those of Hong-Kong, and, on account of the large importation, the speculation will not probably be repeated.\n\nThe cargoes were intended for Northern China and Mongolia, to make covers for the sheep-skins and cotton-wadded jackets of the peasantry, the exclusive dress of the peasantry and poorer classes in winter, as the cheapest stuff procurable.\n\nWe have also had a few junks from Ningpo and Fuh-choo, on their way to Canton, and vice versâ; some direct from Formosa, though belonging to Fokien; and very few from Amoy and Hwuy-an.\n\nMany have poor cargoes, and do not buy much; but there is always some trade, though always exclusively confined to Chinese living here.\n\nSo long as no custom-house exists, it is impossible to obtain accurate returns. The above was collected from the natives on board their own vessels; and the writer has frequently, with his own eyes, seen the export and import cargoes.\n\nHe is anxious to investigate the subject in all its bearings; and if there happens any favourable change, he will not fail to report the same, after having duly investigated the matter in all its bearings.\n\n(Signed)\n\nVictoria, 6th January, 1846.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nCHARLES GOTZLAFF,\n\nChinese Secretary.\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.\n\n235\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. 153\n\nAs to the pilot regulations, the Lieut.-Governor would observe that he was enabled, through his professional experience, to digest a scheme of pilotage, which many considered would have proved highly lucrative to the pilots, and beneficial to the Merchant Service: but he found the majority so much prejudiced in favour of their old régime, and so blind to the fact that the constantly diminishing calls for their services was the natural result of their own high charges, of the improvements in charts, and of the extensive increase in steamers, that they could not be persuaded to adopt a lower or indeed any scale of charges to tempt mariners, nor sanction any plan which had not been handed down to them from their fathers.\n\nBy the liberal assistance of Her Majesty's Government, the large building, containing the public schools and two clergyman's houses, has been put into a good state of repair during the past and previous year, to the great comfort of all connected with the establishment.\n\nThe Lieut.-Governor is of opinion, that the more extensive intercourse of the Heligolanders with educated strangers, and the reformations agitated in many parts on the Continent, and the influx of doubtful political characters who annually resort hither, have induced a growing dissatisfaction with their present constitution.\n\nThe Lieut.-Governor has, however, already taken occasion to intimate, that some modification might be introduced with advantage, although he by no means recommends any change until the general voice of the inhabitants demands it.\n\n(Signed) J. HINDMARSH,\n\nLieut.-Governor.\n\nHELIGOLAND.\n\nNo. 39.\n\n(No. 1.)\n\nEncl. in No. 39.\n\nHELIGOLAND.\n\nNo. 39.\n\nCOPY of a DESPATCH from Lieut.-Governor J. HINDMARSH to the Right\n\nSIR,\n\nHon. W. E. GLADSTONE.\n\nHeligoland, February 26, 1846.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith the Blue Book for 1845, together with my Report thereon.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. HINDMARSH\n\n&c.\n\nThe Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nEnclosure in No. 39.\n\nLIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR'S REPORT accompanying the BLUE BOOK, for 1845.\n\nHeligoland, February 26, 1846.\n\nTHE Island of Heligoland being scarcely more than a rock, of about a third of a square mile in extent, and its inhabitants chiefly fishermen, their circumstances, both political and social, are less liable to alter probably than those of any other community on the face of the globe. The fact also of their laws and customs having been guaranteed to them at the capture of the island from Denmark, in 1807, and the absence of any legislative authority to effect any change beneficial or otherwise in their institutions, has the natural tendency of preserving things in a uniform state from year to year. Hence the political prospects of Heligoland are the same that they were five years, if not twenty years, ago; and its social condition, likewise, preserves the same unvarying features.\n\nThere is, however, a visible improvement in the pecuniary circumstances of the inhabitants within the last few years, owing to the growing reputation of the island as a watering place, and the consequent influx of visitors from all parts of Germany during three or four of the summer months. The inhabitants have been encouraged to build lodging-houses and hotels for their accommodation; and, besides the large profits they derive from letting apartments and keeping Tables d'Hôtes, the great majority of the inhabitants find advantageous employment during the bathing season in administering to the wants or pleasures of the visitors.\n\nThe more indigent inhabitants also have received frequent marks of charity from the hands of these strangers.\n\nThe recent removal of the \"Stade Duties\" has been a great boon to the mass of the people; a tax, roughly estimated at 10,000 marks per annum, having been thereby saved to them.\n\nOn the other hand, the severe winter of 1844-45 (the island having been for many weeks surrounded with ice) was the occasion of great distress, and pecuniary assistance was gladly accepted by many that had seldom or never before required the aid of charity.\n\nThe interruption to the navigation created a loss of pilotage to men of that calling. But the amount was probably insignificant, as the high prices injudiciously charged by the Heligoland pilots for their services have had the obvious effect of deterring masters of vessels from engaging their services, whenever they can with presumed safety be dispensed with.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224433, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "I am to add that London, in compliance with your request, has desired Mr. D. Davis to issue such instructions as will obviate the difficulties which may be raised by the Local Authorities to the admission of the vessel into the Harbour of Hongkong.\n\nQA YEY\n\n17015-29 Aug: 1046\n\n(Copy)\n\nIn 1508 Koryong 336 AUG 10\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London, 15th May 1846\n\nBy order of the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, I have the honour to represent to you that they have recently purchased and despatched to the Port of Hong Kong a large ship called Chr. Frederick for the purpose of serving as a floating coal store for the Steam Vessels employed under contract with the Government in the conveyance of the public mails and despatches between this Country and China.\n\nThis ship, although British built, having been the property of Danish subjects, is deprived as regards trading purposes of the privileges of a British vessel by the Navigation laws, and the Directors are informed that it is probable some difficulties may be raised by the local authorities at Hong Kong to the vessel being admitted into that Port.\n\nTo the Right Honourable\n\nW. E. Gladstone\n\nColonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227449, "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": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "A 85 of 1848.\n\nEnclosure No 1 in Despatch:\n\n(Copy)\n\nDaya,\n\nSir,\n\nBritish Consulate,\n\n138,\n\nShanghae, 3rd July, 1842\n\nI have the honor to enclose documents connected with the seizure and detention of the schooner \"Speed\" off the Ragged Islands by H.M.S. \"Childers.\"\n\nThe schooner was brought into port by Captain Pitman, and in the enclosed official letter of the 26th ultimo, the master and crew were charged with a violation of the Navigation Laws in several instances, and a murderous and unprovoked attack on a Chinese Fishing Junk belonging to Chin had when at sea off the Ragged Islands, by which five Chinese were killed.\n\nHis Excellency Samuel George Bonham, Esquire, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary &c. &c. &c.,\n\nCopy of Despatch from Governor Bonham to Viscount Palmerston, dated 17th October, 1848, with a piatical attack schooner \"Speed\" charged with on a Chinese Junk.\n\nPage information is not present in this text, so no page numbering is included.\n\nSome minor formatting was done to make the text more readable. The original text had some OCR errors which were corrected.\n\n was removed as per rule 12. File reference format was corrected as per rule 10, no file reference was found in the original text, however \"A 85 of 1848\" is preserved as it is. The text was formatted according to the given rules, with used for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227450, "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": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "139\n\nand three wounded. And the whole of the parties inculpated appeared before me on the 29th day of\n\nI proceeded in accordance with the\n\nSome question arose in my mind as to the proper course to be pursued in reference to their immediate Consular Despatch. The Circular respecting Jurisdictions, dated 22nd June 1844, instructing H. M. Consuls in all provisions of Ordinance No. 7 of 1844 and No. 1 of 1867, to inquire into the charges, all the witnesses appearing before them, in the presence and hearing of the persons accused, and reduced to writing the depositions of the witnesses, which I now transmit.\n\nThe evidence adduced was of the most direct and conclusive character, and so fully substantiated the charges, that I could have no hesitation in sending the whole of the Prisoners for trial, on a charge of robbery and murder. The Master, William Cole, stands further charged with a violation of the Navigation Laws, upon the enclosed evidence, marked No. 3.\n\nAfter the examination was concluded, it was usual to transmit the depositions to H. M. Plenipotentiary, that the probability of obtaining a conviction might be ascertained before the Prisoners were sent for trial. But in this instance Commander Sitman having detained the Ship for a breach of the Navigation Laws and Piracy, and determined to send that vessel to Hongkong for the decision of the Admiralty Court, it seemed to me most expedient to send the Prisoners without further delay by so eligible an opportunity, and thus relieve both Captain Sitman and myself of the very onerous charge of securing the safe custody of so large a number of men - English, Spanish, and Chinese, for which neither that Officer nor I had fitting accommodation at our disposal.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227451, "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": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "I trust under all the circumstances, the course pursued may succeed. Your Excellency's approval.\n\nHow far the evidence herewith forwarded, together with such as the officer and men of \"Childers\" sent down in charge will be enabled to furnish, if required, will suffice to conviction, is a question upon which I can hardly offer an opinion.\n\nEnsure the safety of the wounded Chinese, the enclosed affidavit of the surgeon under whose charge he has been placed certifies, and the remainder of the Sunk's crew having been liberated by Capt. Pitman, it is equally impossible for the moment to secure their attendance at Hongkong. The officer sent in charge of the schooner, Lieut. Graham, has signed entries in the Log of the Childers handed into the Consular Court, and included in the evidence clearly affixing the act of Piracy upon the \"Sunk\", and the breach of the Navigation Laws from the irregularity of the papers, and there can be no doubt to identify the Prisoners as the Master and crew found on board the schooner on the 23rd June, the day after the plundering had taken place, in sight of all on board. H.M. Ship's crew deficiency of evidence therefore will be found.\n\nIf, contrary to my expectation, there should in the opinion of the legal authorities of the Colony, not be reasonable probability of obtaining a conviction without the presence of some of the crew of the Sunk, and it is doubted their evidence can be forwarded; to guard against future difficulty or unnecessary delay, I have called upon the Officiating Superintendent at once to take the proper steps to ascertain the names and residence of the whole of the crew and to hold them in readiness at short notice for embarkation, should their presence be deemed necessary at Hongkong as witnesses.\n\nI have thus endeavoured to the best of my ability to further the ends of Justice with the least possible delay or inconvenience to the public services, and for greater security the original\n\nPage 140", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227452, "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": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "141\n\nDepositions in their rough state have been on hand, and the question should arise as to the validity of attested copies and signatures. Such copies, if they suffice, can be prepared for production before the Court by order of Your Excellency, from the original Documents, and, as these latter are necessarily open to remark, from rapid writing and erasures, it would be much more satisfactory to me, as the officer responsible for the proceedings, if attested copies only were produced at the trial.\n\nIt is not for one to make any remark whether it is needful to make observations upon the evidence, but for Your Excellency's consideration, I may remark that Captain Pitman's evidence will be found distinct and straightforward, and conclusive in its character. He deposes that on the morning of the 22nd ult., he observed the Schooner in company with the junk off the Luggeds; that he subsequently saw the schooner go alongside the junk and discharge everything out of her; a quantity of useless things thrown overboard during the operation, continuing for several hours to float past, observable by the whole ship's company, and reported to him by the officers; that on the afternoon of the same day, he proceeded to where the Schooner lay, boarded her, and sent for the master with his log and papers; that the said Master, in the most explicit terms, admitted the capture of the junk, the death of several of the junk's crew from his shots, the wounding of others, and the absence of all authority for such act of violence and depredation.\n\nCaptain Pitman's evidence, together with the schooner's log and papers, leave no doubt as to the habitual infraction of the Navigation Laws, and the frequency of similar acts by the schooner; the seizure of Chinese Pirates appearing indeed the only ostensible object of the schooner's cruise - bound for no port and without any port clearance from that which she had last left.\n\nThe recorded evidence of the Chinese...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227454, "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": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "given to understand that a subscription has been set on foot to provide counsel and supply means of defence. I must, of course, believe that such a subscription cannot be made from a feeling that it is a lawful undertaking for private individuals to fit out vessels to capture Chinese pirates, without sanction or authority from either Government; and a venial offence if they happened to make a mistake and kill innocent men.\n\nNevertheless, so general an impression has, I think, existed for some time, here and elsewhere, that a foreign ship feels right, without illegality, to convoy for their protection, the parties employed necessarily accepting the responsibility of attacking vessels rightly or otherwise pointed out to them as dangerous to the junks sailing under this foreign escort.\n\nThe first result of this assumed liberty of acting without commission from either Government, has been a transgression of the Navigation Laws as to equipment, &c., and secondly, a series of piratical offences by foreigners against the Law of Nations. Here the ostensible object is specious, no question can be entertained as to its being laudable and unexceptionable, as well as its evil consequences such conduct entails.\n\nBut the definition of Piracy supplied by the Law of civilised Nations must set at rest all doubt as to the illegality, as well as inexpediency of enterprises of this nature, taken upon the responsibility of private individuals: Nor can the fact that Chinese merchants and junk owners interested in a legitimate trade may themselves have been the parties to seek this irregular and doubtful kind of protection from foreign vessels, by offering large sums for their convey, in any way affect the question at issue.\n\nPiracy is defined to be robbery and depredation upon the High Seas, without authority from any prince or state, and it is even held...\n\nPage 143\n\n \nJIMA Meu ... (rest of text not corrected as it appears to be cut off or not fully provided)\n\nTO", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227455, "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": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "13.\n\n144\n\nto be. Siracy when a man, having a commission lawful authority, destroys those whom he is not warranted to fight. I do not see how it is posible therefore to regard the cruising expeditions of ressel's employed as the \"Spee\" has beon, in any other light then as felonious and piratical.\n\nThese infractions of the Navigation Laws no doubt have been invited in the first instance by the inertress or impotence manifested by the Chinese authorities in the protection of their Native Trade from the disastrous attacks of piratical junks, and also by the facilities offorded to British vessels clearing from Hongkong for the East coast, instead of for a Port, thus granting a commission to merchant vessels.\n\nHow far either of these circumstances may be held to offer a plea in extenuation of the flagrant piracy, which has resulted, it will be for the law to determine. But an effective and stringent remedy for the evil is unquestionably required, and the legal conviction of these prisoners, if obtained, is calculated to afford a salutary warning to all who may be disposed to think with the owner of the \"Spee\" that they may assume and exercise such dangerous powers without competent authority or sanction.\n\nA consort of the \"Spee,\" called the \"Dido,\" it will be seen by the evidence, is employed on a similar Service.\n\nI enclose copy of a letter addressed to Captain Pitman, requiring him to send the prisoners to Hongkong, and there to hold them at the disposal of the Chief Superintendant.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) Rutherford Alcock, Envoy Extraordinary.\n\nTrue Copy\n\n(Signed) A. R. Johnston,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227457, "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": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Captain PITMAN recalled, and asked if he could identify the last witness Ching-ke? Answered, I am, and corroborate the greater part of his evidence.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Taken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of WILLIAM LOCKHART, Surgeon, taken on oath, &c., &c.\n\nThe last witness Ching-ke was brought to me [at the Chinese Hospital] from H. M. Childers on the morning of the 16th inst., with an injury to his left foot. Apparently a musket shot had struck him on the first joint of the great toe, breaking the bone and laying open the joint. Sloughing had commenced, and great formation of matter around the wound and behind. I consider it a dangerous wound, and that his life is in danger from it.\n\nWILLIAM LOCKHART, M.R.C.S.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of WILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon of H. M.'s S. Childers, taken on oath, &c., &c. I went on board the Schooner Spec by Commander Pitman's order on the 23d instant. \"I saw three wounded Junkmen, one of them the witness recently examined, Ching-ke, and the other two had only received contusions and the injuries were slight. I asked how the injury had been received? The prisoner present, William Cole, said he thought it was by a grape shot. I heard William Cole say that he had fired into the Junk. I considered it necessary that Ching-ke should be removed for treatment, as the consequences of such wounds are frequently dangerous. I heard the answer of the Admiral interpreted to Captain Pitman, that the Junk in question was a proper Junk, by which I understood not a piratical vessel.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of JOSHUA BERKELEY, Esq., mate on board H. M. S. Childers, taken on oath, &c.\n\nI was sent to board the Schooner Spec this day week (22d June) with orders from Captain Pitman to ask the master what his business was there, and what was the communication he had with the Junk astern of him to which he replied that he had been commissioned by Mr. Davidson to convey some shot down to the Ding and he had captured the Junk the day previous and brought her in to the Ruggeds. I returned with this answer, and was again despatched with orders to the master to be on board H. M.'s S. Childers with his Log and papers within half an hour. The next day I was on board the Junk and saw the marks of several shot holes in her side and one in her stern. She was empty, I only saw some nets and bait on board.\n\nJOSHUA BERKELEY.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nSHANGHAE TO WIT,\n\nThe examination of George Johnson, native of England; Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Jan Nacion, natives of Manila; Levis Sept, native of Antigua; Striano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, natives of Manila; Ephraim Francis, native of England; Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, natives of Manila; Lith-Ayih, native of Chusan; Ching-Lea-Ching, native of Ningpo; Al-Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, natives of Chusan; William Cole, native of England; Yum-Ching-Ming, native of Chusan Taken this twenty-ninth day of June, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me Rutherford Alcock Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, the said George Johnson, Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Juan Nacion, Levis Sept, Mariano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, E. Francis, Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, Li-Ayih, Ching-Lea-Ching, Ah Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, William Cole, being charged before me the said Consul on the oath of John Charles Pitman, Esquire, Commander of H. B. M. Sloop Childers, for that on the 1st day of June, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, being on board a certain vessel or schooner called the Spec in a certain place on the high seas near the sand called the \"Ruggeds\" on the coast of China, did piratically, feloniously, and violently with force and arms, attack, board, and take possession of a certain Junk or vessel, the property of a certain Chinese subject named Kwo-kin, the owner thereof, and did feloniously fire into the said Junk or vessel, whereby the said Kwo-kin the owner together with several of the seamen on board thereof were killed, and did take and carry away certain stores and apparel belonging to the said Junk, and certain Goods and Chattels belonging to the said owner and divers of the seamen on board. And the witnesses against them being examined in their presence, they are now asked by me if they wish to say anything in their own behalf; whereupon they answered they had no defence to make.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of KEW-TSAK-KIN, the day of July, &c.\n\nI was put on board the schooner Spec by a public body of Chinese merchants, and took no pay from the master of the ship. A Junk had been hailed to let down her sails, and not complying, a shot had certainly been fired into her.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions, and the Answers made to the same. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me this day on board the schooner Spec at\n\nPage 363\n\nanchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the 23d day of June, 1848.\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nQuestions asked by Commander J. C. Pitman, of Ching-chong-ke (the Chinese Admiral in charge of 7 junks), on board his vessel.\n\nRugged Islands, the 23d of June, 1848\n\nHas the English schooner Spec any right to be here?-No.\n\nWhether he knew what the English schooner Spec was about there?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know whether the Junk taken by the Spec was a pirate or not?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know what the schooner Spec was about with the Junk?-Did not know.\n\nWhether the Captain of the schooner had brought any of the crew of the junk on board to him, or made any complaint to him relative to the junk?-\n\nWhat became of the crew and cargo of the junk?-Taken on board the Spec, he believed.\n\nIs that English schooner any right to take the junk?—No\n\nDid he know why the Captain of the Spec did not bring the crew of junk on board his vessel?-Did not know.\n\nAfter the 2 Chinamen belonging to the junk and the mate of the Spec had been taken on board the Mandarin's junk, the following Questions were asked.-\n\nWhether the papers of the junk were correct?—They are all proper and correct, and signed by the proper authorities.\n\nIs any complaint to make against the schooner?—No.\n\nWhat cause had the schooner Spec to take that junk, whether it was proper to do so, and if the Chinese Mandarins like it?—The junk's papers are proper, but she had no business to have so many arms on board. The English vessel did wrong to take her; she has a right to carry arms. If the Chinese Admiral likes, the arms shall be returned to the junk—Part of them.\n\nIf he likes, remainder shall be sent to him or thrown overboard?—To be sent to him. Which was done.\n\nCaptain Pitman then told the junkmen that their junk, rice, and part of their arms, would be returned to them, and they would be allowed to go on with their fishing. They said they would return to Chin-hai.\n\nCaptain Pitman told the Chinese Admiral that the English schooner Spec had fired into the junk and wounded 3 men, and that one of the wounded men would be sent to the Shanghae Hospital for medical treatment. He said it was a bad affair, but was much obliged.\n\nAre you now quite satisfied that the junk is not a pirate? Yes, she is a fishing Junk of Chin-hae.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions and the Answers made to same, &c. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me, this day, on board the Chinese Admiral's Junk at anchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\n23d day of June, 1848.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the\n\nPage 364\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF THE SCHOONER SPEC.\n\nRedusduz, 1 June\n\nA. M. weighed, saw a junk to the southward—the pilot wished us to see what she was\n\nand took her, towed her back to the Ruggeds and anchored. 9. A. M., came up with her; she proved a pirate, boarded her. At 6 P. M. took 18 men and one boy, confined them on board.\n\nThursday, 22d June\n\nA. M. hoisted out the schooner, and put two boats out, one of which got adrift and was lost; 6 P. M. went on board the junk, brought her nearer the\n\nwas lying 5 miles to leeward of us last night. Took out almost every portable article.\n\nA. M. Brig Childers anchored to the southward.\n\nSt. p. 52. s. hove up the junk's anchor and took her closer in-shore. The Commander of H. M.'s Brig Childers came on board to see the papers—not finding them correct,* ordered us to Shanghae with the junk.\n\nFriday, 23 June.\n\nAll our prisoners on board the junk and let go except the man wounded in the toe, who was taken on board H. M. S. Childers.\n\nThis appears to be an expression of regret. It had been originally\n\nand (Indignant), having been imbecile with the loss of masters being scored out.. E. M.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nThursday, 22d June, 1848.\n\n\"A. M. 6, observed the English schooner Spec standing for the Eastern anchorage under the south Ruggeds (Falls.) with a Chinese junk in company with her; apparently discharging de-\n\nbris and other things into the water; 11.50, observed the schooner Spec alongside the junk,\n\nG. I. G.\n\nFriday, 23d of June, 1848. A. M. \"The schooner Spec of Hongkong having been mustered, her Articles and Log were found not to be correct. the master's and several of the crew's names not being registered the junk which she had taken possession of was liberated by order of Commander Pitman. took one of the wounded Chinese\n\non board.\n\nP. Chinese Admiral visited the ship. Saluted him with 3 guns. Protested against the schooner Spec of Hongkong for having taken the (alleged) Chinese Junk, killing Five men, and wounding Four.\"\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE BOARDING BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nDate, 3d June, 1848—Name of Vessel, \"Spec.\"—Master, Wm. Cole—Owner, Davidson of Ningpo—Where from, Ningpo—Bound, Saddle Island, one of the Ports of\n\nTrade—Belonging, Hongkong—No. of Days out, 3.—Registered Tonnage,\n\n1.—7. 10—Guns, 9—Jungting, No Cargo—No passengers\n\nNation, English—How rigged, Schooner—Marks, The master, mate, and three men, not on the articles; one English seaman on Register Ticket; no registry of arms, and has on board 9 guns, 28 muskets, 5 Pistols, 10 cutlasses, 4 pikes, and 5 spears; 9 Chinamen, and 1 pilot not on manifest\n\n(True Copy,) J. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nLIST OF JUNK'S ARMS.\n\nThis is to certify that Ting-ke, the wounded Chinese brought to the Chinese Hospital from H. M. S. Childers, is still under my care. There is less inflammation of the foot then there was, the progress of the Sloughing has ceased, and several small portions of bone have been taken away from the wound; but he could not go to Hongkong, without great danger to his life.\n\nWM. LOCKHART, Surgeon.\n\nShanghae, July 4, 1848.\n\nQuestions asked by Commander Pitman, of the master and crew of a Chinese Fishing-junk on board the Spec, of Hongkong, in the presence of Mr. Cole the master, the mate, and crew of the Spec.\n\nRugged Islands, the 2d June, 1848\n\nFrom whence did the junk come?—From Chebac.\n\nWhere are your papers?—We produced them.\n\nHow came he to have so many arms on board?—To protect himself from the pirates outside.\n\nWhat became of all the things belonging to the junk?—Rice, arms, and some small boxes taken on board the Spec.\n\nWhether any person belonging to the Spec had taken anything from them?—Only the rice, arms, and small boxes.\n\nHave any of them been beaten on board the Spec?—No, except wounding them by firing at them.\n\nHad they had plenty to eat on board the Spec?—Yes.\n\nDid the Spec fire shot at the junk?—Yes, and killed 5 and wounded 3 men.\n\nHow many men lost?—The 5 killed, one of their heads was blown off.\n\nHow many men in the junk when she left port?—24—19 were on board the Spec.\n\nHas he any complaint to make as to the treatment received from the Spec?—No, only they were innocent of the charge of being pirates.\n\nWhere was he when the Spec took him?—Off the Ruggeds at the fishing station.\n\nCaptain Pitman told them that he would take 2 or 3 of them on board the Mandarin junk to be examined, and if they were found not to be pirates they should be allowed to go away.\n\nThe Pilot of the Spec was asked.—\n\nHow he knew that these men were pirates?—Because they fought the fishing boats.\n\nThe Master of the Spec was asked,—\n\nWho sent the Pilot on board?—The Chinese merchants at Ningpo, and hired the vessel.\n\nDid the junk attack or molest you?—No.\n\nThe following is a list of the arms I saw on board the\n\nJunk.\n\n5 Gingalls\n\n5 Tahious\n\nMatchlocks\n\n10 Pikes\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nBritish Consulate Office, Shanghae, 31 July, 1848.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to return the Log Book and Papers of the Schooner Spec detained by you on the 23d ultimo, for acts of Piracy and breach of existing Navigation Laws, as set forth in the evidence taken before me on the 29th ultimo, on the charge preferred by you against the master and crew of that vessel for Piracy and Murder committed on the high seas. You will be good enough to hold these Documents available for production in evidence at any Trial that may take place in the Supreme Court at Hongkong.\n\nI have further to request that on the arrival of the Prisoners at Hongkong, the officer in Charge will report the same at the Superintendency, deliver the enclosed Despatch, and act in reference to the disposal of the Prisoners as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary shall please to direct.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, for Consul.\n\n(True Copy, FARD. HOWARD)\n\nTo Commander J. C. Pitman, R.N., H. M. S. Childers.\n\nBy J. C. PITMAN, Esquire.\n\nYou are to allow no communication with the Prisoners except in writing through you. You will be furnished with a list of the master and crew, and all the necessary papers.\n\non reporting yourself and the number of Prisoners at the Superintendency's office there, where you will deliver the enclosed Despatches for His Excellency the Governor.\n\nGiven under my hand on board the Childers at Woosung, the 3d July, 1848\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander,\n\nTo Lieut. G. T. Graham, of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, HONGKONG.\n\nBefore C. B. HALLER, Esquire, Chief Magistrate, and\n\nTUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\na Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty,\n\nBRISAT\n\n1st Prisoner, WILLIAM COLE, of Pembrokeshire, master of the Schooner Spec,\n\n2d Prisoner, GEORGE JOHNSON, of London, mate of Schooner Spec\n\n3d Prisoner, EPHRAIM FRANCIS, of Maldon, in the county of Essex, gunner of the Schooner Spec\n\n4th Prisoner, No. 1 JOAN IGNACIO, of Staunbogan in the Phillipine Islands, seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n5th Prisoner, MARIANO AGOSTIN, of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n6th Prisoner, LORENÇO SANTOS, of Calibo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n7th Prisoner, MARIANO ALBERTO, of Iligan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n8th Prisoner, MARIANO DE LOS SANTOS, native of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n9th Prisoner, LUCAS MANOEL, native of Bigan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n10th Prisoner, ERO JOSER, native of Antigue in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n11th Prisoner, GABRIEL CALISTRO, of Santa Luzia in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n12th Prisoner, No. 2 JOAN IGNACIO, 30 years of age, of Soorgegas in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n[Juan Ignacio the first, named above, describes himself as 26 years of age.]\n\n13th Prisoner, BUENAVENTURA MARIANO, of Sambaangar in the Philippine Islands, Seaman of the schooner Spec.\n\n14th Prisoner, KWOK-AN-VEE, 14 years of age, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n15th Prisoner, LE-AN-VOOK, of Chusan, cook.\n\n16th Prisoner, WONG-KAT, of Chusan, servant to a Seaman.\n\n17th Prisoner, YUM-CHAONG-MING, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n18th Prisoner, YOW-CHAY-CHING, of Ningpo, seaman.\n\n1st Witness for the prosecution, JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, ESQUIRE.\n\nOn the 22d June last I was on board and in command of Her Majesty's Ship Childers off the Ragged Islands on the Coast of China, in Latitude about 30 North; do not recollect the Longitude. At six o'clock on the morning of that day, the Childers being then about\n\nPage 365\n\nfive miles from the shore, I saw a schooner and a Chinese junk was in company with her; looking with the glass I judged the junk to be almost a quarter of a mile from her, but it was impossible to judge correctly at that distance; the junk was standing into a bay, in the same way as the Spec (afterwards found the schooner to be) The junk and the schooner between 8 and 9 that morning anchored in a bay there close to each other; in the bay were three mandarin junks and some fishing-boats. It was calm, and we were obliged to anchor at A. M. between two and three miles of the schooner. During the forenoon we observed the schooner and junk apparently alongside of each other. I saw that some things were being discharged from the junk into the schooner, and refuse, floated past the Childers; from the direction in which they floated I supposed they had been thrown over from the junk; the tide flowed in a right line between the junk and the Childers. At 4 P. M. that day I weighed and made the Childers down to the schooner. I anchored about half a cable from her, and found the junk about half a cable's length nearly astern of her. I found the schooner to be the Spec. In consequence of a message sent by me on board the Spec at 5.30 P. M. that day, prisoner Cole came on board the Childers, bringing a Log-book and some Ship's Articles (witness produces them) which he affirmed to be the Log-book and Articles of the Spec. He said that he was acting as master of the Spec for another person who was absent at Ningpo. I asked him what he was doing there and what he was doing with the junk; he said he had captured her. I asked him if he had had any communication with the Mandarins, and what he had done with the people belonging to the junk; he said No to the first question, and to the second that the people were on board the Spec. I then asked him why he had not taken these men to the Mandarins, or brought them to me, as I had been in sight of him all day; he said he did not know. It was getting late and I told him that I should examine his vessel in the morning. He said in reply to any questions that he had not put in for stress of weather: that he was from Ningpo, and did not know any place in particular to which he was bound; that the junk had not fired at him or molested him, but that the pilot had told him that she was a pirate. I asked him why he had hailed her. He did not reply to this, before nine o'clock next morning I went on board the junk and examined her; I found that everything had been taken out of her excepting some nets and some small tubs of fish for bait. There were several shot holes in her hull that might have been caused by sound shot from a three or six-pounder gun; then I went to the Spec and mustered the Spec's crew. I found the articles were incorrect. Prisoner Cole said that the Chinese crew of the junk were in the fore hold of the Spec. I saw them brought on deck from the fore hold; their hands were tied together; seven of them had wounds about them; one of them was so severely wounded that I sent for the medical officer to examine him. I asked Cole how these wounds had been received, he said by shot from the Spec. I asked Cole if he had papers of the junk, he said. No; I then asked for the head man of the junk. One of the Chinamen came forward and produced some papers that had been sewn up in his clothing, and which by the interpretation of a Chinese from the Childers were pronounced to be the junk's papers. I conveyed to the\n\nPage 366\n\nhanded them over to the Chinese Mandarins. When subsequently questioned Cole about it, Cole said that the wound was caused by a grape shot from the Spec; and prisoner Ephraim Francis added that he thought it must have been caused by a grape shot. I subsequently released the crew of the junk, excepting the man who was badly wounded, and who was sent on board the Childers to be under medical care. I went to the Mandarins, and the crew of the junk (that is two of them) were examined before them. The Mandarins, as the interpreter explained to me, wished the crew of the junk to be released, as their papers were good. By their request I also handed over to them half the arms of the junk, handing the others to the junk's crew. The junk was a fishing junk of the ordinary class fishing thereabouts,\n\nThe quantity of arms belonging to the junk was not unusually large; the crew said she had them to protect herself against pirates. I found in a list of the arms belonging to the junk as detailed to me by Cole. Between 4 and 5 P. M. on the 22d June last I saw two Chinese boats alongside the junk; shortly afterwards as we\n\nJ. C. PITMAN,\n\nCommander of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nare hereby directed to repair on board the schooner Spec of Hongkong and take charge of her, as well as the master and crew, who are prisoners under the charge of Piracy on the High Seas, &c., and you will use the utmost\n\nvigilance that none escape whilst under your custody. You will proceed with all expedition to Hongkong; on your arrival there you will report yourself to the Senior Naval Officer, from whom you will receive further instructions.\n\nFor your better guidance, I refer you to Chap 8 of the Queen's Regulations, Page 82, and to Art. 14 of the Admiralty Instructions, Pages 6 to 14\n\n146", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228145, "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": 449, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "442\n\n[ 2 ]\n\nR. M. Martin, Esq. ports being open to us, no depôt is likely to be formed at Hong Kong for the purpose of carrying on trade. The formation of a colony at Hong Kong, containing the most dissolute Chinese, is decidedly a discredit to us, and operates injuriously in our relations with the Chinese government.\n\n18 May 1847.\n\n3910. Is it necessary to maintain the present civil and military expenditure at Hong Kong, as a protection to our China trade ?-By no means, I think. I have addressed a report to Her Majesty's Government on Hong Kong, in July 1844, which I beg to submit to the Committee. I have connected with it a suggestion for the reduction of the governmental establishments there. I believe it is the best means of affording the merchants a prospect of carrying out their views in the island, by reducing the governmental establishments and diminishing the taxation required. (The report was delivered in. Vide Appendix.) The substance of that report is to prove the inefficiency of Hong Kong as a station for a commercial emporium, as a military station, and as a colony; and it contains suggestions for diminishing the expenditure in the different departments. I find that the estimated charge for Hong Kong for one year, 1846, was nearly 500,000l. The estimate transmitted to England for civil buildings, roads, and drains, amounts to 135,050l. for the year ending 31 March 1846. The Ordnance estimate laid before Parliament, dated 16 February 1846, for buildings and barracks, amounts to 124,000l. The civil salaries, wages, and contingencies, to 41,000l. The established military pay, provisions and charges for two regiments, about 150,000l. Victualling navy, stores, and advances to the navy, 50,000l., making the total cost of Hong Kong for one year, 500,000l., and this irrespective of the share of the cost of a line of battle ship, two frigates, three steamers, two gun brigs, and irrespective of the consular and superintendent of trade charges, amounting to 40,000l. The revenue received for the year 1845, was 15,221l. I cannot therefore omit this opportunity of stating, that I consider such an expenditure a waste of the resources of the British treasury, and that a single frigate or steamer at Canton would be more effective for the protection of our trade than any garrison or fleet that we can maintain at Hong Kong.\n\n3911. That expenditure of 500,000l. was for one year?—Yes.\n\n3912. That will not be continued?-No; but the estimated civil expenditure for 1847-48, for roads, drains, and bridges, is 24,302l., and for works and buildings, 4,150l, making together, 28,453l. The total estimate, colonial and consular, 1847-48, is 107,755l. When it is known that for a small island like that, the Governor costs 7,000l. a year, and the Lieutenant-governor 4,500l, and others charges in proportion, it is not to be wondered at that there has been great dissatisfaction on the part of the merchants there at the endeavour to raise a revenue to meet such charges. That expenditure is still going on, and the taxation proportionately increasing. The General's house alone will cost 70,000 dollars; the officers' quarters, 110,000 dollars; the hospital, 187,000 dollars; the barracks, about 250,000 dollars; and forts are also constructing to protect an island which produces nothing, and which protects nothing.\n\n3913. Are there any means of deriving better results from the colony of Hong Kong ?-I consider that it is due to the merchants who have laid out such a large capital there, to free the place as much as possible from taxation, to grant them their lands in perpetuity, to reduce the rents levied on those lands, and to leave the place perfectly free, giving ample security for life and property. A few years will then determine whether it be possible to produce any commercial results from the place. I have no impression that it will, but I think it is due to the merchants to give the experiment every advantage.\n\n3914. During your residence in China did you visit all the consular stations, and collect materials for a commercial report on China ?-I visited all the consular stations, and the island of Chusan; and I laid before Her Majesty's Government a full Report, any part of which can be produced before the Committee. My object in doing so was to endeavour to expand our trade with China. I consider that by opening other ports, and by getting a commercial station at Nankin, and at the Pei Ho, and other commercial stations in China, we should materially improve our trade, and get freer access to the interior of the country.\n\n3915. Do you think there is any chance of getting a commercial station at Nankin or the Pei Ho ?-I think it would be worth the consideration of the Government\n\n[ 3 ]\n\nGovernment to open a negotiation with the government of China, to point out R. M. Martin, Esq. that a mistake has been made in the selection of the present occupation, and to offer some equivalent advantages for having some other commercial stations\n\n18 May 1847.\n\nopened to us, and generally to revise our treaty, which has been an extremely unfortunate one. It was originally prepared by Mr. Poulett Thompson and Mr. Deacon Hume at the Board of Trade, and sent on shore at Nankin without any alteration whatever; and its provisions were subsequently materially restricted by means of the supplemental treaty, which isolated Hong Kong from all the surrounding ports.\n\n3916. Do you think that our commerce with China is capable of increase, either as regards exports or imports ?--I think a more free intercourse with China would develope resources that at present we are unacquainted with. I think China possesses large quantities of precious metals, which if worked would afford a considerable means of remittance to this country. I understand that sugar might be made an article of commerce and export from China; and if our East India ships were permitted, on proceeding to Amoy and other places, to load with sugar for England, although they have Lascar crews, it would be a means of furnishing return freights to this country irrespective of tea. If those ships were permitted to come to England with sugar, which the existing navigation laws prohibit in consequence of their being manned with Lascars, it would benefit the trade of China. I particularly wish to see the coasting trade carried on more extensively by English vessels.\n\n3917. Have any other means occurred to you of extending our trade with China; is there any other article that China can send us besides tea and silk ?-I have mentioned sugar; hemp is another article. There are various branches of manufactures, though small in amount, that might be extended.\n\n3918. Do not you think that probably the result of our intercourse with China will be something the same as the result of our intercourse with India, namely, that we shall undersell their manufactures and take their raw produce in increased quantities in return ?-In cotton manufactures we can undersell them all; probably also in some of their silks of a lighter description; but there are commodities of different kinds in China, I have no doubt, with such an immense population, which would be discovered by greater freedom of intercourse.\n\n3919. From your recent intercourse with China, what conclusions have you been led to draw as to the present state of the Chinese empire ?-My present impression is, that it is in a state of decadence, and has been so for two or three centuries; that it is extremely loosely held together, and its government exceedingly weak; and that by a proper representation on our part to the authorities at Pekin, we could obtain freedom of intercourse with other parts of China, and freedom of intercourse with the interior; that it would be for the benefit of the Chinese as well as the English that a freedom of intercourse should be established.\n\n3920. Would it, in your opinion, be practicable to open a negotiation for the establishment of a British resident at Pekin ?-I think so. The Russians at present have an establishment there; we might, I understood, have had it or anything else at the time of the treaty of Nankin, if we had applied for it.\n\n3921. Do you think that the Chinese government would be adverse, on religious grounds, to a more intimate intercourse with Europeans ?--I think not; there has been recently an edict granted by the Emperor tolerating Christianity, and ordering the restoration of the temples that were formerly confiscated. Any hostility that might be experienced would be principally from the Tartars, not from the Chinese. In all the northern cities of China we are received in the most friendly manner. The only hostility manifested has been at Canton, and to some extent at Foo Choo Foo, where a Tartar garrison has been established.\n\n3922. Why are they more hostile to us ?-Naturally as being a handful of people holding despotic control over China.\n\n3923. Do the Chinese government feel any indisposition towards this country in consequence of the opium trade ?-My impressions upon that subject are very strong with reference to the injurious effects of it nationally. I have made a report thereon to Her Majesty's Government, and with great reluctance refer to the point, because I have the misfortune to differ from several English merchants connected with the opium trade in China; gentlemen of high character and standing. I do not wish to make use of my position before this Committee", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228156, "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": 460, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Bo\n\nQ\n\nTY\n\n453\n\nAppendix.\n\nReport on the\n\nIsland of Hong Kong.\n\nDissent in Council\n\nagainst Opium\n\nOrdinance.\n\nTranslation of a\n\nGrant or Treaty of Privileges.\n\n[ 24 ]\n\nopen to ships under every flag; and that encouragement be given for the resort to and settlement on the island of other European nations. If this be done, a few years will determine whether it be possible to create any trade, or induce any resort to Hong Kong. Large Government establishments, and an immense outlay of the public money for the last three years have produced no beneficial result; but the opium traders, and those who choose to resort thither, have a voice in the management of the affairs of the colony. There can scarcely be less general trade, less prosperity, less security to life and property, than now exists, with a large garrison on shore and a fleet in the harbour.\n\nIf there were any one advantage, political, commercial, financial, or religious, present or prospective, derivable to England from the existing establishments at Hong Kong, there would be some justification for the expense now being incurred, and for the great annual sacrifices of life; but when such advantages do not exist, it is worse than folly to persist in a course begun in error, and which, if continued, must eventually end in national loss and general disappointment.\n\nHong Kong, July 1844.\n\n(2.)\n\nR. M. Martin.\n\nDISSENTIENT on the Proposition for Licensing the Retail and Consumption of OPIUM\n\nin this Colony, on the following grounds\n\n*\n\n1st. Because the consumption of opium is not necessary to the subsistence and health of man, and is therefore a vicious indulgence.\n\n2d. Because the use of opium is not only a vice in itself, but the parent of many other vices; and whoever indulges in opium never ceases its use until poverty and death\n\nensue.\n\n3d. Because it is no justification to say, that as gin, beer, wine, and other fermented liquors are stimulants, attended with pernicious consequences when used continuously in excess, that therefore the use of opium may also be licensed by Government. The experience of civilized nations has shown that fermented liquors are advantageous to the healthful energy of man; but no experience has shown that opium is beneficial to the body or mind of man individually or collectively.\n\n4th. Because no Government ought to make private vice a source of public revenue.\n\n5th. Because, independent of the foregoing and other considerations, the peculiar position in which England at present stands towards the Chinese government on this subject, the strong feeling entertained by a very large and influential portion of the British community at home respecting the sale of opium in China, and the risk which his Excellency incurs of creating an unfavourable impression against his government, without any corresponding fiscal advantage to the State, renders it unadvisable to license the consumption of opium in this colony.\n\nDesirous of earnestly and faithfully advising his Excellency, these remarks are offered for the Governor's consideration with great respect.\n\n26 November 1844.\n\n(3.)\n\nR. M. Martin,\n\nTRANSLATION of a GRANT OF TREATY of PRIVILEGES conceded by the Emperor of Japan to the English, A.D. 1613.\n\n[Original in the Firogane or Cursive character.]\n\nImprimis.-Wee give free licence to the subjects of the King of Great Britain, viz., Sir Thomas Smith, Governor and Company of the East India merchants and adventurers, for ever safely to come into any of our ports of the Empire of Japan, with their shippes and merchandize, without any hindrance to them or their goods; and to abide, buy, sell, and barter, according\n\n[ 25 ]\n\naccording to their own manner, with all nations; to tarry here as long as they think good, and depart at their pleasure.\n\nAppendix.\n\nTranslation of a\n\nItem the 2d.-Wee grant unto them freedom of custom for all such merchandize as either\n\nGrant or Treaty of\n\nnow they have brought, or hereafter shall bring into our kingdom, or shall from hence transport to any foreign part; and do authorize those shippes that hereafter shall arrive and come from England, to proceed to present sale of their commodities without further coming or sending up to our court.\n\nItem the 3d. If any of their shippes shall happen to be in danger of shipwreck, wee will our subjects not only to assist them, but that such parts of shippe and goods as shall be saved be returned to their captain, or Cape merchant, or their assignees; and that they shall or may build one house or more for themselves in any part of our empire where they shall think fittest, and at their departure to make sale thereof at their pleasure.\n\nItem the 4th.If any of the English merchants or others shall depart this life within our dominions, the goods of the deceased shall remain at the dispose of the Cape merchant; and that all offences committed by them shall be punished by the said Cape merchant according to his discretion, and our laws to take no hold of their persons or goods.\n\nItem the 5th, Wee will that yee our subjects trading with them for any of their commodities pay them for the same, according to agreement, without delay or return of their goods again unto them.\n\nItem the 6th. For such commodities as they have now brought or shall hereafter bring, fitting for our service and proper use, wee will that no arrest be made thereof; but that the price be made with the Cape merchant, according as they may sell to others, and present payment upon the delivery of the goods.\n\nItem the 7th. If in discovery of other countries for trade, and return of their shippes they shall need meat or victuals, wee will that yee our subjects furnish them for their money as their needs shall require.\n\nItem the 8th. And without any other passporte, they shall and may set out to the northward upon discovery of Yead Yo, or any other part in or about our empire.\n\nFrom our Castle at Surunga, this first day of the ninth month, and in the eighteenth year of our dairy, according to our computation.\n\nSealed with our broad seal and underwritten,\n\n(4.)\n\nMinna Mouttano, Yei. Ye. Yeas.\n\nTO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN,\n\nYOUR Majesty's kind letter, sent by your servant Captain John Sares (who is the first\n\nTo the King of\n\nI have known to arrive in any part of my dominions), I heartily embrace, being not a little\n\nGreat Britain.\n\nglad to understand of your great wisdom and power, as having three plentiful and mighty Kingdoms under your powerful command. I acknowledge your Majesty's great bounty in sending me so undeserved a present of many rare things, such as my land affordeth not, neither have I ever before seen, which I receive, not as from a stranger, but as from Majesty, whom I esteem as myself.\n\nyour\n\nDesiring the continuance of friendship with your Highness, and that it may stand with your good liking to send your subjects to any port or part of my dominions, where they shall be most heartily welcome; applauding much their worthiness in their admirable navigation, having with much facility discovered a country so remote, being nowhat amazed with the distance of so mighty a gulf, nor greatness of such infinite clouds and storms, from prosecuting honourable enterprizes of discoveries and merchandizing, wherein they shall find me to further them according to their desires.\n\nI return unto your Majesty a small token of my love (by your said subject), desiring you to accept thereof as from him that much rejoiceth in your friendship.\n\nAnd whereas your Majesty's subjects have desired certain privileges for trade and settling of a factory in my dominions, I have not only granted what they demanded, but have confirmed the same unto them under my broad seal, for better establishing thereof.\n\nFrom my Castle at Surunga, this fourth day of ninth, in the eighteenth year of our dairy, according to our computation, subscribed.\n\nG\n\nMinna Mouttano, Yei. Ye. Yeas.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233542, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "shipowners \n\nin \n\nfuture to employ. \n\nmen \n\nhaving local experience of the coast navigation\":\" \n\nremarks were \n\nBuy \n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied upon, these \n\nfully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the \"Orion\" in June 1860, the event would have called forth \n\nthe home papers, especially \n\nas it further appears that, besides the questions of sea-worthiness of the ship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives lost in a calm night, within a short distance off the shore. \n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was the more for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, for the better protection of private character, and for effectually securing the liberty of the press - \n\n5. But your Memorialist has been under the impression, a matter of general belief, that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court; but \n\nhold, and it is \n\n49\n\njudgement may be reserved, the question can only be definitely settled by Her Majesty in Council, and to that and the following memorandum of facts your Grace's favourable considerations are respectfully submitted: \n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1845 a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorised the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made laws until the following year. \n\nOn the 212 August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hong Kong,\" the Third Section of which declares,.. \n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except when it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants\" \n\nThis Ordinance was repealed and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled \"An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Fourth Section of which...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233545, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "7\n\napplies to Grenada and the Cape is considered sand, I omit that it receives additional force in the case to which \n\nattention is now \n\nmore \n\nGrace's your immediately requested. \n\nfor, it is hardly unbilited that Lord \"Campbell's act, was not only \n\nOrdinances com \n\none \n\nloose \n\nconfer \n\nties and privileges which, once red, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two \n\nfirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted. \n\nShould it nevertheless be held that the 3? Section of the Ordinance, 5th May, 1846, took away from this Colony the privileges and protection of the Laws of England passed subsequently to 6th April, 1843, then it follows that another, equally still more important \n\nParliament which received the \n\n10. \n\na teen \n\n1 \n\non \n\nto \n\n£22, 1843, \n\nAct of Rez al \n\nAugust two days before Lord Campbell's Stat. is also abrogated. It is entitled, \n\nAn act for the better Government of the Majesty's Subjects resorting to China \n\n+ forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Commula) giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters \n\nthorizing \n\nthe Governor of Hong Kong Superintendent of Trade \n\nand is se \n\nPatent, King \n\nCh.21 \n\nas \n\nas \n\n52 9 \n\nin \n\nto legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance rendering them \"subject in all matters to the Law of \n\nthe Colony of England (asmiob \n\nad www \n\nHoughing, §1.) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong \n\nthe same.\" \n\n11.. Surely it could never \n\ned, by. \n\nof a single \n\neve \n\nhave been natins. \n\nclause \n\nen an \n\nothers \n\nyears \n\nwise moimportant Ordinance, to sweep away \n\nthe Laws of England from the Colony. Tom Memoriabel has within these few days read a \n\nreport of an appeal \n\nthe \n\nto the House of Lords (May 6, 1853) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythewoods policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Ranfen, - \n\nThat in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament \n\nhad been passed for improving navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a \n\ntowing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected \n\na rubble wall and iron railing along \n\nthe the towing path, enclosing appellants lands, and these Acts declared that allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir. \n\nno one was \n\nto the \n\npossession of Blythswood for the time being.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233546, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "53 // \n\nI deliverin appellant fivering judgement against the Lord Chancellor Cranworth said, - \n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is whether the statute pertains to the right. Now, it would be much regretted if the Court ever were bound by construction that statute so strictly as contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that public right which had existed up to that time immemorial could by a side-wind by make a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then construed the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the navigation in question, it just left these rights where it found them - neither gave nor took away.\"\n\n(Scotsman, day 11, 1883.)\n\nUpon the same principle, Your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side wind, by such a clause as that statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished, and that too under show of amending the laws governing British subjects - for \"amend and not repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th July, 1846, \"constituting a Court of Error and Appeal\" being the only one expressly repealed.\n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's statute within the colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any litigant, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be made, authoritatively setting the question at rest.\n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Courts, made proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233570, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "Bonythong Ju S1853\n\nLawson & Shortrede\n\nuction for Liber.\n\nCorrespondence, de\n\n[Three Copies printed for transmission to the Secretary of State.]\n\n77\n\nUNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sherbeth,-\n\n1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:—\n\n2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,—\n\n\"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter.\"\n\nAgain, \"Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as \"lubberly work,\" and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation.\"\n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it farther appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.\n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, \"for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press.\"\n\n5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:\n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong,\" the Third Section of which declares,—\n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.\"\n\nThis Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled \"An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Fourth Section of which is as follows,——\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.\"\n\nBut on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, \"An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof\" the Third Section of which is as follows,-\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three-shall be of Force therein.\n\nAll these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.\n\n7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August, 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233571, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded “Not guilty—that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public,\" the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice telling the jury that, \"it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary\" directions authorized only by Lord Campbell's Act. \n\n8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846, Your Memorialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech : \n\n*** \n\nWhen this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;\" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,— \n\nNow, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here.\" (Spectator, July 19, 1851.) \n\nAccording to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mansfield's \"most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms-terms that could not be misunderstood,”- \n\n\"That if the element of the franchise were once given-if the power to legislate were once considered-- it any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government— then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted,\" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850. \n\n9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly submitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted. \n\n10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, “An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China,\" and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them \"subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.” \n\n11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England, Your Memorialist has within these few days read a report of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,— \n\nThat in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a rubble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being.\" \n\nIn delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,- \n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them-it neither gave nor took away.\" (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that \"it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished;\" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for \"amend\" and not \"repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, -the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, \"constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal,\" being the only one expressly repealed. \n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question at rest, \n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months. \n\n14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those attending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August following, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that \"he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts,\" and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that \"the sentence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression.\" Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them; and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty. \n\nEntreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet, \n\nYour Memorialist will ever pray, \n\nHONGKONG, July 21, 1853. \n\nAnd there \n\n78", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233572, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "[Three Copies printed for transmission to the Secretary of State.]\n\n79\n\n'UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sheweth,-\n\n1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:---\n\n2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,-\n\n\"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter.\"\n\nAgain, \"Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as \"lubberly work,\" and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation.\"\n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it further appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.\n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, \"for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press.\"\n\n5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:\n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong,\" the Third Section of which declares,——\n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.\"\n\nThis Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,” the Fourth Section of which is as follows,-\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.\"\n\nBut on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, “An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof\" the Third Section of which is as follows,-\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature—that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three—shall be of Force therein.\n\nAll these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.\n\n7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August, 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was\n\nMEMORIAL\n\nOF\n\nANDREW SHORTREDE,\n\nOF HONGKONG,\n\nTO\n\nHIS GRACE THE\n\nDUKE OF NEWCASTLE,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nHONGKONG, 21st JULY, 1853.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233573, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "# Memorial to the Governor of Hong Kong\n\n8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded “Not guilty that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public,” the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice telling the jury that, \"it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary;\" directions authorized only by Lord Campbell's Act.\n\n8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846. Your Memorialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech:—\n\n\"When this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;\" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,—\n\n\"Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here.\" (Spectator, July 19, 1851.)\n\nAccording to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mansfield's most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms—terms that could not be misunderstood,”.\n\n\"That if the element of the franchise were once given if the power to legislate were once considered—it any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted\" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850.\n\n9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly submitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted.\n\n10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, \"An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China,” and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them “subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.\"\n\n11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a report of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,——\n\n*That in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a rubble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being.\"\n\nIn delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,\n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them—it neither gave nor took away.\" (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished\" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for \"amend\" and not \"repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, \"constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal,\" being the only one expressly repealed.\n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question at rest.\n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months.\n\n14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those attending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August following, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that \"he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts,\" and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that \"the sentence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression.\" Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them: and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty.\n\nEntreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet,\n\nYour Memorialist will ever pray,\n\nHongkong, July 21, 1853.\n\nArd Mh Mida\n\nPage 80", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233574, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sheweth,-\n\n1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:—\n\n2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,-\n\n\"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter.\"\n\nAgain, \"Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as \"lubberly work,\" and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation.”\n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it farther appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.\n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, \"for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press.\"\n\n5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:\n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong,\" the Third Section of which declares,——\n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.\"\n\nThis Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled “An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Fourth Section of which is as follows,-\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.\"\n\nBut on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, \"An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Third Section of which is as follows,--\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature—that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three—shall be of Force therein.\n\nAll these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.\n\n7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August, 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was\n\nMEMORIAL\n\nANDREW SHORTREDE,\n\nOF HONGKONG,\n\nTO\n\nHIS GRACE THE\n\nDUKE OF NEWCASTLE,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nHONGKONG, 21ST JULY, 1853.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233575, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded “ Not guilty that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public,\" the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice telling the jury that, \"it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts: secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary;\" directions authorized only by Lord Campbell's Act. \n\n8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846. Your Memorialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech \n\nWhen this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;\" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,— \n\n\"Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here.\" (Spectator, July 19, 1851.) \n\nAccording to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mansfield's most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms—terms that could not be misunderstood,”. \n\n\"That if the element of the franchise were once given—if the power to legislate were once considered— any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government—then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted.\" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850. \n\n9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly submitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted. \n\n10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, \"An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China,\" and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them \"subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.\" \n\n11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a report of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,— \n\nThat in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under those Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a rubble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being.\" \n\nIn delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,— \n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them—it neither gave nor took away.\" (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that \"it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished\" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for \"amend\" and not \"repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, \"constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal,\" being the only one expressly repealed. \n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question at rest. \n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months. \n\n14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those attending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August following, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that \"he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts,\" and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that \"the sentence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression.\" Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them; and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty. \n\nEntreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet, \n\nYour Memorialist will ever pray, \n\nHONGKONG, July 21, 1853. \n\nAnd The Memorialist \n\n82", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234193, "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": "CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853", "content_text": "UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong,\n\n1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:\n\n2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,—\n\n\"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter.\"\n\nAgain, \"Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as 'slipshod work,' and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation.\"\n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it further appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.\n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, \"for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press.\"\n\n5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:\n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong,\" the Third Section of which declares,—\n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.\"\n\nThis Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled \"An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Fourth Section of which is as follows,—\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.\"\n\nBut on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Third Section of which is as follows,—\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three-shall be of Force therein.\n\nAll these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.\n\n7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August, 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was\n\nPage 264", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234194, "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": "CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853", "content_text": "a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded \"Not guilty that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public,\" the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice telling the jury that, \"it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary\" directions authorized only by Lord Campbell's Act. \n\n8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846. Your Memorialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech :— \n\nWhen this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;\" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,—— \n\n“Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here.\" (Spectator, July 19, 1851.) \n\nAccording to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mansfield's \"most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms-terms that could not be misunderstood,\"- \n\n\"That if the element of the franchise were once given-if the power to legislate were once considered- if any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government—then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted.\" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850, \n\n9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, your Memorialist submits that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly submitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is constituted. \n\n10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, \"An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China,\" and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; \n\nthe said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them \" subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and extending the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.” \n\n11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a report of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an immemorial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,- \n\n\"That in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a rubble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythewood for the time being.” \n\nIn delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,-— \n\n\"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them-it neither gave nor took away.\" (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that \"it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguished;\" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects,--for \"amend\" and not \"repeal\" is the term used in the title and preamble, \n\n-the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, \"constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal,\" being the only one expressly repealed. \n\n12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question at rest. \n\n13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Campbell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months. \n\n14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those attending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 29th and 30th of August following, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that \"he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts,\" and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that \"the sentence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression.\" Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them; and [submits] that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty. \n\nEntreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet, \n\nYour Memorialist will ever pray, \n\nHONGKONG, July 21, 1853. \n\n265", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238781, "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": 190, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nFLAS & AR\n\nLATE NAVS\n\n4 st Sp.\n\nHongkong (Mar. 25)\n\nMacau\n\nWhang\n\n25 Concis\n\nFROM TO CAPTAIN\n\nARRIVED,\n\nSAYLKU CAHLO\n\nMar, 22\n\nMartice\n\n10p¡ Welsit Formnes\n\n¡Mantl bgi Sarria 35 Tubal Cais B. 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Connolly\n\nSwatow\n\nFarly\n\nShaw, Blant and Uu\n\nJader\n\nLiverpool\n\nEarly\n\nLoudon\n\nEarly\n\nSwatow\n\nEwatow\n\nFly\n\n!London\n\nEarly\n\nEyduey\n\nFor Sute\n\n2\n\nFeb. 10 310 Quirk Mar. 178 Cav\n\nMu, 19 154 Trocar FU, 21 464 3hrewbery POL, 2400 Peutruath Web. 81291 Christian Fol. 26 377 M Far. 10 786 Brown Feb. 28 263 Lewis\n\nHongkong Feb. 22 294\n\nFeb 8 520Ch Macao far. 703 Guterres\n\nMacao Fou. 11 277 Luz Mar 240, L-z\n\nDunt, Beale and Co Rasselt und Co\n\nJames Bowman and o G, Livingston and Co Bella Co\n\nDent, Bible and Co\n\nBrawlao aul Co\n\nJames Stephensca J.V. Jarge\n\nA. A, de Mello and Co\n\nadoro d'Almeida\n\nJayah. Still and Cu\n\n4.\n\nGlan 18 2721) Agalia\n\n376 Marve\n\nL. Harones\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\n606 Delhomme Wm. Fusta and Co\n\nlongkong Feb. 17 530Smith\n\nMar 30, 468 Killing atar. 151900Murphy Mus500Tatusan Mar. 6 720 Wingar Fel, 14113 Canjage Bet. 111,20 Cowell\n\nMax 89 Paner\n\nMer 11 340 Gore\n\nMar 7570 Mix\n\nSept. 842Jones\n\nWhaipos de 25 175 ale\n\n+\n\nAmoy\n\nGeneral Piern, ech.\n\nSnute\n\nWaverley, ag\n\nWar flawk, ship\n\nCautan, ship\n\nScience, Lonyes\n\nAntelope, satorer\n\nAriel, ship\n\nfebn Wade, ship.\n\nWilmington, honner\n\nCarlow, brig\n\nMoury, bagre\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nDutch\n\nAlbaneerwaard, barque Boilers, chip\n\nCristina, barque\n\n3. Elizabeth, barque\n\nJan Hendrik, barque\n\nMar. 13 180 Peete\n\nFab.\n\nlan.\n\n1100 rewater\n\nStar. € 713 Stevens\n\nKussell and Co Order\n\nRussell and Co Rose Go Russell and Ca Russell and Co Jane Steplu rson\n\nAdel&Philtill\n\nSingapore\n\nSingapore\n\nInd.\n\nWheming\n\nPeight ur Char!\n\nSan Francisco April 10\n\nAdel. & Mel. Tad,\n\nSan Francisco April 17\n\nSan Francisco\n\nCaly\n\nAugustine ford and Co Wi Win. tusla and Co\n\nWhens, Anthou and Coban Francisco! Wilms, Anthon and Co Hondur\n\nJames Stephie:ZON\n\nMarford\n\nOvde\n\nSan Francisco April 18 Adel, & Syduty A\n\nMaz. 111185 West\n\nMa\n\n135 Lamilton\n\nMar 4117 Turner\n\nY. J. Muriou\n\nY, J. Murrow\n\nAustralia\n\nKtor and Ce\n\nBuston\n\n239 Graham\n\nRussell and Co\n\nNew York\n\nBarly\n\nPudon and Cu\n\nNow York\n\nFeb.\n\nCrosby\n\nMar. 8 $75 Peterson\n\n¡Alvoid and Co\n\nSn Prausias Ind.\n\nAugustine Heard me Co\n\n300 Pasiphor\n\nNge Brothers and Co\n\nFeb. 11 45% Whoever Jan. 28 900\n\nShangha Repairing Havana\n\nEarly\n\n¡Hevada\n\nNo. 8 188 Dyer\n\n2248 Willian\n\nMax. 6 209 Monta Mar.\n\nJan. 19 689 Nicholson\n\nMar Dee. Formona Fel\n\nNov.\n\nFuh-chau Mar. Niugpo Mar.\n\n750 Aytun\n\n150 Badger\n\n1000: siromans\n\n417 Worth\n\n400 Potter\n\n479 Mellus\n\n269 Cher\n\nMet. ¡600 peroor\n\nJac We\n\nFou\n\nShanghae Mar. 9 2 Gregory\n\nFol. 24 450 Fletcher Bet. 5/2006 Lowe\n\nHongkong Mar. 15) 730 Linduan\n\n33\n\n15\n\nKongu lamelaar, ship\n\nNeerlands Indie, siaip\n\nSamat, ship\n\nMar. 13 322 Teu Har\n\nMar. 14 350 Krauer\n\nMan Tomp\n\nMar. 2614. De Jong\n\nRussell and Co\n\nS. E. Burrows\n\nTail and Co\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\n1. Pustau and Co\n\nRussell and C\n\nUnder\n\nKyu Brothers and do\n\nKussell and Co\n\nKell and Co\n\nAugustine Heard and Co\n\nRugseil und Co\n\nW. M. Rotinet and Co Russland Co\n\nRussell and Ca\n\nOnier\n\nShaffer and Co\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nJames Stephenson Jim. Pistac and Co\n\nPub, 9698 Lindermance Stephenson\n\n3ar\n\nJan.\n\nAlbrecht Beyling, barq Whampoa Mar Aline, arqua\n\nBintang Anam, barque\n\nBroedertrouw, ship\n\nArgo, Imarque\n\n143\n\nDESTINATION\n\nIntended Thatch\n\nFatal Hair, barque\n\n34. Eulema, shooner\n\nJustine, barque\n\nProvests, barque\n\nVrouw Jotina, bq, Mercurius, barque Westkappelle, barque Beauty, torque Zuid Holland, ship\n\nDanish\n\nDannebrog, barque Lente, schooner Svendborg, Larquy Aernet, szig\n\nConm Heinrich, bg.\n\nJohannes hand\n\nUto, bu que\n\nWaldemar, herque\n\nHenbury\n\nAutralia\n\nIS. Trancisco\n\nIxel.\n\nAmoy\n\nAdel & Sydney Trid.\n\nSingapore\n\nInd.\n\nWhen pus\n\nsrdce, Matheran and Co Schaeffer and\n\nLondon\n\nAdsiaide\n\nFuruins. Matteson aud Co\n\nHavaus\n\nTernor and Co\n\n¡Turner and Co\n\nCape & Longga\n\nT. & U. S. N. C.\n\nShaughne\n\npill &\n\nPhillips, Moors Co Kurder\n\nAustralia\n\nLondon\n\nBariy\n\nand Co Holliday. Weed Co\n\nway sund\n\nRepairing Bonjay\n\nApril 15\n\nTarer, beg\n\nTubal Cain, ig\n\nWilliams, Anthon and Co\n\nPant, schooner\n\nAfghan, slip\n\nWhampoa Mar. 20 670debank\n\nLondon\n\nArturo, que\n\nFab,\n\noClarke\n\nCarlines, ship\n\nMar.\n\n370 Ferensor\n\nCELIST:L, ELERIEur\n\nMar.\n\n750 Curling\n\nD'Almeida Family, hg.\n\nNov.\n\n250\n\nEaglet, seamer\n\nMai.\n\n145 Caldwell\n\nMainas, stramer\n\nCage. Mangarel, batą.\n\nBritish\n\nAlireal, ship\n\nAfro the Great,\n\nAlligator, lig\n\nAnglia, barque\n\nA. P. Sharp, barke\n\nle\n\nMock River Jacket, bq.!\n\nCarible ship\n\nCrishan, banque\n\nDuke of Portland, ship\n\nEamon, rezoaner\n\nEmma, achooner\n\nFanny, ban\n\nForm, camer\n\nFriedrick, belg Jamiitan, slip Hazard, schocier Julinder, Jacque\n\nLuorink, big\n\no Iurie\n\nLy, thou\n\nBart of Maulwicke, by\n\nHornet, sooner\n\nLouisa Baillie, sup\n\nMalebr\n\nNina schooner\n\nPearl, stip\n\nSarai. Armitage, ship\n\nTravancare, ship\n\nVigilant, arque\n\nMazeppa, schooner\n\nFlongkong sb. 26 790 Browning\n\nReh. 13, 846 Mefntyr\n\nFeb. 26 sindi\n\nMar 989.Sharp\n\nMar. 12' 265 Sich\n\nMar. 20, $74 Winchester\n\nFeb. 1272 Tuscolt\n\n21 533 Sumor\n\nMar. 30 149ring\n\nMar. 19 120 upper\n\nMor. 5 Prasmith\n\nMar. 11 750regear\n\nJan. 16 990 Neville\n\nMar. 15 433[Fare\n\nMar. 20 184eary Jan. 24530 Bolto Mar 30 289 Crocket Mar 29 3-har's [Mar. 131 180Makelier Mar. 30/1250 lowe\n\nSaj 533 Spence ar 30 148\n\nMar. 25190leggett\n\nMar, 26247)ncher\n\nFalk, 27 168 Nordqvist\n\nMar.\n\n464 Legoe\n\nMar. 22 115 Rayer\n\nMar. 23 605 Macker.zie\n\nMar. 160-te\n\nMar. 9 582 Towa Tea\n\nS Station Mar.\n\n5953\n\n163 Button\n\n142 Marios\n\nTan Berd at Co Vacs Stephenson\n\nGrind, Fivlagston and Co\n\nY. J. Murr\n\nArmstrong and Lawrence Uriur\n\nDent and Co\n\nY. J. Murrow\n\nTurner and Co Jardins, Mathe\n\nP.&O. 5. N. Co\n\nJarl, Mathos and Co\n\nwitanie, Anthen and\n\nFlescher and Co\n\nRaseuli and Co\n\nardine, Mathagon and Co\n\nP. & S. N. Co\n\nosvenor and de Siemsson and Co\n\nOrder\n\norlowitz and Cə\n\nder\n\nNathaly and Co\n\nJohn Burd at\n\nBrandao antil Ca\n\ndarling, tiles and Co\n\nTurner and Co\n\nJ. C. Confor\n\nMarine, Mathew, and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nJamine, Matheson and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nOrder\n\nZephyr, schooner\n\nAmin, staler\n\n\"\n\nDas.\n\nFeb.\n\n\"\n\n346\n\nEited up\n\nisitangha\n\npore and Cal, and.\n\nLes Imm\n\nFreighbor Char\n\nCelibri, big\n\nLima, bargre Mathilde, brig\n\nNicoline, whip Quaries Ross, banyoo Qusmine Lac\n\nEnterprise, schooner\n\nPodveta, quo Crnar, barne Hularich Gustav, brig Handilai, sek\n\nFARME\n\nLevaut, xhip General laro, ship En ship\n\nL'erviun\n\nJose C. Ugarte, ship Petion, barque Carinen, barye\n\nLinin, skip\n\nMicano, banque\n\nUgaris y Santiago,\n\nCriani, dig\n\nCatalin, ship\n\nRasita, scrooner\n\nAutenia Terry, hip\n\nJ. Terry, ship\n\nAANIGRA\n\nGelender, baryas\n\nSpesiali\n\nCosta, tig\n\nDenia, echuuler\n\nScratina, sup\n\nby.\n\nV. Kinavia, bug\n\nNarciss. brig\n\nReculito, souber\n\nYlesno, trig\n\nNeptus, rig\n\nSalve, brig\n\nDurdo, brig\n\nMar\n\nKar.\n\n1 609 Wagner\n\n1780mvei\n\n507 Mubar\n\n472fheon\n\n292day\n\npar: 221 70uillardsk\n\nEnst Coast Mar.\n\n600; Weber\n\nSupt. 8 401 Thamns\n\n14\n\nMar.\n\nAmoy ¡Mar\n\nMac.\n\nד'\n\nWm. Pastu aid to\n\nJLunes Stephenson\n\nSchoofter and 6\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nHungkung\n\nNpo & 'kong Perly New York\n\nAustralia\n\nSai: Francisco\n\n1.d.\n\nSydney & Melbmd. Shanghe\n\nLord\n\nAdol&P.Phillipmd.\n\nEast Coast\n\nardino, Malleson and Co Batavia\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n8 Starkenburg Order\n\n234 Lewis\n\nFeb. 21 324 kút\n\nSwating Mac\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n50Jurriaanse Order\n\nSnimith Oxier\n\nFvb-chan Pah. 425 Bonderkiak'Order\n\nShangban Feb. 30 411 Verachoor Deal, Beals and Co\n\n15\n\nFeb. 28 582 Boar\n\nHongkong Mar. 22 410 Sir Ben\n\nMar. 29 180 Krase\n\n31\n\n36ar. 13 33olgensen\n\nBaal Coast Mar.\n\nShanghae Web. 10 339 Thiessen\n\nMar. Mar\n\nW sau and Co\n\nTuhchac ¡Bvalow\n\nInd Early\n\nJohn Burd sei c\n\nJardine, acheson and Co κέλτικες\n\nCowes\n\nEarly\n\nWm. I'usiau and Co\n\nWm, Ruslan and Co\n\nikeres not Co\n\nCarlowitz and Co\n\n300 Allebar\n\n264 Salmidt\n\nCharler\n\nHongkong Mar. 25 200 Kier\n\nMar\n\nJohn Burd and Co\n\n18 Christiansen John Burd and Co\n\nMar 28 202 Broken\n\nFeb. 9; 162 Wallenen Whampoa Fah. 22 230|lie Fol\n\n400 thieveking Mar. M137 Uulivenda East Coast Peh 440 Jessen\n\nMac Pcb\n\nSwator Mar\n\nMac Sanghan Mar\n\nHer and Co\n\nWin. Pusa and fa Siemasza and Co Win. l'estes and Co Wm. Pastau and Co Augustino leard and Co 148 Suhit erg Win. Pustan and Co 450ngsiboch der 238 verge Drier\n\nal Ca Lindsay at Co\n\n160 Kreutzfeldtems 110 Reiner\n\nHongkong Mar. 1 283 Couper\n\nMacao M\n\nMax.\n\nHongkong Nos. 14 589anama\n\nArmstrong and Lawrance\n\nSan Francisco\n\nHamburg\n\nส\n\nUnder seinare\n\n450 Gill\n\nAsatrug and Lawrence\n\nAustralia\n\njlund.\n\n8 244: Defervari 35oj Baker\n\nVardine, Matheson and De jamay W. M. Rubinst and Cɔ\n\nNov. 13 250 Barry\n\n21\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co Under\n\nEast Coast\n\nFeb. 16' 199!Arnie\n\nItepairing\n\nMar.\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\nMar. 10 29Mazeres\n\nPast Const Mar\n\nSwarow\n\nDec\n\nFul-chan Mar.\n\nAugustine Heal and Co\n\nRobinct and Co 21Savason. M. Cobinet a Co\n\n600 Wilso\n\nOrder 201,Juder word, Augustin? Heard and Co\n\nShanghae Pen $2200 Giganter Russell and Co\n\nJau 1004 Cortina\n\nHongkong Feb. 17340) Hongkong dar. 25 140 Sarria\n\nStr. 225kil Mar. 28 415adiz Mar. 126arcia\n\nMaceo\n\nMar 19 150luma Mar. 13srors\n\n11 27 46empere\n\nWampon Ma Sel-Suveven\n\nW. M. Roisina 20:4 Co\n\nUnder\n\nJ. V. Torge\n\nOrder\n\nHongkong\n\nBangkok\n\nEarly\n\n!L. J. Gulierenz\n\nvall, St and Co\n\nRail\n\nR. Garreta\n\nKantla\n\nGarreta\n\nYiocos\n\norder\n\nManila\n\nTait and Co\n\nVider\n\nJ. V. Jorge\n\nMar 15 131 Summers Kinder Amoy Mar 7\n\nMar.\n\nBest Coast Mar.\n\n240 Welsh\n\n¡P. D. Syme and Co\n\nMar\n\n465 Vineent\n\nMar\n\n274jitall\n\nSwarow\n\nJan,\n\n29 Fice\n\nMar\n\n149 Mooney\n\nOrder\n\nマジョル\n\n952 Raver\n\nOrder\n\nWaton and Co\n\nShanglue\n\nder\n\naddine, Math and Co\n\nUnder\n\nOnder\n\nShangbas\n\nRussell and Co\n\nAugustine Flourd and Ca\n\nadine, Matlicon and Co Wetnore and\n\nAustralia\n\nExcu\n\nJarlie, Matheson and Co Dant and Ca\n\nSwith. Keanely and Co\n\nFreight or Char\n\n10100, Livingsted and Ch\n\nEarly\n\nEast Cuasi Fol\n\n148 Prowes\n\nReis and Co\n\n226, alerte\n\nOrder\n\nShanghe ar\n\nit. & 0. 8. X. Ch\n\nShaw, Bland and Co\n\nAustralia\n\nEarly\n\nLizzie Jarvis, ship\n\nWhan pos Mar. 11\n\nIng Crosby\n\n550 Set, www\n\nde Burcowa\n\nSyviuey\n\nChinese\n\nPretighter Char\n\nlenkin, Faraon and Co\n\nLondon\n\nsealed\n\nBaty\n\nCoz facing, steamer\n\nWan, Pustuu and Co\n\nS. E. Inerows\n\ntient, Beale and Co\n\nTotdea\n\nal\n\nBause arque\n\nLouisa, harqe\n\nCity of London, bq.\n\nForerunner, selcounter Dealong, barque Sarah Lucy, ebiy\n\nFortas, brig\n\nAt Key, Behconer\n\nEllou Oliver, barque\n\nGazelle, seboouer\n\nWhampica, barguo\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nAfrica, are\n\nAntipodes, arquc\n\nJane. Mishall, slip\n\nKolt-on, up\n\nSex, ship\n\nWild Darrell, cl\n\nAgra, ship\n\nBlenheim, ship\n\nDuck, sclismer\n\nEllen, barque\n\nErin, steamer\n\nFormass, ship\n\nHistle, Ach.\n\nJane Maria, orig\n\nLady kingson, ab.\n\nLord of the lea. ship:\n\nMori, plep\n\nJan.\n\n450 Day\n\nChinniew Jan. 28orst\n\nAmey Mar 5 121 Wilson\n\nTait and Go\n\n083 Henderson Fisicher and Co\n\n11 Fax\n\nFeb. 17 876 Gale Ningpo Feb. 335 Curtis Ful-chau Mar. 615 Woot\n\nFeb. 24, 420 Turboil Yor.\n\n98% Young\n\nFeb. 11 846 Pant\n\nFeb. 16 D Seal\n\nWonging Mar. 190 Farlane\n\nShanghac Feb. 23 714 Bulgo\n\nFeb. 24 300 Walker\n\nEeb. 22 809iSanks\n\nMar\n\n$59 Jamieson\n\nJan. 25 40 Rollason\n\nFor 11 50Cces\n\nFair. 25 226 Bovey\n\nFch. 81200 Wilson\n\nMar. 13 sataxi Peb.\n\npremier\n\nLindras and Co.\n\nDent, Beale and C\n\nAnn, ship\n\nfar\n\nFe.\n\nMarine. Matheson and Co Lendon\n\nella Co\n\nSwedish Chieftain, burque\n\nKramn Augusto, brig\n\nChilias Frolic, hin\n\nOudenbury Schlosser, barque\n\nNew Grenadian\n\nWhatupo Mar 1 298 gera\n\nWhempos Mar. 20 250 Hasselhoff Dreyer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nShaughse Mar. 430 Gough\n\nEdited, Printed, sud Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the longlowy Register Office: Dage Ste\n\nVictoria, Hongkuag. Tuesday, April 1. 1889.\n\n188\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVol. XXIX. Na. 23.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nATHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & ..\n\nWo Cuntat, Chica, did, on the 11th day of March,\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have established at Hongkong, under the same\n\nstyle, a branch of our business. MR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partuer in our\n\n1866, at the Office of the United States Cosmulate in tlanton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real¦ Firm. and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all cuncorn ed to make payment to us of all uns de te, and to present to us any claims against the arid Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & 670.\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1556.\n\nJAMES PURDON & O»,\n\nNOTICE\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Ca,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE MRJ MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the\n\nKING & Co.\n\nMane of our Firms in China per peenrastin,\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nKey. Hon. W. T. Maxes, Fag., R.S. WALKER, E. Ma\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & U. Steam Navigation Com pany, (ex officio)\n\nPreueurer, MANIAC, Esq.\n\nBaristent Surgeon-RARD, JAOX.\n\nConsulting Surgeon W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\n75 cents per day.\n\ndoilar\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Warda,...\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,..\n\n2 dullars\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previour to the amount depozited baving been expended,\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$20\n\n$30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be respon sible for the expense of Patients sont by them to the Hospital.\n\nMB-A Hospital Bills to be reneipted by the Erasurer only.\n\nTHE\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nERPULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nLytworn\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON.\n\nTHE WILLAMETTE, Captain W. Conss.\n\nFrum Honyhang to Canton,\n\nwary MONDAY & THURSDAY, at è s'elock s.M. From Canton a laughong,\n\nevery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 10 o'clock a.m. For further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkony, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton. Hongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nREGULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION batwest\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTÓN.\n\nLE SIN CHARLES FORBES,\n\nTHE\n\nFrom Mongkong in Ornton,\n\nOVORY FUSSDAY and FRIDAY, at Pelock ..\n\nfrom Canton w Hongkong,\n\nevery WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 8 o'clock ..\n\nFo further particulers, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hangbong, K.ROTTUNJKE & Co., Canë\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. F. B. TRAUTMANN Firm ceased by his retire- iment therefrom on His March fast, and our Business will be sonducted nonauforward under the maponsibility of the remaining Partuen Mx. G. C. SCHWADE and M. FREDNIK BOWER\n\nShanghu, 10th May, 1850.\n\nM\n\nG. C. SCHWABE & Co.\n\nTHOMAS 1 WALKER.\n\nArchitect and Surveyor,\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE\n\nE undersigned have established themselves as Mer\n\nchures üşü Ayenis in this place, je Copartnership, Wider the style and Firm of FRAMJEE BOMANJEÉ CAMA & Gill,\n\nBOMANJEE FRAMJEE CAMA. FRAMJKE EDULINE.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1836.\n\nNOTICE\n\nJAMES CROSSLEY saved to be a partner in\n\nMore on its dugast lost, on which date his\n\nJuverest and responsibility termuntert,\n\nG. C. SCHWARE & Co. Shanglue, 27th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Business of the late MR. JOZE VICENTE\n\nJORGE will from this riste de encried on by the undemned under the name of JUZE JUROE & Co. All outstanding accounts of the Estate will be received aud settled by the new firm.\n\nR. N. WEISMANN, in this day admitted a Pattuor\n\nin our Pure in Chius.\n\nREISS and Cu.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1885.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTR. LUGH BOLD GIBB sa admitted a Partner\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\nMin our Firma ou let Jetz. 1855.\n\nHongkong, 27th July, 1855.\n\nHOUSES.\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nITE imodisto passession, as SHANGHAE, The DWELLING Ilouse and BUSINESS PRE- MISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAN in the roar of the Godowna, situated in a most con bral position, and fronting the River.\n\nApply to\n\nDIRON, GRAY & Co. Shaughse, 16th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. HOSE Two HOUSES, with excellent Crowns, LAND- Wawel, as present in the op- tion of Messrs. LVAL, SL & Co. and símated on part of Marine Lot No. 10.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nUST received by the undersigned, ---- 100 Barrels Hall FLOUR.\n\n1,000 51th-bags Chili\n\n6,000\n\nRAISINS.\n\nAles, on hand,-\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTARIISAB 18 LONDON AND Calcutta, 1834. CONFIRMED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARIJAMENT\n\n-\n\n6 William VI. Chap. 54. Invested Capital, B HUNDRED & FIFTY THOUSAND Pounds Sterling, of which Fry Lacs of Rupers are held by the Tian Branch,\n\nLondon Offics, No. 1, King William Street.\n\nChairman,\n\nSIR RENAY WILLO, KLS.\n\nINDIAN BRANCH, Directors,\n\nCHARLES R. PRINGLE, FL ALEXANDER WALLAGA, DE,\n\nWILLIAM B. SHOUL, E\n\nGEORGE BARZON Esq.,\n\nE. MACDONALD STEPHENACY, Esq.\n\nPhysician,\n\nAWAN WEEB, Bag, M.D.\n\nAgents and Sereiaris, M. BRADDON & Co\n\nMadras Agents,\n\nMessi BAINURADOK & Co.\n\nBombay Agents, Mears. LECSIR & Co.\n\n1. The marked success which has attended the opera tions of this society, justits the Directors in calling the ottention of the Public to the peruliar advantages held oul by this Luutitution to sil clag-en desirous of effecting\n\nBUTANCE Apor lives.\n\n2. The Tabies of Premium have been framed with the greadust cars. Toone applicable to India Eves have been Especially prepared from the experience of Indian mortal ity, and from the records of the Bast Indian Govern sent, and are an poderate as is deemed oonsistent with perfosi security.\n\n3. Proposals are received for Insuranets for the whale term of Life, either on a participating scale or ou & TUR parte puting scale at a lower rate of premium. Also for short perivda varying from one to seven years on very modcrate terms,\n\n4. An Annual division is made of One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding years, the other Pensfifth being set upart to enter into the average of of acreeding years.\n\n5. Of the gura annually divisible, heventy-five per cent\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNo. 1,329\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY. THE undersigned having been appointel Agonie Š\n\nPOLICIES, payable in loNDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, KANGOON, PENAS, and SINGAPORK.\n\nCIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1856\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE 1 Established in 1849.,\n\nTHE findersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at bors and the varigan LoNON INUAR COMPANIES, by the PEN. INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Can con und Bangkung, u Amoy, Shungiae, the Straits, Ceylon, the Prendencies of Iulia, Sues, and England.\n\nThe interest in the protecting Pocies is aseigned to be P. and 0. 5. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Paytast in the event of 1,000, For RATA OF PERICH and other information, apply fo\n\nROBERT & WADAs, Bmyksng.\n\nMATHILIAN FIS, C\n\nK. WABLES, Shangkur.\n\nH. T. Mansa, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOVELL, Calcura.\n\nHORT FRANK, Madras, or\n\nJONN RI, Banbay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, Bih January, 1851.\n\nALLIANER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nTHE Undersigned having hotel uzat\n\nCure for the above COMPANY, are prepared to aucept ASSURANORS at Hongkong, as under\n\n1st-On Buildinga ot Brick or Stune, covered with Tiler, States, Metal, or other combustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,-Kute of Pranium, per vend per Annua\n\nad-on ench Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Atore.\n\nAuces for 5 Months, and for 3 Mouths, of the Awal date will be churyou.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £13,000 only vn og Risk. And of the 26 Class-To the extent of £8,500. A Building and its Contents taken together form oue Risk. Thus the above Smas may be udurwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contenta.\n\nNo Arazce is to be considered a force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the As- eured will be natitled to participate in the Fronts alter Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send\n\nis apportiosed to polley holders on the participating in full particulers of the Rish to be taken; any Deviation scale, we have paid six annual premiuus, and thans from which is one of the Company, wi profie can be applied either in reduction of subsequent visate the Policy. 40,000 Frach-baked NAVY BISCUIT, made of Chiti premiums, or usa Bouse to the original amount of the Flock, and guaranteed to keep weli.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nESING\n\npolicy.\n\n3. The Annual redustion has averaged considerably | above 40 per cent, and in no one year as Ellen below\n\nthat sonnt\n\n7. The following table will shew the result of the last\n\nDORT WINE in Botle, SHEKEY in Bottle and Wood, divisita of profits as declared on the 9th May, 1855, at\n\naud BEER in Bottle.\n\ntan rate of 40 per cent, on the original manual premium:—\n\nReduced Original!\n\nAnnual Reduction. Annual Prynism\n\nApply\n\nALEX. WILSON. El Polar Godowns, 15th april, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nApply to\n\nBRST AN COAL\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAge.\n\nDate of Sam As\n\nPolicy.\n\nsurof.\n\nPresi\n\n30\n\nOu cr\n\n10,000\n\n120\n\nCold Ro It-\n\n30\n\nbefore\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\n40\n\nthe 9th\n\n10.020\n\n590\n\nC\n\nMay,\n\n10.000\n\n150)\n\n10,000\n\n740 1,000\n\nREST Labuan STEAM COAL. PRICE, &350 per Ton.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 185tì.\n\nTRENCH CORKS.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE ¦and Gezper SHERRIES.\n\nCLARETS of Superior quailty. Chaters. Maxg 2, Moviny, St. Cslepke, St. Julien, and Lesviite.\n\nApply in HongKong and CANTON to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. flongkong, 7ih September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. CUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter?\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Menar. Jannis, Mayurson & Co.\n\nGallorans. East Point, 31st October, 1853.\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nNOTICK\n\nLONDON & ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE, undersigned has received authority by the last bail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued JOZE JORGE.\n\nhere by tbo above filice, payable in THREE MONTHS ZIDURO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. after oties, in place of six Months Macao, 3d April, 1956,\n\nROB. 3. WALKER, Agrante\n\nM\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR JAMES McCORMICK is authorised to sigu vut\n\nFm per procuration.\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th Jannary, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR. THOMAS D. BOYU is authorized to sign our Mr Ficto\n\nP. D. SYME & C\n\nAmoy, 12th May. 1855.\n\nMR\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. GRAHAM ANDERSON foinet me as a Partner on the 1st of January lušt. The buginese will be cried an in the base of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nCanton, 5th Muralt, 1860.\n\nM. JAMES BROWN, Notary Public, MESURS, GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitora, Notaries Public, de\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria.\n\nHongkong. 6th Jan, 1855\n\nheretofore.\n\nNOTICE. LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720. E undersigned, Agouts at Hongkong for the above Corporation, Are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Huilding or Murthandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co.. dynie\n\nIlangkung, 12th Aprit, 1855.\n\n------\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT\n\nINSURANCE OFFICE. and after this way, ir. MAXIMIZA FISCHER of and after this waves det sks\n\nof this Office.\n\nBOBERT S. WALKER,\n\nHongkong, 3 March 1854.\n\nAgent.\n\nof\n\n25%-0\n\n459 9?-> 298-0 296-0 851-0 444-C\n\n26-18\n\n112 0 618-0\n\na. Following in an Extract of the rates of Precium\n\nAnnual Premium for an Assurance on Rs 1,000.\n\n8858 1 Feer.\n\n98% 3 Fears.\n\nCIVIL\n\n128823\n\n*R\n\npete Profs.\n\n22\n\nના\n\nMr.\n\nEnglish\n\nJitter\n\n£ 18 %\n\nAge. 1 Year 3 Years5 Fears 7 Faith with life with-\n\n32588+\n\n38899\n\n45\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agema in Chron.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBREAD AND BISCUIT BAKERY, SINO, Bread and Biscuit Baker, and General Store Leper, bega to intimate, that he has consented arogiments to establish a Branch of his House at CANTON, in New French Hong, sud will be happy to supply Ladies and Gentlemen of the latter plac with that great Gesideralno-z superior article of Bread He Daltora Linsel that, from his long experience in sale, siness, and trom the facilities he posts of procuring, Et all times at finest brand of American Flour, viz., Gallego, he will be able to give a better article to int | furuishod by any rival establish uc\n\nBar wo keep constantly on hand, an assort ment of the best WINES, LIQUORS, BEER, sud PORTER in Quars and Pinda, OHMAN'S STORES, PERFUMERY, and STATIONERY, K., &c.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1956.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY.\n\n\"NDER the Superlateniques of an Experiched Ba\n\nGILEER Orlere for all kinds of MACHINERY exented with despatch. Erxam ENGINES & BOILERS repaired. SHAFTS of the best Englen Tron from 5 to Orders to be aduresed Mussre. 9 inches diameter. 3. A. BARRETTO & Co., Maurier.\n\nA Cuniors LOT ATPAL-Dr. Wallis, while re siding near the Mississippi, married his landlady, an intercating young woman, aged twenty-sighs; after which he sled in Washington, a short distance from Columbia, where he enjoyed all the happiness that a worried man could desire.\n\n38\n\nBut his happiness was to be of short duration. Une morning a middle-aged ma waited upon him, and after some questions upon ja.\n\nPrijes.\n\n27\n\n28\n\n17\n\n33\n\n34\n\n40\n\n**\n\n55\n\n48\n\n13\n\n64\n\nJ5\n\n-------\n\n45\n\nIf that\n\ndifferent matters, he axited him he was married? The doctor replied \"yes\" \"And to a lady of colour 9. On return of Aesuere to Eatope for a permanent residing foredly in a town on the Mississippi\"\n\n\"Yea. Well that is my slave, and, although she is residence, their Premiums are immediately reduced to\n\nworth 2.000 dollars, I will only ask 300 for her, the English rate, hath on the participating and ou\n\nsum he not paid within an hour, I will advertise her as participating scales. If the Policy be according to the\n\nTUNAWAY. During the tour, the husband asked his participating scale, the reduction arising from profine ja allowed on the English race, thus admitting of a con-\n\nwife if she were a slave, and the property of the man tinuance of the Asserance in Europe on most moderate who had just left the buse?\" Yes,\" replied the wife, while teurs rulled down her cheeks; \"I am a slave, thus\n\nLerms.\n\n10. Military Officers holding Civil appointments are property of that man, who is my father.\" The busland allowed to subscribe at the Civil rates of Premium.\n\nkissed har, wiped away her tears, forgare the deception the bad practiced, to which love had instigated her, and then paid the required sun which made her his für life.\n\n11. Premiuma are payable citberannually. hall yearly, or quarterly, or monthly, and a guare of 28 days in allow- ed for such payment.\n\n12. Melical referees se renerated by the Society.\n\n---\n\nA SHORT PARLIAMENT.-The shortest parliament an\n\n13. At she period of last annual valuation, the Aseta record was that of 1390, which had but one session of\n\nof this Society were ascertained to be upwards of £550,000. a single day, and during that short space contrived to The amount of Potieres in force about £2,003,000 and upset one king and set up another.\n\nthe annual income arising frora przesiums thereon 200,099, exclusive of Interest ou the invested Capital.\n\nTables of ales, forma and instructions for cffecting Assuraneva, can be obtained un application to the Secre torics, or to\n\nROBERT S. WALKER,\n\nAceni.\n\nHangkong, 20th March, 1866.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHe undersigned, having heen appointed Agents for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, aro zady to save Policies in behalf of that Orbice, payahie in SINDACH, Penang, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BONDAY, LORDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 231 Jannury, 1856.\n\nMYSTICAL POLYGAMY.-The King of the Ashantees is allowed by law 3333 wives-at being the precise mystical number on which, it is said, the prosperity of the native depends.\n\nTRE\" AULING Passion.\"-On his death-bed a dia. tinguished humorist requested that no one might be Javited to his funeral, \"because,\" gasperl out the dying man, it is a civility I can never repay.\"\"\n\ndefire that officers of the Lavy should not wear bearda An admiralty circular may :-\"It is their furdships'\n\nof moustaches on board Her Majesty's ships.\n\nIn consequence of the probability of peace, an order\n\nhar beco already sed prohibiting nsval otcets from wearing moustaches while on full pay.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240827, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 270, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "32\n\n-33\n\n266\n\nDouble Police Rates VI. Over and above all other penalties and liabilities by this Ordinance imposed, the owner of every Building constructed, reconstructed, or altered in contravention of this Ordinance shall pay in respect of illegally constructed, the same a periodical Police Rate of double the amount to which, but for such contravention he would have been liable in respect of the said Building, until abatement.\n\nSaving of Crown remedies.\n\nPrivy.\n\nVII. No remedies for breaches of contract committed by Crown lessees or others now vested in the Crown or its officers shall be prejudiced by this Ordinance.\n\nEvery House to have VIII. It shall not be lawful to construct, reconstruct, or (if now in the course of construction or reconstruction) to complete any House without a sufficient and safe Place for lighting of fires and cooking of Food; and also a sufficient Watercloset or Privy, and a sufficient Ashpit furnished with proper Doors and Coverings; All which shall be provided to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General, and from time to time emptied and cleansed, at such periods as the Surveyor General may direct; and every Person offending against any of the enactments in this Section contained shall for every such offence forfeit and pay to the Crown a penalty not exceeding Fifty Dollars nor less than Ten Dollars.\n\nPenalty.\n\nThe Surveyor General shall IX. The Surveyor General shall in case any House whether now existing or hereafter to be constructed or reconstructed shall not be provided or shall be imperfectly provided with any of the works in the last preceding section specified, or with one or more proper drain or drains to the said House of at least six inches in diameter, give written notice of every such deficiency to the owner or occupier of the said House, thereby requiring him to provide for and make good the said deficiency forthwith or within some specified and reasonable term to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General and in case the said owner or occupier shall not obey or comply with the said requirement, the said Surveyor General shall cause the said works to be executed, and may recover the charges and expenses thereof together with his costs of procedure by summary application to a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any two Justices, who shall, in case of default in payment thereof, levy the amount so recovered by warrant of distress and sale upon the goods and chattels of such owner or occupier, without prejudice to the right of either party to recover over, retain, or deduct against the other the amount so paid or recovered.\n\nPublic and common X. The Surveyor General may provide and maintain in proper and suitable situations common Waterclosets, Privies, Urinals, and other like conveniences for public accommodation; and also proper Buildings, Pits, Places, etc., may be provided.\n\nBoxes or other conveniences for the temporary reception and collection of Sewage, Dung, Soil, Filth, Dust, Ashes, and Rubbish, yet so as not to occasion annoyance or nuisance; And all such matters so received or collected therein shall be vested in and may be disposed of at the discretion of and by the Surveyor General; And all the proceeds (if any) of such as shall in any wise be so disposed of shall be paid into the Colonial Treasury on account of the Crown.\n\nWorks contravening this Ordinance to be deemed a Nuisance.\n\nRuinous Buildings to be deemed Nuisances.\n\nXI. Every work whatsoever hereafter to be commenced, resumed, prosecuted, or finished in contravention of this Ordinance shall be deemed a Nuisance.\n\nXII. Every Building, or Part of a Building, being in a ruinous or dangerous condition, shall be deemed a Nuisance.\n\nBuildings erected of inflammable Materials to be deemed Nuisances.\n\nXIII. Every Building erected or to be hereafter erected of any inflammable material, in such wise as to endanger any neighbouring Building, shall be deemed a Nuisance.\n\nDeposits or accumulations of decaying matter, &c., to be deemed Nuisances.\n\nXIV. Every deposit or accumulation of decaying, noisome, noxious, or offensive matter, in, on, or under any tenement, Crown land, or way, or water, or Drain or Sewer, whereby the health of the Queen's Subjects may be endangered, shall be deemed a Nuisance.\n\nProjections from Buildings to be deemed Nuisances.\n\nXV. Every projection from or over any Building which shall cause annoyance or obstruction to any way or to the Passengers thereon, and every encroachment on, over, or under any way or any Crown land shall be deemed a Nuisance.\n\nNuisances by the Law of England shall be deemed Nuisances here.\n\nXVI. Every Work which would be deemed a Nuisance in England if begun, conducted, or completed there, shall within this Colony be deemed a Nuisance.\n\nSummary proceedings in cases of Nuisances.\n\nXVII. The Surveyor General shall summon every person guilty of any of the Nuisances hereinbefore enumerated before a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any two Justices of the Peace who shall thereupon proceed in a summary way to enquire into and adjudicate upon the premises after the manner of other summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace; And where he or they shall adjudicate any one person to have been guilty of any of the said Nuisances, he or they or any other Justice of the Peace shall, upon the application of the Surveyor General, order him or any other proper officer to abate, demolish, or remove the said Nuisance, and to sell and dispose of the Materials thereof (if any) and out of the monies arising by such sale or disposition (if any) to retain or pay the charges and expenses of or incident to such abatement, demolition, or removal; And the said Magistrate, Justices, or Justice shall order and compel all Persons who shall have been found guilty of any such Nuisance, after such adjudication as aforesaid, to satisfy all charges and expenses of or incident to the abatement, demolition, or removal thereof, and for which no other or no sufficient satisfaction is hereby provided, and shall thereupon, by warrant under his or their Hand and Seal, or Hands and Seals, cause the same to be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said persons respectively in case of default in payment.\n\nHouse property to be liable for deficiency of distress.\n\nXVIII. In the event of the insufficiency of any distress to be made under this Ordinance, the house of the defaulter shall be subject and liable to defray the deficiency; and a Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace upon the application of the Surveyor General shall by warrant authorize and direct a proper officer to seize and take possession of the said house, and to hold the same until such deficiency shall be defrayed, and all the accruing rents and profits of the said house shall be applied by the said Magistrate or Justice in payment of the said deficiency.\n\nTanks, Reservoirs, and building materials, &c.\n\nXIX. The Surveyor General and his Officers are authorised to seize any Utensil, which he or they shall detect any person in the act of dipping into any public Tank, or Reservoir; and also all building materials found by him or them deposited or lying upon any public Road, or in the side channels thereof; and all Utensils or Materials so seized may be lawfully confiscated by the Surveyor General, and disposed of as he shall direct.\n\nSaving of existing remedies.\n\nXX. All existing remedies for the prevention or abatement of Nuisances and the punishment of those guilty thereof shall continue to be in force notwithstanding this Ordinance.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 16th Day of April, 1856.\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nANNO DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ. No. 12 of 1856.\n\nBY His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to regulate Chinese Burials, and to prevent certain Nuisances, within the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n[12th June, 1856.]\n\nWhereas the increase of Population and Buildings in the City of Victoria has made it necessary to provide other arrangements for the Interment of the Dead, and whereas there exist certain Nuisances which the Laws hitherto in force have failed effectually to prevent: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:\n\nPreamble.\n\nInterpretation of terms.\n\nI. For the construction as well of this Ordinance as of Ordinance No. 14 of 1845, the Ordinance No. 2 of 1854, the Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, and the Ordinance No. 11 of 1856, the following Rules of Construction shall be observed in addition to whatsoever other Rules are by the said Ordinances respectively provided, that is to say:-\n\nThe expressions \"Public Officer\" or \"Public Department\" shall extend to and include His Excellency the Governor and every Officer or Department invested with or performing duties of a public nature, whether under immediate control of His Excellency or not.\n\nThe expression \"Lawful Authority\" shall extend to and denote any Permission which may be lawfully given by a Public Officer or Department or by a Private Person.\n\nWhere no specific Description is given of the Ownership of any Property, the word \"Property\" shall be taken to apply to all such Property of the kinds specified, whether owned by the Crown, by a Public Department, or by a Private Person.\n\nThe Governor in Executive Council to appoint Sites for Chinese Cemeteries, &c.\n\nII. It shall be lawful for His Excellency in Executive Council from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette to notify, sufficient and proper Places to be used as Cemeteries or Places of Burial for the Chinese; and from time to time to alter, vary, and repeal the said Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like manner; and in such Cemeteries or Places it shall be lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the Provisions of the Notifications actually in force, to bury their Dead, yet so as that any person who shall use for that purpose a Grave of less than Five Feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the Corpse or Coffin therein deposited, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than Five Dollars.\n\nPower to close Chinese Cemeteries.\n\nIII. His said Excellency in Executive Council is authorized from time to time to notify, by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette, that any Chinese Cemetery or Burial Ground shall, from a time in such Notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly; and whosoever after the expiration of the said specified time shall bury any Corpse in the said Cemetery or Burial Ground shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars nor less than Five.\n\nPenalties on Burials elsewhere than in Cemeteries, &c.\n\nIV. Whosoever shall bury any Corpse or Coffin in any Ground not being a Cemetery or Burial Ground authorised under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by Section Three of this Ordinance) for every such his offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars nor less than Five.\n\nFurther penalties on Burials being Nuisances, &c.\n\nV. The penalties in Sections Three and Four specified shall be deemed to be cumulative and not substituted penalties, in any case where the commission of any of the Offences to which the same are applicable shall occasion a Nuisance within the meaning of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, Section Fourteen.\n\nNuisances punishable, at the discretion of the Court.\n\nVI. The Offences next hereinafter specified shall be deemed to be Nuisances within the meaning of all Laws, at any time in force within this Colony, for the better repression of Nuisances, save that the Court or Justices before whom any person shall be found guilty of any such offence, in lieu of all other punishment for the same, shall order him for every such offence to pay a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Dollars nor less than One Dollar, that is to say;\n\n1. The Felling, Cutting, Destroying or Injuring of any standing or growing Tree, Shrub, or Underwood, any Grass-sod or Turf, or any Fence or Portion thereof (except in cases where any such offence shall be proved to have been committed with a felonious intention).\n\n2. The doing any act whereby Injury or Obstruction, whether directly or consequentially, may accrue to a Public Road, Path, or Walk, or to the Shore of the Sea, or to Navigation, Mooring, or Anchorage, Transit or Traffic, or whereby any other Nuisance within the meaning of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, Sections Fourteen, Fifteen, and Sixteen, whether directly or consequentially, may happen.\n\n3. The trespassing, by Man or Beast, upon or in any Messuage, Tenement, Cemetery, or Land being vested in or under the control or management of any Public Officer, or Department whatsoever.\n\nAnd 4. The obeying the calls of nature on any Way or in any public exposed or other improper Place, to the annoyance of others.\n\nWhipping may be substituted in the case of offences against Section VI Divisions I and 4.\n\nVII. It shall be lawful for the Court or Justices before whom any person shall be found guilty of any offence against Division One or Division Four of Section Six of this Ordinance, to order him, in lieu of all other punishment, to be once or twice publicly whipped, yet so as that no Offender shall receive in all for any one such offence more than Fifty Blows nor less than Five.\n\nExtension of penalties to Accessaries.\n\nVIII. Upon proof made to the satisfaction of the Court or Justices that a person accused of any Nuisance or Offence under this Ordinance, or any of the said enumerated Ordinances, is in fact guilty of having procured, permitted, connived at, or continued any such Nuisance or Offence, or of having neglected or refused to perform any Duty cast upon him by Law for the prevention or repression of the same, the said Court or Justices shall find the said person guilty of the said Nuisance or Offence, and shall award against him the penalty or other punishment to which persons guilty of the said Nuisance or Offence are or shall be liable.\n\nIncorporation with former Ordinances.\n\nIX. This Ordinance shall be read together with the Ordinances enumerated in Section One, and shall be incorporated therewith.\n\nExcept in case of illegal works, &c., any Complainant may be heard.\n\nX. All summary proceedings under this Ordinance, or the said enumerated Ordinances, (except proceedings under Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, Sections Two to Nine, both inclusive) may be had upon the information of any Complainant: But the disposal of Materials of Nuisances, of Building Materials, and of Utensils under Sections Seventeen and Nineteen of the last-mentioned Ordinance, shall be at the absolute discretion of the Surveyor General.\n\nPage 271\n\n34\n\nCosts may be given.\n\nXI. The Court, or Justices before whom any proceedings whatsoever shall be had under this Ordinance or the said enumerated Ordinances, may award Costs and Expenses to be paid by any Offender upon conviction, and to enforce payment thereof by any of the ways and means prescribed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1856 in respect of penalties.\n\nEnglish Law penalties.\n\nto come in force within this Colony.\n\nOrders, &c., of the Board of Health.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241296, "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": 321, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "18\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nWANTED.\n\nWe have to acknowledge receipt of a table of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's revised rates of Passage-money; and we have hung up the same in our office for the use of our personal friends.\n\nBy Order,\n\n2. H. CARVALHO, Secretary\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1857.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"HONGKONG REGISTER.\"\n\nMACAO, 1st February, 1857.\n\nDEAR SIR—The 10 mandarins, who came from Shang-hae, have been here for a few hours, and having taken their dinner at Cau-qa hong, embarked in the ensuing for Casa Branca, and from there to Yan-san and Cass feathers; and 5 of them bare blue buttons. Two of the mandarins have red buttons and peso sent to Caatho to assist Yeh—and it is said, that two of them were formerly in Canton in the time of the first war with Commissioner Lin.\n\n\"Every thing here is quiet, but I say in the harbour a good many mandarin junks displaying a varying flag. Though people are at this time they cannot do any harm here, I would question, that. What could we do prevent their attacking this place and carrying away the heads of the English that are living here?\n\nI am, &c,\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Posting Wrons in the CENTRAL POST OFFICE, Hollywood Road, are on the Subirth at 11 am, and stand on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock.\n\nSIXTY.\n\nWe recorded a pedestrian feat last week —walking to the top of Victoria Peak and back six times in twenty-four hours. The same gentleman did the same task this week in twelve hours, which shows, speaking in all honor and praise, that he is an artful dodger; for the latter feat though apparently more difficult, is in reality easier.\n\nProof—a friend of ours went up and down in fifty-seven minutes.—say one hour at four miles. Four times six's twenty-four; and good steady walking, making the trip equal to twenty-four miles in twelve hours is not very great walking.\n\nTaking all the difficulties into account on an undertaking like this is more easily carried through at one heat than in two, we have no doubt that with, or, from what we hear, without halting, the gentleman who has done the six times could easily do the eight if he set his mind on it.\n\nWe have been trying to persuade our ... C. to put himself in training and try the feat—but he says he has been once to the gap and considers that enough is as good as a feast.\n\nNo. 5. FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nThe climate of London is one thing, and the climate of Hongkong is quite another.\n\na more material matter than that of Hongkong, we must decidedly feel of any corps being sent away from this place.\n\nAn urgent necessity exists for augmenting and making the most effective part of the regular police force here, many of whom do their duty conscientiously to the best of their ability—but the superintendence of London is one thing: and the superintendence in Hongkong is another.\n\nThe screw Steamer Sir James Brooke left this at noon yesterday to Hongkong, having on board three companies of Sepoys, a detachment of European Artillery-men, for service in China, despatched on the requisition at the hands of Hongkong.\n\nThe troops consisted of two companies the 29th M. N. I., the European Artillery-men, Pang, and the Company of the Rifle Company accompanying this force are Major Cheslett, Captain Cazalet, Lieut. Foote, and Passingham of the gun, Capt. Man, Lieut. Forster of the Madras Artillery, Dr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon, Apothecary Edwards and Sub-Conductor Ball.\n\nThe Sir James Brooke has been chartered for Twelve thousand dollars.\n\nFrom these and other causes which might be specified Hongkong is not in effect London, and a system which may do very well at the latter place may require important modifications at the former.\n\nWe can never obtain the same raw material for a police here as obtainable in London, but we certainly, both in ordinary and in extraordinary times, such as the present, can make the most of our raw—excessively raw material.\n\nFirst: we would make the men effective by putting them on duty for a four hours beat; and if that could not be done conveniently from the central police station, we would do it from three stations—East, West, and Central.\n\nThe S.S. Auckland brought about 100 tons of shot, shell and ammunition from Pinang last week, which will be sent to China as soon as possible.\n\nBraitonore crew Pressa, Jan. 22.\n\nOn the arrival of the Mail at 6.30 PM of Sunday the 1st February we did, for the convenience of our subscribers, what we have not done before—viz: apply for a pass for two coolies to carry the respective Papers, which will secure early delivery.\n\nTwo passes were granted dated 10th January good for 21 days, the time expiring on the 31st January. Of course the 1st February was beyond the pale of the pass but coming direct from the Superintendent of Police we deemed it all right, thinking that police matters were going on in their usual cuddle.\n\nIn this belief the passes were on the night of the 2nd instant given to two of our Chinese Compositors to take them home, and we were somewhat astonished on being awakened at half past twelve, and informed, that our men were in custody.\n\nWe went down to the police office, and there we found the authorities pondering over the passes, and wondering to see the names of the boys written in red pencil, that being the color of the printing of the new passes.\n\nWe explained that a red pencil is a very common article in a printing office and that the names had been written in with that; then on making ourselves responsible for the lads we saw them let go.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Belgrave-square, on the 24th November, the wife of Admiral Sir T. COCHRANE, of a Son.\n\nAt Victoria, Cox, ELIZABETH SANDERS.\n\nMarriage Register xi:10.\n\nON SUNDAY, the 1st instant, the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Cadiz arrived with the English mails of 10th Dec.; from Singapore 24th, Penang 21st, Chusan 9th and Bombay 1st January.\n\nThe general news from Europe are of a most uninteresting description: and they are our readers have had them in the Extra we delivered on the arrival of the mail.\n\nThe Cadiz brings on:-\n\nOPIUM—For Cumsingmoon,.....875 chests,\n\nHongkong, 216\n\nWunsung.......435\n\nTotal—1581 chests,\n\nTREASURE\n\nFor Hongkong 459,965 dollars\n\nShanghai 479,697\n\nCanton 29,072\n\nTotal—1,126,831 dollars\n\nSTOCK OF TEA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, November 30, 1856.\n\nLondon\n\n...t. 86,786,000 19,115,000\n\nercel...\n\nHull and other English Ports\n\nFaith and\n\nGlas other Foreign Ports\n\nIreland...\n\nStock, 30th November, 1856..\n\ndo, do. 1855.\n\n1,000,000 2,000,000 2,933,000 1,130,000\n\n1,700, una\n\n.67,214,009\n\nSome doubt having been felt in the trade as to when the next reduction of the duty on tea would come into operation, an inquiry was sent to the Board of Customs: the Board stated in reply, that on the 6th of April next the duty will be reduced from 1s. 9d to 1s. 3d. per pound.—one News.\n\nCHINA SHIPPING.\n\nArrivals.\n\nAt London, November 12, Orient from Shang-hae: 21. Cûnger, from Canton; 29, John Wade, from Foo-chow; 2, Coega, from Foo-chow: $5, Flery Cross, from Foo-chow 2, Sff from Canton 27, Sea Witch Gram Foo-chaw; a fon Taylor, from Foo-chow; 24, Rant of Hyland, from Shangte; December 1. Lorena, from Canton; 1, Kangaroo, from Canton; 5. Lente Sophie, from Foo-chow, Daphne.\n\nfrom Canton, Celualat, from Canton; Julin, from Canton.\n\nAt Liverpool, November 23, Viking, from Foo-chow; 28,\n\nAt Pen. Dom Canton,\n\nWe observe that H. M.'s brig of war Camilla, Commander Civil, from the Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 15th passed Anjer on the 7th inst. bound to China—strife Tema January 20.\n\nHOME NEWS\" Nov. 20.\n\nH. M. Str, —Notice is given that preparations are now making for the intended distribution of proceeds arising from the Greek brigantines Chrissys, apprehended on May 22, 1855, by H. M. S. Niger.\n\nBranded dise Heriblad, captured on May 19, 1855, by H. M. S. Nya; tribution of proceeds arising from the Greek esse and for the intended distribution of proceeds arising the Gruss, vessel Pagis requifio.espted on 30, 1855, by ET. 31. S.\n\nThe Charlotte June, for Shanghai, which put back to undergo thorough repair, will sail again on the 15th of January, having discharged her cargo, and, being leaky.\n\nSecond we would provide for a more effective superintendence from sun down to sun rise either by a four or a three hours' compulsory patrol of the inhabitants, which would be no hard task on 150 to 200 men.\n\nThese are the first imperative alterations or amendments, but—\n\nThird; we would put the men into barracks and in effect, put them, as nearly as possible under military discipline.\n\nThe man who would not submit to that discipline is not fit for a police-man, and a smaller force of well cared for men would be infinitely more valuable than the no-cared for rag tag and bob-tail that we now call police.\n\n\"COMMERCIAL SHIPPING NEWS\" The John Wade from China to London, as Arrived in the Tower, She lost her main, tort, and mizzen mast, and re-rigged mast, off the Cape of Good Hope on August 11.\n\nShe sailed from St. Helena on Sept. 22.\n\nAt the present moment—What is the best part of the police, as far as acting in a body is concerned, and as far as looks go? Why the Gaol brigade.\n\nThey step well together, and they carry their arms as if they know how to use them, neither of which assertions can be made of the rest of the police force.\n\nAnd what does this smart active clearly appear to arise from, but from discipline.\n\nThey are in barracks; they have good wholesome food: they are properly drilled, and the result follows, which always follows when men are well cared for, and well disciplined.\n\nA contemporary recommends a mounted patrol.\n\nThe Times are serious, and perhaps it might cheer the spirits of the colonists to see a mounted policeman with his trousers half way up his leg. his legs swaying backwards and forwards like pendulums, in what the equestrian, audaciously, imagines is rising to the trot of the bony police charger; while by his side clatters a word, that he could not draw—or use if he drew.\n\nWe have no fault to find with the policeman, nor with Janier Burton, who captured the two lads, nor with his superiors who were trying to see out a\n\nWe record without either regret or astonishment the above event.\n\nIt is another sign and are we less amused at the figure of certain superior officers who lean back to prevent the jar of the canter on their spinal column.\n\nAmusement is sometimes very useful, and we expect that amusement would be the extent of the utility of a mounted patrol.\n\nWe have given serious advice about the police, and finding that of no avail we have attacked them by ridicule; but they are thick-skinned animals, and we fear we are far from having pricked them into watchfulness by our sting.\n\nWe will not give up our task however, knowing how much depends on the vigilance of the police, and as vigilance is not natural in them, as it certainly is not, we shall try and establish it as an exotic which perhaps with due care may become a thriving plant.\n\nFirst then, the whole system of the police is wrong.\n\nThe day duty extends from six o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock at night, and night duty from ten o'clock at night until six o'clock in the morning.\n\nAll the changes of the day and night duty being effected from the central police station.\n\nThe hours of patrolling of each constable on night service is for the whole extent of the time.—night hours.\n\nWe believe this is the London system; and may for anything we know answer very well there; and perhaps it would answer very well here, if all the conditions were the same as they are in London, which they are not.\n\nOfficers,\n\nServants\n\nHank & Pike\n\nArtificers,\n\nFollowers 22, servants 18,\n\nDATA.\n\n2. 37.N.T Art.N.L\n\nDepartures.\n\nNovember 28th Armitage, for Shanghai: 23, Countess of Rarfield, for Shanghae; December,\n\n8, Mencide, fur Sigita\n\nThe amount of bills drawn by the East India Company on their respective Presidencies, from the 26th ult. to the 9th inst, is as follows:-\n\n£ s. d.\n\nBengal......442,920 12\n\nRate of Exchange. 91 2. Od. per Cus\n\nMadras 46,097 U\n\n9 Rupee.\n\nBombay 4,263 6\n\n28. 04. per ditto.\n\nTotal........£22,077 9\n\n4\n\n--Atlas, December 10.\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4 PM, the following pieces:-\n\n1.—Prince Albert: March --Kilmer\n\n2.—Spanish Volonaise,--Isrypsant.\n\n3.—Aric. Finale Lip Sonnambula. Bellini 4.—Royal Irish Quadrille's,—Julien,\n\n—Dalkeith Piwo Waltz—Labicky.\n\n—Maltese Gallop—no\n\nH. M. Str, Barracouta arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Fire to the Comus.\n\nThe night was very dark and two fire rafts came down and were close on the vessel before they were seen—one was boomed off by the fire boom. but the other worked on to and carried away the spanker boom.\n\nThe ropes about the bow were nearly burnt through.\n\nThe H. C. steamer Auckland returned to this port from Pinang on Friday last, bringing on for service in China about 159 Tons of shot, shell, and ammunition.\n\nThe Auckland brought on from Pinang the following officers and troops for service in China:\n\nMajor Cheslett 29th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Cazalet,\n\nLiu, Foote,\n\nPassingham\n\n»\n\nTwo Companies Sepoys 20th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Man, Madras Artillery.\n\nLieut. Forster,\n\nForty Europeans\n\nDr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon.\n\nApothecary Edwards.\n\nSh.Conductor Ball.\n\nFor the purpose of conveying the above Officers and Troops to Canton the Bore Company's steamers steamer St James Brooke has been chartered, and sails to-morrow for Whampoa.\n\nThe sum of Dals, Twelve Thousand for the trip and coals are the terms upon which the steamer has been chartered.\n\nAs the sement of troops from India has commenced Calcutta and Madras. The way with China as be we may look forward for speedy reinforcements from entered upon with a large military force, stronger than employed during the last war—Siraits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce, January 20.\n\nIn consequence of the pressing request of the Governor of Hongkong, General Bodelt has resolved to\n\nsend away to-morrow the Rifle Company of the 39th M. N. I with Capt. Bark and Lieut. Cos.\n\nConcerning the (From our Overland Edition.)\n\nCUMSTAL OF ARTUM AND NINE OTHERS ACCUSED TO POISON.—Particulars of the attempt to poison the whole community by bread from the E-sing Bakery will be found elsewhere.\n\nThe partner of the firm, Ahlum, arrested at Macao, was brought back, and after an examination before the Magistrates, was committed with nine others to take his trial at the Criminal Sessions this month.\n\nThe trial will commence on Monday next.\n\nOn Wednesday last an application was made to the Court to have the money seized or Ahlem's premises given up to pay for his defence.\n\nAttorney General, backed by the affidavit of two of Altun's creditors, resisted the application. stating in his as courteous manner that he did so to prevent the money being Thundered or squandered in his defence.\n\nThe Counsel, in support of the motion, seemed to think the Attorney General was using strong language. when, of course, the Attorney General repeated\n\nthe bill for Aldam's defence being paid out of the money, after it was laid before and approved of by His Lordship.\n\nHis Lordship very properly sustained the Attorney General, except of course as regarded his insinuations.\n\nThe prisoners will be well defended—they have two Attorneys and two Barristers.\n\nChinese New Year.—The Chinese New Year fell on Monday, the 25th Instant.\n\nIt is usually a scene of noisy rejoicing for several days and nights.\n\nIn London they have the pick of the very best labor of the country,—they will not other.\n\nHere our only easier is from bad request the Authorities to stop the usual expenditure of fire-works as a means of preventing the probability of fire.\n\nAided by this support, the Government issued an order that there should be no fireworks, let off.\n\nIn consequence, the New Year has passed without any of the usual rejoicings, showing, that if we choose to exercise it, we have a power of repression, especially if we show ourselves earnest in the matter.\n\nIn London, the men are well paid, and properly housed and cared for.\n\nHere they are not well paid—they live where they can, in low and dirty hovels, and no one cares for them.\n\nIn London, the care and training of strong healthy men originally, make them still stronger and handier—they are quite able, though not useless to walk their eight hours beat without inconvenience, to keep awake and be an effective sure of praise, and rewards, and promotion—give them up and retire.\n\nHere the want of care and discipline makes men in the end, neither strong nor healthy at the first, so they never were able to walk an eight hours beat steadily; they have little or nothing to look forward to.they are not likely to be praised in their present state.\n\nthe rewards they obtain are paltry and the promotion is a doubt full affair.\n\nSee the case of a licenum, who by great pluck at sea single-handed more off an armed gang of Chinese at Aberdeen, he was rewarded with ten dollars until we\n\nstate of our Settlement, and that the Chinese population ? shazed the government in to giving more.\n\nThe Admiral in reply to the muy treacherous attempts made against us on the morning of 19th inst. sent ashore several parties of Sailors and Marines, who set fire to the western suburbs in the neighborhood and above Sa-men; this work was carried out successfully by the boats of the Niger, Encounter, and Barracouta.\n\nThe men of the Fifty-ninth were also detailed to fire the Streets behind the Factories but, owing to loosing their way in the labyrinth of Streets in that neighborhood they had to return without effecting their object.\n\nAmen of the 59th, with a Lieutenant, a Sergeant, and 20 men of the 59th, with a Sergeant and six men of the Police, who are to return, by a Mail Steamer\n\nAnswer---I do.\n\nOn the\n\nCras and by Mr. Jay—I'm not aware that the delivered the remainder of our bread to Mr. May at the Police Court on the evening of the following day.\n\nQuestion—Do you not, as an Editor, make it your Ahlam's father, when the ninth prisoner was not in the neighborhood of the Yamun of the Governor General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent.\n\nIn the body of the paper will be found Maui-General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent. The whole operation was effected with a loss of two men of the Fifty-ninth killed and about six wounded; the latter are doing, worth attention.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nQuestion—Then Sir, do you mean to say you did not know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nAnswer—What have I to do as an Editor of Newspaper with B-ring's stores.\n\nI wanted to say that I know of a bakery being near the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a little po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever-\n\nto sancos Mr. May was not present when the known to face for menfacturing but necessity for the ly cluding the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! H. M. Str, Barracontu arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Ret tre to the Comus.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a litle po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever- the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! Look the dangerous leup.\n\nAs they ruse from the water, tendent of Police, and Mr. Meer as ColonialS erretary.\n\nMr. Fowler assisted his wife in procuring a yout baid of fi was a general investigation into the eas-Cases him on or about his shoilers, Sire wiped the weter which require particular investigation, 1 enquire into be from his eyes and mouth, and encouraged him to retain fore sending then to the Magistras way my origins: his inpe of being saved.\n\nHe continued to struggle with intention to follow the sun course in the pressul ins the waves.\n\nHalf-an-hour elapsed, and there were no tanen: I tried to put a fasight into the cast as super-sigan of unsistance.\n\nHis strength was rugidly failing afterwards we turced ourselves his wife observing it, tried asrw to cheer him.\n\nEle suid\n\nbread to my house.\n\nI made this objection on the isch THE DEPORTATION Onntaver. -This is one Jaanary Inn & and 7 o'clock in the morning when I saw him bringing bal.\n\nAnother qual va cung of the many Ordinances which of late have passed ing the bread is the baskets, tlo secourt priser tool: before the mind's eye of the Legislative Council.onit the bend was delivered it.\n\nI said, \"Oh oh my Enne If we were called open to give succinctly our ab low you deliver my breas de you I made un res- We pense but gave me a kind of a grin.\n\nI saw him go away. jections to it, we could not well to .\n\nand I then went in an old y compradore to mentio could but answer in these words:--\n\nE-eing's all and have no more broad from him, es [ theagle he would poison 56.\n\nA partook of the breast, and intendeat of police, the servant git des cat what we left on the plate into justices and took the depositions.\n\nWe did not he could not stand it any longer, it sees as though he About five sivutes afterwards I wont be my sitting make this change in consequence of having illegally must give up.\n\nAt this moniest she bear a steamer coming rapidly through the water.\n\nShe says, \"My dear room from the Inekfast table; immediately afterwards admiciatore: ontis.\n\nSANDWITH DRINgen, -I am in business in the firm husband, a few moments more and we are safe.\n\nDon't To\n\nyou hear a boat coming?\n\nHe said he did, and immedi the 28th instant, carried with her 168 of the fast.\n\nI at lown en was looking over some papers, who of Thomas Hunt & Co, 1 lived in the sine house with deported, to be lender en the itiand of Hairan al of a sudden I vomitest- vomited three or four times | Captain Ľudrost.\n\nOn the 15th January, 1 cat of some ately revived, and made all the efforts in his power, ned move during the course of the day, sail I have concinnaly bred supplied by the ninth prisoner, and I was alterwards struggled for Simself and his herose wife until the Mia.\n\nLandel there, if they can be landed, what will suffered fict the effects of the poisoning up to the pre very ill.\n\nand no over all that eat of it in the house.\n\nI say took them, with scores of others, on her com- I nocious decks.Syracuse Journal.\n\nhave not perfectly recover from it at this tale.\n\nbecunus of them?\n\nAccompanying the motley sout time.\n\n*I do not like thes Dr. Feil,\n\nThe son why I mot tell;\n\nBut us\n\nnow, and dust all well,\n\nI do not like thee Jr. Tril,”\n\n319", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "71\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATE can have their Cards, &c., printed in the best style at the Office of\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nof the respective Papers, which will secure early insertion.\n\nEverything taken at Cowloon will be sent to the Government Office, if not claimed before 4 o'clock.\n\nyou will receive an official communication from me, the bending of which I should be glad to avoid, but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles listed were way whet\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Public Worship at the HONGKONG REGISTER UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Hongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\nTO LET by the month, & Three capacious Rooms, capable of accommodating ten gentlemen, with apartments for any number up to that amount.\n\nApply to\n\nBOWRA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 28 April 1857.\n\nTo the Editor at the \"Hongkong Register.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 27th April, 1857,\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Felaban on the 10th April, Mrs. J. CALOROSSET Sure, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Shangwe, on the 15th April, Mrs. H. KOONS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Macao, on the 9th April, Mrs. B. E. CARNEIRO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Trinity Church, Shangbae, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Halon, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esq. of Calcutta, to GUNA EMILY, third Daughter of George Hargreaves, Esq., Liverpool.\n\nOn board American Ship \"Celestial,\" in this harbour, on the 25th April, by the Rev. J. W. Johnson, John A. CREWS WALD, Esq. of Boston, to FRANCES ANNE, Daughter of Edwin Lemist, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDrowned, in March last, in the 37th year of his age, JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq., M.D., eldest son of the Revd Dr. Vaughan, of Regent's Park, London.\n\nAt Macao, on the 20th April, PATRICK STEWART, Esq., Acting British Consular Agent at that port.\n\nAt Hongkong, on Sunday, 26th April, of dysentery, THOMAS HOPE, eldest and sole surviving son of the Rev. M. C. C., Assistant Chaplain to the Forces. Aged 2 years.\n\nN., lat. 31.16 N., and long. 121.46 E.; on the 22nd, the British barque Whampoa, in lat. 28:21 N., and long. 122.1; on the 23rd, the British schooner Eamont, in lat. 25.24 N., and long. 119.56 E.; on the 24th, the British schooner Emily Elphinstone, in lat. 23.17 N., and long. 121.29 E. Passed the Lady Mary Wood, on the 22nd instant, to the Northward of Turnabout near the use of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nDEAR SIR—Having had occasion to be in Gough Street yesterday (Sunday) morning, I was surprised to see this usually quiet street a scene of bustle and activity, and thinking that I had seen it announced in the Colonial Gazette that no Government or Police work was allowed on the Sabbath, I merely wish to know: 1. If any new private instructions have been given to Contractors or others to set aside this Government order. 2. If not, it is a high disgrace that Government should allow its servants to employ labourers on public work on a \"day of rest.\"\n\nI merely state what I saw almost under the windows of our Lieutenant Governor's house and opposite the house of the Registrar General and the Collector of Police &c., several Chinese workmen were employed in repairing the road; lower down the street, near the house of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nVox Populi is not admissible on the ground, amongst others, that the writer falls into the errors which he condemns. In addition—the letter is anonymous.\n\nJ. BOWRING,\n\nTo the Honorable COLONEL DUNLOP,\n\nThe Colonel issues the following Memo., attaching to it the Governor's letter, which requires that all the stolen property be forthwith returned to the Government Office:\n\n[No. 17—APRIL 29, 1857.]\n\nMemo. The undersigned offers notice that parties who have any articles which were taken at Cowloon will immediately return them to this Office. Officers are requested to state their names, or that they have returned all to this Office.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) JOHN KING, Captain,\n\nTown Major.\n\nTOWN MAJOR'S OFFICE, 25th April, 1857.\n\nThe officers naturally felt annoyed at having such accusations made against them, and their several replies are amusing enough. They run thus:\n\n1. \"Have nothing—I never took anything.\"\n\n2. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n3. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n4. \"Seen.\"\n\n5. \"Not a legal question—stole nothing.\"\n\n6. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n7. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n8. \"Stole nothing: the two hats Dr. Bridges said there was no bar in taking. I have already returned.\"\n\n9. \"I have stolen nothing.\"\n\n10. \"Has stolen nothing.\"\n\n11. \"I took nothing away from Cowloon.\"\n\n12. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\nThis was not all; one of them afterwards wrote a letter demanding an apology under the threat of \"court of inquiry.\" We have not this intermediate correspondence, but the fellow who signs himself \"X X X\" in the China Mail, has said, so it has come to pass, the Registration Ordinance is progressing, and we have an altered and amended—if not improved draft copy of the Ordinance in the last Government Gazette.\n\nThe Band of the 59th Regiment will be performing to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4½ p.m., the following pieces:—\n\nMarch—\"Souvenir des Alpes\"—Leitzer.\n\nPolka—\"Jalve.\"\n\nSelection 4—\"Quadrilles Mouton.\"\n\nWaltz—\"Auf dem Lufte, Gung'—Strauss.\n\nGallop—\"Corsa\"—Kulorer.\n\nWe beg to return our sincere thanks to His Excellency Sir John Bowring Knt. LL.D. &c. for so kindly furnishing us with the precis of the contents of the papers taken at the attack on Cowloon, &c.\n\nBetween that and \"stolen\" there is a mighty difference in the minds of some people. We will illustrate the difference by telling the following story:—A Leith wine merchant whose business had been declining, and upon whom a strong desire for military fame just at the same time fell, was glad to take service with Don Pedro when he contended with Miguell for the throne of Portugal.\n\nIt would have been for him had he in the course of his universal acquirements stumbled upon the precaution of the good Chamundas; or had looked nearer one at the protector-te of Olyfe the hammer, when the community was governed without Laws. Back leginnion, however, was not suited to the busy, meddling mind of Wilmi le Teary. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so hemmed by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one now] could walk a large within the risk of having off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap—\"Knicker\"-bocker's History of New York.\"\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nThe COVENT, 1st April, 1857.\n\nDEAR MR. F——\n\nMy wife (who can fight anticly for my peace of mind) derives her views of Hongkong politics from the Friend of China. Upon the ideas of the mild expositor of Sir John's responsibilities, she grafts a few of her own, and the following shortly shadows forth the result.\n\nWas Colony ever at such a pass\n\nWhat with poison, Sed riots, de dear that gas.\n\nA pretty large role of ill it will sum to\n\nThe taxes increasing, such a state the police in,\n\nAnd coolies refusing to carry our chairs;\n\nIf you'd know why this was, it is simply because\n\nThat horrid Sir John's authe Board of affairs!\n\nHe has truly thrown things in a terrible mix,\n\nAnd no wonder it is that with ge we are tow'ring;\n\nLa jury pays a,\" when the public\n\nWhy, who is the party to blame but Sir John?\n\nThe responsible man.—if your servants are capable,\n\nIf your carriage raptures, or child falls down stairs,\n\nFor sourbour, bad potatoes, or premature babi\n\nIs that dreadful old man at the head of affairs!\n\nJust look how he went and black-holed those poor bakers,\n\n(As it must be admitted they'd given you cause,)\n\nAl then four out Murrow & Co. to be breakers\n\nBy housing some coolies) of liberty's laws.\n\nFor struggling young orlenists ain't le a rush nares.*\n\nNor Christian nor Pagan is safe from his energet\n\nHet in happy to heap our dear chaplain's dham Gua\n\nThis cruel old man at the head of affairs!\n\nIf the ad come too late, or fire catches a chimney,\n\nIf our sleep is histure'd by a noisy cock,\n\nEve it a man-of-war strikes on a rock.\n\nf the sun is too hot, or the street lamps burn dim—nay,\n\nthe bugs at the school of St Andrew are lousy,\n\nOr the 59th Band plays unpopular airs;\n\nIf offcids are idle, or paracas are affils!\n\nIt's all the old as it the head\n\nBy his hobbies not only the clothes get se mangled,\n\n\"That buttons and darts take the wake of one's timiz,\n\nBut we're liable, too, in our beds t\n\nto be strangled,\n\nAnd he won't hang the man who emitted the crime.\n\nJould know how his sid yazilation\n\nIf he the load of ane's family rates,\n\nIncremes\n\nHe would practise (what I can't, fin enre) resignation,\n\nAnd put that dear end at the head of affairs.\n\n(Morita loquitur)\n\nAnd now. you've done, pray let me have a word to\n\n(That politics sextainly not a good hand)\n\nI would have you remember it's very absurd, to\n\nTalk about things that you don't understand.\n\nIf he'd three heads, His Cerberas, still be'd have reason\n\nTo say he's tough work to grizzle his air;\n\nAnd I really believe, in' you'll think it high tresom,\n\nWo might have a wote inan at the head of affairs.\n\n*Tron, WELDA.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 1857.\n\nRooms, where such documents as the government desires to make known are supplied for the use of all the papers without respect to party or color. It would of course be expecting too much from a man who was only a radical member of parliament any such liberality—that style of individual does not act in such a way. All his liberality is expended in clap-trap, and when the time of action comes, he is found to be nothing but a windbag—As for the Mail we could expect no courtesy from it in such a case.\n\nThe Coromandel returned to harbour on the morning of the 26th, from the survey of the rock on which the unfortunate Raleigh struck. The survey was made by Captain Bates, who was accompanied by Mr. Williams, Master of the state that so well known Raleigh, and when then for him.\n\nAs we are a day behind the for, thanks to our kind friends, the above firm, we think it unnecessary to republish the documents, but we call attention to the reasonable inference drawn by the\n\nThere is one drop of comfort in this bucket of filth—the Ordinance never will be carried out, not even when the gloss of novelty is upon it. There is no staff of officials to carry it out.\n\nWe may therefore rest satisfied that the minds of the Chinese will not be undermined by this Ordinance, and the only bad effect of it will be to disgrace a British Statute book. Spies there are, and will be—like other vermin they are useful and can be dispensed with; but the more we can do without them the better, and we hope never to see the day when the inhabitants of a whole colony shall turn spies, and no one however respectable be safe.\n\nThe Sampson has had an engagement with pirates near Mi-chin bay, to the South of the entrance of the Straits of Hainan. The steamer had followed them up to this place which it appears they have made their rendezvous for some time past.\n\nThe result of a sharp and successful contest was the complete defeat of the Pirates who were compelled to retire, having about 200 killed, wounded, or prisoners, in the hands of the assailants. We have not heard of any serious casualties to any of the Sampson crew.\n\nXI. A Chinese Houses shall be divided into things or Káp of Ten Houses each, wherein every Occupier of a House shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct of the occupiers of the other nine; and Occupier of a House shall be Kápcheong or Thingman to be elected by common vote of the said Tithing or Kap to that office, subject to the approval of this Government, and he shall be the proper Representative of the said Tithing or Kap, and be distinguished by some Badge to be appointed by His Excellency, and he shall hold his said office during one year; and no other person shall assume the title or badge of Kápcheong of such Tithing or Káp.\n\nXIV. It shall be the duty of every Occupier of House to report to his Kápcheong without delay, to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, Suspicions of Crime, committed or to be committed, and respectively, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, to be aiding and assisting to the said Kápcheong in the execution of the same; and further, to do his utmost to prevent all crimes, felonies, and misdemeanours, and to apprehend all persons whom he shall find in the actual commission of the same.\n\nIV. It shall be the duty of the Kápcheong to communicate forthwith to the Registrar General all such reports as in Section Fourteen are mentioned, when the same are received by him; and likewise to report to him to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, or Suspicions of Crime, whether reported from the Kap or not; and in all other respects to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of a Constable of the Police Force of Hongkong, so as the same are altered by this Ordinance.\n\nThis is the spy system on which the Ordinance rests.\n\nWe give below part of a correspondence between Sir John Bowring and the officers who were employed on the descent lately made on Cowloon, powerful in her armament and crew as the Sampson is.\n\nGovernment Office, 25th April, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR COLONEL—I have been quite shocked to hear that, among other things, the official sent were eiti- Register\" or \"Register's Advertiser, please address to the \"Printer and Publisher\n\nWe further learn that the Chinese captured have been given up to the Mandarins at Amoy, and that the Portuguese taken are to be handed over to the Macao Authorities.\n\nThe expedition to Chek-chun was accompanied by Mr. Wan and acquainted with only one of the inculpating facts by surprise. A large number of \"braves\" were found concealed in the city, and a few house before the attack.\n\nThere is no evidence that poisoning as an art has been practiced in China, and we search her annals in vain for a case parallel to that of Hongkong.\n\nThe pith failed through the dilatoriness of the mandarins sent for distribution among a portion of the attacked force, & quantity of a perennial creeper found on the hills of the central provinces. Its botanical character, as well as its precise physiological action, we have yet to ascertain.\n\nIts active principle appears to be highly volatile, and great exactness is needed in preparing it. Several of Mr. Markwick's gold wristlets were found concealed in a two watchkeys, a ring, and a gold watch and chain had also been pawned to pay a gambling debt, but were not in league with the police.\n\nThe expedition to Cowloon was accompanied by Dr. Bridges, Mr. Caldwell being confined to his room with illness and though the inslemency of the weather prevented it from starting till day light, several hours after the time contemplated, the soldiers were within a hundred yards of the fort ere the Chinese thought of even closing the gates.\n\nThe doors were instantly scaled, the gates opened, and the fort taken possession of, without the longest violence being used towards the Chinese.\n\nIt is said that not far from every poison tree the antidotes were ordered from the Pacific to join Commandant was of course in a state of great alarm.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nShanglus, 23d March, 1857. (From North-China Herald, March 29.)\n\nNotice is hereby given, that in pursuance of arrangements made by the Chinese Authorities for the improvement of the navigation of the Yangtze Kiang, Eight patriotic Iron Nan Boyus have been moored between Chatela Island and Woosung. These have been laid down by M. GEORGE L. CAER, Master, N., in the following positions :-\n\nOn the South Sand, three painted Black, and numbered 3, 9, 5.\n\nOn the North Sand, three painted Red, and numbered 2, 1, 6.\n\nOn the North Spit, off the entrance of Woosung River, one painted Red, and numbered 9.\n\nThe bearings are all Magnetic.\n\nThe Light Ship is moored in 4½ fathoms, at low water, Spring Tides.\n\nThe Trevs upon Block House island bear from N. 15,0,0 West, distance 3 miles.\n\nGO. 1. CA, Master. BN,\n\nBy Order,\n\nH. M. S. Pique.\"\n\nSECRETARY,\n\nNINGPO.\n\nA ROCK NOT NOTED IN THE CHARTS.\n\nThe Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, right in the way of vessels going in to Ningpo from sea through the Fisherman's chain. She was 12 hours on the reef, and 3 feet under her stern at low water.\n\nThe bearings of a rock or reef on which the Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, are as follows:\n\nSkald Island, S. & B., distance 3 cables,\n\nSouth extreme of Chiu-san, E ½ S.\n\nLarge Volcano, S. W. westerly Extremes of Ruggeds, N. N. W. W.,\n\nand N. X. E.\n\n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244351, "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": 92, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.**\n\n[JUNE 5, 1858]\n\nSealed Tenders will be received at the Office of the Colonial Secretary, at any time between this Date and the 19th Day of June instant, both inclusive, for the sole Privilege of slaughtering Cattle within the Slaughter-houses specified in \"The Markets' Ordinance, 1858,\" (Section XX.), and the Bye-Laws dated the 1st Day of June now instant, and notified in the Hongkong Government Gazette, of the 4th Day of the same Month.\n\nThe Consideration or Rent, Conditions, and Period of the said Privilege, shall be such as, and none other than, are in the said Ordinance and Bye-Laws respectively set forth; and it will commence on the 1st Day of July next. Every Tender must state the exact amount intended to be offered as such Consideration or Rent; which will be payable Monthly, and in advance.\n\nBy Order,\nW. T. BRIDGES,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th June, 1858.\n\n## POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nTHE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer \"NORNA,\" will close on SUNDAY, the 6th June, at 6 o'clock P.M.\n\nThe usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 2d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.\n\nAll Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 1 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.\n\nPost Office, Hongkong, 27th May, 1858.\n\nF. W. MITCHELL,\nActing Post-Master.\n\n## Steam for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON; ALSO, BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.\n\nTHE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Steam-ship \"NORNA,\" Captain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 7th June, at 2 P.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on board until 3 P.M. on the 5th; SPECIE until Noon on the 6th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 6th.\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\nCONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Messrs DANTELL, DICKINSON & Co., of London, in our Firm, ceased on the 31st January last. Mr WILLIAM DICKINSON continues to be a Partner with us.\n\nALFRED WILKINSON & Co.\nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nI, the undersigned, have admitted Mr. F. INNES HAZELAND a Partner in my business, of Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, and Notary Public.\n\nG. COOPER TURNER.\nHongkong, 15th March, 1858.\n\n師拿丹士丹拿謹啟未士谷巴月初一日戊午年二\n\n## POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED, for general information, that on and after WEDNESDAY Next, the 9th instant, a PACKET AGENCY will be established at Whampoa, and Messrs SMITH & BRIMELOW, have been appointed to conduct the Postal duties there.\n\nPost-office, Hongkong, 5th June, 1858.\n\nF. W. MITCHELL,\nActing Post-Master.\n\n## COPPER-PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain) printed from them at the Office of the \"China Mail\".\n\nHongkong, September, 1857.\n\n職作時煙招N狀倫你得之伴蝦士\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE is authorized to sign the name of our Firm in China.\n\nHOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.\nHongkong, 1st December, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\nMAXN. FISCHER,\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 24th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nI, the undersigned, have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co.\n\nH. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.\nWhampoa, 7th April, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is authorized to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.\n\nJAMES PURDON & Co.\nHongkong, 18th April, 1858.\n\n## In the Estate of the late ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD, MASTER MARINER, deceased.\n\nNOTICE. All Persons having Claims against the above Estate, will please send in particulars of the same, before the 31st July, 1858, and all Parties indebted thereto, are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned.\n\nFRED. HOWE HALE,\nH.B.M.'s Officiating Consul, Administrator.\n\nBritish Consulate, Foochow, 15th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTo be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, at FOOCHOW, on ... LOT, containing a GODOWN, with RESIDENCE on the Upper Floor,--the Property of the late Mr. R. C. CRAWFORD.\n\nFRED. HOWE HALE,\nAdministrator.\n\nBritish Consulate, Foochow, 15th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR GEORGE J. HELLAND is authorized to sign our Firm.\n\nJOHN BURD & Co.\nHongkong, 8th May, 1858.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.\n\nPRICE, $12 per Annum; Single Copies, Thirty-five Cents.\n\nTERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,--Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents--All of these charges for each Repetition.\n\n## Ms I. Bowring No 40.\n\n...\n\nShare to acknowledge the receipt of your Dispatches Nos. 73. and 77. of the 1st and 21st of June last respecting ... See Sir G. B. ...'s last ... of the Acting ... Minister on ... 8532 which ... Secretary that no ... will be returned to that Keep...\n\n...\n\nThe trouble of writing a long ... Message, it is proper for me to mention that Share no directions having represented to the Governor Edward that Dr. Bridges has accepted ... above ... in the important Office of Acting ... Colonial Secretary of H. Kong at a moment of great ... responsibility when there was no ... body ... in the Colony who wither Could or would succeed to it, and having performed the duties of that Office with honesty, energy, and success.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254991, "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": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "# THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1862.\n\nany information or indictment, should be punishable by fine and imprisonment, as in the said Act is mentioned:\n\nAnd that if any person within any part of the United Kingdom, or in any part of His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, should, without the leave and licence of His Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or attempt or endeavour to equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or should knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel should be employed in the service of any foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any foreign Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of government in or over any foreign State, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, as a transport or store-ship, or with intent to cruize or commit hostilities against any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the subjects or citizens of any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in any Colony, Province, or part of any Province or Country, or against the inhabitants of any foreign Colony, Province, or part of any Province or Country, with whom His Majesty should not then be at war; or should, within the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's dominions, or in any Settlement, Colony, Territory, Island, or place belonging or subject to His Majesty, issue or deliver any Commission for any ship or vessel, to the intent that such ship or vessel should be employed as aforesaid, every such person so offending should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour,\n\nenlist or enter himself to enlist, or should agree to enlist or to enter himself to serve as a soldier, or to be employed, or should serve in any warlike or military operation, in the service of or for or under or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, either as an officer or soldier, or in any other military capacity; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave or licence as aforesaid, accept, or agree to take or accept, any Commission, Warrant, or Appointment as an officer, or should enlist or enter himself, or should agree to enlist or enter himself, to serve as a sailor or marine, or to be employed or engaged, or should serve in and on board any ship or vessel of war, or in and on board any ship or vessel used or fitted out, or equipped or intended to be used, for any warlike purpose, in the service of or for or under or in aid of any Foreign Power, Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave and licence as aforesaid, engage, contract, or agree to go, or should go to any Foreign State, Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or to any place beyond the seas, with an intent or in order to enlist or enter himself to serve, or with intent to serve in any warlike or military operation whatever, whether by land or by sea, in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, either as an officer or a soldier, or in any other military capacity, or as an officer or sailor, or marine, in any such ship or vessel as aforesaid, although no enlisting money, or pay, or reward should have been or should be, in any or either of the cases aforesaid, actually paid to or received by him, or by any person to or for his use or benefit; or if any person whatever, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any part of His Majesty's Dominions elsewhere, or in any Country, Colony, Settlement, Island, or Place belonging to or subject to His Majesty, should hire, retain, engage, or procure, or should attempt or endeavour to hire, retain, engage, or procure, any person or persons whatever to enlist, or to enter or engage to enlist, or to serve or to be employed in any such service or employment as aforesaid, as an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, either in land or sea service, for or under or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or People, or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of Government as aforesaid, or to go, or to agree to go, or embark from any part of His Majesty's Dominions, for the purpose, or with intent to be so enlisted, entered, engaged, or employed as aforesaid, whether any enlisting money, pay, or reward should have been, or should be actually given or received, or not; in any or either of such cases, every person so offending should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon being convicted thereof, upon any information or indictment, be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the Court in which such offender should be convicted; and every such ship or vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores which may belong to or be on board of any such ship or vessel, should be forfeited; and it should be lawful for any Officer of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or any Officer of His Majesty's Navy, who is by law empowered to make seizures for any forfeiture incurred under any of the laws of Customs or Excise, or the laws of trade and navigation, to seize such ships and vessels aforesaid, and in such places and in such manner in which the Officers of His Majesty's Customs or Excise and the Officers of His Majesty's Navy are empowered respectively to make seizures under the laws of Customs and Excise, or under the laws of trade and navigation; and that every such ship and vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores, which may belong to or be on board of such ship or vessel, may be prosecuted and condemned for any breach of the laws made for the protection of the revenues of Customs and Excise, or of the laws of trade and navigation:\n\n## \n\nHer Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, being desirous of enabling Her subjects to engage in and enter the Naval and Military Service of the Emperor of China, is pleased to Order, and it is hereby Ordered, that from and after the first day of September next, it shall be lawful for Horatio Nelson Lay, one of Her Majesty's subjects, and Sherard Osborn, Captain in Her Majesty's Navy, to enter into the Military and Naval Service of the said Emperor, and to accept any Commission, Warrant, or other appointment under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for their services, and to fit out, equip, purchase, and acquire ships or vessels of war for the use of the said Emperor, and to engage and enlist British subjects to enter the Military and Naval Service of the said Emperor. And it is hereby further Ordered that it shall be lawful for every British subject to enlist and enter himself by engaging and enlisting himself with the said Horatio Nelson Lay and Sherard Osborn, and no other person or persons whatsoever, in the Military and Naval Service of the said Emperor, and to serve the said Emperor in any Military, Warlike, or other operations, either by land or by sea, and for that purpose to go to any place or places beyond the seas, and to accept any Commission, Warrant, or other appointment from or under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for his service: Provided always, that the licence and permission hereby given shall be in force only for the term of two years from the said first day of September next, unless, by Order in Council made in manner aforesaid, such period should be further extended.\n\n## At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of August, 1862.\n\n### PRESENT,\n\n**The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.**\n\nWHEREAS by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act further to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in England,\" it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, from time to time to postpone the time appointed by any Order in Council for the discontinuance of burials, or otherwise to vary any Order in Council made under any of the Acts recited in the said Act, or under the said Act (whether the time thereby appointed for the discontinuance of burials thereunder, or other operation of such Order, shall or shall not have arrived), as to Her Majesty, with such advice as aforesaid, may seem fit;\n\n### PRESENT.\n\n**The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.**\n\nWHEREAS the Town Council of the borough of NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, in county of STAFFORD, have under the provisions of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the seventeenth and eighteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act to make further provision for the burial of the dead in England, beyond the limits of the metropolis,\" presented a petition to Her Majesty in Council, stating that an Order in Council has been issued directing that burials should be discontinued, with certain modifications, in the churchyards of St. Giles's and St. George's, both in the parish of Newcastle-under-Lyme; and representing that there is difficulty and inconvenience in providing sufficient places of burial for the inhabitants of the said parish of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and of such part of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, as is situate within the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, under the powers and provisions of the Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act to amend the Laws concerning the burial of the dead in England beyond the limits of the metropolis, and to amend the Act concerning the burial of the dead in the metropolis,\" and praying that powers may be vested in the said Town Council for providing such place or places of burial under the provisions of the various Acts of Parliament relating to burials as shall be deemed requisite for the inhabitants of the said parish of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and of such part of the said parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, as is situate within the said borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.\n\nAnd whereas certain Orders in Council have been made, directing the discontinuance of burials in the churchyards hereinafter mentioned, from the time mentioned in such Orders respectively; and whereas it seems fit to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, that the time for discontinuing burials in the said churchyards be postponed;\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the time for the discontinuance of burials in such churchyards be postponed, as follows; viz.:\n\n| Churchyard | Original Date | Postponed Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Middlewich, Cheshire | 30th June 1862 | 1st November 1862 |\n| Elm, Isle of Ely | 1st September 1862 | 31st March 1863 |\n| Oadby, Leicestershire | 1st July 1862 | 31st December 1862 |\n| Combe Florey | 1st July 1862 | ... (part of the churchyard to the south of the church) |\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty in Council is pleased hereby to give NOTICE of such petition, and to order that the same be taken into consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on the fourteenth day of October next:\n\nAnd Her Majesty is further pleased to direct, that this Order be published in the London Gazette, and in one of the newspapers usually circulating in the borough of NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, one month at least before the said fourteenth day of October.\n\n**Arthur Helps.**\n\n## At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of August, 1862.\n\n**Arthur Helps.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254992, "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": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "# THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1862.\n\n## TREATY of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the King of the Belgians.\n\nSigned at London, July 23, 1862.\n\n[Ratifications exchanged at London, August 30, 1862.]\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, being equally animated by the desire to facilitate and extend the relations of commerce and navigation between their respective dominions; and being desirous, with a view to so beneficial an object, to remove the obstacles which impede the commercial relations between the two countries, have resolved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable John Earl Russell, Viscount Amberley of Amberley and Ardsalla, a Peer of the United Kingdom, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and the Right Honourable Thomas Milner Gibson, a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, and President of the Committee of Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations;\n\nAnd His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Sieur Sylvain Van de Weyer, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty, Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold, decorated with the Iron Cross, Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III of Spain, of the Order of the Ernestine Branch of Saxony, of the Tower and Sword, of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Commander of the Legion of Honour, &c.;\n\nWho, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:\n\n### ARTICLE I.\n\nThere shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce between all the dominions and possessions of the two High Contracting Parties; and the subjects of each of them shall, throughout the whole extent of the territories and possessions of the other, enjoy the same rights, privileges, liberties, favours, immunities, and exemptions, in matters of commerce and navigation, which are or may be enjoyed by native subjects.\n\n### ARTICLE II.\n\nThe subjects of one of the two High Contracting Parties residing in the dominions of the other, shall have the same liberty as native subjects to manage their own affairs themselves, or to commit them to the management of any other persons, as brokers, factors, agents, or interpreters. They shall not be restrained in their choice, and shall not be obliged to pay any salary or remuneration to any person whom they shall not choose to employ in those capacities; buyers and sellers being at perfect liberty to bargain together, and to fix the price of any goods or merchandise imported or destined for exportation, on condition of observing the regulations and the Customs laws of the country.\n\n### ARTICLE III.\n\nIn all that relates to navigation and commerce, the High Contracting Parties shall not grant any privilege, favour, or immunity to any other country, which shall not be also and immediately extended to their respective subjects.\n\n### ARTICLE IV.\n\nAll vessels which according to the laws of Great Britain are to be deemed British vessels, and all vessels which according to the laws of Belgium are to be deemed Belgian vessels, are declared to be British and Belgian vessels respectively.\n\n### ARTICLE V.\n\nNo duties of tonnage, harbour, light-house, pilotage, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties, of whatever nature or under whatever denomination, levied for the profit or in the name of the Government, public functionaries, communes, corporations, or establishments of whatever kind, shall be imposed in the ports of either country, upon the vessels of the other country, from whatever port or place arriving, which shall not be equally imposed in the like cases on national vessels.\n\n### ARTICLE VI.\n\nIn all that regards the stationing, the loading, and unloading of vessels in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, or rivers of the two countries, no privilege shall be granted to national vessels, which shall not be equally granted to vessels of the other country; the intention of the High Contracting Parties being, that in this respect also the respective vessels shall be treated on the footing of perfect equality.\n\n### ARTICLE VII.\n\nBritish vessels entering a port of Belgium, and, reciprocally, Belgian vessels entering a port of Great Britain or of the British Possessions, and desiring to discharge only a part of their cargo, may, subject to compliance with the laws and regulations of the respective countries, retain on board that part of the cargo which is destined for another port, whether in the same country or in any other country, and may re-export the same, without being compelled to pay, upon such retained part of their cargo, any duty of Customs save those for watching, which, of course, shall be levied only at the rate fixed for national vessels.\n\n### ARTICLE VIII.\n\nGoods of every kind which are or may be legally importable into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its Colonies and Possessions, in British vessels, may likewise be imported into such ports in Belgian vessels, without being liable to other or higher duties, of whatever denomination, than if such goods were imported in national vessels.\n\nReciprocally, goods of every kind which are or may be legally importable into the ports of Belgium in Belgian vessels, may likewise be imported into such ports in British vessels, without being liable to other or higher duties, of whatever denomination, than if such goods were imported in national vessels.\n\nSa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges, animés d'un égal désir de faciliter et d'étendre les rapports de commerce et de navigation entre leurs Etats respectifs; et voulant, pour arriver à un but si utile, faire disparaître les obstacles qui entravent les relations commerciales entre les deux pays, ont résolu de conclure un Traité à cet effet, et ont nommé pour leurs Plénipotentiaires, savoir:\n\nSa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, le Très Honorable Jean Comte Russell, Vicomte Amberley de Amberley et Ardsalla, Pair du Royaume Uni, Chevalier du Très Noble Ordre de la Jarretière, Membre du Très Honorable Conseil Privé de Sa Majesté Britanique, Principal Secrétaire d'Etat de Sa Majesté Britannique pour les Affaires Etrangères; et le Très Honorable Thomas Milner Gibson, Membre du Très Honorable Conseil Privé de Sa Majesté Britannique, Membre du Parlement, et Président du Comité du Conseil Privé pour les Affaires de Commerce et des Colonies;\n\nEt Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges, le Sieur Sylvain Van de Weyer, Son Envoyé Extraordinaire et Ministre Plénipotentiaire près Sa Majesté Britannique, Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de Léopold, décoré de la Croix de Fer, Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de Charles III d'Espagne, de l'Ordre de la Branche Ernestine de Saxe, de la Tour et de l'Epée, de St. Maurice et St. Lazare, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, &c.\n\nLesquels, après s'être réciproquement communiqué leurs pleins pouvoirs respectifs, trouvés en bonne et due forme, sont convenus des Articles suivants:\n\n### ARTICLE I.\n\nIl y aura liberté réciproque de commerce entre tous les Etats et possessions des deux Hautes Parties Contractantes; et les sujets de chacune d'elles, dans toute l'étendue des territoires et possessions de l'autre, jouiront des mêmes droits, privilèges, libertés, faveurs, immunités, et exemptions, en matière de commerce et de navigation, dont jouissent ou jouiront les nationaux.\n\n### ARTICLE II.\n\nLes sujets de l'une des Hautes Parties Contractantes résidant dans les Etats de l'autre, seront respectivement libres de régler, comme les nationaux, leurs affaires par eux-mêmes, ou de les confier aux soins de toutes autres personnes, telles que courtiers, facteurs, agents, ou interprètes. Ils ne pourront être contraints dans leur choix, et ils ne seront tenus à payer aucun salaire ni aucune rétribution à ceux qu'ils n'auront pas jugé à propos d'employer à cet effet; étant absolument facultatif aux vendeurs et acheteurs de contracter ensemble leur marché, et de fixer le prix de toutes denrées ou marchandises importées ou destinées à l'exportation, sous la condition de se conformer aux règlements et aux lois des douanes du pays.\n\n### ARTICLE III.\n\nEn toute ce qui concerne la navigation et le commerce, les Hautes Parties Contractantes ne pourront accorder aucun privilège, faveur, ou immunité à un autre Etat, qui ne soit aussi et à l'instant étendu à leurs sujets respectifs.\n\n### ARTICLE IV.\n\nTous les navires qui, d'après les lois de la Grande Bretagne, sont considérés comme navires Britanniques, et tous les navires qui, d'après les lois de la Belgique sont considérés comme navires Belges, sont déclarés respectivement navires Britanniques et navires Belges.\n\n### ARTICLE V.\n\nAucun droit de tonnage, de port, de phare, de pilotage, de quarantaine, ou autres droits semblables ou équivalents, de quelque nature ou sous quelque dénomination que ce soit, perçu au profit ou au nom du Gouvernement, des fonctionnaires publics, des communes, corporations, ou établissements quelconques, ne sera imposé dans les ports de chacun des deux pays sur les navires de l'autre nation, arrivant d'un port ou endroit quelconque, qui ne soit pas également imposé en pareil cas sur des navires nationaux.\n\n### ARTICLE VI.\n\nEn tout ce qui concerne le placement des navires, leur chargement et leur déchargement dans les ports, bassins, docks, rades, havres, ou rivières des deux Etats, il ne sera accordé aucun privilège aux navires nationaux, qui ne le soit également à ceux de l'autre Etat; la volonté des Hautes Parties Contractantes étant que, sous ce rapport aussi, les bâtiments respectifs soient traités sur le pied d'une parfaite égalité.\n\n### ARTICLE VII.\n\nLes navires Britanniques entrant dans un port de Belgique, et réciproquement les navires Belges entrant dans un port de la Grande Bretagne ou de ses Possessions, et qui n'y voudraient décharger qu'une partie de leur cargaison, pourront, en se conformant toutefois aux lois et règlements des Etats respectifs, conserver à leur bord la partie de la cargaison qui serait destinée à un autre port, soit du même pays, soit d'un autre, et la ré-exporter, sans être astreints à payer pour cette dernière partie de leur cargaison aucun droit de douane, sauf ceux de surveillance, lesquels, d'ailleurs, ne pourront naturellement être perçus qu'au taux fixé pour la navigation nationale.\n\n### ARTICLE VIII.\n\nLes marchandises de toute espèce dont l'importation dans les ports du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, ses Colonies et Possessions, est ou sera légalement permise sur des bâtiments Britanniques, pourront également y être importées sur des bâtiments Belges, sans être assujetties à d'autres ou de plus forts droits, de quelque dénomination que ce soit, que si les mêmes marchandises étaient importées sur des bâtiments nationaux.\n\nRéciproquement, les marchandises de toute espèce dont l'importation dans les ports de Belgique est ou sera légalement permise sur des bâtiments Belges, pourront également y être importées sur des bâtiments Britanniques, sans être assujetties à d'autres ou de plus forts droits, de quelque dénomination que ce soit, que si les mêmes marchandises étaient importées sur des bâtiments nationaux.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254993, "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": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "4300 \n\n# THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1862.\n\n## ARTICLE IX.\n\nGoods of every kind which may be exported either from Belgium by British vessels, or from Great Britain and the British Possessions by Belgian vessels, for whatever destination, shall not be liable to any other duties or formalities on departure than if they were exported in national vessels; and they shall enjoy, under either flag, all bounties and drawbacks, or other favours, which are or may be granted in each of the two countries to national vessels.\n\n## ARTICLE X.\n\nDuring the period allowed by the laws of the two countries for the warehousing of goods, no other duties than those for custody and storage shall be levied upon articles imported from one of the two countries into the other, until they shall be removed for transit, re-exportation, or internal consumption.\n\nIn no case shall such articles pay higher duties, or be liable to other formalities, than if they had been imported under the national flag, or from the most favoured country.\n\n## ARTICLE XI.\n\nGoods of every kind coming from or going to either of the two countries shall reciprocally be exempted from all transit duty.\n\nThe prohibition in regard to gunpowder is, however, maintained; and the two High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves to subject the transit of arms of war to special authorizations.\n\nThe treatment of the most favoured nation is reciprocally guaranteed to each of the two countries in all that concerns transit and warehousing.\n\n## ARTICLE XII.\n\nWith regard to the coasting trade, it is agreed between the High Contracting Parties that the subjects and vessels of each of them shall, in the dominions and possessions of the other, enjoy the same privileges, and be treated in all respects on the same footing, as national subjects and vessels.\n\nWith regard to the coasting trade in the Colonies, the stipulations of the present Article shall be applicable only to the coasting trade of such of the Colonies of Her Britannic Majesty as have applied or shall hereafter apply, in conformity with the Acts of Parliament which govern this matter, that their coasting trade may be open to foreign vessels.\n\n## ARTICLE XIII.\n\nThe regulations established for goods imported from France into Belgium by Articles XVIII to XXVI inclusive, of the Treaty of Commerce concluded between the two countries on the 1st of May, 1861, shall equally apply in Belgium to the same goods imported from Great Britain and its Possessions.\n\nWith regard to pure or mixed tissues, taxed ad valorem, the valuation of which in the ports may appear to the Belgian Government to present difficulties, the Belgian Government reserves to itself the power to designate the Custom-house of Brussels exclusively for the admission of such goods.\n\n## ARTICLE IX.\n\nLes marchandises de toute nature qui seront exportées de Belgique par navires Britanniques, ou de la Grande Bretagne et de ses Possessions par navires Belges, pour quelque destination que ce soit, ne seront pas assujetties à d'autres droits ni formalités de sortie que si elles étaient exportées par navires nationaux; et elles jouiront, sous l'un et l'autre pavillon, de toutes primes ou restitutions de droits, ou autres faveurs, qui sont ou seront accordées, dans chacun des deux pays, à la navigation nationale.\n\n## ARTICLE X.\n\nPendant le temps fixé par les lois des deux pays respectivement pour l'entreposage des marchandises, il ne sera perçu aucuns droits autres que ceux de garde et d'emmagasinage sur les objets importés de l'un des deux pays dans l'autre, en attendant leur transit, leur réexportation, ou leur mise en consommation.\n\nCes objets, en aucun cas, ne paieront de plus forts droits, et ne seront assujettis à d'autres formalités, que s'ils avaient été importés sous pavillon national, ou provenaient du pays le plus favorisé.\n\n## ARTICLE XI.\n\nLes marchandises de toute nature venant de l'un des deux Etats, ou y allant, seront réciproquement exemptes, dans l'autre Etat, de tout droit de transit.\n\nToutefois, la prohibition est maintenue pour la poudre à tirer; et les deux Hautes Parties Contractantes se réservent de soumettre à des autorisations spéciales le transit des armes de guerre.\n\nLe traitement de la nation la plus favorisée est réciproquement garanti à chacun des deux pays pour tout ce qui concerne le transit et l'entreposage.\n\n## ARTICLE XII.\n\nEn ce qui concerne le cabotage, il est convenu entre les Hautes Parties Contractantes que les sujets et les navires de chacune d'elles jouiront, dans les Etats et possessions de l'autre, des mêmes privilèges, et seront traités à tous égards sur le même pied, que les sujets et les navires nationaux.\n\nEn ce qui concerne le cabotage dans les Colonies, les stipulations du présent Article ne seront applicables qu'au cabotage de celles d'entre les Colonies de Sa Majesté Britannique qui ont demandé ou qui demanderont ultérieurement, conformément aux Actes du Parlement qui régissent cette matière, que leur cabotage soit ouvert aux navires étrangers.\n\n## ARTICLE XIII.\n\nLes règles consacrées pour les marchandises importées de France en Belgique, par les Articles XVIII à XXVI inclus, du Traité de Commerce conclu entre ces deux Etats le 1er Mai, 1861 s'appliqueront également en Belgique aux mêmes marchandises importées de la Grande Bretagne et de ses Possessions.\n\nA l'égard des tissus purs ou mélangés, taxés à la valeur, dont l'estimation dans les ports lui paraîtrait présenter des difficultés, le Gouvernement Belge se réserve la faculté de désigner exclusivement la Douane de Bruxelles pour l'admission de ces marchandises.\n\n# THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1862.\n\n## ARTICLE XIV.\n\nNeither of the two High Contracting Parties shall impose upon goods the produce or manufacture of the other party, other or higher duties of importation than such as are or may be imposed upon the same goods the produce of any other foreign country.\n\nEach of the two Parties engages to extend to the other any favour or privilege, or reduction in the Tariff of duties of importation or exportation, on articles mentioned, or not mentioned, in the present Treaty, which either of them may grant to any third Power. They engage, moreover, not to establish against each other any duty or prohibition of importation or exportation, which shall not, at the same time, be applicable to all other nations.\n\nIt is further agreed that if sea salt refined in Belgium should obtain a deduction of more than seven per cent. from the general duty of excise, British salt refined in Belgium shall enjoy, at the same moment, a deduction from the excise which shall not be inferior by more than seven per cent. to the deduction granted to sea salt.\n\n## ARTICLE XV.\n\nArticles the produce or manufacture of Belgium shall not be subject in the British Colonies to other or higher duties than those which are or may be imposed upon similar articles of British origin.\n\n## ARTICLE XVI.\n\nThe subjects of one of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy, in the dominions of the other, the same protection as native subjects in all that relates to property in trade marks, as well as in industrial and manufacturing patterns and models of every description.\n\nThe exclusive right to make use of an industrial or manufacturing pattern or model shall not, with regard to British subjects in Belgium, and reciprocally with regard to Belgian subjects in Great Britain, have a duration longer than that fixed by the law of the country for native subjects.\n\nIf the industrial or manufacturing pattern or model is open to the public in the country of origin, it cannot be made the subject of an exclusive right in the other country.\n\nThe provisions of the two preceding paragraphs are applicable to trade marks.\n\nThe rights of subjects of one of the High Contracting Parties in the dominions of the other are not subject to the condition that the models or patterns shall be worked there.\n\nThe present Article shall not be put into operation in either country, with regard to such models or patterns, until the expiration of a year from the date of the signature of the present Treaty.\n\n## ARTICLE XVII.\n\nBelgian subjects shall not have the right to claim in Great Britain exclusive property in a mark, model, or pattern, unless they shall have previously complied with the regulations, if any, which are or may be in force for the deposit at London, by British subjects, of marks, models, or patterns.\n\nReciprocally, British subjects shall not have the right to claim in Belgium exclusive property in a mark, model, or pattern, unless they shall have...\n\n4301 \n\n## ARTICLE XIV.\n\nNi l'une ni l'autre des deux Hautes Parties Contractantes n'imposera sur les marchandises provenant du sol ou de l'industrie de l'autre partie, d'autres ni de plus forts droits d'importation que ceux qui sont ou seront imposés sur les mêmes marchandises provenant de tout autre Etat étranger.\n\nChacune des deux Parties s'engage à faire profiter l'autre de toute faveur, de tout privilège, ou abaissement dans les Tarifs des droits à l'importation ou à l'exportation des articles mentionnés ou non dans le présent Traité, que l'une d'elles pourrait accorder à une tierce Puissance. Elles s'engagent, en outre, à n'établir l'une envers l'autre aucun droit ou prohibition d'importation ou d'exportation, qui ne soit en même temps applicable aux autres nations.\n\nIl est convenu, enfin, que si les sels marins raffinés en Belgique venaient à obtenir une déduction de plus de sept pour cent du droit général de l'accise, le sel Britannique raffiné en Belgique jouira, à l'instant même, d'une déduction de l'accise qui ne pourra être inférieure de plus de sept pour cent à la déduction accordée aux sels marins.\n\n## ARTICLE XV.\n\nLes produits d'origine ou de manufacture Belge ne seront pas grevés dans les Colonies Britanniques d'autres ou de plus forts droits que ceux qui frappent ou frapperont les produits similaires originaires de la Grande Bretagne.\n\n## ARTICLE XVI.\n\nLes sujets de l'une des Hautes Parties Contractantes jouiront, dans les Etats de l'autre, de la même protection que les nationaux, pour tout ce qui concerne la propriété des marques de fabrique ou de commerce, ainsi que des dessins ou modèles industriels et de fabrique de toute espèce.\n\nLe droit exclusif d'exploiter un dessin ou modèle industriel ou de fabrique ne peut avoir, au profit des sujets Britanniques en Belgique, et réciproquement au profit des Belges dans la Grande Bretagne, une durée plus longue que celle fixée par la loi du pays à l'égard des nationaux.\n\nSi le dessin ou modèle industriel ou de fabrique appartient au domaine public dans le pays d'origine, il ne peut être l'objet d'une jouissance exclusive dans l'autre pays.\n\nLes dispositions des deux paragraphes qui précèdent sont applicables aux marques de fabrique ou de commerce.\n\nLes droits des sujets de l'une des Hautes Parties Contractantes dans les Etats de l'autre ne sont pas subordonnés à l'obligation d'y exploiter les modèles ou dessins industriels ou de fabrique.\n\nLe présent Article ne recevra son exécution, dans l'un et l'autre pays, à l'égard des modèles ou dessins industriels ou de fabrique, qu'à l'expiration d'une année à dater du jour de la signature du présent Traité.\n\n## ARTICLE XVII.\n\nLes Belges ne pourront revendiquer dans la Grande Bretagne la propriété exclusive d'une marque, d'un modèle, ou d'un dessin, s'ils ne se sont préalablement conformés aux règlements, s'il en est, qui sont ou seront en vigueur pour le dépôt à Londres, par les sujets Britanniques, des marques, modèles, ou dessins.\n\nRéciproquement, les sujets Britanniques ne pourront revendiquer en Belgique la propriété exclusive d'une marque, d'un modèle, ou d'un...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257607, "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": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "4478\n\nTHE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863.\n\nbefore any of the said Consuls, be punishable by a fine, not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, for a term not exceeding one calendar month; and, in addition to such punishment, every such person shall be bound to find good and sufficient security, to the satisfaction of the Consul, for his future good behaviour; and, in the event of his failing so to do, it shall be lawful for the said Consul, at any time afterwards, to cause him to be again sent out of the dominions of the Kings of Siam, in the manner provided by the said Order in Council of the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.\n\nArthur Helps.\n\nfailing so to do, it shall be lawful for the said Consul at any time afterwards to cause him to be again sent out of the dominions of the Emperor of China, in the manner by the said Orders in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, respectively, provided in that behalf.\n\nArthur Helps.\n\nAt the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of September, 1863.\n\nPRESENT,\n\nThe QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.\n\nAt the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of September, 1863.\n\nPRESENT,\n\nThe QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.\n\nWHEREAS by two several Orders of Her Majesty in Council for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any ship or vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, bearing date the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, respectively, Her Majesty was pleased (amongst other things) to give authority to any of Her Majesty's Consuls within the dominions of the Emperor of China to cause any British subject, who after having been twice convicted of, and punished for, any crime or offence, shall not be able to find good and sufficient security for his good behaviour, or who may be convicted before such Consul of any of certain particular crimes therein enumerated, to be sent out of the dominions of the Emperor of China, in the manner therein mentioned:\n\nAnd whereas it is expedient to make further provision against the return of any such British subject so sent out of the dominions of the Emperor of China as aforesaid:\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty by virtue of all powers enabling Her in this behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:—\n\nI. It shall not be lawful for any person who shall hereafter be sent out of the dominions of the Emperor of China by any of Her Majesty's Consuls within the said dominions under and by virtue of the authority given to such Consuls by the said Orders in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven respectively, or under and by virtue of this present Order, afterwards to return to, and again take up his abode within, any part of the said dominions, without Her Majesty's permission, to be signified in writing by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.\n\nII. If any such person shall return to, and take up his abode within, any part of the said dominions contrary to this present Order, he shall, if duly summoned to appear and answer for so doing before any of the said Consuls, be punishable by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, for a term not exceeding one calendar month; and, in addition to such punishment, every such person shall be bound to find good and sufficient security, to the satisfaction of the Consul, for his future good behaviour; and, in the event of his\n\nWHEREAS by an Act of the Session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more effectual,\" it is enacted (amongst other things), that it is and shall be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty now hath, or at any time hereafter may have within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:\n\nAnd whereas Her Majesty hath power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nAnd whereas Her Majesty was pleased on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to issue a certain Order for the exercise of the said power and jurisdiction, whereby (amongst other things) authority is given to any of Her Majesty's Consuls within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan; to cause any British subject, who after having been twice convicted of, and punished for, any crime or offence, shall not be able to find good and sufficient security for his good behaviour, or who may be convicted before such Consul of any of certain particular crimes therein enumerated, to be sent out of the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, in the manner therein mentioned:\n\nAnd whereas it is expedient to make further provision against the return of any such British subject so sent out of the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan as aforesaid:\n\nNow, therefore, in pursuance of the above recited Act of Parliament, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:--\n\nI. It shall not be lawful for any person who shall hereafter be sent out of the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan by any of Her Majesty's Consuls within the said dominions, under and by virtue of the authority given to such Consuls by the said Order in Council of the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, or under and by virtue of this present Order, afterwards to return to, and again take up his abode within, any part of the said dominions, without Her Majesty's express permission, to be signified in writing by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.\n\nII. If any such person shall return to, and take up his abode within, any part of the said dominions, contrary to this present Order, he shall, if duly\n\nTHE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863.\n\n4479\n\nsummoned to appear and answer for so doing before any of the said Consuls, be punishable by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, for a term not exceeding one calendar month; and, in addition to such punishment, every such person shall be bound to find good and sufficient security, to the satisfaction of the Consul, for his future good behaviour; and, in the event of his failing so to do, it shall be lawful for the said Consul at any time afterwards to cause him to be again sent out of the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, in the manner provided by the said Order in Council of the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.\n\nArthur Helps.\n\nAt the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of September, 1863.\n\nPRESENT,\n\nThe QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.\n\nWHEREAS by the 332nd section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for any pilotage authority by bye-law, made with the consent of Her Majesty in Council, to exempt the masters of any ships, or of any classes of ships, from being compelled to employ qualified pilots, and to annex any terms or conditions to such exemptions, and to revise and extend any exemptions now existing, by virtue of this Act, or any other Act of Parliament, law, or charter, or by usage upon such terms and conditions and in such manner as may appear desirable to such authority;\n\nAnd whereas by the 136th section of the Clyde Navigation Consolidation Act, 1858, it was (among other things) provided that it should not be lawful for any person to navigate without a pilot, or for any person except the pilots licensed by the then existing pilotage authorities, or by the Pilot Board, as therein provided, to act in piloting any vessel exceeding sixty tons burthen in any part of the River Clyde, as defined by that Act; and that every person navigating or piloting or attempting to navigate or pilot any vessel exceeding the said burthen in any part of the river, without being so licensed, should be liable to the penalty therein mentioned; And whereas the Pilot Board, constituted by the Clyde Navigation Consolidation Act, 1858, being the pilotage authority for the River Clyde within the meaning of the first recited Act, have made and submitted to Her Majesty in Council a bye-law, a copy of which is set forth in the schedule hereunto annexed; And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the said bye-law is reasonable and proper;\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty by virtue of the power vested in Her by the said first recited Act, and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to approve of, and doth hereby approve of, and signify Her consent to the said bye-law as a bye-law of the said Pilot Board, with respect to the piloting of vessels in the River Clyde.\n\nArthur Helps.\n\nSCHEDULE to which the foregoing Order refers.\n\n \n From and after the expiration of one calendar month next after the publication in the London Gazette of the Order signifying the consent of Her Majesty in Council to this bye-law, notwithstanding anything in section 136, or any other provision of\n \n\nAt the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of September, 1863.\n\nPRESENT,\n\nThe QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\n\nWHEREAS by the 333rd Section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, it is enacted that, subject to the provisions contained in the fifth part of that Act, it shall be lawful for every pilotage authority, by bye-law, made with the consent of Her Majesty, to do within its districts all or any of the things specified in that behalf in the said section, and to repeal or alter any bye-law made in exercise of the above powers, and to make a new bye-law in lieu thereof: and whereas the Corporation of the Guild or Brotherhood of Masters and Pilots Seamen of the Trinity House in Kingston-upon-Hull, being a pilotage authority within the aforesaid provision, made certain bye-laws with respect to pilotage by Masters and Mates of ships, in the districts of the said\n\nHer Majesty, that the said new bye-law is reasonable and proper;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 268128, "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": "CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866", "content_text": "E\n\n} \n\nserious attention of the Directors of the \n\nPeninsular and Oriental Steam \n\nNavigation Company has been called to the matter with the view of some decided steps being taken to put an \n\nand to the system. \n\nThe Directors at once expressed themselves anxious to do all in their power to prevent any infringement of the laws, and they forwarded instructions to their Superintendent at Hongkong to enquire into the representations which \n\nhad been made by Mr Mitchell. They have now received their Superintendent's report, and it appears that, in one instance only, have they been able to bring home \n\na case to one of their officers and that this officer died before his \n\nmisconduct came to their knowledge. \n\n105 \n\nTo guard, however, against the repetition of such an occurrence a general notice was at once issued by the Company's Superintendent that such an act would be immediately followed by the suspension of the person in fault, who could thereupon be sent to England to be dealt with by the Directors. \n\nEnclosed is a copy of the Company's letter in which it is stated that when \n\nthe question was referred by Mr Mitchell to the Governor of Hongkong, the Company Superintendent waited on His Excellency for the purpose of receiving any commands which he might think fit to give, but that after due consideration His Excellency \n\nwas pleased to say that everything possible had already been done in support of the provisions of \n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273653, "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": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \nIn Seamanship. He must know how to moor and unmoor.\n\n2\n\n406\n\nof seamanship in all weathers and be able to act on a lee shore and secure masts, to carry out an anchor and make entries in a ship's Log.\n\n7. A Master must be twenty years of age, and have been six years at sea, of which one year have been as First or only mate.\n\n6. A First mate must be nineteen years of Age and have served five years at sea, of which one year must have been as either second or only mate.\n\nIn Navigation. We must work the enclosed sheet marked First mate in addition to the requirements for a second and only mate.\n\nIn Seamanship. In addition to preceding qualifications, he must have more extensive knowledge as second Mate or two years as First and only mate. In Navigation, he must be able to find the Latitude by a star in addition to working the questions provided for Mates. He must understand the effect of iron on compasses and be able to determine the errors caused by it, and also possess some knowledge of the Laws of Storms. He must understand how to construct rafts.\n\n## \nposition on the chart by bearings and Latitude and Longitude.\n\n### Requirements for Masters and Mates\n\n| Position | Age Requirement | Sea Experience | Specific Experience |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Master | 20 years | 6 years | 1 year as First or only mate |\n| First Mate | 19 years | 5 years | 1 year as second or only mate |\n\n### Navigation and Seamanship Requirements\n\n- Masters and Mates must demonstrate proficiency in Navigation and Seamanship.\n- First Mates must work the enclosed sheet marked for First Mates, in addition to the requirements for a second and only mate.\n- In Seamanship, they must have extensive knowledge and be able to perform tasks such as mooring, unmooring, and securing masts.\n- In Navigation, they must be able to find Latitude by a star, understand the effect of iron on compasses, and have knowledge of the Laws of Storms and constructing rafts.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276921, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "2\n\npresent state, where seamen appear to be in excess, and where the object of captains is to get rid of them, but the proposals for amendment. cases of Quebec, Sydney, &c., where seamen are deficient, and the temptation is with the men to desert; and also such cases as Callao, where an artificial scarcity of men is created by the villanies of crimps. A remedy which is good in one of these cases may do harm in another.\n\nNecessity of rules which will not restrict freedom of employment. At the same time we must attach proper incidents to the contract.\n\nOur old law was founded on the notion that voyages begin and end at home; that ships and seamen belong to this country; and that a ship which takes a seaman out ought to bring him back. This too, as is evident from Major Malleson's Report, is the theory of the United States law, which requires that when a man is left behind abroad the ship shall pay him three months wages over and above wages earned, in order to find him a passage home. This may do for United States Ships, which are always trading to other quarters of the globe; but it would be too Procrustean for us. The same principles are adopted, not only in theory but in practice, by the French. But the French marine and French trade are very limited, and their ships are still under a strict system of navigation laws, navigated by Frenchmen. It would be impracticable for us to act on this theory now. Our shipping is becoming more and more cosmopolitan; it is difficult to say where it is at home; it is manned by seamen of all nations. Voyages are more and more seeking voyages; the destination of a ship is not to a given place and back to the United Kingdom, but, as often expressed in the articles, \"to some port in North or South America, and thence to any port or ports in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans, and back to Europe, the voyage not to exceed two years,\" or in some equally vague form. Often, too, ships are sold abroad. Often their destination is changed by telegraph according to markets. Often the ship is sent to be employed abroad. Our seamen too sometimes find employment under their own flag, sometimes under the American flag, or under other foreign flags. It would be inexpedient and impossible to check this free employment of capital and labour by any such close system as existed before the repeal of our own protection laws, and as still exists in France. We must rather look to increased freedom of employment; and if there are clauses and expressions in our laws which tend to prevent seamen and shipowners from contracting for any lawful service, our endeavour should be to get rid of them.\n\nBut at the same time we should see that the spirit of the contract is rigidly observed; that all proper incidents are attached to it; that it shall not be so enforced as to cause injustice to the weaker party, or so as to throw an unjust burden on third parties. Now it seems that according to the spirit of our old law and of the laws, so far as I am aware, of all maritime countries, it is the duty of the ship which takes a seaman away from home to restore him to it. And this obligation is a reasonable one in principle. Even if it were right to allow a seaman to make a contract under which he might be left starving in a foreign country, which is very doubtful, it is not right to allow the burden of maintaining him to be thrown either on the foreign country or on his own Government. Parliament has, therefore, a perfect right to require that the ship shall in some shape or other provide for the seamen it employs. The difficulty is in applying this principle to the present state of things.\n\nOur law is to be found in ss. 205 to 213, and s. 190, of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and ss. 19 and 22 of Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862. And the instructions of the Board of Trade under these enactments will be found at paragraphs 45 to 89 of instructions to consuls, and according circulars. Similar instructions have been sent to the colonies.\n\nThe clauses in the Merchant Shipping Act were taken from the old Acts before the Board of Trade had taken the business over from the Admiralty or knew anything about it. We have always been aware that they are very clumsily drawn and doubtful in effect, but we have put the best construction we can on them, and have hitherto got on pretty well. Now, however, the most important clause has broken down on being brought into court at Calcutta; and though (as mentioned more particularly below) this is perhaps due to mismanagement, yet it forces us to consider the propriety of amending this Act. It will be seen that this Act makes a distinction between seamen left in foreign countries and seamen left in Her Majesty's Colonial Dominions or Ports. In both cases (s. 207) a certificate or sanction must be obtained from some public officer; in the former case, s. 205, express provision is made for payment of wages, and in addition of the expense of sending the man home. In the latter case, there is, as in the former, provision for payment of the wages where the man is left behind from illness; but there is no further express provision for any payment by the ship. There is, however, a further enactment, s. 213, to the effect that where a seaman is discharged without compliance with the provisions of the Act the ship shall be liable for all expenses. As the sanction of the consul or shipping master is one of the conditions required by the Act (s. 207), we have instructed the shipping officers that the sanction is to be withheld in cases where it appears that the man left behind will become a charge on the public. The Judge at Calcutta has held, whether rightly or wrongly, that the shipping master there has no discretion in the matter, and is bound to give his sanction if master and seaman consent. Consequently, if this is right, neither the local authorities nor the Board of Trade have any longer any control over the discharges of seamen in Indian or Colonial Ports, and we must see how the law can be amended.\n\nThere is, as stated above, no difficulty in the principle that a ship which takes a man from home is bound to see him home again, or provide him with employment. The difficulty is in the application.\n\nProposed First of all, I think, we may at once throw over the amendments. distinction between foreign and colonial ports which To do away the present Act contains. It probably arose at a tion between with distinc-\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280408, "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": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 311, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "208\n\npackets shall submit to the sanitary, police, and customs' regulations of those ports concerning the arrival and departure of travellers.\n\nNevertheless, the passengers admitted on board those packets who do not think fit to land during the stay at one of the said ports, shall not, under any pretext, be removed from on board, be liable to any search, or be subjected to the formality of a visa of their passports.\n\nARTICLE VII.\n\nThe packets of the two Offices may enter or leave the ports of the two States at any hour of the day or night. They may also, if they think proper, without anchoring, embark or disembark the mails and passengers in the roads or at the entrance of the harbours, so long as they observe the regulations referred to in Article VI preceding.\n\nARTICLE VIII.\n\nWhenever a packet carrying mails shall be compelled to put into any port of either of the two States, other than that at which such packet should touch, the Post Office of the place where the said mails shall be landed, shall use the most certain and expeditious means of forwarding them to their destination.\n\nARTICLE IX.\n\nThe British Government reserves to itself the full and entire power to modify, when necessary, the route as well as the days and hours of departure and arrival of the packets which it may think proper to maintain, to freight, or to subsidize, for the conveyance of correspondence.\n\nThe French Government reserves to itself the same power as regards the packets which it may think right to maintain, to freight, or to subsidize for the conveyance of correspondence.\n\nThe two Offices shall be bound to give each other timely notice of the above-mentioned alterations.\n\nIt is, nevertheless, understood that the provisions of the present Article are not applicable to the two services established between Dover and Calais in virtue of Article I of the present Convention.\n\nARTICLE X.\n\nIn case of accidents or damage sustained in the course of their navigation by the packets respectively employed by the two Offices in the conveyance of the mails, the Contracting Parties engage to afford mutually to those vessels, all the aid and assistance which their situation may require, and to cause all necessary repairs to be made, and all damaged or destroyed rigging and machinery to be replaced by their arsenals, as far as may be practicable, according to the fixed charges of those establishments.\n\nARTICLE XI.\n\nIn case of war between the two nations, the packets of the two Offices shall continue their navigation, without impediment or molestation, until a notification is made on the part of either of the two Governments, of the discontinuance of the postal communications; in which case they shall be permitted to return freely, and under special protection, to their respective ports.\n\nARTICLE XII.\n\nThe captains of the packets engaged in the conveyance of the respective mails of the two Offices, are forbidden to take charge of any letter not included in their mail-bags, except, however, despatches of their Governments. They must take care that no letters are conveyed illegally by their crews or passengers, and must give information in the proper quarter of any breach of the laws which may be committed in that respect.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nThe postage to be collected in France and Algeria upon paid letters addressed either to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or to the Island of Malta, as well as upon unpaid letters originating either in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Island of Malta, shall be as follows, viz.:-\n\n309", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282380, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG.\n\nWill to Pandit 15 \nhandy with and \nmathes \n\n**ANNO DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.** \n\n**No. 12 of 1856.** \n\nBY His Excellency Sir John BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong. \n\n**An Ordinance to regulate Chinese Burials, and to prevent certain Nuisances, within the Colony of Hongkong.** \n\n[12th June, 1856.] \n\nWhereas the increase of Population and Buildings in the City of Victoria has made it necessary to provide other arrangements for the Interment of the Dead, and whereas there exist certain Nuisances which the Laws hitherto in force have failed effectually to prevent: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say :--\n\n## Preamble.\n\n## Interpretation of terms.\n\nI. For the construction as well of this Ordinance as of Ordinance No. 14 of 1845, the Ordinance No. 2 of 1854, the Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, and the Ordinance No. 11 of 1856, the following Rules of Construction shall be observed in addition to whatsoever other Rules are by the said Ordinances respectively provided, that is to say --- \n\nThe expressions \"Public Officer\" or \"Public Department\" shall extend to and include His Excellency the Governor and every Officer or Department invested with or performing duties of a public nature, whether under immediate control of His Excellency or not.\n\nThe expression \"Lawful Authority\" shall extend to and denote any Permission which may be lawfully given by a Public Officer or Department or by a Private Person.\n\nWhere no specific Description is given of the Ownership of any Property, the word \"Property\" shall be taken to apply to all such Property of the kinds specified, whether owned by the Crown, by a Public Department, or by a Private Person.\n\n## Power to appoint Sites for Chinese Cemeteries, &c.\n\nII. It shall be lawful for His Excellency in Executive Council from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette to notify, sufficient and proper Places to be the Sites of, and to be used as, Cemeteries or Places of Burial for the Chinese; and from time to time to alter, vary, and repeal the said Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like manner; and in such Cemeteries or Places it shall be lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the Provisions of the Notifications actually in force, to bury their Dead, yet so as that any person who shall use for that purpose a Grave of less than Five Feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the Corpse or Coffin therein deposited, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than Five Dollars.\n\n## Power to close Chinese Cemeteries.\n\nIII. His said Excellency in Executive Council is authorized from time to time to notify, by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette, that any Chinese Cemetery or Burial Ground shall, from a time in such Notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly; and whosoever after the expiration of the said specified time shall bury any Corpse in the said Cemetery or Burial Ground shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars nor less than Five.\n\n## Penalties on Burials elsewhere than in Cemeteries, &c.\n\nIV. Whosoever shall bury any Corpse or Coffin in any Ground not being a Cemetery or Burial Ground authorised under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by Section Three of this Ordinance) for every such his offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars nor less than Five.\n\n## Further penalties on Burials being Nuisances, &c.\n\nV. The penalties in Sections Three and Four specified shall be deemed to be cumulative and not substituted penalties, in any case where the commission of any of the Offences to which the same are applicable shall occasion a Nuisance within the meaning of `Ordinance No. 8 of 1856`, Section Fourteen.\n\n## Nuisances punishable, at the discretion of the Court.\n\nVI. The Offences next hereinafter specified shall be deemed to be Nuisances within the meaning of all Laws, at any time in force within this Colony, for the better repression of Nuisances, save that the Court or Justices before whom any person shall be found guilty of any such offence, in lieu of all other punishment for the same, shall order him for every such offence to pay a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Dollars nor less than One Dollar, that is to say;\n\n1. The Felling, Cutting, Destroying or Injuring of any standing or growing Tree, Shrub, or Underwood, any Grass-sod or Turf, or any Fence or Portion thereof (except in cases where any such offence shall be proved to have been committed with a felonious intention).\n\n2. The doing any act whereby Injury or Obstruction, whether directly or consequentially, may accrue to a Public Road, Path, or Walk, or to the Shore of the Sea, or to Navigation, Mooring, or Anchorage, Transit or Traffic, or whereby any other Nuisance within the meaning of `Ordinance No. 8 of 1856`, Sections Fourteen, Fifteen, and Sixteen, whether directly or consequentially, may happen.\n\n3. The trespassing, by Man or Beast, upon or in any Messuage, Tenement, Cemetery, or Land being vested in or under the control or management of any Public Officer, or Department whatsoever.\n\n4. The obeying the calls of nature on any Way or in any public exposed or other improper Place, to the annoyance of others.\n\n## Whipping may be substituted in the case of offences against Section VI Divisions 1 and 4.\n\nVII. It shall be lawful for the Court or Justices before whom any person shall be found guilty of any offence against Division One or Division Four of Section Six of this Ordinance, to order him, in lieu of all other punishment, to be once or twice publicly whipped, yet so as that no Offender shall receive in all for any one such offence more than Fifty Blows nor less than Five.\n\n## Extension of penalties to Accessaries.\n\nVIII. Upon proof made to the satisfaction of the Court or Justices that a person accused of any Nuisance or Offence under this Ordinance, or any of the said enumerated Ordinances, is in fact guilty of having procured, permitted, connived at, or continued any such Nuisance or Offence, or of having neglected or refused to perform any Duty cast upon him by Law for the prevention or repression of the same, the said Court or Justices shall find the said person guilty of the said Nuisance or Offence, and shall award against him the penalty or other punishment to which persons guilty of the said Nuisance or Offence are or shall be liable.\n\n## Incorporation with former Ordinances.\n\nIX. This Ordinance shall be read together with the Ordinances enumerated in Section One, and shall be incorporated therewith.\n\n## Summary proceedings.\n\nX. All summary proceedings under this Ordinance, or the said enumerated Ordinances, (except proceedings under `Ordinance No. 8 of 1856`, Sections Two to Nine, both inclusive) may be had upon the information of any Complainant: But the disposal of Materials of Nuisances, of Building Materials, and of Utensils under Sections Seventeen and Nineteen of the last-mentioned Ordinance, shall be at the absolute discretion of the Surveyor General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283085, "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": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 293, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "# \n\ndiately secures. From a commercial code, derived from European systems of commercial law, to a civil and criminal code, such as has been long adopted in Turkey and this obtained, international Courts for mixed cases, there is but a short step. For its administration with fixed rules of procedure, such as are now in contemplation for Egypt by common consent, will follow in natural course, and prepare the way for either the modification or total abolition of extraterritorial rights in China, and the gradual assimilation of two races in their laws and administration. This will remove, at the same time, one of the greatest obstacles to improved relations with the Chinese Government, and more free access to the interior.\n\n## \n\n13. Coal-mines are to be opened at Kien-yung, in Che-kiang, Lo-ping, on the Poyang Lake, and Kelung, in Formosa, with an understanding that they shall be efficiently worked, with the aid of foreign skill and machinery.\n\n14. Two new ports are to be opened -- Wen-chow, in exchange for Kiung-chow, in Hainan, which has never been thought worth opening; and Wuhu, on the Yang-tsze, between Chin-kiang and Kiu-kiang.\n\nThe first is equivalent to subsidizing a line of steamers between Foo-chow and Shanghae, both of which places desire a rapid and regular communication. It will also afford a ready exit for a kind of tea that reaches Foo-chow only after a long, circuitous, and expensive route; and it is the port of a comparatively wealthy and populous district.\n\nThe latter port is more especially valuable in connection with the arrangements made for the collection of the transit dues at the port of entry, as it adds the Province of Anhui to the other eight maritime provinces, in which foreign textile fabrics are to pass free without any transit pass.\n\n15. The right of transhipment at Hong Kong for the Chinese ports, so much desired by the British and foreign merchants, has been conceded.\n\n16. A rule has been framed, by which vessels trading to Batavia, Bangkok, Singapore, Malacca, and Penang, will share the privilege of only paying tonnage dues once every four months, now limited to vessels going to Japan, the Amour, Hong Kong, Manilla, and Saigon.\n\n## 11 \n\n17. It is agreed that the Customs shall draw up rules fixing the touch of sycee to be received on the payment of duties, by the bank, at each port, and thus determine in some definite manner, in the absence of coinage, what relation local sycee bears to the Customs standard.\n\nThese are the chief concessions on the Chinese side; in return for which, additional rights and privileges beyond what has been secured by any antecedent Treaty, neither few nor unimportant, in my conception, it has been agreed that the following changes of Tariff, &c., shall take place:-\n\n1. An increased rate of duty on opium and silk. On the first an increase from 30 to 50 taels per 100 catties, equivalent to an increase of 24 per cent, ad valorem. On silk, raw and thrown, a duty of 20 taels per 100 catties; on yellow silk from Szechuen 10 taels; making an increase of a little over 1 per cent, on both kinds (say 14), both still being taxed somewhat under the general scale adopted on the signature of the Treaties, of 5 per cent. ad valorem.\n\nIn both articles, opium and silk, considering their high value, so small an increase of duty is unlikely to diminish, by a single ounce, or in any sensible degree, the profits of those who deal in them.\n\n2. Passports and transit papers are to be valid only for twelve months, and to be returned within thirteen. This merely gives authority for what has already been practised.\n\n3. The right is conceded to China of appointing Consuls in the British dominions.\n\n4. British merchant-vessels shall report to the Customs their port of destination, and shall hand in export manifests when about to clear. The Treaty had not provided for this; and there is no reason for refusing it, as it entails no sacrifice on the merchant.\n\nThe principal points of the Convention, to which will be annexed supplementary rules and Tariff, as affecting the articles named, either for reduction or increase, have now been passed in review. Considering how much has been conceded by the Chinese, and how few and unimportant the changes which they have insisted upon in return, either on grounds of reciprocity, or expediency, I think it is a subject for congratulation that they have been so moderate in their demands, and rested content with so much less than they are well known to desire.\n\nIt is very true, that the utmost to be obtained from their concessions falls very far short of the demands and wishes of the Memorialists. Steam navigation on the inland waters, railroads, and telegraphs, rights of domicile inland, and the working of mines by foreigners, have all been refused as impracticable or inexpedient at present; and Her Majesty's Government have concurred in this view, and withdrawn all demands for any one of them. At the same time, several of the concessions made, tend in this direction, and, if used judiciously, will certainly prepare the way, at no distant period, for farther progress. I think that it is from this point of view their value will be most fairly tested.\n\nOn the other side, if we bear in mind the undisguised desire of the high authorities and of the whole body of educated Chinese, including the literati and gentry as well as the officials of every grade throughout the provinces for the restriction of foreign intercourse to the sea-board, if not, indeed, to a single port, as of old, and the withdrawal of any privileges which would only have been extorted at the cannon's mouth, and by superior force, I think they deserve some credit for their moderation during the present negotiations. The Tsungli Yamên did not indeed disguise their dislike to all the phases of extraterritoriality, the domiciliation of missionaries in the interior, the importation of opium, and the appointment of merchant Consuls; yet they have not pressed demands on any of these points, or sought to make concessions a condition of revision.\n\nA right to appoint Consuls, which they may be very slow to exercise, and a trifling increase of duties on two articles that may yield them some additional Customs revenue, is about the sum of what they have rested content with. That these are neither unreasonable, nor in any sense inequitable, must, I think, be freely admitted; and I confess to a conviction that few European Governments would have contented themselves with so little in the revision of a Treaty containing much that was objectionable to them, more especially when expected to concede still more to the foreigner's advantage.\n\nI shall be glad if you and my other colleagues concur in this view, which, in any case, I felt it to be due to all parties to submit, frankly and freely, for your appreciation.\n\nAfter devoting the best part of two years to the discussion of the various questions at issue, and the endeavour, by friendly negotiations, to bring the Tsungli Yamên to see the expediency of changes favourable to the progress of trade and less restricted intercourse, I can only trust that, upon a review of the whole, the balance of advantages will appear to you, and to my other colleagues, such as to recommend the Convention for general acceptance.\n\nYou will, no doubt, hear from the Tsungli Yamên, and be invited to co-operate to that end, as soon as the instrument shall have been signed by the Prince of Kung and myself, it having been agreed that the High Contracting Parties shall mutually invite each of the Treaty Powers to promote, by their adhesion, its being speedily carried into execution.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\n(Signed) \n\n## Inclosure 3.\n\n**RUTHERFORD ALCOCK.**\n\nThe Tsungli Yamen to Sir R. Alcock.\n\nOctober 23, 1869.\n\nTHE Prince of Kung, Pao, President of the Board of Revenue; Tan, President of the Board of Punishment; Wên, President of the Board of Civil Office; Tung, President of the Board of Revenue; and Chung, President of the Colonial Office, make a communication.\n\nIt is distinctly stipulated in the XVIth Article that the ratification of Convention this day signed shall be exchanged in Peking.\n\nIt is also understood that effect shall not be given to the several Articles except with mutual consent, until a common understanding with the other Treaty Powers has been come to, that their respective subjects in becoming entitled to the rights and advantages therein conceded to British subjects, shall in like manner as these be bound by the conditions thereto attaching. And to promote this end, with the least possible delay, it has been agreed that each of the High Contracting Parties shall communicate the Convention to the other Powers, and invite their adhesion to its terms and conditions.\n\nPage 291 \nPage [70]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291204, "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": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "dasn't distance from this colony vessels leaving for that Port are not subject to the provisions of the Navigation Laws, whether they be Imperial or local. And at present I do not consider it necessary to recommend to Your Lordship that the subject should be introduced into any local legislation.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,\n\nLlannedy Governor.\n\nGov. 418 6414 8 Hong Kong 367 Hong Kong\n\nGod!\" Sir A Kennedy\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Fowler. Mr. Stansfeld. Mr. Chichester Fortescue. Mr. Grant Duff. Mr. Goschen. Mr. Childers. Mr. Ayrton. Mr. Bruce. Earl Granard. Lord Kimberley.\n\n15\n\n19 July 73\n\nI have received your despatch No. 118 of the 15th May, in which you maintain that vessels proceeding from to Hong Kong are excepted by the proviso to 2,307 Ordinance 8 of 1871 from the modified restrictions imposed by that Ordinance upon Chinese passenger vessels proceeding on voyages of not more than 30 days.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294164, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "# Hong Kong, October 5th, 1874\n\n**Governor**\nIn Arthur Kennedy, KCMG, CB.\n\nTo\n\nThe Right Honorable the Lords\nSecretaries of the Board of Trade\n\n**MINUTE.**\n\nMa. de S.\n\nOct 5 - 74 \n135.27 \nIndexed \nRobeck Dec 12. \n3. Pauncefote. 14 Jordig! \nMr. Malcolm. \nThe Earl of Carnarvon. \nLixaft Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to \nMr. Herbert. \nMerchant Shipping, the duties of the Harbor Master, the control and \nMr. Lowther. \nmanagement of the waters. The Colony and the regulation of Harbour navigation, the same Subunits for approval a Copy of as passed through Committee of Legislation Council on the 7th September last.\n\n2 End\n\nMr. Meade. \nLord Carnarvon.\n\nDS. 16. Dec. 1874\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to request you to please supply transmit to you for the information of the Board of Trade a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, dated October 5th, 1874, together with a draft Bill.\n\n| Date | Reference |\n|-------------|--------------------|\n| 4-7-67 | 10. of 67 |\n| 5.7.69 | 7.7.73 |\n| | 192 |\n| 71866 | Conduction of the |\n| | Board |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294170, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "# N 2918.\n\ntonghong 2nd October, 1874. Received 2nd October: 1874.)\n\n**The Attorney General** \n(Iton : Bramotor) \n**The Colonial Secretary** \n(Son : J. G. Austin)\n\nThe Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance 1874.\n\nThe report upon ...\n\n## Enclosure\n\nEnclosure NFR in Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy's Despatch No 194 of 24 October, 1874.\n\n### Title, Preamble.\n\n#### Short Title.\n#### Interpretation Clause.\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate and amend the laws relating to merchant shipping, the duties of the Harbour Master, the control and management of the waters of the Colony, and the regulation of vessels navigating the same.\n\n[1874.] WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the laws relating to merchant shipping, the duties of the Harbour Master, the control and management of the waters of the Colony, and the regulation of all vessels navigating the same; and whereas doubts have arisen as to the applicability of certain sections of \"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,\" and the Acts amending the same: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n## PRELIMINARY.\n\nI. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as \"The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1874.\".\n\nII. In the construction and for the purposes of this Ordinance (if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter) the following terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them, that is to say:-\n\n| Term | Meaning |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"Stipendiary Magistrate\" | shall mean and include the Police Magistrates of the Colony, and the Marine Magistrate. |\n| \"Master\" | shall include every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of any ship; |\n| \"Seaman\" | shall include any person (except masters, pilots and apprentices duly indentured and registered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship; |\n| \"Ship\" | shall include any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars, except Chinese junks or lorchas not propelled by steam.\" |\n| \"Tons,\" \"Tonnage\" | shall mean tons and tonnage, as calculated according to British measurement of registered tonnage. |\n\nThe term \"waters of the Colony\" shall (except as hereinafter provided) be, for the purposes of this Ordinance, deemed to comprise the waters situate within a radius of one marine league from the shores of the Colony: Provided always that this interpretation shall not be construed to affect waters within such radius in any case where such waters are situate within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of the empire of China.\n\n## PART I.\n\n### MERCHANT SHIPPING AND SEAMEN.\n\n#### CHAPTER I.\n\n##### REGULATION OF BRITISH AND COLONIAL SHIPS.\n\nIII. No ship owned by a British subject shall be at liberty to trade in or from the waters of this Colony, unless she is provided with a certificate of registry in conformity with the Imperial Acts of Parliament in that behalf.\n\n(Ordinance No. 4 of 1855, sec. 1.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294871, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "# JOURNAL OFFICIEL DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE\n\n## RAPPORT\n\nfait au ministre de la marine et des colonies et au ministre de l'instruction publique, des cultes et des beaux-arts, par M. L. Delaporte, lieutenant de vaisseau, sur la mission scientifique aux ruines des monuments khmers de Cambodge.\n\nMonsieur le ministre,\n\nAu mois d'avril 1873, M. le ministre de la marine décida qu'un voyage d'exploration serait entrepris au Tonking et me fit l'honneur de me nommer chef de cette mission. Ce voyage ne devant pas commencer avant le retour de la saison sèche, c'est-à-dire avant le mois de novembre, je pensai à utiliser les six mois que nous allions passer d'abord en Cochinchine en faisant une excursion aux ruines khmères. J'en parlai à M. le contre-amiral Dupré, gouverneur de la colonie, qui voulut bien m'encourager dans ce projet et me promettre son concours.\n\nJe m'adressai alors à M. le directeur des beaux-arts, près duquel je trouvai l'accueil le plus favorable, et, sur sa proposition, M. le ministre de l'instruction publique consentit à ajouter à la subvention que son département donnait déjà pour concourir à l'exploration du Tonking, une nouvelle somme de dix mille francs prise sur les fonds des beaux-arts et destinée à me procurer les moyens de recueillir au milieu des ruines une collection qui serait plus tard envoyée en France par les bâtiments de l'État.\n\nJe pouvais aussi compter sur les ressources de la colonie et sur le concours du personnel de la mission de Tonking, que M. le gouverneur m'avait promis de mettre également à ma disposition, pendant l'excursion aux monuments khmers. Enfin, la direction des beaux-arts voulut bien me confier un certain nombre de statues, tableaux et gravures, pour offrir en cadeaux au roi et aux mandarins du Cambodge.\n\nLe 20 mai, la mission d'exploration du Tonking quittait la France. Cinq semaines plus tard nous atteignions la Cochinchine.\n\nDès notre arrivée à Saïgon nous nous occupâmes activement d'organiser l'excursion préparatoire aux ruines, à laquelle nous ne pouvions consacrer qu'un temps limité. M. le gouverneur donna des ordres pour faire armer une canonnière et une chaloupe à vapeur qu'il mit à notre disposition pour toute la durée de ce premier voyage. Les préparatifs furent rapidement achevés, le personnel complété, et au bout d'un mois nous pûmes partir pour le Cambodge.\n\n## Composition de la mission\n\nLa mission que je dirigeais se composait alors de:\n- MM. Bouillet, ingénieur hydrographe;\n- Ratte, ingénieur civil, géologue;\n- le docteur Jullion, naturaliste, envoyé par le Muséum; tous trois venus de France avec moi;\n- Faraut, conducteur des ponts et chaussées, adjoint spécialement pour l'excursion aux ruines.\n- M. le capitaine d'infanterie de marine F... devait nous rejoindre plus tard et s'occuper spécialement des moulages de sculptures et de bas-reliefs.\n\nQuant au matériel, nous emportions en outre un attirail complet de câbles, palans, scies, etc., pour la manœuvre des pierres, du plâtre et du ciment pour les moulages, et tous les objets utiles que les arsenaux de Saïgon avaient pu nous fournir.\n\n## Début de l'excursion\n\nTrois jours après notre départ de Saïgon, les deux bâtiments mouillaient devant la résidence du protectorat français, à Phnom-Penh, capitale du royaume actuel du Cambodge. M. le lieutenant de vaisseau Moura, représentant de la France près du roi, avait reçu les instructions du gouverneur. Il nous reçut avec empressement et informa sur-le-champ le roi de notre arrivée.\n\nLe roi Norodom, malade des suites d'une chute de voiture, se fit excuser de ne pas recevoir officiellement toute la mission; cependant il voulut bien m'accorder une audience particulière. J'en profitai pour lui offrir une partie des cadeaux donnés par la direction des beaux-arts, et je lui expliquai que notre gouvernement, venant lui demander l'autorisation de prendre dans ses États des richesses artistiques auxquelles nous attachions du prix, laissait en échange des objets d'art français. Le roi, me remerciant, me dit que les ordres étaient donnés, et que nous trouverions dans ses États toutes les facilités possibles pour nos recherches.\n\n## Les ruines khmères\n\nLes ruines khmères, que nous allions visiter, sont disséminées sur un grand nombre de points du territoire de l'ancien Cambodge compris entre le 10e et le 14e degré de latitude nord, et le 100e et le 105e degré de longitude est. Par leur nombre, leur importance et la perfection de leur exécution, elles dénotent l'existence d'une civilisation puissante, de grande durée, et d'un art extrêmement remarquable.\n\nEn partie détruits par des guerres, abandonnés depuis plusieurs siècles, presque tous les monuments khmers sont aujourd'hui dans le plus complet délabrement. Leurs abords sont désertés, ignorés et souvent redoutés par les indigènes à qui elles inspirent une terreur superstitieuse. Partout une végétation puissante les envahit, et c'est à la hache à la main qu'il faut tenter de pénétrer jusqu'à leurs sanctuaires.\n\nGrâce au concours empressé de M. Moura, nous pûmes dès le lendemain nous mettre en route, munis de trois interprètes indigènes, et accompagnés d'un mandarin de la cour porteur de lettres du roi pour les mandarins avec lesquels nous devions nous trouver en relations pendant nos excursions.\n\n## Exploration des ruines\n\nLe premier Européen qui les ait signalées à nos jours fut Henri Mouhot, naturaliste français, mort peu de temps après en continuant sa périlleuse exploration de l'Indo-Chine. L'année suivante, le commandant de Lagrée, alors résident français au Cambodge, visita de nouveau les ruines de Battambang et d'Angcor, vues par Mouhot, en décomposa de nouvelles, les étudia et s'efforça de rassembler les documents indigènes capables de servir à reconstituer leur histoire.\n\nUne grande partie du Cambodge est encore explorée et les notions géographiques que nous possédons sur ce pays sont fort incomplètes. M. Moura avait bien voulu nous communiquer une carte qu'il avait récemment dressée d'après ses itinéraires particuliers et les renseignements qu'il avait recueillis près des indigènes. Ces nouvelles indications me permirent de fixer ainsi le plan de notre excursion : nous allions explorer d'abord les nombreuses et importantes ruines des provinces cambodgiennes de Compong-Soai, de Stang et de Siem-reap; de là, nous nous rendrions à Angcor-Tom, à Angcor-Wat et aux environs; si nous en avions le temps, nous irions reconnaître d'autres antiquités khmères signalées dans le nord, et nous ferions à notre retour une courte excursion aux ruines de la province de Battambang.\n\n## Prensat Prathcol\n\nAprès avoir remonté le cours d'eau, pendant deux jours, nous parvînmes à un misérable hameau situé sur l'emplacement de la ville de Compong-Thom, détruite dans une guerre civile récente, et là nous apprîmes que nous ne trouverions dans le voisinage aucun centre de population assez important pour nous fournir les moyens de transport dont nous avions besoin. La seule ville possédant quelques ressources était Stung, chef-lieu de la province du même nom, également située sur les bords d'une grande rivière, et à proximité des ruines.\n\nMuni de ces nouveaux renseignements, j'envoyai prévenir le Thoméa Dechu, haut fonctionnaire alors en mission à Stang, de notre prochaine arrivée, et comme M. l'ingénieur Bouillet avait commencé un levé du cours de la rivière, je prolongeai notre halte de deux jours.\n\nPrensat Prathcol consiste en une enceinte rectangulaire avec portes monumentales ornées de statues de géants et de grands lions. La porte de la face orientale, plus importante que les autres, fait partie d'un édifice complet. Elle est précédée d'une chaussée garnie de balustrades formées par de longs dragons à sept têtes ou de nâgas ou grands bassins à marches de pierre.\n\nAu centre de l'enceinte et à l'extrémité d'une allée intérieure qui fait suite à la chaussée de l'est, s'élève une haute tour. Sa base est en forme de croix grecque avec quatre portes précédées de piliers formant péristyles et supportant des entablements surmontés de frontons avec tympans couverts de bas-reliefs.\n\nCe qui reste de la tour en partie détruite est couvert de sculptures fines, élégantes, et dont l'assemblage ornant le monument sans rompre ses lignes principales, est d'un remarquable effet décoratif.\n\n## Description détaillée de Prensat Prathcol\n\nLe long du soubassement règne un cercle de statues à genoux, les mains jointes. Plus haut, chaque pilastre est orné d'une femme demi-nue tenant une fleur à la main et debout dans une sorte de niche ogivale qu'entourent de fines arabesques. Sur chacune des surfaces courbes qui s'étendent d'une porte à l'autre, on voit, à droite et à gauche, deux groupes symétriques composés de saints et de têtes de dansesuses, et au milieu trois éléphants qui semblent sortir de la muraille, leurs trompes, gracieusement recourbées, se roulent autour de lianes et de branches chargées de feuillages.\n\nLe sommet de ces têtes supporte un entablement orné de moulures sculptées et faisant le tour du monument en reposant aussi sur les chapiteaux des pilastres des portes et des piliers des péristyles. Un énorme oiseau, le corps de femme, la tête couverte d'un diadème et les ailes déployées, se dresse au-dessus de l'éléphant du milieu entre ses pattes. Il paraît un monstre et le long de ses ailes pendent des dragons à plusieurs têtes. De ses griffes relevées en cariatide, il soutient un entablement nouveau. Trois oiseaux fantastiques et plus haut, le second étage, et plus haut encore, le troisième, portent l'entablement supérieur.\n\n## Suite de l'exploration\n\nDeux jours après notre départ de Compong-Thom, nous nous engageâmes de nouveau dans un des nombreux cours d'eau tributaires des lacs. Au bout de trois heures de navigation, une grande percée parut dans la forêt; la rivière se dégagea, et par un beau canal de cent mètres de largeur, nous pénétrâmes d'une façon tout à fait inattendue dans un lac inconnu jusqu'à ce jour.\n\nDeux longues journées d'une navigation extrêmement pénible nous conduisirent à un pauvre hameau près duquel nous laissâmes la canonnière. Nous nous embarquâmes avec notre matériel de campagne à bord de la chaloupe, et au bout de quelques heures nous atteignîmes enfin la ville de Stung.\n\n## Arrivée à Stung et suite du voyage\n\nLe Thoméa Dechu nous reçut avec les démonstrations les plus amicales et nous lui fîmes quelques cadeaux. D'après ses conseils, nous nous décidâmes à quitter la rivière et à continuer notre route par terre; et comme les chars dont nous avions besoin avaient été déjà réunis par ses soins, nous pûmes partir dès le lendemain.\n\nAprès avoir marché pendant quatre jours, parfois au milieu de rivières et de plaines inondées, le plus souvent en forêt, sans routes tracées, nous atteignîmes le petit village de Pracan, situé au milieu d'un groupe de ruines, dans lequel nous allions pouvoir commencer nos opérations.\n\n## Ponteay Pracan, Preasat Prathcol, Preasat Prea Tomrey\n\nLa mission s'installa dans un grand campement construit près du village, et tandis que les mandarins envoyés par le Thoméa Dechu s'occupaient à grand'peine de réunir dans ce pays presque désert les indigènes qui nous étaient nécessaires, nous entreprîmes la reconnaissance préparatoire des ruines.\n\nNotre première visite fut pour la grande et belle résidence de Ponteay Pracan, déjà explorée par le commandant de Lagrée. Nous visitâmes ensuite un monument jusqu'alors inconnu des Européens et appelé par les indigènes Preasat Prathcol. Cette découverte était précieuse, car la grande tour qui occupe le centre de cet édifice et qui en constitue la partie principale, est une des œuvres les plus remarquables de l'architecture khmère.\n\nDes nombreuses statues, des dragons qui ornaient Preasat Prathcol, il ne reste plus que des débris enfouis sous les décombres de la forêt. Nous avons réussi à extraire d'une fouille faite à la porte de l'Est, une remarquable statue à...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296968, "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": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "billages on the mainland of China. That it appeared, however, to your Lordship that while it was very desirable to accommodate the carriage of passengers belonging to vessels of that class to residents in the Colony, the enforcement of a penalty against any such vessel which might arrive in the Colony with a greater number of passengers than the local Law permits was hardly consistent with international practice and might be considered a measure of doubtful legality.\n\nIn obedience to your Lordship's commands, we have the honor to report that vessels of every nationality arriving in the waters of a British Colony are required to obey the municipal laws in force in that Colony; and that if the 6th section of the Ordinance here in question is allowed to become the law of Hong Kong, no nation will have any right to complain of the enforcement of its provisions, unless the restriction thereby imposed upon the navigation of small steamers is an infringement of some subsisting Treaty.\n\nWe have the honor to be, My Lord, your Lordship's most humble servants,\n\nMishard Baggallay\n\nJohn Bolker\n\n€2 Treas", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297212, "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": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "303\n\n68\n\nof principle aside), appear to be some reason for asserting that it might in practice be advantageous to foreigners to be protected by French Agents, in the absence of any Representatives of their own country, and, in such circumstances, to be liable to the joint jurisdiction of French and Annamnese authorities, rather than to be entirely at the mercy of the native officials.\n\nIt must be observed, however, that the language of the Duc Decazes' paper is rather vague with regard to this matter, and if an arrangement on this basis should be contemplated, it would be necessary to scrutinize the Treaties between France and Annam very carefully, in order to ascertain whether they admit of the interpretation put upon them. For it is to be remembered that in leaving to Annam the right to conclude Commercial Treaties, the French have been careful to stipulate that such Treaties must contain nothing inconsistent with the Treaties with France, and that the French Government must be informed before they are concluded.\n\nIt seems to me to be, in fact, doubtful whether the more liberal interpretation put by the Duc Decazes' paper upon the Commercial Treaty is warranted by the wording of it; and consequently if that Treaty were ratified as it stands by the French Assembly, it might hereafter be construed as conferring, perpetually and exclusively, upon French Agents the jurisdiction over foreigners, which, even as a temporary arrangement, seems to be in principle open to objection.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed). LYONS.\n\nInclosure in No. 78.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nLE Ministre des Affaires Etrangères a examiné, avec toute l'attention qu'il mérite, le memorandum du Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique en date du 15 Novembre, 1874, relatif au Traité de Commerce conclu entre la France et le Royaume d'Annam. Les observations développées dans ce document portent principalement sur trois points: les droits de juridiction attribués aux Agents Français en tant qu'ils s'entendraient aux sujets des nations Chrétiennes; le privilège en vertu duquel ces mêmes fonctionnaires seraient provisoirement appelés à prononcer sur les difficultés pouvant survenir entre des étrangers et l'administration des Douanes; enfin, les faveurs stipulées au profit des bâtiments chargés de marchandises provenant ou à destination de Saigon.\n\nDes explications confidentielles ayant déjà été échangées à ce sujet avec son Excellence M. l'Ambassadeur d'Angleterre, le Duc Decazes a pu se convaincre qu'il s'était produit et qu'il existait encore un malentendu sur la portée de quelques-unes des clauses des arrangements intervenus entre le Gouvernement Français et la Cour de Hué.\n\nIl en est ainsi, notamment pour ce qui concerne les attributions dont les résidents Français se trouvent momentanément investis par le Traité Politique, à l'égard des étrangers, dans les nouveaux ports du Royaume d'Annam ouverts à la navigation. En effet, le Cabinet Français s'est proposé, par cette disposition, de satisfaire aux nécessités d'une situation temporaire en assurant à tous les étrangers sans distinction de nationalité qui aborderaient sur le territoire de l'Annam la protection que l'administration Annamite serait hors d'état de leur procurer dans les premiers temps qui suivront la mise à exécution des Traités. Le Cabinet Français a voulu ainsi réserver aux négociants étrangers, aussi bien qu'à ses propres nationaux, un recours contre l'inexpérience et l'animosité possibles de certains fonctionnaires Annamites, tant qu'aucune autre Puissance n'aurait encore d'Agents Consulaires dans le Royaume d'Annam.\n\nOn ne doit pas oublier que si le Gouvernement Annamite s'est engagé à conformer sa politique extérieure à celle de France et à ne rien changer à ses relations diplomatiques actuelles, cet engagement n'exclut ni la conclusion de Traités de Commerce ni l'établissement de Consuls étrangers, qui en serait la conséquence naturelle. Rien ne s'oppose, en effet, à ce que le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique ouvre à ce sujet des négociations avec le Royaume d'Annam s'il juge à propos de le faire, et le Gouvernement Français est même tout disposé à l'aider, dans ce but, de ses bons offices auprès de la Cour de Hué.\n\nCette stipulation, empreinte d'un esprit évident de libéralisme, ne saurait donc causer aucun ombrage, et nous pouvons ajouter qu'il en est de même de celles qui attribuent à l'Agent Français le droit de statuer, de concert avec un magistrat Annamite, sur les contestations entre les négociants étrangers et la Douane. Il suffira d'une simple observation pour écarter toute incertitude à cet égard; le Cabinet Français entend bien que les Consuls étrangers, dès qu'ils seront installés, auront la charge et le soin de pourvoir désormais par eux-mêmes à la protection de leurs nationaux dans les matières de Douane, aussi bien que dans les questions de juridiction.\n\n69\n\nEn ce qui concerne la clause relative au port de Saigon, nous devons constater que le Gouvernement de la Reine s'est mépris sur les raisons qui l'ont dictée comme sur la portée qu'il convient d'y donner. Elle est ainsi conçue: \"Les marchandises expédiées de Saïgon pour un des ports ouverts de l'Annam ou à destination du Yunnan, en transit par le Tsong-Koi et celles qui sont expédiées de l'un de ces ports ou du Yunnan pour Saïgon, ne seront soumises qu'à la moitié des droits frappant les marchandises de toute autre provenance ou ayant une autre destination.\"\n\nCe n'est pas à titre gratuit que le Cabinet Français a réclamé et obtenu ce régime spécial pour sa Colonie de Saigon. Il a dû préalablement renoncer au reliquat des sommes encore dues pour l'ancienne indemnité de guerre et qui ne s'élèvent pas à moins de 5,000,000. Il a dû prendre l'engagement de fournir au Gouvernement Annamite l'appui matériel qui lui est nécessaire pour maintenir chez lui l'ordre et la tranquillité et détruire la piraterie qui désole ses côtes; lui promettre 5 bâtiments de guerre à vapeur, 100 canons approvisionnés de 200 coups, et 1,000 fusils à tir rapide; c'est à ce prix que la France acquérait un droit difficile à contester, à des compensations temporaires, et qui n'atténuent qu'incomplètement l'importance de ses sacrifices. Les tarifs actuels sont établis pour une durée de dix ans; ce laps de temps s'écoulera certainement avant que le Gouvernement Français ne soit rentré dans ses déboursés et le privilège qu'il revendique pour le port de Saigon, pendant ces dix années, n'est qu'un faible dédommagement de la somme considérable qu'il abandonne aux Annamites, du matériel de guerre qu'il met à leur disposition et des dépenses qu'il prend à sa charge.\n\nA l'expiration des tarifs actuels, il y aura lieu d'examiner si l'état de choses qu'ils consacrent doit être maintenu ou abrogé. Mais il est d'autant moins possible aujourd'hui de renoncer au bénéfice de ces dispositions, qu'elles ne sont nullement exclusives. Elles seront, en effet, applicables aux bâtiments étrangers comme aux bâtiments nationaux; Saigon est un port franc, et il n'est que trop connu que les établissements de commerce Français créés dans ce port ne sont ni les plus nombreux, ni ceux qui font le trafic le plus étendu.\n\nLe Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de France se plaît à espérer que ces explications suffiront pour rendre aux Traités conclus avec le Royaume d'Annam leur véritable signification. Le Gouvernement Britannique mieux éclairé rendra donc pleine justice à des arrangements qui ouvrent au commerce de toutes les Puissances de nouveaux et précieux débouchés jusqu'à présent fermés à toutes les tentatives, et que la France n'a pu disputer à la barbarie qu'aux prix de longs et cruels sacrifices. Il serait, en vérité, inexplicable que celle des Puissances dont le pavillon occupe la plus grande place dans les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine, et qui est ainsi appelée à profiter le plus largement de cette conquête de la civilisation Européenne, voulût en contester les bienfaits, et pût méconnaître l'esprit dont nous avons été animés dans la poursuite de nos efforts.\n\nParis, le 24 Mai, 1875.\n\n(No. 428.) My Lord,\n\nNo. 79.\n\nLord Lyons to the Earl of Derby. Received May 26.)\n\nParis, May 25, 1875. IN the paper respecting the Annam Treaties which the Duc Decazes gave me yesterday, and of which a copy is inclosed in my immediately preceding despatch No. 427 of to-day, the Duke refers to his confidential communications with me respecting his answer to the Memorandum presented to him by Lord Lytton, on the 15th November last.\n\nYour Lordship may remember that these communications began by the Duc Decazes putting into my hand, confidentially, in the month of January last, a draft of the answer he proposed to send; that I informed him that an answer in the terms of that draft would be considered as most unsatisfactory by Her Majesty's Government; and that on the 16th February I had a long conversation with him on the question of the Annam Treaties, and put into his hand a Memorandum containing observations on the draft answer.\n\nThe answer which he gave me yesterday is certainly, both in tone and in substance, less unsatisfactory than the original draft; but I cannot say that it very much modifies the opinions I expressed in my despatches No. 58, of the 18th January, and No. 149, of the 16th February last.\n\n[81]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297273, "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": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "4\n\n82\n\nentitled to insist upon the establishment of these differential duties because she contracted burdensome engagements towards Annam and remitted large debts due to her by the Annamite Government; in short, because she has paid a large price to Annam for the privilege, but he does not show how the payment of this price to Annam by France can afford other nations any alleviation of the privilege established to their detriment.\n\nThe explanations which are given respecting the question of jurisdiction appear, however, to be worthy of serious consideration.\n\nThe note states that the jurisdiction of French officials over foreigners is intended only as a temporary measure for the security of the foreigners themselves on the territory of Annam being first made accessible to them. It adds that it was necessary to make the stipulations respecting it absolute as regards Annam, but that as regards foreign nations, it is plain that it was provided as an advantage of which they might avail themselves if they pleased, but which the French Government had never any idea of imposing upon them, and respecting which it intended to enter into explanations with foreign Governments.\n\nObservations of the same kind are made on the stipulations which confer on French agents the right to decide in concert with a native Magistrate disputes between foreigners and the Annamite Custom-houses.\n\nThe note affirms distinctly that other nations have the right to conclude Commercial Treaties with Annam, and to establish, in consequence, Consuls of their own; and it declares that the French Government understands that Foreign Consuls, so soon as they shall be established, will thenceforward have the duty and the care of providing themselves for the protection of their countrymen in Customs' matters as well as in questions of jurisdiction.\n\nThe good offices of France are offered to assist Great Britain in negotiating a Commercial Treaty with Annam.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) LYONS.\n\nM. l'Ambassadeur,\n\nInclosure in No. 86.\n\nM. Buffet to Lord Lyons.\n\nVersailles, le 8 Juillet, 1875. M. LE DUC DECAZES, en quittant Paris, m'a laissé le soin de répondre à la lettre que votre Excellence lui a adressée, en date du 26 Juin, au sujet de certaines stipulations des Traités conclus entre la France et le Royaume d'Annam. Mon collègue vous a déjà fait part verbalement des remarques que cette communication lui a suggérées, et je n'ai moi-même qu'à reproduire ici les explications dans lesquelles il est entré avec vous.\n\nLes observations du Gouvernement Anglais portent principalement sur trois points: les droits de juridiction attribués aux agents Français, en tant qu'ils s'étendraient aux sujets des nations Chrétiennes, le privilège en vertu duquel ces mêmes fonctionnaires seraient provisoirement appelés à prononcer sur les difficultés pouvant survenir entre des étrangers et l'administration des Douanes: enfin, les faveurs stipulées au profit des bâtiments chargés de marchandises provenant ou à destination de Saigon.\n\nLes explications développées, en dernier lieu, par votre Excellence, confirmant le Gouvernement Français dans l'opinion qu'il s'est produite, ainsi que M. le Duc Decazes l'a déclaré, un malentendu sur la portée de quelques-unes des clauses des arrangements intervenus entre la France et l'Annam. Il en est ainsi, notamment pour ce qui concerne les attributions dont les Résidents Français se trouvent éventuellement investis par le Traité Politique à l'égard des étrangers dans les nouveaux ports ouverts à la navigation. En effet, cette disposition a eu pour objet de satisfaire aux nécessités d'une situation temporaire en assurant à tous les étrangers, sans distinction de nationalité, auxquels le territoire de l'Annam est désormais accessible, la protection que l'Administration Annamite serait hors d'état de leur procurer, dans les premiers temps qui suivront la mise à exécution des Traités.\n\nVis-à-vis du Gouvernement Annamite, la clause devrait être absolue, car il s'agissait d'enlever ces étrangers à la juridiction locale; vis-à-vis des Gouvernements étrangers, au contraire, il était de toute évidence qu'elle constituait pour eux un avantage dont il leur serait loisible de profiter, mais qu'il n'entrait pas dans notre pensée de leur imposer; nous nous réservions d'ailleurs d'en faire ultérieurement l'objet d'un échange d'explications avec eux.\n\nC'est ainsi que le Cabinet Français entendait ménager aux négociants étrangers, dans les cas où il leur conviendrait de faire appel à l'intervention de ses Agents aussi bien qu'à l'égard de ses propres nationaux, un recours contre l'inexpérience et l'animosité possibles de certains fonctionnaires Annamites, tant qu'aucune autre Puissance n'aurait encore d'Agent Consulaire dans le royaume d'Annam.\n\n83\n\nOn ne doit pas oublier que si le Gouvernement Annamite s'est engagé à conformer sa politique extérieure à celle de la France et à ne rien changer à ses relations diplomatiques actuelles, cet engagement n'exclut ni la conclusion de Traités de Commerce, ni l'établissement de Consuls étrangers, qui en serait la conséquence naturelle. Rien ne s'oppose, en effet, à ce que le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique ouvre à ce sujet des négociations avec le Royaume d'Annam, s'il juge à propos de le faire, et le Gouvernement Français est même tout disposé à l'aider dans ce but de ses bons offices auprès de la Cour de Hué.\n\nCette stipulation, empreinte d'un esprit évident de libéralisme, ne saurait donc causer aucun ombrage, et nous pouvons ajouter qu'il en est de même de celle qui attribue à l'Agent Français le droit de statuer, de concert avec un Magistrat Annamite, sur les contestations entre les négociants étrangers et la Douane. Il suffira d'une simple observation pour écarter toute incertitude à cet égard. Le Cabinet Français entend bien que les Consuls étrangers, dès qu'ils seront installés, auront la charge et le soin de pourvoir désormais par eux-mêmes à la protection de leurs nationaux dans les matières de Douane aussi bien que dans les questions de juridiction.\n\nEn ce qui concerne la clause relative au port de Saigon, nous devons constater que le Gouvernement de la Reine s'est mépris sur les raisons qui l'ont dictée comme sur la portée qu'il convient d'y donner. Elle est ainsi conçue: \"Les marchandises expédiées de Saigon pour un des ports ouverts de l'Annam ou à destination du Yunnan, en transit par les Tsong-koï, et celles qui sont expédiées de l'un de ces ports ou du Yunnan pour Saigon ne seront soumises qu'à la moitié des droits frappant les marchandises de toute autre provenance ou ayant une autre destination.\"\n\nCe n'est pas à titre gratuit que le Gouvernement Français a réclamé et obtenu ce régime spécial pour sa Colonie de Saigon. Il a dû préalablement renoncer au reliquat des sommes encore dues pour l'ancienne indemnité de guerre et qui ne s'élèvent pas à moins de 5,000,000. Il a dû prendre l'engagement de fournir au Gouvernement Annamite l'appui matériel qui lui est nécessaire pour maintenir chez lui l'ordre et la tranquillité et détruire la piraterie qui désole ses côtes, lui promettre cinq bâtiments de guerre à vapeur, cents canons approvisionnés de deux cents coups et mille fusils à tir rapide: c'est à ce prix que la France acquérait un droit difficile à contester à des compensations temporaires et qui n'atténuent qu'incomplètement l'importance de ses sacrifices. Les tarifs actuels sont établis pour une durée de dix ans; ce laps de temps s'écoulera certainement avant que le Gouvernement Français ne soit rentré dans ses déboursés et le privilège qu'il revendique pour le port de Saigon, pendant ces dix années, n'est qu'un faible dédommagement de la somme considérable qu'il abandonne aux Annamites, du matériel de guerre qu'il met à leur disposition et des dépenses qu'il prend à sa charge.\n\nA l'expiration des tarifs actuels, il y aura lieu d'examiner si l'état de choses qu'ils consacrent doit être maintenu ou abrogé. Mais il est d'autant moins possible, aujourd'hui, de renoncer au bénéfice de ces dispositions, qu'elles ne sont nullement exclusives. Elles seront, en effet, applicables aux bâtiments étrangers comme aux bâtiments nationaux; Saigon est un port franc et il n'est que trop connu que les établissements de commerce Français créés dans ce port ne sont, ni les plus nombreux, ni ceux qui font le trafic le plus étendu.\n\nNous nous plaisons à espérer que ces explications suffiront pour rendre aux Traités conclus avec le Royaume d'Annam leur véritable signification. Le Gouvernement Britannique, mieux éclairé, rendra donc pleine justice à des arrangements qui ouvrent au commerce de toutes les Puissances de nouveaux et précieux débouchés, jusqu'à présent fermés à toutes les tentatives, et que la France n'a pu disputer à la barbarie qu'au prix de longs et cruels sacrifices. Le Gouvernement Français aurait peine à s'expliquer que celle de ces Puissances dont le pavillon occupe la plus grande place dans les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine, et qui est ainsi appelée à profiter le plus largement de cette conquête de la civilisation Européenne, voulût en contester les bienfaits et pût méconnaître l'esprit dont nous avons été animés dans la poursuite de nos efforts.\n\nAgréez, &c.\n\n(Signé) BUFFET, Chargé par intérim du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.\n\nSC3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299128, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "content_text": "To prove.\n\nWe venture to hope that the views we have expressed will throw light on the proposed Ordinance, and we would, with all respect to His Excellency and the Legislative Council, point out that in all legislation affecting the liberty of action of Shipowners it behoves a Government to exercise extreme caution in framing new Laws which in any way tend to press upon or interfere with the interests of Shipping.\n\n1\n\nWe have to express our depreciation.\n\nSigned Butterfield and Swire, Agents for China Navigation Co. Limited\n\nAudie Colonial Secretary\n\n252.\n\nSir,\n\n2094/77. 469 Barber Department Hong Kong, 18th December 1878\n\nIn connection with the proposal to regulate the number of passengers to be conveyed by Steam Ships plying between Hongkong, Canton, and vice versa,\n\nWe have the honor to submit the following tonnages of the vessels performing this service:\n\n \n The H.K.\n 1284\n 1640.56\n \n \n Kinshan\n 1389\n 1859.82\n \n \n White Cloud\n 528\n 1049\n 798.10\n \n \n Ichang\n \n 1782\n \n\nThe Honorable The Colonial Secretary\n\n23:10|76-H & S 2454-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299483, "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": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "sources already in the passion of Malget. \n\nYun Lelf. will see that M. Depuis conclusion is that \n\nAnnam las \n\nbut \n\ngiven Kothring Signetine \n\na that practically \n\nis more closed. \n\nTham Li \n\nFrety, the Country \n\nThan Ever. \n\n(Sol) Lyon \n\nSAMEDI 2 DÉCEMBRE 1876. \n\nL'ÉCONOMISTE FRANÇAIS. \n\nrait de celte province, au milieu de populations non-set- lement inoffensives, mais sympathiques, et de fonctionnaires dont de nombreux cadeaux fai conciliaient la bonne grâce. Arrivé au Yan-Nan, il y recut le meilleur accueil des mandarins, auxquels il fit voir sans peine dans l'ouverture du fleuve Rouge on moyen de remédier à la mauvaise situation que la guerre civile, d'une part, le défaut de débouchés, de Fautre, avaient faito à leur province. Le Yun-Não est resté jusqu'ici un pays pauvre, I produit cependant assez de vivres pour la nourriture de ses habi- tants, et ses vallées sont très-fertiles; mais, pour les articles industriels, tels que les tissus et les vêtements, il dépend tout à fait des provinces voisines, car on n'y récolte, pour ainsi dire, ni coton ni soie, mais, en échange des marchan- dises qu'il demande, Je Yan-Nan peut offrir, indépendaument de ses thés de qualité supérieure, les riches produits de son sous-sol, For, l'argent, le fer, le cuivre, le plomb, l'étain, le zinc, le mercure, la houille. Toutes ces richesses demeurent par malheur à peu près inexploitées, faute de moyens d'écoulement, les transports par la Chine elle-même étant d'une grande difficulté et d'une lenteur extrême. Le fleuve du Tong-Kin une fois ouvert à une navigation libre et régul- lière, c'est par centaines de millions qu'il faudrait chiffrer la valeur des produits qui prendraient cette voie, pour pénétrer en Chine ou pour en descendre à la mer. \n\nLe moment paraissait d'ailleurs mal choisi pour une tentative de ce genre: la guerre civile était dans toute sa force, et on ne parlait de rien moins que d'abandonner la province aux musulmans. La commission du Mé-Kong y avait même couru un grand danger sans le savoir, celti d'être emprisonnée dans la ville d'Yun-Nän-Sèn, capitale da pasy, qu'elle venait à peine de quitter lorsque les insurgés l'investirent. M. Dupuis prit donc le parti de retourner à Han- Kéou et d'y attendre une heure plus propice, et pour la hater en tant qu'il dépendait de lui, il expédia aux troupes imperiales une grande quantité d'armes perfectionnées, parmi lesquelles des canons rayés de fabrique française, qu'accompagnaient des Européens chargés d'en enseigner lé maniement aux Chinois. Mais, en 1870, voyant que la guerre menaçait de s'éterniser, il n'y tint plus et gagna de nouveau le Yun-Nau par la voie du Yang Tse-Kiang, bien décidé cette fois à pousser à tout hasard jusqu'au fleuve Rouge. \n\nNotre compatriote y retrouva les autorités dans les mêmes bonnes dispositions où il les avait laissées: elles lui don- nèrent des lettres de recommandation pour divers chels qu'il devait rencontrer en chemin, et, se dirigeant au sud-ouest, il se mit en route. A Tong-keou, le maréchal Ma, qui assiégeait cette ville, lui donna une escorte de treute hommes commandée par un mandarin militaire, auquel il adjoignit un inandarin civil, Arrivée à Mout-Ze, cette escorte refusa de le suivre plus loin, mais les auto rités lui en fournirent une seconde et il s'avanca resold- ment vers la haute vallée du Song-Koi, malgré les bruits peu encourageants qui circulaient sur les tribus indépen- dantes de cette vallée. Mais, près de franchir les bautes crêtes qui l'en séparaient, il fut de nouveau délaissé par son escorte, pen désireuse de s'engager dans une région que les habitants des plateaux tiennent pour être très-insa- lubre, et ce ne fut pas sans beaucoup de dangers, de ta- tigues et de privations de toutes sortes que le couragenx voyageur atteignit le Hong-Kiang, ou fleuve Rouge, nom que la grande artère fluviale du Tong-Kin porte en Chine ou sur le territoire des tribos indépendantes, et qu'il doit à la couleur de ses eaux. Il le descendit jusqu'à Kouen-Ce, premier poste amamite, et comme on ne l'aurait pas laissé le franchir, il dat borner là son exploration. Aussi bien pouvait-il considérer son but principal comme atteint: il avait, en effet, acquis la certitude qu'à partir du point où il était arrivé, le fleuve ne présentait pas d'obstacles à la navigation jusqu'à la mer. La voie nouvelle présentait sur celle de Bhâm l'avantage de pouvoir être utilisée de suite sans aucuns travaux; elle répondait aux besoins commer- ciaux, non-seulement des provinces chinoises de Yun-Nan, de Sze-Tchuen, de Kouci-Tcheou, de Kouang-Si, mais -encore da Tibet, du Laos, du Tong-Kin, et ouvrait de belles perspectives au commerce du monde entier, mais surtout à celui de la France. \n\nDe retour au fun-Nâu, l'intrépide explorateur y reçut des mandarins le meilleur accueil, et tous lui manifestèrent un vif désir de voir le fleuve Rouge s'ouvrir au commerce de leur province. Le royaume d'Angam étant tributaire du Céleste-Empire, les Chinois avaient déjà le privilége de commercer avec le Tong-Kin, et il semblait aux autorités de Yun-Nâu qu'elles étaient d'autant plus fondées à réclamer la libre circulation sur le Song-Koi, que ce cours d'eau y a \n\nses sources et sa vallée supérieure. Elles donnèrent done à M. Dupuis des pouvoirs en règle qui lui permettaient d'organiser une expédition, et grâce auxquels il espérait ve- nie à bout de sa tâche sans trop de peine. Il fallait bien envisager cependant l'hypothèse où les Annamites lui re- fuseraient obstinément un libre passage et où il faudrait recourir à la force pour se le frayer. Mais cetto perspective laissait M. Dupuis sans grande inquietude. Les renseigne- ments qu'il avait recueillis durant ses excursions parmi les tribus sauvages du Tong-Kin nord occidental ne lui avaient pas communiqué une haute idée du courage des Annamites. Voyez, lui avait dit un des chefs montagnards, voyez mes » homines; ils n'ont que des lances, et cependant une > centaine d'eux font fuir un millier d'Annamites. Ils fuient » à toutes jambes et ce n'est qu'en embuscade qu'il offrent quelque résistance. » Ce dire avait bien paru à M. Da- puis quelque peu vantard; mais il avait eu depuis l'occa sion de le contrôler, et il en avait reconnu toute l'exacti- lude. \n\nAvant de se lancer dans son entreprise, il jugea opportun de se rendre en France, et c'est là que nous le retrouvons eu 1872. Il avoue sans détour que les personnes auxquelles il s'ouvrit de ses projets lui tinrent un langage tres-découra- geant. Elles lui dépeignaient avec force la mauvaise foi et la cruauté bien connues des mandarins annamites; elles lui représentaient le Tong-Kin en proie à la guerre civile, le pays très-montagneux, le fleuve très-encaissé et la facilité avec laquelle on pouvait en intercepter la navigation, ainsi que les Chinois l'avaient fait jadis pour le Pei-Ho; elles lui ontraient enfin son einbouchure occupée par des troupes de pirates, bien décidés à n'y laisser pénétrer personne. Le propre des convictions robustes est d'avoir réponse à tout, et aucune objection n'était capable de refroidir l'ar- deur de M. Dupuis, son enthousiasme même : « Voyez, » répliquait-il, ce que les Anglais savent faire dans des \n\n• circonstances moins favorables que les miennes; il fant » de la persévérance, un peu d'énergie, et c'est tout. Il était très-désireux néanmoins de se concilier l'appui, au moins moral, de son pays; et c'est à cette fin qu'il fit des dé- marchies près du ministère de la marine. L'accneil qu'il en reçut fat, il le reconnait, des plus bienveillants; mais on ne lui cacha point que, dans les circonstances actuelles, la France ne pouvait faire que des veux pour son succes. On ferait officicusement pour lui tout ce qu'on pourrait, mais sans s'engager. C'était à lui de se frayer un passage à sos risques et périls, et si un sort funeste devait mal- heureusement lui échoir, oa n'interviendrait pas pour venger sa mort ou celle de ses compagnons. \n\nLe 14 avril 1872, M. Dupuis quittait la France, ot, le 15 mai suivant, il prenait terre à Saigon, où le général d'Arbaud, gouverneur par intérim, le recut fort bien, et d'où il repartit bientôt pour se rendre à Shang-Hai et y procéder aux derniers préparatifs de son expédition. Revenu à Saigon, le 12 septembre, il y anodifia ses in- tentions premières qui avaient été d'abord de se faire con- duire à Hae, capitale de l'Annam, sous la protection du pavillon français, et il prit le parti de gagner directement avec ses gens, le goile du Tong-Kin. Il fut toutefois con- venu entre lui et le gouverneur qu'un vapeur francais croiserait, à tout événement, dans les parages de Hai-Phong, où l'expédition devait rallier. Elle se composait de deux canonnières à vapeur, d'une chaloupe à vapeur, d'une grande jonque, auxquelles un bateau à roues s'adjoignit plus tard, et que montaient 150 hommes, dont 25 Européens et le restant Malais, Chinois, Manillais. Pour l'équiper et pour Farmer, M. Dupuis avait dù engager toute sa fortune et faire, à part une certaine somme qui fut versée entre ses mains par les autorités de Yun-tan, Lous les premiers frais de l'entreprise. Mais une convention en règle lui as surait 10,000 piculs d'étain, calculés à forfait sur le picd de 100 francs chacun; il devait, en outre, vendre pour le compte des mandarins et à valoir sur ses propres dépenses, 12,000 autres piculs de cuivre; on lui promettait enfin une large part dans l'exploitation des mines; le tout, en somme, constituant des conditions tris-avantageuses, comme il en convient lui-même. \n\nLe 8 novembre 1872, l'expédition mouillait près de llaï- Phong, et y trouvait l'aviso le Bourayne, commandant Senez, que le général d'Arbaud, lidèle à sa promesse, avait dépêché Pour lui faciliter l'entrée du Song-Koi. Le delta de ce fleuve est uu immense dépôt d'alluvions formées par les détritus qu'il entraîne à l'époque de ses hautes eaux, et le littoral est si bas qu'il est très-difficile d'en reconnaître les bouches, outre que de nombreux hauts-fonds rendent cette opéra- tion périlleuse. M. Dupuis l'éprouva lui-même, ca essayant de pénétrer tour à tour par celles de ces bouches qui por- \n\n7001 \n\n315", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299486, "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": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 323, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "318\n\n734\n\nL'ECONOMISTE FRANÇAIS.\n\nLa durée des procès est la même tous les ans, ainsi qu'on peut s'en convaincre par le tableau suivant, qui présente, pour les affaires du rôle terminées en 1873 et en 1874, le laps de temps écoulé entre l'inscription et la radiation:\n\nEn 1873:\n\n3 mois et moins.. 78.067 ou 54 p. 100\n\n3 à 6 mois 22.844 16\n\n6 mois à un an. 30.028 21\n\n1 an à 2 ans. 10.494\n\nPlus de 2 ans 3.634\n\nEn 1874:\n\n3 mois et moins. 77.360 ou 55. p. 100\n\n3 à 6 mois. 22.092 16\n\n6 mois à 1 an. 27.281 20\n\n1 an à 2 ans. 10.411\n\nPlus de 2 ans 3.307\n\nLe rapprochement des chiffres proportionnels donne l'avantage à l'année 1874. Quant aux affaires réellement arriérées, leur nombre est descendu de 16,602 en 1873 à 16,121 en 1874.\n\nDans les huit dixièmes des causes jugées en 1874 par les tribunaux civils (81,277 sur 105,089), les procureurs de la République ou leurs substituts ont donné des conclusions. La loi leur en faisait un devoir dans 58,636 affaires (70 0/0), mais leur intervention a été spontanée dans 23,644. Devant les cours d'appel, le ministère public a été entendu 64 fois sur 100; ses conclusions étaient ordonnées par l'article 83 du code de procédure civile dans la moitié des cas.\n\nParmi les 26,749 ordonnances dont il vient d'être parlé, 8,194 étaient relatives à des instances en séparation de corps. 4,330 prescrivaient la comparution des parties (article 876 du code de procédure civile) et 3,861, en constatant la non-conciliation des époux, les renvoyaient à se pourvoir devant les tribunaux (article 878 du code de procédure civile). Mais ceux-ci n'ont reçu que 2,884 affaires.\n\nDans 2,513, la femme était demanderesse; le mari n'avait pris l'initiative de la poursuite que dans 371. Il a été formé 138 demandes reconventionnelles : 108 par les maris et 30 par les femmes.\n\nAu point de vue de leur profession, les époux se classent ainsi : ouvriers, 1,293 (48 0/0); marchands et commerçants, 526; propriétaires, rentiers ou exerçant des professions libérales, 479; cultivateurs, 374; profession inconnue, 212. Le mariage avait duré moins d'un an pour 26, d'un an à cinq ans pour 558, de cinq à dix ans pour 774, de dix à vingt ans pour 985, plus de vingt ans pour 517; le renseignement n'a pu être fourni à l'égard de 24.\n\nPlus du tiers des unions (1,084 ou 37 0/0) avaient été stériles.\n\nLes neuf dixièmes des demandes (2,739) étaient fondées sur des excès, sévices ou injures graves, 134 sur l'adultère de la femme, 404 sur celui du mari et 45 sur la condamnation de l'un des conjoints à une peine infamante.\n\n2,242 séparations ont été prononcées par les tribunaux et 235 refusées. Les parties demanderesses ont fait rayer du rôle avant jugement 407 affaires, dont 261 par suite de la réconciliation des époux.\n\nSur les 2,477 instances qui sont venues à la barre, 1,334 (plus de la moitié) avaient traversé les bureaux d'assistance judiciaire. Dans plus des neuf dixièmes d'entre elles (1,231 ou 92 p. 100), le demandeur en séparation de corps était l'assisté ; dans 97, c'était le défenseur; enfin, l'assistance avait été accordée dans 6 affaires aux deux parties. Les tribunaux ont donné gain de cause à l'assisté neuf fois sur dix dans 1,206 affaires.\n\nVentes judiciaires. La réduction du nombre des ventes judiciaires d'immeubles, que le rapport de 1873 avait déjà signalée, s'est encore accentuée en 1874. On n'en compte que 22,644, c'est-à-dire 1,638 de moins qu'en 1873 et 4,590 de moins qu'en 1872. Le tableau ci-après permet de voir dans quelle mesure chaque espèce de vente prend part à cette importante diminution.\n\n1872\n1873\n1874\n\nVentes sur saisies immobilières\n9.305\n8.354\n7.840\n\nVentes après surenchère sur aliénation volontaire\n557\n590\n494\n\nVentes de biens de mineurs\n2.380\n2.047\n1.636\n\nVentes sur licitation\n12.446\n11.196\n10.501\n\nVentes de biens dépendant de successions bénéficiaires\n1.431\n821\n841\n\nVentes de biens dépendant de successions vacantes\n396\n283\n319\n\nVentes d'immeubles dotaux\n113\n103\n102\n\nVentes de biens de faillis\n776\n729\n766\n\nAutres ventes\n141\n174\n148\n\nLe nombre des incidents, qui avaient été de 8,741 en 1872 et de 7,717 en 1873, n'est plus, en 1874, que de 6,948; mais, proportionnellement, c'est toujours 1 incident pour 3 ventes.\n\nPlus de la moitié des ventes judiciaires d'immeubles (12,765 ou 56 p. 100) ont été faites par les tribunaux ; les autres (9,879 ou 44 p. 100) ont eu lieu devant des notaires. L'importance des unes et des autres, le montant des prix d'adjudication et celui des frais, sont mis en parallèle dans le tableau suivant :\n\nNOMBRE DES VENTES\nTOTAL DES PRIX D'ADJUDICATION\nMONTANT TOTAL DES FRAIS\nMOYENNE DES FRAIS PAR VENTE\n\n500 francs et moins\n1.315\n419.805\n141,873\n319\n\n501 à 1.000 francs\n1.711\n1.304.672\n317.984\n388\n\n1.001 à 2.000 francs\n3.152\n4.673.182\n625.212\n198\n\n2.001 à 5.000 francs\n5.859\n19.642.152\n2.890.797\n493\n\n5.001 à 10.000 francs\n4.399\n31.049.535\n4.031.010\n916\n\nPlus de 10.000 francs\n6.208\n291.550.506\n6.076.950\n979\n\nTOTAUX\n22.644\n348.639.852\n14.024.539\n610\n\nCes chiffres, comme ceux des années précédentes, affirment hautement la nécessité et l'urgence des réformes attendues; j'ai présenté, en votre nom, monsieur le président, le 17 mai dernier, à la Chambre des députés, un projet de loi sur la vente d'immeubles de peu de valeur, qui aura pour effet de diminuer les frais auxquels elles donnent lieu.\n\n(A suivre.)\n\nREVUE ÉCONOMIQUE.\n\nSUPPRESSION DU DROIT DU TIMBRE SUR LES ASSURANCES A L'ÉTRANGER. Dans sa séance du 28 novembre, le Sénat a adopté la loi suivante :\n\n« Article unique. A partir de la promulgation de la présente loi, le droit de timbre établi par les articles 33 et 37 de la loi du 5 juin 1850 cessera d'être perçu sur les contrats d'assurance passés en pays étranger et ayant exclusivement pour objet des immeubles, des meubles ou des valeurs situés à l'étranger. Mais ces contrats doivent être soumis au timbre moyennant le paiement du droit au comptant, avant qu'il puisse en être fait aucun usage en France, soit dans un acte public, soit dans une déclaration quelconque, soit devant une autorité judiciaire ou administrative, à peine d'une amende de 50 francs.\n\n» Les mêmes dispositions sont applicables aux contrats de réassurance passés en France par actes sous signatures privées, applicables à des polices souscrites à l'étranger et ayant également pour objet exclusif des immeubles, des meubles ou des valeurs situés à l'étranger. »\n\nL'INDEMNITÉ DES CONSEILLERS PRUD'HOMMES. - Le conseil général de la Seine, dans sa séance du 23 novembre, a adopté un projet de délibération dont voici le texte :\n\n« Provisoirement, et en attendant que l'indemnité à allouer aux membres des conseils de prud'hommes soit réglée sur le budget de l'Etat, il y a lieu d'accorder pour chaque séance, aux prud'hommes ouvriers qui auront siégé pendant toute la durée de l'audience, un jeton de présence d'une valeur de 10 francs. »\n\nLes vœux suivants, présentés par la commission, ont été également adoptés :\n\n1° Que l'article 30 de la loi du 18 mars 1860 soit modifié de manière à permettre l'allocation de jetons de présence aux prud'hommes patrons aussi bien qu'aux prud'hommes ouvriers;\n\n2° Que l'institution du jeton de présence alloué aux membres des conseils de prud'hommes soit généralisée, et que la somme nécessaire soit portée en dépense, comme dépense de justice, au budget de l'Etat ;\n\n3° Que l'administration examine s'il n'y aurait pas lieu de remanier le classement actuel de professions groupées dans les quatre conseils du département de la Seine.\n\nLES ÉCOLES DE LA VILLE DE PARIS. - A l'occasion de l'ouverture des écoles communales de la Ville de Paris, qui a eu lieu le 2 octobre, une intéressante statistique vient d'être faite.\n\nLes enfants ont, pour cette année scolaire, 9,150 places de plus à occuper, et les places ajoutées aux 19,520 créées antérieurement, porteront à 28,670 le nombre total des nouvelles places existant dans les écoles qui se sont ouvertes depuis 1871. Pendant la période décennale de 1860 à 1870, il a été bâti 75 écoles dans les dix-huit arrondissements (les 1 et 20 exceptés). Ces écoles ont donné place à 15,000 garçons, à plus de 16,000 filles et à 8,500 enfants des deux sexes dont l'âge ne comporte que l'enseignement élémentaire des salles d'asile. De juin 1871 à juillet 1874, 48 établissements scolaires ont été installés dans de nouveaux établissements et, de préférence, sur les points les plus excentriques de la banlieue annexée. Ces établissements comprendront 20 écoles de garçons, 18 écoles de filles et 10 salles d'asile. Enfin, une série importante de constructions, commencées en 1872 et 1873, a été menée assez vigoureusement pour pouvoir être livrée au service scolaire à la rentrée.\n\nLA SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE DE Lyon s'empresse de porter à la connaissance du public la modification qu'elle vient d'apporter au programme de ses prix échéant à la date de fin février 1877.\n\nLE COMMERCE DE L'AUTRICHE-HONGRIE. Le ministère des finances vient de publier les documents statistiques sur le commerce de l'Autriche-Hongrie pour les trois premiers trimestres de l'année 1876. Ces chiffres accusent une diminution de 30 millions de florins sur les importations, et une augmentation de 514,754 florins sur les exportations, par rapport à l'époque correspondante de l'année 1875.\n\nLes importations se sont élevées, du 1er janvier au 30 septembre 1876, à 374,397,044 florins, contre 401,400,149 florins en 1875, et les exportations à 364,321,506 florins, contre 363,809,755 florins en 1875. La moins-value des importations a rapport, en premier lieu, aux objets manufacturés, matières textiles, aux machines diverses et tabac, tandis qu'au contraire, l'Autriche-Hongrie a dû importer pour 20 millions de florins en plus de céréales, de semences et de fruits, dans cette année, que pendant la même époque de 1873.\n\nQuant aux exportations, elles ont sensiblement diminué pour les métaux bruts, les textiles, les tissus, corderies, filés, les instruments, machines et objets de quincaillerie, et elles ont augmenté pour les animaux et viandes (5 mill. f.), pour le sucre de betterave (6 mill. f.) et pour les objets de céramique, verrerie, etc.\n\nL'ACCROISSEMENT DE LA POPULATION DANS LA GRANDE-BRETAGNE ET L'IRLANDE. - Le compte rendu de la dernière session du Congrès britannique des sciences sociales nous fournit quelques chiffres dignes de remarque sur l'accroissement vraiment prodigieux de la population dans le Royaume-Uni.\n\nEn 1801, l'Angleterre ne comptait que 8,802,330 habitants; en 1871, elle en avait 22,712,266. Dans cet espace de soixante-dix années, la guerre et l'émigration n'ont fait perdre que 15 personnes par 10,000 habitants.\n\nEn admettant que ce chiffre de perte reste le même à partir de 1876, la population des îles Britanniques atteindrait 42,000,000 à la première génération, 74,000,000 à la fin de la seconde, 130,000,000 à la fin de la troisième, 230,000,000 à la fin de la quatrième, et 400,000,000 à la fin de la cinquième. Après la septième génération, le chiffre de la population de l'Angleterre dépasserait le nombre des habitants qui peuplent aujourd'hui notre planète; et après la vingtième génération, ce chiffre serait de quinze fois supérieur à la population actuelle du globe terrestre.\n\nL'INDUSTRIE ET LE COMMERCE DES FERS ET ACIERS EN RUSSIE. D'après le Moniteur des intérêts matériels, la moyenne de la production annuelle du fer en Russie est de 320,000 tonnes environ.\n\nEn 1871, les établissements métallurgiques de l'Etat dans l'Oural, dans le district d'Olonetz, dans l'ouest et l'est de la Pologne et dans la Russie méridionale, ont produit 202,501 tonnes de fonte; 8,994 tonnes de fer brut; 1,151 tonnes d'acier; 8,203 tonnes de projectiles de guerre; 146 tonnes d'acier à canons; 211 tonnes de fer à canons; 169 tonnes de blindages; des locomotives à concurrence de 177 tonnes; 46,695 sabres et baïonnettes; 8,733 canons de fusils, etc.\n\nPour donner une idée de l'inépuisable richesse des gisements russes, qu'il nous suffise de citer le seul district de Goroblagodati, dans l'Oural; il débite annuellement jusqu'à 33 et 40,000 tonnes de minerai de fer par an. De 1813 à 1872, ces minières ont extrait 1,290,322 tonnes; en outre, l'extraction y est des plus faciles, beaucoup de gisements sont même à fleur de terre, et comme richesse, les minerais extraits peuvent soutenir la comparaison avec les meilleurs, à en juger surtout par les spécimens exposés au Polytechnicum de Moscou.\n\nLa grande question aujourd'hui est de remplacer le bois par la houille, et pour cela des chemins de fer nombreux sont indispensables. Déjà quelques établissements importants ont opéré cette révolution dans leur fabrication.\n\nL'industrie de l'acier fait également des progrès sérieux en Russie. M. Pontiloff emploie le système Bessemer, ainsi que les établissements de l'Etat d'Obouckhof, M. Demidoff et M. Bernadaki, l'un à Nijtagile, l'autre à Permoff, dans le gouvernement de Nijni-Novogorod. M. Bernadaki, qui possède également l'établissement de Somoski, près de Nijni, y emploie le procédé Martin. Ajoutons qu'il est difficile de fabriquer du meilleur acier pour canons que n'en fabrique le gouvernement à sa grande fonderie de Perm, ainsi qu'à Obouckoff, près de Saint-Pétersbourg.\n\nLe grand marché central du fer en Russie est la foire de Nijni-Novogorod, où les établissements de l'Oural envoient à eux seuls chaque année plus de 100,000 tonnes. Cette production arrive à Nijni sur des convois formés de bateaux non pontés et à fond plat qui descendent les rivières Tchoussova, Bielaya, Kama et le Volga. Cette navigation est longue et dangereuse, et il ne se passe pas d'année que l'on ne perde sur la Tchoussova quelques bateaux chargés. Le fer arrivé à Nijni passe par trois mains avant d'arriver au consommateur, de sorte que celui-ci le paie considérablement plus cher qu'il ne le paierait si les transactions se faisaient comme ailleurs. De Nijni, le fer russe est expédié dans les gouvernements voisins et sur Saint-Pétersbourg. A Riga et à Odessa, il a à lutter contre la concurrence étrangère et contre celle que lui font les établissements de l'Etat de Tomsk, Riazan, Wladimir et Kalouga, qui fournissent presque toute la région du sud-est. Plus au midi, le fer brut employé provient presque exclusivement de Laishef dans la province de Kasan.\n\nSAMEDI 2 DÉCEMBRE 1876.\n\n735\n\nL'ECONOMISTE FRANÇAIS.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299746, "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": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "content_text": "ARTIKEL IV.\n\nHet port van papieren en bescheiden [papiers d'affaires], stalen of monsters van koopwaren, nieuwsbladen, gebonden boekwerken, vlugschriften, muziekstukken, visite-kaarten, catalogussen, prospectussen, circulaires en andere gedrukte, gegraveerde, gelithografeerde en geautografeerde stukken, alsook van photographien, mits niet op glas bedraagt: bij verzending van Nederlandsch-Indië naar Hongkong of andere plaatsen in China en Japan waar Britsche postkantoren gevestigd zijn 5 cents Nederlandsch-Indisch courant voor elke 50 grammen of gedeelte van 50 grammen; bij verzending van Hongkong naar Nederlandsch-Indië 2 cents Hongkong courant voor elke 50 grammen of gedeelte van 50 grammen.\n\nMonsters of stalen van koopwaren mogen niet zwaarder zijn dan 250 grammen; de andere hierboven vermelde voorwerpen zullen het gewicht van 1 kilogram niet mogen overtreffen.\n\nHet postkantoor is niet verplicht enig der bovengenoemde voorwerpen te verzenden of te bezorgen, wanneer de zekerheid niet bestaat dat daardoor de wetten of verordeningen van het land, waarvoor het voorwerp bestemd is, niet worden overtreden.\n\nARTIKEL V.\n\nAlle correspondentie kan aangeteekend worden. De kosten van aanteekening bedragen 10 cents Nederlandsch Indisch courant in Nederlandsch-Indië en 12 cents Hongkong courant te Hongkong en de Britsche post-agentschappen in China en Japan.\n\nVoor uitbetaling van het port en van het aanteekeninggeld is verplichtend.\n\nARTIKEL VI.\n\nOngefrankeerde of onvoldoende gefrankeerde nieuwsbladen, boeken, vlugschriften, muziek-stukken, visite-kaarten, catalogussen, prospectussen, en circulaires worden niet verzonden.\n\nVoor andere stukken, niet of niet voldoende gefrankeerd zijnde, wordt het volle port van ongefrankeerde brieven gevorderd na aftrek van de waarde der postzegels welke daarop gehecht zijn.\n\nARTIKEL VII.\n\nDe wederkeerige verzending en kosteloze bezorging van alle gefrankeerde correspondentie geeft tot geenerlei betaling of verrekening aanleiding. Elke post-administratie behoudt de porten en rechten welke zij int.\n\nARTIKEL VIII.\n\nDe post-administratie van Nederlandsch-Indië draagt alle kosten van vervoer tussen Nederlandsch-Indië en Singapore door middel van de Nederlandsch-Indische stoomvaart Maatschappij, en de postadministratie van Hongkong draagt alle kosten van het vervoer aan gene zijde van Singapore door middel van de Britsche pakketboten die tussen Singapore en Hongkong varen.\n\nIndien hieromtrent niets anders is bepaald, treft elke postadministratie hare eigene schikkingen voor de verzending van hare correspondentie door andere middelen, en draagt zij de kosten dier schikkingen.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nThe postage on commercial documents [papiers d'affaires], patterns or samples of merchandise, newspapers, bound books, pamphlets, pieces of music, visiting-cards, catalogues, prospectuses, circulars and other printed, engraved, lithographic and autographic documents, as well as photographs when not on glass, shall be: if sent from Netherlands-India to Hongkong or any of the places in China and Japan where British Post Offices are established 5 cents Netherlands-India currency for each 50 grammes or fraction of 50 grammes; if sent from Hongkong to Netherlands-India 2 cents Hongkong currency for each 50 grammes or fraction of 50 grammes.\n\nThe weight of patterns or samples of merchandise shall not exceed 250 grammes and that of the other objects above mentioned not 1 kilogram.\n\nThe Post Office shall not be bound to convey or to deliver any of the above-mentioned articles, with regard to which it is not satisfied that there is no infringement of the laws or regulations of the country to which the articles are addressed.\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nAll correspondence may be registered. The registration fee is 10 cents Netherlands-India currency in Netherlands-India and 12 cents Hongkong currency at Hongkong and the British postal agencies in China and Japan.\n\nPrepayment of postage and registration fee is compulsory.\n\nARTICLE VI.\n\nUnpaid or insufficiently prepaid newspapers, books, pamphlets, pieces of music, visiting cards, catalogues, prospectuses and circulars will not be despatched.\n\nOther objects unpaid or insufficiently prepaid shall be charged with the full postage of letters, after deduction of the value of any postage affixed thereto.\n\nARTICLE VII.\n\nThe reciprocal transmission and free delivery of all paid correspondence shall not give rise to any charge or account. Each office shall retain the postage which it collects.\n\nARTICLE VIII.\n\nThe postal department of Netherlands-India shall bear all charges of the transit between Netherlands-India and Singapore by means of the Netherlands-Indian Steam Navigation Company, and the postal department of Hongkong shall bear all charges of the transit on the other side of Singapore by means of British packets plying between Singapore and Hongkong.\n\nIf no special agreement is made, each postal department shall make its own arrangements for the despatch of its correspondence by other means and shall bear the expense of such arrangements.\n\nARTIKEL IX.\n\nDe twee postadministratiën stellen, bij onderling overleg, en in overeenstemming met de alsdan geldende schikkingen, de voorwaarden vast omtrent de uitwisseling, in open of in gesloten zakken, van de voor andere vreemde landen bestemde of daarvan afkomstige correspondentie, waarvoor hare wederkeerige tussenkomst dienstig is.\n\nARTIKEL X.\n\nDe ambtelijke briefwisseling tussen de twee postadministratiën geschiedt port-vrij.\n\nARTIKEL XI.\n\nDe twee postadministratiën treffen in gemeen overleg de nodige schikkingen voor de uitvoering dezer overeenkomst.\n\nARTIKEL XII.\n\nDeze overeenkomst treedt in werking op den 1sten Januari, 1877.\n\nTer verklaring waarvan Hunne Excellentiën de Gouverneur Generaal van Nederlandsch-Indië en de Gouverneur van Hongkong de tegenwoordige overeenkomst hebben onderteekend, en zegel op hebben gezet.\n\nGedaan te Batavia den ... dag van ... in het jaar één duizend acht honderd zes en zeventig.\n\n(Sd.) VAN Lansberge.\n\nARTICLE IX.\n\nThe two postal departments shall fix by mutual agreement, and in conformity with the arrangements in force at the time, the conditions upon which they shall respectively exchange in open or closed mails the correspondence from or destined to other foreign countries and for which their reciprocal intervention is available.\n\nARTICLE X.\n\nOfficial correspondence between the two postal departments shall be free of postage.\n\nARTICLE XI.\n\nThe two postal departments shall by mutual consent establish regulations for carrying this agreement into effect.\n\nARTICLE XII.\n\nThis convention shall come into effect on the 1st January, 1877.\n\nIn witness whereof, their Excellencies the Governor General of Netherlands-India and the Governor of Hongkong have signed the present convention and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.\n\nDone at Hongkong the Twenty-ninth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.\n\n(Sd.) A. E. KENNEDY, Governor.\n\n(,,) J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307612, "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": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "28\n\nIn the Preamble it is stated that Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, being desirous of strengthening the friendly relations which unite the two countries, and wishing to regulate by special arrangements (forming a sequel to the General Postal Treaty concluded at Berne on the 9th October, 1874) the postal relations with the respective offices, have named as their Plenipotentiaries for this purpose certain distinguished persons whose names are then mentioned. The Treaty of Berne referred to, and to which this Belgian Treaty of 1876 is to form a sequel, being concluded in the year 1874, was specially confirmed by a Statute passed in 1875, 38 and 39 Vict., cap. 22, the Preamble of which is as follows: Whereas, under the Post-office Duties Acts, 1840 to 1871, divers powers are given to the Treasury of fixing by warrants the rate of British, foreign, and Colonial postage, and whereas by a Treaty made at Berne on the 9th October, 1874, and detailed regulations made under it, various stipulations and regulations have been made with respect to the duties on postage and other matters connected with the exchanges by post with foreign countries of letters, post-cards, books, newspapers, and other printed papers, patterns, and merchandise, legal and commercial documents, it goes on as follows: 'And whereas such Treaty and the regulations cannot be carried into effect except by the authority of Parliament, and that it is expedient to give such authority and to comprise in one Act the powers of the Treasury in relation to fixing the rates of postage, be it therefore enacted,' &c. The Statute then proceeds to enact a variety of provisions relating to the duty on the postage and of the Post-office, and provides by section 2 for the future enactments with foreign countries with respect to the conveyance of postal packets, and payments by the Treasury. This clause may perhaps suffice to render legally operative the clauses of the subsequent Belgian Treaty relating to these particular matters. I find in the Treaty a variety of enactments relating to the conveyance of mails between Great Britain and Belgium. By the Xth Article it is provided that 'the mail-packets shall be at liberty to take on board or land at Dover, as well as at other British ports where she may be obliged to put in, any passengers, of whatever nation they may be, their wearing apparel and luggage, also with their horses and carriages, on condition that the captains of the said packets shall conform to the regulations of the United Kingdom concerning the arrival and departure of travellers. They shall be prohibited from conveying goods or merchandise on freight, with the exception, however, of postal packets and small parcels, the weight of which shall be limited by mutual agreement between the two offices.'\n\n\"It is the VIth Article, however, which has the most important bearing on this case, and which has been chiefly discussed at the Bar. It is as follows: The packets employed for the conveyance of the correspondence between Ostend and Dover shall be steam-boats of sufficient power and size for the service in which they are to be employed. They shall be vessels belonging to Government, or freighted by order of Government. These vessels shall be construed and treated in the port of Dover, and in all other British ports at which they may accidentally touch, as vessels of war, and be there entitled to all the honours and privileges which the interest and importance of the service on which they are employed demand. They shall be exempted in those ports, as well on their entrance as on their departure, from all tonnage, navigation, and port dues, excepting, however, the vessels freighted by order of Government, which must pay such dues in those ports where they are levied on behalf of corporations, private companies, or private individuals. They shall not be diverted from their especial duty, that is to say, the conveyance of the mails, by any authority whatever, or be liable to seizure, detention, embargo, or arrêt de prince.'\n\n\"With respect to the interpretation of the last clause of this Article, it was agreed by counsel (and I am of the same opinion) that the words 'seizure, detention, embargo, or arrêt de prince' related to the belligerent rights of the Crown, including the droit d'angarie.\n\nWith respect to the other clauses of the Article, I think it cannot be denied that they purport and intend to place this Belgian packet in the category of a ship of war while in a British port; and it is remarkable that this privilege is not, by the words of the Article, to extend to these packets in territorial waters, or, so far as even British ports are concerned, to the high seas, and does not give them when on the high seas immunity from actions for salvage and collision happening out of a port; and, of course, the Treaty cannot constitute these packets ships of war in their relation to foreign States. If the Crown had provided without the authority of Parliament by this Treaty to order that the 'Parlement Belge' should be entitled to all the privileges of a ship of war, then the warrant which is prayed for against her as a wrong-doer on account of the collision cannot issue, and the right of the subject (but for this order, unquestionably) to recover damages for the injuries done by her is extinguished.\n\n\"This use of the Treaty making privilege of the Crown which I believe to be without precedent, and in principle contrary to the laws of the Constitution. Let me consider to what consequences it leads. If the Crown, without the authority of Parliament, may, by process of diplomacy, shelter a foreigner from the action of one of Her Majesty's subjects who has suffered at his hands, I do not see why it might not also give the like privileges of immunity to a number of foreign merchant-vessels or to a number of foreign individuals. The law, indeed, incorporated those portions of international law which give immunity and privilege to foreign ships of war and foreign Ambassadors; but I do not think it has, therefore, given the Crown authority to clothe with this immunity foreign vessels which are entirely vessels of war, or foreign vessels which are entirely Ambassadors' vessels.\n\n\"Let me say one word more in conclusion. Mr. Bowen, in his very able speech, dwelt forcibly upon the wrong which might be done to this packet if, being invited to enter the ports of this country with the privileges of a ship of war, she should find them denied to her. I acknowledge the hardship, but the remedy, in my opinion, is not to be found in depriving a British subject, without his consent, direct or implied, of his right of action against a wrong-doer; but by the agency of diplomacy, and proper measures of compensation and arrangement, between the Governments of Great Britain and Belgium. I must allow the warrant of arrest to issue.\n\nMr. Gorst, on behalf of the Attorney-General, applied for a postponement of the issue of the warrant, and a stay of execution, in order that notice of appeal might be given.\n\nHis Lordship: \"The execution will be stayed for a fortnight, and the question of costs will be suspended.\"\n\n29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310147, "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": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "Equally necessary to purify the ship before allowing them to go on board again. Nothing, however, appears to have been done, and neither the effects of the brew which the Chinese passengers were given nor what it was composed of were examined.\n\nThat after being kept in the cold for 3 hours, the unhappy passengers boarded, benumbed with cold, and the vessel was released from quarantine. It was too late to replace the bedding which had been entirely destroyed, in consequence of which the Chinese were compelled to sleep on the bare deck, and one of this number, a Doctor, is said to have died from the exposure and bad treatment he suffered.\n\nThe foregoing narrative of the facts detailed are concerned; the Committee cannot doubt that, in the opinion of this Chamber, it calls for the most urgent remonstrances from your body, not only in the interests of trade and navigation, on the ground that the quarantine regulations of your Port are unnecessarily burdensome and harsh when the prevention of contagion is the sole object you have in view, but also because the barbarous treatment alleged by Captain Webber to have been sustained by the Chinese under the orders of a British Colony's Government is calculated to bring disgrace upon our common nationality.\n\nI need hardly add, as a secondary consideration, that the large and increasing trade between China and Australia can only be developed by a generous administration of equal laws and protection to person and property being accorded to the people of all races alike visiting your Ports.\n\nCopies of the statement of Captain Webber referred to above, and a letter from the Agents, Messrs. G. R. Steamship Co., are enclosed for your information and will be forwarded together with a copy of this communication to the Secretary of Colonies in London.\n\nSigned,\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour obedient servant.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311416, "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": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.\n\n## HONGKONG VARIOUS.\n\n### INSURANCE.\n\n**THE DAILY PRESS** \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.\n\n## INSURANCE COMPANIES AT HANKURUES.\n\n### SOUTH GORMAN PURE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\n| CAPITAL | $2.06 |\n| --- | --- |\n| ASSOCIATION. 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Toch Norway A \ntord to the Admin, whe whenced to re \ninto the re \n* Print of Triingua, the amez \nEyself the boner of sating to your \n$325,\" \nSIRNSSEN A CS.. \nhan pase of distributi ig a estudi prax. POLA 16 14 49erida prod analygyaka (13 ane) Sharaboleza wa kaka parkiábatel \"business \ndaine Company \nFril \nMash \nLis \nMwe \nSon Hanlin \nJJ 3 Cou \nFeb. 20 Ti. 3 \nAze \nFab. 19. Büs \nFirs \nYANCH ; 9% *0* \niDou. I't. Margar \nrish | Man Yung Wzg \nJet \n5:0 \nBlested & Ca \n2301.& 6. B. N. CO \nJH \n3. Dell & Qu d. Ses \n- zle she | 66 | Bavarra à Co \nSamalei, & \n37K thong & Sani \n3. M \n2. Quandrid Squ \nJun. 23 \nuesרני \nMAGASAKL \nIN PHAI OK 3 Faxrany. THES. \nir, je (3, \nYORONAMA. \nIN Pass 10 JAPONY, 1991 \nAuri \na. \nAdamsta, Hall & Co \nBangkok \nBeamch \nActonick \nfun pro Jan. \nArgon \nBirla S \n332 in \nCaptai \nBiguney \ndo \n•Carlis \nAline \nFren. Sir \ntiiases & Co \nFab. Kutafi \nFre \nOoh. 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Stymes & Con \nMela SAD \n4,17,& ki meumbeat De Baena, \n* \n4. \nHet steiga \nจด แม \nBalt, By \nSiooyen à ca \nwich & \nRow 1 Kayaci \nlivi, p \nEAMING NAME 132.5. \nPh & Warga Maritions \nAura C \nPrk 110 man Aura Gay \nNOSPHORIA 107. \"AD! \nJun. LauqUIL \nCatt plin Urvavy Meets of China. Dullay Jan. 181 W. tidley degan, and at \nSO WHE \n12! Simarovie dềmchand \nG18 Orist \nلابت اور \nBak \nMaria Anon \nAsc.rol \nالمقاتلة فكر \nJ. 1851 \nDTAGEL- \nSANTIA \nBell at the tinglin \nBj \nGer. 196 Chetan \n* Get al: ; Lives \nAnch/5 Ca \n237 \nAm 25 tais \nGer. Cutia, \nHER BRIANNI MAJERTY & SHIPS IN THE CHONA SQUADRON. \nاوری ارشد را \nEIG \nالامل لاله \nCAPTAIN. \nJang \nCW. 'Enct \nSing \nS. \nC'. P. J., \nHube \n237 Captain C. ini se \nbungkal \nM \nPaul Jonas \nARNOLD KASHERS & C \nJA Welboort \nFeb. 12. Brundt \nOne kan Ju \nSIGHT \n4ma \nc. 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Qu \nMae [namzigrad are pegama Froe this date TOLICIES Frier a tho \n4. 3. SOKEN. \nHonka. Mar. 1650, \nA shy-footing multiprou pracacdotari de stat 8900 \nige tum ire à Smiral, to used to the \nAmbassúng who he was deligin first-cines Tiskr \nace in, and hapad i have the boner of his \ncompany at inner utzi day at the hy \nBe asid this is loud voie, a da to ve kened \nby her he had dured to see uner! \nLINSTEAD & BAVIS. \nHatokon. 10 Yar i \nWER ON TAL INSURANOK COMPANY \nCLIMATRON \nrelation of a Muressy with so Aspho cera.; PEE LOVBOK ASSURANCE; Bars Foss $70,858.27; Fin \n2017; then he panel round and socalači INSINENEATED P \nadaluperespeit \nStrated's fling of loyalty \nprofound a bal of a sincero bever \nfitae vigat must ninna be very me \nWin, SE1 Kewu \nSustra \nBarthe \nWise & fo \nPerth. Duels, b \n! Iselt sure \nBrit \n¦ Ane ja \n372 Ambut. Kacheze de \nAdamvua, Dlt & Gu \nSi Orien \n30 Solussa je ča \nSW. £. Das \n74 733. Jaspaik & C \n18? 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When the Duke of Cambelge was clone to bury his guess palice of crus, o es pale sitt To The Morw, if the Kwang Wins Cheng \nF \nJue a feo Jugs at the Eusbance, he went \nmade, 38 sa priani Poets of You \nhis dering gown sed sappers, at en mely: Ohm, and 3 andrenia, kt \none in the morning, that the rema \nFULC DEPASSTENT. \npreamed for his Royal [Eigens are in Polizios ishoni è long uy shows perivés ti \nberek orday. Finding the Date's voles in color ranging the tranka and \npetraentious bish | \nSALE WETARPIUNT. \nPad Retired, the Aubaskede begla ba girs Delineaued for racing directions how they thenat be | \nplaced. The Rt reduced rates. \nmer left of meeting, and stared as Cord Stratford \nMANAGER- AMEL \nHARTER B doet ko. the f QUERENT RATES to Acolmit Dalitra. Mile, Burapon Rain, May, to ai (44), Enute Pitse of this and Ja \nHales, D. Pravit 240. Haku, 1218. \nLO MOLLIDA WIER, 250); \n26 Jul, 1870 \nwal tell you what the said at TN CITY OF LONDON PIER INATE \nANCH COMPANY. LIMITED. \n\"I know bow his Hopal Host In \nhave bra nga anapes inter than you du.&PURAT-E-PAPERADO \nBy job op-ed de off, will you, \nLed Stratford into the room in a towering \npansion, and culling one of the auction, \ndeka bice to go and tell that men was in \nma that he and veekuned to add an \nZappanger to attack who retuned \nWeli, \nPAID UN RESERVE YUVD- UNDO! \nVodaviest having boa appisależ¦ pete for the hote egy \nde Acer ass gapal Print 21. Ca Hour \nCEO, E SERVENY & C \nFUS \nSpec \n107 \nbest app inte!: Flakin \nNOTICE. \nNEW YORK BUARD Heilo \nARNOLD, KARERA & Ca Funkrag dah Sentor, \n1979 \nTOBZORO JE AMEERTJAN 2 WOREIGN SHIVVINA, \nma \nARNIMA KARBERO & Br Hobgob. \nwith pakai Kid 154 wat de bou?\" m2; V ANCHESTES PIES ASSERASU XAN ON INSURANDA COM. \nthe Ambassador. \n\"E sad to bia, my lund, but the paten \nIn when he had retured to area with \nTangzage maker Majesty's Kepenti \nir Fers. \nCOMPANY OF MANCHESTER \nAND LONDON. \nEstanyen 1921. \n“Ah, gate right. And what was his guy WHIGH TE PA-UP... LEN() \nджетны \nNastave \ndr $12,000 Bracing \nHe answered, my lord, that is never til \nyou warah' \nwa singular featury in Lord Sreat \nford's new husty dising states \nager wasid ankenly be kupeared by NOT- \nPANT. DEMETE), \nAV Calamone, \nE, IN Bahat \nAAAAH \nمرین و داتا ولول \nMAJAO \nH..AM. Fisartut de Cauter \nANTON \nii. \n| Gizyon & \nLp. 21. Sana \nBrit \nButterfici \nBab 2 Drama \n; Eiseraces & C \nADAXA \nis 14 FCAT, AL \nMaksija Māc p \nCebaty derrotial \nAbi-subt \nying Thoug \nJan - grubost \nConte in tegabi \ndual-row go vessel \nAuto gail-Tequel \ntermiying board \nplate ut vesti \nzaube \nKIT \nruot \nINSTA \nHongkong \n110 et 1o. Makyn 61905. A. F. M. Chia \nKi \nTa \nCaptain. They \n10 Curl \nKoue Forty \nالشاره کار \nAcl.Com. 15. Trend Singapur \nCan J H. Core \n1. Bəndika Singepat \nLieut. Geta. M. Gridgn,\" \nCongres \n126 ه بر امور باید در \nClay Jobster the male poze \nCase Co \nجوانان ام خالد \nFJZDIGN MEN-OF WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAYAN STATION. \nSAN \nį Abrosa \nAtent \n! Alors \nStrin \nAsi \nCumentar \nAshut \nSartel \nHursh \nKrasin \nInese ar \nCAPTAIN, \nWHEL AR \nCaptain Stebraz \nApr \nFranek z bot \nChimney Caillard \nSalyau \nCommandy T. p \n$apizca eruntha \n! Portmate trase \nAPL-67 \ncezvelta \nLalion consult \nKamian (penly \nNorman Cortla Burcan çembe Fronek roerm Anlene gruntown. \nSpin test \nA best \nTrussian art. I \nLee Tak \ngrangi \nANG \nJJan. 2ki Yantai \nDen of \n24 \n13. A.. Peter & ku \n1152 Bienesu \nor Ruh \nBesin traspe \nCli \nEr I hate \nNermy \nRana znanst \n5, 13 Jud \nPakis \n#5મા \nJa \ne. D \nunty B \ntbeats \nF. 19: \nKonzulan peran \nÜnam of ladis l'at \nah keine \nDub \nCAPITAL BEADY Proserineal al:24,668.; Vais \nAZT JEUSJAL \nKON HOW WAY, Fr. Chairman. Aerling.cs Tie Hot, F. Cras e Fial. \nBAN HAR D \nINSON, n. Qry Mug \nTholaiesigel ince bean appointed Agrants, \nthe nas, tavo sad at \nHing waiters to hit lui. To get Eustis Curat Ra \nso in this cosul he enjead hea \nJanga with \nanother ion, an stcube bad made \ntwo nista ne doprzeg a dismalei, \nwill be 16tk 63 the Archansado for signa \nMistem may to made,\" said Ford Strat \nford after solating them at \nthe very! \nvarsta delen wish to by shini \nHOLIDAY, WINK Fengkrang, P, Calases, Bir \n8AMES A \nMAKARY \nLIMITED \nIBAISANCE COMPANY, \nUkau Orrace. Boku \nPor \ni \nKTM Kar \nAvary \na TN, B. Asid Santes C \nThe CT GRANTS POLICIES \nCho Vide \nDESKS 63 ala carte of the Waid this \nrolita Apnasier. Patribus Divblends sy payday l ANG Coctribes of Design, whether thug bar \nStoneshalder de ING. \nLONDON \nCHANGK \nAgent China for 164 Urn! \nWOO LIN YOEN, \nSperstars. \nHRAD OVERCE, \n,, Gran'a End West \nAquane, Marab. 11. \n1525 \nThe high spirised pov ciplest at you Colajny, to wop MADINE CHUS NOOI SA Pottery wwwrgir soud, and told Care Brat \nIs Cursor \nChime Du \nfram), \nPURLINE DAILY \n1420 \n19 15:Hu \nsai Busty \nJea \n17. storoch \n228 A \ner 34 E. A. \n207 LA. Pete Sou \n11, the 954 Rogd & Co \n$49 1.3. Pel & Ce \nCOMMON. \niz Posts Iza Persuar, 1962. \nWe \nthiaga nee \n2. Future \nSHANGWAL \nOptin A. D. de \nCHITRA B., Wallin \nat Am \n4ptsir. ubrz \nShpreis Rubotom \nCaplein 6, Norg \n| Gayanie Vur Knif \nfum salar Xiana \nYehudit \nJn \nHouckunz \nHo \nGanuzmuñor quite sami, tu l'a \nV. W. Tong! Hunk \nCATE \ntanama \nK'Ocoeendez C. & Quem! Eskuham \nCouder kavand Thacistu \nVisdireuzel \nViadivostos \n70 \n30 \nCazzi Tubink \nflores Valienās \n91 \nHozekcay \nVeptam eher \nSigap \nCozy Mugle \nSharvari \nJapaja Sioengine \nBul \nI sinhurs \nCapla \nde Doria OnePuik \nAlquite \nsaigra \nNagheaks \nunder: Suwach \nMaria \nSt. Intersburg | Kei \nTanayoel \nGardan onze \nPorcian comedo \nAmerican curetan \nPorteraiya grabenade \n'escri \nCopiad von Blena Casar Delivra \n1999 CoA. 1. Cube \n250 \nB \nSatt \nJ'unan \n'1' \nPonens \nItzanino tropløst \nStuonies ko \nU \nSunkia \nLMR. \n20-1 \na Federaly, 1 \nGlee's tr \nChin-ti \nCutun.ja) \nching-A \nQui \nChopr \nTw: El Rusi \nJu : Berish \n! ! 285 Makin \nMotl \nBelarus Primers & Co \nab W. icatort de \nac, Kg & Co \nI For \nFourt \n! Bu ba \nM \nCens \nS \n16. \nrice na . \nof Batm \n10. \nTi \nford bat, altough he was his Amasadar, conne \nDam \nSHE. \ni had to ght to repiten hun for what! \nADAMSON, BELL & Co. \nProtantes \nWas tene, ba ce was not hebitaedly careless, i \nHakone, th May 25 \naa. ari Nem \nPris 14 96 \nForster, vees & C \nPAK \nAnu, b: Jes \nPell \nNi \nBrit \nMER \nMac & Co \nBrit \nYou werfly \n--your eyes selaimed Lord Stabd \n2) pour Brodiva's!orted \nthe alb \nThe Eley Durous lunghing. \nSan VERZONY li les bra gemalenud ormibi. of Pouncy: Vindtisch, Small IVERPOOL AND EXTES ANDA, nge the rest on in cou ubore INSURES TCE COMPANY. iation of uns Chinese ampire in the Hand \nThe Lederige, As the hoen bias. If show by a \nHedr'g \nHolding Counnar, des DOWMEN FRim ta do Chong 3cbeles, sul cenou na Raken \nGRANTI \n\"his honda kim, he begged the stine TTM dnced TarifPro for du vilising a head at the tee the infrally of his tespar \nPOLICIES CALIXTILN \nthey shoot and racet wordially-oplei \n20 phemou \nM3 Mercies & Ce \n14.&.Tri Cu \nDr. T. C \n91 Jr Walent \n'\\' ctly tun \nRysl \ne Fasioo.g \nThes \nA2065 \nRates \nchat kurash, Banglory, or less! Pade \nTANGSAR LYPHAIK & \nHongkong. th May, 1 \nU agung, làth Januvɛy, 1577 \nHO! Klykn \nBritn \nLins \n67 \nSiz Martin \nGen 52 \n155 \nGesinalin & Ca \nWe, bis! \n343 · Nils Mottar \nHung-barz \nI've got \nTeling \nCANTON OISEOAT SQUADRON. \nPORNO, VONN, HE \nVry's best 17 149 \nLore via \n9.19 Mar \nViking's pani-bak \nBryster \nViens' animat \nint \nFumar's inchoat Revontiret \nFinny'sunl.cek Vient Bacolas cruis Viseryʻkk Vicy-gonizi \nTching- \nTentang \nBA Sat \nPhi \nB \nBi-Lin \nTriag \nVigganum \nIni etuier \nCOMMANDEN. \nSLATION. \nHongkong \n| by \n5230 \n75 J. Baze. \nE \nChai \nF. B \nVinery',nical sti \nLany ie ing \nChow hi Close Admiral d), ('bing \nCati \n4 \nYang Yang L \nCali \nPied Pubbled in a meat thinl \nWare st \nCanton Piret \nQual \nBeg \nCitol \nUrise By Foru \nBegins Porta \nWhat Cont \nPucle Perta \nMonkey \nHakus Xin \nB+ Lot un \n55%22:14001 Heront, Hunsicoma. \nNo. 7649 \n436 \nThe Hong Kong Daily Press. \nSLIPPING. \nANGELS \nDANKS. \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982. \nINTIMATIONS. \n(YOMPTOTH A GROOMITEE DE PALTI, QUS HONGKONG WIHE IN Febrylases, tribes teamer, 945 \nVIRE INSURANCE COMPANY DIXIEO. Dkny 18th Plecary, 40- \nCorporates and 150h Merek, \"S recal-BRAON. \nNOTICE TO SHARKHOLDERS. Pebermy 22, VOLMDR, Denish adapter. 973, \nRecognised by the T. toew: Sevation of TORRENT 2018 AD Here, E.. 173 Fektivt, CAPITAL Flot Cars Ge \nANGGA MUSTING of SHARK --Tune é \n24,265,000 HOGUbs in the alene Coy with n RAMATZ PORD \n£59, 190, at the Leaf the y. Vis. 7. Quza's Timcid, at (ait pas The stock, be instant, to meeile Mataista to BAN EPICCO Men, and be Elena Cheatin Ouderr, HANRON), \nFebruary 28, CasaDEA, Brier, 62 \nY \nAUCTIONS. PURRIO AUCTION. \nINTIMATIO IS. \nRACE HOLDATA \nimas nadelgum te meived lastration Vodermentioned tenka will (LOSE! \nPAINE \nhuma Surgem Wajor MURRAY to Sell for BiL DAY. CU INOSHOW, SAVEDAY tb. TO SUMAR- Adranty Jáhl at 2 \nend 25 inatra, Prayz von Fac \n\" \nBowin, Brigas 12th Pub, Mig-2s; HEADOFFIOR-14. Ruz heres PAROD¦ Plans 24 THORDAY, turb Echomap HGTSEJ 77, & \nFulmer 94, Yes. British rv, 78% Le \nSolids, Cute and F. General SCG. \nOLEA RANKS. \nAT \"ne Haren Hispans Ojo Inst \nExperky Pre \nKauai, Cheve sht, for Hofla Minster, Beitials for Away. Pocha, ens tramp vi. Adilok, Gorman bark, for Tas \nDEPARTURES February, Fame, Brist destit, fur Petrony 22. Hamaw, British slower, for! \nTi \nFeby $2. Stok, iliahanet, for \nXokebena \nFebruary 2G:=x01\", British Mesmer, \nfor Sought \nPASKENCYRS. \nSAPIVED \nAGENCIES AND HRANCE A \n: Exoak. \nNANTES \nBom \nSHOW \nMALIGE AND, {3\\_ \nSTONEY \nTORONAMY \nLONDON HAWKERS \nThe PA ( \nTHY WIN AND \n1.cruce \nMoms. C. J. Hume Has \nYue Honger geny powers Pixupnitä \nica Tomas to outcertained on appřánation! \nA few randife sun sull jarts of the world, \nINT Escapula sees of king shangs spiness \n8 February, 199 \nF. COCHINARD, \nSpeat, foug \nDENTAL BANK CORPORATION KÁRÍCUNDOSATs my Horan CHADIGAN PAIDUS CAPITAL....... \nRATE OF IN CHEST ALLOWED \nthat por Acy. \nCurumiles and \n11, the sport thu \ndongás my CALIORNO COVERED DRAWING \nHACK WORD VARITE TO TABLES. \nPer fan Oring Par laws Corporation, \nURO 0. BOOTT \nVaror Hogan \nFeh \nTEK Mas Baxi or! \nINDOOR, AND TIME, \nI \nMEARTH PLASS DWMNRY CLOCK For the CARTAR), gkeun. \nKAS, PICTURES, CASA. \nDISING \nJARDIN, MATSON & Groepen, Turk Fire Inspired: JIERA, and GAS BRACKETS, Hongkong Ft This \n300 TEAKWOOD \nane DESBAKT SPTS, TXA and OK. THE KOKORONG FIAR INSURANCE FRE SETS, KES CHINA, AYASO and \nCOMPANY, JAJED \nPEATED WORK \nNOTOR \nDA, T2, Cha \nWILLIAM FORREST. \n三十二月二行 INTIMATIONS. \nTHE \nINLO-CHINA STEAM \nPwCE 2 PRE MONT \nINTIMATIONS. \naan dus on afwan Wang Bankulmat in \nNAVIGATION et \nCOMPANY, LIKE \nDOPE THE ON \nJAKA MAP & Co. OF ON. SGAMAN \nDE 100 GR \nIN B \nduly paid the allocati eft liable to cucina Aul blau paparents previously now:la | to furth \nApplications Exe Stuures osatiede in the For resoring is Pregnet, and scre £t be nut w the Giles of the Conryany, and ET FACT HOLLAND HAPO & \nMAVION & Unshiun Could \nFL, & \ncally paid up awers wi listed in the set the \nHome buy a the belies of bei \nBCHEDULE OF SINAMER Apers.... IV: 1000! 17+ Propnely Natasha China \nNavigation \nEd for palle Bulcription foil Axe 10. \nDaposi's, Application. \nIL DUR T-SCHTE! ឬ ៥រ Howe, TURO... \n?TADLE, SIDENTS, DIN.; For the Suprzin DeY DE PARS! \nRASSFEE Both of the BA (ABYAL GUARS TOILET LADIE gray, will by COLONNE the 15th CAB, sud HANDLE TOP WASH the 2in my of Foling Instant Antonio HAND SAWINO WA \nSTAND rundade \nHeating. P.IVARD. \n1 gang. \nFor sýn Fynbou A Hawking: \nGOBATION. \n1. Ja \nJACKSON, \nCiel Tenger. \nHigh Fetary, 1893 \nVuw... \n1. \nStow 7 espel \n294 \nof the ac \n134.ag. \nTotal 40 Reginas \n2. 1 \nMarch, 18 They, Julita will a given of any far. \nMAR WILLIAM SEES 108, 8, Lombard! Strne end, of Messe JANDERE, MAAT. Franz & C... Gui \nWANTE \nB. 1. Eg Int JARDINS, MATHESON \nA., of Modern Wang, Aus the lungest\", \nESCOPE ↳y Yerin, with Astrono. \nTHE OFPRUS # 5. REONTRO ITA TUOKAS REID, Fu, of Youre ALEZA ILANO for the last is in: 25: Rp & Bora, Hiszpan elony Fire To Exe Hongkong, 22 February, 183). \norder to artiste directions tots 3A 10WGING FRUT, Luchst C \nELLS, Sight Fairy and Fowlies with Alus Olice for Certilours!WILLIA HILAND STEEL Best the 24te of Maruh application for a lifed \nLaredo, Mus. Maison de Ca \nai Harkong and Shangani me to put ou sitration, des that the rely on Paal tas ng inuis, of Nabor of the woich bars fan tanutted Cir the thache il in Yokohama ki \nLE \nNOTRE 10 MAEINERS. \nThe Murty BOOKMASI...557 to Mic PANG, Heiki- \nding, Malbyona \nWIPH nerados to the show the Ton \ningabout 300 \n500 Thesie Ban-Cal Breneb Londing 1-15% duty to ware Yemane vise my hyn Trung ist RS YACANDLEW. Eng... frambursgard sin proprzeć la neige at Feet \nH: NGRONG AND WILAMMUA DOCK HOUSE. \nCOMPANY, LIBYTE), \nNOTICE TO SKALHOLDERS. THE ORDINAGE YEARLY MOETINO AARONESS wie El. AusCe por u \ntine 631: of the way St, Pra Co Atis Moon Notions are for the WEDNESDAY, 1st March 16 Crea Acu kap Verms which way Rape of the Dino desterraun nå Wote wat so syylientcy. \nPer Craplar at the Guizon, ed Uning \nSPARTER \nPer inturn for maple- Heverink and Europe. \n15 DEPART \nFenton, Su #trilow. --I M \nPet \nned 10 En Sivingbat. —ü Kuras Hongkong, 4th Kaptajulus, \nA \nEks \n2 Werte sinamas Poling aproni, liar en helt Ft 1 4.hart Furt of Junta per had fresh M \nHONGKONG SANHA BANKING \nBut \nCabal, sud u when to iau i F & put as far, the 27th in \nTYLE SAL av \nJ. W ARMSTRONG, A Gmianeer. \nE! \nHugong. 2: Feltery, h \nPUBLIO AUCTION. \n30 Marie Trinn 20 N \nPARKLAS \nVASITAS POÁI \nKRALIAN-) (ptrend tyres Bar & be pupaese 1+ing indired in tiruva ih let Deber, is net be reated w \nCeiba sa Japan. THE HONGKONG AND SANITA \nApplications nae sive China Ghid port will the GNGETRO (NO which was BANKING CORPORATION, 31, Legal Shanghai and tanut at es, in 1981, this are: Stowa Londe \nSULMITORS lium Changer of Daisy, and \ncoivaraga tenger, Rok Dustings. Lesken, Feder Bud Lave Resorts briar by My Dear Hetector, 1959, perubat \nant sieel to toe! \n£ 1145 Asto \nTip \nti per Suadu witin emal opplication MY FRESASTELDS & WILLIAMS, Iwili han dells, and f \nSercitare Kia calix award in the prospertise BROK \npercation with the Depp hver will COLLANT HALCONE 2 DA \nIbsen in dernery by un punto \nIrant \nthe Crash testa del Polish, tions Pubin Lily, as is al fusion of use rack, Ord Froud Best, ruin of tiktirnar. Ar Bostamil the Bills \nFCESDAY. \n95 Fay, that, wi fuam, at i \ndes Kant's theau's Hom— \nAlarm \nut Loud. \ni wengine ci Suijn, 38 prescribed i \nAUDITORY. \nCloud B AND, YOUNGS & y 92.1 \n· Carly- the Hurst Masy! bor Theiver of timpiere AaJim, \n1. Déso. Agrot Tenkung, 2ed fakeway, 1885. \n(176) C \n? 11 Feb 15. \nGM Q. SEXYTT. \n* \non te \n!1st Ja \n: Geinatal Back Cowperatio, \nHen \n•Bain Kingüe I Ginacenza \n11: \n£, 100X3 \nDod \nl \nHegory at Fee Seurotary THE HONGKONG KE SHIVPANY, \nLIMITE \nActie \nTho Aust \n4 \nan Vrout Pa tom throughly sportmaled | \nChege Diz-- \n----- \n1. J. DANDYY.. For \nok Cempery wel is vinent in Branca lyds, 3.36.111 gaat disision, aber in Gear, My A. T. \nCORPORATION. \nPAID-UP CAPITALA RESERVE FUND 99 \nDu. Reja, ta, Ka \n1, 2 \nBrugkeer we run Bina Mother; lepabraziunar—H, LC WRY- Zoeks. Ea \n2.m 12. Harper. Th Em Breite Dorary spezia of. Multi- \nSen. Bul Saigon 2 Les arming of indian Forcery. Y Might Sure wins within wother up to the forein; \nstrange iterata to a fregite wise \nBigh \nPOOCHÓW TUPPING. \nFelc \n4. Appiu, Thetish ale, from Shanghai \ning, wie foam lengky. \n5. E. Hahal, from Weiur. \n6. Han, C. \nC. P \nbuck, ia behat. \nHogan \nNOTIF \nTHE FIRST ALS & DENKRAT \nMENTING VERS 14 \nza \n- ved sj \ntho \nMAYMER \nJackson, Ey B-FEN CARROS, \n\"CERT- \ntone into thangala, en alt 109 \nKathaway of Kurlon Des \nTEMPORARY OFFICES. \nIron Gauden to no and in the latel \nfogar with the Appunt rather to in ↓ pametna may be inspect be beting „No. 1, EAST INDIS A FENTE, LONDON, Absorbers at this hoss of tile Tureisigass \nLanai whole Bingen of Applination for S \nPG Compare bat beri famed for the pur I wire of orqaising for the C PURCH \nWANTHE oded by the Forsary and WYOMPETENT STRAPONS for Etners ATRAM NAVIATION CURANT, Ofnbul, \nFor Father Paroisse soy mila, Under- zig int. \n2e os, at was on Bata-Orl F the Par \nhona Mitoba MSDAY, 3 ay lace Meat he pose on why talk of like T More magis obras of Anat Balete of the Con Boster, 255), Tranter. All of safer to be Lord of \nby the Purples, and for Yesus to be at pe \nLONE BARES-TON CO2 & Consterk par 1 \n•pat \nBunker-LAYSIAN Anorga \nitement anys, \nOK g the Company \n¡ will be CLOWEST) Len. On salliinstant, ve zl i Phuyu's risk az tho Biebs by cine \nCavento Acerante al this remith next, both days nho, pop duju ou like Illya \nThe Mandi Paprika \nFortyor Band, por Azamolb \nFurler Cut your bac \nFat the paper Auca \nGAL 3 Angest \nHad Me 101 chrome Chotos ye; destriglio of Balag and Exehazge! \nCusted stated Scurity ! \nGleznas. His Sha \n4. Sibul, if \n78, Kwangwung, Erstili ste, dva \n1. Suctive 34 amph, France \nFour D \nTank, Brown- \n5. Pild, Critter back, ne singel-L \n2. Deur Vasi Deitina look, ( \nAmoy. \n7. Ms. Heiriza pelo tan bai \nrit, B. bit. \nfor Any. \n6, Agi til str., for whi \nDr. Heilial str. for New York. ya, Shelb \nBrilly 142, farma. Ing. Mirtich str, for Hongkong, \nZNANOTIA SHIPPING, \nAUTOSALS \nWulu. Britisú as, from Harku. \n6, Kinag-ong Ulduage ita, frenz flatma \nB. Geway .. from Kucheyrna \n- Bridalstrom Hojcity. \n6) Langmon. Chioma ne, frew Hongkong, \n5. Klingeline, Catur fram lafen. \n''yan, \n7. Name the trum Nagusiki \nBrivion wir, Ines Heater, 7. King. Chani kiz. Pero Hakow T. KONTO, Bullies wir, freno Bonzow, \nYangtae, hate, from Thungborg. \nmon.Gec. From Barefo \nB. Catras, Heiti 47, Bonbay, \nVarin t'uiteto frut A \n4. Yenity, Chitum, fena, Wakoa. \n9. A. Bitdeh str. f3 \nKonkow. \nBuy British tea, from Haukum \n9 Mon Jagt, he \n3. Birish str. ne kaik \n10. Mennar, Him. A may \n24, 4ppi, lich etc. in Feb \n10, goshi Weru, daş, art, tre, Kineban \n,, Torches at I'm Sratur. \nsan, sem sta, fram tvorbow. \n11, Chiz Britise 4, Frain Nugaenki. \n11. Kincy for, pise sta, Free For \nJiweltlah me, from Hack. \n11. Child, Britse stres \nveg \n23. Mika infra Ft.okow. \n14. Vraniu, Brizi i teras Ni \n12, Pag-chua, Cebu, Gun Haugining \n13. Paking, Britisk str. from Harian \n12. When, Sritha, Fran Ningpe \n23, P, Velg from Navski. \n13. Artawan, British ate, trong Ngebak. \n13. Bellapin, Criticstr, from hay. \n14. Kangitsen, Obiamo côfine \n14. Why Chinese \n12. Cf. fe Grice, Neftials aly, Fara Fausto, \nYel \nWa, Kritish or from Purbox \nDEPASISKGK. \nTulis, fitil: \nfry. \n7. Larisa ar, Caliber cust \nser, far Harten. \n4. Karlebota, Utili ste, for Hong \n7. Kig-yong, CU Hor \nWCA Vite fish sirir Hanken Wencho, Bitlah se fre Bentor \n7. T, Batin ats \nvalt.. Sur Au”. \n3. Yolors Faupat, for Kris. \n7. Anjaszóne. Maitish to. Lo Nayan \n9. Pribe. Fruch as, for \nVery arm, Jap, sie \nCheambin, list, for Tookes. \n9. Sualon, Bisjal nie,, for Chato. \n3. British te, & Nhup. \nA. Wynn, Erinala ste, får 1 \nKorinetes, \n5. Clay, Beds he for Nagild \n6. Tade. British si Hongkong. \n3 Dakinu 1. 1-i, Nagki \n8. 1. 1. Chernosina, qez Nag!. \nSing, Eisk er for Haukee. \n2, Wan, Heffasi atr. Yee Hankge \n8. Tagesbian Here. Sup, so, for Nigeri \nNow, Beltani ste, fer Swabunt. \n30, Yehsie, China, Cil \n1 Yung-ring China for Wacker. \n1. Kung, helliah straw, For 'Batkow, \n1. Yet, 1 Late, for thinking- \n11, Exitish fry \n11, y, Brick size for ever \nᎫ Ꭸ . \n-piant. C.Dave var for BakuPP. \n33. Natumeur, the Hali ste, ing Bunton. \nNang Byi-ish swamar, for Desigər 125. \n12, W. Stupin. Trilin's barb, \n13. Did Ms pett, for \n1. Hritish star, fer \nfine. \nut, \n12, Appiu. Rzinies alapone, for Benchaw. 12 Hole, British baek, for Puntur. \n18, in, Paul sicsance, for Yongpa \n14. Bang fou, Chiron 5., for lankaw. Tino, Titia, for acco \nJA, Bhara Kort. Danish, Aw Aney. \nJá, nilon. Ispitful: man, tum feudon \n14, Hung-mono. Elite for Ning. \nAUCTION SALES TO-DAY. \nNout \n2 ZON \nM \nHongkong, 2012 Paketars. 1 \nHION FRONG AND \nj \nBANKING CORP VOHAL \nNOTICH TO,\" \nIruding flower \n8:4 \n36 \nS \nSTRIA DE ATESON & C \nHenare! Meapp. \nPangkor, Nuth Pukssary. 199 \nund bag hij brente Vicker Bust Yantraze AMIN CORPÁSY, n2 Plang!! Fue Paci \nhos, mad from Jers spaly to \nTached beat soother in the basisve of! by the Seantul.! Longhwag. Ha Fairy, 1982 1844 tonnes Lowashed Rivers of \nClaire and bear China, the trait to \nCo. is a pig MANY STANSTER \nIONS TO OUR NOTICES TO CONSIGMEES. \nNONERS OF OPTION ANDA BOO, \nES. 8.3. COPS 8.5.37ENECK,\" \nFROM LIVERPOOL \nCHUPTING \n4. M. ARMSTRONG. Ani Hwgkong, 18h Bencowry, the \nTUNGKONG RACH. \nEN to the GANE Encours for Gentlenes being Sah \nof sið, er towards, 19 dla Band. Frogi. for Now able to the rain o \nG 183 No “Stand st \nj zorth \nVin Ind \nKIULH いやい \nprente, oz Chica \nDžiova stek u poziveliùsling of \ningen be adding it to the \nit various inter report, and the mak \nsent. Phyu Mr meting the grossier zegaremasts \n1887 \n25 ROYAL \nCITY HALL \nSATURDAY, \nFysoket W. 1892. \nNWOUND \nA doing it en wilson BAND MAGICAL MUSE, \n(man, will-hitic can itinere of the Copywny a \nn the tindasi bu chipul from i zemotestira ierastinent. \nuus later. As the ch 2hr Nice damer of the Cases Gastre. Tesigns for skijamast wer stame SASANATATION FERPANY, and the Yama MATRON. \nZOEK UNTAMED ODPAT, an ecided in 191 1841 Beans Surya Shanghe, ut by \nYonghorn, Bind Baravy. \nBiznim, faren 1.20 Szymoliem wist, Hors of 'n. Sterling Verze 20 bcxcision so we go sa balkg m / Bulk Sare5dista, nail s \n1 Burnering in to bad on 1 \n& DOVAN JAMBRn unsaaf Beurs, Brayer to the Cuntan Com's Glenovels are eli \neg in Chin, OU EN The motel of 91-6 PASAREA 2 Fashion, Bry, fine \"Prana iameter \nThe word after war and be the beds day of son carried inde, Cartes et Corner here. And image, and of the Coquialiis, an owning wikasi a Pielie, so be shown to the the Sadesigual, ja sinth casas 14 will turn on 106 mee Yangtera, wyether with \nTAS-Ty \n| Thakanume Pie \nI even me punten af 2), ka p (zujimoto su upang to, WARDANOS, . 15th Folmany, 385. \nEAL TRUE) By ordre often Coert ut vector \nClerk of Cur. Respons. My kids \nTAXI, and chan 132919TH THEM? Wenen in \nAmeric, Cala en Ju \nT. JACKSON, thief Marugas. \nMecs E the Corpoention \nNu. 1, Q's and H \nNOTICES OF FIRMS. \nFUTICH \non \nT. JACKSON, \nCAVE Hargr \n190; \nL \nPRIDERICK 2017 in auster \nTO BE INT It is \nthe by Prz Fenratica bertane ot Sasunt. \nBOCAGD FCHE CHASE & TO 9. PATLEY TRA \nLET Mogg. 15, 1 \n1593 Kars,\" N 29 Azer B \nUraze, in N IN QUEENEY HAD tex- \nCo \nTUR CHUKKAB INSURANCE COMPANY, Puch \nICMITED \nNOTION. \nAVDAVID Mungkan. Mick \n3SOON. WINS & US dowry, Sm \nI' \nk's day had doch zeigen kaki of Me T. BAY . . D MAUN! Bolay the a \nZ \nW ROINES, \nDoorway. In You, Je,\" \nM \nNOTICE. \nKunis been appoint Agents for thr \nNO. 2 LOWER MONQUE TERRACE \nApply to \nJ. M. ANETRONIA, \nHongkong, we fibreney, this \n..... \nTO BE LAT \nWith mata konica \nNETSUZ BUSHAN KAISHA, OFWELLING HOUSE No & O Basing \nPorto this For \nHongkong \n980. STEVENS & C. \nJanuary 18 \nXOTION \nATRA LAMEDA on mitted \nPatios in my Where no? tán Hestnesi will be watere at inder the |cale f \nSTRIL & TALKM \nNTS \nNetgan. Feb 12 \n.............. \npatuled, \nGut, thoroughly tapultad vol wy \nApply to \nALEX. A. AGA KIHELIOS. Iveco J. 1+13 RENKIJOS & Q....... I \nHvaley Stroth Ifonytone. 8th Bobnary, 16 \ndelivery train Graf or China \nCon 1995 \nCIO'S LOAN, or repruned Blaess Ne \nApply to \nLISTSAL & DAVIS, \nAngkor, Sim Fe K \n+452 \n2ist rebrany, 1837. \nand five aziona \nun sft art its simpellant, waking \nfest Et une ged wit's the that they the C101: Fally put up shar Vilor, and of which songs is vrugt \napdaivers after the with Pelaars, \n1982 aufgeno \nFITTERS SIRE Agra, Rogging, ul Februny. 1: \nFROM LOS DON AND SINGAPORS. \nGLENFRO4-,\" \nBurta, Brasiguam; \nCAL \nLE COMIDAT PERFORMANCE. \nDISPLAY OF NECROMANOS \nGLINK T \nPROFESSOR RUCHWALDY, \nRENA WIMANT Wind 28* Wansker Taare \nAn entirely new Pumnites \nPUS PARTICULATE SES H \nPAX OF ADRESTON. \nDrain Cirak seil Sti \nPl............ \nidio finálem in auffores Hall Pries Tickets to be hat den Neue Key & Wag med at dhe Tales \nDight The Steamy will be alten | Performer 1. studio of fil, the Frinksminga \nPosing a CAPA \nLe ɖe Compray. \nCha Cha Stry Farmats of J. Convams may extantinuci în 10 oun \nAsily. Fructe at 80 Pig, Performance to com \nLading jajene za coudseted with Nathan \nDowny, Fetienacy, 1885 Is her secon! it ONGKONG, CANTOR, ANU MAURO \nPLLAK CESARDT Sunambig \n| basing arrivet ROYAL BELUSLINTET COMPANY, \n(of Surg Am Barely this long com, dying lady letras Fassies and Saverbrai.! \nwiik esvapur of Oplan van het bal Salon Pung, Cl ritl \nThe risks dete pas earns of De Visita, en Kerck, whi Biznad, vienne di Paw the wharem a otra ringstjen 4 way to ohtrize], \nSADETLY APPEL. Hoy, 7th Folamry. 1983 \nNOWN SALE TOOUND VOLUM is of the Chow95-174:7-8410$ Tags per h Yone 1287. \nPark The Dak Arty Fina \nBong JANTY \ntr \n3 H 1 \nX \nG.. \nUWALSH IN SILKS, Canton and Slot Brass Pro Sharris, \nbana ng Wang, Curiosis, \nDenaliende, Talul Chalca orm Tebies, ie, f.. \nGOLD AND SILVER FRATELLE \nCaro SST, P \nROM, QUDEN'S BOAT, EXC MAHANA. \nSTEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. KXOURSION TO MACAD. \nSOMANES Panxha \"KINETANG,\" will for Latine ange wül informadales the! funtion thatør Porn Blog Lan SATURDAY, the 25% inesses. to the rosterý se given befrog Noon 10.DAY \nIan Bastow, ad hooks, bonds, pavery. the Buch Febri. 19 \nung tamilly prociled ze the carus porte lasting 90 Can winlig v \nDudaliteket \nju ili za svoju te thot of end for pictat and thesis sagirnis em \nBOUN \nNo ite kurd has buan atatud, \n2 Julie ill be cinanteisisat kj \nKrbrary, \ncutting a large card tra J'a Stanet e de \"Id\" Wardagi \nruza BUNDAY, the \nThe Cas Prosta Muca and lak.. 89 40. So Cas...... \n31.50 tests to be pare at the Company' \nby Disa \nbral osally Myths seri at the Wari. \n•han basisgand to me al segue \nang trade. \nAsiY[ 034 54 * ! tag, odo Date \nBeagles 20 \nUNION LISE \nNOTICE TO ROYSKONTES. \nTROM LONDON, THNARD, AND \nSINRAPOR \"TOPORATES- \n\"S-SRETNO\" is Bow Rename of 1.466 kaas til at aborden, and destined to China \nSarung Lath, where i wantly be join \n2. A LA COSTA, \nStrogkwg Ziel Folers \nCAUTION tavots\" of 2.577, fie ding Paktis on igured that SCBIP for minh bas frist hide Abarca: SHAREG Numbed it) \nLe T \nw by the Foest at whogy tud 48 rue 613-1,250 fs Shoe St Rita W4X24 D luga iar apperanicu plutor Blass CuANT be student that motive ul Dcrz \nDeals That Has Borghang! \nHenker 28ri Pelary. 1683 \nNote-Th, Dia is the ski otɔdlükat | Capkiu Mitzke, having arrived free pieces Sainty built for the; the chefs ass buna giu że Shott Cloapany. #5111 Line in Loughed as one is City among with with which the \nmit any view of a nábo kong naga. \ntomat ju thair Bis of \"Inding to vas arlor Falo hvalisay steal an important EN RING. \nund or eligator 25 main positi \nTO LET \nAty to \nDOUGJAS LAPCAJK & L Lengkong, L. 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MOVER notte) am suplied for, 4 surplus of the \nSuurinta at Tungkong: 29% Fobrancy, 1882 \nrexit wil byheals to the pope of con", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317875, "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": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## 3. Of the arrivals in 1881, the percentage due to each Nationality is as follows:\n\n| Nationality | Percentage of vessels | Percentage of tons |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| American | 3.82 | 4.58 |\n| British | 71.74 | 79.75 |\n| Chinese (exclusive of Junks) | 4.41 | 4.06 |\n| Danish | 1.83 | 1.38 |\n| French | 3.20 | 5.78 |\n| German | 10.95 | 7.29 |\n| Japanese | 0.81 | 1.01 |\n| Siamese | 0.65 | 0.36 |\n| Spanish | 1.18 | 0.48 |\n| The remainder | 1.86 | 1.28 |\n\n4. 2,750 vessels propelled by Steam, and 2,599,460 tons arrived in 1881, as against 2,465 steam vessels and 2,316,121 tons arrived in 1880, or an increase of 285 vessels and 283,339 tons. The following table will show the Nationality of the steam vessels arrived in each year:\n\n| Nationality | No. of vessels | Tons | No. of vessels | Tons | No. of vessels | Tons | No. of vessels | Tons |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 1880 | 1880 | 1881 | 1881 | Increase | Increase | Decrease | Decrease |\n| American | 64 | 53,850 | 41 | 48,439 | | | 23 | 5,211 |\n| Annamese | | | 2 | | 2 | | | |\n| Austrian | 2 | | 10 | 14,465 | 8 | 14,465 | | |\n| Belgian | | | 1 | 1,126 | 1 | 1,126 | | |\n| British | 1,946 | 1,821,705 | 2,184 | 2,033,986 | 218 | 212,281 | | |\n| Chinese (foreign bottoms) | 154 | 125,869 | 142 | 115,926 | | | 12 | 9,943 |\n| Danish | 18 | 5,950 | 50 | 36,392 | 32 | 30,442 | | |\n| Dutch | | | | | | | | |\n| French | 81 | 153,511 | 80 | 155,897 | | | 1 | 2,386 |\n| German | 115 | 90,657 | 178 | 135,449 | 63 | 44,792 | | |\n| Japanese | 27 | 25,635 | 26 | 28,869 | | | 1 | 3,234 |\n| Norwegian | | | 2 | 1,810 | 2 | 1,810 | | |\n| Russian | | | 2 | 2,274 | 2 | 2,274 | | |\n| Spanish | 50 | 18,565 | 37 | 7,585 | | | 13 | 10,980 |\n\n## EMIGRATION\n\n8. Emigration during the year has been largely on the increase, 20,300 Chinese having left this Port in 1881 in excess of the number leaving Hongkong the previous year.\n\nIt is a strange commentary on the recent Convention, entered into between the United States of America and China for the purpose of checking emigration, to find that 14,127 more Chinese have been introduced into those States than landed there in 1880, and Chinese are still going over in large numbers, for the purpose of constructing new Railroads. The Chinese on arrival get high wages and the protection of the law, and their condition in America is far superior to what they experience in their native country.\n\n9. The Australian Governments have adopted a more practical means of putting a stop to the Immigration of Chinese into those Colonies, by laws which in their effect almost completely prohibit a Chinaman from seeking his living on that Continent. How far this prohibition is in accordance with the existing Treaties with China, and the expediency of shutting out the most sober and industrious race in the world from a Continent wanting labourers, are not matters for discussion in this report.\n\n10. The Northern Territory of South Australia still admits Chinese, but the inducement to go there does not seem to be very encouraging, as only 172 left for Port Darwin in 1881, while 2,268 left for that Port in 1880.\n\nThere is a large and increasing emigration to the Straits Settlements, there being an excess of 5,400 over the number leaving Hongkong the previous year. Employment is found for them, not alone in the Straits Settlements, but in the Malay States, and in the neighbouring Island of Sumatra.\n\n11. The following tables will show the number of emigrants that have passed through this Office between the years 1872 and 1881, inclusive, together with the Countries to which they proceeded; also the number of Chinese returned to the Colony during the same period:\n\n| COUNTRIES PROCEEDED TO | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| British Columbia | 506 | | | | | | | | | | 506 |\n| British Guiana | 10 | | | | | | | | | | 10 |\n| Calcutta | 13 | | | | | | | | | | 13 |\n| California, U.S.A. | 5,193 | 6,340 | 9,562 | 9,147 | 16,640 | 15,988 | 19,168 | 14,034 | 7,939 | | 103,011 |\n| New South Wales | 178 | 560 | 766 | | 2,447 | | | | | | 3,951 |\n| New Zealand | 1,215 | 545 | 2,658 | | | | | | | | 4,418 |\n| Oregon, U.S.A. | 952 | 994 | 2,447 | | | | | | | | 4,393 |\n| Philippine Islands | 220 | | | | | | | | | | 220 |\n| Queensland | 111 | 786 | 344 | 1,044 | 2,387 | | | | | | 4,672 |\n| Sandwich Islands | | 261 | 775 | 312 | 3,142 | 478 | 48 | 121 | 580 | | 5,717 |\n| Siam | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| South Australia | 1,083 | 1,284 | 2,714 | 774 | 582 | 8,618 | 6,782 | 6,530 | 1,118 | 1,102 | 30,587 |\n| Straits Settlements | 3,200 | 4,259 | 6,811 | 793 | 6,936 | 19,839 | | | | | 41,838 |\n| Sumatra | 4,374 | 6,305 | 6,635 | | | | | | | | 17,314 |\n| Vancouver's Island | 1,771 | 2,268 | 172 | 6,120 | 5,400 | | | | | | 15,731 |\n| Victoria | 2,638 | 1,764 | 2,208 | 1,021 | 2,044 | 12,369 | | | | | 22,044 |\n| West Indies | 277 | 235 | 216 | 11,557 | 64 | 81 | 84 | 86 | | | 12,600 |\n| TOTAL | 22,443 | 28,768 | 31,866 | 48,152 | 46,350 | 39,741 | 38,653 | 39,529 | 50,324 | 70,825 | 410,461 |\n\n| COUNTRIES ARRIVED FROM | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1876 | 1876 | 1877 | 1879 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| California, U.A.S. | 3,721 | 5,724 | 7,454 | 5,503 | 6,871 | 7,130 | 6,011 | 6,800 | 7,135 | 7,939 | 64,388 |\n| Cuba | | | | | | | | | 58 | | 58 |\n| New South Wales | 404 | 557 | 371 | 673 | 190 | 385 | 297 | 903 | | | 3,780 |\n| New Zealand | 190 | 284 | 322 | 233 | 136 | 145 | 60 | | | | 1,370 |\n| Oregon, U.S.A. | 538 | 231 | 469 | 304 | 834 | 330 | 858 | 514 | 330 | 1,717 | 6,125 |\n| Peru | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Philippine Islands | 3,236 | 3,438 | 3,694 | | | | | | | | 10,368 |\n| Queensland | 4,811 | 4,960 | 1,292 | 4,437 | 5,173 | 2,346 | 2,667 | 2,458 | | | 28,144 |\n| Sandwich Islands | 719 | 968 | 1,244 | 30 | 1,840 | 111 | 4,037 | 795 | 101 | 107 | 9,952 |\n| Siam | | | | | | | | | 497 | | 497 |\n| South Australia | 97,958 | 688 | 10,996 | 14,547 | 18,462 | 10,117 | 23,386 | 25,972 | 30,088 | 29,775 | 259,963 |\n| Straits Settlements | 202 | 46 | 127 | 345 | 405 | 209 | 314 | 2,824 | 609 | 117 | 5,198 |\n| Victoria | 1,151 | 3,149 | 448 | 322 | 155 | 203 | 142 | 156 | 661 | 265 | 6,650 |\n| ... | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| TOTAL | 23,773 | 25,355 | 32,319 | 38,502 | 42,390 | 48,746 | 47,882 | 50,542 | 51,011 | 52,988 | 413,503 |\n\n5. The trade in sailing vessels (exclusive of Junks) has also increased, there having been 464 vessels and 253,819 tons arrived in 1881, as against 416 vessels and 219,466 tons arrived in 1880. Of this increase 15 vessels and 13,697 tons were under the British flag, and 33 vessels with 20,656 tons were under the flags of Nations not British.\n\n6. There is an increase of 17,488 tons from the Australian Colonies, and there is a small decrease of tonnage to those Colonies. The excess of arrivals over departures is caused by vessels carrying Cargo from England to Australia, loading there with Coals for China, and returning to England with Chinese and Japanese produce. There is an increase (including Junks) of 190,351 tons from, and an increase of 161,178 tons to the Coast of China and Formosa. There is an increase of 44,945 tons from, and of 9,505 tons direct to Great Britain, but the actual tonnage to and from Great Britain cannot be ascertained, as the greater number of vessels proceeding there clear for, and enter here from Singapore, and in the absence of an Export and Import office it is impossible to distinguish between what tonnage is for, or what is from Great Britain, and what is for, or from the intermediate Ports. There is a decrease of 9,568 tons from Ports in Japan, and an increase of 21,773 tons to those Ports. There is a steady and increasing trade in European vessels and Junks between Hongkong, the Island of Hainan, and Ports in the Gulf of Tonquin, an increase of 15,322 tons having arrived from, and of 19,441 tons having cleared to those places.\n\nCaptains NAPIER and CARPENTER, R.N., in H. M. S. Magpie having completed their survey of the Coast of Hainan, and the Gulf of Tonquin, masters of vessels will find the navigation of the waters about the dangerous Sandbanks which almost block the approaches to Hainan, much facilitated, and Shipmasters cannot be too grateful to the Captains and Officers of the Magpie for their valuable and laborious services.\n\nSiam shows an increase of 18,770 tons from, and of 12,185 tons to that Country. An increase of the trade between the Colony and the United States of America is also observable, 18,454 more tons having arrived from, and 8,915 more tons having cleared for those States than was the case in 1880.\n\n## JUNK TRADE\n\n7. 24,339 Junks and 1,680,025 tons arrived in the Colony in 1881, as against 23,920 Junks and 1,650,258 tons arrived in 1880, shewing an increase of 419 Junks and 29,767 tons. There is an increase of 46,436 tons in the trade with the Coast of China and Formosa, and a decrease of 16,669 tons with Macao.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319827, "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": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "69\n\n## ARTICLE X\n\n378\n\nThe officers and people of either nation residing in the other shall have the right to employ natives for all kinds of lawful work.\n\nShould, however, subjects of Chosen, guilty of violation of the laws of the kingdom, or against whom any action has been brought, conceal themselves in the residences or warehouses of British subjects, or on board British merchant-vessels, the Consular authorities of the British Government, on being notified of the fact by the local authorities, will either permit the latter to dispatch constables to make the arrests or the persons will be arrested by the Consular authorities and handed over to the local constables. British officials or subjects shall not harbour such persons.\n\n## ARTICLE XI\n\nStudents of either nationality who may proceed to the country of the other in order to study the language, literature, laws, or arts, shall be given all possible protection and assistance, in evidence of cordial good-will.\n\n## ARTICLE XII\n\nThis being the first Treaty negotiated by Chosen, and hence being general and incomplete in its provisions, shall, in the first instance, be put into operation in all things stipulated herein.\n\nAs to stipulations not contained herein, after an interval of five years, when the officers and people of the two Powers shall have become more familiar with each other's language, a further negotiation of commercial provisions and regulations in detail, in conformity with international law, and without unequal discriminations on either part, shall be had.\n\n## ARTICLE XIII\n\nThis Treaty and future official correspondence shall be made on the part of Chosen in the Chinese language. The British Government shall either use the Chinese language, or, if English be used, it shall be accompanied with a Chinese version in order to avoid misunderstanding.\n\n## ARTICLE XIV\n\nThe High Contracting Powers hereby agree that, should at any time the King of Chosen grant to any nation, or to the merchants or citizens of any nation, any right, privilege, or favour, connected either with the navigation, commerce, political, or other intercourse which is not conferred by this Treaty, such right, privilege, or favour shall freely inure to the benefit of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its public officers, merchants, and citizens; provided always that whenever such right, privilege, or favour is accompanied by any condition or equivalent concession granted by the other nation interested, the British Government, its officers, and people, shall only be entitled to the benefit of such right, privilege, or favour, upon complying with the conditions or concessions connected therewith.\n\nIn faith whereof the respective Representatives have signed and sealed the foregoing at Jiu Chuen in English and Chinese, being three originals of each text of even tenor and date, the ratifications of which shall be exchanged at Jin Chuen within one year from the date of its execution, and immediately thereafter this Treaty shall be in all its provisions publicly proclaimed, and made known by both Governments in their respective countries, in order that it may be obeyed by their subjects respectively.\n\nDated this sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.\n\n(L.S.) (Signed)\n\n(L.S.)\n\n**GEORGE O. WILLES,**\n\nVice-Admiral, Commander-in-chief. Signatures of () Plenipotentiaries.\n\n[163]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320089, "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": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "## 154 \n\n**THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH**\n\nIn all cases in which Japanese, especially Government departments, are plaintiffs in our Courts, it is eminently desirable that the fullest investigation should be accorded, and the judgment based upon the clearest reasoning.\n\nSevere indisposition has compelled Mr. Martin Dohmen, H.B.M. acting consul at Yokohama, to take leave of absence. His place will be filled by Mr. J. J. Enalie, the senior member of the consular corps in Japan, with the exception of Mr. Russell Robertson, who is now acting judge of H.B.M. Court for Japan. The appointment of Mr. Enalie has been received with much satisfaction, because the nomination of Mr. Dohmen about three years ago was regarded as improper, in view of that gentleman's shorter service and inexperience. The appointment of Mr. Hannen to be acting chief justice of the Supreme Court for China and Japan has enabled the arrears of appeals to be cleared off. Several cases tried here in 1877, and appealed to Shanghai, have been decided; but the delay, expense, and anxiety have weighed heavily upon the suitors. The probability of Mr. Rennie being promoted to the chief justiceship of Shanghai and Mr. Hannen appointed to Yokohama is a gratifying prospect to the communities of both ports, where the gentlemen named are well known and highly esteemed.\n\nThe Kaitakushi, or Colonization Commission, a department of the Government which has been for years past regarded with the utmost aversion and suspicion, is now finally abolished, the government of Yezo being assimilated with that of other parts of the empire. Hakodate, Sapporo, and Nemuro are made the seats of three ken; and the business of colonisation will henceforward be attended to in a separate department in the two latter ken. This change will probably save the national purse seventy per cent of the former cost of this service under the loose administration of General Kuroda, who is now said to have resigned his office. Probably, finding his occupation gone, no other alternative was left for General Kuroda.\n\nThe settlement is a prey to fatty robberies and burglarious openings of warehouses and abstraction of portions of their contents. The police do not seem equal to the task of suppression or detection; and this, combined with the intolerable condition of the settlement, again suggests the necessity for the formation of a municipality in which the residents shall be properly and effectively represented. The new order in council contains references to municipal and land regulations applicable to the open ports of Japan, which revive the hope that we may eventually succeed in placing this settlement under our own control; and to enforce the observance of the regulations upon those whose defiance of all laws is now a standing reproach to, and testimony of the weakness and inefficiency of the courts of those nations enjoying extra-territorial rights yet unable to control their own people.\n\n[FEB. 21, 1882]\n\nIt is now stated that Mr. Shishido will not be removed from the Japanese Legation at Peking, but will return to his post in March. The Loochoo question is, according to the Japan Herald, likely to crop up again during the summer, and \"the foreign emissary of the Japanese Government, still tarries in Peking,\" where he is supposed to be endeavouring to do something in the grievance between the two Empires. The Echo du Japon also refers to the same question. Two Loochooan delegates, who visited Peking with the idea of enlisting the aid of China to recover the lost independence of their home, have recently committed suicide, driven probably to desperation by the delays and sinuosities of Celestial diplomacy.\n\n## KOREA\n\n## FUSAN\n\nA Japanese newspaper, the Mainichi Shimbun, recently printed a note to the effect that Ri-Saison, step-brother of the King, assisted by three formerly distinguished officials, had attempted to break out into rebellion; but that their scheme was nipped in the bud, and the conspirators were arrested. Now the same paper gives further intelligence from Seoul stating that the three ex-officials were beheaded and dismembered on the 2nd Dec. The heads were suspended by the hair from poles; and the arms and legs, roughly wrapped in straw, were put on piles of faggots, while the dismembered trunks were left lying on the ground at the foot of the same. The second names of the traitors were placarded on the exposed corpses, but not their family names. Ri-Saisen, in consideration of his being the nearest relative of the Sovereign, had his capital sentence remitted, and was exiled. Ri Reisboku, one of the would-be rebels, committed suicide in prison by biting off his tongue.\n\nRumours are afloat that the King has sent a message to Peking asking for arms and soldiers to expel the Japanese who have fastened on two settlements on the shore opposite the West Coast of Japan. All accounts agree that the Japanese are very cruel, and that the Koreans are minded to rise and massacre them. The Chinese, it is stated, are even more sensitive about Korea than about Loochoo.\n\nThe Government are about to establish Custom Houses, the working of which is to be on much the same principle as the one now adopted by China in collecting her revenue on foreign bottoms.\n\n## CHINA\n\n## PEKING\n\nA very serious quarrel took place some ten years ago between a military mandarin named Chen Kuo-jui and Li Shih-chung, Commander-in-chief of the forces of Kiang-nan. An edict appeared in the Peking Gazette in 1871, in reply to a memorial from Tseng Kou-fan on the subject, degrading the two officers for their unseemly brawl. The Shen Pao of Jan. 2 contains a proclamation by the Governor of An-hui to the effect that, acting on the Imperial authority, he caused Li Shih-chung to be arrested secretly on the night of the 1st of the current moon in a garrison, and then and there beheaded.\n\nWe have enjoyed, as best we could under adverse conditions of trade, the holidays incident to the season. Christmas was observed by foreign residents in various ways; and the new year by our Japanese friends. Poverty and stagnation are, however, too visible through the outward show of festivity; and it is evident that if this country is to maintain its commercial relations with the world to the satisfaction and advantage of those concerned, a thorough and radical change must be made in the restrictive laws which impede trade and embarrass every producer and merchant alike.\n\nThe mail via United States, originally intended to leave Jan. 10, is postponed to Jan. 21, to the great inconvenience of merchants here and the annoyance of those in China whose letters are on the way to connect here with the steamer that was to leave on the 10th. The withdrawal of the excellent and regular service of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company has been a source of much loss and inconvenience to foreign mercantile interests in Japan; and the probability is that a memorial will shortly be addressed to H.B.M. Government praying for its restoration.\n\nA general meeting of the Asiatic Society has been held at the Chamber of Commerce, Tokio, the Rev. J. L. Amerman, Vice President, in the chair. Mr. Ernest Satow read a paper entitled \"Notes on the Early History of Printing in Japan.\"\n\nIt is stated that Mr. Tekeha Pinpei, President of one of the Provincial Assemblies, has been decapitated in his own house, and his wife mortally wounded by three unknown men, who announced that robbery was not their motive. It is supposed they were actuated by private spite, or had some political object in committing the crime.\n\nA serious mutiny among prisoners broke out in the prison at Hamamatsu, Shidzuoka ken, on the 24th Dec. Eighty prisoners combined to escape, and made a desperate attempt to carry their plans into execution; but guard and police were at hand, and, by use of arms, the ringleader being shot dead at the outset, the revolt was subdued, but not until many were seriously wounded on both sides.\n\nThe Japanese newspapers state that the Miyee-kan, iron sheathed corvette, one of the three constructed by Sir E. J. Reed, on her return voyage from Persia, where she had been on a special mission, showed signs of deterioration, supposed to be due to defective construction.\n\n## DRAFT\n\nPage 55\n\nThe O.A.G.\n\nMr. ... \nMINUTE.\n\nPraesoni saful Дария\n\nMr. Wingfield.\nMr. Bramston.\nMr. Meade.\nMr. Herbert.\nMr. Courtney.\nLord Kimberley.\n\nsubmitted.\n\nb: 13.8.194\n\nit. Hoy Kay 51\n\nPii, 6948\n\nRECO\n\nREGO 16 APR 82.\n\n18April:82\n\nMy attention has been drawn to the ...\n\n678210\n\nthe Gleaner by Addicati\" to iding\n\nThe Courier reports that the Sub-Reader, Chang Chi Tung, has been appointed Governor of the Province of Shansi. This promotion is a remarkable one, from the fact that a Sub-Reader belongs to the fifth degree of rank, whereas a Governor of a Province is second in grade only to Viceroy, as the former has almost equal power with the latter, and has under his immediate command the whole of the military forces of his Province. A Sub-Reader, on the other hand, holds but an insignificant office, and the only importance that attaches to it is on account of the freedom of speech permitted in memorialising the Throne—a prerogative which is shared by the Censors. The sudden promotion of Chang Chi Tung from insignificance to importance is to be traced to his having written the famous memorial against Chung How and his more recent intrepid letter to the Viceroy Li Hung Chang. In politics Chang belongs to the Tso party, and he is regarded by them as one of their shining lights, destined shortly to blaze into the refulgence of a Viceroy.\n\nThe North China Daily News correspondent writes:--The French Minister and his family have arrived after a very considerable absence. The British Minister and Lady Wade have also arrived. It must be a source of the greatest pleasure to all Peking residents to see Lady Wade once more. Important negotiations with the Viceroy regarding opium duty have, it is reported, been occupying the attention of the British Minister and Chinese high officials at Tientsin, and doubtless the interests of the victims of the opium vice, as well as those of the two countries more especially interested, have not been overlooked by either statesman. Tsao Tsung-tang joined their deliberations at Tientsin on his way south. China has a few enlightened and able statesmen at present who seem determined to grapple with this enormous question. Very considerable interest is taken in the subject at present, and if nothing effective is now done it is to be feared another equally good opportunity may not arrive. It stands to reason that before the Chinese are able to drain their own ...\n\n\"I was ... from \"to \"monopoly there\"\n\n1 Feb. p. 162 Explow\n\nHannisy\n\nbyt? Kimberley privately. Oct. 6.\n\nRKA. Oct. 9.\n\nEnclosed extracts from the \"London & China Telegraph\" of the 13th and 22nd February, the meaning of which I am unable to understand and shall be glad to receive your ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321126, "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": 505, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "502\n\n4\n\nWe extract a few interesting passages from a recent article of the Paris Figaro regarding the Holy Father, Leo XIII, who puts in practice the advice given by an Italian Princess to a King of France: \"Now, my son, you must stitch\" (il faut coudre). The Pope has been stitching for five years with wonderful patience and perseverance. He has desired to bring back the Governments of Europe to himself, and everybody knows how he has succeeded. Envoys, more or less recognised by Mr. Gladstone, ascend the great Vatican staircase side by side with the Ambassador of the German Empire, with the Grand Duke Constantino Nicolavich, the Tsar's uncle, and Russian diplomats, greatly surprised to meet here. The venerable old man may congratulate himself on his work. At the price of what labour he thus guides the bark of Peter to port, we shall see.\n\nThe writer then describes a day of the Pope's life—his early Mass, his audience to the Secretary of State, Cardinal Jacobini, \"of rare political knowledge,\" and to the other Cardinal Secretaries, each of whom has his fixed day; the meagre one o'clock dinner of a plate of soup, one plate of meat, and cheese, lasting only a few minutes; his afternoon walk or ride, utilised in reading the reports of Bishops or Nuncios; his public and private audiences at four p.m.; his reception of Bishops in the evening; and then, at the end of his long day, his hours in his private cabinet: \"then it is that Leo XIII is able to work,\" concludes the writer.\n\nHis personal appearance and manner is thus described:\n\nTall, thin, dry, his face long, pale and wrinkled, Leo XIII is of delicate health, which he takes little care of.\n\nTHE CATHOLIC REGISTER.\n\nHONGKONG RATES OF POSTAGE.\n\nREVISED JANUARY, 1883.\n\nIn the following Statements and Tables the Rates are given in cents, and are, for letters per half ounce, for Books and Patterns, per two ounces.\n\nNewspapers over four ounces in weight are charged as double, treble, etc., as the case may be, but such papers or packets of papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two Newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except loose file Supplements. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate. Price Current may be paid either as Newspapers or Books.\n\nCommercial Papers signify such papers as, though written by hand, do not bear the character of an actual or personal correspondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied music, &c. The charge on them is the same as for books, but, whatever the weight of a packet containing any partially written paper, it will not be charged less than 5 cents.\n\nThe sender of any Registered Article may accompany it with a Return Receipt on paying an extra fee of 5 cents.\n\nCommercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices is 4 oz. Patterns for such offices are limited to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these dimensions: 8 inches by 6 inches by 2 inches.\n\nCOUNTRIES OF THE POSTAL UNION.\n\nThe Union may be taken to comprise Europe, all foreign possessions in Asia, Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, N. America, Mexico, Salvador, Brazil, Peru, Chili, Venezuela, the Argentine Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, Honduras, Bermuda, French, Netherlands, Portuguese and Spanish Colonies.\n\nCountries NOT in the Union.---The chief countries not in the Union are the Australasian Group, and S. Africa.\n\nPOSTAGE TO UNION COUNTRIES.\n\nGeneral Rate, by any route:\n\nLetters,......... 10 cents per 1 oz.\n\nPost Cards...... 2 cents each.\n\nNewspapers, ............ 2 cents each.\n\nBooks, Patterns and Commercial Papers,\n\n2 cents per 2 oz.\n\nRegistration, ............ 10 cents.\n\nThere is no charge on redirected correspondence within the Postal Union.\n\nHis austerity is extreme. The spiritual sovereign of over 200 millions of Catholics does not spend £100 a month for his table. His highly-developed nervous system alone enables him to resist the fatigues of his vast occupations and labours. Sometimes he appears dejected or exhausted. Some of good news brought by telegram gives him new life. He is always grave and solemn, always the Pope. The Italians describe his exterior by the word \"ceremonious.\" Gravity is inherent in his nature. His contemporaries recognised this when he was a boy. He never abandons himself, and is not easily provoked to laughter. He would be thought severe, were it not that he tempers the solemnity of his address with the patient attention with which he listens without interrupting those who speak to him.... Leo XIII speaks with the same slowness as the Archbishop of Paris. If the Pope and the Cardinal have not received the gifts of the orator, they are, on the other hand, writers.\n\nIt is stated that not only does his Holiness submit his letters and encyclicals to the Sacred College, but he listens to advice, and frequently after long discussion, entirely re-casts encyclicals he has prepared. As he sleeps badly, he often spends hours in the night in writing these documents. Finally, the Italian ex-Minister Bonghi, said of Leo XIII, that he was \"one of the most evenly-balanced and most vigorous of characters: one who has realised the idea of a Cardinal as traced by St. Bernard.\"\n\nThere was hanged at Steinamanger, in Hungary, a peasant woman from Szordabely, named Lyukas Kathi, the perpetrator of a series of crimes which had excited universal horror. The criminal was fifty-two years of age, short in stature, and of a placid aspect. She compounded arsenic in cakes which she disposed of at a high price to persons who desired to get rid of their relatives. Lyukas killed two husbands of her own, and she was accused of twenty-six other murders, six of which she confessed to.\n\nPOSTAGE TO NON-UNION COUNTRIES.\n\nAustralia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Fiji, via Torres Straits, Letters, 10; Registration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 2: Via Suez, Letters, 25; Registration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 2.\n\nNatal, the Cape, St. Helena, Ascension, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Letters, 25; Registration, 10; Books & Patterns, 5.\n\nLOCAL POSTAGE.\n\nLetters, per 1/2 oz., 2 cents.\n\nRegistration, 10 cents.\n\nPost Cards, 2 cents.\n\nBooks, 2 cents per 2 oz.\n\nNewspapers, 1 cent each.\n\nGeneral Local Rates?\n\nChina, Tonquin, & Japan, Siam & Cochin China (d), Overland General Route, and the Philippines (d) Via Singapore, 10 cents.\n\n(e)\n\nBetween Canton, and\n\nSILVER QUOTATIONS.\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank--New Issue--160 per cent premium.\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank--New Issue--148 per cent premium, sellers.\n\nUnion Insurance Society of Canton--\n\n$1,850 per share, buyers.\n\nChina Traders' Insurance Company--\n\n$1,650 per share.\n\nNorth China Insurance Co.--Tls. 1,225 per share.\n\nCanton Insurance Company, Limited,--\n\n$136 per share, sellers.\n\nYangtze Insurance Association--Tls. 870 per share.\n\nChinese Insurance Company-- $215 per share.\n\nOn Tui Insurance Company, Limited,--\n\nTls. 148 per share.\n\nHongkong Fire Insurance Company--\n\n$1,160 per share.\n\nChina Fire Insurance Company--\n\n$9223 per share, sellers.\n\nHongkong and Whampoa Dock Company--30 per cent premium.\n\nHongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-ship Company---$33 per share, premium.\n\nHongkong Gas Company--$82 per share.\n\nHongkong Hotel Company--130 per share.\n\nIndo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited,--10 per cent discount.\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company, Limited--$207 per share.\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company--(Debentures)--3 per cent premium.\n\nLuzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited--$108 per share.\n\nHongkong Ice Company --$170 per share.\n\nHongkong and China Bakery Company, Limited,--$60 per share.\n\nChinese Imperial Loan of 1879--2 per cent premium.\n\nChinese Imperial Loan of 1881--24 per cent premium.\n\nOn London.--\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nBank Bills, on demand,.......8/73\n\nBank Bills, at 30 d/s, 8/7\n\nCredits, at 4 m/s.\n\n3/7\n\nDocumentary Bills, at 4 m/s, 3/U\n\nOn Paris--Bank Bills, demand, 4.54\n\nCredits, at 4 m/s 4.62\n\nOn Bombay--Bank, 3 dis.....\n\n.222\n\nOn Calcutta--Bank, 3 dis.......2223\n\nOn Shanghai--Bank, sight,\n\n72\n\nPrivate, 50 dis\n\n73\n\nFlour\n\nHalf day\n\nDay\n\nQuarterly fallen\n\nDirection of Wind...\n\nWet Thermometer 64o\n\nTHERMOMETER, do\n\nBAROMETER,\n\nPrevious day\n\nat 1 p.m.\n\nOn date\n\nat 10 a.m.\n\nPrevious day\n\nat 1.\n\nOn date\n\n10 p.m.\n\nPrevious day\n\nN\n\nat 10 ..\n\nPrevious day\n\n4.ro.\n\nOn date\n\n10 1,\n\nHongkong, Saturday, February 24, 1883.\n\nCHURCH NOTICES.\n\nHOURS OF DIVINE SERVICE ON SUNDAYS AND FEASTS OF OBLIGATION.\n\nCATHEDRAL, WELLINGTON STREET.\n\nHigh Mass with Sermon in Portuguese at 8 a.m. throughout the year.\n\nFirst Mass..........at 6\n\nSecond Mass.......at 7\n\nHigh Mass..........at 9 a.m.\n\nLast Mass..........at 5½ p.m.\n\nBENEDICTION OF THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT.\n\nNovember 1st to February 28th...... 5 p.m.\n\nMarch, April, September, & October 5½ p.m.\n\nMay 1st to August 31st... 6 p.m.\n\nOne hour before the Benediction there is Instruction in Christian Doctrine in Portuguese.\n\n3 p.m.\n\n4 p.m.\n\nST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WANCHAI.\n\nFirst Mass, Sermon in Chinese.........6 a.m.\n\nSecond Mass, Sermon in Portuguese, 7 a.m.\n\nCatechism for Chinese\n\nCatechism for Portuguese.\n\nBenediction of the M. H. Sacrament à jun.\n\nST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, GARDEN ROAD.\n\nMass with Sermon in English ............\n\nBENEDICTION OF THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT.\n\nOn Sunday...7 a.m.\n\nDays of Devotion..... after Mass.\n\nCHAPEL OF THE SACRED HEART, WEST POINT.\n\nMass with Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament at 8 a.m.\n\nDAYS OF DEVOTION.\n\nPeak...$0.75 each Coolie.\n\nGap...$0.60 each Coolie.\n\nINRICKSHA.\n\nQuarter of an hour or less\n\nHalf an hour.\n\nOne Hour\n\n5 cents.\n\n10 cents.\n\n15 cents.\n\n25 cents.\n\n35 cents.\n\n50 cents.\n\nLEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, QUADRI-BEARERS, AND BOATS, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\nChairs and Ordinary Pillaway Boats.\n\nHalf hour... One hour\n\nSix hours\n\nThree hours\n\nSix hours.\n\nOne day (12 hours)\n\nTO VICTORIA PEAK.\n\nSingle Trip.\n\nFour Coolies\n\n$1.00\n\nThree Coolies\n\n$0.85\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$0.70\n\nReturn (direct or by Pok-fu-lam).\n\nFour Coolies\n\n$1.50\n\nThree Coolies\n\n$1.20\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$1.00\n\nNov. 1st to April 30th\n\nMay 1st to Oct. 31st\n\nFour Coolies\n\nThree Coolies\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$0.60\n\n$0.50\n\n$0.40\n\nReturn (direct or by Pok-fu-lam).\n\nFour Coolies........... $1.00\n\nThree Coolies........ $0.85\n\nTwo Coolies.......... $0.70\n\nTO VICTORIA GAP (TO LEVEL OF UMBRELLA SEAT).\n\nSingle Trip.\n\nTwo Coolies.... 30 cents.\n\nThe Return Fare embraces a trip of not more than three hours.\n\nFor every hour or part of an hour above three hours, each Coolie will be entitled to an additional payment of 5 cents.\n\nBOAT AND COOLIE HIRE.\n\n1st Class Cargo Boat of 600 or 800 piculs, per Day.... $3.00\n\n1st Class Cargo Boat of 800 or 400 piculs, per Load,........... 2nd Class Cargo Boat of 600 piculs, per Day $2.50\n\n2nd Class Cargo Boat of 800 piculs, per Load ................ 3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, per Day... $1.50\n\n3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, per Load.. $1.00\n\n3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, Half Day... $0.50\n\nSAMPAN or Pullaway Boats, per Day.....$1.00\n\nOne Hour... 20 cents.\n\nHalf-an-Hour 10 cents.\n\nSTANDT COOLIES.\n\nScale of Hire for Street Coolies.\n\nOne Day, ..........50 cents.\n\nHalf Day,....... 20 cents.\n\nThree Hours......... 12 cents.\n\nOne Hour............ 5 cents.\n\nHalf Hour......... 3 cents.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAN EXCELLENT TUTOR of the MANDARIN DIALECT is desirous of giving lessons to a few scholars. Speaks only the Mandarin Dialect.\n\nAddress E. Office of this Paper.\n\nHongkong, 18th February, 1883.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLESSONS given in English, also French (fluency required in French), by Mrs. J. M. Kuntion, Victoria School, Hongkong, 15th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTREATISE on PURGATORY. By St. Catherine of Genoa. With Preface by His Eminence Cardinal Manning. Cloth, gilt lettered.\n\nREMEMBRANCE for the Living to Obtain the Release of Souls from Purgatory. By Munford, J. With an Appendix on the Heroic Act, by Father John Morris, S.J. 3rd Edition.\n\nTHE Heroic Act of Charity. By Father Tom Morris, S.J.\n\nMONTH of the Souls in Purgatory 3rd Edition.\n\nROSARY for the Dead. Black on Steel, or mounted in silver.\n\nFLOWERS of November; or, Month of the Most Holy Church.\n\nApply at the Offices of this Paper.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nFRANCE.\n\nCONTINENTAL & COLONIAL AGENCY (Licensed).\n\n14, RUE DU CHABROL, PARIS.\n\nTransacts every description of Commission Mercantile and General Business.\n\nAgents for manufacturers on most favorable terms.\n\nCONDITIONS.-- Two-and-a-half per cent Commission when Banker's Draft on London or Paris comprise Order. Same terms to regular correspondents. All Trade and Cash Discounts conceded to Purchasers. Original invoice sent when requested.\n\nFree storage taken charge of and routine and best advice given on Consignments.\n\nThe Agency Represents, Buys, and Sells for Firms.\n\nPublic Securities, Estates and Properties, bought and sold. Loans, Mortgages, Mines, and Investments, etc., negotiated.\n\nManufacturers and Producers can have saleable articles introduced to the markets on advantageous Conditions.\n\nPRICE LIST--Comprehensive and reliable--on application.\n\nBANKERS--Paris: George Water, Esq., R., Houdevant des Italiens, London: The London and County Bank, 3, Victoria Street, Westminster.\n\nDirectors.--The Manager, Continental and Colonial Agency, 14, Rue du Chabrol, Paris, France.\n\nGUEDES & Co. PRINTERS, STATIONERS, AND PRINT BOOKBINDERS.\n\nD'AQUILAR STREET.\n\nEVERY KIND OF WORK EXECUTED WITH ACCURACY, NEATNESS, & DESPATCH.\n\nVERY MODERATE TERMS.\n\nSELECTED MATERIALS FOR MARKET REPORTS.\n\nBook-binding and Printing in every style executed at low rates.\n\nWorkmanship guaranteed.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nJ. M. GUEDES.\n\nHOUSE AND LAND BROKER.\n\nAUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nNo. 39, WELLINGTON STREET, HONGKONG.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nF. D. GUEDES.\n\nWINE MERCHANT AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nNo. 5, 'AGULAN STREET.\n\nHAS always on hand a large assortment of CHOICE WINES of the best quality, at Moderate Prices.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nNOTICE. -\n\nTHE Establishments of GENERAL PRINTER AND BOOKBINDERS hitherto conducted by the undersigned will henceforth be carried on under the style or firm of GUEDES & Co.\n\nMr. F. D. Guedes being the only partner in the firm.\n\nDE SOUZA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nA KWONG,\n\nDEALERS IN FURNITURE, PLATED, GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE, &c. &c. &c.,\n\nAT MORRRA VALLES.\n\nNo. 41, Wellington Street, HONGKONG.\n\nA-TACK\n\nFURNITURE STORE, No. 49, Queen's Road, HONGKONG.\n\nAgents in Manila: Messrs. A. S. WATSON & Co.\n\nE. CASSUMBHOY,\n\nFURNITURE WAREHOUSE, No. 9, 11, 12, 13, and 14, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE.\n\nHas always on hand every description of English and Colonial made FURNITURE FOR SALE ON\n\nALSO\n\nCHINESE AND JAPANESE CURIOS.\n\nTO BE LET,\n\nTO LET.\n\nRooms 8, 16,\n\nN 26.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTWO HOUSES in Belvedere Terrace, ANCIENT HISTORY, OKAMEER'S.\n\nHigh Street.\n\nApply to\n\nGUEDES & Co,\n\nON THE PREMISES.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nTO LET.\n\nGRANITE GODOWN, Blue Buildings, Praya East.\n\nApply to\n\nJ. M. GUEDES.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nTO LET.\n\nTT House No. 39. Wigton St (opposite the Roman Catholic Church), containing Four Rooms, Out Houses, &c.\n\nApply to\n\nGUEDES & Co.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nfor the use of Ladies and Gentleman.\n\nPrice, 50 cents.\n\nHongkong, 18 January, 1883.\n\nGUEDES & Co,\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDOUBLE-BARREL FOWLING-PIECE (muzzle-loading).\n\nPatent escap Action, Twist Barrels, side-antium Locks; in leather case with Shot Pouch and Powder Flask.\n\nPrice, $1.\n\nApply at the Office of this Paper.\n\nTongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTABLE showing the mean time of sunrise and sunset calculated for the Latitude of Hongkong or any other Latitude if required.\n\nPrice--20 Cents.\n\nA Rising and Settings of the sun and\n\nQUEDES & Co.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nBOOKKEEPING, ART OF, MARTIN'S.\n\nCHAMBER'S HISTORICAL and MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.\n\nASTRONOMY,\n\nF\n\nR WILSON'S CATECHTENS OF\n\nBiography, Botany,\n\nCotton Things,\n\nEnglish Grammar,\n\nGeography,\n\nHistory'\n\nMusic,\n\nNatural Philosophy\n\nINQUIRE WITHIN SPON EVERYTHING,\n\nUN FOR LEISURE HOURS.\n\nGEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY,\n\nHISTORY OF ENGLAND.\n\nINTRODUCTION TO TUL SCIENCES.\n\nJOHNSON'S DICTIONARY.\n\nKNOWLEDGE, CIRCLE OF.\n\nLAWS OF LAWN TENNIS,\n\nM'\n\nEDIEVAL HISTORY, CHAMBER'S.\n\nNATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHAMBER'S\n\nOUTLINES oF HISTORY,\n\nIOUS BIOGRAPHER.\n\nQUESTIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY\n\nRUDIMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE.\n\nSPELLING Boo£8.\n\nTHE FINDING OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.\n\nTH\n\n†NIVERSAL HISTORY.\n\nIGYRA'S DICTIONARY,\n\nTONDERS OF THE WORLD,\n\nTHE MERCANTILE DIRECTORY OF the Continental, Foreign and British Ports--Price $25.\n\nGUEDES & Co.\n\nTHE WORLD, in 3 vol. comprising\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR for 1883, neatly printed on Card.\n\nPrice--20 Cents.\n\nGUEDES & Ca,\n\nBourd\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDATE BLOCKS FOR 1883.\n\nPrice-70 Cents.\n\nGURDES & Co.\n\nFOR SALE, TABLE for Ascertaining any day of the\n\nWeek for any given within the present Century,\n\nOURDES & Co.\n\nIN THE PRESS.\n\nGUIDE TO HONGKONG AND THE FAR EAST, principally intended for the use of Visitors, but having also special Features of Interest to Residents.\n\nCONTENTS:\n\nHistorical Sketch of Hongkong.\n\nPlaces of Interest in and around Victoria.\n\nKowloon and Hongkong Harbour.\n\nSettlements and Villages on the Island.\n\nA Visit to the Native shops.\n\nStreet Scenes and Sounds.\n\nSome Chinese Customs and Superstitions.\n\nMono and Cat.\n\nAnglo-Chinese Parois & the Cantonese Dialect.\n\nThe Fauna of Hongkong (compiled for the first time).\n\nThe Flora\n\nThe Geology.\n\nThe Chinese Calendar, Weights and Measures.\n\nChair and Boat Tariff, English-Chinese List of places of interest and the principal firms.\n\nGeneral Index, etc., with two Maps.\n\nW. BREWER, Bookseller, &c.\n\nHongkong 1st February, 1883.\n\nXAVIER, ST. FRANCIS, LIFE OF\n\n\"YOUNG DEAN'S COMPANION.\n\n'GOLOGY, RUDIMENTS OP.\n\nApply to\n\nFRANCIS FRANCO,\n\nGarden Lodge.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSecond-hand Boats.\n\nMOLENSO'S ENLARGED ARITHMETIC,\n\nCHINESE GRAMMAR.\n\nFITY FAMOUS MEN.\n\nFIFTY FAMOUS WOMEN.\n\nTEMPERANCE ANECDOTES,\n\nENFIELD'S SPEAKER,\n\nJan Toverse'S GUIDE.\n\nCHAMBER'S INFORMATION,\n\nCOMMERCIAL LETTER WRITER,\n\nWHO WERE THE FIRST WEAVERS,\n\nWHO WAS THE FIRST PAPERMAKER.\n\nTHE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CRICKET,\n\nWALTERS' WORLD,\n\nMUSEUM OF MIRTH.\n\nCOMMERCIAL GUIDE,\n\nMATTER AND MOTION,\n\nFIRST AID IN ACCIDENTS,\n\nTHE FLINT, BY ALBERT SMITH,\n\nTHE EVENING PARTIES, BY Do.\n\nWHO WERE THE FIRST BUILDERS,\n\nHOW TO PLAY BILLIARDS AND POOLS.\n\nCOLENSO'S ELEMINARY ARITHMETIC.\n\nSKILLING\n\nCHAMBER'S MODERN HISTORY.\n\nAlgebra and Key.\n\nPLANK GEOMETRY and Key.\n\nHALLECK'S POETICAL WORKS.\n\nELECTRICITY, BY DR. FERGUZON,\n\nCASBELL'S TECHNICAL EDUCATOR.\n\nDICTIONARY OF THE ART OF PRINTING,\n\nHISTORICAL ATLAS, by EDWARD QUIN, M.A.\n\nGUIDE of CONVERSATION in 313 languages.\n\nApply to\n\nFRANCIS FRANCO,\n\nGarden Lodge, Hongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nPage 503\n\n4\n\n[Content continues]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329708, "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": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "# TONQUIN\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### Colonial Office\n#### No. 1\n\n[Thursday, January 15]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n### C. O. 143 RECR REGO 27 JAN\n\n**(No. 31.) My Lord,**\n\nViscount Lyons to Earl Granville.-(Received January 15.)\n\nParis, January 14, 1885.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship, extracted from the \"Journal Officiel\" of this day, a telegram received by the Minister of Marine and Colonies from the Governor of Cochin China, which states that the news from Cambodia is excellent, that Phnum-Penh and its neighbourhood are tranquil, and that the symptoms of agitation have almost everywhere disappeared.\n\nI inclose also an account, taken from the unofficial newspaper the \"Temps,\" of an attack made upon a post of Annamite troops in the French service, at Sambor, a place on the River Meikong. It is, no doubt, this affair which has occasioned the dispatch of the telegram by the Governor of Cochin China.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **LYONS**\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"Journal Officiel\" of January 14, 1885.\n\nLE Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies a reçu du Gouverneur de la Cochinchine le télégramme suivant :-\n\nSaigon, le 13 Janvier, 1885.\n\n'Depuis deux jours, les nouvelles du Cambodge sont excellentes, Phnum-Penh et ses environs tranquilles. Aucune bande n'est signalée dans l'intérieur du royaume, les symptômes d'agitation ont disparu presque partout.\"\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"Temps\" of January 14, 1885.\n\nCHINE ET INDO-CHINE,--ATTAQUE D'UN POSTE FRANÇAIS AU CAMBODGE.-C'est à Sambor, sur le grand fleuve, près de la frontière du Laos Siamois qu'ont éclaté les désordres que nous avons annoncés hier en dernière heure. Sambor est un marché très important, chef-lieu d'un des arrondissements de la Province de Kratié, à 50 lieues à vol d'oiseau dans le nord-est de Phnum-Penh, la capitale du royaume. Nous avions en ce point un poste de vingt-cinq tirailleurs Annamites, et l'on rapporte que l'officier qui le commandait et quelques hommes ont été tués après une vigoureuse résistance.\n\nOn peut se demander à quelles causes générales il faut attribuer ce mouvement à la frontière Siamoise. Il en est une toute locale. Sambor est à la limite de la navigation et le fleuve dans ces parages était jusqu'en ces derniers temps infesté de pirates qui trouvaient souvent parmi les Mandarins Cambodgiens des protecteurs intéressés.\n\nLes barques n'osaient plus s'aventurer sur le Mékong et le commerce avec le Laos menaçait de disparaître, faute de sécurité, quand le Conseil Colonial de la Cochinchine décida la création d'un service par steamer afin de desservir les escales Cambodgiennes. La piraterie a reçu ainsi un coup mortel: les populations paisibles se sont remises à la culture; les richesses du Laos descendirent aux entrepôts de Saigon sans payer leur tribut aux pirates et aux Mandarins. Mais cela faisait encore moins les affaires des pirates que celles des Mandarins, et cette révolution économique a dû contribuer à grouper autour de Siwotha, le frère du Roi, le promoteur de tous les mouvements contre l'autorité de Norodom, une grande partie des écumeurs de ...\n\nPage 197\nPage 29\n[811] B-1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329803, "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": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "## N° 3482\n\n8\n\nna capitale, et il aurait certainement renversé Norodom sans les défaites que lui infligèrent, en décembre 1866 et en janvier 1867, nos troupes de Cochinchine, sous les ordres du colonel Reboul et des commandants Alleyron et Domange.\n\nJusqu'à la capture et à la mort de Pucombo, survenue au mois de novembre 1867, nos troupes ne cessèrent de tenir la campagne.\n\nLe concours de nos soldats et l'autorité grandissante de la France en Cochinchine, affirmée par un traité conclu avec Siam et par l'occupation, sans coup férir, au cours de cette même année 1867, des provinces occidentales du Delta du Mékong demeurées sous la domination annamite, procurèrent au roi Norodom une sécurité qu'il n'avait pas connue et une indépendance effective dont il n'avait pas encore joui.\n\nIl en profita pour exercer sur le Cambodge un despotisme sans frein et sans contrôle, dont les effets furent tels, au bout de quelques années, que son frère, le prince Votha, n'eut, pour ainsi dire, qu'à paraître, en 1876, pour être accueilli comme un libérateur par les provinces orientales. Nous dûmes encore intervenir. Nos canonnières remontèrent le fleuve pour prêter leur appui aux mandarins royaux qui tenaient la campagne contre les rebelles. Ce furent encore nos troupes de Cochinchine qui, en février 1877, mirent les rebelles en déroute dans la province de Baphnom, devenue le principal foyer de la rébellion.\n\nLe prince Votha forcé de se réfugier au Laos n'a cependant pas cessé de menacer la tranquillité du Cambodge; ses partisans y font de temps en temps des incursions, et c'est une de ses bandes qui attaquait naguère notre poste de Sambor.\n\nLes faits donc justifient amplement l'appréciation émise aux premières pages de son beau livre sur le royaume de Cambodge par M. Moura, notre ancien résident à Phnom Penh, l'homme de France qui connaît le mieux le Cambodge, à savoir que « sans l'intervention politique de la France dans ces contrées, cet intéressant petit Etat n'existerait plus à cette heure. »\n\nQu'a fait le roi Norodom en reconnaissance de cet appui? Qu'avons-nous obtenu de lui tant au point de vue des intérêts français que de notre action civilisatrice en Indo-Chine?\n\nIl convient, pour répondre nettement à ces questions, de résumer d'abord quelques notions précises sur le royaume protégé, sur sa population, ses ressources, son état social et son Gouvernement.\n\nLa superficie actuelle du Cambodge est à peu près le cinquième de celle de la France. Le pays s'étend sur les deux rives du grand fleuve Mékong, au nord de notre colonie de Cochinchine. Il touche à la mer dans le golfe de Siam et confine à l'est aux montagnes et aux forêts désertes de l'Annam. Le Cambodge est borné au nord par le royaume de Siam et des principautés laotiennes plus ou moins vassales de Bangkok. La ligne de démarcation entre Siam et le Cambodge a été arrêtée par la Convention conclue à Bangkok en 1867 entre le Gouvernement français et le Gouvernement siamois.\n\nNous en reproduisons le texte aux annexes.\n\nCe traité laissait au royaume de Siam les provinces cambodgiennes de Battambang et d'Angkor annexées de fait depuis de longues années. Le royaume de Siam renonçait par compensation à toute prétention à la suzeraineté sur le Cambodge, et il reconnaissait notre protectorat sur cet Etat. Le Gouvernement français s'engageait, de son côté, à ne pas incorporer le Cambodge à ses possessions de Cochinchine. Cet acte diplomatique est encore à présent en vigueur.\n\nLa grande artère de l'Indo-Chine orientale, le fleuve Mékong est malheureusement barré à la sortie du Laos par les cataractes de Khong, puis à l'entrée du Cambodge par les rapides de Sambor qui interrompent la navigation.\n\nDe Sambor jusqu'à la mer, sur un parcours de près de cinq cents kilomètres, le Mékong, accessible aux gros bateaux, roule un volume d'eau prodigieux. Sa largeur, entre Sambor et la mer... \n\n## Page 3 \n## Page 124", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329819, "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": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "# \n40\n\nEn Indo-Chine, prie instamment le Gouvernement de la République de demander au Parlement l'approbation pleine et entière de toutes les clauses de cette Convention, et prie également M. le Gouverneur de la Cochinchine de transmettre la présente adresse, par la voie télégraphique, à M. le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies et à M. le Président de la Chambre des Députés.\n\nOnt signé : Blanchy, Garcerie, James, Rivière, Carabelli, Guérin, Jourdan, Schroeder, Jouyet, Reynaud, Sanh, Tanh, Duong, Tuong.\n\nVotre commission recevait encore, à la date du 17 décembre 1884, communication de deux dépêches télégraphiques à M. le Président de la Chambre des Députés, adressées, l'une par M. le maire de Saigon, au nom du Conseil municipal de cette ville, l'autre par la Chambre de Commerce de Saigon, exprimant le vœu de la ratification intégrale du traité de Phnom-Penh.\n\nCes manifestations du sentiment des représentants autorisés de nos concitoyens français et de nos sujets annamites de Cochinchine ne pouvaient que confirmer votre commission dans la conviction, résultant pour elle d'une étude attentive de l'histoire de notre protectorat au Cambodge, que l'accomplissement des réformes stipulées dans l'acte du 17 juin 1884 serait aussi profitable aux intérêts coloniaux de la métropole que fécond en conséquences heureuses pour l'amélioration du sort du peuple cambodgien.\n\nLes incidents qui se sont produits dans le royaume protégé depuis la signature du traité de Phnom-Penh prouvent d'ailleurs surabondamment la vanité des appréhensions que les adversaires de notre action civilisatrice en Indo-Chine s'étaient efforcés d'entretenir.\n\nDès la fin de juin, le Second Roi, les princes de la famille royale, en grande majorité, les principaux mandarins et les chefs des corporations chinoises et malaises de Phnom Penh, avaient donné à M. le Gouverneur de la Cochinchine l'assurance de leurs concours.\n\nAu mois d'octobre, M. le gouverneur Thomson, de retour au Cambodge, a délibéré et arrêté, de concert avec le Conseil des ministres du royaume, des décisions préparatoires des réformes, notamment en ce qui concerne l'abolition de l'esclavage et la constitution de la propriété, qui ont été sanctionnées par Norodom et revêtues du sceau royal. La municipalité de Phnom Penh a été instituée. Le Second Roi, les princes, les ministres et les principaux fonctionnaires cambodgiens assistaient à la cérémonie de l'installation. Dans les diverses provinces du royaume que M. le Gouverneur de la Cochinchine, représentant supérieur du Protectorat, a visitées, les mandarins et les notables indigènes ont témoigné de leur confiance et de leur soumission.\n\nEn dépit d'intrigues diverses, de faux bruits répandus et de l'annonce à Phnom-Penh que le traité ne serait pas ratifié, l'ordre n'a pas été un seul instant troublé jusqu'aux derniers jours de décembre, quoique l'effectif de nos forces militaires au Cambodge n'atteignît pas quatre cents hommes, tirailleurs annamites en majorité.\n\nDans les derniers jours de l'année écoulée, le rebelle impénitent Si-Votha, frère de Norodom, croyant l'occasion propice, est sorti de son refuge dans les provinces siamoises limitrophes du nord du Cambodge, pour tenter une incursion dans le royaume. Malgré la surprise du poste de Sambor, à la limite de la navigation à vapeur sur le Mékong, où l'officier français commandant le détachement de tirailleurs annamites a été tué, aucun mouvement insurrectionnel ne s'est produit parmi la population cambodgienne, et les bandes de Si-Votha, pourchassées quelques jours plus tard par la petite troupe du lieutenant-colonel Miramond, ont été battues, refoulées et dispersées vers les frontières du Laos.\n\nCette fois encore la France a rempli, comme elle l'a fait depuis plus de vingt ans au Cambodge, son devoir de puissance protectrice; ce sont nos soldats qui ont repoussé l'opiniâtre compétiteur du roi Norodom.\n\nVotre Commission aime à penser que ce dernier service, s'ajoutant à tant d'autres du même ordre, confirmera le roi\n\n## \n41\n\nNo 3482", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338265, "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": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "content_text": "# N. 131-11 DE JUNHO DE 1888\n\nda sua residencia, de todos os privilegios e imunidades que lhes concedeu o direito das gentes; suas pessoas, familias e casas, bem como as suas correspondencias serão inviolaveis.\n\n## Artigo VII\n\nAs correspondencias officiaes enviadas pelas autoridades portuguezas às autoridades chinezas, serão escritas em portuguez e acompanhadas da tradução chineza, servindo de documento a cada nação a versão escrita na sua propria lingua.\n\n## Artigo VIII\n\nAs formulas das correspondencias officiaes entre as autoridades portuguezas e chinezas serão reguladas pelas suas categorias e posições respectivas, tendo por base a mais completa reciprocidade. Entre os altos funcionarios portugueses e os altos funcionarios chinezes na capital do Imperio ou em qualquer outro logar, estas correspondencias terão a fórma de officio ou comunicação (Chan-haci); entre os funcionarios portugueses subalternos e as primeiras autoridades das provincias, usar-se-ha para aquelles a forma de exposição (Xen-chen) e para estas a de declaração (Chah-sing); e os funcionarios subalternos de ambas as nações deverão corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade. Os negociantes, e geralmente todos os individuos não investidos de caracter official, seguirão para com as autoridades a forma de representação ou petição (Pin-cheng).\n\n## Artigo IX\n\nSua Magestade Fidelissima El-Rei de Portugal e dos Algarves poderá nomear consules geraes, consules, vice-consules ou agentes consulares nos portos e mais sitios do Imperio da China, onde seja permitido à outra nação tê-los. Estes funcionarios terão atribuições e poderes similhantes aos que tiverem os consules de outras nações, e gozarão de todas as isenções, privilegios e imunidades de que gozarem, a todo o tempo, os funcionarios consulares da nação mais favorecida.\n\nOs consules e as autoridades locaes deverão tratar-se reciprocamente com polidez e corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade.\n\nOs consules e consules interinos terão honras de Tau-tri; e os vice-consules, vice-consules interinos, agentes consulares e interpretes traductores as de prefeito. Os consules devem ser empregados do governo portuguez e não commerciantes. O governo chinez não porá objeção a que Portugal, não julgando necessario nomear um consul para qualquer dos portos, encarregue interinamente o seu consulado nesse porto a um consul de outra nação.\n\n## Artigo X\n\nTodas as imunidades e regalias, e bem assim todas as vantagens em materia de commercio e de navegação, como redução de direitos de navegação, de importação e exportação, de transito, ou quaesquer outras que tiverem sido ou para o futuro venham a ser concedidas pela China a qualquer estado ou aos seus subditos, serão immediatamente extensivas e applicadas a Portugal e aos seus subditos.\n\nSe, porém, a China fizer a qualquer estado uma concessão sujeita a condições especiaes, Portugal e os seus subditos só poderão participar da tal concessão, accedendo às condições que lhe são inherentes.\n\n## Artigo XI\n\nÉ permitido aos subditos portuguezes habitar ou frequentar os portos da China abertos ao commercio estrangeiro, e ali commerciarem ou empregarem-se livremente.\n\nAs suas embarcações poderão navegar livremente entre os portos da China abertos ao commercio estrangeiro e n'elles importar e exportar as suas mercadorias, gozando de todos os direitos e privilegios que tiverem os da nação mais favorecida.\n\n## Artigo XII\n\nOs subditos portuguezes pagarão sobre todas as mercadorias que importarem ou exportarem os direitos marcados na tarifa de 1858, adoptada para todas as outras nações; e em nenhum caso lhes serão exigidos direitos mais elevados do que os que pagarem os subditos de qualquer outra nação estrangeira.\n\n## Artigo XIII\n\nOs subditos portuguezes poderão fretar quaesquer embarcações de que careçam para o transporte de carga ou de passageiros; e o preço de taes fretamentos será determinado unicamente pelas partes contratantes sem intervenção do governo chinez. O numero das embarcações não poderá ser limitado, nem se permittirá a qualquer fazer monopolio d'ellas ou dos coolies que se empreguem em carregar mercadorias.\n\nDescobrindo-se que em alguma das embarcações se fez contrabando, os culpados serão punidos conforme a lei.\n\n## Artigo XIV\n\nOs subditos portuguezes residentes nos portos abertos poderão tomar a seu serviço subditos chinezes e empregal-os em qualquer occupação legal na China, sem nenhuma restricção nem estorvo da parte do governo chinez; mas não poderão contractal-os para o estrangeiro em contravenção das leis da China.\n\n## Artigo XV\n\nAs autoridades chinezas deverão prestar a mais inteira protecção às pessoas e propriedades dos subditos portuguezes na China, sempre que corram perigo de soffrer qualquer insulto ou prejuízo. Nos casos de roubo ou incendio, as autoridades locaes tomarão immediatamente as providencias necessarias para que a propriedade roubada seja restituida, e para que os criminosos sejam presos e punidos conforme a lei.\n\nIgual protecção darão as autoridades portuguezas aos subditos chinezes que considerarem nas possessões portuguezas.\n\n## Artigo XVI\n\nQuando nos portos abertos ao commercio ou n'outros quaesquer logares algum subdito portuguez quiser construir ou abrir casas, armazens, lojas, igrejas, hospitaes ou cemiterios, o contrato de compra, aforamento ou aluguel d'essas propriedades será feito pelo preço corrente no local, com equidade, sem extorsão por qualquer das partes, sem contrariar os usos do povo, e procedendo participação de proprietario à autoridade.\n\nFica todavia entendido que só nos portos abertos ao commercio é permitido o estabelecimento de armazens ou lojas, e não no interior da China.\n\n## Artigo XVII\n\nOs subditos portuguezes que quizerem transportar mercadorias entre os portos abertos terão de solicitar do superintendente da alfandega os competentes documentos, conforme se acha determinado nos regulamentos em vigor para as outras nacionalidades.\n\nOs subditos portuguezes que, sem levar mercadorias, quizerem ir para o interior da China, deverão munir-se de passaportes, que serão dados pelos seus consules e visados pelas autoridades locaes.\n\nO portador do passaporte deverá apresental-o nos logares por onde passar quando por elle se lhe pergunte; e estando o seu passaporte regular, ninguem poderá pôr-lhe embaraço, especialmente a que alugue embarcação e carregadores para a conducção das suas bagagens ou mercadorias. Se um viajante for encontrado sem passaporte, ou se cometer alguma offensa contra a lei, será enviado ao consul de Portugal mais proximo para que o castigue, não podendo usar-se contra elle de qualquer medida de oppressão.\n\nSão desnecessarios passaportes para pessoas que percorram as vizinhanças de qualquer dos portos abertos ao commercio dentro da distancia de 100 lis (12 leguas) e do prazo de cinco dias.\n\nAs estipulações d'este artigo não dizem respeito às equipagens dos navios, porque para estas os consules, de accordo com as autoridades locaes, terão os convenientes regulamentos.\n\n## Artigo XVIII\n\nQuando succeda que um navio mercante portuguez seja roubado por piratas ou ladrões nas aguas da China, as autoridades chinezas deverão empregar a maior diligencia para prender e castigar os ladrões e recuperar a propriedade roubada, que por meio do consul será restituida a quem pertencer.\n\n## Artigo XIX, Artigo XX\n\nSe um navio portuguez naufragar na costa da China, ou for obrigado a refugiar-se em qualquer dos portos do mesmo Imperio, as autoridades chinezas, logo que recebam noticia do facto, tomarão as providencias necessarias para o proteger e soccorrer, dispensando amigavelmente à equipagem, e prestando-lhe, se preciso for, os meios de se transportar até ao consulado portuguez mais proximo.\n\n## Artigo XXI\n\nTodo o navio mercante portuguez que tiver mais de 150 toneladas, pagará os direitos de tonelagem à razão de 4 mazes de prata por cada tonelada. Tendo 150 toneladas, ou menos, pagará à razão de 1 maz por tonelada. O superintendente da alfandega deverá passar um attestadu com declaração dos direitos de tonelagem que tiverem sido pagos.\n\n## Artigo XXII\n\nConsideram-se pagaveis os direitos de importação no acto de desembarque das mercadorias, e os de exportação no embarque das mesmas.\n\n## Artigo XXIII\n\nO capitão de um navio portuguez poderá, quando assim lhe convier, desembarcar uma parte somente da sua carga em qualquer dos portos abertos, pagando os devidos direitos das fazendas que desembarcar; não se lhe podendo pedir o pagamento dos direitos pelo resto da carga senão quando elle o desembarcar em qualquer outro porto.\n\n## Artigo XXIV\n\nSerão livres de pagamento de tonelagem todos os barcos empregados por subditos portuguezes na conducção de passageiros, bagagens, cartas, provisões, ou de qualquer outra carga livre de direitos, entre os portos abertos da China. Porém, se taes barcos conduzirem mercadorias sujeitos a direitos, pagarão tonelagem todos os quatro mezes, à razão de 1 maz por tonelada.\n\n## Artigo XXV\n\nTodo o navio mercante portuguez, ao approximar-se de qualquer dos portos abertos, terá a liberdade de tomar um pratico que o faça entrar; e igualmente o poderá tomar para sahir, quando haja satisfeito a todos os direitos que dever.\n\n## Artigo XXVI\n\nTodas as vezes que um navio mercante portuguez chegar a qualquer dos portos abertos da China, o superintendente da alfandega mandará-lhe um ou mais guardas, que poderão ficar na sua embarcação ou passar para bordo do navio, segundo melhor lhes conviér. Estes guardas receberão da alfandega a comida e todo o mais que precisarem, e não poderão aceitar propina alguma do capitão do navio ou do consignatario, sob pena proporcional à importancia do que aceitarem.\n\n## Artigo XXVII\n\nVinte e quatro horas depois da chegada de um navio mercante portuguez a qualquer dos portos abertos, os papeis do mesmo navio, o manifesto da carga e mais documentos deverão ficar entregues ao consul, o qual deverá tambem, dentro de vinte e quatro horas, communicar ao superintendente da alfandega o nome do navio, o registo das suas toneladas e qual a carga que transportou. Se por negligencia, ou qualquer outro motivo, quarenta e oito horas depois da chegada do navio, se não tiver cumprido como que fica estipulado, o capitão ficará sujeito à multa de 30 taeis por cada dia mais de demora, não excedendo porém o total da multa a 200 taeis.\n\nO capitão do navio é o responsavel pela exactidão do manifesto, o qual deverá declarar a carga minuciosamente e com toda a verdade, sob pena de multa de 500 taeis no caso em que o manifesto seja achado inexacto. Não incorrerá porém na pena quando, no espaço de vinte e quatro horas depois da entrega do manifesto aos empregados da alfandega, queira corrigir algum erro que possa ter descoberto no mesmo manifesto.\n\n## Artigo XXVIII\n\nO superintendente da alfandega permitirá que o navio descarregue, logo que tenha recebido do consul a nota feita nos devidos termos. Se o capitão do navio começar a descarregar sem permissão, será multado em 500 taeis, e os objectos que tiverem sido descarregados serão confiscados.\n\n## Artigo XXIX\n\nTodo o negociante portuguez que tiver carga para embarcar ou desembarcar, deverá para isso obter uma permissão especial do superintendente da alfandega, sem o que a fazenda embarcada ou desembarcada ficará sujeita a ser confiscada.\n\n## Artigo XXX\n\nNão se poderá baldear fazenda de um navio para outro sem licença especial, sob pena de confiscação de todas as fazendas baldeadas.\n\n## Artigo XXXI\n\nQuando o navio tiver satisfeito a todos os direitos que dever, o superintendente da alfandega passar-lhe-ha um attestadu e lhe restituirá os papeis, para que possa seguir viagem.\n\n## Artigo XXXII\n\nQuando houver duvidas sobre o valor de mercadorias que, segundo a tarifa, pagam direitos ad valorem, e o negociante portuguez não puder concordar com o empregado da alfandega no valor d'essas mercadorias, cada uma das partes chamará dois ou tres negociantes para as verem; e o preço mais alto que qualquer d'elles offerecer para as comprar será julgado o justo valor d'ellas.\n\n| Artigo | Descrição |\n| --- | --- |\n| VII | Correspondencia officiaes entre autoridades portuguezas e chinezas |\n| VIII | Formulas das correspondencias officiaes |\n| IX | Nomeação de consules portuguezes na China |\n| X | Imunidades e regalias concedidas pela China a Portugal |\n| XI | Direitos dos subditos portuguezes na China |\n| XII | Direitos de importação e exportação |\n| XIII | Fretamento de embarcações por subditos portuguezes |\n| XIV | Emprego de subditos chinezes por portuguezes |\n| XV | Protecção às pessoas e propriedades dos subditos portuguezes |\n| XVI | Construção e aluguel de propriedades por subditos portuguezes |\n| XVII | Passaportes para subditos portuguezes |\n| XVIII | Roubo de navios portuguezes por piratas |\n| XIX | Soccorro a navios portuguezes naufragos |\n| XX | Direitos de tonelagem |\n| XXI | Pagamento de direitos de importação e exportação |\n| XXII | Desembarque parcial de carga |\n| XXIII | não existe, foi XXII |\n| XXIV | Isenção de tonelagem para certos barcos |\n| XXV | Tomada de pratico por navios portuguezes |\n| XXVI | Fiscalização de navios portuguezes pela alfandega chinez |\n| XXVII | Entrega de documentos ao consul e multa por demora |\n| XXVIII | Descarregamento de navios |\n| XXIX | Permissão para embarque e desembarque de carga |\n| XXX | Prohibição de baldear fazenda sem licença |\n| XXXI | Restituição de papeis ao navio após pagamento de direitos |\n| XXXII | Determinação do valor de mercadorias para direitos ad valorem |\n\n## Article VII\n\nThe official correspondence addressed by Portuguese authorities to the Chinese authorities shall be written in the Portuguese language accompanied by a translation in Chinese, and each nation shall regard as authoritative the document written in its own language.\n\n## Article VIII\n\nThe form of correspondence between the Portuguese and the Chinese authorities will be regulated by their respective rank and position based upon complete reciprocity. Between the high Portuguese and Chinese functionaries at the capital or elsewhere, such correspondence will take the form of despatch; between the subordinate functionaries of Portugal and the chief authorities of the Provinces, the former shall make use of the form of exposition (Xen-chen) and the latter that of declaration (Chah-sing); and the subordinate officers of both nations shall correspond together on terms of perfect equality. Merchants and generally all others who are not invested with official character shall adopt in addressing the authorities the form of representation or petition (Pin-cheng).\n\n## Article IX\n\nHis Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and Algarves may appoint Consuls General, Consuls, Vice Consuls, or Consular-Agents in the ports or other places where it is allowed to other nations to have them. These functionaries will have powers and attributes similar to those of the Consuls of other nations and will enjoy all the exemptions, privileges and immunities which at any time the consular functionaries of the most favoured nation may enjoy.\n\nThe Consuls and the local authorities will show to each other reciprocal civilities and correspond with each other on terms of perfect equality.\n\nThe Consuls and Acting Consuls will rank with Tau-tais; Vice Consuls, Acting Vice Consuls, Consular-Agents, and Interpreter-translators, with Prefects. The Consuls must be officials of the Portuguese Government and not merchants. The Chinese Government will make no objection in case the Portuguese Government should deem it unnecessary to appoint an official Consul at any port and choose to entrust a Consul of some other nation, for the time being, with the duties of Portuguese Consul at that port.\n\n## Article X\n\nAll the immunities and privileges, as well as all the advantages concerning commerce and navigation such as any reduction in the duties of navigation, importation, exportation, transit or any other, which may have been or may be hereafter granted by China to any other state or to its subjects will be immediately extended to Portugal and its subjects.\n\nIf any concession is granted by the Chinese Government to any foreign Government under special condition, Portugal, on claiming the same concession for herself and for her own subjects will equally assent to the conditions attached to it.\n\n## Article XI\n\nPortuguese subjects are allowed to reside at, or frequent, the ports of China opened to foreign commerce, and there carry on trade or employ themselves freely.\n\nTheir boats may navigate without hindrance between the ports open to foreign commerce and they may import and export their merchandise enjoying all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the subjects of the most favoured nation.\n\n## Article XII\n\nPortuguese subjects shall pay import and export duties on all merchandise according to the rates specified in the tariff of 1858 adopted for all the other nations; and in no instance shall higher duties be exacted from them than those paid by the subjects of any other foreign nation.\n\n## Article XIII\n\nPortuguese subjects are permitted to hire any description of boats they may require for the conveyance of cargo or passengers, and the price of said hire will be fixed by the contracting parties alone without interference of the Chinese Government. No limit shall be put to the number of boats, neither will it be permitted to any one to establish a monopoly of such boats, or of the services of coolies employed in the carriage of merchandise.\n\nShould contraband articles be on board any such boats, the guilty parties shall immediately be punished according to law.\n\n## Article XIV\n\nPortuguese subjects residing in the open ports may take into their service Chinese subjects and employ them in any lawful capacity in China without restraint or hindrance from the Chinese Government, but shall not engage them for foreign countries in contravention of the laws of China.\n\n## Article XV\n\nThe Chinese authorities are bound to grant the fullest protection to the persons and to the property of Portuguese subjects in China, whenever they may be exposed to insult or wrong. In case of robbery or incendiarism, the local authorities will immediately take the necessary measures to recover the stolen property, to seize the guilty, and punish them according to the law.\n\nSimilar protection will be given by Portuguese authorities to Chinese subjects in the possessions of Portugal.\n\n## Article XVI\n\nWhenever a Portuguese subject intends to build or open houses, shops or warehouses, churches, hospitals, or cemeteries, at the Treaty ports or at other places, the purchase, rent, or lease of these properties shall be made out according to the current terms of the place with equity, without exaction on either side, without offending against the usage of the people, and after due notice given by the proprietors to the local authority.\n\nIt is understood, however, that the shops or warehouses above mentioned shall only be allowed at the ports open to trade but not at any place in the interior.\n\n## Article XVII\n\nPortuguese subjects conveying merchandise between open ports shall be required to take certificates from the Superintendent of the custom house, such as are specified in the regulations in force with reference to other nationalities.\n\nBut Portuguese subjects who without carrying merchandise should like to go to the interior of China must have passports issued by their Consuls and countersigned by the local authorities.\n\nThe bearer of the passport must produce the same when demanded, and the passport not being irregular he will be allowed to proceed and no opposition shall be offered, especially to his hiring persons or vessels for the carriage of his baggage or merchandise. If he be without a passport, or if he commits any offence against the law, he shall be handed over to the nearest Consul of Portugal to be punished, but he must not be subjected to any oppressive measure.\n\nNo passport need be applied for by persons going on excursions from the ports open to trade to a distance not exceeding 100 li and for a period not exceeding five days.\n\nThe provision of this article do not apply to crews of ships, for the due restraint of whom regulations will be drawn up by the Consul and the local authorities.\n\n## Article XVIII\n\nIn the event of a Portuguese merchant vessel being plundered by pirates or thieves within Chinese waters, the Chinese authorities are to employ their utmost exertions to seize and punish the said robbers and to recover the stolen goods which through the Consul shall be restored to whom they belong.\n\n## Article XIX\n\nIf a Portuguese vessel be shipwrecked on the coast of China, or be compelled to take refuge in any of the ports of the Empire, the Chinese authorities, on receiving notice of the fact, shall provide the necessary protection, affording prompt assistance and kind treatment to the crews and if necessary, furnishing them the means to reach the nearest consulate.\n\n## Article XX\n\nPortuguese merchant vessels of more than 150 tons burden will pay tonnage dues at the rate of 4 mace per ton; if of 150 tons and under, they shall be charged at the rate of 1 mace per ton. The Superintendent of the customs shall grant a certificate declaring that the tonnage dues have been paid.\n\n## Article XXI\n\nImport duties shall be paid on the landing of goods; and export duties upon the shipment of the same.\n\n## Article XXII\n\nThe captain of a Portuguese ship may, when he deems convenient, land only a part of his cargo at one of the open ports, paying the duties due on the portion landed; the duties on the remainder not being payable until they are landed at some other port.\n\n## Article XXIV\n\nAll small vessels employed by Portuguese subjects in carrying passengers, baggage, letters, provisions or any other cargo which is free of duty between the open ports of China, shall be free from tonnage dues; but all such vessels carrying merchandise subject to duty shall pay tonnage dues every four months at the rate of 1 mace per ton.\n\n## Article XXV\n\nPortuguese merchant vessels approaching any of the open ports will be at liberty to take a pilot to reach the harbour; and likewise to take a pilot to leave it, in case the said ship shall have paid all the duties due by her.\n\n## Article XXVI\n\nWhenever a Portuguese merchant ship shall arrive at any of the open ports of China, the Superintendent of the customs will send on board one or more Customs Officers, who may stay on board of their boat or on board of the ship, as best suits their convenience. These Officers will get their food and all necessaries from the custom house, and will not be allowed to accept any fee from the Captain of the ship or from the consignee, being liable to a penalty proportionate to the amount received by them.\n\n## Article XXVII\n\nTwenty-four hours after the arrival of a Portuguese merchant ship at any of the open ports, the papers of the ship, manifest and other documents, shall be handed over to the Consul, whose duty it will be also to report to the Superintendent of the customs within twenty-four hours, the name, the registered tonnage and the cargo brought by the said vessel. If through negligence or for any other motive, this stipulation be not complied with within forty-eight hours after the arrival of the ship, the Captain shall be subject to a fine of 50 taels for each day's delay over and above that period, but the total amount of the fines shall not exceed 200 taels.\n\nThe Captain of the ship is responsible for the correctness of the manifest, in which the cargo shall be minutely and truthfully described, subject to a fine of 500 taels as a penalty in case the manifest should be found incorrect. This fine however, will not be incurred if within twenty-four hours after the delivery of the manifest to the custom house Officer, the Captain express the wish to rectify any error which may have been discovered in the said manifest.\n\n## Article XXVIII\n\nThe Superintendent of customs will permit the discharging of the ship as soon as he shall have received from the Consul the report drawn in due form. If the Captain of the ship should take upon himself to commence discharging without permission, he shall be fined 500 taels and the goods so discharged shall be confiscated.\n\n## Article XXIX\n\nPortuguese merchants having goods to ship or to land, will have to obtain a special permission from the Superintendent of customs to that effect, without which all goods shipped or landed shall be liable to confiscation.\n\n## Article XXX\n\nNo transhipment of goods is allowed from ship to ship without special permission, under penalty of confiscation of all goods so transhipped.\n\n## Article XXXI\n\nWhen a ship shall have paid all her duties, the Superintendent of customs will grant a certificate and return the papers, in order that she may proceed on her voyage.\n\n## Article XXXII\n\nWhen any doubt may arise as to the value of goods which by the tariff are liable to ad valorem duty, and the Portuguese merchant disagrees with the custom house Officer as regards the value of said goods, both parties will call two or three merchants to examine them; and the highest offer made by any of the said merchants to buy the goods will be considered as their just value.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344638, "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": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 636, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Certain steps are taken for this safe.\n\nRu 2314\n\nALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED AND MADE PAYABLE\n\nREMITTANCES\n\nTO THE MANAGER\n\n032\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, 31, Lombard Street, London, E.C. 22nd April 1890\n\nSir,\n\nAgain referring to your letter of 19th instant and my reply of yesterday's date,\n\nI am now in possession of a telegram from Hongkong saying that the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co's debentures for $125,000, proposed to be deposited with the Treasury, are in addition to the approved security for 25 lacs already deposited.\n\nThe object of placing this additional security in the hands of the Treasury is to provide for, and replace any Bonds of the Chinese Government which,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 349977, "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": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "282 \n\na \n\nfor communication to the Austro-Hungarian Chargé d'Affaires, a copy of report by the Harbour Master on the privileges granted to Mail Ships has been \n\nin this port; and to add that the local agent of the Austrian Lloyd Steam Navigation Company has been informed that, subject to a requirement of compliance with the provisions of the Emigration laws \n\nEnclosure 28th September 1892\n\nlaws when they carry Chinese emigrants, the ships belonging to that Company will be granted in future the same privileges as are at present granted to other Mail steamers. \n\n2. \n\nThe concession is limited to the privileges mentioned by the Harbour Master, and does not extend to the privileges secured by the convention.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352905, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "494\n\nthe tongkong lanton and macao Steamboat Company Limited renewed their application to the local Government for such an Amendment in the law as would give them the long desired protection. The correspondence is printed in the book herewith and it is therefore sufficient to say that this application was refuted.\n\nYour Petitioners therefore humbly pray your Lordship to assist them in their efforts to suppress Smuggling on board their Steamships by causing such amendments to be made in the Hong Kong laws as may be thought necessary and effectual and so to grant to your Petitioners that protection in their business which they submit they are justified in asking for but which is denied them by the local Government.\n\nYour Petitioners will ever pray.\n\nDated at Hongkong this 22nd day of December 1882.\n\nUr Petitioners,\n\nChairman of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, Limited.\n\nI Keswick, Director.\n\nThomas Arnold, Secretary.\n\nAgents: China Navigation Co.\n\nORDINANCE No. 22 of 1887.\n\nOpium Ordinance 1884 and 1887.\n\nNo. 22 of 1887.\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the better regulating of the trade in Opium.\n\n[27th May, 1887.]\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient to regulate and control the movement of Raw Opium within the Colony and the waters thereof: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--\n\n1. This Ordinance and the Opium Ordinance, 1884, may be cited for all purposes as the Raw Opium Ordinances, 1884 and 1887.\n\n2. Opium in this Ordinance means raw, crude, or unprepared Opium.\n\n3. No person shall bring into the Colony or the waters thereof, or receive therein Opium in quantities less than one chest, or any loose Opium.\n\n4. It shall be lawful for the Colonial Treasurer on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Governor in Council, to grant licences for the sale of Opium intended for export in quantities less than one chest, and no person except the holders of such licences shall be permitted to sell or barter within the Colony or its waters Opium in quantities less than one chest. The purchase, sale, or Barter of quantities less than one ball of Bengal Opium or three catties of Malwa, Persian, or Turkish Opium is hereby forbidden.\n\n5. It shall be the duty of holders of licences to attach to all parcels of Opium sold by them in quantities less than one chest, a certificate in the following form:--\n\nNo.\n\nSold this day to\n\nlbs. Bengal,\n\nper ship\n\nto be exported by him to\n\nDate,\n\n188.\n\ncatties Malwa or\n\nThis certificate shall not be valid after noon of the\n\nChop.\n\nSale of Opium in quantities Less than one Chest.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352922, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "511\n\n(8)\n\nupon, as he ought to be, to render a strict account at short and irregular intervals of the raw Opium he has purchased, and of the prepared Opium he has sold. He evades the Law, by allowing others, for a consideration to prepare Opium in his boiling houses. He should be forbidden to boil at Kowloon, a place which from its situation is a most suitable smuggling depôt. He habitually violates the provisions of the Ordinance, or covers the violation through others, by breaking up chests of Opium on paltry excuses. If the Opium Ordinances were strictly enforced by the Government's Officers against him, as he is allowed to enforce them against the public, there would be little cause of complaint from the Chinese Government, but the most serious defect is the provision in the Ordinance or in the understanding, that entitles him to all the prepared Opium seized and condemned.\n\nWe demand, for our necessary protection, a change in the Law in this respect; that no Opium raw or prepared, which in the opinion of the Magistrate was being moved with the purpose of being smuggled into China, shall be adjudged or restored to the Opium Farmer or his officers on any pretence. Let it be either destroyed, or given, say, to us if seized on board our vessels, to compensate for the great, and in a free port, unnecessary expense we are put to and the risks we run.\n\nIf this change in the Law be made, it will not of course take away the inducement to the Opium Farmer to smuggle, or connive at smuggling, but it will certainly render it less safe, and less profitable to him and others.\n\nWe again ask that the very serious consideration of the Government be given to this complaint for the annoyances and risks that are forced on us, by our own action, have become intolerable. On the one hand the Colonial Government by its enactments causes us to be amenable to pains and penalties for offences against its Laws, in the infraction of which we are unwilling parties, and further tie our hands, by restoring to those really guilty, the impounded Opium. The result being, an encouragement is given to the smugglers to renew their attempts against your Laws.\n\nOn the other hand, the Chinese Authorities insist upon holding the ship and owners responsible for all breaches of their regulations. Thus, between the two Governments, at each end of the steamers' route, we are compelled to suffer innocently from no fault of our own.\n\nWe send a copy of this letter and of the papers submitted herewith to the Commissioner of Customs at Kowloon, Mr. MORGAN, for the information of the Chinese Government.\n\nWe are also addressing the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies direct on the subject.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servants,\n\nTHOS. ARNOLD,\n\nSecretary of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Co., Limited.\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,\n\nAgents of the China Navigation Company, Limited.\n\nThe Honourable THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nNo. 2,452.\n\nSIR.\n\n(9)\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 30th September, 1889.\n\nI am directed by the Governor to inform you that the joint letter signed by yourself and Messrs. BUTTERFIELD AND SWIRE, dated the 24th instant, with its enclosures, regarding certain actions of the Opium Farmer, was to-day duly laid before His Excellency.\n\nI am to state that your representations appear to establish a case for redress, and that the exceedingly difficult question as to the mode in which this can be afforded, is receiving His Excellency's careful attention.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nT. ARNOLD, Esq.,\n\nSecretary,\n\nHongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited,\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nF. H. MAY, Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary.\n\nOFFICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nSIR,\n\nHONGKONG, 2nd October, 1889.\n\nAs further illustrating the evils complained of in my letter of the 24th ult., I beg to bring to the notice of His Excellency the Governor an incident which occurred last evening.\n\nAt 8.30 P.M. the Company's chief Preventive Officer, Mr. J. H. LOGAN, observed a licensed sampan (No. 2,814) alongside the steamer Honam. A man in the sampan, who was identified as a fireman recently discharged from the Company's service for being concerned in smuggling, was about to pass a package on board the steamer to some member of the crew. When the occupants of the sampan observed our preventive officer they at once pulled away from the steamer to the Praya Wall, a few yards distant.\n\nIn the meantime Mr. LOGAN had sent for European Police Constable No. 72 who took the Opium (14 Tins) found in the sampan and the man who had it in charge to the Police Station. On the way to the Station, the party was joined by an Excise Officer who stated that he had been sent by the Opium Farmer to look after the drug.\n\nAt the Station the Acting Inspector was unable to take any charge as the Opium was covered by a permit from the Farmer in favour of the Min Yuen licensed Opium shop. The tins were therefore restored to the would-be smuggler, who will doubtless, encouraged by success, continue his efforts to pass them on board one or other of our steamers until he manages to elude the vigilance of the Company's Officers.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nF. H. MAY, Esq.,\n\nActing Assistant Colonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nTHOS. ARNOLD, Secretary,\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Co., Limited.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "(10)\n\n($246,325 on a present total of $477,600) derived from the sale of Opium in Hongkong, as stated in the report in the Blue Book for 1889; and whether it was contemplated to take any steps to discourage the increased use of Opium which such increase of revenue indicated.\n\nBARON H. DE WORMS.-The Opium Farm at Hongkong was leased for a period of three years from March 1889, at $477,600 per annum, as against $182,400 per annum for the preceding three years. The farmer has the sole privilege of preparing Opium in Hongkong, not only for consumption in the Colony, but also for export, and the amount exported to China, Australia and other places considerably exceeds the amount consumed in the Colony. The Secretary of State has no reason to think that the above-mentioned increase of revenue was due to the increased use of Opium by the people of Hongkong, but it is believed that it was mainly due to the New Opium Ordinance passed in 1887 which had the effect of preventing the smuggling of prepared Opium into China. (Hear, Hear.)\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\nyour\n\n(11)\n\nHOUSE OF COMMONS,\n\n1st May, 1891.\n\nI duly received your letter with printed correspondence, which appears to me very striking. I put another question to the Under Secretary to-day - copy enclosed - I was surprised to learn from his reply that he had not already seen the correspondence above referred to. He said the Hongkong Government would be urged to sustain the laws against smuggling - the late success of Mr. PEASE'S motion will contribute to that end.\n\nI am sending him now the document you sent me, and trust it will have some effect. I would be most happy to be of further use to you.\n\nVery sincerely yours,\n\nALFRED WEBB.\n\nTHOMAS ARNOLD, Esq.,\n\nHongkong.\n\nSIR,\n\nOFFICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAM-BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nHONGKONG, 16th March, 1891.\n\nWe notice that on the 29th January last you asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in the House of Commons a question regarding the revenue derived from the Opium Farm in this Colony.\n\nAs throwing some light on this matter we beg to hand you herewith printed copy of certain correspondence between the Canton River Steam-ship Companies and the Hongkong Government upon the subject of the working of the Opium Ordinance of this Colony as they affect our business of shipowners.\n\nWith reference to the concluding paragraph of our letter dated 24th September, 1889, wherein it was stated that we were addressing the Secretary of State for the Colonies upon the subject, we may explain that we refrained from carrying out that intention upon a promise being made by the Hongkong Government that legislation would shortly be introduced, which, it was hoped, would have the effect of remedying the evils of which we complained.\n\nWe have since repeatedly urged the fulfilment of that promise, but so far without success.\n\nALFRED WEBB, Esq., M.P.,\n\nDartrey Park, Rathmines,\n\nDUBLIN.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nTHOS. ARNOLD,\n\nSecretary, The Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited.\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,\n\nAgents, The China Navigation Company, Ld.\n\nExtract of proceedings in the House of Commons 1st May, 1891.\n\nSMUGGLING OF OPIUM.\n\nMr. WEBB asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention had been called to a correspondence between the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steam-boat Company and the China Navigation Company on the one side, and the Government of Hongkong on the other side, in which the companies complain that opium has been smuggled, or been attempted to be smuggled, from Hongkong to China in their vessels without their knowledge, but with the connivance and for the profit of the opium farmer at Hongkong.\n\nBARON H. DE WORMS.-My attention has not been called to any such correspondence as is referred to by the hon. member, but the Secretary of State has every reason to believe that the Government of Hongkong already enforces such measures as appear to be practicable for the prevention of smuggling. A report will, however, be called for from the Governor on the subject.\n\nDEAR SIR,\n\nOFFICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAM-BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nHONGKONG, 5th June, 1891.\n\nWe beg to acknowledge with thanks your letter of the 1st May enclosing copy of a question which you had asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies on that date in the House of Commons, and which we trust will help towards remedying the abuses of which we complain.\n\nWe were surprised to hear that the Under Secretary of State had said that \"the Hongkong Government would be urged to sustain the laws against smuggling\" for no such laws exist. As far as this Colony is concerned, anybody may smuggle or attempt to smuggle prepared Opium into China with impunity, provided only that the Opium be covered by the Opium Farmer's permit. Possession of Opium without such a permit is a punishable offence, and when one of our Captains had confiscated opium which it had been attempted to smuggle into China by the steamer which he commanded, the Opium Farmer had the audacity to prosecute him in the Police Court for being in possession of opium without his permit and obtained a conviction! The confiscated Opium was afterwards returned to the Opium Farmer!!\n\n527", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352939, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "(13)\n\n(12)\n\nThe existing Opium Ordinance entails upon us great hardships and surrounds our trade with difficulties. We have expended large sums in defending prosecutions in the Consular Court at Canton and in the Police Court here. We have to maintain at our own expense a costly preventive service—while under the provisions of the treaties with China our vessels are liable to prohibition from trading to Chinese ports and even to confiscation if smuggled opium be found on board.\n\nGovernor DES Vœux in his letter of the 30th September, 1889, admitted that our representations appeared to establish a case for redress, but so far nothing has been done in that direction.\n\nWe thank you for the expression of your willingness to assist us further and should occasion arise we shall not hesitate to avail ourselves of your kind offer.\n\nALFRED WEBB, Esq., M.P.,\n\nHouse of Commons.\n\nDEAR SIR,\n\nWe remain,\n\nDear Sir,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nTHOS. ARNOLD, Secretary,\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited.\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents,\n\nThe China Navigation Company, Limited.\n\nHOUSE OF COMMONS,\n\n14th July, 1891.\n\nI have received yours of 5th ultimo, relative to Opium Smuggling at Hongkong. As there appeared nothing private in the communication I am forwarding it to Baron DE WORMS, begging him to give the question attention. The Session is now nearly over. If before Parliament meets again—probably in January—you have any fresh evidence regarding the grievance to which you are subjected—and if you desire I should again in any way stir up the question I shall be most happy to do so.\n\nT. ARNOLD, Esq.,\n\nHongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-bont Co., Ld.\n\nVery sincerely yours,\n\nALFRED WEBB.\n\nExtract from \"The Hongkong Government Gazette\" dated 25th July, 1891.\n\nAn Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the movement of raw opium within this Colony and to the boiling and preparation of such opium within the Colony.\n\nSection 55. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained, any raw or prepared Opium forfeited under this Ordinance shall not be delivered to the Opium Farmer if it shall be seized on board of any ship bound or about to proceed to any port of the Empire of China and does not appear on the Manifest of such vessel. Any Opium so forfeited shall be detained by the Magistrate who has cognizance of the case until the disposal thereof has been determined by the Governor in Council. And no Police Officer or other person authorised by the Governor or Magistrate to hold or store such Opium shall be liable to any penalty under this Ordinance by reason of such not being accompanied by a Certificate under Section 14 or otherwise.\n\n物\n\nExtract from the Speech of His Excellency the Acting Governor (Major-General G. Digby Barker, C.B.) at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held 15th October, 1891.\n\n(\"Hongkong Daily Press,” October 16th, 1891).\n\nAs regards the Opium Ordinance, which was read a first time shortly before our vacation, circumstances have since shown the desirability of continuing to keep separate as heretofore the law as regards raw and prepared opium respectively, which it was proposed by the Bill to amalgamate.\n\nThat Bill will therefore be withdrawn and two new Ordinances will be at once introduced dealing separately with these two matters.\n\nExtract from the Speech of the Acting Attorney General at a Meeting of the Legislative Council, held 15th October, 1891.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL.—The next few amendments are really introduced owing to representations which have been made from time to time by the owners of ships I have referred to. They deal with the question of opium that is seized on board ships that are about to proceed to the ports of Canton and Macao. I think, however, it is unnecessary to put in Macao. Their argument has been, I believe, that the Magistrates nearly always give the opium that is seized to the opium farmer, and that the opium farmer very often was himself implicated in the smuggling. Whether that is so or not I do not know, but these sections place at the disposal of the Governor in Council any opium found on board a ship about to proceed to Canton, so that if any circumstances come to the knowledge of the Governor in Council showing the opium farmer has been implicated the probability is that he would not direct that the opium farmer should have any benefit from the opium discovered.\n\nPrepared Opium Ordinance No. 21 of 1891, assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government on the 13th day of November, 1891.\n\nSection 38. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained, any opium seized on board of any steamship bound or about to proceed to the ports of Canton or Macao and which does not appear on the manifest of such vessel shall if forfeited by a Magistrate be detained by him until the disposal thereof has been determined by the Governor in Council.\n\nSection 39. Any opium forfeited and detained under the preceding section may be disposed of as the Governor in Council directs; and no Police officer or other person lawfully holding or storing such opium shall be liable to any penalty under this Ordinance by reason of such opium not being accompanied by a certificate under section 12 or otherwise.\n\n\"The Hongkong Daily Press,\" 3rd November, 1891.\n\nExtract of the Proceedings at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held November 2nd, 1891.\n\nHonourable T. H. WHITEHEAD—I wish to move an amendment to section 14 of the Bill. I would move that section 14 should read as follows:—\"The Governor in Council may grant to any person, for such considerations and upon\n\n528", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365852, "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": 187, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "# \nBy the Grace of Heaven, Emperor of Japan and \nseated on the Throne occupied by the same Dynasty from time \nimmemorial, \n\nTo all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. \n\nHaving recognised the necessity of appointing a Consul to reside at Hong-Kong, Dominion of Great Britain, and having full confidence in the fidelity and diligence of Uyeno Kisaburo, Consul 2nd class, We do hereby appoint him to be Our Consul at Hong-Kong, thereby enjoining him to protect and promote all the interests, especially of commerce and navigation of the Empire of Japan, to observe the stipulations of the treaty concluded between Our Empire and Great Britain, to give suitable advice and assistance upon application by Our subjects or subjects or citizens of any friendly Power, and to discharge all the official functions in accordance with the laws and regulations of Our Empire. \n\nWe desire and request each and every person, who may see or for whom it may be necessary to see these Presents, to recognise the said Uyeno Kisaburo in the quality of Our Consul.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368736, "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": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 557, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Report on Railway Connexion of Burma and China. Colquhoun and Hallett (1888).\n\nThrough the Yangtse Gorges. A. J. Little (1888).\n\nThe Key of Western China. W. B. Dunlop (Asiatic Quarterly Review, 1889).\n\nQuarterly Review, 1890.\n\nAu Yunnan par le Tonkin, Leduc; and Notes sur Yunnan, Rocher. (Toung-Pao, Leyden, 1890.)\n\nThe Remedy for Lancashire: A Burma-China Railway. Holt Hallett (Blackwood's Magazine, 1892).\n\nYunnan, its Treasures and Trade Routes. General Mesny (Journal of China Branch of Royal Asiatic Society, 1890-91).\n\nA Thousand Miles on an Elephant through the Shan States. Holt Hallett (1890).\n\nLa Colonisation de l'Indo-Chine. J. Chailley-Bert (1892).\n\n539\n\n## DOMESTIC\n\n550\n\nHong Kong\n\n0.0.\n\nEASTERN\n\n23326\n\nNo. 23 326\n\nREC & Reef 17 OCT 98\n\nun Voyage au\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\n(Subject.)\n\nOfficer\n\n1898\n\nNew Territory\n\nDraft Order in Council\n\nOct\n\n17\n\nat previous Paper.\n\napproves\n\nwith amendment\n\nLes Routes Commerciales de la Province du Yunnan. G. Lallemant Dumoutier (Toung-Pao, 1893).\n\nUn Voyage au Yunnan. Dr. L. Pichon (1893).\n\nAutour du Tonkin (1894); Du Tonkin aux Indes(1897). Pr. Henri d'Orléans. New Markets: Western China. Holt Hallett (Nineteenth Century, (1895), Les Anglais au Yunnan. II. Mébier de Mathusieulx (Nouvelles Géographiques, 1894).\n\nLa Colonisation Française en Indo-Chine. J. L. de Lanessan (1895). Inland Communications in China. (Journal of China Branch of Royal Asiatic Society, 1895).\n\nAn Australian in China. G. E. Morrison (1895).\n\nProvince of Ssuchuan, M. Beauchamp; and Province of Yunnan, O. Stevenson (China's Millions, 1894).\n\nLenz's World Tour Awheel: Yunnan. (Outing, 1894–95.)\n\nNouveau Dictionnaire de Géographie Universelle, Arts. Yunnan and Yangtsekiang, Vivien de St. Martin (1895).\n\nTour du Monde: Une Mission Commerciale Française en Chine (1896-97).\n\nAux Sources de l'Irrouaddi. Lieut. E. Roux (1897).\n\nA travers le Yunnan. C. E. Bonin (1897).\n\nLa Navigation du Mékong (1898).\n\nBulletin de la Société de Géographie Commerciale de Paris: Le Yunnan-Son Importance Commerciale, E. Rocher (1894).\n\nSur le Haut Mékong, M. Garanger (1894).\n\nCinq ans au Laos. P. Macey (1895).\n\nLe Tibet Oriental. F. Grenard (1895).\n\nMadagascar, Yunnan, &c.-Notes, Commerciales et Coloniales. Prince Henri d'Orléans (1896).\n\nL'Angleterre et le Commerce du Yunnan (1896).\n\nDu Tonkin considéré comme voie de pénétration vers le Szetchouen. H. Brenier (1896).\n\nLe Commerce des Indes Anglaises avec l'Asie Centrale. A. Klobukowski (1897).\n\nLes Voyages et les Résultats de la Mission Lyonnaise d'Exploration Commerciale en Chine. H. Brenier (1898).\n\nLa Province Chinoise du Yunnan et les Routes qui y mènent. G. Rouvier (Revue de Géographie, 1896–97).\n\nRichesse et avenir du Yunnan. A. Salaignac (Revue Française de l'Etranger et des Colonies, 1896).\n\nA Budget from Yunnan. Dr. A. Henry (Kew Bulletin, 1897).\n\nRenseignements Géographiques Inédits.Du Tonkin aux Indes. Prince Henri d'Orléans and Lieut. Roux. (Bulletin de la Société de Géographie,1897); Report on the Revenue and Expenditure of the Chinese Empire. Consul G. Jamieson (1897).\n\nThree Years in Western China. A. Hosie (2nd edition, 1897). Preface by A. J. Little.\n\nChina Imperial Maritime Customs Trade Reports (especially Meng sz by A. J. Happer, 1891).\n\nTrade of Western China and the Shan States Railway Project. Captain H. Bower and Captain H. Daly (1893).\n\nTo Council Office 47.\n\n47 G 17th October\n\nPL(78)—239—1 OR-12-97\n\n5100-10:309-5-93\n\nJust subsequent Paper.\n\n23608\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nSi W Hamilton\n\n? how send draft order to Council Office with Gen Dept the numbering arranging copies to be sent us.\n\n[Papers to be at Council office by 10.30 tomorrow]\n\n17/10\n\nHBC\n\n17 Oct\n\nat once\n\nEw 1764.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368756, "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": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 577, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "# \n559 \n\n## Hlaindet to the Takaw Ferry. Mekong Routes.\n\nThe railway schemes of Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett.\n\n28 \n\nand also a large local trade. Mr. Turner also says that the Burma-Kunlon line presents no immediate prospect of success owing to the lack of merchandise to convey--what is large for mule transport being small for an expensive railway. At present there are few articles of export and none in large quantities, and little promise of any. He describes the road between Shunning and Tali as bad, with only one place of importance on the way, the busy little town of Menghua-Ting, situated in a plain growing a large quantity of rice and opium. There is considerable agreement that Shunning has little trade except in the necessaries of life. But the country generally is not unfertile, for Prince Henry says that though the right bank of the Mekong is poor up to Mienning, beyond that town and up to Tali there are beautiful, populous, and very rich plains recalling that of Tunghai in south Yunnan. Lieutenant Roux goes even further, and, after referring to Mienning as a small town with a rather important trade with Burma, he says that beyond it he traversed one of the richest parts of Yunnan, passing through several important commercial centres such as Yincho, Shunning, and Menghua. Captain Daly holds that the area to be served by the Kunlon line will probably be eventually confined to western, central, and south Yunnan, with Shunning as the centre. The chief trade centres of west Yunnan are, he says, Yungchang and Lungling, a town south-east of Momien, by which a large traffic used to pass. He believes that when the Kunlon line is opened the trading community of Lungling will move en masse to Kokang (which is, in Mr. Scott's opinion, the richest tract in the Shan States), with its thriving market town of Malipa (Tawnio), only 25 miles from Kunlon Ferry, and connected with Yungchang by a fairly good road. Panlong is another trading centre of importance not far from Kunlon. Other towns which the railway to Shunning would render more accessible are Tali (with Atentzu and Yungpei to the north) and Ssumao, from which it may possibly divert some trade. Indian yarn might be delivered in Yunnan via Kunlon when the line is opened at least as cheaply as through Tonkin. Many officers and civilians, however, doubt whether the line can be a commercial success for many years, though Mr. Bagley, the chief engineer, expects that the traffic with the Shan States alone will make it pay.\n\nNo direct route from Kunlon to Yunnan-Fu has ever been explored. There is said to be a trade route via Shagwe (on the Mekong), Chintong, and Gokia to Hsinhsing and thence to Yunnan-Fu, but the distance is not known. Even if the railway were constructed to Yincho, several marches would remain to be done by road. Only west Yunnan, then, need be considered as to trade and communications.\n\n## (c.) Hlaindet-Mone-Takaw Ferry Route.\nThis is the only path besides the Bhamo route that is much frequented. Hlaindet is 80 miles south of Mandalay, and the route to Takaw (via Kyaniykon and Natit) occupies 21 days from Mandalay. Takaw, 130 miles south of Kunlon, is a narrow defile. From Takaw to Kenghung via Kengtung takes 19 days. But the difficulties of this route are great. There are said to be fifteen ranges of mountains between Hlaindet and Kenghung, and the likin duties beyond Kenghung are stated to be heavy. In spite, however, of these drawbacks, Chinese caravans come to Mone from Tali-Fu, Puerh, Ssumao, and Yunnan-Fu.\n\n## MEKONG ROUTES.\nIt appears desirable to devote a short section to those of the routes by the Mekong which do not go direct from Burma to China. The Mekong is navigable up to, and a little within, the borders of Yunnan, in passing through which it traverses for the most part wild solitudes where cultivation is impossible. Here and there on its banks are likin stations, with a few miserable cabins. Lieutenant Roux speaks of travelling near the river for eight days north from Dayakeu and passing two fine plains, Mong Pan and Mong Ka, situated amid wild and desolate mountains. Navigation is practicable in parts of the river, but rapids and cascades, especially those of Khong and Kemmarat, render through traffic impossible. One of the best-known Burma-China railway schemes, that of Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett, was designed to tap south-west China by the Kenghung route to Ssumao. Mr. Hallett has argued that any line to China north of Mandalay is out of the question, and that the Chinese Government would not construct a railway from Kunlon to the Mekong because of the physical difficulties. The proposed line would go from Moulmein through Zimmé (in Siam), thence towards the Mekong, which would be touched at Kenghsen, and afterwards to Kenghung and Ssumao. It is contended that Ssumao is admirably situated for trade; that the railway can be constructed at a reasonable expense; that valuable plains would be opened to commerce; that the line would tap a rich and prosperous part of China and enable us to compete with France; and that, if the line were carried to Ssumao, this town would become the starting point of a railway system for south-west China. M. Chailley Bert remarks that this route is shorter and has less steep ascents than the Hlaindet route, but it would traverse Siam and also a rough, mountainous, and little-known country on the right bank of the Mekong, or else abut on French Laos. It is worth noticing that the trade of the Upper Mekong is comparatively insignificant; only ten or eleven caravans passed through Zimmé from Yunnan in 1896, with goods valued at £2,250. But the paramount objection to this scheme is the political one that the railway would traverse territory not under the control of the British Government, and this objection has become strengthened since the French advanced to the Mekong. It therefore appears unnecessary to criticise Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett's statements about the richness and populousness of south-west Yunnan and the commercial importance of Ssumao, or their proposal for carrying a railway beyond Ssumao to the valley of the Yangtze. A railway even as far as Ssumao would be very long, and difficult and costly to construct, and could hardly compete successfully with lines from Haiphong and Bangkok. A Siamese railway to Korat is nearly completed.\n\n## Routes.\n\nThere are two Siamese routes, both passing through the Shan States. Siamese By the Mekong route traffic passes to Kenghung and Ssumao, but the difficulties are very great. By the Menam route boats can reach Zimmé in three weeks from Bangkok, though goods rarely take less than six weeks. But both these routes involve a long transit and a number of likin payments, which means a heavy price for laying down goods in Yunnan.\n\nThe French have attached importance to a route by the Mekong, but find The French navigation difficult. The valley of the Namu, which branches off from and the Mekong. the Mekong above Luang Prabang, offers to commerce an easier and shorter way than that of the Upper Mekong, but its length is sufficiently great to be a drawback. It is said by a recent French writer that gunboats can go up to Luang Prabang and even to Kenghsen for at least part of the year, and it is claimed that this route is diverting trade from Siam to Cambodia and Cochin China. According to M. Macey, English products penetrate to the Upper Mekong by many routes, and the French hope to bring back to their territory the ancient caravans, and to establish agencies and depôts in Muong-Lu. Navigation is at present slow, but it is asserted that the improvements projected will make the river navigable at any time on the borders of French territory. But M. Rocher and others declare that the Mekong will never be a way of penetration into China for the French at all comparable with the Red River, and that the sooner they renounce their illusions about it the better.\n\n## Kenghung via Ssumao to Yunnan-Fu.\nThe Mekong routes are directed Kenghung to towards Ssumao through Kenghung, the road from which reaches Ssumao, Yunnan.Fu. after traversing a rich cotton and tea country, in seven days. The whole journey from Kenghung to Yunnan-Fu takes 22 days, according to General Mesny, over very rugged roads. This route is known as the \"great route.\" Beyond Ssumao the country is extremely difficult, a belt of mountains 130 miles wide forming the watershed of the Red River and its chief tributaries. For eleven stages there are difficult ascents and descents. The road goes via Puerh and Talang (an important market in south Yunnan) to Yuanchiang-chou, a squalid town in a malarious plain. (The Yuan River, or Upper Red River, has a sharp fall and steep and precipitous bluffs, and is never likely to serve the purposes of commerce.) The country traversed has many ruined villages, little cultivation, and a small population, mainly Shans and Lolos. Beyond Shibping-chou, a prosperous and important town, the road joins the main route from Tonkin to Yunnan-Fu. Kreitner suggested a railway by this route.\n\n29 \n\n## \n570", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368757, "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": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 578, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "# TONKIN ROUTES\n\n## (a.) Black River Route\n\nThis route to west Yunnan is navigable for small boats to Mong Nhe, but large junks cannot ply beyond Laichau. Its sinuous course and the great number of rapids above Tuenquan render it impracticable for trade. The river is almost valueless as a waterway, and it will not justify the works necessary for steam navigation. Rocher says that the routes between the Red and the Black Rivers, which are separated by a watershed of 8,000 to 10,000 feet, are commercially unimportant, while between the Red and the Mekong Rivers the people are sparse and poor, the country difficult, and transport expensive, so that commerce would not be remunerative. The French, he adds, must utilise the Red River and not be diverted to other routes.\n\n## (b.) Red River (Songkoi) Route\n\nIt is this route which gives the French an important position in Yunnan. The French territory extends north to 25° 20′ and marches with China as far as the Mekong, which forms the west boundary of French Laos. This route became unsafe for foreign trade during the Mohammedan rebellion, and later through robber hands, and troubles between the French and Chinese. For years it was abandoned to Black Flag filibusters by the Chinese Government, and the borderland is still infested by brigands, whose attacks on Red River traffic the mandarins are alleged to encourage.\n\n### Opinions about this route\n\nThere is practical unanimity among authorities as to the superiority of this over all other ways of penetrating Yunnan. Richthofen spoke of it as the most favourable route and the only navigable water route to the Yunnan frontier. General Mesny calls it the shortest of all land routes to Yunnan-Fu, all other routes thither from the highest point of navigation being longer by one-half, and no better off in respect of conveniences for travellers and merchants. M. Rocher says this is indisputably the most natural route to Yunnan, and the best in economy of time and in cheap and convenient transport. It is surer, easier, and quicker than other routes. Consul Jamieson, who has recently traversed this route, speaks of it as by far the best and speediest to Yunnan. Mr. Colquhoun thinks this route will attract the trade of south-east Yunnan and of central Yunnan up to Yunnan-Fu, physical obstacles rendering it difficult for the trade to penetrate east or west.\n\nOpinions differ greatly as to the importance of south-east Yunnan. Mr. Bourne, Mr. Colquhoun, and others describe it as poor and unproductive and capable of but little commercial development. Rocher directly denies these assertions, and contends that south-east is richer than south-west Yunnan, having a more fertile soil, a richer subsoil, and more numerous and more civilised population. M. Leroy-Beaulieu has recently described the provinces bordering on Tonkin as the poorest in the Chinese Empire, very mountainous, inhabited in great part by aboriginal tribes, and devastated and depopulated by rebellions.\n\n### Red River trade\n\nThe progress of Red River trade has been great since Mengtsz was opened to Tonkin trade under the Convention of 26th August 1887. The imports from abroad (including Hong Kong) and the exports to foreign countries as registered at the Mengtsz Customs House for the last seven years were as follows:\n\n| Year | Imports (Hk. Taels) | Exports (Hk. Taels) | Total (Hk. Taels) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1890 | 635,000 | 461,000 | 1,096,000 |\n| 1891 | 946,000 | 683,000 | 1,529,000 |\n| 1892 | 1,150,000 | 736,000 | 1,885,000 |\n| 1893 | 1,524,000 | 735,000 | 2,259,000 |\n| 1894 | 1,242,000 | 943,000 | 2,185,000 |\n| 1895 | 1,809,000 | 1,033,000 | 2,842,000 |\n| 1896 | 1,627,000 | 850,000 | 2,477,000 |\n| 1897 | 2,394,000 | 1,058,000 | 3,452,000 |\n\nIf the Haikwan tael be taken at 3s. for 1896 the value of the total trade for that year was equivalent to £371,550, or less than the Burma-China trade in 1896-97. But the China trade with Tonkin itself (as distinguished from the transit trade) is much smaller, the imports in 1896 being Hk. taels 86,000 and the exports Hk. taels 134,000, while in 1897 the figures were Hk. taels 74,000 and Hk. taels 191,000. Imports from Hong Kong in 1897 aggregated 97 per cent. of the total imports. The commercial members of the Blackburn Mission state that nine-tenths of the foreign goods imported into Yunnan now follow the Red River route, but this seems much too high an estimate.\n\n### The difficulties that have hampered Tonkin trade\n\nFirst, the traffic by the Red River cannot easily ascend beyond Laokai. A regular weekly service of steamers ascends the Red River from Haiphong on the Tonkin Gulf to Hanoi and Yenbai, but they can ply for nine to ten months only, though they could run all the year if the channel were improved. At Yenbai goods are transhipped to a smaller boat. The rapids render navigation difficult and dangerous between Yenbai and Laokai; nevertheless, for seven months in the year navigation is possible to Laokai. It is usually stated that Laokai is five days up from Hanoi, and two days down, but Consul Jamieson says that in January 1898 he took seven days from Yenbai to Laokai, and was congratulated on making almost a record passage. Cargo steamers could not get up to Laokai during the greater part of 1897, and Chinese merchants continued to send cargo in small boats from Hanoi to Yenbai, and thence by junks to Manbao. Junks are preferred, taking the year throughout, because they ensure more regular delivery. There is now a fine military road between Yenbai and Laokai.\n\nBeyond Laokai the rapids become worse and the river is shut in by high, wooded mountains, but Dr. Pichon holds that in flood season light-draught steamers might reach Longpo and even Manhao, though the rapids are, between these places, very dangerous. According to a member of the Lyons Mission, the future of Tonkin depends on French steamers being able to ascend freely to the Chinese frontier, that is, to Laokai. The steamer service that exists between Hanoi and Laokai consists of boats with but small cargo space, and it is restricted to such an extent by shoals and rapids that the boats make only a few trips each season. The rapids are so dangerous that the losses from wrecks of junks are estimated at 16 per cent. annually. M. de Lanessan considers that, in spite of works, the navigation of the Red River will always be inconvenient.\n\nThe frontier trade practically ceases from May to September. Complaints are made of the injury done to trade by excessive charges for freight both by junk and by steamer, and it seems probable that with lower freights and better constructed steamers trade would increase much faster. The boycotting of French steamers by Chinese merchants, whose customary arrangements for regulating trade have been interfered with by the steamer service, has also hindered expansion of trade. Again, French merchants are charged with deficient enterprise both in obtaining information and in providing capital, as well as in neglecting to suit the tastes and pockets of the people.\n\nThe comparative poverty of north Tonkin and the absence of railways may help to explain the present comparatively small trade. Prince Henry complains that the Government does not improve navigation or facilitate trade, and he recommends a reduction in the opium and other duties. The import of opium into Tonkin is prohibited under Treaty of 1885, as the French Government have granted a monopoly to a private person, who is allowed 10 per cent. on the sales. He buys only a small quantity of Yunnan opium to mix with Indian. Hence little except contraband opium enters Tonkin from Yunnan. This is a serious drawback to trade, for the imports of Yunnan must depend closely on its exports, of which tin and opium are the most important. Consequently, Dr. Pichon and others argue that Tonkin should be a free market for opium, or that a low duty should be levied, predicting as the result a steady growth of frontier trade.\n\nOn the other hand, the Chinese Government forbid the importation of salt into Yunnan, because it would interfere with a monopoly. Prince Henry, however, asserts that the Chinese Government's contracts with Yunnan merchants, under which this prohibition takes place, have expired. Trade on the Red River is much impeded by the unhealthiness of Laokai, which has made little progress for several years. The climate of Manhao also is notoriously bad. By the Convention of 20th June 1895, the port of Hokou, opposite Laokai, was opened as a treaty port in substitution for Manhao. By this change the French aimed at opening up a more direct route for commerce into Yunnan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368758, "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": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Progress of Red River\n\n## French activity\n\n32\n\nthan the route via Mengtsz furnishes. By going straight to Kaihua (which takes five days) instead of through Mengtsz, merchants will save several days, cost of transport will be diminished, and importation and exportation will be facilitated. The road from Laokai via Manhao to Mengtsz is very difficult, a succession of craggy ascents and stony ravines, which make the prospect of a railway remote. Between Manhao and Mengtsz (2 days' journey) the road rises from 510 to 6,150 feet. A new route is now being surveyed from Laokai to Mengtsz direct, which, it is anticipated, will effect a great saving of time. Consul Jamieson thinks that a light railway between Laokai and Mengtsz is practicable, and, considering the volume of trade, might pay.\n\nYet the commerce is by no means insignificant, despite the numerous hindrances to trade. This fact is largely explained by the activity of the French Government in securing concessions from the Chinese. They have obtained the opening of four towns within the Chinese frontier—Mengtsz, Lungehow, Ssumao, and Hokou. All commodities, native and foreign, entering China over the Tonkin frontier enjoy by treaty the right to claim exemption from inland taxes by payment of transit dues at the Customs; all imports not on the ad valorem list pay only ½ and exports of the same category only ⅓ of the regular tariff rates in force at coast and river ports (reductions not applicable to transit dues). All products of Chinese origin coming across the Tonkin frontier from Yunnan and Kwangsi have free importation and transit, except opium (unless it be sealed by the French Customs). Mr. Bourne says that the import trade in foreign goods has almost entirely shifted from the West River route via Pose to the Red River route, and he ascribes this to the vigorous enforcement of transit passes to cover goods to Yunnan-Fu. The result is that English goods in the capital are cheaper than formerly, though the French themselves impose heavy customs duties (substantially those of the metropolitan tariff) on British goods passing through Tonkin, together with miscellaneous charges somewhat arbitrarily levied. These duties amount to 10 or 11 per cent. on piece goods and 3 per cent. on yarn. A piece of grey shirting pays nearly twice as much to the French as to the Chinese Government. M. Leroy Beaulieu, the eminent authority on colonial questions, asserts that the French Customs system, \"which is for ever examining merchandise, opening packages and not closing them properly, and spoiling the goods under the pretence of guarding against smuggling,\" is enough to make all traders shun the Tonkin route. It should be noted that the Red River trade is almost wholly a transit trade from Hong Kong, with some similar trade from Saigon and Singapore. Indian yarn constituted more than two-thirds of the imports in 1896. The attempt to stimulate Chinese exports by the Red River has not met with much success, and the imports into China remain double the exports. M. Chailley Bert says that Tonkin should repudiate the régime of Customs duties which bars this route to European transactions in Western China.\n\n## Progress in 1897\n\nDuring 1897 the facilities for trade were greatly improved in the neighbourhood of Laokai, and Chinese merchants have been encouraged to attend the fairs recently re-opened there. Bonded warehouses have been established at Hanoi, Laokai, and Langson (in addition to one already opened at Haiphong) for foreign goods in transit through Tonkin. The Government is now undertaking works for the improvement of the navigation of the Red River, and the organisation of a towage service is spoken of. According to the Saigon Consular Report for 1897 tenders have been invited for the construction of a metre line from Hanoi to the Chinese frontier, presumably to Laokai, a railway which could, it is said, be constructed without difficulty, and would do much to promote trade. But Lieutenant Roux says that it would not pay to spend the necessary £4,000,000 on a railway if it saved only three or four days in the transport of merchandise. Rocher has pointed out that the Tonkin route, though shorter and cheaper than others, has to compete with well-established and long-frequented routes, that bring merchandise suitable to the people at rates relatively low, considering cost of transport, &c., and especially with the Yangtze, which must, he says, always be the greatest commercial artery of the Empire. It appears clear that China will increase her exports of tin through Tonkin. Tin formed four-fifths in value of the exports in 1896. In return, the French will probably supply south and south-east Yunnan and the region up to Yunnan-Fu with foreign goods. The heavy protective duties, which have made the French share of Tonkin trade larger than it was, have adversely affected British interests in Hong Kong. But the progress of Burma trade with West Yunnan may do something to redress the balance. The French talk of cultivating cotton in Tonkin, and exporting it to Yunnan. They claim that the cotton of Laos is superior to that of Burma. Prince Henry says that Tonkin could do a great trade in exporting cotton yarn and cloth, apparel, silk, salt, and tobacco, and in importing metals, opium, and musk.\n\n## Trade Routes\n\nThe more enthusiastic advocates of a forward French policy in Yunnan have dilated on the numerous regions that may be tapped from Tonkin—south Yunnan to Ssumao, and the tea regions S. of that town; west Yunnan to Tali and even Tibet; Kueichou and Kwangsi; Yunnan-Fu and N. to Ssuchuan and the Yangtze. It will be sufficient to touch on two routes, those through south Yunnan to Ssumao and through central Yunnan to the capital, for present indications do not point to the development of any great trade with Kueichou and Kwangsi, or with Ssuchuan.\n\n### Mengtsz to Ssumao\n\nThe trade route is a circuitous path which strikes the Mengtsz to \"great route,\" already described (page 29), at Yuanchiang. The country to the immediate N. of the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier is a wide and almost unknown region of mountains, inhabited by Shans and Lolos living in practical independence under native chiefs. Prince Henry and Lieutenant Roux explored this region, keeping to the right bank of the Red River. They traversed a very intricate country by means of mule tracks, and found no wide plain between Mengtsz and Ssumao. There was little cultivation, and the villages were few and miserable. Lieutenant Roux speaks of their passing five or six villages a day, and considers this not a small number for south Yunnan, which he describes as in the main a poor country—thus agreeing with Mr. Bourne and disagreeing with M. Rocher. They passed the town of Isa, a place fairly well peopled and having a brisk trade in salt, sugar, tobacco, &c. Another place of some importance was Muongle, situated on what the Chinese call the \"little route\" between Upper Laos and the Red River. This route, along which tea and cotton are carried, is only practicable in the dry season—the damp at other times causing fevers. Muongle is about 10 miles north from the Tonkin frontier, which is here constituted by the chain that divides the Namu from the Black River. The town has a native industry of black cotton stuff, and a trade in raw cotton and opium. There is said to be an easy route from Muongle north-west to the Mekong basin. After traversing savage and mountainous country the travellers reached Ssumao. Prince Henry says that the Ssumao district is richer than that of the Upper Red River, but the latter has copper and tin, and more varied cultivation.\n\n### Mengtsz to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThis road (nine stages) is one of the best roads in the province, and easier and more expeditious than that from Pose. After crossing a small pass and a high mountain chain with a good road and gradual ascent, and then another mountain pass with a well-paved road, the route to the capital is good and fairly level. This route passes several towns of some little importance, including Tunghai, Kiangchuan, and Tsinning. The Lyons Mission found many ruined villages as far as Kuangsi, after which the country changes, and there are rice, wheat, and other crops, irrigation canals, and populous plains. Linan or Lingan-Fu is a large place in a fertile plain, much ravaged by plague. It is here that the \"great route\" from Kenghung and Ssumao joins the Mengtsz-Yunnan-Fu route. Very diverse accounts of Linan are given by Rocher and Colquhoun. Mr. Bourne found that Tunghai, three days N.-W. of Linan in a fertile opium-yielding country, has a larger trade than Linan in foreign goods from Pakhoi. Hsinhsing-chow is in a valley rich with indigo and rice.\n\n## Railway Projects\n\nOn 11th April 1898 the Chinese granted the French the right to construct a line to Yunnan-Fu. Rocher says that a railway from Tonkin to Yunnan-Fu would be superior in advantages to one from Pose (on the West River) to Yunnan-Fu. It should not go via Mengtsz, but by the Red River, and... \n\nPage 561\nPage 572 \nPage 6531", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374201, "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": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "3\n\nNo. 2.\n\n6238\n\nREC?\n\n&\n\nSir,\n\nAdmiralty to Foreign Office.-(Received March 7.)\n\nRec'd APR 99 Admiralty, March 4, 1899. WITH reference to Admiralty letter of the 15th ultimo, respecting the importance of connecting Wei-hai Wai with the British telegraph system by means of an all-British cable, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of a letter, dated the 2nd instant, which has been received from the War Office on this subject.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed)\n\nEVAN MACGREGOR.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure in No. 2.\n\nWar Office to Admiralty.\n\n271A\n\nWar Office, March 2, 1899.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, inclosing a copy of a letter addressed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the Treasury, on the subject of telegraphic communication with Wei-hai Wei.\n\nIn reply, I am to state that Lord Lansdowne entirely concurs in their Lordships' views that strategical considerations render the establishment of cable communication between Hong Kong and Wei-hai Wei a most necessary step, and that the cable laid for this purpose should not touch at any intermediate ports.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) R. H. KNOX.\n\nNo. 3.\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, March 7, 1899.\n\nMr. Provand,-To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any official statement has been made by the Russian Government as to the terms on which British vessels may trade with the port of Talienwan;\n\nIf it is now, or will at any fixed future date be, subject to the navigation laws of Russia, and if these prevent British ships from trading between Talienwan and any other Russian port:\n\nAnd, is the Customs Tariff the same as that of the Treaty ports in China or that of Russia.\n\nAnswer.\n\nThe assurances given by the Russian Government with regard to Talienwan Have already been published in \"China No. 1, 1898.”\n\nWe understand that a formal declaration will have to be made to the Representatives of the Treaty Powers in China when the port is considered to be open to foreign commerce, which will not be until a Customs service has been established similar to that which exists at other ports opened by Treaty.\n\nHer Majesty's Government were informed some time ago that steps were being taken for the organization of a general Administration and Customs establishment at Talienwan, and that duties would be collected by Russian officials for the Chinese Government according to the Chinese Tariff,\n\nWe are not in a position to express any opinion as to the bearing of the Russian navigation laws upon the position of the port.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378641, "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": 455, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "# Report on the Philippines\n\n## Educational System\n\nExcept in the case of the Educational system under Spanish Rule, & the changes which it is proposed to adopt. It appears that the Scheme of Education in Spanish times was fairly comprehensive, comprising not only Primary & Secondary schools but Schools of arts & Trades, of agriculture, & of navigation, but it was practically useless owing to the insufficient number of teachers & the low pay given to them. The Americans propose to reform these two points, to raise the Standard of school teachers, & to increase the number of Schools. The Commission lays special stress on the importance of technical or industrial Education. It is proposed to have English taught in all the Schools & to make it the official language.\n\n## Judicial System\n\nPart I deals with the judicial system. It is proposed to retain the Spanish system of law, & also the latter system of bringing Justice, with the necessary purification & reform, as best suited to the native. For cases in which foreigners or Americans are concerned, it is intended to establish a United States Court, holding two sessions in the year, at Manila & Iloilo. This court is to administer United States laws, & an appeal is to lie from it either to the Circuit Court of California or to appellate courts, to be hereafter established in the Philippines.\n\n## Naval and Harbour Matters\n\nPart II deals with naval and harbour matters. Surveying is to be proceeded with as rapidly as possible. A rather large fleet is to be maintained in Philippine waters, & a graving or floating dock is to be established in Subig Bay. A first-class naval station is to be established in Manila or near it, & secondary stations for coaling & repairs in various parts of the Archipelago.\n\n## Military Force\n\nNo information is given as to the military force, which it is proposed to keep in the Islands, nor as to its composition.\n\n## Religion\n\nPart III. Religion. Religious freedom is to be established, & there is to be a complete separation of Church from State. The Commission is strongly in favour of the purchase (apparently compulsory) by the State of the lands of the Religious Orders, & of their being sold in small holdings to the natives.\n\n## Registration and Marriage Laws\n\nPart IV deals with Registration and marriage laws. The Religious Orders have hitherto refused to celebrate marriage except between Roman Catholics, & had successfully opposed the introduction of the Spanish Civil Marriage Law, with naturally inconvenient results to the non-Roman Catholic population. It is now proposed to introduce the Spanish Law, or that which prevails in most of the States of the U.S.A. A Civil Registration System is also to be introduced; previously all registrations of births, deaths, or marriages were made by the Parish Priest.\n\n## Currency\n\nPart II deals with Currency. It is rather technical & not very clearly written, but so far as I understand it, the Islands have been in a complicated state of financial Crisis for the last 50 years or more. Theoretically, the Currency is on a gold basis, the standard coin being the gold Philippine dollar, & the ratio of silver to gold is taken as 16 to 1. But practically, the Philippines are on a 'silver' currency, since the 'Mexican' dollar was made legal tender, equal to the gold Philippine dollar, & while the value of silver decreased everywhere else, the Mexican dollar was still treated in these Islands as equal to the gold dollar, with the natural result that all the gold left the country. Now, it circulates freely at double its face value in 'Mexican' money, & the Commission proposes to allow it to make its own way. No change in currency is to be imposed by law. Legislation is contemplated to establish banks, or to increase the supply of paper money.\n\n## Public Health\n\nPart II is a rather commonplace report on Health. It is proposed to establish a Public Health Dept. & to pay special attention to sanitation, which was practically non-existent in Spanish times.\n\n## Railway Routes\n\nPart II deals with railway routes, but in the absence of a map is of very little value. The population... \n448 \n... \n)-12135-2000-1-99 16195-2000-4-FI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380607, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE 3\n130\nExtract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" dated 2nd July, 1900.\n\n## THE SHELL CASE\n## THE ACTING PUISNE JUDGE'S FINDING\n\nIn our issue on Saturday we gave the Chief Justice's finding in the Shell Case, and stated that while the Chief Justice found for the defendant, the Acting Puisne Judge found for the plaintiff.\n\nThe Acting Puisne Judge said:- The conclusion at which I have arrived in this case is, I regret to say, at variance with the conclusion arrived at by the Chief Justice. Having had an opportunity of reading that judgment, I adopt that portion of it which is introductory and sets out the facts of the case.\n\nBy a Convention dated 9th June, 1898, it was agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory should be enlarged under lease. In pursuance of the Convention, a certain portion of Chinese territory which includes the locus in quo in the present case, was leased to Great Britain from 1st July, 1898.\n\nAs lessee of the locus in quo the Government of Hongkong on the 20th December, 1899, sublet that locus in quo to the plaintiff firm with the right to search for and obtain coral or shells from the bed of the sea, but so as not to interfere with fishing and navigation.\n\nUnder this lease the plaintiff firm sues the defendant for damages for trespass and conversion, to which defendant pleads that he has a right to take coral and shells because he had that right before 1st July, 1898, is an inhabitant of the leased territory, and is protected by the Convention from being expropriated or dispossessed of that right.\n\nDuring the hearing of the case counsel for plaintiffs admitted that Chinese fishermen had been in the habit of dredging for shells and coral for the purpose of lime-burning from Lantan M.L. 2 (the locus in quo), openly and believing themselves entitled as of right so to do, without interference by any one, from the limits of living memory until the granting of the lease of the above lot.\n\nWhen looked at, this admission is nothing more than an admission of a habit; and, as such, may be evidence to help establish a right. But until the habit, either by itself or in company with other evidence, establishes a right, it remains a habit and cannot be styled a right.\n\nBefore defendant can successfully set up that he has been expropriated by the granting of the lease of 20th December, 1899, he must prove that he has been dispossessed of a right which he enjoyed under Chinese municipal law before 1st July, 1898. Moreover, he must establish that right by recourse to Chinese municipal law. Admitting that the defendant and his brother-fishermen have been in the habit from time immemorial of taking coral and shells without let or hindrance from the fundus maris belonging to the Emperor of China, he has yet to show that by the municipal laws of China such a proved habit has created a right in him and his comrades which he could maintain in a Chinese court. That proof has not been forthcoming. And since the right must be proved by Chinese law, it follows that no principles of English law may be utilised to prove that by analogy or directly, a right existed under Chinese law.\n\nThe only other source of law available is public international law; but that governs the relation of nations inter se, and is not a guide on questions affecting the relations of a sovereign and his subject, which are regulated by municipal law.\n\nNotwithstanding however that the defendant has no cause to complain of an expropriation guarded against in the Convention, it may be that, since 1st July, 1898, when the locus in quo became a portion of the leased territorial land and waters of Her Majesty the Queen, the defendant has, as a subject of Her Majesty, acquired certain rights of which the lease of the 20th December, 1899, deprived him. The rights of sovereign and subject in respect of the newly acquired territorial waters may be said briefly to be that the Crown has the right of ownership in such waters and the bed of such waters subject to the public right of navigation and anchoring in them; and that the Crown has also the rights of fishing subject to a right of a common fishery in the subject.\n\nIt is contended for the defendant not that rights of navigation or of anchorage have been infringed but that the right of a common fishery has been infringed, because such right carried with it a right to the bottom of the sea and therefore to the contents of that bottom. That however was a mere statement of counsel unsupported by authority. There are several reasons against this view. First it is incontestable that the fundus maris in territorial waters is vested absolutely in the Crown: this absolute ownership of the soil carries with it the absolute ownership of what is found on, in or under the soil; and I can find nothing to countenance the idea that the subject has, by common law or in any other way, a right to joint-ownership in the fundus maris or to participation in its products. Next, the right of a common fishery enjoyed by the public is a floating liberty of fishery with nets, hooks, etc., and is the right of fishing in the sea and public rivers open to all the public (see Hall on Seashore, pp. 50, 51, 52, 2nd edition). Thirdly, the shells taken by the defendant were dead shells or the shells of fish destroyed by natural causes before capture. In the case of Bagot v. Orr, 5 R.R. 668, the Court, while laying down that prima facie every subject had a right to take fish upon the sea-shore, paused before it would establish a general right to take shells in the absence of authority to support a claim of a right to take shells. A fortiori, it appears to me, should this Court pause before establishing, in the absence of supporting authority, a general right to take shells from the fundus maris. The distinction drawn between fish and shells is a clear one. A common fishery, being a right to take fish in the sea and public rivers open to all the public, does not, therefore, in the light of Bagot v. Orr, include a right to take dead shells.\n\nIn my judgment, accordingly, defendant has failed to show either that he has been dispossessed of a right which he enjoyed prior to 1st July, 1898, or that he has been deprived of any right which accrued to him on and after that date. I am also of opinion that the Crown, as absolute owner of the fundus maris in question, was not prevented by any known rule of law from granting to the plaintiffs the rights conferred by the lease of 20th December, 1899.\n\nI hold, therefore, that the plaintiffs are entitled to ten dollars as damages and to their costs of the suit.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386981, "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": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "content_text": "## Article VIII \n\nSee national coinage which shall be legal tender throughout the Empire. Cars 4,5 of the covering despatch, and Annex A, by which free coinage of silver is agreed to. I see that no suggestion is made to demonetise any of the existing dollars, etc.\n\nArticle VIII removes the same duties between existing \"new trade\" and \"treaty trade\" in the way and Treaty port it ments in non treaty places non-Chinese companies, and Chinese shareholders under the same obligations as Chinese.\n\nArticle & provides for improving navigation and harbour accommodation on the Canton River.\n\nArticle VII provides for the protection of British trade marks in China.\n\nIn the crucial Article VIII, which abolishes likin and for a surtax of 7½ per cent on substituted import duties, etc. The question of the allocation of the sum of pounds of the surtax between local and provincial revenues is dealt with in Annex B to the Treaty.\n\nThis Article does not affect the opening of Kongmoon, on the Canton River, as a Treaty port, which is provided for under Article I. The object of the jury of this fort is, as will be seen, to \"facilitate the regulation of the traffic entering the West River from Heykay and Macao.\" \n\nBreuning's Reg. I still fail to discover it on the H.K. Naval Admiralty chart; but, according to the attached note, it is on the Admiralty chart where about Shaman anchorage is taken to be off the outer island. The Chain Sea Directory says this is the outer anchorage for vessels bound to or from Canton harbour. \n\nB&L(x) — 46769-8000-8-01\n\n## Article IX \n\nArticle IX promises revision of the Mining Regulations; and Article X enacts new Inland Waters Regulations, which are annexed to the Treaty (C). As to this, see also 45145.\n\n## Article XII \n\nArticle XII promises that Great Britain will assist judicial reform in China, and relinquish extra-territorial jurisdiction when she is satisfied that the state of the Chinese laws, the arrangements for their administration and other considerations warrant her in so doing.\n\n## Article XIV \n\nArticle XIV gives the Chinese Govt. on 21 days' notice, to prohibit the shipment of rice grain from a district in which scarcity or famine exists from whatsoever cause.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391023, "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": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 576, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "C. O. 3603\n\nRECO\n\n1227 JAN 370\n\nMemorandum as to Countries which have Treaties with United Kingdom entitling their ships to the same treatment in British Colonial Ports as British Ships.\n\nI.\n\nShips of the Following States are entitled to full national treatment (i.e. are to enjoy the same privileges, favours, immunities, &c. in matters relating to navigation as British ships) in British Colonial Ports:-\n\nAustria-Hungary\n\n* Belgium\n\nColombia\n\nHonduras\n\nParaguay\n\nUruguay\n\nII.\n\nShips of the following Countries are also entitled to national treatment in British Colonial Ports, but with the qualifying proviso that they shall be subject to the Laws and Regulations in force:-\n\nBulgaria\n\nGreece\n\nItaly\n\nJapan\n\nMontenegro\n\nRussia\n\nSan Salvador\n\nThis Treaty has determined but the system existing thereunder was continued by Exchange of Notes of July 27th, 1898.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391328, "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": 289, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "Comparison with Siamese lines.\n\n285\n\n8\n\nTo the lines mentioned as already working should be added about 20 kilom. at the Hongay coal mines and a short line from Kebao to Port Wallat, also the following tramways:- Saigon to Cholon (7 kilom.), Saigon to Goviap (3 kilom.), and three lines in and around Hanoi about 13 kilom. long.\n\nA line from Phu Ning Giang to Kesat (near Haiduong) is under construction, and one of 1-metre gauge is to be constructed from Hanoi to Sontay.\n\nA railway of 1-metre gauge is to be made (I think it is already begun) from Kwangchouwan to Meilu. This is probably the commencement of the line to the West River traced in the map attached hereto.\n\nThe line from the Annam coast through Attapeu, over the Mekong to Korat, in Siam, seems likely to be taken in hand in the near future.\n\n9\n\nAt the end of June 1901 there were some 12,000 kilom. of telegraph lines open, and, according to the Governor-General, 18,000 in 1902, which latter figure, however, I think must be a mistake. The telegraph stations numbered at that date 224, and there were about the same number of post-offices. The receipts from the two sources rose from 257,000 dollars in 1896 to 413,000 dollars in 1900, and the upward tendency continued in a marked degree in the first part of 1901. The increase is largely attributable to the employment of Annamites in the administration, which has led to an extensive use of the telegraph by the natives, and also no doubt to the reduction of the rate per word for the whole country to two cents.\n\nIt may be mentioned that the wood telegraph poles are being replaced by iron ones, thereby reducing the cost of upkeep from 4 dollars to 1 dol. 50 c. per kilom. In the Laos the cost of maintenance per kilom. reaches the high figure of 9 dollars.\n\nA map showing the lines is attached hereto.\n\nThe length of the railways now finished in Tonquin is 281 miles, and the receipts for 1902 (that is, presumably, one year for the Hanoi-Dongdang line-163 kilom, say, 102 miles; and six months for the Hanoi-Haiphong line-62 miles) amounted to 420,000 dollars, being 130,000 dollars in excess of the expenditure. As, owing to the country having been almost depopulated during the troubles, the traffic on the portions beyond Phu Lang Thuong (30 miles from Hanoi) is very small, these results seem to be satisfactory, and omitting the portion of the line mentioned give, I believe, at least 3 per cent. interest on the capital employed. The Haiphong line is said to carry over 1,000 passengers a day, but very little merchandise, owing no doubt, to the competition of the waterways.\n\nThe lines of inland steam navigation are clearly shown on the accompanying map.\n\nThe service in Tonquin is worked by the Correspondances Fluviales with twenty-five steamers. The service along the coast from Saigon to Haiphong is worked by the Messageries Maritimes in connection with their mail-boats, and the same Company runs steamers from Saigon to Singapore, and from Saigon to Batavia and Samarang.\n\nThe following are the figures for the Hanoi-Dongdang line for the first half of 1902:-\n\n \n Passengers\n Luggage\n Goods\n Total receipts\n Increase\n \n \n 488,557\n 14,352\n 108,000\n Dollars.\n \n \n \n \n Tons\n 14,900\n 34,100\n 152,000\n \n \n \n \n \n $1,000\n \n \n\nThe receipts of the Saigon-Mytho line (44 miles) for the first eight months in 1902 were 115,000 dollars, an increase of 10,000 dollars.\n\nIt may be interesting to compare these results with those given by the Siamese lines (? about 200 miles).\n\nAs stated in my last Report, great improvements have been effected in the waterways, and the work is still being carried on with unremitting vigour. From 1882 to 1898 over 250,000l. was spent on the canals in Cochin China, in 1899 nearly 140,000l., and since then 100,000l. per annum, which is to be the annual grant for some years to come. A sum of 440,000l. has been expended on the harbour at Saigon since 1899, and a sum of 200,000l. on the harbour at Tourane. The navigability of the Mekong has been slightly improved, and an annual credit of 15,000l. is voted for that purpose, but the difficulties met with on this river at two or three points seem to be almost unsurmountable, except at a prohibitive cost; and this appears to be also the case with regard to the Upper Red River, even in the opinion of so sanguine a man as Governor-General Doumer.\n\nPage 289\n\nThe distribution of troops is roughly shown on the maps attached hereto. The Military force is composed as follows:-\n\n \n Description\n Number of Companies\n Strength\n \n \n Infanterie Coloniale\n 40\n 6,000\n \n \n Régiments étrangers\n 20\n 5,000\n \n \n Infanterie Légère d'Afrique\n 4\n 1,000\n \n \n Tirailleurs Algériens\n 8\n 2,000\n \n \n Total strength of French troops\n \n 14,000\n \n\nThis gives, I believe, a return of 2·80 per cent. on the capital invested. It may be mentioned that the estimated average cost of construction of the projected railways in Indo-China is 100,000 fr. per kilom., at which rate the loan of 200,000,000 fr. will enable 2,000 kilom. to be built. The lines into China are to be undertaken by private Companies, the Government guaranteeing 3 per cent. on the capital.\n\nGreat improvements have been made in the land communications, and it is now possible to travel all over the delta by rickshaw or bicycle. There are many miles of fine roads in the neighbourhood of the more important towns, and much progress has been made in reconstructing the main highways that existed before the arrival of the French, as well as repairing and extending local roads. For instance, in the single province of Bienhoa (near Saigon) there are said to be over 200 kilom. of metalled roads.\n\n* Converted at the rate of 2 fr. 20 c. per dollar.\n\nNot included in the above: eighteen batteries of artillery (12 guns to a battery, half being in reserve), one company \"d'ouvriers d'artillerie,\" and a section of the 7th \"régiment du génie.\" The strength of the artillery is probably understated, as I believe reinforcements have been recently sent out.\n\n \n Description\n Number of Companies\n Strength\n \n \n Tirailleurs Annamites\n 12\n 3,000\n \n \n Tonkinois\n 56\n 14,000\n \n \n Cambodiens\n 1\n 250\n \n \n Chinois\n 2\n 600\n \n \n Total strength of native troops\n \n 17,750\n \n\nPage 290", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394390, "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": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "content_text": "The Mercantile Marine Service Associatio\n\nthese appointments the Colonial Office will bear in mind\n\nthe special experience and qualifications of Officers of\n\nthe Merchant Service.\n\n•\n\n377\n\nIncorporated by Special Act of Parliament for conserving the interests of the British Merchant Service, and promoting the general improvement of nautical men by education, wholesome laws, obtaining redress of wrongs, procuring employment and caring for the helpless and aged, and by every possible means seeking the welfare of the Service, &c. &c.\n\na Guinea, Associates, One Guinea; Annual Subscription—Commanders, One Guinea; Officers, Half\n\nReporter Five Shillings (Post Free).\n\nLORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON,\n\nLORD BRASSEY, K.C.E\n\nJ. H. STOCK, ESQ., M.P.\n\nLORD KELVIN, L.L.D., PRES, R.S.\n\nDAVID MACIVER, ESQ., J.P., M.P.\n\nSAMUEL SMITH, ESQ., M.P.\n\nRALPH NEVILLE, ESQ., K.C.\n\nTHOS. B. ROYDEN, ESQ., J.P.\n\nR. P. HOUSTON, ESQ., M.P.\n\nCHAS MCARTHUR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nSIR ELLIOT LEES, M.P.\n\nAUSTIN TAYLOR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nSIR JAMES LYLE MACKAY, K.C.I.E.\n\nWM. WATSON RUTHERFORD, ESQ., M.P.\n\n16\n\nHonorary Members.\n\nSIR JOHN A. WILLOX, M.P.\n\nJOSEPH HOULT, ESQ., M.P.\n\nW. F. LAWRENCE, ESQ., M.P.\n\nT. P. O'CONNOR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nREAR ADMIRAL E. P. H. FRANKLIN.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOR\n\nBOARD\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL STEAM SHIP OWNERS'\n\nASSOCIATION.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, LONDON.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE LOCAL MARINE BOARD\n\nCAPTAIN HENRY TOYNBEE, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S.\n\nAfrican Steam Ship Company\n\nAspinall, J., Son & Brooke\n\nBalfour, Williamson & Co.\n\nBuring Brothers & Co., Limited.\n\nBibby, Frank, Esq.\n\nBooth, Alfred, Esq.\n\nBowing, W. B., Esq.\n\nBrocklebank, Sir Thos. Bart., J.P.\n\nBrocklebank, Ralph, Esq., J.P.\n\nBurton, Miles Kirk, Esq.\n\nBagheli Bros. & Co.\n\nCearns & Brown\n\nCory, John, Esq., J.P., Cardiff\n\nCory Alderman B., Cardiff\n\nCatesworth, Lyne & Co.\n\nElder, Dempster & Co.\n\nElkington & Co.\n\nHonorary\n\nFarnworth and Jardine\n\nFernie, David, Esq., J.P.\n\nGibbs, Antony, Sons & Co.\n\nGracie, Beazley & Co.\n\nGraham, Rowe & Co.\n\nGraves, W. S., Esq.\n\nGruning & Co\n\nGunston, Sons & Co.\n\nKatton & Cookson\n\nHerron, John & Co.\n\nHeynen & Paterson, Tampico,\n\nMexico.\n\nHill & Sons, Charles, Bristol\n\nHolt, Alfred, Esq.\n\nHolt, Philip H., Esq.\n\nHornby, H. & J., & Co.,\n\nHoulder, Bros. & Co.\n\nHughes, John W., Esq. (Messrs.\n\nT. & J. Harrison)\n\nCouncil.\n\nIsmay, Imrie & Co.\n\nJohnston, Win., Esq.\n\nKellock, C. W., & Co\n\nKilley, G. D., Esq., J.P.\n\nLaird Brothers, Limited\n\nLamport & Holt\n\nLockett, John, Esq.\n\nLyon, Comber & Co.\n\nMuco & Sons\n\nMcInnes & Son\n\nMacIver, Charles, Esq.\n\nMacIver, Henry, Esq.\n\nMoss, James, & Co.\n\nNeuts, A. J., & Son, Ostend\n\nNickels, J. T., & Co.\n\nPacific Steam Navigation Co.\n\nPakenham, M., Esq., Bath\n\nPetley, Capt. J. W., I.S.S.\n\nCalcutta\n\nPotter, G. Herbert, Esq.\n\nRankin, Gilmour, & Co.\n\nRathbone Brothers & Co.\n\nSandbach, Tinne & Co.\n\nShannon, Capt. J. W.\n\nSinclair, A., Esq.\n\nThompson, Anderson & Co.\n\nVictorian Stevedoring Co.,\n\nMelbourne, Victoria\n\nWebster, Capt. J. K.\n\nWeir, Thomas, Esq., Shanghai\n\nWhitwill, Mark, Esq., Bristol\n\nWood, J. M., Esq.\n\nTo serve Three Years.\n\nBird, Capt. C.\n\nBrocklehurst, G. W., Esq.\n\nBrown, R. J., Capt.\n\nCameron, J. G., Capt.\n\nCuff-McCulloch, E., Esq.\n\nCollings, E. J., Capt.\n\nCunningham, A. L., Capt.\n\nDutton, T., Capt.\n\nGordon, A., Capt.\n\nHave, J., Capt.\n\nHely, J. S., Capt.\n\nKesy, J., Capt.\n\nExecutive\n\nLanglands, George E., Capt.\n\nLapage, W. P., Capt.\n\nMoore, W. H., Capt.\n\n(Commander R.N.R.)\n\nOwen, W., Capt.\n\nPeel, F. B., Capt.\n\nRoberts, J. H., Capt.\n\nStock, J. H., Esq., M.P.\n\nCouncil, 1903-1904.\n\nTo serve Two Years\n\nBatchelor, J. W., Capt.\n\nCarson, John, Capt.\n\nChellew, T. H., Capt.\n\nCochrane, W., Capt.\n\nFreeth, E. H., Capt.\n\nHampson, R. Alfred, Esq., J.P.\n\nHayes, R. W., Capt.\n\nHeidy, S., Capt.\n\nKilley, C. J., Capt.\n\nMcAdam, J., Capt.\n\nMcKay, Horatio, Capt.\n\n(Hon. Lieut. R.N.R.)\n\nPritchard, T. B., Capt.\n\nBoyden, T. B., Esq., J.P.\n\nStewart, W., Capt.\n\nSumner, James, Capt.\n\nVaughan, Jas., Capt.\n\nWade, W. S., Capt.\n\nWatt, H. F., Capt.\n\nWallace, W. S., Capt.\n\nTo serve One Year.\n\nBremner, A. W., Capt.\n\nChubb, E., Capt.\n\nFoster, M. H., Capt., A.I.N.A.\n\nFreeman, E. W., Capt.\n\nBry, W. C., Capt.\n\nGardiner, J. T., Capt.\n\nGordon, J. B., Capt.\n\nHamilton, John, Capt.\n\nInglis, R., Capt.\n\nIsmay, J. Brace, Esq.\n\nKing, J. W., Capt., A.I.N.A.\n\nMcAuley, J., Capt.\n\nMacMahon, C., Capt.\n\nMcKay, Alex., Capt., F.R.G.S.\n\nMcRay, J., Capt.\n\nMurray, P. D., Capt.\n\nPurdy, T., Capt.\n\nRowe, T. Y., Capt.\n\nTrenery, J., Capt.\n\nWatt, J.B., Capt.\n\nWalker, I., Capt.\n\nCaptain M. H. FOSTER, A.I.N.A., President.\n\nJ. A. STOCK, Esq., M.P., Hon. Treasurer.\n\nO. P. GRYLLS, Secretary.\n\nCaptain J. KEAY, Vice-President.\n\nMessrs. W. H. COCHRAN & CO.,\n\nMessrs. WHITLEY & CO.,\n\nMessrs. THORNELY & CAMERON, and Mr. A. A. MILLER, Solicitors.\n\nBankers: BANK OF LIVERPOOL (LIMITED)\n\nTELEPHONE No. 690.\n\n....\n\nI\n\nam,\n\nSir\n\n3\n\nYours\n\nfaithfully,\n\nColCavalla\n\nSecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394679, "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": 16, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC.O.\n\n2148\n\n14\n\n[December 14.]\n\n99 JAN 04]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir C. Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received December 14.)\n\n(No. 428.)\n\nSt. Petersburgh, December 10, 1903.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a Memorandum drawn up by Mr. Spring-Rice after a conversation with the United States' Ambassador, recording the impressions of the United States' Consul at Formosa, on the present situation in Manchuria from the commercial point of view.\n\nIt is worthy of note that Mr. Davidson is under the impression that discrimination in favour of Russian vessels exists in the matter of harbour dues at Port Arthur, though he does not appear to possess any detailed information on the subject; and that, in his opinion, the existence of Tariff differentiation against foreign goods at the ports, which can be prevented by Treaty, is of little importance compared with hostile treatment on the Railway in the matter of freight rates, the possibility of which, as American experience has shown, no Regulations can exclude.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) CHARLES S. SCOTT.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Spring-Rice.\n\nRussia in Manchuria.\n\nMR. DAVIDSON, United States' Consul in Formosa, has just passed through St. Petersburgh on his way to America.\n\nHe has spent four months in Manchuria, with the intention of preparing a guide to the railway and country. He was shown every sort of civility by the Russian authorities, and has collected a mass of material, on which he will base a Report to his Government, as well as his promised \"guide.\"\n\nThe following are some of the points mentioned by him in conversation with the United States' Ambassador :----\n\nPort Arthur and Dalny.----Dalny is not frozen over to an extent sufficient to impede navigation. Ice forms there in the winter inside the breakwater, but it is too thin to be a serious obstacle. Dalny will remain the chief commercial port of the peninsula. Port Arthur (that is, the new outer harbour) is used for commercial purposes, but mainly for the ships conveying supplies for the garrison and population of the town. The discrimination in tonnage dues (which he thought existed) was due, he considered, to the navigation laws as to coasting trade—that is, Russian ships trading between Port Arthur and Russian ports are allowed certain advantages over foreign shipping. Dalny was a free port.\n\nThe Country. He thought the country was capable of great development. Beans are grown in great abundance, and the cultivation of wheat had commenced. He thought the milling trade of America would suffer, as the local price of wheat was already lower than the price of American imported flour, and mills were being set up. The cultivation was carried on by Chinese. No Russian settler had a chance of competing with the Chinese peasant.\n\nAll along the line a strip of land on each side was being marked out for cultivation and settlement. Comfortable guard houses had been constructed for the Cossack guard. He did not think any attention was being paid to any district at a distance from the line. There would be a great future for American agricultural implements.\n\nMoukden. The new line passed between the fortress and the tombs. The old line had been laid down at a distance of ten miles. There was no arrangement, however, for the shipment of merchandise at Moukden itself. Two large stations existed north...\n\n[2260 -1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394703, "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": 40, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "ARTICLE IV.\n\nIn case Chinese subjects conjointly with Japanese subjects organize a partnership or Company for a legitimate purpose, they shall equitably share the profits and losses with all the members according to the terms of the Agreement or Memorandum and Articles of Association, and the Regulations framed thereunder, and they shall be liable to the fulfilment of the obligations imposed by the said Agreement or Memorandum and Articles of Association, and the Regulations framed thereunder as accepted by them, and as interpreted by Japanese Courts. Should they fail to fulfil the obligations so imposed, and legal action be taken against them in consequence, Chinese Courts shall at once enforce fulfilment of such obligations.\n\nIt is understood that in case Japanese subjects conjointly with Chinese subjects organize a partnership or Company, they shall also equitably share the profits and losses with all the members according to the terms of the Agreement or Memorandum and Articles of Association, and the Regulations framed thereunder. Should such Japanese subjects fail to fulfil any of the obligations imposed by the said Agreement or Memorandum and Articles of Association, or by the Regulations framed thereunder, Japanese Courts shall, in like manner, at once enforce fulfilment of such obligations by them.\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nThe Chinese Government agree to make and faithfully enforce such Regulations as are necessary for preventing Chinese subjects from infringing registered trade-marks held by Japanese subjects.\n\nThe Chinese Government likewise agree to make such Regulations as are necessary for affording protection to registered copyrights held by Japanese subjects in the books, pamphlets, maps, and charts written in the Chinese language, and specially prepared for the use of Chinese people.\n\nIt is further agreed that the Chinese Government shall establish registration offices where foreign trade-marks and copyrights, upon application for the protection of the Chinese Government, shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations to be hereafter framed by the Chinese Government for the purpose of protecting trade-marks and copyrights.\n\nIt is understood that Chinese trade-marks and copyrights, properly registered according to the provisions of the laws and Regulations of Japan, will receive similar protection against infringement in Japan.\n\nThis Article shall not be held to protect against due process of law any Japanese or Chinese subject who may be the author, proprietor, or seller of any publication calculated to injure the well-being of China.\n\nARTICLE VI.\n\nChina agrees to establish itself, as soon as possible, a system of uniform national coinage, and provide for a uniform national currency which shall be freely used as legal tender in payment of all duties, taxes, and other obligations by Japanese subjects as well as by Chinese subjects in the Chinese Empire. It is understood, however, that all customs duties shall continue to be calculated and paid on the basis of the Haikwan tael.\n\nARTICLE VII.\n\nAs the weights and measures used by the mercantile and other classes for general and commercial purposes in the different provinces of China vary and do not accord with the standards fixed by the Imperial Government Boards, thus resulting in detriment to the trade of Chinese and foreigners, the Governors-General and Governors of all the provinces, after careful inquiry into existing conditions, shall consult together and fix upon uniform standards which, after a Memorial to the Throne for sanction, shall be adopted and used in all transactions by officials and people throughout all the Empire. These standards shall be first used in the places opened to foreign trade and gradually extended to inland places. Any differences resulting from divergence between the new weights and measures and those now in vogue shall be equitably settled, whether by way of increase or decrease, according to the amount of such difference.\n\nARTICLE VIII.\n\nThe Regulations for steam navigation inland of the fifth moon of the twenty-fourth year of Kuang-Hsü, and the Supplementary Rules of the seventh moon of the same year having been found in some respects inconvenient in working, the Chinese Government hereby agree to amend them and to annex such new Rules to this Treaty.\n\nThese Rules shall remain in force until altered by mutual consent.\n\nARTICLE IX.\n\nThe provisions of all Treaties and engagements now subsisting between Japan and China, in so far as they are not modified or repealed by this Act, are hereby confirmed; and it is hereby expressly stipulated in addition that the Japanese Government, officers, subjects, commerce, navigation, shipping, industries, and property of all kinds shall be allowed free and full participation in all privileges, immunities, and advantages which have been, or may hereafter be granted by His Majesty the Emperor of China, or by the Chinese Government, or by the Provincial or Local Administrations of China to the Government, officers, subjects, commerce, navigation, shipping, industries, or property of any other nation.\n\nThe Japanese Government will do its utmost to secure to Chinese officers and subjects resident in Japan the most favourable treatment compatible with the laws and Regulations of the Empire.\n\nARTICLE X.\n\nThe High Contracting Parties hereto agree that, in case of, and after the, complete withdrawal of the foreign troops stationed in the Province of Chilli and of the Legation guards, a place of international residence and trade in Peking will be forthwith opened by China itself. The detailed regulations relating thereto shall be settled in due time after consultation.\n\nThe Chinese Government agree to open to foreign trade, within six months from the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, Changsha-fu, in the Province of Hunan, on the same footing as the ports already opened to foreign trade. Foreigners residing in this open port are to observe the municipal and police Regulations on the same footing as Chinese residents, and they are not to be entitled to establish a municipality and police of their own within the limits of this Treaty port, except with the consent of the Chinese authorities.\n\nThe Chinese Government agree that, upon the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, Mukden and Tatungkow, both in the Province of Shengking, will be opened by China itself as places of international residence and trade. The selection of suitable localities to be set apart for international use and occupation, and the regulations for these places set apart for foreign residence and trade, shall be agreed upon by the Governments of Japan and China after consultation together.\n\nARTICLE XI.\n\nThe Government of China having expressed a strong desire to reform its judicial system, and to bring it into accord with that of Japan and Western nations, Japan agrees to give every assistance to such reform, and will also be prepared to relinquish its extra-territorial rights when satisfied that the state of the Chinese laws, the arrangements for their administration and other considerations warrant it in so doing.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397825, "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": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 315, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Section I\n\nThe coal mined in the region is of poor quality, merely surface scrapings full of stones and mud. I believe the Posé mines were visited some years ago by an agent of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., and that the firm have specimens of the coal in their possession. Posé, I should mention, is an important trade mart close to the Yünnan frontier, some 200 miles above Nanning, on a river which is navigable for light-draught steamers during the summer months. Through Posé come large quantities of Yunnan copper, which are manufactured at Nanning into gongs, candle-sticks, and all kinds of kitchen utensils. From Posé, too, come the tigers and leopards, numbers of whose skins we saw hanging in the furriers' shops in Nanning; a good tiger's skin, head and claws complete, may be bought for 50 dollars; leopard skins range from 10 dollars to 20 dollars. Posé is the farthest point reached by transit-pass from Wuchow.\n\nBy the evening of the second day of our stay in Nanning the river had fallen 2 feet, so it was arranged that we should leave the following day. As it happened, rain set in during the night, the water began to rise, and we might have stayed a day or two longer. I decided, however, to return; if the rain continued I could not in any case see much of the city, and having been over a fortnight absent from my post, I was anxious to get back as soon as possible.\n\nThe return journey was uneventful. Leaving Nanning at 11 A.M. on the 25th June, we crossed the Great Rapid the same evening, and arrived at Hsunchow the following day at 1 P.M. On Monday, the 27th June, the \"Moorhen\" reached Wuchow after an absence of nineteen days.\n\nFor the convenience of Consular officers who may have occasion to visit Nanning in the future, I append a table of distances (approximate) between the principal towns en route.\n\n| From Wuchow to- | Nautical Miles |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tenghsien | 25 |\n| Mengebiang | 36 |\n| Paima | 48 |\n| Pingnain | 66 |\n| Chiang-kou | 77 |\n| Hunchow | 89 |\n| Kueihsien | 150 |\n| Lei Kung hsu (Great Rapid) | 179 |\n| Hengchow | 204 |\n| Yungshun | 242 |\n| Nanning | 320 |\n\n**ITINERARY of His Majesty's Ship \"Moorhen,\" Wuchow to Nanning and return**\n\n| Date | Arrival | Departure | Steaming Hours |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| June 9 | Wuchow, 8-30 A.M. | Konghau, 8 A.M. | 4 |\n| 10 | Kooghau, 6 P.M. | Kueihsien, 5 P.M. | 9 |\n| 11 | | | 11 |\n| | At Kueibsien | | |\n| 21 | Kueihsien, 5 A.M. | Linglitsun, 7 P.M. | 14 |\n| 22 | Linglitsun, 6 A.M. | Nanning, 10-30 A.M. | 23 |\n| 24 | At Nanning | | |\n| 25 | Nanning, 11 A.M. | Leikunghsa, 7 P.M. | 8 |\n| 27 | Leikangusu, 6 A.M. | Hsunchow, 6-30 A.M. | 20 |\n| 27 | Hsunchow, 1 P.M. | Wuchow, 7 P.M. | 7 |\n\nTotal distance, 640 miles; steaming hours, 58.1.\n\nNote. His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen\" steamed at 12 knots an hour; average strength of current, 4 knots; over rapids, 5 to 8 knots.\n\n## Section II.-Nanning as a Treaty Port\n\nAlthough Nanning was declared an open port by Imperial Decree on the 3rd February, 1889, no office of the Imperial Maritime Customs has yet been opened there and the port may, to all intents and purposes, still be considered an \"inland place.\" My visit to Nanning confirmed the opinion I had previously formed as to the advantages which British trade in South China would be likely to derive from the effective opening of the port and the appointment of a British Consular officer to reside there, namely, that from a commercial point of view, the advantages would be quite inconsiderable. It appears to me that Wuchow, situated at the limit of ocean-going steam navigation on the West River, sufficiently meets Hong Kong's requirements as a distributing centre. Foreign goods are imported by steamer to Wuchow and there transhipped, under transit-pass, into junks (which may be towed by steam-launches) for all the principal towns in the West River basin, as far as Lungchow and Posé, and thence overland into Yunnan and Kueichow. Similarly native produce is brought down from these places under outward transit-pass and transhipped into the Hong Kong steamers at Wuchow. The trade, which is steadily increasing, has been carried on for some years past without serious interference on the part of the native Customs authorities. Steam-launches can, under the new Regulations, carry passengers and cargo between Wuchow and Nanning, calling at all recognized way ports; they may, with the permission of the Chinese Government, ply between inland places exclusively, say, between Nanning and Posé. British merchants may lease go-downs for the storage of their goods at Nanning and other riverine towns, and may, I take it, under this clause, appoint native hongs their agents for the care and sale of their merchandise.\n\nThe Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce have pressed for the establishment of a foreign custom-house at Nanning because they say that foreign goods could then be laid down there on payment of one import duty only; but this applies only to goods consumed in Nanning itself—an inconsiderable quantity; transit-passes would still have to be taken out, or native Customs dues paid on, goods destined for the surrounding districts. The same remark applies in the case of native produce; the bulk of Nanning's exports come from the country districts and in order to be shipped at the port would have to pay the same transit dues and the same native dues, as they do at Wuchow.\n\nOn the other hand, for political reasons, I venture to think that the effective opening of Nanning would be to the advantage of British interests. There is at the present moment a temporary lull in French railway enterprise in this part of the world, but at any time an energetic Governor-General in Tonquin may decide to resume railway construction on the frontier, and with the continuation of the Tonquin main line from Hanoi to Lungchow and Nanning, the Province of Kuangsi will inevitably be brought under French influence, and the French authorities will undoubtedly endeavour to arrange with the Chinese Governments for special facilities for rail-borne cargo crossing the frontier. Under these circumstances, the presence of a British Consular officer at Nanning might perhaps prevent any serious steps being taken to the detriment of British trade; he would, in any case, be able to obtain early information as to what was going forward.\n\nAs regards the future competition of the French railway system with the West River trade route, and the substitution of Hanoi for Hong Kong as the distributing centre of South-West China, I do not think the latter port has anything to fear as long as the Chinese Government continue to grant reasonable facilities to foreign trade on the West River and the shipping Companies of Hong Kong continue to maintain and improve their steam-boat services. What is now being done in this direction I shall briefly refer to in the next section, but I would here venture to call attention to the vital importance of the West River to the trade of Hong Kong. We have here one of the largest rivers in China, second only to the Yang-tsze in commercial importance, traversing and, with its tributaries, draining the whole of the Provinces of Kuangtung and Kuangsi, and parts of Yunnan and Kueichow to join the ocean in the waters of a British Colony. To-day steamers and steam-launches are taking passengers and cargo from Hong Kong, Canton, and all the principal towns in the delta, to Samshui, Wuchow, Nanning, and even Posé, distant 750 miles from the coast. By means of this service, assisted by native shipping, foreign goods can reach by water all the principal markets in South-Western China—to Shaokuan and Nanhsiung (Namheung), on the borders of Kiangsi; to Kueilin, on...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397905, "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": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## ARTICLE III\n\nThe Government of His Most Faithful Majesty agrees to co-operate with the Chinese Government in the collection of the duty and li-kin on opium exported from Macao to China, and also to co-operate in the repression of smuggling in accordance with the Treaty and special Opium Convention of the 1st December, 1887.\n\nIn order to render this co-operation effective, it is clearly stipulated that all opium imported into Macao shall, on arrival, be registered at the special Portuguese Bureau provided for this purpose, and the Portuguese Government will take the necessary steps in order to have all this opium stored under its exclusive control in a depot, from which it will be removed as required by the demands of trade.\n\n## ARTICLE V\n\nThe Portuguese Government shall enact as soon as possible a law fixing the penalties for infringement of the Regulations arranged between the two High Contracting Parties.\n\nThe quantity of opium required for consumption in Macao will be fixed annually by the Government of the Colony in agreement with the Commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs, referred to in Article II of the above-mentioned Convention, and under no pretext will removal from the Portuguese Government depot be permitted of any quantity of opium for local consumption in excess of that fixed by the said Agreement.\n\nNecessary measures will be taken to prevent opium removed from the depot for re-export to any port other than a port in China being sent fraudulently to Chinese territory.\n\nThe rules for the carrying out of this Article shall be drawn up by mutual agreement between the two High Contracting Parties.\n\nThe Portuguese Government will enact a law as soon as possible fixing the penalties for infringement of the rules approved by the two High Contracting Parties.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\n\n...\n\n## ARTICLE VI\n\nPortugal having the right of most-favoured-nation treatment, it is clearly stipulated that any advantages China may think fit to grant to the products of any other nation shall be extended to similar goods of Portuguese origin on exactly the same conditions.\n\nIt is also clearly understood that Portuguese wines of all kinds, accompanied by a certificate of origin, \"vised\" by Portuguese Consuls, proving them to be Portuguese and to have been imported from Portugal, direct or otherwise, shall, when their alcoholic strength exceeds 14°, pay the duty leviable according to the annexed Tariff on wines exceeding 14° of alcoholic strength. Wines passed through the Chinese Customs under the designation \"port wine\" shall not be entitled to the benefit of this Article unless accompanied by a certificate of origin as above.\n\nReciprocally, Chinese subjects shall enjoy in the importation and exportation of their products in Portugal all the privileges and immunities conceded to the subjects of the most favoured nation.\n\n## ARTICLE VII\n\nPortuguese subjects may frequent, reside at, and carry on trade, industries, and manufactures, and pursue any other lawful avocation, in all the ports and localities in China which have already been or may hereafter be opened to residence and trade of foreigners and wherever in any such ports or localities a special area has been or may hereafter be set apart for the use and occupation of foreigners, Portuguese subjects may therein lease land, erect buildings, and in all respects enjoy the same privileges and immunities as are granted to subjects of the most favoured nation.\n\nSuch steps as are necessary for the repression of smuggling of opium in the territory and waters of Macao shall be taken by the Government of the Colony in concert with the Commissioner of the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan, and similar steps in the Chinese territory and waters near Macao shall be taken by the Commissioner of the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan in concert with the Government of Macao. This co-operation is intended to render such steps effective on all points in respect of which co-operation is needed, and to avoid at the same time any injury to the sovereign rights of either of the High Contracting Parties.\n\nSpecial Delegates from the local Government of Macao and the Imperial Maritime Customs shall proceed to fix the respective zones of operations, and shall devise practical means for the repression of smuggling of opium.\n\n## ARTICLE VIII\n\nWith a view to the development of trade between Macao and neighbouring ports in the Kwangtung Province, the two High Contracting Parties have agreed as follows:\n\n1. Portuguese vessels desirous of carrying cargo or passengers from Macao to any of the ports of call and passenger stages on the West River, enumerated in the special Article of the English Burmah Convention of 1897 and Article X of the British Treaty of Commerce of 1902 shall be permitted to do so, provided they comply with the special Regulations to be framed for this purpose by the two High Contracting Parties.\n\n2. Vessels specially registered for trade under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Rules shall be permitted to ply between Macao and places in the department of Kwangchow-fu other than those mentioned in section 1, provided they report to the Kung-Pei-Kuan Customs for examination of cargo and payment of duties in accordance with Special Regulations to be framed for this purpose by the two High Contracting Parties.\n\n3. Such vessels may engage in all lawful trade, including the towage of junks and conveyance of passengers and cargo, subject to the Regulations for the time being in force.\n\n4. The privileges granted by this Article shall come into force after the approval of special Regulations defining in detail the conditions under which such traffic may be carried on. This Article shall only become operative when the said Regulations have been agreed upon and published, and only in compliance with the terms of these Regulations shall such traffic be carried on.\n\nThe Chinese Government having expressed a desire that the provisions of the Portuguese Civil Code Law granting Portuguese nationality to the children of foreigners born in Portuguese territory should be modified so far as concerns Chinese born in the territory of Macao, the Portuguese Government agrees to take this subject into special consideration, and to enact as soon as possible, if they should deem it necessary, a Law regulating the conditions under which Chinese born in Portuguese territory are to be recognized as being of Portuguese nationality.\n\nThese conditions shall be so laid down as to prevent the Chinese who may be recognized as being of Portuguese nationality from:\n\n1. Unduly assuming privileges reserved for Chinese subjects, such as the right of residing for commercial purposes in the interior or in the ports not open to foreign trade.\n\n2. Or, while residing in open ports, making contracts with Chinese subjects, as if they were themselves likewise Chinese subjects, and subsequently repudiating their responsibilities by alleging their Portuguese nationality, and availing themselves of the fact that the Portuguese laws may be opposed to the liabilities stipulated in the contracts made.\n\n## ARTICLE IX\n\nWhereas China, with the object of reforming its fiscal system, proposes to levy a surtax, in addition to the Tariff duties, on all goods passing through the custom-houses, whether maritime, inland, or frontier, in order to make good the loss incurred by the complete abolition of li-kin, the Government of His Most Faithful Majesty agree that foreign goods imported into China by Portuguese subjects shall, on entry, pay an import surtax equivalent to one and a-half times the duty fixed by the import Tariff as now in force, and that Chinese produce exported abroad by Portuguese subjects shall pay export duties, inclusive of the Tariff export duty, not exceeding 7.5 per cent, ad valorem; provided always that such import surtax and export duties have been accepted by the Powers having Treaties with China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397907, "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": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## ARTICLE XVII \n\nThe Portuguese Government, in the name of the Roman Catholic Prelate, the head of its Catholic Missions in Chinese territory, agrees to join in a Commission to investigate this question and, if possible, to devise means for securing permanent peace between converts and non-converts. On this Commission China and the Treaty Powers interested shall be represented.\n\nNo person, whether Portuguese subject or Chinese convert, who according to the tenets of Christianity, peaceably teaches or practices the principles of that religion which aims at teaching men to do good, shall be persecuted or harassed on account of his faith. But converts and non-converts, being alike subjects of China, shall conform to her laws, and shall pay due respect to those in authority, living together in peace and friendship; and the fact of his being a convert shall protect no one from the consequence of any offence he may have committed before or may commit after his conversion to Christianity or exempt him from paying legal taxes on Chinese subjects generally except taxes and contributions levied for the support of religious customs and practices contrary to his faith. Missionaries shall not interfere with the exercise by the native authorities of their jurisdiction over Chinese subjects; nor shall the native authorities make any distinction between converts and non-converts but shall administer the law without partiality so that both classes may live together in peace.\n\nPortuguese Missions shall be permitted to rent and lease in perpetuity, as the property of the Mission, buildings or lands in all parts of the Empire for Mission purposes and, after the title-deeds have been found in order and duly stamped by the local authorities, to erect such suitable buildings as may be required for carrying out their religion.\n\n## ARTICLE XVIII \n\nThe present Treaty shall remain in force for a period of ten years beginning with the date of the exchange of ratifications, and until a revision is effected as hereinafter provided.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1 \n## Page 390 \n**Regulations for the Execution of Articles III and V of the Treaty of Commerce between Portugal and China of 1904, arranged by the two High Contracting Parties.**\n\n**(Translation)**\n\nFOR the execution of Article III of the Treaty of Commerce between Portugal and China of 1904, the two High Contracting Parties agree as follows:\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The Superintendent of the Opium Depôt at Macao shall daily send to the Commissioner of Customs of Kung-Pei-Kuan a detailed statement of all the opium stored or withdrawn from the depot on that day, specifying the destination of the opium withdrawn—i.e., whether it is for local consumption, for export to China, or to other foreign ports, and giving the places to which it is to be exported. On the first day of every month stock shall be taken of the opium in the depot, for which purpose the Commissioner of Customs at Kung-Pei-Kuan shall be requested to attend either in person or by representative in order to avoid any discrepancy in the accounts kept by the two Departments. |\n| (b) | Whenever a shipment of opium is made to a foreign port, the Superintendent of the Opium Depôt shall send to the Commissioner of Customs of Kung-Pei-Kuan one of the bills of lading for the cargo duly signed by the captain or master of the ship on board of which the shipment has been made, and the latter shall indorse on the said bills of lading the weight of the opium taken on board. |\n| (c) | No opium shall leave the depôt for China without the production of documentary proof of the payment of the duties due to China. |\n| (d) | All opium clandestinely landed at Macao without being entered at the Government depôt shall be seized by the authorities of Macao, who shall impose the penalties provided by the Portuguese laws to be put in force for this purpose. Opium smuggled directly into Chinese territory by any vessel shall be seized and the fraudulent act shall be dealt with by the Chinese Customs authorities. |\n| (e) | Any additional rules which may be deemed necessary may be made by common agreement between the Government of Macao and the Commissioner of Customs of Kung-Pei-Kuan. |\n\nIt is further agreed that either of the two High Contracting Parties may demand revision of the Tariff and the Articles of this Treaty six months before the end of ten years from the date of the exchange of ratifications thereof. If no revision is demanded before the end of the first term of ten years, then these Articles in their present form shall remain in full force for a further term of ten years reckoned from the end of the first term and so on for a successive period of ten years.\n\n## ARTICLE XIX \n\nIn order to prevent in the future any discussion, this Treaty is written in Portuguese, Chinese, and English, and signed in six copies, two in each language. All these versions have the same sense and meaning, but if there should happen to be any divergence in the interpretation of the Portuguese and Chinese versions, the English text will be made use of to resolve the doubts that may have arisen.\n\n## ARTICLE XX \n\nThe present Treaty shall be ratified by His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and Algarves, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China. The exchange of the ratifications at Peking shall be made within the shortest possible time, and the Treaty will be printed and published in order that the functionaries and subjects of the respective countries may have full knowledge of its stipulations and may fulfil them.\n\nIn faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed their seals thereto.\n\nFor the execution of Article V of the Treaty of Commerce between Portugal and China of 1904, the two High Contracting Parties agree as follows:\n\n1. A hulk shall be kept in the inner harbour at Macao in order to facilitate the clearance of merchandize arriving from or intended for \n (a) West River ports;\n (b) Closed ports in the Department of Kuang-Chau-Fu.\n\nAll arrangements regarding the acquisition, maintenance, and repair of the hulk, shall be dealt with by common agreement between the Government of Macao and the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan.\n\nA sergeant, and a certain number of police-guards of the port of Macao, shall be told off every month for service on board the hulk. Their pay shall continue to be paid by the Government of Macao; any gratuities for special service may, however, be paid to them by the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan by previous agreement between the Government of the Colony and that Custom-house.\n\n## (A.) Navigation between Macao and the West River Ports.\n\n2. Vessels intending to make regular voyages between Macao and the ports of the West River mentioned in the special Article of the Burmah Convention of 1897, and in Article X of the British Treaty of Commerce of 1902, shall deposit their papers with the Representative of their country, who shall inform the Custom-house at Kung-Pei-Kuan of the intention of the master of the vessel to ply regularly on that river, and in the absence of a Consular Representative, the documents shall be deposited at the said Custom-house on board the hulk, and, on production of the certificate of their deposit, the Custom-house shall issue to the ship a river pass, which shall be valid for the whole of that year.\n\n3. Should a vessel, instead of regular voyages, intend to make only one voyage...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397908, "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": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Navigation between Macao and the West River Ports and between Macao and the Closed Ports of the Department of Kuang-Chou-Fu\n\n4. These vessels may carry passengers and cargo to and from the ports of call; and passengers only to and from the landing-stages. They shall come alongside the hulk for the examination of their cargo, and shall pay the officials of the Custom-house the proper duties in order that they may receive permission to load. The cargo having been loaded, the proper duties paid, and the manifest of the goods shipped for each of the ports presented, they shall receive free pratique to proceed on their voyage without hindrance. The police of the port and the officials of the Custom-house shall take the precautions necessary to prevent the vessel from taking in fresh cargo or committing any other acts of fraud.\n\n5. Vessels from the West River, on arrival at Macao, shall go alongside the hulk Office or Individual, in order to present to the officials of the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan the manifest of all the cargo on board, duties or documentary proof of the payment having already been made, when permission to unload will at once be given them.\n\n6. The Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan shall be permitted to cause the vessel to be accompanied during the whole of its voyage by a Customs guard, for whom the vessel shall provide board and lodging.\n\n### (B.) Navigation between Macao and the closed Ports of the Department of Kuang-Chou-Fu\n\n7. Steamers and towing-junks specially registered for trade under the regulations for the navigation of inland waters, when proceeding to closed ports in the Department of Kuang-Chau-Fu, shall go alongside the hulk in order for the goods to be loaded to be examined by the officials of the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan and the proper duties there paid.\n\nN.B.—These registered vessels, and those in their tow, are forbidden by the regulations in force to ply between inland ports or to land and load goods at any place where there is no Custom-house or li-kin station. For the transgression of this provision these vessels shall be liable to the penalties which they may incur according to the Treaties for calling at ports not open to commerce.\n\n8. After payment of duties and production of the manifest showing the goods loaded for each of the ports, the officials of the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan on board the hulk shall hand them a licence to proceed on their voyage without hindrance, but with due observance of the rules in force for the navigation of inland waters. The police of the port and the officials of the Custom-house shall take the precautions necessary to prevent the vessel from taking in fresh cargo or committing any other acts of fraud.\n\n9. Steamers or towing-junks from ports of the Department of Kuang-Chau-Fu which are not opened, on arrival at Macao, shall go alongside the hulk in order to produce to the officials of the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan the manifest of all the cargo on board, and to pay there the proper duties, should there be such.\n\n10. When the vessels subject to the present Regulations shall fail to observe their provisions, they shall be judicially dealt with by the Captain of the Port of Macao in accordance with the Portuguese laws to be put in force for the purpose, and after previous communication of the facts to the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan. Serious offences against the present Regulations shall render the vessel liable to the cancelling of its certificate of permission to ply on inland waters by the Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan.\n\n11. The payment of duties may be made on board the hulk in silver or in orders on the bank of the Custom-house, as may be most convenient.\n\n12. Certificates of permission to ply on the inland waters of the Department of Kuang-Chau-Fu shall be issued on board the hulk.\n\n13. The Custom-house of Kung-Pei-Kuan shall be allowed to cause the vessel to be accompanied during the whole of its voyage by a guard, to whom the vessel shall afford board and lodging.\n\nThe provisions of paragraphs 7 to 13 shall be applied only to the vessels plying between the closed ports of the Department of Kuang-Chau-Fu and Macao; they may, however, be altered by mutual agreement whenever circumstances may require.\n\nPage 391\n\n## DOMESTIC\n\n| Reference | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| `8873` | Subsidised French Steamer ... with Canton ... |\n| | Copies of Orders No. 10 and No. 36 of 1899: |\n\n(Minutes.)\n\n- spare copies of these \n- a set of the Revised Laws which could be spared for ... \n\n`No. 10 of 1899` was originally ... and ... 31 of 1897 incorporated with it in its ... \nCopy ... We cannot spare a set of Revised Statutes ...\n\nLast previous Paper: ...\nNext subsequent Paper: ...\n\n`R. 28092--23 X0-11-&`\n`21 MAR 051`\n`C. O. 8873`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403340, "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": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Referring to the terms of the cablegram, it is first of all charged that China ignores the recent British Commercial Treaty. This statement would appear to be proved by the fact that now, nearly three years after the signing of the Treaty, none of the important provisions of the same are effective, or, so far as can be judged, are likely to become effective within any reasonable time. Such being the case, it is felt we are warranted in the assertion that China ignores the Treaty, rendering same ineffective.\n\nThe cablegram goes on to affirm that China actively opposes the Treaty stipulations with regard to:--\n\n(a) Currency;\n(b) Mining;\n(c) Taxation;\n(d) Navigation.\n\nTaking up these in detail, we would remark as follows:-\n\n(a) Currency - China undertook in Article II to establish a uniform currency throughout the Empire. Instead of adopting a policy making for the carrying out of this clause of the Treaty, independent mints have been established in all the leading provinces. The coin struck in these mints are not of uniform value, and in some cases are not accepted at face value beyond the boundaries of the provinces in which the same are minted.\n\nFurthermore, many of the coins are of a debased metal, and are not intrinsically worth their face value.\n\nIn the opinion of the best judges, this course of action will not improbably bring about a financial crisis in the country, which in its turn will work serious havoc with British trade. The multiplication of these mints increases the difficulty of the establishment of a uniform national currency as provided for in the Treaty. Large provincial Governments are now dealing with the matter of currency as if it were entirely a local question. Whatever may be the opinion of the Chinese Government on the question, it is certain that no definite action has been taken with a view to introducing a uniform currency into the Empire.\n\n(b) Mining - The Chinese Government entered into a solemn engagement to \"initiate and conclude within one year from the signing of the Treaty\" a series of mining laws based upon the established Western procedure. These laws should have been in force in September, 1903, but there is still no sign of such Regulations as will conform to the requirements of the Treaty. On the contrary, the various Provincial Governments are issuing Regulations of their own, all of which are of such a nature as to prevent foreign capital being invested in the mines of the Empire. Attention is called to the letter published in the `North China Daily News`, in which the British Consul states that British subjects are only allowed to obtain permits to mine under Regulations issued by the Wai-wu Pu. As no Regulations have been agreed on between the Wai-wu Pu and the foreign Ministers, it is evident that British subjects are still unable to open mines in China. (See `Inclosure A`.)\n\n(c) Taxation - Although it was provided that Article VIII of the Treaty was not to come into force until all the other Treaty Powers had agreed thereto, China, nevertheless, recognizing certain \"fundamental principles,\" engaged herself to reform and systematize her taxation, as far as merchandise is concerned. Instead of initiating reform in this direction, such taxation is becoming more onerous. The restrictions upon foreign trade are becoming more pronounced than before the signing of the Treaty. There are instances in which the transit passes are not respected. (See `Inclosure B`.) Under various pretexts, goods covered by the same are made to pay heavy local taxation collected at li-kin stations, but called by names other than li-kin. (See `Inclosure C`.) There are also cases of differential taxation as between British and Chinese merchants, and in favour of the latter. (See `Inclosure D`.) The opening of ports to British trade has been strongly opposed by the Chinese Government, as, for instance, Changsha. As a consequence of this opposition, British goods are refused admittance except upon the payment of li-kin and other taxes. (See `Inclosures E and C`.)\n\nThe undertaking on the part of the Chinese Government to abolish li-kin is open to the strongest suspicion, as is witnessed by the fact of an Imperial loan issued this year (1905) for £1,000,000, the security for which is the li-kin revenue of the Province of Shansi. The loan runs for a period of twenty years; from which it would appear that for the next twenty years the old custom is to be continued either under the old or some new name.\n\n(d) Navigation - The conservancy of the Huangpu was agreed to before the signing of the Treaty. Every possible pressure has since been brought to bear upon the authorities by the Municipal Council and the commercial bodies of Shanghai with a view to the commencement of this important work, but the first steps towards this object have yet to be taken. There is also evident a great reluctance on the part of the Chinese officials to allow the free use of inland waters to vessels carrying a foreign flag. (See `Inclosure F`.)\n\nIn general, there is no question that the Chinese Government, and the officials throughout the Empire, are now more obstructive in their treatment of British subjects and trade than formerly, and there is no evidence of any endeavour to carry out either the spirit or the letter of the Treaty. In view of the above facts, the cablegram referred to has been forwarded to your Lordship with the earnest hope that the British Government will thoroughly investigate the matter and bring such pressure to bear upon the Chinese Government as to insure the Treaty becoming fully and immediately operative. As matters now stand, not only are British commercial interests suffering, but British prestige as well.\n\nWe have, &c.\n(Signed) JARDINE, MATHESON, AND Co.\n(And other signatures.)\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**British Merchants to the Marquess of Lansdowne.**\n**(Telegraphic.)**\n[Undated.]\nBRITISH merchants draw Government's attention to fact China ignores Mackay Treaty, rendering same ineffective. In most essentials, China actively opposes currency, mining, taxation, navigation stipulations. Beg British Government insist on Treaty being made immediately operative.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n(Signatures follow.)\n\n### (A.) - The British Government and the Mackay Treaty.\n\nThe following correspondence will illustrate the present position of the Mackay Treaty with reference to its mining clause, and will prove that the Treaty is not effective.\n\nA British merchant in Shanghai, who owns some mining land in China and wishes to develop same, wrote to his Consul in the district concerned, immediately upon the receipt of Reuter's telegram in which Earl Percy informed the public that the Government had no idea that the Mackay Treaty was ineffective, calling the Consul's attention to this statement of the Government in the House of Commons, and asking whether he was now in a position to demand a permit for the opening of this mine. A reply was received on Monday.\n\n[In the following letters, all names have been, for obvious reasons, for the present suppressed.]\n\n\"Dear Sir,\n\n\"British Consulate,\n190\n\n\"I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 6th instant, inquiring whether you can count upon Consular support in demanding a permit to work mines in ...\n\n\"The position, as regards the Treaty rights of British subjects to buy land or work mines in the interior of China, was fully stated in a private letter which I addressed to you on the 5th December, 1904, and to which I would ask you to refer. Sir Ernest Satow has informed me that he regards the interpretation of the Mackay Treaty given by me in that letter as entirely correct.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403345, "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": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 13 in No. 1\n\n## Letter from Edward S. Little\n\nI make here formally the charge against the Chinese Government that it has not only failed to carry out fully any single important clause of the Mackay Treaty, but that China is actively opposing in essential particulars both its spirit and letter. I shall be happy to acknowledge my error in public if I am shown to be wrong in the above statement.\n\nAs to the first part of my charge, viz., that China has failed to carry out any single important clause of the Treaty, it is only necessary to point out a clause of the Treaty actually in full operation to rebut or modify that statement. I acknowledge an improvement in the case of drawbacks, but refer especially to important points named below.\n\nBriefly, I should like to bring to light a few facts in substantiation of the second part of the charge, viz., that China is actively opposing both the spirit and letter of the Treaty.\n\n1. The Conservancy of the Huangpu of earlier date than the Treaty. - In spite of countless despatches and meetings and the strongest pressure from every commercial and political body in Shanghae and elsewhere, continued through five years, China absolutely refuses to budge, and the very first step towards the inauguration of this reform has yet to be taken.\n\n2. Coinage. - The Chinese Government promised to institute a uniform national coinage. Instead of this, confusion has become worse confounded. Coins of all sorts and conditions from some sixty mints are being constantly multiplied and debased, and to such an extent that a financial crisis is one of the probabilities of the future unless the evil is stopped, as you, Sir, have so ably pointed out in a recent article. Instead of one national coinage, there are now dozens. The Government is robbing the people and debasing its coinage and acting in direct violation of the express stipulation of the Treaty.\n\n3. Mining - China entered into \"solemn engagements,\" to quote Sir James Mackay, that she would open the country to mining on Western principles and that Chinese and foreigners should be treated alike and with equal justice, explicitly stating that \"within one year\" from the signing of the Treaty, she would \"initiate and conclude\" a series of mining laws based on Western procedure. Has she done this? On the contrary, she has taken every step possible to make mining by foreigners impossible. I have myself seen an official Proclamation giving a Chinese Company permission to mine, but containing a clause that the permit would be forfeited if any foreigners were admitted to the Company, and forbidding the employment of foreign capital even in the nature of a loan.\n\nIt was reported recently in the daily press that the Board in Peking had inserted a clause in the Regulations forbidding any foreigner to have any share in any mining enterprise in China. Compare this with the Treaty Regulation! China has gone out of her way to insult the Treaty Powers.\n\nTo-day, some three years after the Treaty was signed, no regulation as called for is in existence, and the fact remains that the officials will not grant mining permits to foreigners, except on conditions which are tantamount to refusing the same.\n\n4. Taxation. - This was the \"big feature\" of the Treaty, and all kinds of improvements were promised. Sir James Mackay was confident the Chinese Government meant to institute reforms. I venture to affirm that Chinese taxation is now worse than it has ever been. Since the Mackay Treaty has been signed, things have gone from bad to worse, taxation has increased, and foreign goods are not respected as they formerly were. Transit passes are often utterly ignored, and goods taxed by Li-kin officials quite regardless of the extra payment of the half duty. Employés of British firms are arrested, imprisoned, and fined, and redress is difficult or impossible to obtain. Consular archives, if opened to the public, would disclose many instances in proof of this assertion. Let the Government make the Tien-tsin Treaty effective and we shall be much better off than now.\n\n5. Inland Navigation. - Instead of assisting development along these lines, the Chinese Government take all possible steps to obstruct, as certain recent cases show.\n\n6. Trade-marks, Patents, Copyright, &c. - All these subjects are simply dead letters. Not a solitary instance of an effective carrying out of one of these Treaty Regulations can be adduced.\n\nIn spite of all these facts, Earl Percy tells the British public the Government have no information that the British Treaty has been ignored. I challenge Earl Percy to make a positive statement and tell us that the British Treaty is effective in any of the above essential particulars.\n\nAs a matter of fact, since the signing of the British Treaty, a strong anti-foreign wave has set in throughout Government circles. Every possible step is being taken to hinder foreigners in their legitimate development of trade. And they are encouraged in this by the fact that they are not called to account by the British Government, which calmly allows itself to be insulted by the open disregard of its Treaty. Three years after the signing of the Treaty, not one of its important clauses has been made effective. In the face of this patent fact, Earl Percy tells us the Government have no knowledge that the Treaty has been ignored. This is a \"record\" even for the British Government. It is surely high time this state of affairs came to an end.\n\nI have written to the Chairman of the China Association and the Chamber of Commerce asking them to get their Committees to act. It seems to me merchants of all nationalities should take steps to remedy the present state of affairs and to call the attention of the Home Governments to facts of which they are ignorant, as evidenced by Earl Percy's Parliamentary declaration.\n\nThe ordinary Chinese merchants and people are eager for reform in trade along Western lines. The obstruction is entirely official. A partial explanation of this state of affairs may be found in the fact that Chinese officials are now going openly into trade and are obtaining for themselves special and exclusive regulations which benefit only themselves but hinder general progress. This is encouraged by Sir James Mackay's special promise to exempt so-called \"Government works\" from taxation. Sir James's idea of \"Government works\" differed doubtless *in toto* from the idea of the same on the part of Chinese officials.\n\nThe Minutes of the Shanghae Municipal Council provide us with further evidence of the above statement and illustrate the fact that we are met on all hands by the most pernicious and obstinate obstruction on the part of the local officials. Instead of attempting to work harmoniously with us and further the general public interests, Chinese Mandarins for the most part do all they possibly can to obstruct and hinder.\n\nThis appears to be a part of a general official policy.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) EDWARD S. LITTLE.\n\n## Inclosure 14 in No. 1\n\n### Extract from Chinkiang Intelligence Report, March 1905\n\n#### Rice Export\n\nThe question of allowing the export of rice from Chinkiang - which has been stopped for a long series of years on the false plea of scarcity - has now again been raised. The local officials have always desired the removal of the prohibition, and the native merchants and foreign shipping agents have naturally been equally anxious. Higher authorities have stood in the way, and the matter of \"squeeze\" has been a prominent obstacle. In January, the Taotai, having previously felt his ground, forwarded to the Viceroy at Nanking a Petition from the local native merchants praying that the embargo on rice might be removed. The Viceroy showed himself not unwilling to entertain the suggestion, and active negotiations were begun. In February, the Taotai approached me with the conditions under which it was proposed that the export should be allowed. They were as follows:\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | A special export li-kin of 144 mace per shih (150 catties) on rice, and of 0.75 mace on wheat, other cereals no special li-kin. A li-kin office to be established, and the necessary returns to be obtained from the custom-house. |\n| 2 | Export to be allowed to Ningpo, Foochow, Swatow, and Canton, and the river ports if desired. Northern ports to be excluded on account of the war, Amoy for no special reason that could be given except old custom, and Shanghae as long as prohibition of export from that port continued. |\n| 3 | Steamer bond, for river export, twice the value of the cargo; for sea export, twice the value of the cargo, and a special extra bond of 10,000 taels. |\n| 4 | Telegram of due delivery at destination to be received within thirty days of departure. Documentary permit to be returned within six months. |\n| 5 | If the local price of rice should exceed 6 dollars a shih, export to be stopped. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403474, "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": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 383, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## ARTICLE IV.---- Mines\n\nThe Chinese Government, being desirous of encouraging mining and, with this object in view, wishing to attract foreign capital, shall within a year from the signing of this Treaty issue new Mining Rules founded on the laws relating to mining of Germany and other countries. These Regulations shall be framed so that, while promoting the interests of Chinese subjects and not injuring in any way the sovereign rights of China, they shall offer no impediment to the attraction of foreign capital or place foreign capitalists at a greater disadvantage than they would be under generally accepted foreign Regulations. The Chinese Government shall permit German subjects and protected persons to mine anywhere within the Chinese dominions and to carry out all necessary works in connection therewith.\n\nThe output of minerals shall not be made a basis for taxation, and beyond a tax on the mining rights and one on the area of the mine no other levy shall be imposed under any other name.\n\n## ARTICLE V.—Drawback Certificates\n\nDrawback certificates shall be issued to German subjects applying for them, if it shall appear that they are entitled to receive them, within twenty-one days of application. These certificates shall be valid tender, to the amount of their face value, in payment of all customs dues (tonnage dues excepted) or shall, in the case of drawbacks on foreign goods re-exported abroad within three years from the date of importation, be payable in cash, without deduction, by the customs bank at the place where the import duty was paid. But if the applicant for a drawback certificate be detected by the Customs in an attempt to defraud the revenue, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five times the amount of the duty, or to have his goods confiscated.\n\n## ARTICLE VI-Protection of Trade-marks\n\nChinese trade-marks, having received a certificate from a German Consul in China to the effect that such trade-marks have been recognized in China as the property of the person making the application, shall receive in Germany exactly the same protection against infringement as German trade-marks. No such certificate need, however, be procured in the case of the names of Chinese individuals or firms.\n\nGerman trade-marks, having received a certificate from a German Consul in China to the effect that such trade-marks have been registered in Germany, shall in China receive the protection of the Chinese Government. No such certificate need, however, be obtained in the case of the names of German individuals or firms, or their Chinese business names, and in case of fraudulent personation thereof the Chinese Government shall afford its protection.\n\nWhen German goods are shipped to an open port in China and there receive the trade-mark of another firm for goods of the same class, such goods shall equally be entitled to protection.\n\nAll the above Regulations apply also to German protected persons.\n\nChina shall forthwith establish a Government Office for trade-marks and shall issue Regulations for their protection. China and Germany shall proceed to discuss methods for the mutual protection of trade-marks, and until these have been agreed upon the present Regulations shall be in force.\n\n## ARTICLE VII--Chinese engaging in Foreign Enterprises\n\n(Same as British Treaty, Article IV.)\n\n## ARTICLE VIII\n\nIn the event of any other Power demanding on behalf of its subjects or shipping the opening of any port or other place, German subjects and protected persons and German shipping shall participate equally and in perpetuity in the privileges derived from the opening of the port.\n\n## ARTICLE IX.-Improvement of Waterways\n\n(Same as British Treaty, Article V, 2nd section, \"The Chinese Government are aware,\" &c., to end.)\n\n## ARTICLE X-Inland Navigation\n\nWhereas in 1898 the inland waters of China were opened to all such steam vessels, native or foreign, as might be specially registered at the open ports, and whereas the Regulations of the 28th July, 1898, and the Supplementary Rules of September 1898 have for various reasons been found unworkable, the question of the navigation of inland waters shall again be discussed.\n\n## ARTICLE XI-Coinage\n\n(Same as British Treaty, Article III.)\n\n## ARTICLE XII.---Export of Rice\n\n(Same as British Treaty, Article XIV, with the addition that \"the twenty-one days are to be counted from the date of the publication in Peking of the notification forbidding the export of rice.\")\n\n## ARTICLE XIII.--Revision of Treaty\n\nProvisions of former Treaties between China and Germany, so far as they are not modified by the present Treaty, shall remain in full force. With a view to removing any kind of misconception it is now specially affirmed that the favoured-nation clause with reference to German subjects and protected persons in the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Germany and China of the 2nd September, 1861, is in no way altered and is to receive the widest application.\n\nTen years from the date of signing this Treaty either party shall have the right to demand its revision. The procedure shall be as follows: A year before the time for revising the Treaty the two Contracting Parties shall communicate their views to each other, and when after a thorough investigation both Parties are agreed as to the advisability of the proposed alteration, the revision shall take place. As soon as the revised Treaty comes into force the present one shall be void.\n\nIf, after the expiration of the first period of ten years, neither of the Contracting Parties demands its revision, this Treaty shall be effective for a further period of ten years, and so for every subsequent period of ten years.\n\nThis Treaty shall be written in German and Chinese, and in case of any discrepancy between the texts the German shall hold.\n\nPage 376", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403505, "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": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 414, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Referring to the terms of the cablegram, it is first of all charged that China ignores the recent British Commercial Treaty. \n\nThis statement would appear to be proved by the fact that now, nearly three years after the signing of the Treaty, none of the important provisions of the same are effective, or, so far as can be judged, are likely to become effective within any reasonable time. Such being the case, it is felt we are warranted in the assertion that China ignores the Treaty, rendering same ineffective.\n\nThe cablegram goes on to affirm that China actively opposes the Treaty stipulations with regard to:\n \n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Currency |\n| (b) | Mining |\n| (c) | Taxation |\n| (d) | Navigation |\n\nTaking up these in detail, we would remark as follows:\n\n### (a) Currency\n\nChina undertook in Article II to establish a uniform currency throughout the Empire. Instead of adopting a policy making for the carrying out of this clause of the Treaty, independent mints have been established in all the leading provinces. The coin struck in these mints are not of uniform value, and in some cases are not accepted at face value beyond the boundaries of the provinces in which the same are minted.\n\nFurthermore, many of the coins are of a debased metal, and are not intrinsically worth their face value.\n\nIn the opinion of the best judges this course of action will not improbably bring about a financial crisis in the country, which in its turn will work serious havoc with British trade. The multiplication of these mints increases the difficulty of the establishment of a uniform national currency as provided for in the Treaty. Large provincial Governments are now dealing with the matter of currency as if it were entirely a local question. Whatever may be the opinion of the Chinese Government on the question, it is certain that no definite action has been taken with a view to introducing a uniform currency into the Empire.\n\n### (b) Mining\n\nThe Chinese Government entered into a solemn engagement to \"initiate and conclude within one year from the signing of the Treaty\" a series of mining laws based upon the established Western procedure. These laws should have been in force in September, 1903, but there is still no sign of such Regulations as will conform to the requirements of the Treaty. On the contrary, the various Provincial Governments are issuing Regulations of their own, all of which are of such a nature as to prevent foreign capital being invested in the mines of the Empire. Attention is called to the letter published in the `North China Daily News`, in which the British Consul states that British subjects are only allowed to obtain permits to mine under Regulations issued by the Wai-wu Pu. As no Regulations have been agreed on between the Wai-wu Pu and the foreign Ministers, it is evident that British subjects are still unable to open mines in China. (See `Inclosure A`.)\n\n### (c) Taxation\n\nAlthough it was provided that Article VIII of the Treaty was not to come into force until all the other Treaty Powers had agreed thereto, China, nevertheless, recognizing certain \"fundamental principles,\" engaged herself to reform and systematize her taxation, as far as merchandize is concerned. Instead of initiating reform in this direction, such taxation is becoming more onerous. The restrictions upon foreign trade are becoming more pronounced than before the signing of the Treaty. There are instances in which the transit passes are not respected. (See `Inclosure B`.)\n\nUnder various pretexts goods covered by the same are made to pay heavy local taxation collected at li-kin stations, but called by names other than li-kin. (See `Inclosure C`.) There are also cases of differential taxation as between British and Chinese merchants, and in favour of the latter. (See `Inclosure D`.) The opening of ports to British trade has been strongly opposed by the Chinese Government, as, for instance, Changsha. As a consequence of this opposition British goods are refused admittance except upon the payment of li-kin and other taxes. (See `Inclosures E` and `C`.)\n\nThe undertaking on the part of the Chinese Government to abolish li-kin is open to the strongest suspicion, as is witnessed by the fact of an Imperial loan issued this year (1905) for £1,000,000, the security for which is the li-kin revenue of the Province of Shansi. The loan runs for a period of twenty years; from which it would appear that for the next twenty years the old custom is to be continued either under the old or some new name.\n\n### (d) Navigation\n\nThe conservancy of the Huangpu was agreed to before the signing of the Treaty. Every possible pressure has since been brought to bear upon the authorities by the Municipal Council and the commercial bodies of Shanghae with a view to the commencement of this important work, but the first steps towards this object have yet to be taken. There is also evident a great reluctance on the part of the Chinese officials to allow the free use of inland waters to vessels carrying a foreign flag. (See `Inclosure F`.)\n\nIn general, there is no question that the Chinese Government, and the officials throughout the Empire, are now more obstructive in their treatment of British subjects and trade than formerly, and there is no evidence of any endeavour to carry out either the spirit or the letter of the Treaty. In view of the above facts, the cablegram referred to has been forwarded to your Lordship with the earnest hope that the British Government will thoroughly investigate the matter and bring such pressure to bear upon the Chinese Government as to insure the Treaty becoming fully and immediately operative. As matters now stand, not only are British commercial interests suffering, but British prestige as well.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed) JARDINE, MATHESON, And Co.\n\n(And other signatures.)\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**British Merchants to the Marquess of Lansdowne**\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\n[Undated.]\n\nBRITISH merchants draw Government's attention to fact China ignores Mackay Treaty, rendering same ineffective. In most essentials, China actively opposes currency, mining, taxation, navigation stipulations. Beg British Government insist on Treaty being made immediately operative.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n(Signatures follow.)\n\n**(A)—The British Government and the Mackay Treaty**\n\nTHE following correspondence will illustrate the present position of the Mackay Treaty with reference to its mining clause, and will prove that the Treaty is not effective.\n\nA British merchant in Shanghae, who owns some mining land in China and wishes to develop same, wrote to his Consul in the district concerned, immediately upon the receipt of Reuter's telegram in which Earl Percy informed the public that the Government had no idea that the Mackay Treaty was ineffective, calling the Consul's attention to this statement of the Government in the House of Commons, and asking whether he was now in a position to demand a permit for the opening of this mine. A reply was received on Monday.\n\n[In the following letters all names have been, for obvious reasons, for the present suppressed.]\n\n\"Dear Sir,\n\n\"British Consulate,\n\n\"I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 6th instant, inquiring whether I can count upon Consular support in demanding a permit to work mines in ...\n\n\"The position, as regards the Treaty rights of British subjects to buy land or work mines in the interior of China, was fully stated in a private letter which I addressed to you on the 5th December, 1904, and to which I would ask you to refer. Sir Ernest Satow has informed me that he regards the interpretation of the Mackay Treaty given by me in that letter as entirely correct.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403510, "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": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 419, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "412 \n\n16 \n\nI make here formally the charge against the Chinese Government that it has not only failed to carry out fully any single important clause of the Mackay Treaty, but that China is actively opposing in essential particulars both its spirit and letter. I shall be happy to acknowledge my error in public if I am shown to be wrong in the above statement.\n\nAs to the first part of my charge, viz., that China has failed to carry out any single important clause of the Treaty, it is only necessary to point out a clause of the Treaty actually in full operation to rebut or modify that statement. I acknowledge an improvement in the case of drawbacks, but refer especially to important points named below.\n\nBriefly, I should like to bring to light a few facts in substantiation of the second part of the charge, viz., that China is actively opposing both the spirit and letter of the Treaty.\n\n1. The Conservancy of the Huangpu of earlier date than the Treaty. In spite of countless despatches and meetings and the strongest pressure from every commercial and political body in Shanghae and elsewhere, continued through five years, China absolutely refuses to budge, and the very first step towards the inauguration of this reform has yet to be taken.\n\n2. Coinage. The Chinese Government promised to institute a uniform national coinage. Instead of this, confusion has become worse confounded. Coins of all sorts and conditions from some sixty mints are being constantly multiplied and debased, and to such an extent that a financial crisis is one of the probabilities of the future unless the evil is stopped, as you, Sir, have so ably pointed out in a recent article. Instead of one national coinage there are now dozens. The Government is robbing the people and debasing its coinage and acting in direct violation of the express stipulation of the Treaty.\n\n3. Mining. China entered into \"solemn engagements,\" to quote Sir James Mackay, that she would open the country to mining on Western principles and that Chinese and foreigners should be treated alike and with equal justice, explicitly stating that within one year from the signing of the Treaty she would initiate and conclude a series of mining laws based on Western procedure. Has she done this? On the contrary, she has taken every step possible to make mining by foreigners impossible. I have myself seen an official Proclamation giving a Chinese Company permission to mine, but containing a clause that the permit would be forfeited if any foreigners were admitted to the Company, and forbidding the employment of foreign capital even in the nature of a loan.\n\nIt was reported recently in the daily press that the Board in Peking had inserted a clause in the Regulations forbidding any foreigner to have any share in any mining enterprise in China. Compare this with the Treaty Regulation! China has gone out of her way to insult the Treaty Powers.\n\nTo-day, some three years after the Treaty was signed, no regulation as called for is in existence, and the fact remains that the officials will not grant mining permits to foreigners, except on conditions which are tantamount to refusing the same.\n\n4. Taxation. This was the \"big feature\" of the Treaty, and all kinds of improvements were promised. Sir James Mackay was confident the Chinese Government meant to institute reforms. I venture to affirm that Chinese taxation is now worse than it has ever been. Since the Mackay Treaty has been signed things have gone from bad to worse, taxation has increased, and foreign goods are not respected as they formerly were. Transit passes are often utterly ignored, and goods taxed by Li-kin officials quite regardless of the extra payment of the half duty. Employés of British firms are arrested, imprisoned, and fined, and redress is difficult or impossible to obtain. British Consular archives, if opened to the public, would disclose many instances in proof of this assertion. Let the Government make the Tien-tsin Treaty effective and we shall be much better off than now.\n\n4. Inland Navigation. Instead of assisting development along these lines, the Chinese Government take all possible steps to obstruct, as certain recent cases show.\n\n5. Trade-marks, Patents, Copyright, &c. All these subjects are simply dead letters. Not a solitary instance of an effective carrying out of one of these Treaty Regulations can be adduced.\n\nIn spite of all these facts, Earl Percy tells the British public the Government have no information that the British Treaty has been ignored. I challenge Earl Percy to make a positive statement and tell us that the British Treaty is effective in any of the above essential particulars.\n\nAs a matter of fact, since the signing of the British Treaty a strong anti-foreign wave has set in throughout Government circles. Every possible step is being taken to hinder foreigners in their legitimate development of trade. And they are encouraged in this by the fact that they are not called to account by the British Government, which calmly allows itself to be insulted by the open disregard of its Treaty. Three years after the signing of the Treaty not one of its important clauses has been made effective; in the face of this patent fact Earl Percy tells us the Government have no knowledge that the Treaty has been ignored. This is a \"record\" even for the British Government. It is surely high time this state of affairs came to an end.\n\nI have written to the Chairman of the China Association and the Chamber of Commerce asking them to get their Committees to act. It seems to me merchants of all nationalities should take steps to remedy the present state of affairs and to call the attention of the Home Governments to facts of which they are ignorant, as evidenced by Earl Percy's Parliamentary declaration.\n\nThe ordinary Chinese merchants and people are eager for reform in trade along Western lines. The obstruction is entirely official. A partial explanation of this state of affairs may be found in the fact that Chinese officials are now going openly into trade and are obtaining for themselves special and exclusive regulations which benefit only themselves but hinder general progress. This is encouraged by Sir James Mackay's special promise to exempt so-called \"Government works\" from taxation. Sir James's idea of \"Government works\" differed doubtless in toto from the idea of the same on the part of Chinese officials.\n\nThe Minutes of the Shanghae Municipal Council provide us with further evidence of the above statement and illustrate the fact that we are not on all hands met by the most pernicious and obstinate obstruction on the part of the local officials. Instead of attempting to work harmoniously with us and further the general public interests, Chinese Mandarins for the most part do all they possibly can to obstruct and hinder. This appears to be a part of a general official policy.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) EDWARD S. LITTLE.\n\nInclosure 14 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from Chinkiang Intelligence Report, March 1905.\n\nRice Export.\n\nThe question of allowing the export of rice from Chinkiang—which has been stopped for a long series of years on the false plea of scarcity—has now again been raised. The local officials have always desired the removal of the prohibition, and the native merchants and foreign shipping agents have naturally been equally anxious. Higher authorities have stood in the way, and the matter of \"squeeze\" has been a prominent obstacle. In January the Taotai, having previously felt his ground, forwarded to the Viceroy at Nanking a Petition from the local native merchants praying that the embargo on rice might be removed. The Viceroy showed himself not unwilling to entertain the suggestion, and active negotiations were begun. In February the Taotai approached me with the conditions under which it was proposed that the export should be allowed. They were as follows:-\n\n1. A special export li-kin of 1.44 mace per shih (150 catties) on rice, and of 0.75 mace on wheat, other cereals no special li-kin. A li-kin office to be established, and the necessary returns to be obtained from the custom-house.\n\n2. Export to be allowed to Ningpo, Foochow, Swatow, and Canton, and the river ports if desired. Northern ports to be excluded on account of the war, Amoy for no special reason that could be given except old custom, and Shanghae as long as prohibition of export from that port continued.\n\n3. Steamer bond, for river export, twice the value of the cargo; for sea export, twice the value of the cargo, and a special extra bond of 10,000 taels.\n\n4. Telegram of due delivery at destination to be received within thirty days of departure. Documentary permit to be returned within six months.\n\n5. If the local price of rice should exceed 6 dollars a shih, export to be stopped.\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Special export li-kin on rice (1.44 mace/shih) and wheat (0.75 mace/shih) |\n| 2 | Export allowed to specific ports (Ningpo, Foochow, Swatow, Canton, river ports) |\n| 3 | Steamer bond requirements (twice cargo value, extra 10,000 taels for sea export) |\n| 4 | Telegram of due delivery and documentary permit return requirements |\n| 5 | Export stoppage if local rice price exceeds 6 dollars/shih |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407571, "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": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "2\n\nTaotai and with the Governor, when he takes up his post as Consul-General at Mukden, with the view of arriving at some satisfactory arrangement. I inclose copy of my despatch to Mr. Fulford.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul-General at Tien-tsin reports that recently he had occasion to send title deeds for a piece of land acquired by a British subject from a Chinese, and situated well outside any foreign concession, to the Taotai for his verification and sealing, and that the deeds were returned to the Consulate duly sealed and without any objectionable indorsement,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu therefore request his Excellency the Viceroy to call upon the Taotais and Prefects concerned to give effect to this, and it is in accordance with this that his Excellency communicates with me upon the matter. I therefore have the honour to inform you that in all future cases where foreigners rent land in the neighbourhood of the Settlement, and apply for Taotai's title-deeds, it is to be clearly stated in such deeds that if the land at any future time is required for railways, roads, or other public purposes, the Chinese Government have the right to purchase it at the market price for adjacent land. I have the honour to request that you will take note of this and inform the Consular Body, so that they may duly acquaint land-renters concerned.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Seal of Taotai.)\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nTaotai Jui to M. Siffert.\n\n[Received April 28, 1906.]\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that on the 18th April I received from his Excellency Chou, Viceroy at Nanking, communication of the contents of a despatch received by him from the Wai-wu Pu. They inform his Excellency that his Excellency Tang, Director of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway, has transmitted to them a Report by Taotai Shen and others of the Railway Bureau, which is to the following effect:\n\n\"The Shanghae-Nanking Railway runs through Soochow, Sungkiang, Changchou, Chinkiang, and through nineteen departments and districts; the route covered is a long one, and every precaution must be taken to guard against malpractice in land matters. Mr. Brenan, formerly British Consul-General at Shanghae, in a letter respecting this question, laid down two modes of procedure—\n\n\"(1.) In case of dispute respecting compensation for surrender of land required for the railway, where the land was registered in the name of a foreigner, it should be settled by consultation between the local authorities and the Consul concerned, the basis taken being the market rate for land on either side of the line.\n\n\"(2.) In the case of land rented by foreigners from Chinese, where transfer has not been, but is about to be, effected, the Chinese authorities shall, when the deed of lease comes to be sealed and taxed, make a note to the effect that if in future it is required for road works, the method of dealing with it will be the same as that laid down in (i.e., on the basis of the market price of neighbouring land. Mr. Brenan also stated that leases which had not been registered and sealed would not receive recognition from the Head Company, and that the foreigner would not be recognized as proprietor.\n\n\"These arrangements were notified to the Wai-wu Pu by his Excellency Shêng, and were officially notified to the provincial authorities. The registration or non-registration referred to is simply the possession or non-possession of a Taotai's title-deed. The practice has been in all cases in which foreigners have been concerned for an Arbitrator to be appointed to settle the matter, and there has never been any dissatisfaction expressed.\n\n\"Article IV of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between China and Japan states that foreigners may, at the Settlements at present existing, and those which may be decided upon in the future at the various Treaty ports and marts, buy houses and rent land for the building of hospitals, churches, &c.,' which is a clear proof that the Treaty forbids foreigners to rent land outside the Settlements. That land at the ports, outside the Settlements, is rented to foreigners is a special concession outside Treaty provisions. The law of nations requires that immovable property owned by foreigners in any country is subject to the laws of that country. The term 'immovable property' refers to land and houses, and the principle here referred to has been most clearly acknowledged by His Britannic Majesty's Judge, namely, that all disputes respecting land in China are subject to the law of China, and that foreign law cannot be made to apply to it in the decision of disputes respecting such land. We propose, therefore, that in future all Taotai's title-deeds for land outside Settlements have clearly marked upon them that the land which they cover is to be available for purchase at the market rate for neighbouring land, if required for railway or road construction, or for any other public purpose, by the Chinese Government. This, then, is not only within the sovereign rights of China, but also in accordance with the law of nations.\"\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nM. Siffert to Taotai Jui,\n\nMay 29, 1906, I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter, which reached me on the 28th April, having for object the acquisition of land wanted for public purposes by the Chinese Government.\n\nI have duly communicated a copy of your despatch to my colleagues, who have decided that the following answer should be forwarded to you:\n\nIn a former despatch the Consular Body has already pointed out that the acquisition of land which may be wanted for the works of the Conservancy of the Whangpu River is regulated by the Agreement signed the 27th September, 1905, between China and the Treaty Powers.\n\nThe Consuls agree to the following conditions in your letter, re acquisition of land necessary for the building of railways:\n\n1. Should the land be already registered as foreigners' property, and wanted for railway purposes, if any difficulty arises in debating the price, the local authorities, conjointly with the Consul concerned, will settle the case in accordance with the rate for adjoining land.\n\n2. Should Chinese rent to foreigners land not yet transferred, and the transfer be applied for, the authorities will point out clearly in the rent title-deed that if afterwards the land is wanted for railway purposes, the rules as above mentioned will be observed.\n\nBut the Consular Body cannot agree with the last paragraph of your letter, in which you state that if in future a foreigner rents land adjoining the Settlement and applies for a title-deed, that document should mention that, in case the land is wanted for public purposes, the Chinese Government will be allowed to obtain the land at a rate equivalent to the price of adjoining land.\n\nThe Consular Body suggest that the granting of a title-deed for land which might be required for any public purpose should be subjected to the same clauses being put in the document as those for title-deeds for land which might be required for railways, conditions set down above and contained in the first part of your letter,\n\n(No. 129.)\n\nSir,\n\n(Signed) D. SIFFERT, Senior Consul,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Mr. Carnegie.\n\nShanghae, August 2, 1906. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch No. 62 of the 17th ultimo, on the subject of land outside Settlement limits which may be wanted for railway purposes.\n\nThe letter of the Senior Consul to the Taotai, dated the 29th May, is intended to convey the views of the Consular Body, the point of which was as follows—viz., that land which shall hereafter be rented by foreigners shall, as regards surrender for the\n\n31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410506, "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": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "content_text": "Extract from \"Chine-tail\" of the 4th. November, 1907.\n\nIMPERIAL CHINESE COMMISSIONER.\n\n2369\n\nJAN 22 1908,\n\nBanqueted at Hongkong.\n\nHis Excellency Yang Shi Chi, the Imperial Chinese Commercial Commissioner, who was appointed by the Throne to travel abroad with a view to developing China's foreign trade, arrived at Hongkong on November 2 on board H.L.C.M. Haichi (1,800 tons), one of the finest cruisers of the Northern Squadron of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Haiyong, of the same tonnage, accompanying. His Excellency, whose suite includes Taotai Mun Yew Chung (Deputy Director General of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, and Director of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company), and Mr T. S. Pojui, (Hon. Cantab., Assoc. Inst. Civil Engineers, London, also Secretary of the Board of Agriculture Industries and Commerce), and others, was banqueted by the leading Chinese business community at the Tung Tien Hotel on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. There were present some eighty guests, and among those invited were the Hon. Dr Ho Kai, the Hon. Mr Wei Yuk, Messrs Fung Wa Chun, Lau Chu Pak, Tai Tsze Kong, Taotai Wen, of the Imperial Chinese Telegraph, and others. His Excellency Yang, accompanied by Taotai Mun Yew Cheung, and Captain of the Haichi, arrived punctually at a little after 7 o'clock. The Commissioner, who is about forty-five years of age, looks extremely healthy, and after being introduced to the members of the business community present, photographs of the party were taken by flash light. The banquet commenced at 8 o'clock.\n\nAfter drinking the health of King Edward VII, proposed by Fung Wa Chun, and that of T. I. C. M. the Empress Dowager and Emperor, proposed by Lau Cho Pak, Tam Tsze Kong addressed His Excellency in a most cordial manner to the effect that he hoped His Excellency's mission might meet with every success which would tend to the development of China's foreign trade as well as secure the co-operation of all Chinese merchants abroad, ultimately furthering Chinese commercial interests. His Excellency replied fittingly, thanking those present for their cordial welcome. He concluded his remarks by inviting the party to tea the next day on board the Haichi.\n\nMr Chan Kiang Yu, the energetic opponent to the present administrators of the Canton-Hankow Railway, next spoke of the non-compliance, by the present administrators, with the Chinese commercial laws. He asked His Excellency's help to pacify matters, requesting His Excellency to inform Chinese merchants abroad of the effect that of the $8,000,000 which had been paid as first call on the shares, a greater portion was made up by subscription by these merchants.\n\nHis Excellency replied that as the Throne had already appointed Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng to be Director General of the line, he no doubt understood what was best to do, and he was the proper person for him (Chan) to approach on his arrival.\n\nOn Sunday at 3 p.m. in response to the invitation of Commissioner Yang, members of the Chinese community went on board the Haichi. As the launch conveying the guests approached the representatives of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which were anchored in Kowloon Bay, a band struck up. His Excellency Yang received the guests most cordially. By the courtesy of Commodore S. K. Shen, Commanding the Northern Division of the Imperial Chinese Navy, who was with the Greenwich Naval College, England, and had been with Great Britain's Mediterranean Squadron for two years, the guests were shown over the cruiser Haichi which was preserved in a most creditable manner.\n\nAfter taking tea and photographing, His Excellency addressed the party. He was glad of their presence. He hoped that in the not very distant future, China's Navy would be increased with larger and more powerful vessels than the two present, and that wherever there were Chinese merchants there would be seen the Dragon flag on the water.\n\nThe two cruisers, with His Excellency, left port this morning anchoring outside the harbour for the rest of the day. The next places of call are Manila, Saigon, Singapore, Penang, Java, and thence His Excellency and suite will proceed to Europe and America by mail steamer.\n\n128", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415876, "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": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "14\n\nplotting (with British subjects), not only is a breach of China's laws committed, but the dignity of the British flag is also affected. I must therefore request that the practice be entirely done away with so as to stop abuses,\n\nI have now examined in detail the records of last year's \"Sainam\" piracy case. Over ten of the pirates concerned have been arrested, and also Liang A-chiu, the actual murderer of Dr. MacDonald, and all have been executed. Two of the rifles lost by the steamer have also been recovered and returned. Thus pirates guilty of robbery have been punished, those who injured human beings have paid the penalty with their lives, while of the booty lost rifles have been recovered. According to Treaty if the local officials do all in their power to arrest the offenders and recover the booty, there is no ground for giving compensation. In view, however, of the Admiral's statement that Dr. MacDonald, after spending over twenty years in China doing good, had been suddenly murdered, leaving behind a wife and children without means, I have been moved to compassion, and, having in view the friendliness of China and Great Britain, specially consent to pay a compassionate allowance for the death of Dr. MacDonald as evidence of commiseration.\n\nI think the above course of action will convince you and his Excellency the Admiral of my exceptional friendliness.\n\nCompliments.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\n\nCanton, November 28, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose translation of a despatch received last night from Viceroy Chang, which is a reply to your official of the 23rd instant.\n\nIt appears thoroughly unsatisfactory in every way, merely repeating the arguments advanced by him and by his predecessors over and over again. I may mention that when I first claimed compensation on account of the \"Sainam\" piracy, Viceroy Ts'en's Secretary in conversation stated that they were willing to direct the Benevolent Societies to provide a few thousand dollars as a compassionate allowance to Mrs. MacDonald, but when I informed him that the Secretary of State had estimated her indemnity at 6,000l., and that other claims had to be met, he declined to discuss the matter further.\n\nI have telegraphed the gist of the Viceroy's despatch to Sir J. Jordan, and have the honour to inclose copy of the telegram. This deals in part with the question of the Wai-wu Pu's reference to two vessels under Customs control, which form the subject of your telegram just received. The only previous mention of these two vessels is contained in a telegram dated the 12th instant, from Sir John Jordan, copy of which I inclose, and which was submitted to you when in Canton.\n\nYou will note that this telegram infers that the two vessels spoken of are to be employed in the prevention of piracy, whereas in the Wai-wu Pu's Memorandum of the 11th instant, on which the telegram is based, such employment is not clearly stated.\n\nYou will find some reference to an additional two cruisers in reserve in Mr. King's Memorandum on the Viceroy's proposed Regulations.\n\n15\n\n3. Right of Navigation of West River and Inland Waterways.-This was granted under the West River Regulations of 1897 and the Inland Water Navigation Rules of 1898, supplemented by the Mackay Treaty of 1902, Annex (C).\n\nRemarks. It was at the instigation of and owing to pressure put upon the Chinese by the British Government that the Regulations mentioned under 3 were formulated, and it is a matter for serious consideration whether any great curtailment of the use of the British flag would not be a political mistake.\n\nThe navigation of the inland waterways is comparatively recent, and its development has led to the discovery of much that is objectionable and requires amendment. It cannot be denied that the so-called British owner is largely merely an agent for Chinese, and that his control of the launches flying the British flag and registered in his name is quite inadequate. At the same time these launches, when not towing, carry passengers about the delta who are engaged in trade, and, when towing, are assisting the movement of merchandize. They thus have their part in the general trade of Canton, the delta, and the West River, of which the British share is very considerable.\n\nPiracy. It is obvious that, if there were not a general state of disorder and lawlessness in Southern China, the repeated piracies which have always existed, and which have obtained more prominence since the year 1897, as they now affect the foreign shipping permitted under 3, would not exist. They must and do bring great injury to trade, and if the use of the foreign flag is instrumental in securing their suppression it will be to the benefit of foreign and native commerce. In the absence of foreign pressure, the right to exert which is mainly afforded by the use of the flag, serious action by the local authorities is not to be expected. If the British flag is withdrawn, launches will be driven to the use of that of other Powers less particular, less disinterested, and having less power of Consular and judicial control than that possessed by the British Consul-General.\n\nChinese Measures for Suppression. It is submitted that, if the Provincial Government is compelled to acknowledge its liability to pay compensation in the case of every piracy on British launches; this responsibility will go a long way towards spurring on the local officials to eradicate the disease. Continued and energetic action by the civil and military officials on shore is a sine qua non, and, in addition, an effective patrol along the waterways is an absolute necessity. Neither will, it is submitted, be achieved unless there is some foreign control, and it has been decided that this can best be secured by the employment of suitable cruisers under the Imperial Maritime Customs. The number promised by the Wai-wu Pu, four, is inadequate, but is a move in the right direction. If the patrol is constant and effective, it should not fail to be productive of valuable evidence pertaining to the movements and whereabouts of the pirates and to the energy or otherwise of the local authorities on shore and afloat.\n\nControl of British Launches.—His Majesty's Consul-General has already reported how in his opinion this can best be secured, and particulars of his recommendations have been given to Commander Majendie, R.N. There seems no reason to doubt that, if the powers requested were given him, there should be no great difficulty, due discretion being exercised, in weeding out the good from the bad.\n\nCanton, November 15, 1907.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 14 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Sly respecting the Registration of British Launches plying on the Canton Waterways and the use of the Flag.\n\n1. Registration.-Authority to register, the result of representations made by the Chinese Government to His Majesty's Minister aiming at this end, was given by Sir N. O'Conor in 1886.\n\n2. Flag. Authority to use the red ensign came from Sir Claude MacDonald in 1898, who gave it as his opinion that its use must have been contemplated when the authority to register was given.\n\n(No. 61.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, December 3, 1907. IN continuation of my despatch No. 60 of the 1st instant on the subject of the suppression of piracy in these waters, I have the honour to report as follows :—\n\nI telegraphed to you on the 30th ultimo, No. 63, that I was that day informing the Viceroy, at the Admiral's request, that the extended British patrol of the waterways would be inaugurated this week.\n\nSir Arthur Moore has already furnished you with copy of his despatch to me of the 29th November, on which my telegram No. 63 was based (see his Excellency's despatch to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Inclosure 8, copy of which reached me to-day). I merely forward, then, copy of the Chinese version submitted to the Viceroy.\n\n38\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416210, "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": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "2\n\nactive trouble in the provinces and a boycott of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.'s and the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank's business.\n\nMr. Hillier was much concerned at this message and sought my advice.\n\nIn view of Sheng's character, his interested position in this affair, and his well-known antagonism to this Legation and Yuan Shih-k'ai, I was not disposed to entertain any overtures from him or to regard too seriously his threats of a boycott. While leaving Mr. Hillier full discretion to lay his view of the situation before the Bank, I deprecated any discussion of the question with Sheng, and advised that the matter should remain strictly in the hands of the Corporation's representative, Mr. Bland.\n\nMr. Hillier was good enough to fall in with my views and to refrain from any direct participation in the negotiations.\n\nShêng then turned to Mr. Hippisley, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, with whom he had been associated in the revision of the Commercial Treaties at Shanghae in 1902-3. Mr. Hippisley gave me notice that Sheng had sent for him, and I was accordingly able to tell him in advance that I could only recognize the Wai-wu Pu in this question.\n\nFrom Mr. Hippisley's account of what passed between them I gather that Shông wished him to state to me that if the British and Chinese Corporation would give up the railway loan, he would get them the financing of an order for gun-boats to patrol the inland waterways. Beyond this vague and impractical suggestion Shêng had little else of importance to say, except as regards the possibility of a boycott. On this point he made the disclosure that such retaliation was out of the question, since the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company's steamers were in a pool with those of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., so that if the latter's fleet was boycotted the China Merchants' steamers would have to carry cargo for them for nothing and share the freight.\n\nSheng's arrival in Peking was closely followed by that of the provincial Delegates, I have made private inquiries as to whether they had presented themselves at the Wai-wu Pu, and I learnt that they had been invited to visit the Board, but had excused themselves on the plea of fatigue after their journey.\n\nNevertheless, they have not been too fatigued to hold public meetings, where the determination to resist a loan forced upon them by the Central Government has been reiterated ad nauseam.\n\nTogether with the provincial Delegates is a British engineer, Mr. John Forster, who wrote to me for an interview. I had no knowledge of this gentleman, and have only subsequently learnt that he was engaged by Mr. Wang Ta Hsieh, while Minister in England, as engineer for the Chekiang Railway Company. I declined to see him on any business connected with the railway question, but intimated that if he had private or other business he would be received by one of my staff.\n\nHe accordingly called, and hinted that he held a Concession that he desired to carry out.\n\nHe was told that an Imperial Decree sanctioning the Concession, whatever it might be, must be obtained and be communicated officially to this Legation before we could interest ourselves in it.\n\nHe then called upon Mr. Bland and Lord ffrench, from whom I learn that his \"Concession is said to be derived from the Chekiang gentry; that it is for the construction of the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway; that he is offered a good commission based upon the mileage of the line if he succeeds in getting the British and Chinese Corporation to retire; and that he is prepared to offer to Messrs. Pauling and Co. the construction of the line by contract.\n\nI had purposely refrained for the past ten days from further interviews with the Wai-wu Pu, but now felt that the other side could not be left any longer to pursue their activities unmolested. I accordingly wrote to Prince Ching on the 22nd December asking His Highness if he could receive me at the Wai-wu Pu on the 24th.\n\nHis Highness excused himself on the grounds of pressing business, but informed me that the other Ministers would expect me on that date.\n\nAt the interview which took place this afternoon I called the serious attention of the Chinese Government to the misrepresentations and hostile attitude of the native press which had been evoked by this question of the railway loan, and warned them most earnestly that the responsibility would be upon their shoulders if disturbances took place as a result of such unbridled agitation. As an example I mentioned the article in the \"Universal Gazette\" alluded to above, and also showed them that responsible officials, such as the Viceroy at Nanking and Shông, had been pursuing a similar campaign in their official communications. In particular I produced a newspaper purporting to reproduce a secret Memorial of Shêng to the Throne, of recent date, in which he was represented as maintaining that China had not broken faith in the railway question, but that Great Britain had infringed her Agreement with China. I protested against such wilful misrepresentations being laid before the Throne, and asked that steps should be taken for the substantiation or withdrawal of this statement.\n\n3\n\nAn official copy of Sheng's Memorial was then produced by the Ministers, and I had to accept their assurance that the newspaper report was inaccurate. Subsequently one of them said to me that Shông's Memorial was \"bad enough,\" but not so bad as the newspapers made out.\n\nI then passed on to the personal responsibility which must fall on Prince Ch'ing for the present situation, and asked that the true facts regarding the issue of the Decree of 1905 granting these railway rights to the gentry should be explained to their Majesties.\n\nYuan Shih-k'ai stated, in reply, that their Majesties fully knew the facts. The blunder was due to the fact that Prince Ching was charged with so many responsible duties that he had overlooked the consequences of such a Decree. The Government, he admitted, had been slow to rectify matters, but had never departed from the determination to carry out their obligations to us. As regards the newspapers and their campaign of abuse, urgent instructions had been issued for the framing of press laws; and as many of the newspapers were published in foreign Concessions and Settlements, under the names of foreign proprietors, he hoped that the Chinese Government would receive assistance from the Treaty Powers in controlling their activity. He was aware of the Order in Council and Hong Kong Government Ordinance recently issued on this subject, and was grateful to his Majesty's Government for the step.\n\nWith reference to the agitation by associations of gentry and students, a very strong Decree had been issued to-day, which he hoped would do good. The Government was quite alive to the danger which beset them, but it was difficult under their system of divided responsibility to get measures passed expeditiously. Too many people had to be consulted.\n\nTurning to the actual question at issue, his Excellency said that the provincial delegation was to wait upon the Wai-wu Pu on the 25th December, when the situation would be carefully explained to them. The Board considered that as soon as the Agreement was published the agitation would subside.\n\nOn returning home I found the Decree published in this evening's \"Gazette,\" and have the honour to inclose a translation. It appears to be worded in a satisfactory manner, but whether at this late hour of the day it will have the desired effect I will not venture to prophesy.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nP.S. December 26.-Another strongly worded Decree was issued in last night's \"Gazette,\" bearing upon the question of popular agitation among the educated classes against the established order of things in this country. Though no mention is made of the anti-railway agitation in particular, the issue of this Decree may help to strengthen the hands of the Wai-wu Pu in dealing with the gentry of Chekiang, and I therefore append a translation to this despatch.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the “Peking Gazette\" of December 24, 1907.\n\nDECREE ISSUED IN THE NAME OF THE EMPRESS DOWAGER.\n\nJ. N. J.\n\nLAST year we issued Decrees to prepare for the establishment of constitutional government, the intention being that, as a matter of such magnitude and complexity could not be inaugurated immediately, it was first necessary that the supreme power in the State should have in view a complete plan of action, and that the nation should comprehend the duties which it had to fulfil before a system of constitutional government could be promulgated and a date be fixed for its inauguration.\n\n[2856 -1]\n\nB 2\n\n370", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416497, "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": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 662, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "## 655\n\n4\n\n**political society is limited to 100 persons, and not more than 200 persons shall be allowed to attend a public meeting of a political nature. None but Chinese are permitted to become members of a political society or convene a public meeting of a political nature. Various punishments—fines and imprisonment—are specified for offences against these regulations, which are to come into force three months after the receipt of Imperial sanction.**\n\n## Administrative Reform\n\nThe \"Eastern Times\" of the 20th February has a leading article on the necessity of keeping the question of administrative reform in the forefront of the national policy.\n\nReviewing the history of the past few years, the journal mentions that since 1900, apart from the Russo-Japanese war, the foreign relations of China have been carried on with varying success or failure, but nothing has occurred to give serious cause for reflection. On the other hand, at home there has been one agitation after another; first that of the students, then that of the Court factions, and lastly that of the collision between the Sovereign and the people. All these questions have incidentally marked stages of progress. Thus, the assassination of the Governor of Anhui was instrumental in advancing the assimilation of the Manchu and Chinese races; and the railway agitation led to a platform being found for negotiations between Government and people. But the progress must be maintained. The racial difficulty will disappear when the constitutional question is settled. The solution adopted for the railway difficulty still leaves the Government authority as regards the Loan Agreement, and if the efforts of the people are relaxed it is doubtful whether control over the line can be retained. A settled policy is necessary on the question of constitution, and the establishment of a National Assembly must be kept steadily in view.\n\n## Miscellaneous\n\nThe following extract from the \"Universal Gazette\" (Hankow) is interesting, as being a résumé of last year's events, from the Chinese point of view:-\n\nIn foreign relations China has lost ground everywhere this year. In the 1st moon the Agreements for the Kowloon Railway were exchanged with the British. This railway is one of the five lines to be built by the British. The Wai-wu Pu, discarding the precedent of the Shanghae-Ningpo Railway, where the Company fixed the Agreement with the British, assumed this function itself, which rendered the more impracticable any yielding from the fixed proposals for the Su Hang-Ning line.\n\nThis was a very serious miscalculation. That month Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector-General of Customs, again raised the question of his returning to England. The British again pressed their Shanghae riot claims, which led to endless worry, until, in the 11th moon, the Shanghae Customs Taot'ai, Yuan Shu Hsun, paid 50,000 taels from his own pocket. On other nations thereupon bringing forward claims, the Wai-wu Pu ordered the former Shanghae Customs Taot'ai, Jui Cheng, to go to Shanghae and negotiate with the British Consul-General; but it is not yet known what the outcome will be.\n\nIn the 2nd moon the question of building the Tien-tsin-Chinking alone and cancelling the previous Agreement came up for discussion. As England and Germany absolutely refused, the Court ordered Chang Chih Tung to discuss the matter together with Yuan Shih K'ai. The Chinese found it impossible to carry the proposal to do it themselves, and in the 12th moon an Agreement was negotiated to build the line with a foreign loan. The name of the railway was, besides, altered to the Tien-tsin-P'u k'ou—a change said to be the work of a certain Minister to foreign parts, who, before being appointed envoy, was joint manager of the Anhui lines, and, against the popular wish, was for building the southern section, whereas most Anhui men wanted the northern section. The resulting bitter dispute led the Minister in question to arrange for the change to Tien-tsin-Pu k'ou in order to spoil the northern Anhui railway scheme.\n\nThe gentry and merchants of Kirin, because of the pressure of Japanese influence, decided to build and manage the railway between Kirin and Changchun by themselves, and the Board had sanctioned their request when the Japanese Minister suddenly took a hand in the matter, putting forth outrageous demands. After that, in the end, the Wai-wu Pu redeemed from the Japanese the Hsinminting-Fengtien Light Railway for 1,600,000 dollars, and also negotiated an Agreement with them that they would borrow half the capital that might be needed for future rebuilding of the Hsinminting-Fengtien Railway from the Japanese South Manchurian Railway Company, and that this also applied to the Kirin-Changchun Railway. Besides, the engineers and accountants engaged for both lines were to be Japanese. This Agreement was ratified on the 18th of the 4th moon at Port Arthur. At the same time in Manchuria there were questions with the Japanese over the Kaiping Fishery Company, the import of Japanese salt, the stationing of troops in neutral territory, the railway police, fishing rights at Hsiung Yueh, the Yalu forests, the mines at Chien Tai Shan and Tien Pao Shan and the coal-mines on either side of the Railway. Further, because of the never-ending troubles due to Japanese promiscuously living all over Kirin city, where the Concession area was not yet fixed, his Excellency Ta Kuei, the Tartar-General of Kirin, issued a Proclamation forbidding the practice, whereupon Japan by main force insisted on its being taken down and cancelled. But the military Governor Chao Erh Hsun held firm on all the above questions. The new Viceroy Hsu Shih Chang, however, on arriving at Fengtien compromised most of the questions, to the vast detriment of Chinese sovereign rights, though some cases remain unsettled up to the present time.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu prohibited grain export from Dalny and Yingkow (Newchwang); the Japanese were even more recalcitrant, and, after waiting till the 8th moon, the Proclamation was finally withdrawn, and the Imperial Maritime Customs established at Dalny, in accordance with the terms of the Chinese-Japanese-Peking Treaty. The Inspector-General negotiated with Japan, after the Kiaochow question, a special Treaty with appended deeds to be tried for one year, which began in the 6th moon.\n\nWhen the opening of the Imperial Maritime custom-houses in Northern Manchuria was originally fixed for the 8th moon, however, the Russo-Japanese Joint Convention, owing to the dispute between Japan and Russia about the navigation rights on the Sungari River, and owing to the cessation of negotiations, when the original Plenipotentiary his Excellency Tang Shao-yi was appointed Governor of Fengtien, and the Russian Minister's frequent procrastinations and hindrances in the hopes of fresh encroachments, has not up to date taken form.\n\nThe Russians in the first moon restored the gold-mines of Mo Ho in Heilungchiang Province, and abolished their Far-Eastern Viceroy, but they refused to give back the forty-six villages on the eastern bank of the Amur River. They further stationed thirty-five soldiers in Kirin, removed the war-time army base at Harbin to Irkutsk, and linked the Chih T'a defence force with Vladivostock.\n\nHence in Manchuria Japanese influence is paramount. Nevertheless in the 8th moon the Russians privately moved San Hsing and the Polichiens (Russian name) boundary marks so as to take in 160 square li of Chinese territory, which were only recovered after negotiations.\n\nIn the fourth moon his Excellency Ch'eng Te Ch'uan, the Governor of Hei Lung Chiang, memorialized the Throne to the effect that Japanese were illicitly selling weapons for the mounted bandits, and requested that the Wai-wu Pu be ordered to negotiate with the Japanese Minister, but there were continual cases of Japanese selling arms to the mounted bandits in the Jehol district, and, as to Tien-tsin, the Japanese engaged in the trade in smuggled arms were arrested by our police, and the matter made a diplomatic question, while the German firm, Arnhold Karberg and Co., were caught by the Imperial Maritime Customs at Tien-tsin in an attempt to smuggle munitions of war and 7,000 rifles. This proves how foreigners exploit our troubles. On the 5th of the same month, the Japanese General Terauchi made a tour of inspection through Corea and came into Manchuria, really, though not openly, on a strategic mission.\n\nShortly afterwards they set up an office of the Corean Superintendency at Chientao with its gendarmes stationed ostensibly for the protection of Coreans, which was the beginning of the invasion of Chientao.\n\nChientao without doubt belongs to China, and is situated in the newly established sub-Prefecture of Yen Chi Ting. This is vouched for by historical records to the knowledge of Chinese and foreigners alike. On the question being in dispute with Japan Ch'en Chiang Shao was appointed Boundary Commissioner, but the Japanese resorted to chicanery and bullying, and we have hitherto been unable to settle the question. The Japanese have been secretly making military preparations in case of trouble.\n\nThat month the British merchant Little bought mining property in Chiang Pei sub-Prefecture in Szechuan, and the Szechuanese, though they objected, were unable to get it back.\n\nMr. Maguire, the British engineer lurking at T'ung Kuan Shan in Anhui, has been more independent, and without giving notice has begun work on his own. He has even now sunk a shaft, and done mining in defiance of the claim that the Agreement is obsolete and of other mining laws. Is this conduct to be borne?\n\n5\n\n[2960 g-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417214, "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": 540, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "5\n\nprotect vessels engaged in the transportation of troops, and that the said flag shall not be illegally used to enable the enemy's ships, with their cargoes, to enter the ports of the High Contracting Parties concerned. Vessels offending against the above provisions shall be subject to confiscation by the Government offended.\n\nARTICLE 8.\n\nThe ships of war of either of the High Contracting Parties, provided previous notice has been given, shall be admitted into the ports of the other where such vessels of other nations are allowed to enter, and shall receive the same treatment as ships of war of the most favoured nation. They shall receive from the local authorities every facility for the purchase of coal and provisions, for procuring water, and, if occasion requires, for the making of repairs.\n\nShips of war shall be exempt from the payment of all duties on arrival and departure.\n\nThe Commanders of ships of war shall hold intercourse with the superior officers of ports on terms of equality.\n\nARTICLE 9.\n\nSwedish subjects may travel to all parts of the interior of China under passports issued by Swedish Consuls and countersigned by the local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must be produced for examination in the localities passed through. If the passports be not irregular the bearers will be allowed to proceed, and they shall be at liberty to hire persons, animals, carts or vessels for their own conveyance or for the carriage of their personal effects or merchandize. If the Swedish subjects be without passports or if they commit any offence against the law, they shall be handed over to the nearest Consul for punishment; but they shall only be subject to necessary restraint and in no case to ill-usage. Such passports shall remain in force for a period of twelve months from the date of issue. Swedish subjects travelling in the interior without passports shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 300 taels. They may, however, go without passports on excursions from any of the ports open to trade, to a distance not exceeding 100 Chinese li, and for a period not exceeding five days. The provisions of this Article do not apply to crews of ships.\n\nChinese subjects shall be at liberty to travel throughout the territory of Sweden, provided that they conduct themselves peaceably, and do not violate the laws and regulations of the country.\n\nARTICLE 10.\n\nThe duly authorized Swedish authorities shall hear and decide all cases brought against Swedish subjects by Swedish subjects, or by the subjects or citizens of any other foreign Power, without the intervention of the Chinese authorities.\n\nHowever, as China is now engaged in reforming her judicial system, it is hereby agreed that, as soon as all other Treaty Powers have agreed to relinquish their extra-territorial rights, Sweden will also be prepared to do so.\n\nCharges or complaints of a civil nature brought by the subjects of either of the High Contracting Parties against the subjects of the other shall be heard and decided impartially by the authorities who have jurisdiction over the defendants, in accordance with the procedure observed in similar charges or complaints brought by the subjects of the most favoured nation.\n\nSubjects of either of the High Contracting Parties, charged with the commission of any crimes or offences, shall be tried by the authorities who have jurisdiction over the accused with the procedure observed in similar cases of the most favoured nation, and, if found guilty, shall be punished in accordance with the laws of their own country.\n\nARTICLE 11.\n\nIf Swedish subjects in China, who have committed offences or have failed to discharge debts and fraudulently abscond in order to evade a summons or warrant of arrest, should flee to the interior of China or take refuge in houses occupied by Chinese subjects or on board ships, the Chinese authorities shall, at the request of the Swedish Consul, deliver them to the Swedish authorities.\n\nIn like manner, if Chinese subjects in China, who have committed offences or have failed to discharge debts and fraudulently abscond, should take refuge in houses occupied by Swedish subjects in China, or on board Swedish ships in Chinese waters, they shall be delivered up at the request of the Chinese authorities made to the Swedish authorities.\n\nBoth offenders shall in no case be shielded or withheld from arrest by either of the High Contracting Parties.\n\nARTICLE 12.\n\nThe principles of the Christian religion, as professed by the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, are recognized as teaching men to do good and to do to others as they would have others do to them. Those who quietly profess and teach these doctrines shall not be harassed or persecuted on account of their faith. Any person, whether Swedish subject or Chinese convert, who, according to these tenets, peaceably teaches and practises the principles of Christianity shall in no case be interfered with or molested therefor. [No restrictions shall be placed on Chinese joining Christian churches. Converts and non-converts, being Chinese subjects, shall alike conform to the laws of China, and living together in peace and amity, shall pay respect to those in authority. The fact of being a convert shall not protect a Chinese subject from the consequence of any offence he may have committed before or may commit after his admission into the Church, or exempt him from paying legal taxes levied on Chinese subjects generally except taxes and contributions levied for the support of religious customs and practices contrary to their faith. Missionaries shall not interfere with the exercise by the native authorities of their jurisdiction over Chinese subjects, nor shall the native authorities make any distinction between converts and non-converts, but shall administer the laws without partiality so that both classes may live together in peace.\n\nSwedish missionary societies shall be permitted to rent and to lease in perpetuity, as the property of such societies, buildings, or lands in all parts of the Empire for missionary purposes, and, after the title-deeds have been found in order and duly stamped by the local authorities, to erect such suitable buildings as may be required for carrying on their good work.\n\nARTICLE 13.\n\nIt is hereby declared that the provisions of the Treaty now existing between Sweden and China, in so far as they are not modified by stipulations of the present Treaty, shall continue in full force, and it is further expressly stipulated that the Governments, officers and subjects of both of the High Contracting Parties shall be allowed free and full participation in all privileges, immunities, and advantages which have been or may hereafter be granted by either of the High Contracting Parties to the Governments, officers, and subjects of any other Treaty Powers in regard to commerce, navigation, shipping, industries, or property.\n\nThe High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the right to conclude Agreements regarding frontier trade with neighbouring countries, and it is understood that, in case either of the High Contracting Parties should hereafter grant to any other nation advantages subject to special conditions, the other High Contracting Parties shall enjoy such advantages only provided that it complies with the conditions imposed therein or their equivalent, to be mutually agreed upon.\n\nARTICLE 14.\n\nThe Arrangements, Rules, and Regulations subsisting between and binding both China and the Treaty Powers, so far as they are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Treaty, shall be binding on both of the High Contracting Parties.\n\nARTICLE 15.\n\nIt is agreed that either of the High Contracting Parties may demand a revision of the Articles of this Treaty at the end of ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications, but if no such demand for the revision is expressed on either side within six months after the end of the first ten years then the Treaty in its present form shall remain in force for ten years more, reckoned from the end of the preceding ten years, and so it shall be at the end of each successive period of ten years.\n\n537\n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417305, "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": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n\nNo. 1.\n\nFebruary 22.\n\n## SECTION 9\n\nC.O. 37614 J5 OCT 08\n\nSir,\n\nSir H. de Sausmarez to Sir Edward Grey-(Received February 22.)\n\nSupreme Court, Shanghae, January 17, 1908-\n\nI HAVE the honour to refer you to Sir John Jordan's despatch No. 552 of the 24th November last, in which he makes a suggestion that I should, after consultation with certain Consular officers and merchants, draft a King's Regulation for vessels navigating the inland waters of China.\n\nI have lately had an opportunity of discussing the question with the Governor of Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Arthur Moore and Mr. Mansfield, and after careful consideration of their views and those of the officers responsible for the shipping business in Shanghae, as well as the Treaties with China and our own legislation, I have addressed to Sir John Jordan a despatch dealing with the whole subject. I have dealt with it at length so that, if my views are accepted I may be able, without misunderstanding, to undertake the drafting proposed by His Majesty's Minister.\n\nI have the honour to inclose herewith a copy of my despatch so that you may be in possession of my views and may be in a position to give me early instructions if you are in agreement with them.\n\n(Signed) \nH. W. DE SAUSMAREZ.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 1.) Sir,\n\nSir H. de Sausmarez to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nSupreme Court, Shanghae, January 16, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to refer to your despatch of the 29th November, 1907, and to address you further on the subject of the navigation of the inland waters of China.\n\nAt your request I took advantage of my being in the South to discuss the question, and more particularly that part of it which touches the registration of launches at Canton, with Sir F. Lugard, Sir A. Moore, and Mr. Mansfield. It is quite clear that the present system as it has been administered in Canton has not only given rise to many illegalities, but what is to my mind more important it has produced a system which has given the Chinese Government serious cause of complaint. There is no doubt that most of the launches now \"registered\" at the Consulate of Canton, are in reality Chinese owned, and these vessels by such \"registration\" escape the control of their own Government, and no doubt also certain oppressive exactions; this latter, however, is no business of ours. That a system which allowed such an abuse should be altered seemed to me a pressing necessity, especially in view of the negotiations with reference to the piracies on the West River. The question of legality is a question of a breach of the Merchant Shipping Act, the continuation of the system involves a breach of faith with China. The consideration of the whole matter must occupy some little time; it appeared to me important to regularize the present system so that at the most it should only be our own laws which continue to be broken. Moreover, it is at least arguable that the Merchant Shipping Act does not apply to vessels plying solely on the inland waters of an independent State.\n\nI therefore advised the issue of the Regulations which had been drafted by Mr. Mansfield and approved by Sir A. Moore as a temporary measure, pending the adjustment of the main question. I was the more ready to give this advice in view of the great urgency which Sir A. Moore and Mr. Mansfield thought to be required in remedying the abuses complained of. The sixth regulation seemed to me not unexceptionable, but in view of the existence of a patrol of the West River and the fact that Sir A. Moore had concurred in these regulations I thought it had better stand, especially as Mr. Mansfield told me that he was under the impression that the Chinese Government had requested that British vessels plying on inland waters should fly the national flag.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417307, "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": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "(No. \n\nof 19 .) \n\nTHE British \n\n4\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nForms of Certificates.\n\n(1)\n\n(Royal Arms.)\n\nInland Navigation Pass.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General,\n\n19 Shanghae, have applied for an Inland Navigation Pass for the British vessel, the \nof tons burthen, to enable her to proceed up to inland traffic for purposes of trade, and have deposited her Certificate of Registry at this Consulate-General.\n\nI have therefore to request that you will issue a pass for her, in accordance with Article 2 of the Provisional Regulations for British trade between Shanghae, Hangehow, and Soochow,\n\nQ\n\n18\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[31936]\n\n[September 14.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nC.O.\n\n37614\n\nNo. 1.\n\nRrc2 R. 15 OCT 08\n\n(No. 378.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 14.)\n\nPeking, August 22, 1909. WITH reference to your despatch No. 311 of the 4th July last, and in view of the misapprehension that seems to prevail regarding the present position of the trade-marks question in China, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a Memorandum on the subject by Sir Alexander Hosie, Acting Commercial Attaché to this Legation, which has been drawn up in consultation with myself, and which embodies generally the views which I have formed on this intricate question.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nTo the Commissioner of Customs,\n\nShanghae.\n\n(2.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's\n\nVice-Consul.\n\nCertificate of British Ownership for Steam Launches, not otherwise registered, plying within the Limits of the Port of Shanghae.\n\nName of vessel,\n\nLength,\n\nBreadth,\n\nDepth,\n\nStern,\n\nFramework,\n\nDistinguishing marks (if any),\n\nAfter due inquiry into the ownership of the above steam-launch, I certify upon the evidence adduced before me that she is bona fide owned by the British\n\nGiven at Shanghae this\n\nday of (Signed)\n\n0\n\n19\n\n;\n\nConsul-General.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Sir A. Hosie on the Present Position of the Trade-marks Question in China,\n\nARTICLE 7 of the Treaty between Great Britain and China, which was signed at Shanghae on the 5th September, 1902, says :\n\n\"Inasmuch as the British Government afford protection to Chinese trade-marks against infringement, imitation, or colourable imitation by British subjects, the Chinese Government undertake to afford protection to British trade-marks against infringement, imitation, or colourable imitation by Chinese subjects.\n\n\"The Chinese Government further undertake that the Superintendents of Northern and of Southern trade shall establish offices within their respective jurisdictions under control of the Imperial Maritime Customs, where foreign trade-marks may be registered on payment of a reasonable fee.\"\n\nThis was an undertaking by the Chinese Government to protect British trade-marks against infringement by Chinese subjects, and to establish offices under the control of the Imperial Maritime Customs for the registration of foreign trade-marks, This question of the protection of trade-marks was afterwards elaborated in Articles 5 and 9 respectively of the Japanese and American Treaties with China, which were both signed at Shanghae on the 8th October, 1903. The former runs :\n\n\"The Chinese Government agree to make and faithfully enforce such Regulations as are necessary for preventing Chinese subjects from infringing registered trade-marks held by Japanese subjects.\n\n\"The Chinese Government likewise agree to make such Regulations as necessary for affording protection to registered copyrights held by Japanese subjects in the books, pamphlets, maps, and charts written in the Chinese language, and specially prepared for the use of Chinese people.\n\n\"It is further agreed that the Chinese Government shall establish registration offices where foreign trade-marks and copyrights, upon application for the protection of the Chinese Government, shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of the regulations to be hereafter framed by the Chinese Government for the purpose of protecting trade-marks and copyrights.\n\n\"It is understood that Chinese trade-marks and copyrights properly registered according to the provisions of the Laws and Regulations of Japan will receive similar protection against infringement in Japan.\n\n\"This Article shall not be held to protect against due process of law any Japanese or Chinese subjects who may be the author, proprietor, or seller of any publication calculated to injure the well-being of China.”\n\n[1944 0-\n\n0-1]\n\nPage 1\n\n(To be continued on next page)\n\n...\n\nPage 1\n\n(End of Page)\n\n(To be continued)\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421745, "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": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# China's own desire. It is proper to produce a draft as a basis for negotiations, but it is certainly unreasonable, and in dealing with China undiplomatic, to insist on carrying out the draft to the letter. No country, however powerful, could expect this, yet, as far as I can see, this is the stand taken by my friends at home. The draft was made out during my stay in Sweden in the summer of last year by our former Consul-General in Shanghae, Hagberg, an experienced man who has had ten years in the East. We inserted many other stipulations taken from existing Treaties with the object of giving ourselves latitude to make concessions.\n\nA month after I left Stockholm the Foreign Office people obtained the Royal consent to this draft, and now, when the final Treaty has been worded, after full negotiations and mutual concessions, they find themselves unable to accept it, though to my mind, while different in form from approved draft, there is no difference in the provisions of the Treaty.\n\nAs you will see from the inclosed documents, there are differences in the form, for the Chinese refused absolutely to consent right away to what was put before them. I pointed this out in a Memorandum sent home with the Treaty, but as to the actual provisions I am not able to see any difference worth consideration. The most-favoured clause covers what is left out. The stipulations regarding trade-marks, patent rights, mining, and the trade with morphia come in under this clause, and it is very much in question if it is not better to have this and other rights covered by most-favoured-nation clause than to have these embodied in a Treaty, when, in case of changed conditions brought about by later Treaties, they may cause all sorts of difficulties.\n\nMy opinion is therefore, in short, that the concluded Treaty practically covers the draft, and further I have the absolute conviction that nothing more can be obtained from the Chinese. Later on probably less. This is, however, to be proved to the people at home, and it is here the difficulty for me comes in. Authoritative objections require authoritative rejoinders. Pleading is not decisive unless backed up by evidence, and here is where I ask your help, as a friend, with some backing and some evidence. Kindly look over the inclosed documents, viz., draft of Treaty made in Stockholm, Treaty concluded and signed by me, and Memorandum appended to same.\n\nIt would be a great personal favour if you could help me with evidence which would of course not be published, but presented in a confidential way to our Foreign Minister, and if, after giving an exposé of Treaty matters in the East, better known to you than to any one else, you could state your opinion that under present circumstances nothing more can be obtained from the Chinese, and that likewise the concluded Treaty practically covers the draft, I cannot say how thankful I would be if you would help me in this matter. The rigid attitude and bureaucratism of Stockholm will never succeed in negotiations with the Chinese. It requires more practiced conceptions, affability, and experience to come to an understanding with them, and I really believe that with the assistance of your opinion I will be able to get my view accepted. Once more, hoping that you will be able to assist me, I beg, &c.\n\n(Signed) **WALLENBERG**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nM. Wallenberg to Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nPeking, July 2, 1908. Duly authorized by a Royal Decree to conclude a new Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation with China, I have the honour to report that the negotiations for the Treaty were opened at the latter end of April and are now concluded. The Treaty was yesterday signed by the Chinese Plenipotentiary and myself.\n\nIt has been a question of whether the Treaty of 1847 is still in force. Article 34 of this Treaty provided that it was concluded for twelve years only, and when opening negotiations I consequently took the position that the present matter was a revision of the Treaty of 1847, still in force. I did not talk as if we were concluding a new Treaty.\n\nDuring the preliminary negotiations it was recorded that the Treaty of 1847 was still in force on account of usage. This instrument, entirely antiquated, as well in form as in contents, was of no use as a guide in our work; but a draft compiled by ex-Consul-General Hagberg last summer and revised by Count Ehrensward, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was of great assistance. This draft was principally based on the Japanese Treaty of 1896.\n\nThe time chosen was unfavourable for Treaty negotiations. Germany and Italy had just been compelled to discontinue similar negotiations. Our situation did, however, not compare with theirs. The position of these countries was different in that they claimed absolutely new rights never granted before by the Chinese to any country, while we had no other interest to obtain than to get our Treaty put into shape and to secure recognition of the right of treatment as a most favoured nation.\n\nI am told by the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps that China has made known her intention of entering into negotiation with all the Treaty Powers for the renovation of their Treaties. This desire is the result of the force of circumstances.\n\nChina is over-conscious of her national awakening, improving civilization, growing trade, general development, and, last but not least, the mutual envy of the Powers. She feels that the time has come for her to stand on her own legs, and stop the sapping of her rich resources by foreigners. All the earlier Treaties with the foreigners have been very one-sided, the latter obtaining benefits without granting compensation in like nature to China. Clause by clause was conceded by China, while the other side promised nothing. Not even the most-favoured-nation clause was mutual; but in the Japanese Treaty of 1903 there was added to the first clause a stipulation granting to Japan all the privileges which China may concede to any other Power, while on her side Japan stipulated “she would do her best\" in order to grant to China most-favoured-nation treatment.\n\nIt is clear that the time for the one-sided form of Treaty is past, but no Power was willing to make a new start, each anticipating that the start would be difficult. Consequently, Sweden is the first to make this stride forward. She grants as fully as possible the benefit of reciprocity, and there is no reason for acting otherwise, because with us nobody would deny the Chinese subject the same rights as all other nations' subjects enjoy, within the limits, of course, of our laws.\n\nBoth during the negotiations and afterwards I was conscious of my inexperience, and was constantly in communication with those of my confrères who are known to be experienced in Chinese affairs. In this connection I must express my gratitude for the assistance given me by Mr. Rockhill, the American Minister; Sir John Jordan, the British Minister; Jonkheer van Citters, the doyen; Mr. Abé, Councillor of the Japanese Legation; Mr. Campbell, Chinese Secretary for twenty years of the British Legation; and Sir Robert Bredon, Inspector-General of the Imperial Maritime Customs, who has spent the best part of his life in China.\n\nThe time wasted over negotiations was at first a source of annoyance to me, but those gentlemen counselled great patience in dealing with the Chinese. They also informed me that the time for Treaty-making was very inopportune, because the Chinese were never so self-important as now, and it was even a question whether satisfactory results would be obtained.\n\nIn consideration of these facts, and the necessity of unity being maintained among the foreigners, I was careful to avoid any possibility of prejudicing matters for which I afterwards could be blamed.\n\n(Contains a short description of etiquette observed.)\n\nMr. Woo, the translator, took a fortnight over his work, and at the next meeting I handed over the Chinese text.\n\nsaid,\n\nAnother fortnight elapsed before a meeting took place, when his Excellency Lien-fang \"Now we will come with a counter-proposal.\"\n\nAnother week elapsed, when a meeting took place at which the Chinese written counter-proposal together with a Memorandum were delivered. This Memorandum was immediately translated by the interpreter and caused our first clash. As a motive for fewer clauses in the counter-proposals, one expression of opinion was to the effect that small countries should be satisfied with small Treaties. It had also been noticed that most of the draft was taken from the Japanese Treaty of 1896, the result of an unfortunate war for China, and which, i.e., the stipulations of that Treaty, it was not pleasant for the Chinese to repeat. It was also pointed out that while statistics proved Sweden had a growing export trade to China, and that her merchants resided in the various ports, China had no trade with Sweden, and that, as far as was known, no Chinamen were living there, &c.\n\nSurprised by these strange points, I asked that the Memorandum be translated, as it contained an explanation of the way the new Articles proposed by the Chinese had been compiled from our draft. This was done, after which there was an hour's discussion.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423308, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 711, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 789 \n\n## 6 \n\n(a.) La nécessité d'avoir une zone neutre, du côté de terre ferme, entre Macau et la Chine, si l'on veut se garder contre des conflits fréquents. \n\n(b.) L'usage que l'on a fait du terrain neutralisé depuis longtemps, pour l'enterrement des morts, dont on doit respecter le repos. \n\n### Port intérieur \n\nSi le port intérieur de Macau formait la frontière de cette colonie, il lui appartiendrait en toute sa largeur. \nA plus forte raison il lui appartient puisqu'il coule entre la péninsule et ses dépendances, c'est-à-dire, à travers la colonie. \n\nD'après le droit international (Rivier, pp. 167, 168), \"lorsqu'un cours d'eau forme la frontière, le lit peut être en entier sur l'un des territoires, la frontière suivant l'un des bords. Le cours d'eau appartient ainsi dans toute sa largeur à l'un des États; la rive même lui appartient, parce que la rive fait partie du cours d'eau lequel comprend le lit, donc le bord, la rive. La preuve d'une frontière pareille résultera de documents et faits positifs, attestant l'exercice par l'État de la souveraineté sur toute la largeur du cours d'eau.” \n\nMais comme il coule à travers la colonie portugaise, il lui appartient, comme il est dit ci-dessus, parce que (Rivier, p. 142), le territoire fluvial d'un État comprend entre autres les cours d'eau qui la traversent depuis les points où leurs eaux entrent, jusqu'à ceux où elles le quittent.” \n\nCe port par conséquent appartient au Portugal d'après le droit des gens. \nEn usant de son droit le plus incontestable, le Gouvernement portugais l'a déclaré libre au commerce de toutes les nations, par décret du 20 novembre, 1845. \n\nToutes les Puissances y ont agréé, en jouissant de la franchise, sans objection, et la Chine elle-même n'a cru devoir faire opposition à cet acte législatif portugais, reconnaissant donc, avec son silence, la souveraineté du Portugal sur ce port ainsi que sur ceux de \"la Taipa\" et de \"la Rade\" en même temps déclarés libres au commerce du monde. \n\nMais il appartient aussi au Portugal par droit conventionnel. \nDans l'article 11 du traité conclu à Pékin le 1887, l'Empire de Chine a reconnu l'occupation perpétuelle et du Gouvernement de Macau et de ses dépendances par le Portugal, comme toute autre colonie portugaise. \n\nDepuis longtemps en présence de navires de guerre et de commerce, de toutes les nationalités, avant comme après ce traité, le Portugal seul a gouverné et gouverne le port intérieur comme les autres ports de la colonie de Macau, en y exerçant la souveraineté entière sans la moindre dérogation. \n\nC'est en vertu de cette souveraineté que le Portugal a accordé au fisc chinois des servitudes dans les eaux territoriales de sa colonie. \nLe Vice-roi de Canton, son Excellence Xoei, dans une lettre adressée au Procureur Marques Pereira en 1868, avouait que \"le port de Macau était sous le Gouvernement portugais,\" en reconnaissant ainsi la souveraineté du Portugal. \n\nDans ce sens il y a beaucoup de documents dérivant de diverses autorités chinoises. \nLe Gouvernement central de Chine lui-même a spécialisé sa reconnaissance de la souveraineté portugaise sur ce port dans l'article 6 du traité de 1887, où il a stipulé qu'une certaine convention de la même date en fait partie; cette convention désigne le port de Macau dans l'article 2, et se rapporte à lui dans l'article 3. \n\nOr, si ce port n'était pas sous la souveraineté portugaise, il n'y aurait pas lieu de faire cette convention, dont l'exécution, notons-le de passage, a rapporté à la Chine d'importants revenus. \nDans l'article 1 du deuxième règlement annexé au traité conclu à Shanghaï le 11 novembre, 1904, le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté l'Empereur de Chine obtient une concession du Gouvernement portugais dans le port intérieur de Macau, ce qui représente une reconnaissance expresse de la part du Gouvernement Impérial que le port est sous la souveraineté du Portugal. \n\nÀ ces diplômes de nature internationale on pourrait joindre un nombre illimité de documents d'administration locale, confirmant de la manière la plus positive que la souveraineté portugaise a été exercée activement, et continuellement, sans interruption, pendant longtemps dans les ports de Macau. \n\nLes bulletins officiels publiés dans la colonie couvrent un grand nombre d'années, ils sont très volumineux; on ne saurait pas transcrire ici tous les actes qui y sont régulièrement rapportés, relativement à l'administration du port de Macau. \n\n## 7 \n\nSon Excellence le Haut Commissaire Impérial de Chine voudra bien permettre au Commissaire portugais de l'y renvoyer. \nOn y trouve :- \n\n| Catégorie | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a.) | Les règlements de la police maritime, de sûreté et sanitaire, et du département maritime de Macau. |\n| (b.) | Les règlements sur la pêche fluviale et sur les parcs d'huîtres. |\n| (c) | La statistique du commerce d'importation et du mouvement d'entrée et sortie des navires, avec leurs tonnages. |\n| (d) | Les tarifs des droits de port et de navigation. |\n| (e.) | Les mesures de sûreté à l'occasion des typhons et les observations météorologiques pour déterminer leur approche, &c. |\n\nComme faits matériels, ce n'est que le Portugal qui a dépensé tous les frais de dragages et de conservation, ainsi que de construction des quais, des débarcadères et embarcadères, et d'éclairage, balisage, &c. \nC'est le Portugal qui y règle l'admission des navires de guerre étrangers. \nLe port intérieur est le siège de la station navale portugaise, et la police maritime y maintient, jour et nuit, des bateaux à avirons et à vapeur, pour protéger la navigation et la population maritime et fluviale. \n\nLes navires de toutes les nationalités s'y conforment aux règlements du port et y sont sous la juridiction du Portugal, et ce n'est qu'à la nation portugaise que les saluts ordonnés par le cérémonial maritime sont adressés par les navires de guerre étrangers, sans exception des Chinois, lorsqu'ils visitent le port. \n\nLe câble sous-marin qui lie la colonie à Hong-Kong, et donc avec la Chine et l'Europe, a été établi aux frais du Gouvernement portugais. \n\nEnfin, dès le rocher Aposcac, par droit antérieur et réservé, et dès le parallèle moyen entre Aposcac et l'Ile Verte, par arrangement provisoire avec les autorités de Canton, vers le sud, jusqu'où les eaux de la rivière entrent dans la mer, c'est le Portugal, tout seul, sans concurrence d'autre autorité, qui a eu la juridiction entière du port intérieur, pendant un laps de temps assez long pour consacrer par un état de fait permanent, la consolidation de la souveraineté portugaise, que toutes les autres Puissances respectent, que la Chine elle-même a admis pendant longtemps, et a fini par reconnaître solennellement par le traité de 1887. \n\n### Lapa \n\nCette île demeure en face Macau, à l'occident, de si près, qu'elle en est la dépendance la plus naturelle et immédiatement nécessaire. \nC'est une règle générale, d'après des notes de Pinhiro Ferreira au \"Précis du Droit des Gens\" de C. de Martens, que dans la fixation de frontières entre deux États limitrophes, les délimitateurs fixent leur attention sur les pentes et les versants des montagnes; car, non seulement l'intérêt individuel de chacun des pays limitrophes, mais encore le maintien de leur harmonie et de leur bonne intelligence exigent que les pentes et les versants regardant l'un des deux pays lui appartiennent. \n\nCette règle a une application toute particulière à Macau et Lapa, dont les versants se défrontent, si bien que dès la première occupation les Portugais ont compris la nécessité de dominer à Lapa, soit pour prévenir tout ralliement des pirates qu'ils avaient chassés, soit pour parer à des hostilités étrangères. \n\nSi en 1622 les Portugais n'avaient pas le domaine de la Lapa, il aurait été bien facile aux Hollandais d'y descendre; ils n'auraient pas souffert la déroute que les Portugais leur ont fait subir; peut-être seraient-ils encore à cette île, ayant causé à l'Empire chinois des troubles que le paisible domaine portugais pendant trois siècles et demi lui a épargnés. \n\nC'était à Lapa, du ruisseau \"Ribeira Grande,\" que les habitants de Macau se pourvoyaient de l'eau nécessaire à leur alimentation et à celle des équipages des navires qui en grand nombre fréquentaient le port de Macau. \nCette circonstance n'a jamais cessé d'exister, parce que l'eau postérieurement découverte à Macau est encore insuffisante pour les besoins de l'alimentation, ce qui rend cette île une dépendance. \n\nSur ces plages, alors qu'il n'en avait du côté de Macau, les Portugais mettaient à sec pour les réparer et en nettoyer les carènes, usage qui n'est pas abandonné.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431919, "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": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "## Art. 10.\n\nIn consideration of the postal service referred to under Art. 5, and the obligations referred to under Art. 19, the Company will be exempt from the payment of the 60% of the tonnage dues, created by the Decree of the 1st of July, 1898.\n\nShould the Company increase the number of trips per year or the Mexican ports of call in each trip, the tonnage dues may be still further reduced, at the discretion of the Department of Communications, from sixty to seventy-five per cent.\n\nThe Company will enjoy exemption from the payment of Federal and Municipal taxes, with the exception of the Stamp Tax, which will be levied in all cases specified by the Law hereto relating.\n\n## Art. 11.\n\n## Art. 12.\n\nIn accordance with the provisions of art. 2 of the Law of the 26th of November, 1896, the vessels will be allowed to anchor in open roadsteads without any necessity of the harbour pilot, as provided under Art. 9 of the 4th of September, 1895; but whenever there are wharves in such ports for the ships to tie up to, for the purpose of receiving or discharging cargo, a wharf pilot will go on board the ship to direct the mooring and unmooring of the same.\n\n## Art. 13.\n\nIn the event of any greater privileges or new advantages being granted to navigation companies, with lines established or hereafter to be established on the Pacific Coast, they will be taken as granted to the contracting company, always provided that it accepts the obligations that are imposed in connection with said advantages and privileges, and for the service between the same ports, with the exception of an exclusive service for the government, that it may contract with any company.\n\n## Art. 14.\n\nFor the purposes of this contract, the persons who form the concessionaire company will be considered as Mexicans and consequently they will have no power to claim any foreign rights or to invoke any other laws than those which are in force in the country, nor apply to any other tribunals than the competent ones of the Republic.\n\nJuly", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440913, "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": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# THE OPIUM EVIL.\n\nIt was, therefore, the desire of the American as well as the other delegations that nothing should go forth during the sitting of the conference that would lead to a speculative activity in the production of and trade in opium, morphine, and cocaine. This proved to be a wise view, for the convention as signed at The Hague had no sooner been published than there was a large increase in the market price of the drugs, part of which was undoubtedly speculative.\n\nA feature which did not lend itself to the expedition of the work of the conference was the adoption of French as the official language, as provided by Rule XI. At the International Opium Commission, English was the official language because it was the most convenient to the majority of the commissions. A large majority of the delegates to the conference preferred to speak English in spite of Rule XI, and the French delegation expressed itself bilingually. The proceedings were taken down in English, then translated into French, and printed in English as well as French, for the convenience of those delegates who were not thoroughly acquainted with the latter language. This procedure often led to delay, and it was not until the last two or three sessions that the conference could approve of its transactions to that time. This incident alone illustrates the necessity of a conference proceeding by a language most convenient to the majority of the delegates, when it has to deal with questions like the opium and allied questions involving vast economic interests.\n\nRule IV provided for a comité de redaction, or editing committee—the original intention being that this committee should have referred to it the final action of the conference for edition. In practice, however, this committee took up the day-by-day work of the conference, and attempted to reduce it before the ultimate views of the conferees had been expressed. Before the conference had been long in session, disputed questions were also referred to this committee rather than to the program committee, or to a conciliating committee, which, mooted by the American delegation, did not prove to be acceptable to the conference. Some confusion ensued, and it finally became necessary for the conference to add to the editing committee Mr. Asser, the eminent international jurisconsult. Mr. Asser's services proved to be preeminently valuable, and before adjournment, the conference unanimously expressed its debt of gratitude to him.\n\nThe American delegation fruitlessly strove to have the actual work of the conference done in commission and committee—a practice that had been followed with great success by the first and second International Peace Conferences, and by the more recent London Naval Conference. But the majority of the members of the conference insisted on thrashing out intricate and difficult economic and diplomatic questions in the plenary sessions. It is to be hoped that at future Hague conferences, the plan of working details be by commissions and committees which shall report to the conference in plenary session for approval, and after such approval, submit the reports to a small editing committee for final revision.\n\nIn spite of the difficulties attending a defective organization, it is to the great credit of all the representatives that they were animated by a lofty spirit and a determination that the conference should achieve the practical results which had been hoped of it. This hope was fruitful, although the convention, as signed, presents unique features as to ratification and effectuation.\n\n## THE OPIUM EVIL.\n\nThe positive results of the conference may be stated as follows: Immediately after the adjournment of the International Opium Commission, there were drafted in the Department of State two measures designed to control the foreign and interstate traffic in the United States of opium, morphine, and cocaine. When the conference assembled, it was soon seen that the principles contained in those measures were principles that could be readily applied by an international conference to the international traffic in the commodities under consideration. It may be said, therefore, that the International Opium Convention, as finally agreed upon, is based in part on well-recognized principles, or proposed principles, of American interstate and navigation law. That part of the convention having to do with central governmental control of the drugs is based on the best European and Japanese practice, which on the whole is far in advance of the practice of our Federal Government.\n\nA review of the convention will make this occult. Chapter I defines raw opium and contains pledges on the part of the powers for the governance of the domestic and international traffic therein; Chapter II, of similar import, applies to opium prepared for smoking; and Chapter III to medicinal opium, morphine, and cocaine. Chapter IV, of five articles, is composed of pledges on the part of the treaty powers represented at the conference aimed to assist China in suppressing her great and vexatious opium problem. Chapter V is composed of article 20 as to possible laws, and article 21 as to illegal possession of opium, to the international exchange of documents and statistics. Chapter VI, of four articles, is composed of final provisions on supplementary signature, ratification, effectuation, and arbitration of the convention such as have never before been seen in an international document.\n\nThe first paragraph of Chapter I gives a practical commercial definition of raw opium and fairly well conforms to the definitions of this substance as provided for many years in tariff legislation of the United States.\n\nBy Article I of the convention, the contracting powers pledge themselves to enact effective laws or regulations to control the production and distribution of raw opium, unless their existing laws and regulations have already regulated the matter. That is, by this article, the interested Governments must effectually bring under some sort of Government supervision, either by the monopoly system as practiced in India, or by authorization of persons, the production and distribution of raw opium.\n\nBy article 2 of the convention, the contracting powers pledge themselves to restrict the number of cities, ports, and other places through which raw opium may be exported or imported. This article is in accord with American practice, for by virtue of the regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury under authority of the opium exclusion act approved February 9, 1909, the importation of opium into the United States is confined to 12 named ports. In practice, the effect of this article will be to secure a more strict governmental control of the importation and exportation of raw opium for medicinal purposes.\n\n`S. Doc. 733, 62-2——2` \n246", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441003, "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": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "#1 \n\n336 \n\nWhether the claims are just or not, because in its opinion \nthey are more than sufficiently justified by the documents \non which they are supported. I therefore can see no \nreason why, after the lapse of more than one year from the presentation of the claim to the Department of Foreign Affairs in Mexico; after the many and reported communica-\ntions in which it was requested to send a final answer, \nit now attempts to open a discussion relative to certain facts as, for instance: \"that the proceedings of the Mexican Au-\nthorities were based, on the one hand, on the right which \nevery Nation has to prevent the entry into its territory \nof foreign individuals who, for different reasons, may be injurious; and on the other hand, on the obligation which also lies on every Government, to prevent injury to the in-\nhabitants of the country\", etc., and then proceeds to as-\nsert that there has been no infringement of the Treaty of Friendship and Navigation with China, or of the Article of \nthe Mexican Constitution. With all due respect for the \nopinion of H. E. the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, and without the lightest fear of showing my disrespect \nfor that High Officer, I beg to deny the theories he lays down in that answer, because they are not set forth and still less sanctioned by modern International Law, at least \nwithin the last fifty years, because this would amount to the tacit repeal of the Municipal Laws which govern every \nNation. \n\nThus in Mexico, previous to the year 1908 when the Immigration Law was passed, Article 11 of the Federal Constitution was in force which textually reads as follows: \n\n\"Every man has a right to enter and leave the Republic, travel over its territory and change his residence without \nany necessity of a passport, safe conduct or other similar \ndocument. \n\nThe exercise of this right shall not prejudice the legitimate powers of the Judicial or Administrative \nAuthorities.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441010, "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": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## C.O. 50400 38206 26 NOV 1912\n\n### Consulate-general, Manila, 343 October 25, 1912\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to enclose for your information copy of a letter and enclosures received from Messrs. Smith, Bell and Company, Limited, a British firm of this city, and the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited, and Agents for the China Navigation Company, Limited, relating to the circumstances under which British vessels entering Manila from Hongkong are fined by the Acting Collector of Customs here, under the existing laws enacted, for carrying unmanifested cargo in the form of opium.\n\nAs you will observe from the enclosed lists of cases (enclosures numbers 1-11) supplied from the records of the Manila Customs House, the number of seizures made on ships of the aforesaid companies entering this port and the fines levied on the ships themselves during the period of time, viz. about four years, which has elapsed since the first enforcement of the existing laws on March 1, 1908, are of a sufficiently numerous and grave character to render necessary the appeal which I am now making that Your Excellency will be pleased to take drastic and efficient official action in Hongkong to prevent opium being smuggled on board.\n\nHis Excellency, \nSir Henry May, K.C.M.G., \nGovernor of Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441261, "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": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "content_text": "## MARINE DEPARTMENT\n### APR 12\n\n7, WHITEHALL GARDENS, \nLONDON, S.W. \n11th April, 1912.\n\n**Sir,**\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 23rd March (No. `7812/1912`) transmitting copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the Steam Ship \"**Paul Beau**\", I am directed by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, that they are of opinion that in view of the Agreement arrived at in 1907 between the Governments of the United Kingdom and France for the mutual recognition of the laws and regulations for the safety of shipping and the certificates of passenger steamships, the best course to adopt in the circumstances set forth in the correspondence accompanying the Governor's letter of the 5th of February last, is to confirm the provisional certificate issued to the S.S. \"**Paul Beau**\" authorising her to carry 1,200 passengers.\n\nIn the event of such a certificate being withheld, it appears that the French Consul would be able to summon a Court of Survey, and grant a \"permis de navigation\" for the Special Service, which, in view of the Anglo-French agreement, the Hong Kong authorities would be compelled to recognise. As they would thus lose control over the vessel, so far as its survey is concerned, it appears to the Board of Trade that it is the case for the Jameson ... to compete with it.\n\nIt is true that they will win, although this declaration is subject to the provisions of Section 10(2)(4). The Certificate under Section 10 will not be possible, and it will not be possible for them to attain exactly the same Certificate. Some ... might have to be struck out.\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to: \n**THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, (MARINE DEPARTMENT)**, and the following letter and number should be quoted :- \n`M. 8318.` \nTelegraphic Address, `BOARD TRADE, MARINE, LONDON.` \nReference: `11017`\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, \nS.W.\n\nPage 24 \nCir. `19/4` \nByn... alome Md. 18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452727, "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": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "## TB\n\nLord Dennan in delivering judgment in favour of the Company said:-\n\n\"It was contended, that the effect might be to defeat the object and policy of the navigation laws in this respect, inasmuch as the individual members of the British corporation might, either originally or by transfer, be all foreigners.\n\nSuch does not appear to be contemplated or provided for by the act in question. If it be *casus omissus*, and evil consequences arise, they may be remedied by the interference of the legislature, or, possibly, though we do not wish to be understood as giving any opinion upon this point, by repealing the letters patent, as improvidently giving powers operating to defeat the law and public policy, and, in future patents, by providing against the objection.\n\nBut, as the case stands, it seems to us that the British corporation is, to all intents, the legal owner of the vessel, and entitled to the registry, and that we cannot notice any disqualification of an individual member, which might disable him, if owner, from registering the vessel in his own name\".\n\nThe Phranang Steamship Company, Limited of Hongkong was in time of peace incorporated in accordance with the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance, 1911, which by section 3 provides that:-\n\n\"Any 7 or more persons (or, where the Company to be formed will be a private company within the meaning of this Ordinance, any two or more persons) associated for any lawful purpose may, by subscribing their names to a memorandum of association and otherwise complying with the requirements of this Ordinance in respect of registration...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460372, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 505, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "piratical acts against British ships on this particular route have been of almost constant occurrence for many years past, and whether he could not see his way to afford some protection to British ships frequenting these waters?\n\nMr. Churchill: If the hon. gentleman will look at the Navy List he will see that we employ a considerable number of ships in the Far East, and the number has not been reduced during my term of office.\n\nMr. Lee: Have British ships any protection on the West River on the route between Canton and Hongkong where piracy has been frequent?\n\nMr. Churchill: Yes, so far as I am aware there are a number of gunboats employed for duty on the West River, and it is the crews of these gunboats which, on mobilisation, bring the battleships of the squadron up to full strength.\n\nMonday, 15th June, 1914.\n\nMr. Stewart asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can say how many people lost their lives owing to the piracy of the \"Tai-on\"; how many of these were British subjects; and whether, in view of the inadequate protection afforded by the British Admiralty, he can see his way to influence the Chinese Government to augment their service of revenue cruisers officered by Europeans?\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Acland): I have no precise information as to the number of persons who lost their lives as a result of the \"Tai-on\" piracy. The Chinese and the British Naval and Colonial authorities are in communication with a view to concerting measures for the protection of shipping in Southern Chinese waters.\n\nMr. Stewart: Is the hon. gentleman aware that the only river gunboats now are the \"Sandpiper\" and the \"Robin,\" that they are both obsolete, and that should the \"Triumph\" be commissioned the crews of both gunboats will be absorbed by her and there will be no river gunboat available at all?\n\nMr. Acland: I will take note of what the hon. member says on the subject.\n\nThursday, 7th May, 1914.\n\nCHINA (ANGLO-FRENCH INVESTMENT COMPANY)\n\nSir J. D. Rees asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he will instruct the British Minister in China to use his good offices on behalf of the British share and debenture holders in the Anglo-French Investment Company, the direction of which is now passing into new, and into other than British, hands?\n\nSir E. Grey: I have no information on the matter beyond what has appeared in the Press, and it does not appear from that to be a case in which His Majesty's Minister could intervene.\n\nWednesday, 21st May, 1914.\n\nCHINESE LOAN\n\nMr. King asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been given to the proposed loan of £6,000,000 sterling to the Chinese Government which is to be advanced by the Bethlehem Steel Trust of the United States, on the conditions that only one-third of the loan is to be paid in cash, and two-thirds are to be exclusively devoted to the construction of naval docks; whether correspondence on this proposal has passed between the United States Government and the Foreign Office; and what is the policy of His Majesty's Government in this connection.\n\nSir E. Grey: I have seen the reports in the Press; I have no information to the effect that the present Chinese Government intend to act as stated in the question. No correspondence or communication on the subject has passed between the United States Government and His Majesty's Government, and we are taking no action.\n\nMr. King: Will the right hon. gentleman make certain inquiries in view of the very serious crippling of the power of China to perform her obligations, which this loan, if carried through, would imply?\n\nSir E. Grey: That seems to me a matter for the United States Government and the Chinese Government.\n\nMonday, 15th June, 1914.\n\nBRITISH UNIVERSITY AT HANKOW\n\nMr. James Hogge asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he has received a communication from the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and manufacturers suggesting that £250,000 might be allocated from the amount of the Boxer Indemnity to establish a British university at Hankow; and whether he proposed to entertain the same?\n\nMr. Acland: The memorial from the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce referred to has been received, and is under consideration.\n\nTuesday, 16th June, 1914.\n\nUNITED KINGDOM AND JAPAN (TREATY RIGHTS: COASTING TRADE)\n\nSir J. D. Rees asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the treaty of 1905 between the United Kingdom and Japan postulates equal rights for commerce and industry of both nations; and, if so, whether the rigorous exclusion of British ships from the coasting trade of Japan while subsidised Japanese vessels in such trade between Indian ports, and conduct a Japanese service exclusively between Calcutta and Rangoon, is justified by the terms of the treaty?\n\nSir E. Grey: As regards the first part of the question the hon. Member is presumably referring to Clause (b) of the Preamble to the 1905 Agreement between the United Kingdom and Japan, which affirms the adherence of both Powers to the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China. The coasting trade of the two countries is dealt with in Article 21 of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of 3rd April, 1911, which provides that the trade shall be regulated according to the laws of the United Kingdom and Japan respectively.\n\nThursday, 2nd July, 1914.\n\nSHANTUNG RAILWAY EXTENSION EFFECT OF GERMAN SPHERE OF INFLUENCE\n\nSir J. D. Rees asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Germany has recently acquired the right to extend the proposed railway from Kaomi to Suchowfu, and to finance any extension of...\n\nPage 58\n\nPage 59\n\nPage 502", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469654, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "523\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nTo consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Merchant Shipping.\n\nPreliminary Provisions.\n\n1. The Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1890.\n\n[In force 19th Sept., 1903.]\n\n2. In this Ordinance,- \"Stipendiary Magistrate\n\nShort title.\n\nInterpretation of terms.\n\nmeans and includes any Magistrate\n\nand the Marine Magistrate :\n\n\"Master\" includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of any ship :\n\n\"Seaman\" includes every person (except masters, pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and registered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship:\n\n\"Vessel\" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation:\n\n...\n\n\"Ship\" includes any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars, except junks or lorchas not propelled by steam:\n\n\"Junk\" includes \"lorcha\" and any sea-going sailing vessel of Chinese or other Asiatic build, construction, and rig:\n\n\"Lorcha\" includes any sea-going sailing vessel of European build and construction, but of Chinese or other Asiatic rig, or of Chinese or other Asiatic build and construction, but of European rig:\n\n\"Steamship\" means any vessel propelled by steam:\n\n**Motor boat** means any vessel not exceeding 60 tons propelled by any mechanical power however applied, except steam, cars, or sails:\n\n**Colonial ship** means and includes every ship provided with a certificate of colonial registry under Part I:\n\n\"River steamer\" means any steamship exceeding 60 tons register, having a passenger certificate under section 10(10), and regularly plying between the Colony and any port or place on the Canton River, or the West River, or any river in the interior of the Kwangtung Province, or Macao:\n\n\"Passenger\" includes any person carried in a ship, other than the master and crew, and the owner, his family and servants:\n\n\"Tons\" and \"tonnage\" mean tons and tonnage as calculated according to British measurement of registered tonnage:\n\n**Local trade limits** means the waters surrounding the Island of Hongkong within the following boundaries :—\n\n*As amended by No. 16 of 1923.\n\n+ As amended by No. 6 of 1984, No. 9 of 1909, No. 31 of 1941, No. 50 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912, No. 21 of 1902 and No. 20 of 1922.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 474937, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 631, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "58\n\nwho hold the principal British shipping insurance and trading agencies, suggest that they are British, but this is not the case. The sole partner, although British Vice-Consul, is a naturalised Frenchman, and the firm has no London house. Other French houses who act as representatives of British interests are:-\n\nLa Compagnie de Commerce et de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient.-Agents for Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co., the British-India S.N. Co., the Indo-China S.N. Co., and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nL. Ogliastro et Cie.-Agents for the P. & O., and many British fire and marine insurance offices.\n\nDenis Frères. An important import house, one of whose partners acts as H.M. Vice-Consul in Haiphong, and also represents the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank at that port.\n\nOther firms transacting a considerable business in piece goods are:-Berthière Frères, Berli et Cie., and Dumarez Frères.\n\nAs regards shipping, the British interests occupied, before the war, a leading position. In 1914, of the total steam shipping of all nationalities entered and cleared at the port of Saigon the British share was 36 per cent. The figures of the ships cleared under the four leading flags were:-\n\nBritish 219 vessels of 609,498 tons.\n\nFrench 145 \" 483,417 \"\n\nJapanese 53 \" 162,030 \"\n\nGerman 53 \" 126,914 \"\n\nOther British interests active in the colony under French representation were the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., and the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., Ltd. The Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Ltd., maintain a considerable British staff in the operation of the important transmitting station at Cap St. Jacques.\n\nGerman Activity. The direct import of German manufactures before the war was very small, and in 1914 totalled £59,517., consisting in the main of rice-milling machinery, copper manufactures, toys, porcelain, belting, lampware, needles, &c. The direct importations from Austria during the same year amounted to only £4,140., of which bentwood furniture accounted for £3,551.\n\nThe firm of Speidel & Co., registered in Paris for purposes of business, possessed branches in Saigon, Pnom Penh and also in Tonking, and was one of the most active import houses in the colony. This firm, which acts as the representative of the Central Agency, Ltd, was the largest importer of piece goods into Saigon, and was the first European house to exploit the Cambodian market.\n\nA large and lucrative business was also transacted in engineering and hardware. They have now been closed and the staff interned, but the extent of their operations will be seen from the fact that they held a stock of 2,300 packages of piece goods (French and British) which the French Government are not liquidating at present for fear of depressing the market. Messrs. Fried, Engler & Co., of Frankfurt, also conducted a considerable import trade. In addition two important steam rice mills were operated by German firms.\n\nUpon the outbreak of war, however, all German subjects were interned, their businesses were placed in liquidation, and it is extremely unlikely that they will be permitted to resume their activities for a considerable period after the war. Anti-German feeling runs very high in the colony, especially as the native risings in the north of Tongking and the Laos States, which occurred shortly after the outbreak of war, were attributed to German propaganda.\n\nThe Swiss firm of Diethelm & Co., Ltd., of Zürich, Singapore and Bangkok conducts a considerable trade in rice and other produce.\n\nCustoms Duties.-The tariff in force in Indo-China is the general French tariff with certain slight modifications to meet the peculiar needs of the colony. In the principal items of manufactured goods the duties are practically the same as those operating in France, which have been estimated by the Board of Trade in 1904 to average 34 per cent. ad valorem.\n\nImports from the United Kingdom were, before the war, charged on the basis of the minimum tariff applicable to the goods of nations enjoying \"the most favoured nation clause,\" provided that the goods were shipped direct without transhipment. This had the effect of excluding Singapore and Hong Kong trade from this privilege,\n\n59\n\nand resulted in the imports from the United Kingdom being entirely carried by the steamers of the Messageries Maritimes.\n\nOwing to the shortage of shipping since the war, the French Government has decreed that for the period of hostilities goods exported from the United Kingdom to Indo-China in British, French or Japanese vessels, whether transhipped at Singapore or Hong Kong or not, will be accorded the privilege of minimum tariff treatment provided that they are accompanied by the necessary authorisation and certificate of origin from the French Consul-General in London. I am informed that stocks in Singapore may also obtain the privilege of minimum tariff treatment provided that a certificate of origin is obtained from the Chamber of Commerce and vised by the French Consul. This has had the effect of stimulating the sales of piece goods to Saigon by British Singapore houses, some of which have sent representatives to the market and have made sales from stock. If this privilege can only be permanently secured after the war, it would conduce to some expansion of British trade with the colony.\n\nShipping. So far, the only direct service between Europe and Saigon is that of the Messageries Maritimes. Vessels of this company sail fortnightly from Marseilles, carrying mails, passengers and cargo without transhipment. The bulk of the United Kingdom trade with the colony has been shipped in the weekly Messageries steamers from London to Marseilles, and there transhipped into the Eastern steamers.\n\nConditions of Sale in Saigon.-The local piece goods market is at Cholon, which is situated three miles from Saigon, but is connected by tramway. The business is entirely in the hands of Chinese dealers, but, unlike Singapore, only a few of the larger dealers deal direct with the European firms, and these dealers supply the smaller merchants. Owing to competition among the European firms, these larger dealers received credits from four to six months and upwards, but since the outbreak of war all business has been conducted on a cash basis without any failures resulting, and the market is in quite a healthy financial position.\n\nThe three principal dealers are:-\n\nChun Heng Chan, 39-41, Rue Lareynière;\n\nMeng Keng, 33, Quai de Mytho-Cholon; and Kwong Soon.\n\nThe first two houses have no branches at Singapore, but the last named has a branch at that port under the style of Eng Guan.\n\nThese merchants are all reported upon favourably by the local British banks, and are accustomed to foreign trade. They prefer, wherever possible, to purchase their goods from stock in Saigon currency, duty and all charges paid.\n\nTypes of Textiles in demand. The Annamites in Indo-China are usually dressed in plain bleached cloths, or else grey cloths dyed locally. Prints and coloured goods are taken only by the Chinese, and the trade in these goods is consequently of relatively minor importance. The Cambodians wear largely the same kind of clothing as the Annamites, but in the north of the country, along the Siamese border, sarongs, papoons and loongees are worn to some extent. Speaking broadly, with certain modifications in dimensions, many of the staple cloths on the Singapore market are suitable for Saigon; and it would therefore appear after the war that, if the market is to be developed by British houses, Straits firms are clearly indicated as being in an exceptionally favourable position. The prospects, however, depend entirely on future French fiscal policy.\n\nCurrency, &c. The currency of French Indo-China is on a silver basis, the unit being the piastre de commerce or dollar, divided into 100 centimes. This coin has a nominal value of two shillings, but its real value varies with the fluctuations of the silver market. The bank demand rate on London for the year 1914 averaged 1s. 10¾d. The French metric system of weights and measures is in force, although the Chinese picul (133⅓ lbs.) is largely used in the rice trade.\n\nConsular Representation.-H.M. Government is represented by a consul usually drawn from the ranks of the Siam Consular Service, and he is assisted by a vice-consul, a naturalised Frenchman, who is the sole partner in the firm of W. G. Hale & Co.\n\n2. Haiphong.\n\nThe town of Haiphong is the shipping port for Hanoi, Hai-duong and Nam-Dinh, the commercial centres of Tongking, and is situated on the delta of the Red River,\n\nPage 626", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475705, "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": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]", "content_text": "To this form of objection it could be got over by defining Asiatics on racial grounds.\n\nFor license to reside in the territory except by permission of the Sr. W. Council, they shall conforming themselves to the laws of the country, they shall be permitted to rent houses.\n\nSubject to legal safeguards I see no objection to the Act will. I am authorised to proceed with it.\n\nThis has obvious advantages counted out in para 4.\n\nI beg to refer to the 'Memorandum of Commerce & Navigation' of 3rd Atty Gen, which has already been invoked in the case of Mr. Habber wands and to which Japan adhered provides Art I. 4 that the subjects of each of the high contracting parties shall have full liberty to enter, travel and reside in the territories of the other.\n\nAfter all, the main object is to keep Chinese & Eurasians out.\n\nPage 67\n\nGR52968/17\n\nXCR(85)72\n\nKbf4/8\n\nConf. es 20 47\n\n...\n\nFortumality Circular does not propose to exclude Japanese, but only to check, if necessary, an invasion in force.\n\nas native subjects.\n\nThe Japanese shall not be administered in such a way as to give a legitimate ground for complaint of infringement of the similar treaties to which Japan has adhered.\n\nCheese.\n\nreally\n\nJaunst\n\nBut I presume there will be in doubt.\n\nCathe care Keth the Order \"that\"\n\nLiiv\n\nwarn at the same tima he will.\n\nThis 'sharp' say\n\nald Lasy I\n\nDuth Las\n\nKK. wy have\n\nI appen: com\n\nمحمد اکم\n\nسمة.\n\nما\n\nالامكان\n\nКай сая\n\nobvious Sbjection\n\nint\n\ndoes not explain than. Of the rejection wea only in the Eurasians.\n\nCase com, Clain.\n\nExfgedent in 52968/17 ?\n\nمن\n\nThe Jafo ad a general prisitation residence at the peall.\n\nconforming themselves to the laws country\n\nown as the Jaur\n\nI an objection to the Aft will.\n\nLas anthorne for to proceed with it:\n\nat the same\n\nhe will in doubt.\n\nCath care\n\nKeth the Orde Liiv \"that\"\n\nwarn at the same tima\n\nadvantages Ca counted out in pare 4:\n\nout if it me to be administered an check on the Japanese they\n\nI begatimato ground of complaint werden uns af I the Healy of Commerce & hayration' of 3 Attyyny,\n\nDuth Las already been invoked in the cam of. MS. habber wands and to which phony adhered provides Art I. 4 that the subjecti f each of the high contracting farlie shall have full liberty to enter travel ander \"reside in the territories of the other and must not I aducistered in such a to give a legétionati pround for complaint of spuit 7 Quan infringement of the similar treaties r adhered.\n\nin.\n\nKK. wy have\n\nAfter all main Boject is to : محمد اکم Keep Chuire & Eurasians out.\n\n& Sund I appen: com és 20 47 conf. Kbf4/8 the provisions of the treaty which to Beckett calls abfention", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489205, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 353, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# I \n\nP \n\n2 \n\nI shall have the honour to communicate to your Lordship the full minutes of the discussions as soon as they reach me in printed form. Meanwhile, enclose an extract from the press giving a report of the speeches delivered at the opening of the conference.* \n\nIn conclusion, I have great pleasure in drawing your Lordship's attention to the excellent work done by Messrs. Rose and Brett, Commercial Secretaries in Peking and Shanghai respectively.\n\nThe efforts of these gentlemen in making the preliminary arrangements, which entailed very arduous work, in conjunction with Mr. Gull, secretary of the Shanghai Chamber, contributed very largely to the success of the conference.\n\nMr. Rose was elected chairman of the conference in committee, and in the discharge of this duty, which required a detailed knowledge of all the subjects under discussion, he displayed tact and ability deserving of the highest praise.\n\n(Copy to Department of Overseas Trade.)\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. H. CLIVE\n\n## Resolutions of the Conference of British Chambers of Commerce in China and Hong Kong, held in the Supreme Court, Shanghai, November 3–6, 1920.\n\n### I. Affiliation with the Association of British Chambers of Commerce in Great Britain.\n\nTHAT this conference recommends that the Associated British Chambers in China and Hong Kong be affiliated with the Association of British Chambers of Commerce in Great Britain.\n\n### II. Chihli River Commission.\n\nThat this conference resolves to communicate to His Majesty's Minister in Peking the satisfaction with which it views the work already accomplished by the commission for the improvement of the river system of Chihli, urges the importance of the continuance of the commission, and to this end requests His Majesty's Minister to endeavour to arrange that the necessary steady financial support be accorded either by earmarking a portion of the customs or salt surplus revenues or by such other means as may be conveniently devised.\n\n### III. Yang-tsze Conservancy.\n\nThat as a preliminary to the appointment by the Chinese Government of a Conservancy Board to improve the navigation of the Yang-tsze, as recommended in the resolution passed at last year's conference, this conference would strongly urge the nomination of a technical commission to make a preliminary study of the whole question with a view to formulating general proposals as to the lines on which this work should be taken in hand.\n\n### IV. Manufacturers and Merchants.\n\nThat this association, being in the main composed of merchants, many of whom, however, are sole agents for some of the biggest manufacturers in Great Britain, desires to place on record its anxiety to co-operate in the fullest practicable way with the manufacturers in the advancement of the Empire's commercial and manufacturing interests.\n\n### V. Currency Reform.\n\nThat this conference welcomes the indications which the Chinese Government has given of its intention to open a mint in Shanghai, but would emphasise the absolute necessity of the employment of foreign experts with a view to ensuring the production and maintenance of a standard currency capable of replacing sycee.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n### VI. China Companies.\n\nThat this conference considers it desirable that enquiry be made into the advisability of legislation being enacted whereby the word \"British,\" or other word or words of similar import, be appended to the names of all China companies, present or future, following the word \"limited,\" and that the secretary to the association be instructed to institute these enquiries at as early a date as possible.\n\n### VII. Tariff Revision.\n\nThat this conference desires to express the view that the additional revenue accruing from any revision of the existing import duties should be held in trust until such time as the Chinese Government shall have shown itself capable of maintaining order and protecting trade interests throughout the country.\n\nAt the same time, it desires to express the opinion that when the time for such revision shall arise, advantage should be taken of the opportunity so presented to press for the reorganisation of the whole system of taxation of trade in China on the lines suggested in the association's letter of the 21st April, 1920, and that, as a preliminary and practical step in this direction, the Chinese Government be pressed to abolish forthwith the taxation now levied by the Chinese Maritime Customs on all goods carried from one port to another in China.\n\n### VIII. Aids to Navigation.\n\nThat in view of the fact that the Hong Kong Government has approved the use of diaphones and wireless position-finders as used in European, American, and Canadian waters, and intends shortly to install these at the approaches to Hong Kong harbour, this conference is of opinion that China, through the Maritime Customs, should similarly install such aids to navigation on the China coast.\n\nFurther, that weather signals and cable communications should also be considered in connection with the wireless position-finders, more especially in view of the recent frequent stoppages of the Swatow-Hong Kong-Shanghai telegraph services, and that a sufficiently powerful wireless installation should be established at Swatow in conjunction with one at Hong Kong at the earliest possible moment to provide telegraphic and wireless communication with Hong Kong and other places, which is at present inadequate.\n\n### IX. Copyright.\n\nThat in connection with the resolution passed at the last conference, urging the advisability of instituting copyright laws in China, this conference now desires to express the opinion that further representations should be addressed to the Chinese Government with a view to securing its adhesion to the Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works created under the convention signed at Berne on the 9th September, 1886, by the Governments of Great Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Hayti, Italy, Liberia, Spain, Switzerland, and Tunis.\n\n### X. Russian and German Concessions at Hankow and Tien-tsin.\n\nThis conference views with grave concern the attitude of the Chinese Government, which, in assuming control of areas formerly under foreign jurisdiction, has deprived Treaty Power nationals of their rights in regard to the ownership of land and municipal representation. This conference accordingly urges upon His Majesty's Government the supreme importance of safeguarding to the fullest extent the treaty rights of British subjects residing and doing business in China, and of resisting every encroachment upon these rights. It further urges upon His Majesty's Government the absolute necessity of arriving at a satisfactory understanding with the Chinese Government as to the future administration of these areas on such terms as will ensure that the interests of British property owners and residents shall be in no way prejudiced, and the good order and peace of the other concessions fully safeguarded.\n\n### XI. Disorder in China.\n\nThat this conference views with grave alarm the state of unrest and lawlessness prevailing in almost every province in China, and the prevalence of unchecked piracy and brigandage, in which undisciplined troops are frequently the worst offenders. It protests against the utter failure of the Chinese authorities to deal effectively with this deplorable situation, and urges His Majesty's Government to use its utmost...\n\nPage 351", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "497 \n\n22 \n\nJapan is acting in a manner inimical to our interests to tell her so. We should be false both to her and to ourselves if we did not. And on the Tsingtao question, in regard to Mr. Shaw, and in the matter of obstructive regulations, we think that our criticisms have been justified.\" (Applause.) \n\nCOPYRIGHT IN CHINA \n\n## The Berne Convention \n\nIt was unanimously agreed: \n\nThat in connection with the resolution passed at the last conference urging the advisability of instituting copyright laws in China, this conference now desires to express the opinion that further representations should be addressed to the Chinese Government with a view to securing its adhesion to the Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works created under the convention signed at Berne on the 9th September, 1886, by the Governments of Great Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Hayti, Italy, Liberia, Spain, Switzerland and Tunis. \n\nIn moving the above resolution on behalf of Shanghai, Mr. F. J. Norbury said: \n\nBefore moving the resolution it will doubtless be of interest to this conference to learn to what extent the proposal for China to join the Berne Convention would operate in British interests, and to that end I have taken extracts from the articles under which the parties to the convention bind themselves to protect the copyright properties of other nationals. \n\nIn 1886 the signatories to the convention were Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Hayti, Italy, Liberia, Spain, Switzerland and Tunis and with the exception of Liberia, the signatures of the plenipotentiaries to that convention were in due course ratified. \n\nIn 1896 the terms of the convention were amended, and by that time Luxemburg, Monaco and Montenegro had also become parties thereto. \n\nExtracts from the convention are as follows: \n\n| Article | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | The contracting States are constituted into a union for the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works. |\n| 2 | Authors of any of the countries of the union, or their lawful representatives, shall enjoy in the other countries for their works, whether published in one of these countries or unpublished, the rights which the respective laws do now or may hereafter grant to natives. |\n| | **The enjoyment of these rights is subject to the accomplishment of the conditions and formalities prescribed by law in the country of origin of the work, and cannot exceed in the other countries the term of protection granted in the said country of origin.** |\n| 4 | The expression \"literary and artistic works\" comprehends books, pamphlets, and all other writings; dramatic or dramatico-musical works, musical compositions with or without words; works of design, painting, sculpture, and engraving, lithographs, illustrations, geographical charts; plans, sketches, and plastic works relative to geography, topography, architecture, or science in general; in fact, every production whatsoever in the literary, scientific, or artistic domain which can be published by any mode of impression or reproduction. |\n| 5 | Authors of any of the countries of the union, or their lawful representatives, shall enjoy in the other countries the exclusive right of making or authorising the translation of their works until the expiration of ten years from the publication of the original work in one of the countries of the union. |\n| 6 | It is nevertheless agreed that the tribunals may, if necessary, require the production of a certificate from the competent authority, to the effect that the formalities prescribed by law in the country of origin have been accomplished, as contemplated in article 2. |\n\nIt will be noted that the United States of America and China are not included in the list of nations becoming parties to the Berne Convention. \n\n23 \n\nChina has, however, a somewhat crude enactment whereby her own nationals may register their copyrights with the Minister of the Interior, but this does not appear to specifically state that it will afford protection to foreign copyright holders. America and England both entered into treaties with China to give reciprocal protection to copyright owners but the regulations proved to be vague and unsatisfactory and quickly fell into disuse. \n\nIt should also be borne in mind that by the Shanghai Treaty of 1902 China specifically undertook to provide protection to trade marks and copyrights, by enacting laws to that end. \n\nIt is, therefore, considered to be a feasible and proper step to ask the Chinese Government to fulfil her undertaking by securing to British authors, artists and publishers the same amount of security they enjoy at home, by becoming parties to the Berne Convention of 1886 and as amended in 1896. \n\n## YANG-TSZE Conservancy \n\n### Necessity for a Technical Commission \n\nIt was unanimously agreed: \n\n\"That as a preliminary to the appointment by the Chinese Government of a Conservancy Board to improve the navigation of the Yang-tsze, as recommended in the resolution passed at last year's conference, this conference would strongly urge the nomination of a technical commission to make a preliminary study of the whole question with a view to formulating general proposals as to the lines on which this work should be taken in hand.\" \n\nShanghai (Mr. Humphrys)—The mover of last year's resolution on this subject calculated that it would occupy him the full four days of the conference to enumerate the many important cities and the varied interests involved in the conservancy of the Yang-tze. \"I am therefore sure you will approve if I dismiss very briefly and in very general terms the objects to be achieved. \n\nThese may be stated as follows: \n\n* Firstly. To prevent any material diversion of the river from its present normal course, such diversion for instance as might result in the complete isolation of a treaty port and the destruction of a large area of country. \n* Secondly. To maintain a constant channel throughout the year for vessels of more than 9 to 10 foot draft. \n* Thirdly. To maintain adequate deep water frontage at treaty ports and at all present or future important ports of call. \n* Fourthly. To prevent or at least restrict the effect of destructive floods. \n* Fifthly. To convert large areas from what are now water-logged wastes into fertile agricultural land. \n* Sixthly. To create canals and improve irrigation where necessary. \n\nThis modest programme—which I do not suggest is exhaustive—is likely to involve engineering works of some difficulty and great cost: but the interests at stake are almost incalculable. \n\nWe have not yet arrived at a stage when we can indicate except in the very general terms already mentioned either what improvements are required or where they are required, by what methods they are to be attained or how they can be financed. \n\nThe present state of mind of most of us on this subject can best be described as one of almost complete ignorance: but we cannot afford to remain in ignorance: the future of the Yang-tsze is too important—to vital to Chinese and foreign interests alike. \n\nThe object of the present resolution then is to start nearer the beginning than our proposals of last year, and to take the initial step towards remedying our ignorance. We want to get some idea as to what tricks the Yang-tsze is likely to play on us within the next five or ten years if she is allowed to pursue her impetuous career unchaperoned and unchecked: we want some indication as to what restraints should be imposed on her and where and how they should be imposed and we want to distinguish between the more urgent requirements of the present and the probable requirements of the future.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499001, "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": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "# By-laws under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903. (No. 1 of 1908.)\n\n## PREVENTION OF THE DISSEMINATION OF PLAGUE BY RATS.\n\nIn these by-laws, the word “ship\" means any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars, except Junks or Lorchas not propelled by steam, and except launches plying within the waters of the Colony.\n\nTo prevent rats on board ship coming on shore, and the shore rats from getting on board ship:\n\n1. All cables, hawsers, and ropes used for mooring ships alongside any wharf, or passing between the ship and the shore, and all shores used for securing ships in dock, must (when such shores are within a distance of 12 inches from any open port or other opening in the ship's side, or within 12 inches of the gunwale or rail) have fastened on them a funnel-shaped appliance consisting of a tube of iron or other metal about 2 feet in length, with a trumpet-like flange. This trumpet-like flange must be double, in order to prevent the rats from passing either way along the cable, and each flange must extend at least 8 inches clear of the rope or cable. The rope or cable must be passed through the tube and the intervening space filled up.\n\n## Diagram.\n\n| Diagram | \n|---------| \n| Cable | \n| Funnel | \n| Λ |\n\n2. All openings through which ropes pass from the ship to the wharf or shore must be stopped up, and all such ropes must be daily tarred to a distance of six feet from the ship and the shore respectively.\n\n3. Brows or gangways for cargo are to be disconnected from the ship while cargo is not being worked over them; all other brows or gangways must also be kept disconnected between sunset and sunrise, except when required to be used by persons coming on board or leaving the ship.\n\n4. From sunset to sunrise, a bright light must be kept burning at each end of every brow or gangway, so long as it connects the ship with the shore or wharf.\n\n# EXTRACTS FROM THE PROBATES ORDINANCE, 1897. (No. 2 of 1897.)\n\n## Estates of Persons dying on Voyages to the Colony.\n\n65.—(1.) The following special provisions shall regulate the administration of the estates of passengers who die at sea in the course of a voyage to the Colony on board of any vessel which afterwards arrives in the Colony:\n\n(a) where any passenger has died on board of any vessel in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of the vessel in which such passenger has died shall, immediately upon the arrival of the vessel in the Colony, hand over to the Harbour Master all the goods and effects of such passenger then on board of such vessel.\n\n# EXTRACTS FROM THE VAGRANCY ORDINANCE, 1897. (No. 9 of 1897).\n\n22. The master of any ship, British or foreign, which brings into the Colony any person, other than a Chinese and not having been shipwrecked, who within 2 months from the time of his arrival becomes chargeable to the Colony as a vagrant shall be liable to repay to the Government all costs and charges incurred on behalf of the said person, unless it be proved, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said person, at the time of his arrival, either was under an engagement as provided in the last preceding section, or was possessed of not less than 50 dollars: Provided that where the person so brought into the Colony came as a stowaway, the master shall incur no such liability if such stowaway is promptly handed over to the police on the arrival of the ship and is duly prosecuted under any Ordinance relating to stowaways or any other enactment applying to the case, and no money or compensation in respect of such person's passage is paid or received.\n\nPage 70\nPage 71\nPage 20\nPage 105", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499628, "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": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "# NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1920.\n\n## SURVEY OF SHIPS.\n\n## EXEMPTION OF SHIPS HOLDING PASSENGER CERTIFICATES ISSUED IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES.\n\n**Australia to wit**\n\n**Forster \nGovernor General**\n\n## PROCLAMATION.\n\n**By His Excellency the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.**\n\n30\n\nWHEREAS by section 188 of the **Navigation Act 1912-1920** it is provided that where the Governor-General is satisfied that the laws and Regulations of any country relating to any subject matter dealt with in Part IV of that Act are as effective as the provisions of that Part relating thereto, he may by Proclamation direct that (subject to such conditions, limitations and exceptions as are expressed in the proclamation) on proof of a ship of that country having complied with those laws and regulations, she shall not be required to comply with the provisions of that Part relating to that subject-matter.\n\nAnd whereas I am satisfied that the laws and regulations of the British Possessions of Bengal and Bombay relating to the survey of and granting of certificates of survey to, passenger steamships belonging to those Possessions, respectively, are as effective as the provisions of Part IV of the **Navigation Act 1912-1920** relating to the same subject-matter.\n\nNow therefore, I Henry William, Baron Forster, the Governor-General aforesaid, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby direct that on proof that a ship belonging to either of the British Possessions above mentioned has complied with the law of that Possession relating ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500433, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "The CANTON GAZETTE.\n\n廣州日報\n\nRegistered at the Post Office as a Newspaper\n\nVol III 485 CANTON, CHINA, 民國十四年八月十二日星期三 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 1925,\n\nSingle Copy: 10 Cts. $2.00 A Month #24.00 A Year\n\n## Municipal Council And Canton's Civic Progress\n\n### Stability and Progress.\n\nThe inauguration of the Municipal Council on Monday deserves comment. Despite the extraordinary situation in which this city and this province are placed in consequence of the barbarous acts of the subjects of certain Foreign Powers, the people, under competent leadership, are moving, and moving steadily, in their progress towards civic betterment.\n\n### SIGNIFICANT GESTURE\n\nWhat is the significance of the ceremony on Monday when the Councillors took the oath of office and assumed their corporate responsibility as a Municipal Council? Their gesture was an assurance of confidence to the people of Canton city and a challenge to our foes within and without. As representative citizens of the city, they indicate their faith and confidence in the stability of the new democratic order ushered in on July the First, and are prepared to co-operate actively and intimately with the Executive to build the Greater Canton that shall worthily uphold the proud and ancient eminence of Canton as the Queen City of the South.\n\nLet it be carefully noted that the Municipal Council which has just been instituted is not merely an **ADVISORY** body, but a **SUPERVISORY** and **LEGISLATIVE** organ, responsible for the general direction of the activities of the City Government. The Municipal Council as now constituted is charged with power to enact such laws and regulations as usually fall within the scope of modern Municipal Governments. Upon the Municipal Council will rightly devolve the problems of Municipal Taxation, Revenue and Expenditure. The Council is to meet at regular sessions to deliberate and pass upon the measures which the Executive Commissioners propose for the efficient conduct of the affairs of the Municipality.\n\n### PUBLIC CONFIDENCE AND SUPPORT\n\nScarcely fifty days have elapsed since the new City Mayor and his associate Commissioners took up office. With a practically empty treasury confronting them, they put their shoulders resolutely to their tasks. It did not take long for the evidence of Municipal activity to become apparent to the people: the daily sanitary work of the city has since been performed to the evident satisfaction of the people, and the mending of the public roads is proceeding apace despite temporary difficulties in obtaining materials. The educational difficulties, which have long been chronic, are being grappled with systematically, and soon it is hoped that the City's public school system will be placed on a sound footing. The police have got rid of the troops which had been quartering within the city.\n\nBut whatever progress has been made in the short period since the new City Commissioners took up office, has been largely due to the confidence and goodwill which the people, through its representative citizens, have shown towards the new Government. Without the financial assistance provided by the new Municipal loan, it would not have been possible to set the Municipal machinery going with such comparative smoothness and absence of friction.\n\nAnd it is an earnest of the better days that are now before us, when we see representative citizens, chosen equitably from the chief groups of a complex community - from the fields of commerce, labour, agriculture, education and the liberal professions - ready and willing to undertake the responsibility of Municipal Government for the common welfare of the community.\n\n## Tang Chi-yao Leaving Yunnan.\n\nGeneral Ching Chin Inspects Troops.\n\n## Commerce Leaders on Trade Permits.\n\n### Meeting Of The 4 Chambers Of Commerce To Discuss The Question Of Special Permits For Transportation Of Goods---Resolution Passed.\n\nThe General Chamber of Commerce, on account of the issue of Special Permits by the Commerce Department for the transportation of goods, which, in their opinion, would cause all sorts of obstacles for merchants, called the Presidents and Representatives of the Union of Merchants Association, the City Chamber of Commerce and the Cooperative Merchants Association, in a joint meeting on the 10th instant.\n\nThe meeting was attended by over fifty thousand persons. Flags with mottoes such as \"Down with the Lin Hu, Hong Chao-lin and Tang Poon-yan rebels,\" etc. were everywhere. A full report will be published tomorrow.\n\n## New Rules For Coast Shipping.\n\nSince the outbreak of economic war with the imperialists and blockade of the seaports, the Hongkong Government has received instructions to regard coastal navigation. And all the anti-imperialist unions of the whole province have been notified to act according to the following rules duly drawn up:\n\n1. Steamers of any nationality except British or Japanese are allowed to run to and from any of the various ports, provided they will not call at Hongkong.\n2. Upon entering port, steamers must positively be subject to the inspection of the labour or picket corps of the anti-imperialist unions.\n3. No export of food stuff or any other raw material from the inland districts is allowed.\n\n## Demonstration And Parade To Urge Suppression of Rebels.\n\nIn order to combat the machinations of the Imperialists, it is necessary firstly to put down the counter-revolutionaries and tools of Imperialism; a huge provincial demonstration parade was held on the instant. The labour unions are prepared to carry on a long struggle till final victory is attained by the people.\n\n## Conference Of Chaochaw And Swatow Natives Residing At Canton.\n\nIn view of the public excitement on account of the illegal taxations and extortions on the part of Chen Chiung-ming's generals, a meeting was held at twelve o'clock yesterday by all circles in Canton to urge immediate action by the Government. A conference was held at the Hall of Canton University, for a conference to discuss the matter of urging the Government to put down Chen Chiung-ming's forces, and to restore the control of Swatow, etc. Those present were the representatives of the Swatow and Chaochow Reconstruction Association, the Taipo Public Assembly, Sin Ling Tung Society, the Fungshun Public Assembly at Canton, the Chaochow and Swatow Students Union of the Canton University, etc.\n\nThe conference was opened at half past two o'clock in the afternoon, and Mr. Chau Loo was elected Chairman. The meeting began at 3:50 in the afternoon; Mr. Woo Chung Tong, Vice President of the General Chamber of Commerce, presided and announced the formation of the meeting. He said, in a brief statement, that they were requested to attend the meeting to discuss the question of abolition of the issue of Special Permits for the transportation of goods, as petitions have repeatedly been received to that effect.\n\nThe following resolutions were passed:\n1. That the various organizations of Chaochow, etc., be united together to form a powerful organized Body, so as to deal with Chen Chiung-ming's forces, and to plan progressive methods for the future reconstruction of the Chaochow districts.\n2. That the natives of Chaochow districts residing in Canton be all requested to participate enthusiastically in the great Parade, and to urge the Government to restore the control of Cha chow districts.\n3. That Preparatory Office towards the construction of the \"Joint Union of the Chaochow organizations in Canton\" be used on their participation in the Parade of the 11th August.\n\n## Form Branch Of Cooperative Aeroplane Association\n\nAt the Headquarters of the Defense troops under General Wu Toh-chen, a meeting was held to inaugurate a Branch of the Cooperative Aeroplane Association. There were present, Mr. Chen Pak-nin rendered his report on the present political administration of Chen Chiung-ming's generals in Cha chow, etc. General Wu Teh-chen announced that there is difficulty in the enforcement of such permits.\n\nMr. Liang Tso Hiang said that he had been sent by Commissioner Soong to discuss the obstacles in the Regulations governing the issue of such permits, and a request was made for abolition of such permits. Mr. Woo added that they (the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and Unions of Merchants) had already held a meeting and expressed opinions and agreed that the points, regarding such permits, which require discussion.\n\nMr. Wong Kok Shing said that the Special Permits are suitable for imported goods, and it appears that exported goods would not be subject to these permits.\n\nMr. Cheung Fat Yu said that Commissioner Soong stated yesterday that the Special Permits do not apply to inland villages, but the local press had published an advertisement from the Pickets of the Workers.\n\n(Continued on Page 3)\n\n## Construction of Highways.\n\nAs previously reported, the Government, at the request of the strikers, has approved the plans for highways. The Bureau of Highway Construction proposes to construct firstly the highway to Whampoa by the strikers; at the same time a highway between Poon and Font Road will be built by disbanded soldiers. Preparations are being made for the organization.\n\nReceived Telegrams have been from Yunnan saying that Tang Chi-yao has decided to flee from Yunnan. General Fan Shek-sang's troops from Poshik city are marching on Yunnan and will soon capture the capital of that province. At the time, General Ching Chin went to the northern districts to inspect the troops there preparatory to dispatching them for service.\n\nGeneral Chiu Hi-chen's Kwangsi troops are bearing in on Tang Chi-yao from the north. Tang Chi-yao's troops driven out of Kwangsi cannot fight any more for they all know that the end of Tang Chi-yao's rule is come. Volunteers in Ta Li-fu have been planning to overthrow Tang and welcome General Fan Shek-sang. In all probability, there will be little fighting in Yunnan and will be ended upon the entry of General Fan's forces.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500967, "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": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "2\n\nI work in comfort during the day and rest in comfort during the night.\n\nSKETOCIDE\n\nand quickly rid the Office and Home\n\nof\n\nMOSQUITOES, FLIES, SANDFLIES,\n\nLICE, ETC.\n\nSKETOCIDE, with nil hazards, is administered.\n\nSKETOCIDE is pleasant as water.\n\nSKETOCIDE is compressed.\n\nTHE PHARMACY\n\n1, Queen's Arcade\n\nD. J.\n\nSHAMPOOING RUGS AND CARPETS\n\nMakes them\n\nBright\n\nand Clean\n\nOnly 50 cts.\n\nper yard.\n\nCollection and Delivery Free.\n\nRolls of Dirt carried away.\n\nRolls of Cleanliness brought back.\n\nSTEAM LAUNDRY CO.\n\nHEAD OFFICE & WORKS: YAKATI.\n\nDEPOS: 26, Stanley Street, Vol.\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL\n\nKOWLOON DEPOT: 3, Cau'chi Ham\n\nFLAK HOTEL DEPOT:\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL: (Visit only;\n\nJ. T.\n\nSHAW\n\nLADIES & GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR\n\nFIRST QUALITY ONLY\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nINVEST YOUR CAPITAL\n\nSAFELY\n\nIN DIAMONDS.\n\nCHAIN BLOCKS\n\nELECTRIC BLOCKS & TRANSPORTING GEAR\n\nHERBERT MORRIS, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nBRADLEY & CO., LTD.\n\nChute food.\n\nMachinery Dept.\n\nTel. 2020.\n\nMessrs. J. ULLMANN & Co, of Chater Road\n\nEstablished 1860,\n\nhave always pleased their Customers with the quality and the price of their diamonds.\n\nLOCAL\n\nAND\n\nGENERAL.\n\nLighting-up the to-day is at present cases of warfare cholesal 6.46 PATTY\n\nThe closing rate of the dollar on demand yesterday was 28. 9/16d.\n\n...\n\nhave declared amongst Japanese residents in Huanghai between August 15 and 18\n\na new treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between Spain and Siam, together with a tariff.\n\nAbout Chinese, who landed in Lockor on July rate Cake, whence they had been expelled, more taken in charge by the new municipal police, and started to Spain forthwith\n\nThe Yang di Pertuan Besar, etor Negri ehk and lady He Tag were mess of Mrs Balavin,\n\nPassengers departing fav Hong Kong. Saturday included r, Paus the proteoc? along the lacs of the Hodgene, Mr. G. H. Hew, Major? Siamess American trendy of 1999, Weelings, and Mr., 34, and ise e sigurd in Merid on Anavat on Fady 25, 94, 16, Domaingreet, at Iemington.\n\nA petition has Theon sout to the\n\nracuptă a fur Gvarveen visiter M\n\nHigh teries evidently comment sobars of the Gevorazi mitted by a well organized, clever\n\nThe Paanhou Lataa Gempiains of\n\nGovernmanni by the pork solleve, gang ut Paeves within the a tre the melameree of Wataishae and gui asking that casures a week within the district berlinese is autors to rear to Laken preten, hop-oil bow by Ceiles, Mabini, Herren. Taj Pukius its no s paзig y hel kore front selling\n\nstreets.\n\npark in the\n\n41 The Co, AF have lecie tight anda.\n\nsing the Manila poliem aud secret water, or festive is na mumer Murvico division.\n\n1\n\nPalm Beaches, Gabardines, Alpsets, Tropical aiting, Dress Harondt, who will rive in the wedding- ever believed to be rephor during the tide the\n\nMaterials, Sc. B\n\nJUST RECEIVED English made Officers Sam Browne Belts, Haversacks, Fox Pattles, Khaki Tles, Metropolitan Whistles, War\n\nribbons and nature medals.\n\n11, Reaconsfield Arcade.\n\nINSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED\n\n(Opposite City Hall.\n\nGrand Opening Sale\n\nStep in and compare our Goods and Prices\n\nINSPECTION INVITED\n\nPOPULAR SILK STORE\n\n(Opposite Kangkang Hotel;\n\nChina Building, No. B, Pedder Street.\n\nPrices\n\nAL\n\nVERMIN\n\nLOTOL\n\nKILLS ALL VERMIN\n\nSold by\n\nA. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Sole Agents:-\n\nAnd all Chemists & Stores.\n\n#4\n\nThe forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Weer varick! Mr. and Mex James Fold v The captain on the genderzeɛ Who Knoke, Tung Shan Canton, to Westenzoyland, Somerset, have rele. I was ersicted of murdufeg the com. and his wife and Mies Jobs Auguste Paula bunted die 71 iversong of their wint Onyi\n\nalore guique The busbaudienthoate as Token, wali ho relent and Eje wife a your younger. Mojot from prison shoes the unddie of lower the 92, relatives war Log Sepeansion songlazenie Nieto, konta\n\none from Australi\n\nColony by the ss. Oldestory.\n\nThe Chinese Brunumie Slonthig for August has detailed cla cussion of Shane agricultural practice, wita interesting 3.1\n\nLoving\n\nA Chinese 2d Japanese nurs are among tbury who have promised to monk at the International Co Surse of Sick-Norses, which opened dengtors, aly 20, aut is laing sitended by Jelegnies from\n\nentiona of the appliances weed, Maveled Chang Teo-in bas Jeans Sericulture cotton-growing timed Mex 000 rough General ber markerg.\n\nчто? ecuneuit so in the Stedent Anda bots my in diferent regions of the Bumiy Univexity Jay Chinu are also very interativolyj and Erogel Tieptene) far- Realt with.\n\nof ge pour white Kanziar. Studenata,\n\n*\"\n\nalvd, is differort suuntaies\n\nTwo hurr-one, with ts, ad\n\nTeal vien, two if who were the other ten would lus beau un- portion of shell, obtaled Frogs * mnied with daggers, com with a hur to corrpite their contres esingi tas estruese deposit in Heuer,\n\nCaina, have been presented to thei! Crevolver. and the other with at lesk, of Curta,\n\ntieological Department of the Bri-3\n\n| pair of scissors, heid up a Chinese j\n\nin Jubilee Sheet, yasierday even\n\n*.*\n\nA Shanghai ziceaz soole who di ti ser by Me Fulhas pior,\n\ning at twerty minutes to seven woneret that & malo passenger till we repris par des of\n\nand rubbed him or $66. The led a paringe of jewelley worth, victim showed a little restaurace 2.000 16 bir terba, took the package, and was slightly stabbed on the\n\n**\n\nThe ees of assault agaturi Tam\n\nballeha\n\nMr J. L. North, estrator of thin\n\nto Sins Police Station, where the toys Potande Boruty, who for on owner of it appearad Isten gave the coulis8568TOWY PRO expstimating with for his honesty. The englie left leave, is growing worch this year\n\nthe statica in bewildoriams, count\n\n**\n\nuL Chiswick. where they serni\n\nto or doing well in North is alre\n\nhaving nya Ibalit grown >1\n\nRonding and Talesbury, in see The Thienene of faunilton is alen\n\nPat, who is de cercandong the aver so he went for intiraidson against a Chineas!\n\nreporter, wan dismissed by bir. W Hamilton a the Kowloot: The Italian Cotobato wtrises tuv\n\nMagiswans yesterday,\n\nThe de the election which took place re-swing it in Willshire. fendant was alleged to have a crucis at Felermo, a large alias] aulted twe men of the Hup Lee city of over 200,000 inhabitants, in night-nd contractors, folfering a vordim of Fall, liberty of meeting\n\nspute. The intimidation case is fart beard.\n\n*u?\n\nSeven Chiuole wrament, pisacing\n\nsilty to charge of unlandaily rat\n\nand votea, tesuited in the ting wi damaging trees at a Govern- |\n\nwende ictor of the Fascist's\n\nmort plantation at Nagan Bye War, list showing that be Fascis Karison, were anak fied Bio by Mu Bozerament is enjoying not only W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon The return of notifiuble dlecases povar, but also the full conádenca) Magistracy this neunbug. The de- for the 24 hours ending August of the Italian people.\n\nfendant were stati fu kavu deng e number or rase weighing Organised by the Koristang, aflens cha 90 unties derenstation be GONOMETRUJANJ\n\n124, showa tự, uszeg ni enteria | fever, que Bnglish (mynted) and joze Chinese. The return for the)\n\n**\n\nun\n\nweek ended August shows tour the fatha e Chinese who lost Me J. Tokugawe, autơi pensily Uses of enteric fever with two this list in the cover of Vi rekirst Secretary and Auting deaths, Chinese, Drs Japan, dishares heat. Hanko lloc to the imprese Bibery in Jo Indika su one Philippine (in and where he held at the Ties London, has been appointed facia porter) and cae care of parki An Men Pakun August 12 new Consul General et. Sydres, phoid fever, Chiacan, te death W92 114 Target, aticoded, Australia; and Mr. K Hogi, vulli\n\nfrom intussen is also reported. Spence wore and by various roses Japaneen Commanerai wanch in Londen, has been appointed Kuomintang Isagera\n\nAs the embur. of the late Panchal Fannin perialine\n\nCho\n\nequal\n\nVilla were lowered over the aid of renties\n\ninbor of the Japaness Legution Ah Beking. Both diplomats wetu\n\nths President Harvizos at Yuda,\n\n**\n\nmost popaliw ti Landen esrides.\n\nnot and was heard thosaglomm\n\nAccording to a story appearing w\n\nfier T\n\nArhus Guy Carless. 35, patiseer,\n\nAll operations were ele\n\npender. Thoes of heads were the Shaters Time, a Chinese mer\n\nBared. The lus table of the des chant, F. T. Canag of Narking, was\n\nbe best post in Shanghai in 1915,\n\na bed enteroed at Birmingham\n\nA detective.\n\nTEST YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR BY READING THESE\n\nCHILDREN'S FUNNY SA UNGS gelikatel, ke D--B: Kora $2.75 The nices Eubiour a chuit is perkara the west amusing This book contrine headrede of\n\nof all forras of Auu.\n\nchildren a whimsical sayings.\n\nSPORTING AND DRAMATIC VADNS, 65 R. 1. B. Seliar 32.45 Theas ven stories to note-sad quote at one's non-in the drawing seca, in the club sowking-room, and in pinces where charming peuple assemble in hosz hores make after- Sinter speechan.\n\nrick engines, as the body, in a coffin hirisapped by invite cu demanded to gnicon rasuthy' impris shrouded by the American Bag, nt is wito raumNot for coupting to obtail money by Embed the dude, luc broke the paid within two weeks, otherwise false referatations. silsues Wrenting of lowers, given they rentended to kill the bushand inspector said that Carinus, who, by the Filipine communities of hole; The wife, who did not a vleie inther was Town Cleak of victor\n\nthirty years, failed ia hist Yokoburn, Shanghai and longkong, og i pay the consent, arferred for\n\nher rabant's predicaron examinations for the Bar and and Atually evanized ice by came a farmer. u 109 his father banking self\n\nGloc audi he then travelled on a Coloidea in America be opened an\n\nwere laid is the eart\n\nDuring the interval betzen the\n\ndeparture of Sir Edward Stubbs,\n\nthe\n\nAtontreal, but va\n\nQUOTABLE ANECDOTER nollected by D. B. Koox ...\n\nThe special feature di Usungen mandje oghter providing book is its quctableness. Most of the anecdotes are Lovel And extremely envenug but the peculiarity that distin. guisbes them as than they cku be rubly quoted in spoe thes, articles and etzversublock.\n\nRAVAM Chinesa doajors ut Manila; rates with another inu, had atter K. C. M. G., and the arrival of car\n\nGovernor (Mr. Cecil Cle-have been senght selling the mixed they bad obtained $5,000 eme nienti) Sir Claud Severn, E. P. E, vi arushed its of glass A warr-appiicans for the position of mave will uet an Officer Administering to the public to beware of buyer the couple disappeared. Thay\n\nEdwardice in Chinese \"sari-sa\" moves were eresied Government. Bir\n\nwe tested by the health services. Tabel the morey. Paperý sledi Stubbs.\n\ntc according\n\nhas also been disovered that a few they find engaged in similar dealings Arrangements and provided the Chinese reice dealers we also selling in various part of Canada, and the local situation pomte, will leave lard aflated with pontos al Toronto authorities bustested Hongkong during the early part) Sume Chiese store keepers and am pretensional “rooks\" and of October, his successor beloties merahnuts see now facing it-nordenen tiskaters. From Adelaido due to arrive atout Puree weeks watigation by officials of the head was reperied in 1969 that Cur Jater. Sir Clad Severn expects to series. Proceention fer violation of loss rat another man sarried proceed Home on leave in Deeen the pore food and drug law will be operations (is donhiul shararterį\n\nlie that were. isted against sum of timin.\n\nber,\n\n$8.15\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LIMITED. Carb Koed.\n\nEx 9. FRENCH MAIL AMBOISE,\"\n\nA NICE ASSORTMENT-OF BEST KIND OF FRENCH PRESERVES\n\nIncluding\n\nBeans, Peas, Celery, Spinach, Mushrooms, Whole Artichokes, elc,\n\nMacquerel, Sardines, Tunay, Herrings, Auchovies, etc., in White Wine, Oil, Tomato or Various Sauces.\n\nFoie Gras Naturel Forced, Pigs Feet, Truffed Boudins, Hare Pate, Veul Head Sauce Tortue Turkey Galantine.\n\nPort-Salut Cheese, Face Maggi, etc, etc.\n\nMAG - SIN GENERAL The Corner Shop\n\nPhone C5312\n\nTAMANTER\n\nThe latest designs\n\nLADIES' PLATINUM WRIST WATCHES SET WITH DIAMONDS\n\nfrowe\n\n$200\n\nSwiss Made\n\nAT\n\nSENNET FRERES\n\nTHE ALEXANDRA CAFE\n\nCAN SUPPLY\n\nBREAD AND CAKES.\n\nBirthday Cakes, Christenning Cakes, Wedding Cakes,\n\nand all kinds of fancy Cakes.\n\nAGENTS\n\nHUNG CHEONG, Kowloon. FOOK CHEONG TAI, Quarry Bay.\n\nSIMPLEX PLASTER PARTITIONS\n\nAND\n\nGEILINGS\n\n5 Beaconsfield Arcade\n\nThe SIMPLEX SYSTE\n\nHARPER'S\n\nSUMMERTIME SPECIALITY.\n\nMOSKA-CIDE\n\nA little of this wonderfu) commate apickled on subirea ce pillows wül kap rayosquito from thu vio.usty of your bedside or couch\n\nBartles $1.00 and $2.00. MOSQUITOES WON'T COME NEAR IT. Obtainable only ai\n\nQueen's Dispensary\n\nTel. No. 492.\n\nC. W. HANDLEY & CO. 29, Dog Vonx Rund, Centesi,\n\nGrand Prize of Honour\n\nPanama-Pacific International\n\nExposition\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, 1913\n\nAsahi-Beer\n\nSold Everywhere.\n\nSOLE AGENTS :\n\nMITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.\n\n\"BARGAINS\"\n\nIN\n\nREFLEX CAMERAS & FOLDING CAMERAS\n\nWind with the failu-wing user\n\nCooke F2-5, F3-λ, F4-5 & F5-3,\n\nDallmeyer F2 3, F36, F4-5, & F6-3.\n\nZrise F36, FI-S & P6.3.\n\nKOER 4-5, 56 & 76-2.\n\ncall at\n\nA. TACK & Co.\n\n26 De Road Central.\n\nTHE\n\nFIRE PROOF\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26,\n\n1925.\n\nSPORTS fall SORTS\n\nHONGKONG BASEBALL\n\nGAMES FOR TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.\n\nIn accordanLE with the re-41- ranged schedule wijet makes pro- valon for rener insiche, betw9) altores the Coague, there wit\n\nTHE WEET DAUGHTER\" GOLF CLUB,\n\nMORE STRIKE FIGURES.\n\n(By. \"Missolputts\" for the\n\nS. C. M. Post.)\n\nLAWN TENNIS.\n\nJOHNSTON WINS TROPHY.\n\nNewport R ), Aug 24. In the final of the Newport Ja vitation singles bowl, Johnson heat Norrou 63, 63, 8.3, thus) winning the trophy entright. And the Durables, fobistan and fin boat Serien and Casey 6, S1, 5,7, 26, 6.3. Treater Ancorican, Service.\n\nTHE OLD FAVOURITE\n\nBOORD'S\n\nOLD TOM GIN.\n\nCAT on BARREL BRAND\n\nOBTAINABLE AT ALL FIRST CLASE STORES.\n\nBred 111, Arg 24. Miss talen Wills roteinod the Women's National Lawa Tennis Championship, defeating Miss\n\nSale Agente\n\n3\n\nIn convection with the lies Meus 3:6, 6/9, 4,3 Reder's CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.\n\nbe two mid-week games played off moule corved daring the month at American Snowce juu the Houpy Valley dirmeist this \"ono Daughter Weep Golf\n\nin the opening matches of the\n\nBrookline, August 25,\n\nThe Grai u thoso i tired to Chuh,, za patience is \"Backpi's\" comurance at 5 pm, today, when festes on the 2nd instat, I wanted National Dumbles Championships the Filipino Club wil meet the Iu the courtcess Setreing of the Kinsey brothers, holders, boat dian R. P., who are at present at Clah with\n\nbtaining Hot and Halia Smuth, 7-6,6-4, 8-4; the boils of the Lable. To can- Purcher statintizm\n\nDemagis and Reignon beat Levazil noo but be anticipated that the\n\n02 mors\" mit hallused Vansien, 6-3,7-5, 6-3, Mili ant Filipino side will win, although Geoval, po fiering a co vite, jone Casey bost Shuster and Jonkines. the Indian team is alowing better those that one that isly, 7-5,6-4, 4; Westcased Emen Dora and pat up a stering came which we leerely devined. Pirids and Wasaki. 6-2,66, agalust the Japannes na Saturday Rogel tot To Golf Cirs le proad 6-2; Vildog and Wience boat Jopen last. The Arst guns between for its sacreen reden for Angvei, bal and logeshest, 6-4,56, 618-N--;\n\nthem treated in win for the do not for a moment eaypow that ¦ Bruter's American Service. Filipines by 15 to three.\n\nxo am entering into ang serious The Volunteer Defence Corps jrivalry with the Hant You: anl are scheduled to meet the base werk High Rocks or any other straling Japanese at 5, p.no, tommur- jorganization; and also you wil cow and a goat game la expected, please remember that we are far too wing the Volunteers falling to hard bung to provide full statistics of our the lesboinly percet Nipponesa, attivities weile stila\" Full who will have the velcer of the prof this was indeed patent in Playing x Chesterboid, La recevabtable ishimatsu as pitcher. teribe what of typewriter, calbire defence Derbyshire by Their earlier woering ended in au calculating machine pencil shara intings and 132 rans. Bears: Joverwhelming victory for the rengly want other Inclinary by Laucalice, 278.\n\nDerbyshire, S7 and 78. Japanse by 18 to four, which jbich we were surtunJed considering all things, was a good\n\nThe highest contributora Fressed however, harp. Ex tuore Lancashire wore Watson 62, Hal- for showing by the Volunteers. It gres, the aubice of tus peindust and Pewires 15, whikt. hoped that they will ranke an eventer wired papur and pen Towsond, Derby's Bowler, took better nue tomorrow.\n\nNo icons have bean received.\n\nJani alter serve nderful work y\n\nthe\n\nYACHTING.\n\nMR. BLAKE ON 6 METRE COMPETITION,\n\nQualities of Monsoon.\n\nHOME CRICKET.\n\nLANCASHIRE'S EASY WIN.\n\nLondon, Aux. 24.\n\nIr.\n\ntied staff of the sarees, four wickets for 57 rina. Your Peri Sage, Spoke and Darby's first innings, Tyldesley Chr was able to give us the jojowok eight wiekota for 40 runt, Seg infertuskinn.\n\nard in Derby's second krock Years ago, before the great Get Sibbles took fire wickets for 30\n\n| xuan---Herten hendi, Mr. Pineb valeukased that the jaar generated by jutits missed on iche gli con of Great Brita in jose past wuulih, it properly tiliaest, jelove and feed a men for six\n\nTHE ST. LEGER.\n\nMANNA IS FAVOURITE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 24.\n\nA reported in these columns jaga; working on the sette foarala, from me to rina, Bir. Blake's 1 may say than the host genercial Mouser from Singapore has met in me year by balta bene lost t\n\nTo be rst esiinrer of the Sz. Find a rery successful sencon at Weep lygter wee tothe and Legs at tex Victoria Cob to-day,\n\nhorse, but has been consistently red suitably ten Canton Bolshevicts Manza\n\nwas installed favourite, read at all the South Coast re- or the terms of their wanatabil Res 4 in 1 otuz taken and offered\n\nsttas. Writing From England may say that in their counter.\n\nto Singapore, 3. Blake says he original formula bo beru varieg\n\nabout racing away et rout of lightly and wilde fond be be avecis viven for the Eolant Dussafak, of rice per die red for Classes round about Sonthampton, labing t\n\nbut so far without getting a win- niux Beg.\n\nTheatre Class ic\n\nja very bor any, including as it\n\nA Few Move Piprez,\n\nits la empaled that the number\n\nLEAGUE'S OPIUM\n\nCOMMITTEE.\n\nBRITISH APPOINTED CHATEMAN,\n\nGeneva, Aug 24. The campout snriggling of\n\nduce the rack helicamen and ni rada not dancer in the Cleb frzewa of the South Coast of Eug-House after dinact by ki wh\n\nlead, and Mr. Blake feels quite have dine there is equal to the ex- SOUND PROOFd that his yacht can five plant of the ads in this Colony, drugs was one of the principal\n\nSending Now Thavidurios This, I take subjects of discussion of the) among them at all.\n\nManwood is best in light breezes, it, is a striking testimony the League's Advisory Committen on Togain, which niet te-lay, and but when it blow up she anot excelience of this fre 15wvinna.\n\nHONGKONG EXCAVATION, PILE DRIVING & CONSTRUCTION Co., Ltd.\n\nTel. 01. 8718.\n\nZad Floor, Powell's Building.\n\nCalfore pure de Ferments lactiques bulgares sur mitinu végétaj\n\nGLEED-INTÉZ\n\nBARRELS, CONTALIONS\n\nTELL Sza\n\nSAPAN Am\n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND.\n\nCONDIAL FAREWELL\n\nEXPRESSIONS.\n\nign to windward with the other - munder of Brinks prottered looted Sir Makrola Delovingue bosts, not being an ait This fee and refused by rubenbers wond Cosieman, and he dermian, due to her hul beine constructed unt, if poured into the ses at Wey. Professor Terr Acainuno, as Vice-Chainman. The absence of of teakwood, which takes a lot Daughter Bag, effent the love of the the Chien delegate, Mr. Chr ECONOMICAL extra weight, which is evidert wules of Weiss Buy is in 2-sue of instructions, in the keels of the other Boula mass of an inch at ordinary Spisens no sarprise in view of the better advantage.\n\nWides\n\nChinese wishdrawal from the on- Still, Mr. Make sud his com Enter of tadies invading ference on February 7th- Raster. : jpanions pog swag, learning of ine lide menie zgacha romte and bee in a\n\nine, and the international Rules (week would, if it were possible (and į row have no terrors for the Jusirable) to stand them end on end, when designing another bout.\n\nterm a dle appwainuately venel ini\n\nMr. Blake says that if he was height to Mount Kellet; moly thei in England for good he would take two lower was, however, jassustic cat that tenkwood darks of Mon- that the pile were rigid and not zour and replace them with pine- foent) would be able to see into tha wood, as lighten up further mens dressing room, iters and put the weight a\n\nes proves in the greons at Week! gained down amongst the read. Daughter theory approximately age to the reale vs New The rigat and mash pane in the tran-font of their own Zealand says: A view our Cine sama very light compared weight in aarti Jaily. It is there parting with feelings of sadness. with what they are eastern- torn, eniculated that this were at the ehost space of two weeks ed to oul East, mud would ut feultured over a year it would'ng the varicas detachments of the lagi long with natives as crews. Jquire 20 even the size of the Priest have grown to love your pouple Mr. Blake adds that he personal- jdenk of the, Club to carry the earth and your counky, Oar twenty- ty, and lab the Royal Siegapuce iya yarde in three days\n\ntwo thend men will go home nich Yach Club, are deeply indehind The notices posed to use various\n\nspeak intelligently of Ney Hackelahi-Smith, the Chul Buses in car year comes Zolnud. iry M.\n\nYou may be sure thes Editor of The Fachling Monthly Įpaar fomitbag the rapina filed in sili ev as twenty-two thousan for the great trouble he has taken the office) uneagh to acce eft the well-wishers and boosters of your on behalf of Monsoon.\n\nFairways of de Chan verine Wonderful country.\"-- Restor\n\nPROCITIES, AZŠNES QRAPIN, ARTISTE PALZEMENTS DIE challe DERSGITUNES, TORKULASES SEGET STUMATHYRA PYCRPUDES Frog Taktiken i 19ŠEČE VYVENIŠE OSATIZIRA\n\nBULGARINE\n\nTHEPENIER\n\n14 COMPRIMIR grustten Swaggia - » POUDRY\n\nAdalton Suver dans compolnas;\n\nBukemeina 206 25mideure\n\nJapan 16 a 2 par jour).\n\nEntente: te doua.\n\nPricer, if\n\nFocuirer\n\n3 par jom,\n\nLARGRAT JIRE 4 PERMYNYS A. FAEPENISA. f. 1. Or,\n\nCompagnie Optorg\n\nAptu\n\nAMERICAN EXPRESS\n\nRAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP\n\nTICKETS\n\nTRAVELLERS' CHEQUES Express and Freight Forwarding.\n\nHONGKONG\n\n44 Des Voeux Ecad,\n\nTel. C. 4825.\n\nBOXING.\n\nPROSPECTS OF AN INTERESTING SEASON.\n\nIn at Interview with Afr. J. Bronk of the Hougkong Boxing Asesora-\n\nsica yesterday, our representative\n\ncanreek In this connection it is in- teresting to note, drag experiments face huing carried and with a new ane resobling real turf in gastify Frero which it is byped that pertines Butter beter juraced turd igzurady mag re nitized for revuling the greDAT\n\nthe various Courasi,“\n\nWellington, Aug, 21. Admiral Shortz in a tazewell\n\nwwwwwww.xxx.com.com GERMAN PULĪTICS.\n\nHERR WIRTH RESIONS.\n\nBerin Aug 24.\n\nPelion des are exload by ex-Chancellor Wield's resigna\n\nAt this point several telepboursion from berlap of the\n\nbelle mang, for routies appeared Centrists owing principally, to\n\nwas informed that there is every with chit hooks and with the depot disapproval to the Party's action prospect of a brilians winter se regret I was torcel is te ry son in the fisticuff sphere of Rong parure.\n\n[korg.\n\nYoungsters are coming along in\n\ngood style, he suic, and there will\n\nbo no dearth of entries in the possibility of arme of these being various classes. Hittorio.\n\nthe induced to come forward and put\n\npozices have given the best shows jep a show.\n\nhere, but new arrivals cu the stas\n\nPerhaps the most prominent of tion, both Navs! and Military, are the new arrivals is at present\n\nof\n\nBewegtners\n\na sapporting the Tarif Bill.\n\nHarr Wirth will remsin head of\n\na small party, of Independenti Centrists. Reutt\n\nSYRIAN OUTLOOK.\"\n\nTHE CALM CONTINUES.\n\nPark4, Aug. 21.\n\nThe Ministry of War annon\n\ncalibre to enthase the most on board . . . Farmes. | Cardened of fight tans.\n\nfa welter weight he has participated Among the\n\nare in the Army and Navy Champion-txt\n\nમ ea continea in the some dark horses win, although shops at Home, where bas Jebeltrase regim. they are men of merit, elden ven a good second at bheselt Suela is set earrounded but fe The town al 14, Klukiong Road appear outside their e intership and aceding to report is Ingres regulady applied by aeroplanes.\n\nBEANOHAL\n\nor regiontal bouts and there in King'a the ame\n\nReter.\n\nQuien's Bood Central.\n\nTelephone C. 75.\n\nBIG BARGAIN!\n\nTo make room for new stock, we will sell the entir\n\nstock of.\n\n“VOCALION” & “BANNER”\n\nDance Records\n\nFrom TO-DAY to 31st inst.\n\nAt the following prices ---\n\nBANNER DANCE RECORDS\n\nVOCALION DANCE RECORDS.....$ 1.20 each cash\n\n0.70 Babae hours:10 .. to 7 p.m. Sablay:-10 e.. to 4 p..\n\n+3\n\nCOSTA MUSIC CO., LTD.\n\n48. Nothes Road. Kowleon.\n\nPICCADILLY CLUB\n\nBREVAS PINAS\n\nAN EXCER}}}NGLY\n\nFINE SHOKE\n\nBaler\n\nMANGFACTURERS\n\nBox of\n\n23\n\nB. Yander TAX & CO.\n\nHOLLAND\n\nGET INABLE Ar\n\nTABAQUEIRA FILIPINA\n\n58 Quesu's Road, Central,\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO.\n\nTHE HONGKONG\n\nBARGAIN\n\nHOUSE.\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD & D'AGUILAK ST.\n\nB.V.D. BARGAINS\n\nUnion suit\n\n$2.75\n\nSingle Garment $1.40\n\nSUN HELMETS\n\nA big shipment\n\njust arrived\n\nAt\n\nBARGAIN PRICES\n\n$4.50, $6.75, $13.50\n\nSTRAW HATS\n\n$2,50, $3.00\n\n53 50, $4.00\n\nEvery Day Bargains.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500970, "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": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "1 Powell L \n\nTelephone C. 457 \n\nUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT \n\nLADIES' \n\nLtd \n\nCHILDREN'S DEPTS. \n\nwe \n\nA \n\nTo make room for our New Goods, \n\nholding are SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE in these Departments \n\nColossal reductions regardless \n\nof cost. \n\nBe sure you pay us \n\na visit during this week, August 22nd to August 29th. \n\nAN ENDOWMENT INSURANCE POLICY \n\nwill enable your family to redeem the mortgage \n\non your house if you die, and \n\nwill enable you to pay it yourself if you live. INSURE WITH \n\nCHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. \n\nAll Clauses of Life Insurance Business Transacted. \n\nLife Assurance Department. \n\n1. C. 1121. \n\nBt, George's Building. \n\nATTRACTIVE HANDBAGS \n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS \n\nIN \n\nBATICK LEATHER \n\nSILK & SUEDE Also for Afternoon Wear and Many Dainty Novelties \n\nfor \n\nEvening Wear \n\nSMART NEW \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING \n\n“PHOMENE” \n\nFIRE APPLIANCES. \n\n\"BRITISH THEREFORE BEST** \n\nTwo Gallon Type. Extinguishers as shown above are absolutely necessary in districts where water facilities are limited. Avoid risks and install \"Phomene.\" \n\nAsk for Particulars. Sole Agents \n\nMUSTARD & CO. 16-17 Connaught Road Central Phone 1126. \n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT. \n\nPOST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. \n\nPage 9 \n\nSHANGHAI ARMS SEIZURE. \n\nEX-ARMY OFFICER \n\nCHARGED. \n\nFRENCHMAN, GERMAN, AMERKAN AND CHINESE INVOLVED. \n\n(Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nShanghai, August 26. \n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY. \n\nSTANDARD OIL AGENT CAPTURED. \n\nTHE S.S. KWANG HUNG SEIZED AT KAU KONG. \n\nCANTON CHANGES. \n\nEFFECTS OF LIAO CHUNG-KAI'S DEATH. \n\n(From Correspondent.) \n\nCanton. August 23. It appears that the assassination of Liao Chang-kai, the late Bolshevik leader in Canton, is causing some serious changes in the political situation here. \n\nLu \n\n(An Occasional Correspondent.) \n\nWuchow, August 21. When the strike came into effect cutting off communication between \n\nIn connection with the French \n\nSongkong and Wuchow, the \n\nYau \n\naddition to the resignation of Wu \n\nder to recall him. Alternative \n\npolice seizure of arms and ammunition \n\nCompany of Hongkong Techen \n\nthe Police Commissioner, y, it can dismiss him directly. \n\ntion, estimated in value at $46,000 \n\nWuchow transferred several \n\nand the detention of Mei Kwang- \n\nThere are a number of cases in \n\nthere have been arrested Colonel \n\ntheir agents dying the Chinese \n\na Cantonese military consan \n\nwhich a diplomatic agent has \n\nJames Christie, a British \n\nany danger to the Canton-Wuchow \n\nservice. \n\nder, and several other military \n\nher recalled at the request of \n\nver, retired. Relegation \n\nCameral Daily \n\nadduhs have been maintain \n\nand police officers, as reported \n\nthe State in which he resides \n\nhavies \n\n15sch, alina Charles A. \n\ned. The weng Hung left Canton today, the case has also \n\ncatad for a breach of this rule. In \n\nNeed, an 1804, the Spanish Minister to \n\nperson & Frothman \n\nwatert ss usual, for Wuchow, striving of the City Executive Committee. \n\nAmerleen named on Tuesday morning August 18, the resignation of C. C. Wa, Chief \n\nthe United States, attempted to \n\nChrist formerly in the castonte \n\nser- Kan Keg at 9 are the same \n\nvenho tendered his resignation \n\nres- bribe a newspaper to publish \n\nan article in favour of Spain. with \n\nported to be the secretary of \n\nber of pirate ware travelling as its \n\nto accord protection to the de- \n\nroference to a dispute in \n\nGeneral Wong Tse-hua in whose \n\npassengers. When they opened fire \n\ncease high oficial press between \n\ntwe exuntries, aslan were discovered \n\n340,000 \n\nsimultaneously in various parts of; \n\nen the United Sutes anked for \n\nincluding a quantity of counter- \n\nthe ship, several steam launches \n\ntang party said to he suspected \n\nhis recall. For years later, the \n\ntatt tns which the police assert \n\ncame out from the river banks \n\n2 United States were again \n\nquesting the recall of a Minister \n\nas \n\nthe purchase money. The \n\nsarmmanded the steamer. In \n\nAmerican, French and British \n\nWix.] showong 1our \n\nThis time of Mr. Jackson, \n\nThe Courts when the eases \n\nBritish Ambasador, the charge \n\nbeing that in certain toaste given \n\nat pablle dinners he had charged. \n\nBREACH OF TRUST. \n\nAnother member of the Kucmin- \n\nby the authorities is \n\nCheckman \n\nJai, an aviator, formerly District Magistrate of Taungabau and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yur-ken. I \n\nis understood \n\nwith \"Talsehood and duplicity.\" \n\nSAPORE MAN GETS HEAVY \n\nand he well-to-do. \n\nAfter deliberation, the Ambasea- \n\nthe American administration \n\ndor was recalled, but the British Government duly placed on \n\nvocord that \"His Majesty's Guy- ernment has not marked with \n\nMrs. Lorne Murphy, of the \n\nany expression of displeasure \n\nStation Hot Kowloon, who has \n\nSENTENCE. \n\n· Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nSingapore. August 25. \n\nMr. Compton Cooper, ex-ciskier \n\nTa pirates nas ap apathat \n\nan order has been issued for \n\nsengers and by examining the \n\nthe arrest of Jai, who bas now \n\nhazds of the passengers made \n\ndis- tiretion between the working \n\nappeared, as the revolver used \n\nby the assasain in shooting Liau \n\nAs found with coarse hands were \n\nChunu-kai is Rileyed to being \n\nreleased, \n\nWounded Editor Dies, \n\ntuned. Those with lady dngers\" \n\nwere do- \n\nChan Chau-lam, who was with \n\nashore and the best was \n\nscrunchly \n\nLizo Coung-si and received for \n\ncleaned out. The Captcha was \n\nious wounds ciro, passed away \n\nThe Captain is a Bri \n\nalso taken. \n\njust returned by the imprese \n\nof does not appear to have \n\ncon- of Messra Job Liste And Co. \n\nWand has bees \n\nwary offlsiently for three days in a very critical \n\ntish ahjust noted \"Chen Kam,\" \n\nbital, where he had ocen lying \n\nThis tnorning at the Kung Yee \n\nCanada, destres to convey her \n\nmitted any international offence \n\nconvicted of a breach of trust \n\nin sincere thanks to Mr. H. P. White \n\nagainst the United \n\nthe navigation of this condition. \n\nStates,\" the sum of $4,000 \n\na yetenosil to meble steamer for the past several \n\nditor of the China News in Hong \n\ndueting Mr. Wiarson, Cant. Turnball \n\nAgain in 1871 the United States \n\nthree months hard labour in add \n\nChan was formerly \n\nand all officers of the Douglas \n\nrequests the recall of the \n\ntiva is a tire of $500 with the \n\nPears. All told about fisty \n\nDoug and after his paper was \n\nSteamatip Chowany and friends \n\nRussian Minister, fox inturail- \n\nernative of six mutha' ingrison, \n\nsengers were held captive. The \n\ni pressed he came back to Canton \n\nwe attended the fanem of her \n\nterence in its internal affairs, \n\nart in default as payment... \n\nsteamer was then allowed to \n\nand became an editor of the Min \n\nlato hachawdd und sent wreaths, \n\nand whilst most people will \n\nremen- \n\nber the comparatively recent \n\nWachon on the night of August 20th, \n\njast twants-war hours tale. $120,000 \n\nRansom Asked. Among those taken captive \n\nin her recent sad bereavement. \n\ncase of Dr. Danba, who was recalled by Austria from the \n\nThe Borning Post \n\nWEDNESDAY, Aveer 26, 1025. \n\nComrade Karakhan, \n\nground that he proposed to \n\nhis, government plane ic engineeri \n\nstrikes in American steelworks, \n\nwitich \n\nmanufacturing \n\nWern \n\nmunitions of war. A case of mutual dismissal of Ministara by \n\nFOOD SUPPLIES. \n\nPORE, MUTTON AND BEEF PLENTIFUL. \n\nReduced Demand. \n\nNeo Jia Pag. He was also an in- \n\nfacial ember of the Central Executive Committee \n\nof \n\nthe Kuomintang. \n\nof \n\nwei now chairman of the Brein- \n\nSiner the death of Mr. Liao \n\na number of prominent ciftens \n\nof Cheng-kai, the Soviel Representa- \n\ntire in Canton, who is now High \n\ntravelling as a third class passanger \n\nAdvisor in the Nationalist Govern- \n\nto avoid recognition, as he le well \n\nknow on the Wert River. Mr. Chap- \n\nof a man to succeed Liao in the \n\nLong in the Wochow agent of the \n\ntasks which the deceased and M. \n\nSuch har ter the improvement \n\nlard Oil Company and has \n\nBorngin had been jointly perform- \n\nWe have recently become so \n\nby Great Thilair and Spain in the \n\nfood stastion during the large \n\nancial de cesto. \n\naccustomed to the spectacle of \n\noccurred in 1848. Aravclution \n\npast for days, that restrictions \n\nofmediately recoguised and was \n\nsentative bax found Wang Ching- \n\nHe was ing. So far the Russian repre- \n\nSpain the Soviet Government \n\nviolating reverent in \n\nwas the slaughter if native rattle \n\nbave infurewd as spon payenere \n\ninternational law and exploiting! \n\ni wn to have the spinpality of \n\nzou been removed and the supply \n\n$120,000 he would be immediately \n\ntive Committee of the Nationalist \n\nthe huden diplomatic system \n\nthe British Forestry in a class \n\ntopping the denialet. His assistant and wife \n\nGovernment, the called parson. \n\nits-uture, TARE Tho rucent \n\nPalmerston. I was also \n\nConsumption is being that of \n\nwere wish him. The wife \n\nRussian known that Mr. Bulwer, the Bri- \n\nnormal times, owing probably to the \n\nreleased but the assistant was held. \n\nkecs Conference in the Eden-- \n\nrevolations of the \n\nwas When Wang atleaded the Wer- \n\nCorrespondent to the North \n\n(ish Mtalster at Madrid, het \n\nof people in the Mr. Chap- \n\ntour has been 1 for a \n\nChina Daily News, concerning the same tows as Lord Pabner \n\nCloux, bat uriously cough, this \n\nnumber of weeks non after a long \n\nterany a large number of Wham- \n\ncioual Association Buliding \n\nya- the Soviet's Ambassador to \n\nfan, although he had carefully \n\nis neve instint in beef \n\nBras D \n\nstay in Canton was \n\nreforming \n\nrape Codete escorted him. \n\nKong Paking, end his activities in \n\ntrained from expressing those \n\nany other mest. \n\nWarhow far trestuent. \n\nYing-fan promotiog Bolshevism in China, \n\nviews or from acting upon then \n\nKwangcharwad is now maintain. \n\nzasunod Other taken prisoner inclufofee of Conumissar of finance of \n\nnecasion very little surprise in \n\nany way during the revolting \n\na regalar supply of pigs and \n\non. Chiu Lau-tong, the Principal \n\nthe Provinia Government and \n\nMinister of Finance of the Nation. \n\nundoubtedly have to he a reckon \n\nexpert dismissed him, and return \n\nof more than 200, \n\nmer School of the Christian and \n\nis slat Government corrarently, \n\nand Palmeraton, reply, which \n\nexceets that for any one day \n\nlonary Alliance at Warhow \n\narissed the Spanish Minister in \n\nsince the commencement of the \n\nten Chinese preachers of this \n\nmia- ing these breaches of the \n\nusers onder. The distaiesal of \n\nLode. There are at Jones \n\n1,000sion Mr. Wong Ueno \n\nsut Mr. Lel \n\nAlavies the deceased Lino. \n\nof civilised nations, it is well to have \n\nou veront in what parti- \n\nSackville, the British Ambassa- \n\npigs in stock and this is being \n\nKip-chi. cats Comrade Karakhat has \n\ndor to Washington, in 1888 \n\nseems added a daily. \n\nThe abject of the attach \n\nan this. \n\ning with Russia one day, respect \n\nAUE.UUT \n\nagain offended, assuming what to \n\nbave been rather a straining \n\nNative cattle supplies exceed \n\nthe vessel serns to have been to \n\nobtain seama winest incontestable \n\nat the international right given \n\ndement and the dealers may now \n\na large shipment of money that \n\nwas During and market without restraint \n\nsupposed to re aboard for one f \n\nthat the documents published in \n\nto an offended State. \n\nHad \n\nTHE SANITARY BOARD). \n\nNEW BY-LAWS ADOPTEL. \n\n-- \n\nthe \n\nM. N. Smith presided over a \n\nthe North China Daily News are \n\nthe American presidential elee \n\nSanghat is applying sheep as \n\nare the lees; hanks, Silver \n\nicin and peeting of the Sanitary Bourd \n\nhet authentic. In their handling \n\nof \n\nthe situation in China the Bol- \n\nwas formerly British subject, \n\namount of local mutton is to be \n\ndomand in Wachow later and \n\nsince the embargo on wall cap \n\nfront. T. Groney, Dr. I. W. Tae. Dr. \n\nthe greatest skill and efficiency. \n\nThey have utilised every little \n\nhow he was to give his \n\nvoted but poultry eat eves \n\nshow a tendency whether Mr. Cleveland, if 23- \n\nA \n\nto increase. Vagetables and \n\na bank notes and anali coin have \n\ngood example of this is the atti- \n\nelectal, would support a policy \n\nage he obtained at little more \n\nbeen arriving daily from Canton. \n\ntude conveyed by their Embassy \n\nof friendliness to England. Lord \n\nto oimal rises and generally at \n\nPaking. The Foreign Powers \n\nSackville replied to vague and \n\nspeaking, the situation is extremely \n\nare represented in China by \n\nneral terms that any satiating \n\nand is cally becoming \n\nthe other more se- \n\nfavouring Ministers only, and not by \n\nfull pecly Ambassadors. The explanation \n\ncountry would inse popularity\" \n\nof this is the disturbed conditiou \n\nthat he boliavad Mr. Cleveland \n\nIt is a fact that a large hand \n\nat plates have been operating in the \n\nteretaty), Mr. D. Tavies \n\nand Mr. G. Kennedy kiten also \n\npresent. \n\nreserving \n\nThe dret by laws governing fond \n\nestablish pools and seruted water \n\nmanufactorios CAIDS months. The leader of this \n\nremarking that there was \n\nup for consideration, the chairman \n\nKau Kong weinig for everal \n\nSPORTS COATS \n\nof China, which robs the country \n\nwas desirous of maintain \n\nEnture is lisaged in an editorial \n\nCanton and Muceo. She is called \n\nBoar went into exilee. \n\nIN \n\nLIGHT-WEIGHT \n\nTWEEDS \n\nand WOOLLENS \n\nHAVE ARRIVED; \n\nALSO \n\nCREPE RUBBER SOLED \n\nGOLF BROGUES. \n\nLADIES' GOLF CLUBS. We have a large selection by leading makers. Prices $6 & $7. \n\nLANE, CRAWFORD'S \n\nPEDDER STREET, \n\nLADIES \n\nSALON \n\nhe \n\nIx reported to ese to be a women \n\nsession regarding them who frequently vita fongkong hocght it would he better if the \n\nof its full internation statusing friendly relations with Groat \n\nin the Gentini Chin Port. \n\nThey theyhinese is affectionate terms \n\nwas im-paper pins ont that the opinion \n\nThe Pirate Queen. She ensure \n\nwas no diariasier they might: When the Soviet turned its \n\nBritain, although it attention to Cbica, however, it \n\npossible to predict his course \n\nis held by Chinese that they can \n\ntainly seria now to be at leent \n\nthe \n\nDr. Petrse paid at the 'sat meet- \n\nrealised \n\nSHANGHAI INCIDENT, \n\nhe then ca bloc \n\nIf \n\nshould be made and these rensals \n\n[ead now been digrala bed. \n\nthat for Bulshevis beforehand.\" \n\nThis correspon- \n\ngo on strike jug! when they \n\nplease! \"qseen of the Wajk\" \n\naround Kaighe xare reasons why \n\nthe by-law \n\npurposes Peking would be the \n\ndie becoming known to the \n\nand when they come back \n\nreceive Kong. most important capital in the United States Government, \n\nFord their old jobs again and be paid \n\nworld. Accordingly the Sovint \n\nSackville was discussed by them, \n\nin full for the time when no work \n\nappointed as Chinese Ambassa- \n\nIt seems imposible to justify \n\nwas, done, a of which, the vaper \n\ndor (and not Mister) one of the \n\naction of the United States \n\nadds, ia pact and purest of the \n\nIts most capable agents. \n\nin this stance, since diplomatic \n\npresent Chisens belief that they \n\nA resnit of this, since usage and common sense allkej \n\ncan do what they wian with \n\nfor Ambassarlor takes precedence \n\nof sume that twn States wish to \n\ncizners, shoot them and all the \n\nMinister, Comrade Karakhan \n\nremain in friendliness with one \n\nrest of it, but retaliation in the \n\nwas placed at the outect in an \n\nanother until the contrary is \n\npart of the foreigners becomes a \n\nexceedingly favourable position, \n\nproved. These cases Ulustrate heinous crime. Whilst that state \n\nTo neutralise the advantage thus \n\nthe strictness with which a \n\nStatement correctly \n\nAs \n\nMER \n\nCalerpreted \n\nthe \n\nITALIAN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. \n\nShanghal, Angust 20. On the 21st the Italian Minister called upon Shay Jai un stating that the Diplomatic Corps was asiti \n\nOn Dr. Macgown intimating that he wishna to discuss the by- laws nevemag the quality of water used in making aurated waters and le the matter of cleaning belts before they wwe died a second time, the chairman moved thus the Board go into committee, which was immediately done. \n\nOn the Board resuming, the by- \n\nlaws, siended, wern adopted. \n\nat the present time prueervan its Chinese viewpoint before the desirous of a speedy settlement af cleverly and legitimately obtain integrity from the activities of strike, is questionable whether the Shanghai incident and esposed el by the Bolsheviks, \n\nthe foreign diplomate agents accre that opinion is generally helt arst to negotiate the restoration of Ministers of the Powers reited to it. Since Gains wishes longkong to-day. In fack, the Mixed Court, leaving the other presented at Peking retained thei \n\nto be ensidered a member of pride ourselves on the fact that Heme to be discussed systematical Diplomatic Corps, which at the Farily of Nations, and is the strikers who have returnedy. Shum Jaalus priznised to take ority of 95005 per cent has been through the agency of the senior therefore bound by international have been taught a lesson they will the prosal into consideration-produced by the Hoope electrolyti Minister (who is at present the law to respect the usages of cot men farget \n\nIt is true that Tsui Wan Yat Po. Traian Minister) on all qacations \n\ncame back affecting the relations of the civilized States, its obvious when more of them: \n\nPowers with China. The duties ourze would be to investigate they had the audacity to ask for of diplomatic agent may be immediately these documents their full pay. but in no se, 20 de5ned as the prosecution of bia which inplicate the Soviet Am-far as our knowledge gou as country's interests diplomatical-assador en extensively, and, this conceded. \n\nly with the foreign government and the charges true, its only \n\nOn course is to dismiss him unma \n\ndiately. privileged \n\nAbinina chaited to have a \n\nje pessors, and is stated to differ \n\nvery materially from the ordinary \n\nPEKING UNIVERSITY. \n\n90 per cent aluminion sheet It is Parók shorter. Ik zemina notarnish \n\nOn the Aber haul! IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM. god uery were given the order! \n\nof the boot. Thanks to tas fra \n\natkiude zdoyted by the Govern \n\nThe \n\njed in air a long time, and is hee such greatly increased resistance lne szida anit other chemicals that Paklog, Angue: 8. \n\njis endines & week'a imuaersion in Minister of Education droolric acid with only slight ment and the community general Chang Szchas, stated at the Gabi effect, although the ordinary shest Ar. the retioned stikers have niet meeting that the Peking Uni-metal is hsscived completely in been completely disillusioned, and veralty was in favour of voor bath The chic parity there is a strict rule of inter- The important point of what thewe very much doubt whether they; uism and desired to sevOr connec-contained in the commercial TEKS national law, forbiding him to employer is going to do to safe-1 will be as anxious to ge ont agala' tion with the Ministry of Edutainhure is epper, the iron and silicon interfere in the hiternal politics guard houself from strikes in the uz they were ou this occasion, tion-Fun Wan Yat Po. \n\nhaing is very stall amousk \n\nio which he is accredited. account of the position which he enjoys in consequence \n\nof these duties, The Strike and After. \n\nOVER-NIGHT CABLES. \n\nANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. \n\n\"PARTICULARLY CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.\" \n\nFrance Asks Equal Treatment With Italy. \n\nParis, August 35. While expressing satisfaction at the \"parifcaleriy cordial etmospbare\" in the conversations between Mr. Churchill and M. Calllaux, the new siapers continue to urge the necessly of speciai | consideration for Prince. \n\nL'Ecko de Paris's London outrespondent anys that M Caillaux | insisted that Mr. Churchill give auge vgual treatment with Ealy. The correspondant hopes the impression will not gain ground that Britain it using the question of debts gain Italy's good graces. \n\nLe Petit Journal, referring to the heavy eenditions\" which the United States imposed on Balzium and the suggestion of the Limited Status impose harsher term on France, says that the foreign press and public appear to forget that all this wi crente a sale of economie inossibilĥouter. \n\nLondon, August 25. \n\nM. Caillaux spent the morning at the French Embassy with his experte. M. Caillax taler visited fancices in the city, meeting Mr. Churchill at the Teasury Tata is the afternoon.- \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. \n\nTHE \n\nCLEAR OUT \n\nBOLSHEVISTS. \n\nGREAT MASS MEETING URGES HOME GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. \n\nPROMPT AND DECISIVE MEASURES URGED. \n\n\"THE CANGER MUST BE RUTHLESSLY CUT OUT.\" \n\nOpposition Speaker Heckled, \n\nA \n\nThe haii \n\nA peene of great enthusiasth we witnessed at the Theatre Royal last evening when a great mass meeting of Hongkong residents aicpted, practically uniously, a roselation urging the Home Gov- srument to deliver an affam to the Canton authorities. was crowded, fally one thousand people being present. The addresses made in support of the resolation were frequently ami fourty ap planded, but one speaker who ventured to votes appcaition, met with good deal of beckling. The proceedings, which lastet for chise \n\nBritish National Antham. upon two hours, were brought to a conclusion with the singing withe \n\nThe meeting has provided over the Governments at Hors \n\nHis \n\nthe spot. who know and realise; the exbrerse govily of the eitis- Etia (Applause). \n\nThe telegram we send to-night,. therefiae, whatever may be sɛid! jlo speechee, about! avolii any. \n\nthing like viient language in the Text and confine itself to isspres. give statements of farts and such [deinands as ure reasonably set Forth and yousible of viiment. is with this object, in view that the suggested telegram, which has tor sutne time appeared in the Press, that eigin receive matitve: gonsideration by you ali, hat been most carofully druited, and 2 trustj ithet ne material alteration to it I will be called for \n\nWaking up at Lask To epits of all that has been telegraphed, until a few days ako It compelled to helieve that the Government at Home still consi- dar that the liongkozy aus South China troubles are all part of the \"China onesting,\" whton propej after the \"Shanghet weilent\" or are bound up with that Sheldonti \n\nWhile M. aflux was busy at the French Embassy Mr. Church by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyank, Fixuellency the fovernor in eirag and the Young Chine Nationalist was similarly engaged with his experts at the Treasury ludying the whe was supported on the plat upon this letter had authorised me Movement, and can be settled by French viewpoint. Owing to last atinute changes in the plans om by Sir Hoary Pollock, Hou to quote that portion of his letter cuees or socle special envy, hut Fon-csestations in Poking, confer- Ceilex week the Treasury at wes to sen Mr. Chrehjli.--Rezston i My, IT, W. Bird, Hon. Mr. G. G. \n\nwhich refers intimately to thisise recent shipping proclamations Alabaster, K., Mr. A. Macgowan pronunciation at the Canton Club: or the Canton authorities son at: (Swab), Mr. W. & Bailey, Mr. \n\nagree with Sie Jane Jamieson's Inst to be waking it up. Heat J. Owen Hughes, fr. W. A. Towies lection to the thily Pres art-hear). and others. \n\nfele, and should like you to an- \n\nOBITUARY. \n\nMAJOR GENERAL REGINALD C. W. E. MITFORD. \n\nThe death is announced of Mejut General Regina Beverley Mitford.--Mouder. \n\nDoes His Majesty's Government; The Chairman, before proceed-derstand that consider that still utterly disbelieve the reapon ing with the business for which his present Juncture Sir Jamesponsible statenate made in the the meeting bed bean culled, said: Jamieson has done everything any stream of eables of the gravest 1 desire to straighten out an incl- body in that position could do ature by the Governor of this dent connecteit with our original and I should greatly regret any Colony, and all the responsible! meeting. You will remuetaber that dea that there is a lack of entles already on the spot refer \n\nThe trouble red to, or do they seriously profess! KC that they are cuable any longer \n\nfiere \n\nof because \n\npared to shanden, the lights of in protect, or at any rate are pre-j British subjects secured to taem \n\nRoen at Waterloo Manor, Hants, February 20 \n\nthat neither General Mitford was the youngest son of the late 31. Join Words that original public noting operation bereen va barrister at law and the grandson of the historien of Greece. Based ot only a resolviton of \n\nanything, confidence in Sir Juanes Jamieson, do was educated at Rugby and was appointed en eusten in the India His Baleaty's Consul General inhing that other of us ca Army in 1855. He served in the Indian Mutiny during which he was Cantan, but we paid has a high the only people who can set severely wercdel and was mentioned in despatches, receiving the tribute. After that he was grill. His Majesty's Government G. G. O. He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by Lord Clyde and in the public Press. da October 29, 1358 Ia i Nogi West Frontier Expeditions, fericism was undebtedly largely and later in the Afghan War, be gained distinction and eventually due, if not entirely, to a sun- retired in 1826. He was a craui travetter and had toured the Orient-derstanding, wad I feel that it is Ladies and gentlemen, on the Authorities \n\nThe Chairman, proceeding, said: Ameries and civilised Karope and had pablished a number of books due to His Majesty's Consul 27th dealing with the countries visited and in the subject of the fran Geners in Canton that that itaing \n\nJuly Just Al \n\nMutiny. \n\nthis Theatre. \n\nRose Edouin, Actress. \n\nLandor, August 25. \n\nThu \n\n(Applause). \n\nThe Chairman's Speech. \n\nbeld ip \n\nmset- \n\nsolemn trsaties and will they supiusly automir, to the Javest hi-j Rofent challenges to Great Britain| of the present Canton Boisberlat \n\nI know well the difuuhtes they so hayo jo face in wont of unanimity: tion should be definitely cleared up crowded that very us ourd not and help from other \"Powers,\" an ad this meeting (Applanon). I may get in-smugst other thinge-His well as fire great industrial pro say that before leaking this state-Majesty's Government was urged bleins they have to deal willi et The death is announced of the cetogezarian actress Rose Fdouin muut I submitted it, because it is a strongly worded and gravely Home, but, unless this Canton who toured with the first English company in India and the Far Eartperry the Government to the considered rosetation that situation is tackled seriously and managed by her husband, Mr. Lewis---Rastor, \n\nINDIAN COTTON DUTIES. \n\nJAPAN CHARGED WITH DUMPING, \n\nGovernor, and I bave He consent İshould immediately inform the at once, not only will Brilish juler- ot only to make the stavovases but i de forte Governmet in Canton asts here and in South China be bis vermismos also to quote some that unlove it withdraws Rs sup-fcrippled for years to comes bus the remarks in a letter concerning th port of the attack upon British in Bolshevik pofamous propaganda A Newspaper Article. terupts, it will de regnaded un he will spread like fire, Soget through \n\nStratz \"The Consul General in a recent ny entered into a alete of busidity the \n\nSuttlements, 01 address, at the Clah, referred with the British Gayetä tuke , 20 \n\nthrough human and into Indu,! Receiving a depatation of Bombay mill-owners, the Viceroy hung Dalla Frege of the 1h inst. for reasons which it is impossible it be a tremendous conflagration. The leading artfela in the long- Almost a monta has passed and with the visa that not only will declared that the cotton ezelse dry cannot be abolished remediately under the handing of Sir James to understand, that vitally impur-for the nation to fight, but the for financini reascun, but the Government is pledged to abolition when Jamieson, which you have doubt tant telegram, which elemanly restrial problems at Hew and! finemial considerations perut. \n\nDincasing the suggested and-damping menseres apalast Japanid that it was based on 20 in throughout South China withersport trade will be increase the \n\nless read. \n\nThe Consul General cited existing conditions here sederployment through lack of the Vicorns admitted that he was prewed by the deputation's ecrrect appreciation of the situa- jone word of exaggeration, but fact, that must be faced statements regarding Japanese labour conditions, but the milers. He esglained that the Canparently been completely ignoret \n\nantrously. Streng words, but had not substantiated the charge of damping by definite facts andton Governani forwarded certain by His Majesty's Government.theless, and I wish we could ngures. He undertook to have the question examined if evidenre were decade following the shooting \n\nThere has been a sittle confusion route the people of England to \n\nafray et June 23rd fast, and these about these talegrams. \n\nunderstand and realise them. The cult densands, which were forwarded to Edential reply\" refered to lu me \n\n(ADDINERO). Lorden and Paris, were as follows: letter to the \"Press\", I should Cancer Must Be Rezoved. \n\nOsco and for all let it again he I. High Conmiasteners of the here explain, was a confidential; \n\nratione involved, to apologise, zaswer to one of the many tele clearly stated that no conference 2. Adaquate punishment of e arus sent Home by the Clumber in Peding, or any amber of them, General and the of Commerce, There has been no special comdesioner or envy. \n\nproduced.—Rextar. \n\nTHE LEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMITTEE. \n\nJAPAN TO RATIFY CONVENTIONS, \n\n------ \n\nGeneva. August 25. In the course of the proceedings in the Leagus d Nations Opium Committee, Docker Tsurum announced that Japan world ratify the Opfum Conventions elaborated at the rorent inferuational conferences. -Router. \n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND, \n\nA GENEROUS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. \n\nAuckland, August 28. The American avai otticary and men hava donated $1,000 tu the) Institute for the Blind, in recogullion of the hospitality of the citizens of Auckland-Reuter. \n\nConsul \n\nSealer Naval Officer, \n\nanswer whatever to the telegram houver distingutahed and how \n\nthe 27th of July. \n\n3. No further troope or sum-of-feom the public neting held on ever much he may help the North- \n\nwar to come to Cantor. \n\n4. Withdrawal of wavahipa from \n\nen ureblem, can possibly settle \n\nTo-night, with conditions Infinite the prevent aluustion in Canton. Canton or delte, excett two worse than they were then and which is not a Chinees problem nespatch fosats for the use of with further declarations of the attack upon Hongkong and \n\nat all, but a Bolshevik ore and thaij the Consulate. \n\nhostility against Great Britain by British Interest in South Ce 5. Compensation for killed and the Canto authorities, we are Russian in its origin und that: \n\nwounded. \n\nmat in even greater unbere. they are using their Chinese dupes to further their conspiracy against \n\n6. Rerdition of balá Concessions endorse the options which have \n\nWhere is a cancer \n\nTo the Franxiang Govern-poured ions from every rep Great Britain. merk \n\nsible bady Government, Unofcial \n\nIn our midst which threatens the London and Paris replied to the inembers of both Counctie, Cham- effect that those derauds could be of Cmurarer backed by er must be ruthlessly cut out and then \n\nChinese 29 much as ourselves--it, not be considered. The new Car-large interest hore, Chuna Asrouls-sooner the better. (Applause). ten Government that assomed to and private telegram- \n\nLadies and gentlemon, with the cffice on July 1st, repeated these jhat is Majesty's Government hope that our legram to the demands and stated that no resto-cannot piesd ignorance upon the Prime Minister may assist him tel Seven negro soldiers of the thighth Infantry Regiment wersation of coral relations and eltuation. killed whan a howitzer burst during pracilce. Reuters American they had been discussed. \n\nsvaditions coule be aspected before Service. \n\nGUN ACCIDENT. \n\nNEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED, \n\nRockford. H., Aufust 25. \n\nCHINESE TARIFF CONFERENCE. \n\nwww.co \n\nBRITAIN WILL ATTEND. \n\nLondon, August 25. The British Government has now accepted the invitation of the Chinese Cuvornmunt attend the tariff conference on the 23rd October-Rauter. \n\nMOTOR ACCIDENT, \n\nDUTCH SOCIALIST KILLED. \n\nBrussels, August 25. M. Nan Kol, the Daich evetallet, ex-Scoater and colonial expert, has been killed in a motor zevident.-Reuter \n\nFRANCE AND SPAIN IN MONOCCO. \n\nOFFENSIVE TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. \n\nFOR BATHING PARTIES, \n\nPICNICS, etc. \n\nJAS. BUCHANAN & CO.S BLACK & WHITE WHISKY \n\nin FLASKS & FLASKS. \n\nFitted with glass stoppers, no corkscrew required. \n\nPRICE OF FLASKS \n\n55 \n\n+1 \n\n$2.10 $1.10 \n\nDONNELLY & WHYTE \n\nTel Contral 635. \n\nSole Agenta. \n\n2. Queen's Buildings. \n\nRid Your Home of Flies with \n\nFLYOSAN \n\nUPER-INSECTICIDE, \n\nAlso ills Roaches, Mosquitoes, Mathe, Azta, Redbugs, Lice. Fleas and other Insects. NON-POISONOUS \n\nto every other form of Animal Life. \n\nFOR SALE AT \n\nTHE CHINA DISPENSARY. \n\n32, Quang's Road t \n\nEast of Central Market, \n\nPhone 594 \n\nAre you still doing the \n\nwashing? \n\nIf so why not \n\nhave a gas wash boiler \n\nIt saves time \n\nmoney and \n\nclothes. \n\nFor sale or \n\nhire from \n\nHONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., \n\n9 \n\nLTD. \n\nreside for the purpose of all steamship communication be carrying on the moreaufile tween Canton and Hongkong, bath pursuits, without molesta- direct and via Maeso, and also for loo or restraint, ut Chaton, the boycet in Cantor and other Amoy. Foochuw, Ningpc aud porta la South China as well a Article V of the Treaty of British subjecte ships and goods. Shanghai \n\nStrategy, Amoy and Foochons, of \n\nNanking which British They have also openly declared Merchants are permitted, er her intention of destroying by ail porta where Dhey mazy every means in their power, Hong- reside \"to carry on their kong, ts trade and prosperity. Tuercantile transa \n\nWith whatever sevsons they classes entering and elearing to inse.\" \n\nand from Hongkong wos 70,330 Article X of the Trozty of vesadis totalling 5,000,000 tons. Nanking authorising yoout From Jet January to 30th June belonging to British Mer-fast the average daily number of chard to be conveyed by yesek entering and caring Chinese Murchants to any Hongkong has been 60 vessels province or City in the averaging 99,600 to Since the Interior of China. \n\nerists started the average daily \n\nrealise the true position in Hong- The Gravity of the Slination, What \n\nkong and South Chica and so lend I confess I find in Gillealt do to prompt and decision action then has the craul General to \n\nIspunit without voicing L indigna- either in cogurt with other disease with the Canton over we all foui at the procrastina Powers or if need be, by Great) ner with H viwy to ending the \n\n[tion, hit 1 recoguise they Bus Britain stone, I beg to formally present situation. le he to discuss \n\ncitration is an gave that I desire amove thas the following telegram his own punishment or the ren- dition of the British Concession to avoid saying oue word which he sent from this meeting to Hir may be regarded, at Home, za Majests'e Prime Minister in Lor- Home Government faces theseterical or which may give or don \n\nmements to prempe and direct ac- It will be secunded by Mr. W. S1) Article XI of the Treaty of number of vessels entering and decauda? The mere fact of dig-tion, in Cantea, ecession to dia- Bailey, and after that has been feussing then: would be an AU- \n\nnission that the incident of June out our advice or undervalue done I shall be glad to bear ther unis meeting. No one who has reukors hefure putting the tale 123rd was greated by Shameer, been away from Hongkong and gram to the meeting. (Applause). \n\nwhich we kauss deinitaly to be South Ching, even for the last six \n\nThe Resciation. \n\n10. \n\nTientsin which also opened clearing Hongkong has been 1 Swatow and okker Southern russels totalling 36,579 tens only. Porta for Foreign trade and but these figures include \"P. & 0.\" stated that “il is agreed that \"Blue Funnel\" \"President\" and Brith aubjects are pertait. \"Empress vessels which are nat ted to carry an irade with affected by the buycolt. whomenever thay please, and proceed to and fro wt pleasure with their ve vels and merchandise.\" Chatton a Gateway. 1 \n\nThe obwrvance of these provi- \n\nOur Canton trade comprising some 12 large Passenger vessels has been entirely stopped. Since the lat Jaly the average daily number of skipa including river zieamars, held up through the boy- cost has been 5 of which 15 rre \n\nmentus, could possibly conceive | This Colony as a vital part of Dally Prem Knew Wothing \n\nhow dangerous the Bolshevik the British Empire, Haring aires ly now absolutely nothing about the on British Oterests, and I wishram unanunealy passed at \n\nThe Daily Prese states that they treat is. with its epelat attack vately appanded through le measures that are being taken to that a few of my own personal frea: Mass Meeting held on July bring the present deadlock to a friends who, until a very few years 1271b and passed on by the Gover- end and that as far as they are ago, huid the same responsible nor at its request. to Hils Murjesty's sware the Hongkong Goverment positions out here as those who Government, now appeals to His jare equally in the dark. The Con-to-day have drafted many of the Majesty's Prime 31ster to take sions of the Treaties is imperative \n\nsul General folvement as that important telegrams to which steps to have the following pro-fox the commoerusal prosperity of Britian, Paris, august 25. Reports from Madrid state that Guteral Prano do Rivers has Peking and \n\nropies of all his despatelos in hat already referred, were here visions of the Treaties of Nunking this Colony, seeing that Camson is the Foreign Office now to study the situation for 1942 and Tientsin 1858 betas ceu the principal gateway for British aaronneest that the offensive against the Riffs will begin in en dags have been forwarded to Bosghongshomssives, and they would quicke Great Britain and China carried trade into South Chine. tine-Renter, \n\nand the Hongkong Government realise how woefully and dia-out, amely: therefore know ail ifat the Congal astrously, the \"Cantou situation\" General has written. As the Con and the peril of Hongkong and aul General pointed out, there is South Chins are being misunder ne possible basis for discussion stood in London to-day and give 1 here, and the next move rexe with; leredence and ear to those, upos \n\nEVACUATION OF THE RUBK. \n\nDuested biên Aorus 25 \n\nThe French evacuation bas been completed. Router. \n\nTo-day there are 16 of which 22 are British. \n\nThe present Canton Authorities The recent proclamation by the Article II of the Treaty of teño are independent of the Cen Ganten Authorities with regard to Neaking watch provides tral Government at Paking and coastal Navigation later that that British subjecta, with have been in othee for less than Vessels of any Nationsity, reccot their families and establish months are directly and solely British and Japanese. may enter ments, chali be allowed to responsible for the cutting off of (Coutinaod on pige 10.) \n\nPage 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504641, "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": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "In the same telegram Sir J. Jamieson reported that the test British steamship had made one trip to Canton and had not so far been molested.\n\nThese last two telegrams practically settled the question of a blockade and any more forcible action.\n\nOn the 12th September the Governor of Hong Kong made the following proposals (Colonial Office letter of the 15th September):-\n\n(a) That the Peking Government should be called on to compel Canton to put an end to its anti-British activities, and that we should offer for this purpose assistance in money and material.\n\n(b) That the Peking Government be induced to prohibit the importation of arms, &c., other than to their nominees, after which steps should be taken to stop Russian ships at the mouth of the Canton River.\n\n(c) That His Majesty's ships should be instructed to sink Canton ships interfering with trade going to Hong Kong.\n\nCommenting on these proposals, His Majesty's consul-general, Canton (Canton telegram No. 20), observed that it was the undoubted intention of Canton to ruin Hong Kong and British trade in South China, and he agreed that the Central Government might receive material assistance as proposed but he was opposed to financial assistance being given; he suggested that interference with Russian ships might be tantamount to declaring war on Russia, and he was doubtful whether His Majesty's ships could interfere with Canton vessels plying along the coast of China. His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Peking (Peking telegram No. 420), considered that the Central Government would not wish to crush the Canton extremists with British help - such a course would make them too unpopular. He did not think they wished for an open attack on Canton, though he believed that they were secretly subsidising General Chen Ch'iung-ming for this purpose.\n\nOn the 28th September His Majesty's consul-general, Canton, telegraphed (telegram No. 21) that a political committee of Government and strikers at a meeting held on the 24th September had formed certain conditions outlining the terms on which they were prepared to call off the strike. \"They are of course impossible, but afford indication that the end is approaching.\" The strikers' demands were as follows (Canton despatch No. 46 of the 27th September):\n\nShameen Strikers Conditions\n\n1. Chinese labourers on Shameen shall have full rights to convene meetings, &c.\n\n2. All former employees shall be reinstated.\n\n3. Eight hours a day.\n\n4. Only Chinese police be employed.\n\n5. East and West Gates to be closed at 12 A.M.\n\n6. Chinese be allowed to walk and sit on the Bund.\n\n7. Intercourse be allowed between representatives of the labourers and the foreign officials.\n\n8. The British and French Municipal Council shall abrogate all ill-treatment against Chinese.\n\nHong Kong Strikers' Conditions\n\n1. Chinese in Hong Kong shall have full rights to convene meetings, &c.\n\n2. Chinese in Hong Kong shall enjoy the same treatment as the foreign. Deportation and criminal laws on Chinese shall be abrogated.\n\n3. Chinese shall have the right of voting and of being voted in the Legislative Council.\n\n4. Eight hours' day, favourable wages, abrogation of foreman system, reformation of woman and child labour system, &c.\n\n5. Reinstatement of former employees.\n\n6. Issue of back pay.\n\n7. Release of those arrested during the strike. Freedom to those deported shall be restored.\n\n* See Annex XIV for speech by Chou Eu-lai, a political agent of the Canton Government, to representatives of the Swatow Labour Unions on the 12th November: \"The Nationalist Government anxious to help and support the movement in Swatow until the very life of Hong Kong is wrung out colony.\"\n\n† There are considerable legal objections to interfering either with Russian or Chinese shipping - legal adviser's minute on F4711).\n\n8. Compensation of tenants who lost their belongings by auction by the Government or landlord on account of non-payment of rental during the strike.\n\n9. New rental regulations of the 1st July, 1925, shall be abrogated. Effective decrease of 25 per cent. of rental.\n\n10. Intercourse be allowed between the representatives of the labourers and the foreign officials.\n\n11. Restoration of right of licence, certification, &c., granted to Chinese prior to the strike.\n\n12. Equal terms to Chinese employees of steamers, factories, companies, &c.\n\n13. Licences and certificates shall be issued to all, irrespective of their nationalities (e.g., Chinese should have the right to take out licence or certification for commanders, mates, &c., on board passenger boats).\n\nIn October there were two new developments: (1) The anti-Communist army, led by General Ch'en Ch'iung Ming, had taken Swatow. As seen above, he was secretly supported by the Peking Government, and he also had obtained support from Chinese merchants in Hong Kong. The Canton cadet army under Chiang Kai-shek defeated him without great difficulty and recovered Swatow. General Ch'en's intervention did more harm than good. It was incompetently directed. It strengthened the hands of the Bolsheviks at Canton, who represented it as a desperate effort on the part of the \"Imperialists\" at Hong Kong.\n\n(2) A delegation of Chinese merchants from Hong Kong came up to Canton to start unofficial conversations with a view to ending the strike and boycott.\n\nBut by the 26th October (Canton despatch No. 110) the strikers' attitude seemed to have been stiffened (perhaps at Russian prompting, perhaps in consequence of victory over Ch'en), and it was stated by one of their leaders that \"while not yet prepared to put forward the demand that the Governor of Hong Kong be a Chinese, the strikers intend to have representatives of their own on the Legislative Council. Extra-territoriality is to be abolished and this island (i.e., Shameen) is to be handed back because Chinese are not allowed to sit on benches on the Shameen Bund.\"\n\nOn the 22nd October a new set of \"Navigation Rules\" had been issued, by which the boycott was directed at Great Britain, Hong Kong and Macao (Portuguese) alone; Japanese, American and French firms and shipping were permitted to do business, so long as they avoided Hong Kong, Macao and British goods (see Annex XII).\n\nThe position on the 23rd November is thus summarised by Sir J. Jamieson (despatch No. 58):-\n\n\"The Strike Committees are apprehensive of an approaching end of the strike, and are consolidating and reforming their organisation. The authorities on the other hand are plucking up courage. A prominent member of the committee has been arrested on a charge of malversation of funds, certain picket leaders have been disarmed, and the motor-boats and sampans which picket the Hong Kong river steamers on arrival and departure are being more strictly supervised. Such action notwithstanding, the committee continue their wanton interference in other directions.\n\nIn spite of the intolerable conditions thus created, trade is flourishing and the river is full of steamers. Silk for the North American continent goes to Shanghai for transhipment, and other articles for export to European markets are taken to Keelung (Formosa). It is understood that the Japanese steamship companies, as also the American Dollar Steamship Line, have fixed up agreements with the strikers which are mutually satisfactory. The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, according to a report issued by the Strike Committee, have conformed with the rules laid down by the latter, and have undertaken not to trade with Hong Kong nor to handle British goods.\"\n\nThe negotiations with Hong Kong hung fire for some time, but on the 19th December Sir J. Jamieson telegraphed that the Canton Provincial Treasurer (Sung Tsz-man) was going to Hong Kong for preliminary negotiations with the Colonial Government for a settlement which the Canton Government were sincerely desirous of reaching (Canton telegram No. 26). On the 20th December Mr. Fletcher, Colonial Secretary at Hong Kong, went to Canton, since it was impossible for His Majesty's consul-general to communicate with the Canton Government or to risk his\n\n*For the deplorable state of affairs at Swatow - in some respects worse than at Canton - see Annex XIII.\n\n† Since the victory at Swatow the Cantonese armies have carried out a successful campaign in South Kwangtung, capturing Pakhoi and Hainan Island.\n\n↑ For a very full and enlightening account of the Hong Kong negotiations and of Mr. Fletcher's visit, see Annex XVI.\n\n[14166]\n\nPage 510\n\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504662, "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": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "\"In the very heart of Canton they instigated traitors like Wai Bond Ping, Leong, Hung Kai, Muh Sung, &c., to rebel. Here in Swatow they provoked the bandits Chie Chiung Ming, Liu Chih Lu, &c., to commence an attack on Canton. By these conspiracies they aimed at the overthrow of the Nationalist Government.\n\nThe bandits Chien Chiung Ming, Liu Chih Lu, &c., were the trained hounds of the Hong Kong Imperialists. To prove their faithfulness to their masters, they attempted to bite the moment they were ordered to do so. They instituted oppressive measures here by dissolving labour unions, putting their leaders under arrest, and suppressing every kind of patriotic movement. Among those present there must be very many who have had some thrilling experience of these brutes. In spite of this, however, you have pulled yourselves through, an achievement which clearly proves your valour and strength of character.\n\nThe Nationalist Government realises that the best means of bringing about the real unification of China is to overthrow all forms of imperialism, among which the foremost is the Hong Kong Government. They firmly believe that, unless imperialism is overthrown completely, it is absolutely futile to attempt any crusade against native militarism. In the dying commands of our late President Sun Yat-sen, we also find this theory vividly explained to us.\n\nAs imperialism is now recognised by the National Government as the real enemy, they will do all they can to support the strike against it, and, as the labouring classes have suffered oppression at the hands of this imperialism, they should co-operate with the Government.\n\nIn Canton, the Government and the labouring classes have been working together in complete harmony, and this has enabled us to weather many destructive storms and keep the ship of State in excellent seaworthy condition. This would have been impossible without co-operation between the Government and the labouring classes.\n\nSince so much has been done by us in Canton, there is no reason why at least as much should not be done in Swatow. The Nationalist Government will do more than merely help the working class—they will support them, encourage them, and direct them in their attacks upon Imperialists. You may wonder why the Government should go to this trouble. In explanation, I will tell you that the workers have in their hands the most effective weapon for the destruction of imperialism. This weapon, as you can understand, is the strike which you have instituted.\n\nThat the strike is an effective weapon is a recognised fact throughout the country. Its effectiveness increases as its sphere expands. Our present movement should not be confined to any fixed locality, like Canton, for instance.\n\nFor this reason, we have advocated its being spread over Swatow, where happily it has been in existence in spite of the obstacles put in its way by Liu Chih Lu, &c. Now that the Kuomintang troops are in control over this territory, they are bound by the Kuomintang principles to keep up the strike and nourish it. As the present should be a general strike all over China and not limited to one fixed point, there must be close connection between the movement in Swatow and that in Canton. When these two points are firmly linked up, Amoy will be the only place in South China where Hong Kong imperialism can find an open space to pop up for its breath. While Amoy is at the disposal of Hong Kong, it is not a place comparable to either Swatow or Canton in importance. Furthermore, since our occupation of Swatow, the Hong Kong Imperialists have begun to tremble with apprehension.\n\nThe British consul for Swatow is very perverse in his attitude, but in his heart, he is overawed already, as was well proven in one of his recent conversations when he remarked that even prisoners interned in China should be given their food.\n\nHow powerful the strike is! We have never had anything like it in our diplomatic history since the famous Opium War. It is because of this that the Nationalist Government is so anxious to help and support the movement in Swatow, so that the struggle may continue until the very life of Hong Kong is wrung out of the colony.\n\nWe have firm belief in the effectiveness of the strike, and because of this, immediately upon our arrival here, we telegraphed urgently to the Canton Government and to the Hong Kong and Canton strike committee to connect up the movement here with their own and introduce a common policy for joint prosecution. Before uniform methods of procedure are thought out, however, I should like to make the following suggestions for your guidance:\n\n1. In dealing with foreigners: Continue the severance of economic relations with the British. British residents in China who are willing to obey Chinese laws and jurisdiction shall have our adequate protection for their lives and properties. Those who refuse to put themselves under the control of the Chinese law shall be driven out of the country.\n\nWe strikers are not against the British residents as individuals: we are against Hong Kong imperialism. Beyond this, however, all our acts should be highly civilised, because we are only at the stage of giving warnings and not at that of declaring war. We are not afraid of them, mind you, and we firmly believe that some day or other we shall overthrow their British imperialism.\n\nBut there is American imperialism, Japanese imperialism, French imperialism, &c. You will ask, What attitude should we maintain towards these? We all know that these Imperialists are alike in the oppressing and plundering of China, and we should therefore overthrow them all. For the present, we shall deal with the British alone, and give the Americans, the Japanese, and the French time to learn from the lesson being taught to the British. Meanwhile, they will be carefully watched to see what attitude they adopt. If they should secretly extend supplies of food to the British, they shall be treated in every way like the British. Their ships may run between Swatow and Canton, but they may not touch Hong Kong. The China Merchants Steam Navigation Company were prevented from calling at Swatow by Liu Chih Lu before, but they may now come here and go to Canton if they wish. By means of these tactics, we are sure to hold the very life of Hong Kong in our hands.\n\nIn dealing with ourselves: Under this heading, I find there are three things we should attend to at once:\n\n(a) As rapidly as possible, the exact number of labourers in Swatow should be ascertained. At present, there is no one who knows the exact number. This is a bad state of affairs. Striking is not unlike fighting. If a fighter does not know how many comrades he has with him, he is bound to be defeated. The same is true of labour unions. If a union does not know how many members it should enrol or has admitted, that union is bound to be weak.\n\n(b) Workers on strike should be promptly educated. They must be taught why they must strike and what effect their strike will produce on China and the world. If a striker understands by the term 'strike' nothing more than receiving a daily allowance of a few cents gratis, there is immense danger in front of him. Take Liu Chih Lu's troops, for example. They never had any proper training, and because of the lack of it, they were defeated in Canton, notwithstanding their anxiety to win.\n\nThere have many institutions for the benefit of the workers. There are the labourers' schools, the pickets' training classes, &c. Here in Swatow, the unions must arrange for the proper training of their members.\n\n(c) Nowadays, in all our undertakings where financial questions are concerned, we have a budget, not withheld from publicity. By this, we know how much we have to spend per day, how much we have left, and how long we can keep things running. If we only know how many subscriptions we have collected and how much we have paid out, we are sure to be met by failure before we have gone very far. If a fair distribution of the funds is not attended to, you can never expect your members to have confidence in you. I am sure you all understand this point very well, and I wish therefore that you would forthwith accord your very best and most prompt attention to this phase of the work.\n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12", "content_text": "Cleans and Disinfects in One Operation. REMEMBER\n\nNO SOAP, NO STRONG CAUSTICS.\n\nNO DANGEROUS DISINFECTANTS\n\nARZ WANTED THE \"CARBOLACENE\n\nREGULARLY\n\nWALKER\n\nREGO CARBOLACENE\n\nFRAGRANT\n\nCLEANSER DISINFECTANT\n\nAn Active Disinfectant and Cleanser for use in Hotels, Institutions and in the Home,\n\nUsed by the British & Foreign Governments.\n\nSole Makers for -\n\nW. & F. WALKER, LTD., Liverpool, England.\n\nSole Agents- ANDERSON & ASHED.\n\nQue's Buildings.\n\nINSURE\n\nFOUR\n\nMOTOR\n\nCAR\n\nWITH\n\nGILMANS.\n\nTHE\n\n\"OCEAN COMPREHENSIVE POLICY\n\nhousehold.\n\n[24\n\nA Welcome Visitor\n\nat any\n\ntime in\n\nevery\n\nEvery\n\nBug, Flea, Beetle, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with\n\nKEATING'S\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.\n\nChemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietors MARTIN, Chisholm, Southampton Row.\n\nUNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.\n\nAT THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nFROM\n\nADURYS ED Petrovitch, 32, Nathan Rd. Shanghai\n\nfragoon Sheinm\n\nTokyo Shouzhai Shanghai\n\nKisty Simpson\n\nBorghie Cassic\n\nBang\n\n-hal\n\nJAR\n\nMercery...\n\nAndrew Tr\n\nJonicbole\n\nL\n\nAbig Amay Totolas Chicago, Ulincin\n\nAT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nADDRESSED\n\nHeatley Rinorez Yardley Celly\n\nFrom\n\nLender\n\nDaina\n\nSu Franciaco\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nstedssful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nNOVEMBER\n\n5FR.\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\n\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\n\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\n\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\n\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\n\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\n\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\n\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\n\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\ntrientales, upon the Sensor for the Depertinent, and japon Colonel Blachere, military erminander of the region, stat ing that he had been instapeter to par-\n\nClub de Racrei ad XI. r. 8.0.\n\nAlhalic Association,\n\nis referising reels to the cost of the case saputorial on position is loux searching stab and corridors that too kung land. Endell, wuite apart from must is spent in searching steamers for the wase; supp's question, the cablu, the inutividani in question call-id. P. Fuertes, A. Losang. J. M. da ours and list grugs I would emorye box of the vatani sets very strict iuits the Prefect of die Pens | Siha, and A. J. Brown, than relive service is absolutely to the practicability of hoana babita neentary in a port of this slae and in\n\nnon. There art, moreover, engout re portiure, closely insted his in to a\n\nSoge #gatus, maxing the islami dependan foreign contry. Search has to on made for its water apon the maidand. There for exciele and antialle articles and fore, akhough. I fear that we shall never for prohibited imports. We have also be able to dispense with rider auine certain interjunal obligations in these the flan, het web doubties will utiere, cod shine ang sourched on operate as encouragement to add matter of routine. It is quive itaposiole tonal population to settle in Kaulugu questions raised by y Honourable duty to exannine all j Friend. The fact thar, 4,30 pounds of water storage on the sand itself, and which be made an ratensive four of the Accumpeau.\n\nThie match will be payed on the Re-1 chaec a villa on the Côte Vermeille Forreio's groun, Kiug's Park, Lo-earrow, the Peince of Wales.\n\nkick-not at 245 pudar.\n\nA pram of noble boating, speaking\n\nThe Secret team wall be:--L. M.\n\ncat, Hankey, Light Weish. Sergt Steyer, Seval Bruno. Beveridge and Mefatyre.\n\nHOCKEY.\n\nTODAY'S GAMES.\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\n} \n\n$100.\n\nthe Calous and with the remarks of hon, I supply bien. 21 furnishing all the etubers on that subject. One more data secessary for foenutatley our leture should like\n\nto thank\n\ngfficul collenges for their veys flattering rewound he premature to take a tal desi poliny in this respect. Until then it marks on the way the budget was intro- dowed and for the very restrained tona of their reasonable criticism and, espe einily, for their generous appreciation of the services of the virions Government departmente.\n\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\n\nEducation.\n\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply. Ever since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\n\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\n\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\n\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\n\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\n\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\n\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\n\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\n\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\n\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\n\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\n\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\n\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\n\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\n\nCONFERENCE.\n\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\n\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\n\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse. According to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\n\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\n\nBRITISH POLICY.\n\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\n\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\n\nFLIGHTS.\n\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\n\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\n\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present State laws enter having their aspirations seamed up A norcher of distinguished mebers of prohibition were apparently carried in the vertsnational dependenes\n\nPARIS, Noriber 4th.\n\nto\n\nTile\n\nRetar, November th A series of darmonstration Aights by a An experienced į De Havilland Hevents three-engines air- un on layder patiated that even if a thead which will operate on the new six her bare cameź the right to tive hy working unionista quatribaled one penny cute from Egypt to India were carried fiving rails fuas of execation for five per lay only th0,000 per week weidi bejut yesterday. By the end of new years, aviiside for the miners. This wou week The first of five machines ordered\n\nTHE PLOT AGAINST SPAIN,\n\nTRAISE FOR FRENCH POLICE,\n\nNO BRITISHERS INVOLVED.\n\nLeros, November 3rd. A furiber essage from Perpignan, exklatance from other unions they muallack in the trapies, nad a noticeable that alloguer Sparish and Italian mostly the former have begu - be prepared to accept the ambition of the fextare is the special arra gements Gade rested onion in connertion with coal dispute as suggested 15 the Prades for the comfest of poesengers. Not only\n\nthe Spanish plat. Con Congress as representing those is the cnbir waliloted at a greater exure British, e was at Erst stated,\n\nElection earle 264 Sone of those arrested suggested\n\nthe Paris bar bare signed an appeat to California ad Mouting wile Favela\n\noverwhelmingly voted for a resolation only, & legitinute in a very laudable the United States against the expertos encumeing de present federal law and\n\ncbject of aspiration.\n\nPossibly the T.L.C. and a great, any of Sacco and Vanzetti, They point out deadede e apendress of\n\nother persons as well wit be surprised Cantul Sterns Constirution regards to less that the national independence thek even the Americas judges are int ernhibition Missouri al Colorado ap\n\nof the Chinese people bus from the very sure of their gul, and even guilty.pear to have led down measures in first been one fine principal objeers of\n\n2 the morifiration of the State law.\n\nBibel policy, and that the so called LATER. \"uceque beates of 1801-models of Belated election retains indieste a re- moderation and good will-wore bamed dacties of six and 13 respectively in the carefully to interfece as ele as possible Republican ajrity in the Redste aval with China's covereign rights and to ca House of Representatives. alay sents courage bei ndicals and people to tread are still in the ballot and i the Deaerata be one wh that could pensione less hu capture a few core the western Repub-indeperasuste. Buevey, is the ba Bean urgents, ied by the Wiannokin coutrageglible Int, to be verbied by any grow of which the late Sepstor La Lane who takes the trouble to glady who Folette was leader, will undoubtedly be history of our relations with China. in a strong strategic position, by holding Unfortunately, it gestas to hyve been the balance busween the Demorats autorgattan not by Chinese statesmen and the orthodox Repu>Ticana\n\ndelunatists alone that sovereignty\" Latest Figures.\n\nCalot be confereed by a magician's wand, or ever by u Washington Conier New York. November 4 ence is our state to be enjoyed, but a\n\navailable show fandtion to the expreised. Mercins, Dai the next Serace be composed of deed, mamed it only to the Wise and #7 Detrocrats, one of the Parser Labore | Benevolent Water! Turky, 48 Repathesne, whereof eight are\n\ninsurgents, ad bence thorns To the i The French podion are being honored dech of the Amulsation Six sela\n\nweek for each wirer sad on strike.\n\nthe\n\nunions Disforöuation was expressed to tent than usoni, bor a special sir scoopi belp the wires to preing an unpreât is provided which Altera sir for din adio struggle. Ja London in 15 generally catatan: Marwughout the lateries.\n\nbelieved that the Conference will be con-\n\nCredit for Polica.\n\n| \n\nPn. November d\n\n| wills credit. Für fromvating lous of the is the Honee are duabital bat hitherto most entermined punish evolutionary the Replicas bure a more tears than\n\nand for their teed until\n\nsiderably tolesced by the failure of the EARL. BEATTY'S RESIGNATION 618 For hutched on French territory the Doucurals,\n\nforlorn hopes of the miners leaders,\n\nnuts, regarding the crcburgo ou servign i\n\nPOSTPONED,\n\nBrgey, November 4th.\n\nthe itapliunted non more salely within\n\nthe Le The conspiracy is attributed\n\nin a Cnts ex-Dopyty named Macia.\n\ncost and the compulsory lexy and by the East Beauty who has been Fiza Sawhoy however, caped. The arrested men plain weaking at to-day's craterence. 1\n\nLoud of the Advising and Chief of concertedly attempted 10 sayape when im\n\nInfantry was dented in to mount guard.\n\nis arassidered highly probauls that Winore Nasal Staf siree November, 151, has tied in Phun trap dalyahaw of Our dirilisation has produced so any\n\nFoxerulivo will senk authority to connivade | expreazeri kis desire to be allowed to le Similar Senegade Tailleurs wHIS TO disorders, from weleer to courtoiss which these its \"ery existence that, a settlement on the bush forms that can sign office on complaing a period of\n\nnidecod, baffed, wise to see the uhtalked in districts with the safe - civilization for the Bandos, we hostin\n\ngeintioned at\", Parpagena to control thep imprisona) there, who were revolt\n\nSOUTH AFRICA-INDIAN\n\nCHINA AND THE TREATICS.\n\nNAKIPO THE MOST OF GENEVA,\n\nThe Geneve\n\nthe Forrespondent of Hugging Fest states that Belgiumie ap- per to the Hugue Court against China's quilatere donandiation of the nuequal Customs Fronty daỡng bon 139 wil m no way jafurice Pekang's decision tu maka ben action cortive from Velour 27th at prevent the denunciation of the Spanish and fortuguese treaties later in the year and other une jou treaties as saur as the six wonths' denunciation\n\nto me by Wang King Ky, the Chinese Minister In Bruznets.\n\nEurocan cRITER'S AGENCI\n\nTHE NEW BETTING TAX-\n\nBOYCOTT BY BOOKMAKERS.\n\nPICKET SYSTEM THREAT.\n\nLONDON, November 3rd. There was practically no business in Weating so day, and consequently it was impossible to turn any starting prices. According to Wang, Chien wil: javuke\n\nis is understood that this was due to\n\na boycost of Belgia gucds it themsets the fat that buckmbuers are unable toetuse lo sgiate Customs at and agree ang themselves haw Die betting reciprocat inri fronties along the lines\n\nA geais ated in the reynolic asing on the greani of the unsuitability of Tattoreult's Ming as the Windsor Rave Perise aries. This net was unle Glen shrug our shoulden, out of sheer self-guarding provision lec national privriples. the maximan ing which an officer will the food. Defence\n\nThis, adiy, is for antlement angested in rescined on the Board of the Ad- If we parties in shrugging everything out of dar attention, we shall en bis the Trades Brion Congress. The miraty except a sprint elryumstances. withous abonlines to ghrag, but some granding of auch authorisation by The bay however commented, so the request things, such as (for me) Clška, must be iamisted in the riot of staying we\n\nPolagate tonference woul se an inport of the l'inst Lord, a defer bia vesigns. that we call the world.\n\nant intve towards prese. GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.\n\nDEATH AGAIN REPORTED.\n\nLatest Developments.\n\ntion.\n\nNATIONAL FINANCE, SPRCIAL COMMUNTRE'S FINDINGS.\n\nCose\n\nof treaties already noncladed\" with Gor many and Autria. The British treaties anies be denom.sed legally for eight years, bat Wang believes that credm.\n\nThe\n\nthar\n\nThe incidence of existing tesañon with special aminion conferees at the luneseen. The bet the police piloted him to safety with of the world.\"]\n\nCOAL STOPPAGE AND LIFE ASSURANCE.\n\nACTION BY THE PRUDENTIAL.\n\nPROBLEM.\n\ntax Redd be applied. The altitude of PROSPECTS OF GETELEMENT.\n\n[başkaskers vulndning from oftering prices was gonerally condemned, and ibe Lenox, Novemùre Srd.\n\nopinion was freely expingsed that their We need have no fear of those difi-ion is making the strangest posible tamee wilt serant of abregation before enities or evenally befog antiled to GY, November 4th.\n\nFor the Satroad jau the satisfaction of the one to the other.\n\nterafiarto, Considerable innvortance attacles to\n\nGeneral Herzog, speaking at lun-\n\nMeaza hile. A is evident that Chinese the Miners Delegais Conferemer in holly\n\nWe Want the Wato.\" Seen in Lendos go-üny giver By the Br\n\najataşıman one seaking the most of their SHANODAL, Necember 4th. dou -day and strong hops, restrained Marshal San Chusn Farer's form head-only by the manory of pue disappoiti\n\nBrors, Novezier 4th. uish fudian Buion in the Indian de\n\nL352. ajestien og the Leagur Council. They will quarters have received a faspatch from mente, entertained hot at Set the British system of National furco has Margas of Bouding persided.\n\nAn exhuastive examination of the gates of the Imperial Coulrease. The There is a grong disposition as the vas ienova js a publicity centre, vuiting\n\nmoment, aming the booktankers in Putter į the azue unday Article is of the Core Marahel stafing that the Superin way all be clenged for a puzon effort, tendent of the Aurican Mission les The main out for decision is the date the chainauship of Lord Colwyn The\n\nDuw been coaj leted by a committes urner The function was notable, as being calle Ring to stay away pliogether from ant. mai dertzog's first appearance at i now Windsay Jomorrow. Using the stone | According to dis article of the Coven- pital at Changsha resta essure to the gates will free their exentive finance Caiutee was t Amican Copen at Nanking on October ariesiona and power in to proused in\n\noc by Mr. Philip South African function, while his queeri steps of the staed as a rostrum sproval at the Assemby may from the to Snowder, who was then Chancellby of was noteworthy we the test subiely aggrieved bookmakers halangued the time use the reconeidéention to mera- S to the affect thay General Ching sonich of a sectieraons along the lives the exliegues to February 1994 and its indication feren anyone inside the red and from bets by drifted to burs of the League of treaties which have Fai Shek had died from wounds.\n\nangusted by the Frado Union Congress, terms of incedenes were to rotate and Conference of the faanly froling strong | polities with violens petsons on Mr. Win become inapplicable, and the considere. There is no question of the Conference report on the National Debt and the the conferens,\n\nFurthermore, General sing Churchill. One man who shouted ties of antineliopal conditions where BRITISH PROPERTY DESTROYED\n\nwing specifig patce temps.\n\n\"We Esans to be decried is whether the excreference to their egg on brade, indus\n\nHerring was the sole representative of the Fe want the Tote \"jut a roug's sime dispostimages wight endanger the peace IN HUNAN.\n\nshat Le Sudorised in by for a try, oplosment, and National credis.arquis of Reading, in a speech, wanbly no hum done. AP.C. BUILDING BURNED DOWN.tries, and whether such autherias. It is undergo that the cum titles med Gotural Herizon\n\nfun. if garsed, shall be conditional\n\nBookmakers' Organise Bogenot. dindings are embodied in too reports entirely wrihout restriction.\n\nGeneral Hortzog's Speech, LATRA. which will shortly be handed to the A division of opinion is hely but the Choreitor of the bandoquer,\n\nGeneral Fartzog, regtrias, canplssied It is now resised that the action of deleges are bed with the knowledge The newapapers state that the majority\n\nthol vryne of clase contact in ravoving the hackmakes at Windsor, which thew that any attempt to renew the demand report deals with the gezocal ducis (endersienbuch, presie and hicker the whole carration of holding in a for calling out the safety me or for system in a way that is in nerd witheria) Cuntrance, lure the delegaces to organisal boyants, and acom of there\n\nvandstill throughout the county, was The Prudential Assurance Company ings. That was why he ngareciated the widge\n\nnorances that, \"Bubject to certain easy and secusly accepted pripsiplex, and Sark rentact giving the uneasy or threatened that his would be costumed conditions, policy holdiers au have the thet veldrags Gatsibutions of trade commends unly minor alterations and\n\nnoisy will not alone exabin the dis-djustments the existing methods GẼ deurs and anderstanding. He added to the end of the dat soon wates the arrears of preuvame the base accuupa-\n\nBIAA South Afries and die were try- froth to be cenzused with any hopes of textian 14 minted that the fluding ing to come into closer contact. They is exported at Tattersall's at Winter to-\n\nBax is favouerbiy altered. No okiakerated during unemployment resulting success. Yesterday nearly ons roure by the majority will not, in the existing had had considerable diferences in the grow, while it 24 uuderstool one on their industrial branch policies, from the coal dispune deducted from the dus went back to work, the biggest freinstances, reveamend the inposi-past, but he was convinced that with, single day heat for some tion, and there ton of a capital lovy, but will declare better fual understanding they would publie not to eate thongs Heel of the payments already mute, or suffer, picket system will be organised to induce fustend of heving, forfeit horsfé THE ILL-FATED \"KIANGYUNG.ed with 256,000 a week ago, and 16.000 taxation. is success, however, must de\n\nnow in the pits over 2,000 corpur- that it is a practicat ethed of seducing he appared to mel oue Juncher's re-me en helt or will be held as a reduction in the capital amount of anouth o The miners employed\n\naaghout the entry, appending for read largely or its general acceptance General Hering was boudly cheered today,\n\nfor the etion of the Windsor Before the dispute numbered 1,and evő by the Nation, mat as a potiosi creed when he made the remark noted at\n\nIn a fasacial expedia.\n\nbeginning. He concluded la hoping that\n\nOBITUARY.\n\ndiving the sermainder of their library ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.\n\nthey would contine u the happy spiri in which M. Baldwin and the Dominion} Gelegentes had been getting oa at the Con- ferenze, Whers they looked one another face to face and had not been afraid in connection with the anniversay in say what they wanted in\n\nsay Aristine Play next Thursday, which, as\n\n(Applause.) Ja former years will be celebrated roughout 12 fixpire y religious ser. Mr. A. J. Cock has nude the state- vices and the observance of two minots!\n\nSHANOR November 4th. A message received her From Changsh states that the Asiatic Petroɔlepa Com- pany's property at Packing has been brut dewn Also that Messrs. Butter- feld And Swim's property at Changra\n\nve been deatroyed,\" and that soms Wesleyan mizzinecies at Linyang have\n\nem faced to deadpate\n\nAll the awna mentioned chore are in the occupation of Southero troops.\n\nCOMPENSATIOS DEMANDED\n\nw! bo Funile,\n\nABOHAN RECTER'S AGENCY. piy boatsion is AvoidaÄ\n\nJDON, November 3rd.\n\nMarshal Son Chaan Prag is the re ripient of telegrama Tozs the Chis Merchants' Secor Navigation Compeny asking comprenantion for She loss of their\n\n6 appears that the Unions decided vessel, the Kinoguey, which went, done will: 12 hops af Kinking After only to permend and not to ingor Longon coinde n momiantion, she was in levy, because the non-payment of s comptiary by would eutui penalties energing, explored).\n\nLATAR.\n\nHron, November 4th. the last erremony in Whitehall, Louien, Avrangements are now coupleted for\n\nThe angry was coemendered in the stripe of the dis-affiliation of the Ly Suo's troops and the steamship you. Taions not felting the instruction.\n\nas officials requear him to inquire into the actual uning of the futafity. There was a crew of 118 men on road of whichment that the Mind Executive bussenes Accerpanied by the Prince of only were resoned and the company never diesed the question of district Wales, the Duke pants arch starked for the torped of settlements, which thes the remaining se who are believed Josongor honis. and proper wapensation made to the vie is families. They also requnal, in the telegram, th your other of their hips, comorandzerest by Mitula troops,\n\nreipt:S],\n\nhe\n\ngubamunpre\n\ninsur the re-emering employment the policy- holders will. azider the scheme, have his Reggars reduced to four weeks, and wil only have to meet the regular weekly payments; the outstanding balance will BISHOP OF ST, DAYIDE.\n\nbe covered by a suitable deduction to be (made when à clain ansee In the rase The death is announced of the Bishop of a with profit policy this deduction will of St. David's, the Right Rev. John made, noi frain the sum assured, but Usen\n\nGum the bons thereon, and no the huit The Right Rev. John Owen, M.A., bad of the insurances isped by the Pradentind bear Bistry of St. huvida ei.co 1867. me of this description, the vane of the He was born in 1854. And was thus 72 coomon cannot, it is oicially stated, years of age. He was an Oxford scholar. be over-estimated. The deduction can He was ordained Desuon in 1879, Priest, be vanilovi by a silabic payment at 16; Walsh Professor and Classica Loe any time before a claim arises. turer at St. David's College. Lampeter, It pointed on that most of those 1679 Warder and Headmaster of affected by the coal drupate will ron Llandovery College, 1985 $8; Dean of St. work under a heavy burden of kahffity, 4pl, 185 68; racial of St David'sant that lets of the Pedential will College, Lamuser; Cason of 6. Asaph, rethze that the way has been made\n\neasy for them to maintain their policies. i loze.\n\nTHE ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI.\n\nWAS WRONG MAN LYNCHED: York and other wen meutered the Royal Family; the King will\n\nPants, November ul. lng a wreath at the Cenotaph and wil be\n\nA vemarkable statement is mache in present daring the brief service that will\n\na tieuna telagenas to the Paria Widi that be endented there. Surrounding the the boy Zumboni was not the real asi Menotaph will be representative detachant of Msanii but that he was yached\n\ntents of the Eighting services, Mercantile when he was frightened by the aid of 1999-97; when he was mised to th Slatine, and ex-Servicemen,\n\nthe shot and trier to Ben.\n\nBishopvie. I\n\nNearly 800,00 Miners at Work,\n\noxnoy, November 3rd.\n\nA total of 290,67 ders am working, I to-day.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5FR, 1926\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1926\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD).\nPage 3\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nsuccessful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\nHOCKEY.\nTODAY'S GAMES.\nPage 4\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\nEducation.\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply.\nEver since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\nCRICKET.\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\nCONFERENCE.\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse.\nAccording to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\nBRITISH POLICY.\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\nFLIGHTS.\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505421, "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": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "T \n\nF \n\n26 \n\nand British forces, and resulted in some thirty-seven Chinese being killed and many more wounded.\n\n163. The Canton Government lost no time in launching a campaign of vilification against the foreigners on Shameen, and more especially against the British and French consuls and their Governments. They asserted that the Portuguese gunboat (which never opened fire at all) had bombarded Canton with naval guns; that the firing started from Shameen as well as many other calumnies. The evidence of His Majesty's consul-general, as well as the statements of a naval officer serving on the U.S.S. Ashville, both of whom were independent eye-witnesses of the actual incident itself and were both under fire, sufficiently refute these assertions of the Canton Government.\n\n164. Five demands were addressed on the 26th June to both French and British Governments by General Fu Ping-ch'ang, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs :-\n\n(1) Apologies will be made by High Commissioners appointed by the Powers interested to the Government of Canton.\n\n(2) The senior officers responsible shall be punished.\n\n(3) With the exception of two despatch vessels, all naval units of the Powers interested shall be withdrawn.\n\n(4) Shameen shall be returned to the Government of Kwantung and placed under the administration thereof.\n\n(5) The victims and their families shall be compensated.\n\n165. On receipt of these demands the French Minister and His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires decided to instruct their respective consuls-general to reply that they were unable to take such demands into consideration. On the 18th July these demands were again put forward but, after consulting the French Government, His Majesty's Government decided that no reply should be returned on this occasion. These demands may consequently be said to have lapsed.\n\n166. From the beginning of August onwards the anti-British agitation in Canton became even more violent. There were some forty or fifty Russians attached to the Russian consulate in Canton, as well as some 120 naval and military instructors, whose overbearing demeanour and influence with the Strike Committee and extremist elements created an atmosphere which made it impossible for the moderates to make any headway.\n\n167. The findings of the Cantonese Committee of Investigation, which had no judicial character whatever, succeeded in placing all the blame on the foreigners for the incidents of the 23rd June, and a complete deadlock in regard to any negotiations between Canton and Hong Kong or between His Majesty's Government and the de facto Canton Government had been reached. Sir James Jamieson was of opinion at this stage that nothing short of the abrogation of treaties would placate Canton.\n\n168. On the 13th August three new regulations for coastal navigation were published, but not by Canton Government nor approved by them:—\n\n(1) All steamers, except those of British and Japanese nationalities, are permitted to take part in coastal trade, provided they do not call at Hong Kong.\n\n(2) All vessels, on entering port, must be inspected by labour pickets.\n\n(3) Export of raw materials and food-stuffs is prohibited.\n\n169. These regulations really warranted a blockade of the entrance of the river, as they interfered with the freedom of action of the maritime treaty Powers, rendered vessels subject to unauthorised search and were an illegal restriction of trade. In view, however, of the fact that of the maritime treaty Powers the French alone appeared willing to co-operate, and of the fact that the circumstances attending the proposal for a blockade clearly indicated the necessity of joint international action on the broadest basis, i.e., the unconditional co-operation of the Italian, French, American, Japanese and possibly Portuguese Governments, and of the fact that it was very doubtful whether these Governments would co-operate as they did in 1923 in the case of threat to seize the customs, it was found impossible to adopt Sir James Jamieson's proposal for a blockade.\n\n170. Quite apart from the possibility of undesirable repercussions on the political situation in the north (e.g., Marshal Feng's anti-British proclamations, students' agitations in the capital culminating in Legation servants' strike, &c.), there is little doubt that the other maritime Powers, especially the Japanese and Americans, were but little interested in what was happening in Canton, provided that no attempt was made to seize the maritime customs. Their shipping was not being seriously interfered with. The American Dollar Line, the Japanese and Chinese lines were already making their arrangements for carrying on their business by means of ocean-going steamers trading direct with the outside world without touching at Hong Kong; in brief, the other Powers had no wish to assist British interests by pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for Hong Kong. Moreover, any form of isolated action by Great Britain which would have been tantamount to and certainly construed by Nationalist opinion as forcible intervention in China was to be deprecated.\n\n171. In order to test the authenticity of the coastal navigation rules (see above), it was decided to send up experimentally a river steamer from Hong Kong to Canton to show the flag and see what happened. On the 5th September the steamer arrived and was not molested. This seemed to prove that the Strike Committee had somewhat exceeded their powers, but there appeared to be little doubt that the rules were actually issued by the Strike Committee with the tacit approval of the Canton Government.\n\n172. In Canton itself, from now onwards, there was evidence of dissensions in the camp on the one hand, and on the other of considerable military preparations which, judging from the activity of the Russian instructors in Canton and certain Soviet munition ships, seemed to indicate the launching of an attack on Amoy to the north and on the Island of Hainan to the south.\n\n173. On the 20th August the unexpected assassination of Liao Chung-kai, one of the foremost leaders of the Chinese Bolshevik party in Canton, seemed to indicate that the anti-Communists were at last making some headway. Any hopes, however, which may have been founded on this event were illusory, for in September it was clear that the Russian element, headed by Comrade Borodin and the cadets trained under Russian instructors at Whampoa, had secured a stronger grip than ever of the situation.\n\n174. On the 15th September the following rules were drawn up and published by the Central Executive Committee of the Strikers' Union for the governance of those non-British firms who desired to resume business in Canton and regain the services of their Chinese staffs, both clerical and domestic:-\n\n'Conditions set forth by the Strikers' Committee concerning the American, Japanese and French Trade.\n\n(1) If the merchants of either of these nationalities reopen their business without informing the Strikers' Committee, or without the tripartite contract being signed by the committee, the employees and the company concerned, the strikers will deal with them as strike-breakers.\n\n(2) Any employees of these merchants returning to work without the permission of the committee will be dealt with as strike-breakers.\n\n(3) If any trader of the above-mentioned nationalities shop or ship owner infringes the rules laid down by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the strikers, and if he has business with Englishmen, with Hong Kong, Macao or Shameen, the strikers will deal with him as a strike-breaker.\n\n(4) They must reinstate all their former employees, and pay their salary as before the strike.\n\n(5) The employees resuming work must subscribe 10 per cent. of their salary to the strike fund.\n\n(6) If the business concerned is in Shameen, Hong Kong or Macao, the reopening will be allowed only on the condition that it be removed to Chinese territory.\n\n(7) If the traders infringe the contract, the authorisation will be immediately cancelled, and further severe steps will be taken toward them.\n\n(8) At the settlement of the general strike, these traders must obey the same rules as those of the general settlement.\n\n(9) Those traders transferring their business to Canton territory must obey the rules and laws of the Nationalist Government.\n\n(10) If the traders have any special question, or their employees have any special demands, these special questions or demands must be discussed and put in the contract by the committee, the traders and their employees.\n\n27 \n\n140 \n\nFS", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505422, "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": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "29\n\nE\n\n(11.) The employees must obey the order of the Strikers' Committee. The committee has the right to order them to discontinue operations if necessary.\n\nAL\n\n175. Sir James Jamieson's comment on these demands was a more complete surrender of extraterritorial rights if accepted by those concerned it would be difficult to conceive. One American firm hitherto carrying on business on the French Concession of doubtful reputation has, I am credibly informed, already accepted them.\n\n176. On the 24th September at a big conference in Canton the following resolutions relating to navigation and the settlement of the strike were passed :-\n\n(1) Passengers from Hong Kong will be allowed to come to Canton.\n\n(2.) Passengers from Canton for Hong Kong will not be allowed.\n\n(3.) Discharge of cargo from Hong Kong steamers is prohibited.\n\n(4.) Passengers to Canton, after landing, must be subject to search by the pickets. The following articles are liable to confiscation: (a) Arms and ammunition; (b) letters intending to break up the strike or the Nationalist Government; (c) Hong Kong newspapers; (d) British goods with luggage excepted.\n\n(5.) No native boat is allowed to go alongside the steamers from Hong Kong.\n\nShameen Strikers' Conditions.\n\n(1.) Chinese labourers on Shameen shall have full rights to convene meetings, &c.\n\n(2.) All former employees shall be reinstated.\n\n(3.) Eight hours a day.\n\n(4.) Only Chinese police be employed.\n\n(5.) East and West Gates to be closed at 12 A.M.\n\n(6.) Chinese to be allowed to walk and sit on the bund.\n\n(7.) Intercourse be allowed between representatives of the labourers and the foreign officials.\n\n(8.) The British and French Municipal Council shall abrogate all ill-treatment against Chinese.\n\nHong Kong Strikers' Conditions.\n\n(1.) Chinese in Hong Kong shall have full rights to convene meetings, &c.\n\n(2.) Chinese in Hong Kong shall enjoy the same treatment as the foreigners. Deportation and criminal laws on Chinese shall be abrogated.\n\n(3.) Chinese shall have the right of voting and of being voted in the Legislative Council.\n\n(4.) Eight hours a day, favourable wages, abrogation of foreman system, reformation of woman and child labour system, &c.\n\n(5.) Reinstatement of former employees.\n\n(6.) Issue of back pay.\n\n(7) Release of those arrested during the strike.\n\nFreedom to those deported shall be restored.\n\n(8.) Compensation of tenants who lost their belongings by auction by the Government or landlord on account of non-payment of rental during the strike\n\n(9.) New rental regulations of the 1st July, 1925, shall be abrogated. Effective decrease of 25 per cent. of rental.\n\n(10.) Intercourse be allowed between the representatives of the labourers and the foreign officials.\n\n(11.) Restoration of rights of licence, certification, &c., granted to Chinese prior to the strike.\n\n(12.) Equal treatment to Chinese employees of steamers, factories, companies, &c.\n\n177. A further cause for anxiety arose towards the middle of October, when the consular body on Shameen were informed officially that mines had been laid round Tiger Island forts (sometimes called Bocca Tigris or Bogue Forts). River steamers plying between Hong Kong and Canton were also stopped by rifle fire.\n\n178. Sir James Jamieson was of opinion that sufficient cause had now been given for a partial blockade of Canton as retaliation for such outrageous action on the part of the de facto Canton Government which was tantamount to an act of war against His Majesty's Government. No action, however, was really possible by His Majesty's Government alone without the co-operation of the other crime Powers.\n\n179. The fighting in Northern Kwangtung between Ch'en Ch'iung-ming, the anti-Red general, and Chiang Kai-shek, the Cantonese general, resulted in a victory for the latter, who captured Swatow early in November.\n\n180. Meanwhile the unofficial conversations which had been started by a delegation of Chinese merchants from Hong Kong who had come to Canton with a view to paving the way for a better understanding between the two Governments, had proved abortive owing to the attitude of the Strike Committee in Canton, who insisted on adhering to all their political demands, and of the Canton Government, who refused to negotiate with the Hong Kong Government except through the medium of the Strike Committee.\n\n181. At the close of the year the position was about as unsatisfactory as it could be; at one moment the extreme Sino-Russian Communists were said to control the Government, at another hope was expressed that the anti-Reds might come into power; in the course of December the Hong Kong Government made a great effort to ease the tension, but a visit to Canton itself by Mr. Fletcher, the Colonial Secretary, was of no avail on account of the insistence of the strikers on their political demands. A further visit by another delegation of eight Chinese merchants from Hong Kong proved a complete failure for the same reason, and they were compelled to depart more or less ignominiously after having been publicly stigmatised as the \"running-dogs of imperialism.\"\n\n182. Of the various expedients suggested as a solution of the difficulties of the Canton situation, that of a policy of patience and conciliation seems for the time being to hold the field. It would appear that an isolated and forcible intervention in Chinese internal affairs on the part of His Majesty's Government at the present time would be liable to cause an immediate recrudescence of the violent anti-British demonstrations and boycotts which followed on the Shanghai incident of the 30th May and inevitably lead to a legacy of hate not only in the south, but throughout the whole of China. It is, however, doubtful whether the use of armed force by His Majesty's Government to bring the Cantonese to reason and to exact compensation for the outrages committed by them against the British communities in Shameen and Swatow and the colony of Hong Kong would result in the establishment of improved relations between Canton and the Government of the colony, and whether the remedy might not prove worse than the disease by permanently diverting from Hong Kong and Canton a large volume of trade which has already been forced to take other channels by the continuance of the strike and the boycott.\n\n141\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507298, "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": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "## Declaration Of The Sun Yat-sen Univ.\n\nAuditing And Regulation Committee For The C. M. S. N. Co.\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company to be Maintained, Assisted and Protected. To Devise Plans and Means to put the Company on a sound and Efficient Basis. Committee-men to Receive no salary from the Company-to Show close Cooperation between Gov't, and People.\n\nTo Urge Mr. Tai Chi-tau To Return:\n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927\n\n\"CHING TANG\"---PURGE THE PARTY--- MOVEMENT: SLOGANS FOR THE PEOPLE ARE ISSUED BY PROPAGANDA DEPT.\n\nThe rumour that Mr. Chau Lu will be appointed by the Central Executive Committee of the Kwangtung Provincial Special Kuomintang, as the president of Sun Yat-sen University, created a sensation in educational circles here. The students and the staff of the University declared that Communist Chau Lu is not qualified to take up the position and therefore he is not welcome.\n\nYesterday a telegram was sent out by the University students to Nanking to urge Mr. Tai to return to Canton promptly and resume his post as the head of the University. Then in addition to this, a representative, Mr. Sun Shib, secretary of the University, has been sent to confer with Mr. Tai at Nanking with regard to the matter.\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company. Messrs. Chang Jen-chieh, Kuo Tai-chi and seven others have been appointed by the Nationalist Government to form a committee for the auditing and regulating of the said Company.\n\nThe committee was formally inaugurated yesterday and a meeting held for discussion. The following is a declaration issued by the committee to the various public organisations of Canton yesterday :-\n\nUnder joint instructions of the Central Political Council and the Nationalist Government, this Committee is formed in order to examine and regulate the affairs of the said Company. We, the members of the Committee shall respectfully observe the doctrines of our late Director, Dr Sun, in that a government of the people, by the people and for the people must be honest. We shall study the causes of the deficiency of the Company, devise plans for the extension of its enterprise, and work for interests of the shareholders as well for that of the community through co-operation of the Government with the people. The capital and property of the Company shall be strongly protected, its business duly maintained and the opinions of the shareholders and the general public fully respected.\n\nWe shall not receive any salary or any other remunerations. As to office expenses, same will be paid by the Government so as to show the spirit of the Government to serve the people. With regard to the actions of the Committee, we are desirous to be put under the supervision of the shareholders and the community. Should any of us be found and proved corrupt, intolerable by both people and national laws, we shall be willing to have him tried by the people and punished accordingly. It is our earnest hope, therefore, that the shareholders and the whole nation will rise and give us all the necessary support.\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company of Shanghai alone is the largest navigation company in China. It was formed even prior to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Fifty years have now elapsed since its formation and the Company has made little or no progress, its routes are still confined to the Yangtse Kiang and the South Coasts, while the power of navigation of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha are at present prying between all ports of the world. Furthermore, the property of the Company has all been mortgaged. The capital of the shareholders is being gradually reduced. Should such conditions continue indefinitely, it is feared that the power of navigation would fall entirely into the hands of foreigners and the shares of the Company rendered mere scraps of paper. This would not only be a loss to the shareholders but also a great detriment to the welfare of the Chinese nation.\n\nThe Following Slogans, Prepared by the Propaganda Committee of the Kwangtung Provincial Special Kuomintang, are an Embodiment of the Aims and Spirit of the Nationalist Movement.\n\n1. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is treacherous to Dr. Sun Yat-sen.\n2. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which massacres the Kuomintang members.\n3. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which gives up the Special District of Hankow.\n4. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is destroying the People's Revolution.\n5. Down with the Chinese communists who are in disguise.\n6. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is utilizing the masses of people as tools.\n7. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is plotting the downfall and destruction of the Kuomintang.\n8. To be against the Three People's Principles is to be Counter-Revolutionary.\n9. To be against the 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 united official covetous attendants, Yangtse Kiang and the Noh...\n14. Concentrate the powers of the Kuomintang.\n15. Down with the Fenglien ie., federalism or nationalism, the remnants of Chen Chiung-ming's followers and any other similar clique of Militarists.\n16. Down with Imperialism.\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 Counter-Revolutionary.\n20. Those who refuse to come under the direction and guidance of the Kuomintang are no Revolutionaries.\n21. The masses of the people must rise and clean Fei-teh, must rise 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 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 com... against the San... (Three People's Principles.)\n28. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which gives up...\n29. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is destroying the People's Revolution.\n30. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which utilizes the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company.\n31. To clear out all the Chinese communists who are in ambush.\n32. To clear out all the Chinese Communist Party.\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 \"Ching Tang\" work.\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 scal Sharks and unscrupulous gentries.\n41. To deal severely with those who study the \"Cheng-hsueh\" doctrine, made jointly and give us all the necessary effort, we can restore the navigating foundation of our country.\n42. To dismiss Wang Ching-wei who betrays the party, endangers the country and is ungrateful to the masses of the people.\n43. The Three People's Principles are the principles for national salvation.\n44. To realize all the party principles of the Kuomintang.\n45. It only is the Kuomintang which can realize the welfare of the peasants and labourers.\n46. To reclaim all concessions, leased and ceded territories.\n47. To emancipate the Tibetans from the oppression of the imperialists and the Mogolians 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\n(Sd) Chang Jen-chieh Kuo Tai-chi, Soong Han-chiang, Pun Chi-tse, Yang Chuen, Yang Sui-luh, Li Koo-feu, Yu Ho-teh, Cheu Members of Committee.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n**AH FONG STUDIO**\n\nGIVE US A TRIAL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED\n\nWe beg to announce to the public that we have lately added to our studio many modern inventions whereby photos taken by us compare favourably with photos by well-known photographers abroad.\n\nWe have engaged experts to look after our developing, printing and enlarging departments.\n\nWe have always on hand views of Canton as well as postcards, etc. Eastman & Agfa films a speciality. Proofs will be shown at our studio if required.\n\nJust taken a NEW PANORAMA OF CANTON CITY; for sale $1.00\n\nTelephone No. 531 W.\n\n**CANTON WIRELESS STATION, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS**\n\nSEND YOUR MESSAGES BY WIRELESS\n\nCheaper and Faster Service\n\nAddress: No. 1 SAI HAU STREET\n\nMessages, official or private, are despatched immediately, day and night.\n\nApply to Office at 50 (old number) Second Bund (Yee-Maloo) Nankwan.\n\n**THE PETER MUSIC CO.**\n\nMusics and Musical Instruments. Sole Distributors.\n\n\"Morrison\" Pianos and Winner Records\n\nTuning and Repairing Pianos\n\nBuying and selling old Pianos\n\n33, Mui Chin Street, West, Tungshan, 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 in \"SEVEN CHANCES\"\n* OUR GANG in \"THE COBBLER\"\n\nNext Change! Commencing Sun. May 22nd.\n\n* Wesley Barry, Mary Carr, and Pat O'Malley in \"THE FIGHTING CUB\"\n* CHARLIE CHAPLIN in \"THE GOLD RUSH\"\n\n**NATIONAL THEATRE**\n\n(North Wing Hon Road)\n\nPROGRAMME FOR Fri to Mon. May 20th to 23rd. At 12.30, 2.30, 7.00 and 9.00 P.M.\n\n* \"THE LIVING BUDDHA Part II\" A Chinese Picture\n\nNext Change COMMENCING TUES. MAY 24TH\n\n* BETTY COMPSON and BEATRICE JOY in \"LADIES MUST LIVE\" A Paramount Picture\n* Coming Attraction RUDOLPH VALENTINO in \"BLOOD AND SAND\"\n\n**The Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK**\n\nAll classes of Insurance transacted\n\nGENERAL AGENTS\n\nAmerican Asiatic Underwriters, (South China) Fed. Inc. U.S.A., Missions Building The Bund\n\n**SAI HING NAVIGATION Co. LTD.**\n\nThe S.S. \"Sainam\" will leave Canton for Wuchow every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 a.m.\n\nFor further particular please apply to: SHA KEE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927", "content_text": "## 2.\n\nThe question of double nationality to be treated as Dutch, subject to registration and communication of a list of registered persons to Chinese authorities. Such an arrangement would be acceptable to us, since it would seem impossible to decline to communicate lists of persons so registered to the Chinese, but we do not know to what classes of persons the Dutch arrangement has in practice been applied, and it seems probable that the South, if not Koo, would endeavour to limit our arrangement to certain classes of Anglo-Chinese. If so, it will be necessary to consider what concessions we can make, but in the first instance, you should try for an arrangement as wide as the Dutch. The Governor of Hongkong is being informed of the position and instructed to communicate his observations to you direct, and you should keep in touch with him in addition to informing me of any proposals the Chinese may make.\n\nWith regard to persons of Indian descent in Turkestan, the arrangement recently made between His Majesty's Consul-General at Kashgar and the Taoyin should suffice to eliminate all causes of friction and to demonstrate our desire to meet the Chinese in a friendly spirit (see Legation despatch No. 796 of November 3rd, 1926).\n\n## 3.\n\nShipping and navigation laws. Sir Skinner Turner is being consulted on the point raised.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508182, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927", "content_text": "## 151 \n\n(3) \n\n2. Koo said it would be impossible to alter Chinese nationality law, but when I mentioned the Dutch arrangement, agreed to consider some working arrangement. I should be glad if the Foreign Office would give me general lines on which to work on this question. Would something on the lines of the Dutch arrangement be acceptable? It is, of course, a question which concerns the South much more than the North. Koo mentioned the protection of persons of Indian descent in Turkestan as a cause of friction.\n\n3. Application of Chinese laws in British Courts. I said this was a case for legal experts and pointed out the difficulty caused by the split between North and South. Could there not be representatives of both to meet our legal experts on neutral ground? Koo said that this was by no means out of the question, but I fancy the South will prove the chief difficulty. Koo enquired whether our offer included shipping and navigation laws, and I noted the question. Can Sir Skinner Turner supply an answer to this?\n\n4. Taxation. Koo pointed out that there was national, provincial, and local taxation; our offer read literally excluded the last two, which he assumed was not our intention. I replied that if taxation was legal and non-discriminatory, I felt pretty sure we could agree with him; and returned the same answer to his supposition that \"British subjects\" was meant to include British companies, etc.\n\n5. Concessions. Koo referred to my suggestion...\n\nPage 151 \nPage 150Page 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-3 Chinese situation- Protection of British subjects of Chinese race 23-10-1926 - 21-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517435, "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": "CO129-513-9 Proposals for civil and commercial aviation in Hong Kong- requests for air-routes between Hong Kong... 13-11-1928 - 30-9-1929", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-513-9 Proposals for civil and commercial aviation in Hong Kong- requests for air-routes between Hong Kong... 13-11-1928 - 30-9-1929", "content_text": "## Royal Air Force \"Training Schools\", and good has invariably come \nof these visits. e.g. The Japanese.\n\nAir Navigation Laws for Hong Kong.\n\nHong Kong Ordinance No. 26, 1912, is still in force. It is now out of date.\n\nOther regulations concerning aviation in or over the Colony are contained in \"Hong Kong Government Gazette No. 33, Vol: LXXIV, dated July 27th 1928.\" I understand that these will have to be embodied in a new ordinance, which will have to be drawn up in accordance with The Air Navigation Act of 1920, and the International Air Navigation Convention of the 13th October 1919, which was signed by China.\n\nI have forwarded, at the request of the Hong Kong Colonial Secretary, to the Government, remarks on the Gazette above mentioned; these remarks were confined to small alterations necessary to meet local conditions.\n\nI have, etc.,\n(Signed) R. VAUGHAN-FOWLER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-9 Proposals for civil and commercial aviation in Hong Kong- requests for air-routes between Hong Kong... 13-11-1928 - 30-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518321, "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": "CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929", "content_text": "# IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG\n\n## ORIGINAL JURISDICTION\n\n### ACTION NO. 67 OF 1928.\n\nStamps:102 \n$6.00 (Int.) C.D.M. \n16.5.28.\n\n## BETWEEN\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, owners of the S.S. \"Irene\" \n**Plaintiffs,**\n\nand \n\n1. \n2. \n3. \nF.J.C. Halanan commanding H.M.'s \nSubmarine L.4 \n**Defendant.**\n\n## STATEMENT OF CLAIM\n\nThe plaintiffs are a Company in Peking registered and incorporated according to the Laws of the Republic of China.\n\nThe Defendant at the time the cause of action arose was the officer commanding His Majesty's Submarine L.4.\n\nThe Plaintiffs have suffered damage by reason of the wrongful sinking of their ship the S.S. \"Irene\" in the territorial waters of the Republic of China by gun fire from the said Submarine L.4 on the night 19th/20th October 1927 under the command of the Defendant.\n\n### PARTICULARS OF DAMAGE\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total loss of S.S. \"Irene\" | $500,000:00 |\n| Loss of stores on board S.S. \"Irene\" | $5,000:00 |\n| Loss of officers' kits on board S.S. \"Irene\" | $15,000:00 |\n| Loss of use of ship from 19th day of October 1927 at $1,000:00 per day | $10,000:00 |\n| Extra disbursements to officers and crew for clothes, board, lodging, and fares to Shanghai occasioned by the wrongful act of the Defendant | |\n\nDated this 18th day of May 1928. \nSd. H.B. Sheldon. \nCounsel for the Plaintiffs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519656, "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": "CO129-517-7 Draft Commercial Treaty with China- Governor's action 14-3-1929 - 25-7-1929", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-517-7 Draft Commercial Treaty with China- Governor's action 14-3-1929 - 25-7-1929", "content_text": "## Article 8\nI suggest this article be left out as it might give Chinese opportunity of raising question of right of search of British premises and examination of books etc. despite our extra-territorial right of immunity. Such an article might more suitably be reserved for extra-territorial treaty when Chinese will presumably be legally entitled to search premises and examine books, subject to usual safeguards. Do you agree to its omission?\n\n## Article 9\nUnless there is special reason for using words \"exaction\" I suggest substitution of word \"levies\" as being less likely to hurt the Chinese susceptibilities.\n\n## Article 18\nI am consulting Governor of Hong-Kong by telegraph pressing for immediate answer.\n\n## Article 24, 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence\nI presume this does not imply that, prior to abolition of extra-territoriality, the said bye-laws and regulations will necessarily be binding on British subjects and ships unless enforced by our King's Regulations? I take...\n\n## Article 25, 2nd paragraph\nI suggest substitution of \"the\" for \"this\" before the word \"purpose\" in order to make it quite clear that Chinese registration only applies to inland water navigation. I take this clause to mean that we admit right of Chinese authorities to grant or withhold registration for inland navigation at their discretion. Am I right?\n\n## Articles 32 and 33\nI am substituting words \"In China\" for \"Peking\".\n\n## Article 55\nI propose to add a paragraph similar...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-7 Draft Commercial Treaty with China- Governor's action 14-3-1929 - 25-7-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531893, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "REPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\n14\n\nThirteenth Session, the question concerned is one for the Geneva Organisation, and the French Government considers that it is at Geneva that it should be definitely regulated.\n\n>>\n\nReference to the Grey Report of 1929 shows that the majority of maritime nations have long possessed national regulations requiring that those who, in whatever capacity, are responsible for navigating a ship or running its engines should hold certificates. Such regulations are not possessed, however, by all maritime nations, and a single exception, as the Boz-kourt case shows, is dangerous for navigation. An international code has been established to enable seamen to understand each other: international regulations invoked by Turkey herself in the Lotus case fix rules for avoiding collisions. What then would be the use of such regulations if there were no assurance that they were known and observed by all navigators? It is essential, therefore, from the international standpoint, to require a minimum of professional capacity from the master of a ship, since, moreover, the sea is an international thoroughfare, and long-standing custom urges that maritime matters should be common to all countries bordering on the sea.\n\nH\n\n33\n\nThe principle itself of an international agreement would thus appear to be beyond question, in view of the necessity of ensuring safety on highways of the sea. Its form and scope, however, can be matters for discussion. As a discussion of this kind took place at the Thirteenth Session of the Conference, it is desirable to consider how the agreement in view can be reached.\n\nAt the Thirteenth Session, the French delegation adopted an attitude in this matter which has the entire approval of its Government. The French Government considers it essential that the agreement should be founded not on a mere Recommendation but on a Convention which would bind the high contracting parties, i.e., all maritime countries. As is indicated in the Questionnaire of the International Labour Office, this Convention would specify that national laws or regulations are to require certificates of professional capacity for employment as\n\n(a) master or skipper,\n\n(b) navigating officer in charge of a watch,\n\n(c) chief engineer,\n\n(d) engineer officer in charge of a watch.\n\nIn the case of almost all the contracting parties, the obligation which the adoption of a Convention would involve could cause no difficulty, since it would merely embody in an\n\n15\n\nQUESTION 1\n\ninternational instrument provisions which have been laid down in a great number of maritime countries, with a view to ensuring safety on sea routes. At present, national regulations show certain discrepancies which it is desirable to remove, since they all have a common object and national amour propre could not be offended if an attempt were made to fill certain gaps or omissions. It is useless to pursue such considerations further before an international conference.\n\nBut the effect of an obligation of this kind, with which the maritime nations already in possession of adequate regulations would conform, would be — and herein lies the whole origin of the question — to impose on the few countries whose legislation is deficient a minimum of rules recognised as strictly necessary for the material and moral protection of navigators and passengers. Only the existence of a Convention by which they themselves are bound will enable the contracting parties to require that all maritime nations should accept a certain constraint based on the general interest of seamen, or, better still, of maritime trade as a whole.\n\nThe case would be otherwise if the matters treated in the Questionnaire were merely the subject of a Recommendation, which has no binding force and the adoption of which depends entirely on the goodwill or otherwise of the authorities to which it is directed.\n\nThe French Government is therefore emphatically of opinion that a Draft Convention should be adopted.\n\nAs is contemplated in the Questionnaire, the Convention should make the possession of a certificate compulsory for the skilled persons referred to in Question 1, in so far as they are generally responsible for the navigation of a ship or running her engines.\n\nAs the definition of the duties performed is dealt with in Question 2, the French Government will state its opinion on the definitions in reply to that question. It has to observe, however, that by certificate, it means a diploma, letter, or other document issued by the Government concerned or its duly authorised agents, after examination, with a view to duties to be discharged on board ship.\n\n1.\n\nGERMANY\n\nThe reply is in the affirmative.\n\nGREAT BRITAIN\n\nHis Majesty's Government consider that it would be impracticable to lay down, for international application,\n\n21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531896, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "QUESTION 2\n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\nIt would appear, in view of the very different circumstances in which navigation is carried on in the different countries, that it should be left to national laws or regulations to determine the requirements as to the minimum of professional capacity for the different classes of officers.\n\nYUGOSLAVIA\n\n1. The reply is in the affirmative.\n\nQuestion 2.\n\nDefinition of the duties for which certificates are to be required.\n\n2. Do you consider that the scope of the Draft Convention should be determined on the basis of general definitions, which might be as follows:-\n\nMaster or skipper - Any person having command or charge of a vessel;\n\nNavigating officer in charge of a watch not being a pilot, who is navigating a ship;\n\nAny person,\n\nChief engineer- Any person permanently responsible\n\nfor the engine-room staff;\n\nEngineer officer in charge of a watch Any person who is running a ship's engines?\n\nAUSTRALIA\n\n2. The reply is in the affirmative. The following definitions are suggested as appropriate:\n\nMaster or skipper No alteration suggested.\n\nNavigating officer in charge of watch - Any person, not being a pilot, on watch and controlling, for the time being, the navigation of the ship.\n\nChief engineer Any person permanently responsible for the propelling machinery of the ship, and in control of the engine-room staff.\n\nEngineer officer in charge of a watch — Any person on watch controlling for the time being the engines and engine room of the ship.\n\nBELGIUM\n\nThe scope of the Draft Convention should be determined on the basis of general definitions, which might be as follows:\n\n(a) Ships All vessels of at least 25 tons intended to be ordinarily employed at sea and in maritime waters in the carriage of passengers or goods, in fishing, as tugs, or in any form of navigation for profit.\n\n(b) Master or skipper - Any person having command or charge of a vessel.\n\n(c) Navigating officer in charge of a watch - Any person, not being a pilot, who takes the place of and assists the master or skipper in the navigation of a vessel.\n\n(d) Chief engineer- Any person permanently responsible for running the propelling or other machinery of a vessel.\n\n(e) Engineer officer in charge of a watch Any person who takes the place of the chief engineer and assists him in running the propelling or other machinery of a vessel.\n\nCUBA\n\n2. The scope of the Draft Convention should comprise all the persons included in the present question and the definitions contained therein.\n\nCZECHOSLOVAKIA\n\nSee reply under Question 1, ante, p. 10.\n\nDENMARK\n\n2. The general definitions proposed may be agreed to.\n\nESTONIA\n\n2. All the definitions in this question are acceptable.\n\nFINLAND\n\n2. The four general definitions suggested are approved. They are in conformity with the provisions of Sections 44-48 of the Seamen's Act of 8 March 1921.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531897, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "28\n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\n2.\n\nFRANCE\n\n22\n\nThe French Government replies to this Question in the affirmative, having regard to the definitions proposed by the International Labour Office.\n\nThis question is really a corollary and supplemental to the first one.\n\nWhen the Thirteenth Session was discussing the subject, the enumeration of the different duties for which it was proposed to require a minimum of professional capacity gave rise to certain reservations on the part of a number of delegations, and for this reason it is necessary that the duties enumerated should be followed by their definition, or, to be more precise, the definition of the rôle on board of the persons responsible for these duties, whether permanently, temporarily or in exceptional circumstances.\n\nIt appears to the French Government that there is a definite criterion of the obligation which should be laid down internationally. This criterion is the actual nature of the functions exercised and their importance in the sailing of the ship. It would be inadmissible that the navigation of a ship should be left to an inexperienced staff, and in speaking of the running of a ship, this would include the duties on board such as maritime custom has divided them, i.e., deck duties and engine-room duties.\n\nAs regards duties on deck, it must be considered that it is mainly the initiation of the operations for ensuring the movement and steering of the ship which is, from the point of view of safety at sea, the essential element of the question.\n\nAs regards engine-room duties, the essential element is the direction of the operations ordered by the competent persons on deck, for moving the ship. In reality, the engine room duties are for present purposes the immediate auxiliary to duties on deck.\n\nIn both cases, from the point of view defined by the question under consideration, the persons referred to are not those who actually carry out the operations but those who initiate them or are responsible for them. Most if not all maritime laws have very clearly defined the persons, whether on deck or in the engine-room, in whom the initiation of the operations or responsibility for them lies. There are, however, certain ambiguities in the definitions adopted, and according to the terminology used a skipper may or may not be the person who on deck is in charge of the operations. These exceptions will be easy to limit and the Draft Convention itself will be sufficient if agreement is reached on the definitions proposed in the Questionnaire. The master or skipper necessarily has command or charge of the ship, and it is accordingly he in whom at all times lies the initiation of operations on his ship. These responsibilities,\n\n23\n\nQUESTION 2\n\nwhich put him in a special position, impose on him the obligation to possess sufficient professional capacity. This obligation is even irrespective of the fact that he might not, in particular circumstances, be included in the roster of officers who take a watch at sea or do night watch duty in port. Further, the duties of the master call for greater capacity than that which he might be required to possess as officer in charge of a watch. For duties on deck, there are, in addition to the master, those officers who assist him and who take their turn in charge of a watch or on night watch duty in port. It appears to the French Government in this connection that the expression \"officer\" in the Questionnaire may give rise to difficulties. The expression has different meanings. It represents both a rank and duties, and this certainly caused confusion at the Thirteenth Session. Reference to the minutes of the sittings shows that different amendments proposed referred to the number or the rank of deck or engine-room officers on board ships of certain categories in the mercantile marine. It was not clearly brought out that the object of the Draft Convention was not to create an international certificate of professional capacity but to make it obligatory for persons performing certain duties to possess such professional capacity, or, to be more accurate, a minimum of professional capacity. It matters little whether such persons have the rank of officer or not, i.e. whether they possess a certificate or diploma conferring this rank upon them, irrespective of the duties for which they are responsible on board. It may be observed that the possession of such a certificate or diploma is evidence that they have more than the minimum of professional capacity which might be required by the Convention. On the other hand, seamen performing the duties of officers are in certain cases seamen not possessing the diploma or certificate of an officer of the mercantile marine.\n\nIt is for this reason that a deck or engine room hand should in certain cases come under the provisions of the Convention, by reason of his duties, even if he has not the rank of officer. The confusion which has been produced on this matter arises chiefly from the terminology in use in maritime countries and from the meaning given to the term \"officer\" and for that reason it may be excused. For the benefit of the discussions at the next Session, however, the French Government desires to draw attention to it, with a view to method and clarity.\n\nThe French Government accordingly urges that the definition given by the International Labour Office should be adhered to, while at the same time specifying that the term \"officer\" applies to the duties performed and defined under Question 2 and not to the rank of the individual performing these duties. A seaman who performs these duties should,\n\n29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531900, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "QUESTION 3 \n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS \n\ntonnage of the vessel, or the character and power of its propelling machinery. \n\nBut appropriate certificates of capacity might be provided for each case, and in drawing up programmes of subjects in which candidates for one or other certificate would have to pass tests regard might be had to the minimum requirements of each class of navigation. In drawing up such programmes national legislation could be guided by the possibilities allowed by the intellectual and professional development of the classes from which deck and engineer officers are recruited. \n\nThe Draft Convention should leave it open to each of the contracting States to issue transitional regulations covering a certain number of years. Similarly, provision might be made for the issuing of licences for a limited period, or even permanent licences, to persons who for a certain number of years had, without holding a certificate but without committing any serious technical mistake, been in charge of a ship or permanently in charge of its machinery or had exercised the functions of mate in either capacity. \n\nCUBA \n\n3. It is considered that it should be left to national laws to provide for the exceptions that are considered desirable as indicated in this question. \n\nCZECHOSLOVAKIA \n\nSee reply under Question 1, ante, p. 10. \n\n3. \n\nDENMARK \n\nThe reply is in the affirmative: Government ships and ships below 100 tons gross tonnage should be exempted. \n\nESTONIA \n\n3. The reply is in the affirmative. The Government proposes to leave it open to national law to allow exceptions in respect of ships of less than 60 cubic metres gross tonnage, as provided in existing Estonian legislation, and for ships not used with a view to profit. \n\nFINLAND \n\n3. The reply is in the affirmative. It should be possible, under national legislation, to allow minor exceptions for vessels not engaged in trade, for those engaged exclusively in inland navigation, and those under 100 tons register or which are manned exclusively by members of the owner's or master's family. \n\nFRANCE \n\n3. The French Government considers that, if it were possible, no exception should be allowed to the principle of the minimum of professional capacity as defined in effect in Question 4. The guarantees finally maintained by the Thirteenth Session are such as may be truly called a minimum, and, except for a voyage of a few hours along the coast, it would not appear that this minimum could be reduced. Looking at the matter from every point of view, it is in the interest of the seaman himself that he should not undertake certain responsibilities without a minimum of professional capacity, which would result either from his age or the practical experience acquired by him in company with or under the orders of experienced navigators. The fact of passing one or more examinations organised and supervised by the public authorities no doubt serves to confirm the fact that this minimum has been acquired: but the value as a proof of the examination passed might perhaps in practice be a matter for discussion, without claiming on the other hand that a good seaman who is uncertificated does not exist. \n\nAs a matter of fact, the character of the question examined at the Thirteenth Session was more special, and as it dealt with certain circumstances of navigation there is a possibility that certain other circumstances may be left outside the field of the Convention and the obligation under consideration. \n\nThe object of the Convention is to avoid or reduce as far as possible the risk of collision. It is an obvious truth that the risk or rather the consequences of a collision are all the more considerable the greater the tonnage of the ship and its speed. The danger is almost nil for small ships, as a collision usually only involves material damage and does not develop into a catastrophe in which numbers of persons lose their lives. \n\nThese are the considerations which may justify exceptions to the principle of the minimum of professional capacity. \n\nThere can accordingly be no question of allowing important exceptions or beyond certain limits. The discussions at the Thirteenth Session show that there was a very definite tendency to consider only minor exceptions. The rejection of certain amendments referring to fishing vessels as a whole and the adoption of an amendment proposed by the French delegation would seem to show that the system of exceptions cannot be too strict. Further, the cases which might justify exceptions are very varied if they are not numerous, and the formula proposed by the French delegation and adopted by the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531901, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "36\n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\n30\n\nConference had the advantage of leaving the question entirely open while maintaining that the principal consideration was the safety of navigation.\n\ncan\n\nThe French Government considers that there should be no going back on the decision already taken by the International Labour Conference not to exclude fishing considered as a form of navigation from the scope of the Convention. Fishing is to-day a powerful industry and is carried on further and further from the coast, with gear which is being continually improved. Trawlers are constantly increasing in size, and there can hardly be any question of leaving them without experienced staff, the more so as in numerous cases they have to cross the routes followed by large ships. Besides, it has not been demonstrated how great a danger is caused by fishing fleets to navigation in certain areas on account of the carelessness of fishermen and their repugnance to conforming with the rules as to lights and steering.\n\nAccordingly, while it is not desirable to impose very strict regulations on fishing vessels, it is necessary that such vessels should not be excluded except for reasons other than the nature of their trade.\n\nFishing fleets as a whole would, of course, have the benefit of any exceptions laid down for other classes of ships on grounds of tonnage, speed and the degree of danger they might run in case of accident by reason of the fact that they carry a comparatively large number of persons on board.\n\nIn order to respond to the spirit of the Questionnaire drawn up by the Office in accordance with the indications of the International Labour Conference, the French Government considers that it would be possible to allow exceptions in the following cases, having regard to the type of ship and its tonnage:\n\n(i) sailing vessels of 25 tons or less;\n\n(ii) mechanically propelled ships with engines of less than 10 h.p.;\n\n(iii) ships not having more than a crew of five on board.\n\nThe vessels which would thus have the benefit of an exception would still be sufficiently numerous to ensure that the application of the Draft Convention would not inconvenience small-scale navigation.\n\n1\n\n31\n\nThe French Government recalls that the possibility of exceptional derogations was recognised by it in reply to Question 2 for certain cases of force majeure. It has no intention of preventing the sailing of ships covered by the Convention when the shipowner is unable to find on the spot a seaman possessing the requisite certificate of professional capacity or, again, when the ship is deprived of some of its crew at the moment of sailing by circumstances of force majeure.\n\nQUESTION 3\n\nThe French Government is of opinion that it would be for national laws or regulations to fix the possible exceptions in the spirit in which the Convention is drawn.\n\nGERMANY\n\n3. The necessary latitude as regards the derogations contemplated must be left to national law, which should also be free to allow other exceptions. The exceptions should be based on the type of vessel and its tonnage. In order that the scope of the different maritime Conventions adopted at Geneva should be as far as possible uniform, it is recommended that exceptions should be provided for according to the type of vessel, as in the Conventions on Articles of Agreement and on the Repatriation of Seamen adopted in 1926. Exceptions would thus be made in respect of ships of war, Government vessels not engaged in trade, pleasure yachts and fishing vessels. As regards tonnage, ships under 500 gross registered tons should be excepted, while in the case of ships of 500 gross registered tons and over whose engines are less than 1000 h.p., certificated engine-room watch officers should not be required.\n\n3.\n\nGREAT BRITAIN\n\nSee reply under Question 1, ante, p. 15.\n\nINDIA\n\nThe reply to the first part is in the affirmative. The following exceptions are proposed:\n\n(i) Master and navigating officer in charge of a watch: sailing vessels not exceeding 300 tons registered tonnage.\n\n(ii) Navigating officer in charge of a watch: mechanically propelled vessels not exceeding 100 tons registered tonnage.\n\n(iii) Engineer officer in charge of a watch: cargo vessels having engines of under 250 indicated horse power which do not proceed in the course of their voyage more than 200 miles from the nearest land.\n\nAccording to the rules framed by the Government of India, a candidate for a certificate of competency as an engineer is required to have served as an apprentice engineer or journeyman for a period of not less than 4 to 5 years at the making or repairing of steam or internal combustion engines and, in addition, on the completion of this apprenticeship, to have...\n\n37", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531902, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "38.\n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\n33\n\n32\n\nserved at sea for a period of 18 months as an engineer on regular watch. It is believed that the regulations in several other countries also require workshop apprenticeship followed by sea service. Should the Draft Convention indicate that the standard of professional experience for an engineer in charge of a watch should be an engineer apprenticeship followed by a period of sea service as engineer on regular watch, the Government of India are of opinion that the exceptions in regard to engineers cannot be limited to those of a minor character, because to do so would place serious obstacles in the way of men who have completed their workshop training acquiring the necessary sea service and would prevent, without any corresponding advantage, smaller steamers from employing as 3rd and 4th engineers men who have completed their workshop training but have not acquired the necessary sea service. Should this standard of professional experience be adopted, it is suggested that the following classes of steamers should be exempted from the provisions of the Convention in so far as they relate to engineer officers in charge of a watch: (a) Cargo vessels having engines of under 1,000 indicated horse power;\n\n(b) Passenger vessels (i.e. vessels carrying more than 12 passengers) having engines of under 1,000 indicated horse power and cargo vessels having engines of under 2,000 indicated horse power, performing voyages in the course of which they do not proceed more than 200 miles from the nearest land.\n\nIRISH FREE STATE\n\n3. The national laws and regulations should be free to provide for minor exceptions. The following exceptions are suggested :--\n\n(a) Type of vessel : Pleasure yachts. Fishing boats except trawlers of 25 tons and upwards and mechanically propelled bline oats and drifters of 50 tons and upwards.\n\n(b) Ownership: Vessels owned by national Governments and public (including lighthouse) authorities and not engaged in trade.\n\n(c) Nature of trade: Vessels engaged in near trades (\"coasting and home trades).\n\n33\n\n27\n\n(d) Tonnage of vessel: Vessels of very low tonnage, say 15 tons and under.\n\nITALY\n\n3. The Italian Government considers that it is not possible to leave it open to national law to provide for any exception\n\n39\n\nQUESTION 3\n\nto the principles of the Draft Convention, except as regards the grading of the requirements in relation to the difference in ships, trade and traffic.\n\nJAPAN\n\n3. The following exceptions should be made;\n\n(a) The following categories of vessels are not required to carry on board holders of the certificate of professional capacity:\n\n(1) vessels not engaged in maritime navigation; (2) vessels under 50 tons gross;\n\n(3) vessels with main propelling machinery under 70 M.I.H.P. (concerning only chief engineers and engineer officers).\n\n(b) The following persons are entitled, without holding certificates, to stand on watch when they are under the supervision of certificated navigating or engineer officers respectively who are on board the same vessel:\n\n(1) navigating officers on sailing vessels;\n\n(2) navigating and engineer officers on vessels engaged in the coast-wise trade with propelling machinery;\n\n(3) navigating officers on vessels under 1000 tons gross with propelling machinery;\n\n(4) engineer officers on vessels with main propelling machinery under 2,500 M.I.H.P.\n\nLATVIA\n\n3. It should be left open to national laws or regulations to provide for minor exceptions, e.g. for coastal fishing vessels, sailing vessels, and other vessels under 200 tons.\n\n3.\n\nNETHERLANDS\n\nThe reply is in the affirmative. As it will be for national laws or regulations to regulate these exceptions, the Government of the Netherlands is of the opinion that this question should be left wholly to national legislation; therefore the Government abstains from making any proposal concerning these exceptions.\n\nNORWAY\n\n3. The reply is in the affirmative. It should be left to national laws and regulations to provide for exceptions as to type and tonnage of vessels.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531903, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "40\n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\n34\n\n35\n\nQUESTION 4\n\n41\n\nPOLAND\n\n3. It would be desirable to leave national law free to allow certain exceptions, notably in respect of certain classes of vessels, and particularly those of small tonnage.\n\nRUMANIA\n\n3. National laws or regulations in each country should be free to provide for the strictly necessary exceptions, based on the kind or the ordinary duration of the navigation (e.g., coastal fishing boats, pleasure yachts), the method of propulsion and tonnage (e.g., sailing vessels under 200 tons and other vessels under 100 tons), or on another criterion (e.g., passenger vessels or otherwise).\n\nSOUTH AFRICA\n\nSee reply under Question 1, ante, p. 18.\n\nSPAIN\n\n3. In general, the reply is in the negative, as there is no justification for exceptions except in the case of small vessels engaged on coastal fishing.\n\nFor the reasons which have already been indicated as to the necessity of certificates of professional capacity in view of the generality of the risk, it is not considered desirable to leave it open to national laws or regulations to provide for minor exceptions on such grounds as the type of vessel and its tonnage.\n\n22\n\nSWEDEN\n\n3. The reply is in the affirmative. The exceptions contemplated by the International Labour Office in its proposed draft in respect of coastal fishing vessels, sailing vessels of less than 200 tons and other vessels of less than 100 tons would appear to suit Swedish navigation.\n\nYUGOSLAVIA\n\n3. The reply is in the affirmative. It is considered that national law should be allowed to make exceptions solely for sailing vessels and ships of less than 200 gross tons, as well as for yachts in coastal navigation.\n\nPersons commanding such vessels should have to pass an examination on the measures prescribed for avoiding collision at sea and less important rules concerning navigation, as well as tests for hearing, sight, and colour distinction.\n\nQuestion 4.\n\nConditions for obtaining certificates\n\n4. Do you consider it desirable, while leaving it to national laws or regulations to settle in detail the conditions for granting certificates, to indicate in the international regulations that these conditions as a whole are to be directed towards securing the following guarantees:\n\n(a) a minimum age;\n\n(b) a certain standard of professional experience (length of service at sea, a qualifying period in the engine-room or in workshops, etc.);\n\n(c) the passing of one or more examinations organised and supervised by the public authorities?\n\n4.\n\nAUSTRALIA\n\nThe reply is in the affirmative. It is considered that each administration should be responsible for the conditions to be applied to items (a), (b), and (c), the objective being uniformity in the measure of practical experience and standard of examination, which should be commensurate with the responsibilities of the duties involved.\n\n4.\n\nBELGIUM\n\nWhile leaving it to national laws or regulations to settle in detail the conditions for granting certificates, the Draft Convention should indicate that these conditions should as a whole aim at securing the following guarantees:\n\n(a) A minimum age;\n\n(b) A certain standard of professional experience;\n\n(c) Specific physical and moral qualifications;\n\n(d) The passing of one or more examinations organised and effectively supervised by the public authorities.\n\nCURA\n\n4. It is considered desirable that national legislation should regulate the conditions for obtaining certificates in accordance with paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this question.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531909, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "52\n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\n46\n\n47\n\n53\n\nQUESTION 6\n\nQuestion 6.\n\nSupervision of enforcement\n\n6. Is it desirable to provide for special measures for supervising the enforcement of the rules of the Draft Convention?\n\nIn particular, is it desirable to empower the authorities responsible for ensuring compliance with the laws or regulations relating to the safety of navigation to detain any vessel not carrying the duly certificated officers required?\n\nAUSTRALIA\n\n6. It is considered desirable that the administration concerned should detain its own national ships in cases where the number of duly certificated officers carried is insufficient to ensure seaworthiness for the voyage intended, and, in cases where, although the seaworthiness of the ship is not involved, the number of officers carried is not in accordance with prescribed requirements, should institute proceedings.\n\nWith regard to foreign ships, it is the established principle in maritime practice not to interfere with such vessels except in cases of obvious unseaworthiness.\n\nIntervention in the case of foreign ships should be sparingly exercised and then only in co-operation with the consul of the country in which the ship is registered.\n\nBELGIUM\n\n6. Provision should be made for special measures for supervising the enforcement of the rules of the Convention and power should be given to the authorities responsible for the enforcement of the laws and regulations regarding safety of navigation to prevent a ship putting to sea, as being unseaworthy, when it does not carry the duly certificated officers required.\n\nCUBA\n\n6. It is considered desirable to provide for special measures for supervising the enforcement of the provisions to be laid down, and the national authorities should undertake to secure their observance and have power to detain a vessel if its officers are not duly certificated, provided the persons without certificates are essential for the navigation and security of the vessel.\n\nCZECHOSLOVAKIA\n\nSee reply under Question 1, ante, p. 10.\n\nDENMARK\n\n6. It should be left to the national authorities to see to it that the provisions laid down are observed. In view, inter alia, of the fact that on account of force majeure or other unforeseen cause a ship may be obliged to make one or more voyages without having on board a master and the required number of duly certificated mates and engineers, it must be considered rather invidious to adopt general provisions prescribing that a ship will be liable to detention in cases where the officers on board the ship are not in possession of the prescribed certificates. However, such power should be prescribed in cases in which it must be deemed to be obviously dangerous to human life to allow a ship to proceed to sea in the trade for which it is intended, without the officers and engineers being in possession of the required certificates.\n\nESTONIA\n\n6. The reply is in the affirmative.\n\nFINLAND\n\nThere are already provisions in force in Finland empowering the authorities, and requiring them in the case of Finnish ships, to supervise the capacity of officers. Under Section 70 of the Order of 17 April 1924 this duty falls on the customs authorities, while Section 3 (3) of the Order of 23 December 1924 concerning supervision of the engagement and discharge of seamen provides that senior and junior officers shall be engaged in conformity with the provisions of the Order.\n\nFRANCE\n\n6. The points raised in Question 6 are somewhat delicate, as, if they are affirmatively answered, they tend to impose measures which might interfere with the action of certain Governments within their national regulations. The supervision", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531910, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "54\n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\n48\n\nof the enforcement of the laws or regulations in each country is, in the generality of cases, a purely administrative matter, and it is in measures of this kind that national customs most frequently differ on account of different habits or mentality. The enforcement of the Conventions on maritime matters which are already in force, particularly as regards safety of navigation, creates a certain amount of friction between the authorities of different nations. In order to avoid such friction, individual agreements have been concluded, and they all contemplate a restriction of the supervisory measures which the authority of a particular country can exercise over ships frequenting the ports of that country.\n\nWithout being definitely opposed to the measures referred to in Question 6, the French Government considers that, if they are to be effective without causing friction, they should be simple and make supervision easy.\n\nIn no case should they authorise the authorities to detain a ship because its complement of officers is irregular.\n\nIf breaches are found, the authority finding them should only inform the consular authority of the country to which the ship in question belongs. In any event, it would be for the Government of the country to which the ship belongs to make enquiries and impose the sanctions provided for in such a case.\n\nGERMANY\n\n6. It does not appear desirable that this question should form the subject of international regulation. Fundamental ideas as to the treatment of foreign ships in territorial waters vary so much that it is doubtful whether a decision on the subject could be adopted at all by the International Labour Conference, and even if such a decision were adopted, whether it would be ratified by the States Members.\n\nIt should be mentioned further that the governments of the maritime German States (Küstenländer) have already issued regulations authorising the competent authorities to detain ships which are not provided with officers in accordance with the regulations. In particular, the authorities supervising the engagement of seamen see to the regular equipment of officers.\n\nGREAT BRITAIN\n\nSee reply under Question 1, ante, p. 15.\n\nINDIA\n\n6. The Government of India consider that the provision in the Draft Convention should be limited to requiring the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531911, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "QUESTION 6\n\ncontracting countries to provide an efficient inspecting agency to ensure the observance of the provisions of the Draft Convention on vessels to which the national law applies. The Draft Convention might also require that the national laws should empower the national authorities to detain any vessel, to which the national laws apply, not carrying the requisite number of certificated officers.\n\nThe Government of India further consider that, if the Draft Convention is to be effective in ensuring that officers in charge of a watch are qualified to perform the duties of their posts, it should include proposals on the lines of Questions 4, 5 and 6.\n\nIRISH FREE STATE\n\n6. The reply is in the affirmative.\n\nITALY\n\n6. The Italian Government considers it desirable that the Draft Convention should contain special provisions for supervising the enforcement of the rules contained therein, and in particular agrees as to the desirability of empowering the competent authorities to detain any vessel whose staff of officers is not composed in conformity with the principles above set out. It also suggests the desirability of providing in the Draft Convention that, in case any doubts arise as to the regularity of any certificate, the question shall be submitted to the consul of the country in which such certificate was granted.\n\nJAPAN\n\n6. While we agree in principle to Question 6, we consider it appropriate that measures for the supervision of this kind should be taken as the countries concerned deem suitable.\n\nLATVIA\n\n6. Supervision of the enforcement of the rules of the Draft Convention should be ensured by the national authorities for ships flying the national flag.\n\nNETHERLANDS\n\n6. See the reply to Question 5. As the safety of navigation on this point has been completely regulated in the London Convention of May 1929, there is no reason for regulating the point again.\n\nPage 55\n\n \n\nPage 49\n\nA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531912, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "REPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS\n\nNORWAY\n\n50\n\n51\n\n6. In principle, we are of the opinion that the supervision of the enforcement of the rules should be reserved for the authorities of the native country of the vessel.\n\nHowever, foreign authorities should be empowered to detain a vessel if the non-compliance with the laws or regulations is of such a character as to be an evident danger for the safety of the vessel at sea.\n\nPOLAND\n\n6. The question of the professional capacity of masters and officers in the mercantile marine has a direct bearing on the question of the safety of vessels and of international shipping. Accordingly, the supervision of the application of the provisions on the question should be entrusted to the authorities who supervise, by means of the inspection of vessels, the whole body of matters relating to the safety of vessels and navigation. It is in the interests of such safety that these authorities should have the power to detain a vessel if it does not carry the certificated officers required by law.\n\nFurther, the Polish Government considers that it is desirable to insert in the Draft Convention not only the proposals referred to under questions 1 to 3 of the Questionnaire, but also those included under questions 4 and 5.\n\nRUMANIA\n\n6. It is considered desirable to provide for special measures for supervising the enforcement of the provisions laid down by the Draft Convention. The authorities responsible for ensuring observance of the laws or regulations relating to the safety of navigation should be empowered even to detain a vessel not carrying the duly certificated officers required.\n\nThe supervision in question here should be exercised by the national authorities only for vessels flying the national flag.\n\nSOUTH AFRICA\n\nSee reply under Question 1, ante, p. 18.\n\nSPAIN\n\n6. An affirmative reply is returned to the question whether provision should be made for special measures for supervising the enforcement of the Convention once it is ratified by the States Members.\n\nIt seems clear that the authorities are not only entitled, but in proper cases have the duty, to arrest a vessel not carrying the certificated officers required. However, it should be observed that such breaches should not in all cases have the same consequences as regards the ordering of detention by the authorities. The situation varies where the case concerns a vessel which carries a master and other officers, one of whom only has been engaged irregularly and where it concerns other vessels on which the person in default is the master, the skipper, or the chief engineer himself. Power to detain a vessel should accordingly be given with the indication that where the authority finds that there is no sufficient guarantee of professional capacity for command of the vessel or the running of its engine-room, it has the duty incumbent on it to detain the vessel. It might be added, in order to avoid considerable loss, that the authority may engage as master a person selected from among holders of certificates who are available in the port, after agreement with the shipowner or his agent whenever that is possible, or, in default of such agreement, on condition that these parties are notified that the authority in question reserves the right to decide who should be entrusted with the running of the vessel as far as a port where the shipowner is to replace a master thus appointed by another selected by himself.\n\nIn view of the diversity of cases which may arise, it is suggested that the Convention should confine itself to laying down the general principle, leaving it to national laws or regulations to settle the methods of application so as to reconcile the general interests of navigation with the professional capacity of masters and engineers and the interests of sea-borne trade which require that delays should be avoided.\n\nSWEDEN\n\n6. Supervision of the enforcement of the provisions in question should, as a rule, be left to the national authorities of the ship.\n\nIn this connection, the international regulations should, it would appear, simply contain a general provision as to the taking by the different countries of measures for supervising the enforcement of the provisions referred to above.\n\nUnder the legislative provisions in Sweden, which it would appear can be regarded as reasonable, the detention of a ship on account of the insufficiency of the crew can only take place in cases where there is obvious danger for the lives of the persons on board.\n\nYUGOSLAVIA\n\n6. The reply is in the affirmative, but only national authorities.\n\n57", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531913, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "JJ \n\nREPLIES OF THE GOVERNMENTS \n\nAppendix to Chapter 1.* \n\nCANADA \n\n52 \n\n53 \n\nThe Government of Canada is in favour of the adoption of a Convention concerning the establishment of such national systems of minimum requirements. \n\n1. \n\nNEW ZEALAND \n\nYes; as a matter of fact these requirements are provided for in the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908. \n\n2. \n\nMaster or Skipper: Yes; the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, defines a Master as any person (except a Pilot) having command or charge of any ship. \n\nNavigating Officer in charge of a watch: Yes; the manning scale in Section 21 of the Act requires the employment of certain certificated officers for navigation and watch-keeping purposes. \n\nChief Engineer: Yes. \n\nEngineer Officer in charge of a watch: Yes; the manning scale in Section 21 of the Act requires the employment of certain certificated engineers. \n\n3. Yes; as a matter of fact the Shipping and Seamen Act provides for certain exemptions in the case of small-type vessels. \n\n4. Yes; the rules for the examination of Masters, Mates and Engineers in New Zealand provide for this. \n\n5. \n\nYes. \n\n(a) Section 21 of the Act provides for this in New Zealand. (b) Section 32 of the Act provides for this in New Zealand. \n\n6. Yes; authority to detain a vessel in such circumstances is given in Section 226 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and in Section 3 of the Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act, 1909. \n\n* See footnote, ante, p. 9. \n\n7 \n\nPORTUGAL \n\nAPPENDIX \n\n1. It does not appear indispensable that the International Labour Conference should adopt a Draft Convention stipulating that national laws or regulations are to require certificates of professional capacity for the employment of certain classes of persons on board ship, seeing that an obligation to this effect is already implied in Article 48 of the International Convention for the safety of life at sea, which Article is as follows: \n\n“The contracting Governments undertake, each for its national ships, to maintain, or, if it is necessary, to adopt, measures for the purpose of ensuring that, from the point of view of safety of life at sea, all ships shall be sufficiently and efficiently manned.” \n\nHowever, if the Conference decides to adopt a Draft Convention, Portugal would agree that national laws or regulations should require certificates of professional capacity for employment as: \n\n(a) Master or skipper; \n\n(b) Navigating officer in charge of a watch; \n\n(c) Chief engineer; \n\n(d) Engineer officer in charge of a watch. \n\n2. \n\n3. \n\nThe reply is in the affirmative. \n\nThe reply is in the affirmative; but all fishing vessels should be excepted, as they do not carry persons belonging to the mercantile marine. \n\n4. The reply is in the affirmative. \n\n5. \n\n6. \n\nThe reply is in the negative. \n\nThe reply is in the affirmative. In conformity with the reply given to Question 1, the Portuguese Government considers that the points referred to in Questions 4 to 6 should, at the most, be dealt with in Recommendations. The measures contemplated in Question 5, in particular, are not required in countries where there exists a service for supervising conditions of safety and where the public authority for regulating registration and authorising the carrying of passengers makes its approval depend on the material condition of the vessel and on the number and qualifications of the staff responsible for navigating the vessel or running its propelling machinery. \n\n59", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531922, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "73\n\nGENERAL SURVEY\n\n68\n\n69\n\nduring the voyage the duties of a certificated person have to be taken over for the time being by a person not possessing the requisite certificate.\n\nThe French Government thus instances the case (provided for in French regulations) where, when in a particular port there are not available certificated engineers for performing the duties of engineer officer on watch, a seaman who is not in possession of one of the certificates for engineer officer may be engaged. Such seaman, however, must previously pass an examination before the shipping inspector to show that he possesses as far as possible the practical knowledge required. Exceptions of this kind, the Government adds, are essentially of a temporary character and are limited to a voyage already begun by a specified vessel or to a very restricted period.\n\nIt would appear that the Draft Convention should expressly provide for the possibility of exceptions in cases of the kind referred to above. It seems clear, however, that there can hardly be any question of giving any enumeration of the cases which might be taken into account or of endeavouring to define them closely. In effect the cases contemplated can perhaps be reduced to what in the conditions in which shipping is carried on would amount to circumstances of force majeure and would generally be confined to circumstances arising after the voyage had been begun. It is accordingly proposed to include in the Draft Convention a clause allowing exceptions to the rules mentioned above only in cases of force majeure.\n\nIII.\n\nScope of the Draft Convention and minor exceptions as regards vessels (Question 3).\n\nThe question here was whether the Draft Convention should leave it open to national laws or regulations to provide for minor exceptions as regards vessels to the rule that the performance of certain duties in controlling the movements of a vessel should be entrusted only to certificated persons, on such grounds for example as the type of vessel and tonnage, and, if so, what proposals the Governments had to make. The expression \"minor exceptions\", it may be recalled, was purposely used by\n\nQUESTION 3\n\nthe Committee of the Thirteenth Session of the Conference with a view to endeavouring to keep the range of exceptions within as narrow limits as possible.\n\n1. Before considering in detail the replies of the Governments on this question as such, there are two preliminary points to be dealt with affecting the general definition of the scope of the proposed Draft Convention.\n\n(a) In the first place, it has to be remembered that the wording of the item on the Agenda refers to \"merchant ships\". Hence references in a number of replies to the necessity of excluding from the Draft Convention vessels which would not appear to be covered by these words: e.g. vessels not engaged in trade or employed for profit (Belgium, Estonia, Finland); ships of war (Germany); Government vessels not engaged in trade (Denmark, Germany, Irish Free State), and vessels of a public including lighthouse authority which are not engaged in trade (Irish Free State); and pleasure yachts (Germany, Irish Free State, Rumania, Yugoslavia). It may be assumed that it would be agreed by the Governments generally that these classes of vessels should be excluded from the Draft Convention, and it would appear that the following formula might be used for the purpose \"ships of war; Government vessels or vessels in the service of a public authority which are not engaged in trade; pleasure yachts\".\n\n(b) Secondly, the question is expressly raised in one or two replies whether the Draft Convention should be limited to vessels engaged in maritime navigation. Thus Belgium considers that the draft should apply only to vessels intended to be ordinarily employed at sea or in maritime waters, while Finland proposes to exclude vessels exclusively engaged in inland navigation, and Japan1 vessels not engaged in maritime navigation. The other Governments which have replied to the Questionnaire do not refer to inland navigation, but would appear to have had only maritime navigation in mind. In these circumstances it would appear for the present at any rate that the scope of the draft to be submitted\n\nSee also post, p. 78.\n\n74", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531928, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "85\n\nGENERAL SURVEY\n\n80\n\n81\n\nTo sum up on Question 3, then, it is proposed that the draft to be submitted to the Conference should apply to any vessel engaged in maritime navigation, excluding ships of war, Government vessels and vessels in the service of a public authority which are not engaged in trade, and pleasure yachts, and should leave it open to national laws or regulations to allow exemptions or exceptions in respect of vessels under 200 tons.\n\nQuestions 4-5.\n\nBefore proceeding to examine the replies to the three remaining Questions in the Questionnaire, it may be recalled that the Committee of the Thirteenth Session of the Conference did not put the same importance on the subject-matter of these Questions as on the three which have already been reviewed in the preceding pages. It indicated that the first three Questions were those which it was specially important to deal with in the Draft Convention, but that the Office should be requested to consult the Governments also as to the desirability of including provisions on the last three Questions in the international regulations.\n\nThough the attention of the Governments was drawn to this distinction made by the Thirteenth Session, in the commentary accompanying the Questionnaire, it is noteworthy that no reference has been made to it in the great majority of the replies of the Governments, which have, in fact, except in one or two cases to be noted later, treated all the Questions in the Questionnaire on the same footing with reference to their inclusion in the Draft Convention. Moreover, the two Governments which have specifically alluded to the point here in question (India, Poland) have done so in order to emphasise that in their view the Draft Convention should contain proposals not only on Questions 1 to 3 but also on Questions 4 to 6.\n\nIV.\n\nConditions for obtaining certificates (Question 4). Question 4, then, asked whether it was desirable, while leaving it to national laws or regulations to settle in detail the conditions for granting certificates for the performance of any of the four categories of duties\n\ncovered by the item on the Agenda, to indicate in the international regulations that these conditions as a whole are to be directed towards securing the following guarantees:\n\n(a) a minimum age;\n\n(b) a certain standard of professional experience (length of service at sea, a qualifying period in the engine-room or in workshops, etc.);\n\n(c) the passing of one or more examinations organised and supervised by the public authorities. This Question proceeded on the assumption that it would be difficult to frame for international application uniform rules as to the details of the actual minimum requirements to be satisfied by candidates for one or other of the certificates in question. These details, in fact, differ considerably not only between country and country but also in accordance with the system of grading certificates adopted in one and the same country for the purposes of the different classes of national navigation. The Question nevertheless contemplated that the international regulations might well prescribe that the three general conditions mentioned above should be satisfied before a certificate was issued, and at the same time require national laws or regulations to settle the details of their application in the individual country. Each national system of minimum requirements would thus start from the same fundamental bases and to this extent certain international guarantees of uniformity would be provided.\n\nExcept the Netherlands, which considers that the subject-matter of Question 4 should be dealt with in a Recommendation, though the regulations in that country are based on the three general conditions mentioned in the Question, all the Governments appear to be agreed that a provision on the lines of the Question should be included in the Draft Convention. It may be assumed that the view of these Governments is that, as the French Government expressly indicates, the Draft Convention would be incomplete for the purposes it has in view if it merely laid down the obligation of a minimum requirement of professional competency and gave no indications as to what should constitute such a minimum.\n\n86", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531929, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "87.\n\nGENERAL SURVEY\n\n82\n\n83\n\nThe only special observations in the replies which should be noted are: (a) that France proposes that the Draft Convention should further define and amplify the three general conditions for the granting of certificates, and (b) that two Governments (Belgium, Italy) consider that a fourth condition should be added, viz. the passing of a test of physical fitness (both Governments), especially as regards sight and hearing (Italy), and proof of good character (Belgium).\n\nAs regards (a), the French Government considers that it would not be sufficient for the purposes of the Draft Convention merely to impose in general terms the three conditions mentioned in the Question and leave the details of their application to national law, but that, in order to ensure that vessels are not officered by too young or inexperienced persons, the draft should go further and lay down a definite minimum age or ages, and a minimum period of sea service. It accordingly proposes, as a basis for discussion, that 24 years might be fixed as the minimum age for masters, skippers and chief engineers, and 21 years for navigating and engineer officers in charge of a watch, and that four years' service at sea, including two as watch-keeping officer, should be required for the first group of persons, and two years' service for the second group. The Spanish Government, it may also be noted, suggests a minimum age of 23 years for both groups of persons.\n\nThe French Government further proposes that the Draft Convention should give some indications as to the minimum programme of the examinations to be organised and supervised by the public authorities. The draft might indicate, for example, that candidates for certificates of master or skipper or navigating officer should be required to have certain practical knowledge of navigation, which would consist of knowledge of the international rules as to lights and steering and their application and of the rules for the practical application of the Brussels Convention on assistance at sea and the Washington wireless telegraphy Convention, while engineer candidates should be required to be familiar with the operations of starting, stopping and reversing ship's engines and with the precautions to be taken in these circumstances.\n\nQUESTION £\n\nIt is appreciated that these proposals are made with a view to increasing the efficacy of the Draft Convention as an international instrument. It may well be, moreover, that at the Conference itself an endeavour to strengthen the Draft Convention on these lines might secure the support of Governments which have not expressed any similar views in their replies to the Questionnaire. It is difficult for the Office, however, at this stage to form any opinion as to what the attitude of most of the other Governments would be in this matter. For present purposes the Office has to note that the other Governments either appear to take it for granted that, as the Question put to them in the Questionnaire suggested, the detailed application of the three general conditions mentioned in it should be left by the Draft Convention to national laws or regulations, or explicitly express this view.\n\nSo far as (b) is concerned, viz. the addition of a fourth condition as to physical fitness and proof of good character, the value of such a further condition needs no emphasis. Such a condition, in fact, is already widely imposed in existing national laws or regulations, and may in any case be assumed to be strictly applied in practice at any rate by the shipowner. As there was no mention of it, however, in the Questionnaire prepared by the Thirteenth Session of the Conference and the other Governments have not made any reference to it, it would perhaps be preferable to leave it open for the consideration of the Conference itself, which will be better able to form an opinion as to whether it is necessary to include it in the Draft Convention. On the basis of the replies as a whole, therefore, the Office considers that the proposals to be submitted by it to the Conference on the Question here under review should for the present be kept within the limits of the Questionnaire. It accordingly proposes to include in its preliminary draft for a Convention a provision stipulating that certificates of capacity for employment as master or skipper, etc. are not to be issued unless the three conditions of a minimum age, a certain period of professional experience, and the passing of one or more examinations organised and supervised by the public authorities for testing the possession of the requisite qualifications have\n\n88", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531932, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "93\n\nGENERAL SURVEY\n\n88\n\n89\n\nit is important to provide sanctions, and also perhaps, as the Australian Government suggests, to extend the clause so as to cover cases of fraud in this connection as well as forgery.\n\nVI.\n\nSupervision of enforcement (Question 6).\n\nThis last Question in the Questionnaire asked whether provision should be made for special measures for supervising the enforcement of the rules of the Draft Convention, and whether, in particular, the competent authorities in each country (which would usually be the authorities generally responsible for ensuring compliance with the national laws or regulations relating to the safety of navigation) should be empowered to detain any vessel not carrying certificated officers as required by the Draft Convention.\n\nAs in the case of Question 5, the only Government which has definitely returned a negative reply is the Netherlands, which considers that the subject-matter of the above Question has already been sufficiently regulated by the London Convention of May 1929 and that there is therefore no need for further international regulations on the matter.1 For the rest, the replies of the Governments may most conveniently be considered (1) in relation to the question of the enforcement of the rules of the Draft Convention on national vessels, and (2) in relation to foreign vessels.\n\n1\n\n(1) So far as national vessels are concerned, the replies of the Governments are such that it may be assumed to be agreed that an efficient inspecting agency should be provided in each country for ensuring observance of the rules of the Draft Convention on these vessels, and that, as the Indian Government proposes, a clause to that effect might be included in the Draft Convention. Such inspecting agencies, in fact, may be assumed to exist already in countries which have laws or regulations relating to certificates of professional competency.\n\nFor the provisions of Article 48 of the London Convention, see footnote, ante, p. 57.\n\nQUESTION 6\n\nFurther, the principle that the competent national authorities should be empowered to detain national vessels on which a breach of the Draft Convention has been committed would also seem to be generally accepted. Most of the Governments, however, do not specify the nature of the cases for which they consider that this power should be conferred. Others expressly or impliedly suggest that it should be left to national laws or regulations to determine this point. Others, again, indicate that the possible breaches of the rules to be proposed in the Draft Convention may be of varying degrees of importance and that the detention of a vessel for a breach of minor importance would be too serious a measure for such cases which, it may be added, would in any event fall within the range of the sanctions already dealt with under Question 5. It is accordingly suggested by a number of Governments (e.g. Australia, Cuba, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Sweden) that the power of detention should only be given for serious breaches, e.g. breaches amounting to rendering the vessel unseaworthy or constituting an obvious danger to the lives of the persons on board.\n\n―\n\nIt would thus appear that the situation of the replies as a whole on the above point would best be met by a provision in the Draft Convention requiring national laws or regulations to determine the cases in which it will be possible to detain national vessels for a breach committed on them of the rules laid down in the draft.\n\n(2) So far as foreign vessels are concerned, however, the replies on the whole express considerable hesitation as to the extent to which the rules of the Draft Convention should be enforced on them. Many of the replies do not specifically refer to foreign vessels, but are in general terms which may be, but perhaps in most cases are not, intended to cover both national and foreign vessels. Others express the view that the Draft Convention should only deal with the enforcement of its provisions on national vessels (e.g. India), or should reserve such enforcement entirely or at any rate in principle for the authorities of the country of the vessel (e.g. Denmark, Latvia, Norway, Rumania, Sweden, Yugoslavia). Similarly, the French Government points to the friction which is sometimes caused between Governments in the enforcement of maritime Conventions on foreign vessels,\n\non\n\n94", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531938, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "CONCLUSIONS\n\nArticle 1, which is based on the replies of the Governments to Question 3 (ante, p. 68), and which, as already noted, defines the scope of the draft in respect of the vessels on which certificates of competency are to be required for the performance of the duties of master or skipper, chief engineer and navigating and engineer officer in charge of a watch, first restricts the draft to \"any vessel engaged in maritime navigation\" (thus implicitly excluding vessels engaged in inland navigation), then expressly excludes certain classes of maritime navigation vessels which would not be covered by the expression \"merchant vessels\" in the wording of the item on the Agenda, and then allows national laws or regulations to make exemptions or exceptions in respect of other maritime navigation vessels under 200 tons.\n\n\"Any vessel engaged in maritime navigation\" is intended to include fishing vessels on the same footing as other vessels, in accordance with the views expressed or implied in the replies of the Governments, only two of which definitely proposed to exclude the whole fishing industry as such. Similarly, an all-round tonnage limit of 200 tons for the purposes of exceptions for vessels covered by the draft appeared to respond to the views of the great majority of the Governments, which, following the suggestion of the Thirteenth Session of the Conference, considered that exceptions should be limited to those of a minor character based on the tonnage or type of the vessel, and whose specific proposals or general observations it seemed preferable to reduce to a pure question of tonnage only. In this connection, it may be recalled that certain observations of two Governments (India, Japan), which contemplated the possibility of wider exceptions in certain special circumstances, were reserved for further consideration, if necessary, by the Conference itself (ante, p. 78).\n\nArticle 2, which corresponds to Question 2 in the Questionnaire (ante, p. 61), defines the expressions \"master or skipper\", \"navigating officer in charge of a watch\", etc. in terms of the duties which they are intended to cover, the object of the definitions being to make it clear that the certificates of professional competency are required for the performance of the duties as such, irrespective of the rank of the person to whom they may be entrusted. In view of certain observations contained in the Governments' replies and in order better to give effect to the intentions of the Governments as a whole, a few drafting changes have been made in some of the formulae proposed in the Questionnaire. Thus, \"navigating officer in charge of a watch\" has been defined as \"any person, not being a pilot, who for the time being controls the navigation of a vessel\" instead of \"any person who is navigating a vessel\". Similarly, \"chief engineer\" has been defined as \"a person permanently responsible for the mechanical propulsion of a vessel\", instead of \"any person permanently responsible for the engine-room staff\". Corresponding changes have also been made in the definition of \"engineer officer in charge of a watch\".\n\nArticle 3, which corresponds to Question 1 (ante, p. 51), lays down the fundamental principle of the draft, and is intended to give effect to the general agreement of the Governments that each country should make certificates of professional competency compulsory for the performance of any of the duties defined in the previous Article on board its national vessels. It not only prohibits the engagement of an uncertificated person for any of these duties, but, what would appear to be more important still for the purposes of the draft, the actual entrusting of any of the duties to an uncertificated person.\n\nThe only exceptions allowed to these rules are in cases of force majeure (cf. ante, p. 67), which, it has been seen, there could hardly be any question of endeavouring to define further but which would cover such cases as the illness or death of a certificated officer or other similar exceptional circumstances occurring during the voyage. The article specifies that the required certificates are to be \"delivered or approved by the national public authority\". The object of the words \"or approved\" is twofold, both to meet the case where the certificates may actually be delivered not by the public authority itself but by some qualified...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531940, "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": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932", "content_text": "PROPOSED DRAFT CONVENTION CONCERNING THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY FOR MASTERS AND WATCH-KEEPING OFFICERS ON MERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nAVANT-PROJET DE CONVENTION CONCERNANT LE MINIMUM DE CAPACITÉ PROFESSIONNELLE DES CAPITAINES ET DES OFFICIERS CHEFS DE LA QUART DE LA MARINE MARCHANDE.\n\nArticle 1.\n\nThis Convention shall apply to any vessel engaged in maritime navigation, excluding:\n\nShips of war;\n\nGovernment vessels, or vessels in the service of a public authority, which are not engaged in trade;\n\nPleasure yachts:\n\nProvided that it shall be open to national laws or regulations to grant exemptions or exceptions in respect of vessels of less than 200 tons gross registered tonnage.\n\nArticle 2.\n\nFor the purpose of this Convention the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, viz:\n\n(a) \"Master or skipper\"; any person having command or charge of a vessel;\n\n(b) \"Navigating officer in charge of a watch\"; any person, not being a pilot, who for the time being controls the navigation of a vessel;\n\n(c) \"Chief engineer\"; any person permanently responsible for the mechanical propulsion of a vessel;\n\n(d) \"Engineer officer in charge of a watch\"; any person who for the time being is in charge of the running of a vessel's engines.\n\nArticle 3.\n\nA person shall not be engaged to perform on board a vessel the duties of master or skipper, navigating officer in charge of a watch, chief engineer, or engineer officer in charge of a watch, unless he holds a certificate issued...\n\nLa présente Convention s'applique à tout navire effectuant une navigation maritime, à l'exception:\n\ndes navires de guerre;\n\ndes navires d'Etat et des navires au service d'une administration publique, qui n'ont pas une affectation commerciale;\n\ndes navires de plaisance.\n\nToutefois, la législation nationale pourra accorder des dérogations totales ou partielles pour les navires d'une jauge brute inférieure à 200 tonneaux.\n\nArticle 2.\n\nPour l'application de la présente Convention, les termes suivants doivent être entendus comme suit:\n\na) «Capitaine ou patron»: toute personne ayant le commandement ou la charge d'un navire;\n\nb) «Officier de pont chef de quart»: toute personne, à l'exception des pilotes, qui dirige effectivement la navigation d'un navire;\n\nc) «Chef mécanicien»: toute personne ayant la direction permanente du service assurant la propulsion mécanique d'un navire;\n\nd) «Officier mécanicien chef de quart»: toute personne qui est effectivement chargée de la conduite des machines de propulsion d'un navire.\n\nArticle 3.\n\nAucune personne ne pourra être engagée pour exercer à bord d'un navire les fonctions de capitaine ou patron, d'officier de pont chef de quart, de chef mécanicien et d'officier mécanicien chef de quart sans être...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533483, "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": "CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933", "content_text": "72\n\n12. That at the present time many of the existing qualified pilots in China have been trained either in American Schools or by American instructors. It has been the experience of your Petitioner that it is most difficult, if not impossible, to persuade an American-trained student to approve the use of British aircraft and equipment. Once the Government-assisted American Flying School referred to in the preceding paragraphs is operating, and particularly if it is given a virtual monopoly in the field, the prospects of British manufacturers for the sale of aircraft and equipment in China will prove most doubtful.\n\n13. That the following is a short history of negotiations by your Petitioner with your Excellency's Government and résumé of correspondence from inception to date:-\n\n(a) For reasons outlined above, your Petitioner approached the Hong Kong Government as far back as September 1929 requesting permission to establish a Flying Training School operating under British Air Navigation Laws and involving training and a curriculum similar to that obtaining in Training Schools in England. At the time the original application was made, the present airport at Kai Tak was purely a Service Aerodrome, and was considerably smaller than the completed airport existing today. For this reason, application was made to operate the Training School in the New Territories.\n\n(b) After considerable discussion and correspondence, your Petitioner was advised by Government that land in the New Territories could not be made available for this purpose and that the possibility of using Kai Tak Aerodrome was being considered.\n\n(c) From that date to the present, your Petitioner has repeatedly applied to the Hong Kong Government for permission to operate a Flying Training School, and in the course of these various applications, several alternative schemes have been brought forward.\n\n(d) The latest application by your Petitioner, made since the Hong Kong Flying Club was forced by financial reasons to suspend active instruction, was that your Petitioner should, with such subsidy as your...\n\n00", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534719, "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": "CO129-540-5 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Waterworks scheme 11-5-1932 - 7-12-1932", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-540-5 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Waterworks scheme 11-5-1932 - 7-12-1932", "content_text": "32\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nMINUTES.\n\n1\n\nThe Minutes of the previous meeting of Council were confirmed.\n\nNEW MEMBER.\n\nTHE HON. MR. A. E. WOOD took the oath of allegiance, and his seat as a member of the Council.\n\nPAPERS.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. The Officer Administering the Government, laid upon the table the following papers:-\n\nPublic Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903,-conditions in respect of licences for the sale, in places outside a public market, of articles of food for man usually sold or exposed for sale in a public market.\n\nRescission of the Order of the 17th December, 1931, published in the Gazette of the 18th December, 1931, as Government Notification No. 798, declaring Amoy an infected place.\n\nAmendments to regulations made under the Cremation Ordinance, 1914.\n\nBy-laws and amendment to the Aerated Water Manufactories By-laws made under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.\n\nBy-laws and amendment to the Laundries By-laws made under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.\n\nBy-laws and amendment to the Bakehouses By-laws made under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.\n\nAmendment to the Food-preserving Establishments By-laws made under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.\n\nBy-laws and amendment to the Dairies By-laws made under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.\n\nOrder made under section 2 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1899,— new prison at the south east of Lai Chi Kok Prison.\n\nAddition to the Air Navigation Directions, (Hong Kong), 1932.\n\nReport of the Director of the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, for the year 1931.\n\n121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-540-5 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Waterworks scheme 11-5-1932 - 7-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536211, "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": "CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933", "content_text": "## X. The F 3. has asked J. Swire & Sons for a full statement of fines levied in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Government has already gone out of its way to meet the companies. It must be remembered that the enforcement of revenue laws of foreign countries is not generally a matter which concerns the authorities and courts of any place (see 17 Halsbury, paragraph 846). On John Swire & Sons' own admission (page 2 of `(1) on 92702/32`) the China Navigation Company Ltd had been fined between HK$7000 and HK$8000 at Canton alone during the first 8 or 9 months of 1932, so it is clear that they could well afford a considerable outlay on preventive measures at Hong Kong, provided these were effective, and still be in pocket on the arrangement.\n\nOn the other hand, it seems to me that, having passed legislation to prevent the export of unmanifested cargo, it is logically rather difficult for the Hong Kong Govt. to refuse to take any steps for its enforcement, unless breaches of the law are actually brought to its notice by the shipping companies. It seems to me that a reasonable compromise might well be reached by the Hong Kong Govt. undertaking to search for unmanifested cargo at the expense of the shipping companies. There may, of course, be difficulties about such an arrangement which are not apparent on the information at present before us, but the suggested compromise is one which I think might well be put to the Hong Kong Government, if there is difficulty about reaching a modus operandi as a result of the discussions to which reference is made in para.6 of `(2)`.\n\nFrom the companies' point of view, the suggested...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543411, "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": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## POWER TO MAKE REGULATIONS\n\n(ix) measures for the disinfection of clothes and rags before packing where smallpox is prevalent;\n\n(n) for prohibiting or regulating the landing of animals brought from any place outside the Colony and for prohibiting such landing at specified places;\n\n(o) for isolating cases of disease in animals and for regulating the same;\n\n(p) for prohibiting or regulating the export of cattle from the Colony, or any part thereof;\n\n(q) for appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the observation and examination of cattle either on arrival or previous to export;\n\n(r) for appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the sanitary control of aerial navigation and for prescribing the sanitary measures to be taken in respect thereof;\n\n(s) for prescribing the liability of any person to defray the expenses connected with the enforcement of this Ordinance or any regulation or by-law made under this Ordinance, and for regulating questions of compensation in connection therewith;\n\n(t) for prescribing the fine with which the contravention of any regulation or by-law made under this Ordinance will be punishable, but so that no such fine shall exceed five hundred dollars.\n\n## POWER OF THE URBAN COUNCIL TO MAKE BY-LAWS\n\n9.--(1) The Urban Council shall have power, with regard to the prevention or mitigation of any epidemic, endemic, contagious or communicable disease, to make by-laws:\n\n(a) for the compulsory reporting of infectious disease;\n(b) for entering and searching houses, buildings, rooms and other places in which the presence of diseased persons or persons dead of disease or contacts may be suspected and for the examination of the occupants;\n\n(c) for prohibiting or regulating the movements of diseased persons or of persons suspected of being diseased or of contacts;\n\n(d) for the removal of diseased persons or persons suspected of being diseased to hospital or other places for medical treatment, and for their detention until they can be discharged with safety to the public, and for the temporary occupation of places required for the treatment of diseased persons or for the segregation of diseased persons or contacts;\n\n(e) for prohibiting or regulating the removal of bedding, clothing, furniture or other articles which have been in the presence of a diseased person and which are reasonably suspected of being infected and for the disinfection or destruction of the same;\n\n(f) for ordering the vacation of and for ordering or executing the cleansing and disinfection of houses, buildings, rooms and other places which have been occupied by any diseased person, or which are suspected of being infected with disease, or which are overcrowded or otherwise in an insanitary condition;\n\n(g) for house to house visitation, cleansing and disinfection;\n\nPage 299", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543439, "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": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCE\n\nIn this table of correspondence.\n\nA. refers to Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1993.\n\nB. refers to Straits Settlements Quarantine & Prevention of Disease Ordinance.\n\nC. refers to the Federated Malay States Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Enactment.\n\nD. refers to the International Sanitary Convention 1926.\n\nE. refers to the International Sanitary Convention Aereal Navigation.\n\nSections are indicated by plain numbers.\n\nBy-laws are indicated by numbers and letter b—as 8b.\n\nRules are indicated by numbers and letter r—as 3r.\n\n## Remarks\n\n| Public Health (Quarantine & Prevention Disease) Ordinance 1933 | Corresponding Ordinance Section | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 8 | B. 72; C. 4 | Power to make by-laws corresponds generally to A. 10 with the following exceptions |\n| 9 | A. 16 | (b) power to entry (c) regulating movements (d) removal of cases (e) removal of infectious articles is new (f) examination of the dead... | \n| | C. 4 (f) C. 4 (e) B. 72 (f) F.M.S. Sanitary Board | |\n\n## Table of Correspondence,—Continued\n\n| Public Health (Quarantine & Prevention Disease) Ordinance 1933 Section | Corresponding Ordinance Section | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | | Aerodrome, authorized aerodrome, aircraft | \n| 2 | C. 4 (m) | |\n| 10 | B. 73; C. 5 | |\n| 11 | C. 6 | |\n| 12 | C. 7 | |\n| 13 | C. 9 | |\n| 14 | C. 8 | |\n| 15 | C. 10 | |\n| 16 | New | |\n| | E, 1 C. 2 | Building |\n| | A. 6 | Colonial Veterinary Surgeon |\n| | B. 2 | Contact Crew |\n| 17 | B. 57 D. | From merchant Shipping Ordinance |\n| 18 | B. 2 | Disease |\n| 19 | B. 48 | |\n| 20 | B. 67 | Immigrant Infected place or port |\n| 21 | B. 51 | aircraft added Quarantine |\n| | C. 2 | From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 3 (2) |\n| 22 | E. 1 | Surveillance |\n| 23 | E. 24, 29, 35 B. 22 | Vessel or aircraft when regarded as infected From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 2 From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 3 (1) |\n| 24 | 4 C. 1Br | From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 4 |\n| 25 | 5 C. 1Br | This corresponds to the foot-note to Article 25 of the 1926 International Sanitary Convention which was specially drafted to meet the requirements of special cases such as that of Hong Kong. |\n| 26 | 6 | From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 10. |\n| 27 | B. 9 | |\n| 29 | C. 1r 7 B. 9 | |\n| 20 | B. 69 | |\n\nPage 337", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543615, "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": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "## POWER TO MAKE REGULATIONS\n\n(ix) measures for the disinfection of clothes and rags before packing where smallpox is prevalent;\n\n(n) for prohibiting or regulating the landing of animals brought from any place outside the Colony and for prohibiting such landing at specified places;\n\n(o) for isolating cases of disease in animals and for regulating the same;\n\n(p) for prohibiting or regulating the export of cattle from the Colony, or any part thereof;\n\n(q) for appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the observation and examination of cattle either on arrival or previous to export;\n\n(r) for appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the sanitary control of aerial navigation and for prescribing the sanitary measures to be taken in respect thereof;\n\n(s) for prescribing the liability of any person to defray the expenses connected with the enforcement of this Ordinance or any regulation or by-law made under this Ordinance, and for regulating questions of compensation in connection therewith; and\n\n(t) for prescribing the fine with which the contravention of any regulation or by-law made under this Ordinance will be punishable, but so that no such fine shall exceed five hundred dollars.\n\n## POWER OF THE URBAN COUNCIL TO MAKE BY-LAWS\n\n### Urban by-laws.\n\n9.--(1) The Urban Council shall have power, with regard to the prevention or mitigation of any epidemic, endemic, contagious or communicable disease, to make by-laws:\n\n| Section | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | for the compulsory reporting of infectious disease; |\n| (b) | for entering and searching houses, buildings, rooms and other places in which the presence of diseased persons or persons dead of disease or contacts may be suspected and for the examination of the occupants; |\n| (c) | for prohibiting or regulating the movements of diseased persons or of persons suspected of being diseased or of contacts; |\n| (d) | for the removal of diseased persons or persons suspected of being diseased to hospital or other places for medical treatment, and for their detention until they can be discharged with safety to the public, and for the temporary occupation of places required for the treatment of diseased persons or for the segregation of diseased persons or contacts; |\n| (e) | for prohibiting or regulating the removal of bedding, clothing, furniture or other articles which have been in the presence of a diseased person and which are reasonably suspected of being infected and for the disinfection or destruction of the same; |\n| (f) | for ordering the vacation of and for ordering or executing the cleansing and disinfection of houses, buildings, rooms and other places which have been occupied by any diseased person, or which are suspected of being infected with disease, or which are overcrowded or otherwise in an insanitary condition; |\n| (g) | for house to house visitation, cleansing and disinfection; |\n\n94", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543643, "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": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "# TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCE\n\nIn this table of correspondence.\n\nA. refers to Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903.\n\nB. refers to Straits Settlements Quarantine & Prevention of Disease Ordinance.\n\nC. refers to the Federated Malay States Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Enactment.\n\nD. refers to the International Sanitary Convention 1926.\n\nE. refers to the International Sanitary Convention Aereal Navigation.\n\nSections are indicated by plain numbers.\n\nBy-laws are indicated by numbers and letter b—as 3b.\n\nRules are indicated by numbers and letter r—as 3r.\n\n| Public Health (Quarantine & Prevention Disease) Ordinance Section. | Corresponding Ordinance 1933. | Remarks. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 8 | B. 72; C. 4 | |\n| 9 | A. 16; C. 4 (e) | |\n| | B. 72 (1) | F.M.S. Sanitary Board |\n| 10 | B. 73; C. 5 | |\n| 11 | C. 6 | |\n| 12 | C. 7 | |\n| 13 | C. 9 | |\n| 14 | C. 8 | |\n| 15 | C. 10 | |\n| 16 | New | |\n\n## Table of Correspondence,-Continued.\n\n| Public Health (Quarantine & Prevention Disease) Ordinance Section. | Corresponding Ordinance 1938. | Remarks. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | 0.4 (m) | |\n| 2 | | Aerodrome, authorized aerodrome, aircraft |\n| | E. 1 | Building |\n| | C. 2 | Colonial Veterinary Surgeon |\n| | A. 6 | Contact |\n| | B. 2 | Crew |\n| 17 | B. 57 | D. |\n| | | From merchant Shipping Ordinance |\n| 18 | B. 2 | Disease |\n| 19 | B. 48 | Immigrant |\n| 20 | B. 67 | Infected place or port |\n| | B. 2 | aircraft added |\n| 21 | B. 51; C. 2 | Quarantine |\n| | E. 1 | Surveillance |\n| | | From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 3 (2) |\n| 22 | | Vessel or aircraft when regarded as infected |\n| | E. 24, 29, 35 | From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 2 |\n| 23 | 3; B. 22 | From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 3 (1) |\n| 7 | | |\n| 24 | 4; C. 1Br; 5; C. 1Br | This corresponds to the foot-note to Article 25 of the 1926 International Sanitary Convention which was specially drafted to meet the requirements of special cases such as that of Hong Kong. |\n| 6 | | |\n| 7 | B. 9 | From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 4 |\n| 25 | | From Hong Kong Port Regulations Table L. Section 10. |\n| 26 | | |\n| 27 | B. Or | |\n| 28 | C. I | |\n| 29 | B. 69 | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552455, "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": "CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936", "content_text": "# POWER OF GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL TO MAKE REGULATIONS\n\n## 8. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purpose of preventing the introduction into, the spread in and the transmission from, the Colony of any disease.\n\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1) such regulations may provide:\n\n| Subsection | Provision |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | for the appointment of Health Officers, Inspectors and other officers to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations or by-laws made thereunder, and for regulating their duties and conduct and for investing them with all powers necessary for the due execution of their duties; |\n| (b) | for prescribing the reporting to Government by medical practitioners or others of cases of disease; |\n| (c) | for prescribing and regulating the form and mode of service of delivery of notices and other documents; |\n| (d) | for prescribing the fees to be paid under this Ordinance; |\n| (e) | for placing under observation vessels and aircraft arriving or being at any port or place within the Colony or the waters of the Colony, and for their management while under observation, and for granting certificates of the condition of vessels and aircraft or of the Colony or any part thereof in respect of disease; |\n| (f) | for the deratisation of vessels or aircraft; |\n| (g) | for the disinfection and disinsectisation of vessels, aircraft, persons, animals and things; |\n| (h) | for prohibiting either absolutely or conditionally, or for regulating, the importation, exportation or removal in the Colony of dead bodies; |\n| (i) | for prohibiting or regulating: (i) the admission of persons into or their movements within the Colony or their departure therefrom either absolutely or conditionally; (ii) the importation of merchandise, food and drink; |\n| (j) | for establishing and maintaining quarantine stations for persons and for regulating the management of the same; |\n| (k) | for the detention and seclusion in a quarantine station or on board of persons, whether actually suffering from disease or not, arriving on vessels or aircraft subject to observation, and for the payment to Government of any costs and expenses charged or incurred for the medical attendance and maintenance of any such persons; |\n| (l) | for prescribing the measures to be taken for the prevention of the conveyance of infection by means of any vessel or otherwise from any area or port of the Colony, including: (i) the measures that shall be applied to vessels or aircraft before departure; (ii) the measures that shall be taken to prevent the departure of persons infected with or suspected of being infected with plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or smallpox, and of persons in such relation with the sick as to be rendered liable to transmit the infection of these diseases; (iii) the measures that shall be applied with respect to merchandise, articles or clothing infected or suspected of being infected; (iv) the prohibition either absolutely or conditionally of the export of merchandise, or of articles of clothing infected or suspected of being infected; (v) precautions with regard to drinking water and foodstuffs taken on board vessels, aircraft or trains and the water taken in as ballast by vessels; (vi) measures for the prevention of access of mosquitoes to vessels or aircraft in the case of the prevalence of yellow fever; (vii) measures for delousing typhus suspects before embarkation; and (viii) measures for the disinfection of clothes and rags before packing where smallpox is prevalent; |\n| (m) | for appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the sanitary control of aerial navigation and for prescribing the sanitary measures to be taken in respect thereof; |\n| (n) | for prescribing the liability of any person to defray the expenses connected with the enforcement of this Ordinance or any regulation made under this Ordinance, and for regulating questions of compensation in connection therewith; |\n| (o) | for prescribing the fine with which the contravention of any regulation made under this Ordinance shall be punishable, but so that no such fine shall exceed five hundred dollars. |\n\n(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1) and for the prevention of any epidemic, endemic, contagious or communicable disease, such regulations may also provide:\n\n| Subsection | Provision |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | for the compulsory reporting of infectious disease; |\n| (b) | for entering and searching houses, buildings, rooms and other places in which the presence of diseased persons or persons dead of disease or contacts may be suspected and for the examination of the occupants; |\n| (c) | for prohibiting or regulating the movements of diseased persons or of persons suspected of being diseased or of contacts; |\n| (d) | for the removal of diseased persons or persons suspected of being diseased to hospital or other places for medical treatment, and for their detention until they can be discharged with safety to the public, and for the temporary occupation of places required for the treatment of diseased persons or for the segregation of diseased persons or contacts; |\n| (e) | for prohibiting or regulating the removal of bedding, clothing, furniture or other articles which have been in the presence of a diseased person and which are reasonably suspected of being infected, and for the disinfection or destruction of the same; |\n| (f) | for ordering the vaccination of, and for ordering or executing the cleansing and disinfection of, houses, buildings, rooms and other places which have been occupied by any diseased person.\n\nPage 10 \nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566818, "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": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "content_text": "Extracted from the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST dated 27th July, 1939.\n\n66 (1) STATE OF WAR EXISTS CHIEF JUSTICE JUSTICE ON HOSTILITIES BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN WINDING UP OF SHIPPING FIRM\n\nWritten judgment on the petition brought by the Shiang Kee, otherwise known as the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., for the winding up of the Hongkong Branch of the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. was delivered by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, in the Supreme Court yesterday.\n\nHis Lordship granted the petition, holding that as the Company in China was in process of dissolution, an order for the winding up of the Hongkong branch ought to be made.\n\nIn the course of his judgment, His Lordship referred to the Sino-Japanese hostilities and said.—“Not only on the authorities which I have cited but also on my inescapable knowledge of conditions on the China coast, a state of war exists between China and Japan, and has existed at all times material to this application.\"\n\nThe petitioners were represented by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., and Mr. H. C. Macnamara, instructed by Mr. D. L. Strellett, of Geo. K. Hall & Brutton and Co. Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., and the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada, Jnr., instructed by Mr. H. J. Armstrong of Deacons, opposed the petition on behalf of the following shareholders: Hsu Chin-tang (4,394 shares), Hsu Teh-yen (3,754), Cheng Teh-chun (2,502), Kao Yung-tong (2,044), Kao Cheung-chang (1,584), Yu Weh-ting (1,420), Yu Wei-fan (1,000), Li Yu-hsiang (70), Cheng Pen-ching (6,377), Cheng Chung-yu (6,176), Chang Chi-yu (5,623), Chang Pen-fah (5,429), Chang Hsin-teh (4,836), Chang Ming-teh (4,500) and the Dairen Kishen Kaisha, who are creditors to the amount of $47,157.32. All of them are of Dairen.\n\nIn his Judgment, the Chief Justice said:\n\nThe Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company Limited, which hereafter in this judgment I shall refer to as \"the company\" was duly incorporated and registered as a company with limited liability under the laws of the Republic of China on April 1, 1920. The head office of the company has at all material times been in Chefoo. The business of the company is and throughout has been that of ship-owners, carriers by sea, and other business in connection with shipping. Since the year 1920, the company has had a branch office in Hongkong. The company is an unregistered company so far as the laws of this Colony are concerned, and the jurisdiction invoked in this application is that conferred on this Court by Section 313 of the Companies Ordinance 1932, the material provisions of which are:\n\nProvisions of Law\n\n313 (1) (b) The circumstances in which an unregistered company may be wound up are as follows:- (i) If the company is dissolved, or has ceased to carry on business, or is carrying on business only for the purpose of winding up its affairs; (iii) If the Court is of opinion that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up.\n\n313 (2) Where a company incorporated outside the Colony which has been carrying on business in the Colony ceases to carry on business in the Colony, it may be wound up as an unregistered company under this Part of the Ordinance notwithstanding that it has been dissolved or otherwise ceased to exist as a company under or by virtue of the laws of the country under which it was incorporated.\n\nThe facts, so far as they are material to this application, can be summarised quite briefly. The Company owns and operates twenty steamships. Eleven of these vessels are chartered to Japanese interests, three are engaged in ordinary shipping business, and the other six have, since August, 1937, been lying in the waters of the Colony. The only local activity of the Company during that period has been that one of the vessels was from November 1938 to February 25, 1939, chartered for use as a storage hulk.\n\nThe Dairen Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha, a corporation established under the laws of Japan, was appointed to act as agents of the Company in 1939, and the local representatives of that corporation purported to assume duty as agents of the company in Hongkong as from 1st February 1939.\n\nChungking's Order\n\nThe District Court of Chungking, having been duly authorised in that behalf by an order of the Supreme Court of China, in February 1939 ordered the immediate dissolution of the Company and appointed three liquidators. From that decision, an appeal was taken to the First Divisional Court of the Supreme Court of China, which on May 30 dismissed the appeal. That decision is final.\n\nThe present application is based on three grounds:\n\n(i) That there has been a winding-up order made by a court of competent jurisdiction in the country in which the company was incorporated, and, as a result of that winding-up, the corporate powers of the Company have been destroyed in the country of its origin;\n\n(ii) That the Company has in fact ceased to carry on business in the Colony; and\n\n(iii) That it is just and equitable that the Company should be wound up. The substratum of the Company has gone. It is a shipping company, and cannot carry on legitimate business because of the risk of seizure of their vessels by enemy forces. The only avenue of business open to the Company are either illegal trading with the enemy or work extraneous to the true objects of the company, such as the chartering of their vessels for use as hulks within this harbour.\n\nMr. Potter's Case\n\nOn the first of these grounds, Mr. Potter relies on the case of In re The Russian Bank for Foreign Trade (1933) Chancery 745. In that case, the Russian revolutionary legislation of 1917 and the following years had put an end to the juristic existence of banking companies incorporated in Russia, and it was held that the impossibility of a branch of such a Russian bank continuing to function according to its incorporating statutes was a sufficient ground for a winding-up order.\n\nIn delivering judgment, Maugham J (as he then was) said: \"The decrees as regards banks whose seats and principal offices were taken over by the state, must be regarded as so crippling the powers of the companies that, if not extinct, they could no longer exhibit any of the signs of life. At the best, the bank, as a legal corporation, deprived as it was of its assets and its corporators, became no more than a legal conception. Its branch in England, if an old metaphor may be employed, is now a submerged wreck floating on the ocean of commerce. As a branch of the original bank, it appears, however, to have or to have had creditors in this country, and if the petition before me is properly presented, I am of opinion both that the bank has ceased legally to carry on business, and that it is just and equitable that it should be wound up. The essential features of the case are, indeed, of a simple character. A corporation created and established under a foreign legal system has been allowed by our laws to carry on business and to incur debts in this country. Its corporate powers, if not its corporate existence, have been destroyed in its country of origin. It cannot be doubted that in such circumstances, the Court, if it has jurisdiction, ought to make an order which will secure as far as possible the payment of all just claims against the corporation.\"\n\nAn order was made for the compulsory winding-up of the company.\n\nEnglish Ruling\n\nIn his speech in the case of Lazard Bros. & Co. v. Midland Bank (1933) A.C.289 at 297, Lord Wright says: \"English courts have long since recognised as juristic persons corporations established by foreign law in virtue of the fact of their creation and\n\nTo be cont'd.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566826, "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": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "content_text": "68\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\n(29) 74\n\nJuly 14, 1939\n\nPETITION FOR WINDING UP OF CHING KEE STEAM NAVIGATION CO.\n\nOrder Already Made By Court In Chungking\n\nJuly 4.\n\nA PETITION FOR THE WINDING UP OF THE CHING KEE STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. was successfully brought in the Supreme Court yesterday by Shiang Kee, otherwise known as the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.\n\nThe grounds for the winding up, as submitted, were that a winding up order in respect of the company had been made by a court of competent jurisdiction in Chungking; that as a consequence, the corporate powers of the company had been destroyed in the country of origin, and that it was just and equitable that the Hongkong branch should be wound up as it could no longer carry on its lawful business.\n\nThe petition was heard by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac-Gregor.\n\nPetitioners were represented by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. and Mr. H. C. Strellett, while Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C. and the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Jnr., instructed by Mr. H. J. Armstrong, appeared for parties opposing the winding up.\n\nMr. Potter produced an affidavit made by Mr. Bunzaburo Matsumoto, counsel of the Marine Court of Dairen, in which it was stated that the Dairen Kisen Kaisha had been appointed as agents of the Ching Kee by attorneys for Japanese and other shareholders.\n\nMr. Potter said it was illegal for a Chinese company to appoint a Japanese company to be its agents when a state of war existed between the two countries.\n\nAt the beginning of February, the Dairen Kisen Kaisha, a Japanese company with a branch in Hongkong, claimed to have received authority from the company to take possession of and operate the six ships, and applied to the Harbour Master for clearances in respect of two vessels.\n\nThe clearances were, however, stopped as the result of certain proceedings before the Court.\n\nMr. Potter said that in view of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, for the Company to carry on business would either involve breach of the laws of China with regard to trading with an enemy or result in the seizure of its ships by hostile forces.\n\nThe District Court of Chungking on February 21 ordered that the Company be wound up and that Messrs. Jun-ke Choy, Ting Z. Chang and Yuen-wu Wong be appointed liquidators.\n\nMr. Potter cited many authorities in support of his arguments.\n\nHe added that a shareholder had every right to restrain the company from doing vires act though every shareholder but himself acquiesced in it.\n\nWhere it was of fundamental importance, the shareholder was entitled to have it wound up.\n\nPRACTICALLY CEASED\n\nSince the outbreak of hostilities between China and Japan in 1937, the business of the Company in the Colony had practically ceased.\n\nMr. Potter said that the fact that the company had ceased to carry on business was answered by the affidavit of Mr. Matsumoto where it said that the suspension of business in Hongkong was only temporary.\n\nHe submitted that this could not be sufficient ground for winding up.\n\nSince January this year the officers of the Company, formerly in charge of the business here, had ceased to control the affairs of the office and had, in fact, returned to North China.\n\n14 SHIPS TRADING\n\nOn the point that the hostilities prevented the Company from (Continued on page 69)\n\nPage 68\n\n...\n\nPage 69", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566833, "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": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "content_text": "2\n\n81\n\nattempting to transfer its vessels to an \"enemy country\".\n\nOn March 29th persons professing to be the liquidators of the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company appointed in virtue of the above-mentioned judgement of the Chungking Court applied to the Supreme Court of Hongkong for the liquidation of the Company under the laws of Hongkong and for the disposal of its assets existing in that port. Consequently a hearing of the case is to be held on May 17th.\n\nThe Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company is engaged in coasting trade in North and Central China, and has a paid-up capital of 5,000,000 yuan divided into a hundred thousand shares, of which only 1,500 shares are owned by the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company. Some 80 percent of the shares of the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company are owned by persons residing in Kwangtung and Manchoukuo and the greater part of the remainder by persons residing in North China, while its president resides in Dairen, which is the centre of its business activities. Since the time of the Russo-Japanese war the Company has been in close connection with Japanese interests, and 19 vessels out of its whole fleet of 22 vessels, including the six now moored at Hongkong, are chartered by Japanese.\n\nConsequently the proceedings at the Supreme Court of Hongkong on May 17th are a matter of concern to Japan. It is much open to doubt whether an organ of the Chungking Government which has now retreated to the remote interior of China has any authority to adjudicate on the affairs of the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company, which carries on business mainly within the territories of the new Régimes of North and Central China, and of which by far...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566836, "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": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "content_text": "(21/725/39)\n\nMr. S. Kurihara,\n\n19th May, 1939.\n\n84\n\nDear Mr. Kurihara,\n\nI have received your letter of May 13th about the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company.\n\nThe position is, I understand, as follows:\n\nAn application to the Supreme Court of Hongkong for an injunction to restrain the six vessels from sailing was made on February 10th not only by a representative of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company but also by an official of the Ministry of Communications of the Chinese Government. This official informed the Supreme Court on February 10th that the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company was a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of China and registered with the Chinese Ministry of Communications at GAIMUSHO.\n\nDirector,\n\nEast Asiatic Bureau", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566880, "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": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "content_text": "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG\n\nMISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS\n\nNO. 10 OF 1939.\n\n128\n\nI, JUN KE CHOY (\n\nIN THE MATTER of the Steamship MAO LEE\n\nand the Steamship AN LE now lying in\n\nthe waters of the Colony of Hong Kong\n\nand\n\nIN THE MATTER of an Application by Jun\n\nKe Choy under Section 578 of the Code\n\nof Civil Procedure.\n\n) of No.16 Connaught Road West,\n\nVictoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, make oath and say as follows:-\n\n1. I am an officer of the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of China and I have received instructions and am duly authorised by the Government of the Republic of China to represent them in all matters connected with these proceedings.\n\n2. I have for many years known and been well-acquainted with the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. which is a Company incorporated under the Laws of the Republic of China and registered with the Ministry of Industry which is now at Chungsing. The Head Office of the said Company is situate at Chefoo.\n\n3. The said Company have been the owners of several steamships of which six have been lying in the waters of the Colony of Hong Kong since August 1937.\n\n4. I have been advised by the Government of the Republic of China and verily believe that the said Ching Kee Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. is, under the instructions of my Government, being wound up and Receivers will be appointed and that steps are being taken to appoint a Receiver in Hong Kong in respect of their properties including the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566884, "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": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939", "content_text": "IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG\n\nMISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS\n\nNO. 10 OF 1939.\n\n132\n\nIN THE MATTER of the Steamship MAO LEE\n\nand the Steamship AN LEE now lying in\n\nthe waters of the Colony of Hong Kong\n\nand\n\nIN THE MATTER of an Application by Jun\n\nLe Choy under Section 578 of the Code\n\nof Civil Procedure.\n\nI, PING CHIH CIEN\n\nof 0-15, Connaught Road\n\nWest Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong do solemnly sincerely\n\nand truly affirm and say as follows:-\n\n1. I am the secretary of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company Limited a Company incorporated under the laws of China whose office in normal times is situate at Shanghai in the\n\nRepublic of China.\n\n2. I know and am well acquainted with the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company Limited whose head office is at Chefoo and is a Company incorporated with limited liability at the\n\nMinistry of Industry under the laws of the Republic of China.\n\n3. The said Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company Limited has a capital of $5,000,000 and my Company under the name of Shiang\n\nKee (...) are the registered holders of 1,500 shares of\n\n$50 each, share scrip Nos.243 to 272.\n\n4. There are registered with the Ministry of Communications, Bureau of Navigation 20 vessels in the name of the said Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company Limited and of these 6 vessels were ordered by Directors to be and remain in the waters of\n\nthe Colony of Hong Kong since August 1937.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570702, "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": "CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940", "content_text": "30\n\nDAIREN KISEN KAISHA\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG\n\nCOMPANIES WINDING UP NO. 1 OF 1939.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE 1932\n\nAND\n\nIN THE MATTER OF THE CHING KEE STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD.\n\nJUDGMENT\n\nThe Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company Limited, which hereafter in this judgment I shall refer to as \"the company\" was duly incorporated and registered as a company with limited liability under the laws of the Republic of China on 1st April, 1920. The head office of the company has at all material times been in Chefoo in Shantung Province of North China. The business of the company is and throughout has been that of shipowners, carriers by sea, and other business in connection with shipping. Since the year 1920 the company has had a branch office in Hongkong. The company is an unregistered company so far as the laws of this Colony are concerned, and the jurisdiction invoked in this application is that conferred on this Court by Section 313 of the Companies Ordinance 1932, the material provisions of which are:\n\n313 (1) (b) The circumstances in which an unregistered company may be wound up are as follows:-\n\n(1) If the company is dissolved, or has ceased to carry on business, or is carrying on business only for the purpose of winding up its affairs;\n\n(iii) If the Court is of opinion that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up.\n\n313 (2) Where a company incorporated outside the Colony which has been carrying on business in the Colony ceases to carry on business in the Colony, it may be wound up as an unregistered company under this part of the Ordinance notwithstanding that it has been dissolved or otherwise ceased to exist as a company under or by virtue of the laws of the country under which it was incorporated.\n\nThe Facts, so far as they are material to this application, can be summarised quite briefly. The company owns and operates twenty steamships. Eleven of these vessels are chartered to Japanese interests, three are engaged in ordinary shipping business, and the other six have since August 1937 been lying in the waters of the Colony. The only local activity of the company during that period has been that one of the vessels was from November 1938 to 25th February 1939 chartered for use as storage hulk.\n\nThe Dairen Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha, a corporation established under the laws of Japan was appointed to act as agents of the company in 1939, and the local representatives of that corporation purported to assume duty as agents of the company in Hongkong as from 1st February 1939.\n\nThe District Court of Chungking, having been duly authorised in that behalf by an order of the Supreme Court of China, in February 1939 ordered the immediate dissolution of the company\n\nand\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570709, "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": "CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940", "content_text": "37\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG\n\nAPPELLATE JURISDICTION\n\nAPPEAL NO. 15/39.\n\nBetween:\n\nThe Dairen Kisen Kaisha & Others Appellants\n\nand\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company Respondents.\n\nJUDGMENT\n\nThis is an appeal against an order made by Sir Atholl MacGregor C. J. in these proceedings directing the winding up of the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company which is an unregistered Company within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance, 1932, but is incorporated under the laws of the Republic of China with headquarters at Chefoo in the province of Shantung and has (or had) a branch office in this Colony. The facts are fully set out in the judgment of the Court below and need not be recapitulated. The application for winding up was based on three grounds, on each and all of which the learned Chief Justice held that the petitioners (the present respondents) were entitled to succeed. Those grounds were:\n\n(i) That there had been a winding up order made by a Court of competent jurisdiction in the country in which the company was incorporated, and, as a result of that order, the corporate powers of the company had been destroyed in that country;\n\n(ii) that the company had in fact ceased to carry on business in the Colony;\n\n(iii) that it was just and equitable that the company should be wound up since its substratum had disappeared and as a shipping concern it was quite unable to carry on legitimate business.\n\nEach of these grounds has been assailed (as in the Court below) by Mr. Sheldon on behalf of the appellants but the spear-head of his attack has, with our permission, been now directed along a new line and has been aimed at the competency of the Chinese Court concerned to order the winding up of the company in China, not so much on account of that court's inability to enforce its order as because, the province of Shantung being occupied by the Japanese military forces, its jurisdiction no longer extends to that part of the country but has been ousted by the fact of such occupation.\n\nHe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570715, "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": "CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940", "content_text": "43\n\nB\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG COMPANIES (WINDING UP) No. 1 of 1939.\n\nAppeal No. 15 of 1939.\n\nL\n\nIN THE MATTER of the Companies Ordinance, 1932.\n\nand\n\nIN THE MATTER of the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company, Limited.\n\nJUDGMENT\n\nI agree with the judgment which has just been delivered by the learned Puisne Judge.\n\nThe Ching Kee Steam Navigation Company, Limited, is a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of China and having its principal place of business at Chefoo in the Province of Shantung, now occupied by the Japanese forces.\n\nThe company is carrying on business in Chefoo, Dairen, An Tung, Tientsin, New Chwang, Tsingtao and Shanghai, and its ships fly the Chinese flag. But that they do so is little more than a fiction. The ships enjoy only a limited freedom. Their movements are controlled by Japanese agents.\n\nWith that state of affairs the majority of the shareholders, who are the appellants in this case, appear to concur. But there are fifteen hundred of them, the respondents in this case, who do not concur with the action of the majority, who wish to dissociate themselves from it and the other shareholders, and who to that end have petitioned in the Chinese courts for the dissolution of the company.\n\nThe jurisdiction of inferior courts in China is derived from section 2 of Article II of the Chinese Civil Code\n\n\"Regarding the proceedings against a private juristic person or other corporate bodies capable of being made parties in a suit, the court of the district where its principal office or principal place of business is shall be of competent jurisdiction.\"\n\nBut the court to which application would ordinarily have been made, namely the Chefoo District Court, was prevented from exercising its functions by the military occupation of Chefoo by the Japanese. A special court of first instance was appointed by an order of the Supreme Court of China, under Article XXIII of the Chinese Revised Code of Civil Procedure, by which\n\n\"... the court directly higher than the court whose jurisdiction is in question shall appoint, on the application of a party to the proceedings, a court of competent jurisdiction ... when a court of competent jurisdiction is, by reasons of law or fact, prevented from exercising its power of conducting a hearing.\"\n\nThe special court ordered the dissolution of the company and from that decision the appellants in this case appealed to the Supreme Court of China, which rejected the appeal.\n\nIt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570830, "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": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "content_text": "# UME MIDOB MEMORANDUM\n\n## JUMLA UBABMA2+9 CANTON\n\n1. The Japanese Authorities in Canton are prepared to permit the loading of cargoes on those British vessels which are at present navigating between Canton and Hong-kong under the terms of the agreement in connection with navigation of the Pearl River by certain British vessels initialled by Mr. Blunt and Mr. Okazaki on July 4th, 1939, as subsequently modified by the supplementary agreements initialled by Mr. Toller and Mr. Kita on December 1st and December 19th, 1939, respectively.\n\n2. The Japanese Authorities are also prepared to dissolve the Government charter of the \"Shirogane-maru\" and \"Keisha-maru\" which are in shuttle service between Canton, Hongkong, and Macao.\n\n3. Those British and Japanese vessels referred to hereby shall be subjected to restrictions of the Japanese Forces in Canton, necessitated by military requirements or by measures for preserving peace and order on and around the Pearl River. Such vessels shall not take in such cargoes which are or will be prohibited or restricted by the Japanese Forces in view of military necessity or of preserving peace and order within the occupied area. The restrictions of navigation, cargoes, and passengers are detailed in the appendix.\n\n4. Those vessels shall abide by all laws and regulations concerned issued by the Chinese Authorities.\n\n5. In this connection, the Japanese Authorities in Canton request the Shameen British Municipal Authorities to further co-operate in controlling anti-Japanese activities, for instance, such activities as tend to disturb the money market from within the said concession. The Japanese Authorities also request the Hongkong Government and the Far Eastern Headquarters of the British Navy to pay favourable consideration to the re-opening of the west channel of the Hongkong harbour in order to facilitate the navigation of such vessels between Canton and Hongkong.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570863, "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": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "content_text": "# COPY \n## 93\n\nThe Japanese Forces in Canton are prepared to permit general trade to and from Canton Harbour to all nationals as from April 20th, 1940, restricted only in so far as necessitated by military requirements or by measures for the preservation of peace and order.\n\n**JAPANESE CONSULATE GENERAL, CANTON**\n\n## MEMORANDUM\n\n1. The Japanese Authorities in Canton are prepared to permit the loading of cargoes on these British vessels which are at present navigating between Canton and Hong Kong under the terms of the agreement in connection with navigation of the Pearl River by certain British vessels, initialled by Mr. Blunt and Mr. Okazaki on July 4th 1939, as subsequently modified by the supplementary agreements initialled by Mr. Toller and Mr. Kita on December 1st and December 19th 1939, respectively.\n\n2. The Japanese Authorities are also prepared to dissolve the Government charter of the \"Shirogane-maru\" and \"Kaishu-maru\" which are in shuttle service between Canton, Hong Kong, and Macao.\n\n3. Those British and Japanese vessels referred to hereby shall be subjected to restrictions of the Japanese Forces in Canton, necessitated by military requirements or by measures for preserving peace and order on and around the Pearl River. Such vessels shall not take in such cargoes which are or will be prohibited or restricted by the Japanese Forces in view of military necessity or of preserving peace and order within the occupied area. The restrictions of navigation, cargoes, and passengers are detailed in the appendix. Those vessels shall abide by all laws and regulations concerned issued by the Chinese Authorities.\n\n4. \n\n5. In this connection, the Japanese Authorities in Canton request the Shameen British Municipal Authorities to further co-operate in controlling anti-Japanese activities, for instances, such activities as tend to disturb the money market from within the said concession. The Japanese Authorities also request the Hong Kong Government and the Far Eastern ... \n\n/Headquarters", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570901, "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": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "content_text": "# COPY 131\n\nThe Japanese Forces in Canton are prepared to permit general trade to and from Canton Harbour to all nationals as from April 20th, 1940, restricted only in so far as necessitated by military requirements or by measures for the preservation of peace and order.\n\n**JAPANESE CONSULATE GENERAL, CANTON.**\n\n## MEMORANDUM\n\n1. The Japanese Authorities in Canton are prepared to permit the loading of cargoes on these British vessels which are at present navigating between Canton and Hong Kong under the terms of the agreement in connection with navigation of the Pearl River by certain British vessels, initialled by Mr. Blunt and Mr. Ukazaki on July 4th 1939, as subsequently modified by the supplementary agreements initialled by Mr. Toller and Mr. Kita on December 1st and December 19th 1939, respectively.\n\n2. The Japanese Authorities are also prepared to dissolve the Government charter of the \"Shirogane-maru\" and \"Kaishu-maru\" which are in shuttle service between Canton, Hong Kong, and Macao.\n\n3. Those British and Japanese vessels referred to hereby shall be subjected to restrictions of the Japanese Forces in Canton, necessitated by military requirements or by measures for preserving peace and order on and around the Pearl River. Such vessels shall not take in such cargoes which are or will be prohibited or restricted by the Japanese Forces in view of military necessity or of preserving peace and order within the occupied area. The restrictions of navigation, cargoes, and passengers are detailed in the appendix.\n\n4. Those vessels shall abide by all laws and regulations concerned issued by the Chinese Authorities.\n\n5. In this connection, the Japanese Authorities in Canton request the Shameen British Municipal Authorities to further co-operate in controlling anti-Japanese activities, for instance, such activities as tend to disturb the money market from within the said concession. The Japanese Authorities also request the Hong Kong Government and the Far Eastern Headquarters of the British Navy to pay favourable consideration to the re-opening of the west channel of the Hong Kong harbour in order to facilitate the navigation of such vessels between Canton and Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572434, "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": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "content_text": "# 48 S CHINA Coasting Trade\n\n10. Mr. Shinwell asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the text of the agreement between the Chinese and British Governments affecting the shipping trade on the China coast; and whether it has been agreed that China shall have the exclusive right to this trade? \n\nMr. Law: My hon. Friend is referring, I understand, to the Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China of 11th January, 1943, printed as Command Paper 6417. Under Article 1(g) of the Annex to the Treaty, His Majesty's Government relinquished the special rights which they had previously enjoyed as regards the coasting trade. The question of any future arrangements to be made in this respect is one for consideration when the two Governments negotiate the comprehensive treaty referred to in Article 8 of the Treaty of the 11th January.\n\nMr. Shinwell: Is my right hon. Friend aware that these shipping rates were of great advantage to the shipping industry in this country and that if they are to be relinquished, as is suggested in the text of the agreement, a very severe burden will be imposed on our Mercantile Marine? Is it not desirable that this matter should be reviewed and that hon. Members should have an opportunity of discussing the matter in order to correct what is undoubtedly a serious mistake?\n\nMr. Law: By the Treaty to which I have referred we have relinquished in China all extra-territorial rights. I suggest to my hon. Friend that we cannot have it both ways, we cannot relinquish extra-territorial rights in China and still retain them. As I have said in the original reply, there will probably in the future be some comprehensive commercial treaty, and when that comes up this matter will be considered.\n\nMr. Shinwell: Yes, but entirely apart from the relinquishment of extra-territorial rights—I do not disapprove of that at all—is my right hon. Friend aware that our own navigation laws provide that foreign coasters can trade on our coasts? Why should we abrogate a privilege that has been in operation for many years and thus strike a very deadly blow at our Mercantile Marine?\n\nMr. Law: We shall certainly bear that in mind when the time comes for the comprehensive arrangement.\n\nMr. De la Bère: The Mercantile Marine must have full consideration.\n\nCommander Agnew: Will the ports of China be free for the ships of all nations to use?\n\nMr. Law: We must await events. I do not think I can pronounce on a hypothetical question.\n\nMr. Shinwell: Does not the agreement also provide for the complete abandonment of Hong Kong?\n\nMr. Law: No, Sir.\n\nMr. Hannah: Would it not be extremely unsatisfactory that anybody should have a monopoly in the China coast trade?\n\nMr. Kirkwood: Have not the Chinese a right to a monopoly of it?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572448, "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": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "content_text": "## ARTICLE 4\n\n(iii) His Majesty The King agrees that the British Concession (including the whole British municipal area) at Tientsin and the British Concession at Canton shall revert to the administration and control of the Government of the Republic of China and that the rights accorded to His Majesty in relation to those Concessions shall cease.\n\n(iv) The administration and control of the British Concession (including the whole British municipal area) at Tientsin and the British Concession at Canton, including their official assets and official obligations, shall be transferred to the Government of the Republic of China, it being mutually understood that the Government of the Republic of China in taking over administration and control of those Concessions will make provision for the assumption and discharge of the official obligations and liabilities of those Concessions and for the recognition and protection of all legitimate rights therein.\n\n## ARTICLE 5\n\n(i) In order to obviate any questions as to existing rights in respect of or as to existing titles to real property in the territory of the Republic of China possessed by nationals and companies of His Majesty The King, or by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and in particular questions which might arise from the abrogation of the provisions of treaties and agreements provided for in Article 2 of the present Treaty, the High Contracting Parties agree that such existing rights or titles shall be indefeasible and shall not be questioned upon any ground except upon proof, established through due process of law, of fraud or of fraudulent or dishonest practices in the acquisition of such rights or titles, it being understood that no right or title shall be rendered invalid by virtue of any subsequent change in the original procedure through which it was acquired. It is also agreed that the exercise of these rights or titles shall be subject to the laws and regulations of the Republic of China concerning taxation, national defence, and the right of eminent domain; and that no such rights or titles may be alienated to the government or nationals (including companies) of any third country without the express consent of the Government of the Republic of China.\n\n(ii) The High Contracting Parties also agree that if it should be the desire of the Government of the Republic of China to replace by new deeds of ownership existing leases in perpetuity or other documentary evidence relating to real property held by nationals or companies of His Majesty The King or by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, the replacement shall be made by the Chinese authorities without charges of any sort, and the new deeds of ownership shall fully protect the holders of such leases or other documentary evidence, and their legal heirs and assigns, without diminution of their prior rights and interests, including the right of alienation.\n\n(iii) The High Contracting Parties agree further that nationals or companies of His Majesty The King or His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom shall not be required or asked by the Chinese authorities to make any payments of fees in connection with land transfers for or with relation to any period prior to the effective date of this Treaty.\n\n## ARTICLE 6\n\nHis Majesty The King having long accorded rights to nationals of the Republic of China within each of the territories of His Majesty to travel, reside, and carry on commerce throughout the whole extent of that territory, the Government of the Republic of China agree to accord similar rights to nationals of His Majesty within the territory of the Republic of China. Each High Contracting Party will endeavour to accord in his territories to nationals and companies of the other High Contracting Party, in regard to all legal proceedings and in matters relating to the administration of justice and the levying of taxes and requirements in connection therewith, treatment not less favourable than that accorded to his own nationals and companies.\n\n## ARTICLE 7\n\nThe consular officers of one High Contracting Party, duly provided with exequaturs, shall be permitted to reside in such ports, places, and cities of the territories of the other High Contracting Party as may be agreed upon. The consular officers of one High Contracting Party shall have the right within their districts in the territories of the other High Contracting Party to interview, communicate with, and to advise the nationals and companies of the former High Contracting Party, and the nationals and companies of one High Contracting Party within the territories of the other High Contracting Party shall have the right at all times to communicate with the consular officers of the former High Contracting Party. The consular officers of one High Contracting Party in the territories of the other shall be informed immediately by the appropriate local authorities when any of their nationals are arrested or detained in their consular districts by the local authorities. They shall have the right to visit within the limits of their districts any of their nationals who are under arrest or awaiting trial in prison. Communications from the nationals of one High Contracting Party in prison in the territories of the other High Contracting Party addressed to the consular officers of the former High Contracting Party will be forwarded to the appropriate consular officer by the local authorities. Consular officers of one High Contracting Party shall be accorded in the territories of the other High Contracting Party the rights, privileges, and immunities enjoyed by consular officers under modern international usage.\n\n## ARTICLE 8\n\n(i) The High Contracting Parties will enter into negotiations for the conclusion of a comprehensive modern treaty or treaties of friendship, commerce, navigation, and consular rights upon the request of either of them or in any case within six months after the cessation of the hostilities in the war against the common enemies in which they are both now engaged. The treaty or treaties to be thus negotiated will be based upon the principles of international law and practice as reflected in modern international procedure and in the modern treaties which each of the High Contracting Parties have respectively concluded with other Powers in recent years.\n\n(ii) Pending the conclusion of the comprehensive treaty or treaties referred to in the preceding paragraph, if any questions affecting the rights in the territory of the Republic of China of the nationals or companies of His Majesty The King, or of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, or of the Government of India, should arise in future, and if these questions are not covered by the present Treaty and Exchange of Notes or by the provisions of existing treaties, conventions, and agreements between the High Contracting Parties which are not abrogated by or inconsistent with the present Treaty and Exchange of Notes, such questions shall be discussed by representatives of the High Contracting Parties and shall be decided in accordance with the generally accepted principles of international law and with modern international practice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572449, "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": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "content_text": "# ARTICLE 9.\n\nThe present Treaty shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged at Chungking as soon as possible. The Treaty shall come into force on the day of the exchange of ratifications.\n\nIn witness whereof the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and affixed thereto their seals.\n\nDone at Chungking this 11th day of January, 1943, corresponding to the 11th day of the first month of the thirty-second year of the Republic of China, in duplicate in English and Chinese, both texts being equally authentic.\n\n(L.S.) H. J. SEYMOUR.\n(L.S.) H. E. RICHARDSON.\n(L.S.) TSE VUNG SOONG.\n\n## EXCHANGE OF NOTES.(2)\n\n### A.\n\nNote from Dr. Tse Vung Soong, Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Sir Horace James Seymour.\n\nSir,\n\nChungking, January 11, 1943.\n\nDURING the negotiations for the Treaty signed to-day between His Excellency the President of the National Government of the Republic of China and His Majesty The King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and India, a number of questions have been discussed upon which agreement has been reached. The understandings reached with regard to these points are recorded in the annex to the present Note, which annex shall be considered as an integral part of the Treaty signed to-day and shall be considered as effective upon the date of the entrance into force of that Treaty. I should be glad if Your Excellency would confirm these understandings on behalf of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nTSE VUNG SOONG.\n\nHis Excellency Sir Horace James Seymour, K.C.M.G., C.V.O.,\nHis Majesty's Ambassador, Chungking.\n\n### ANNEX.\n\n1. With reference to Article 2 and Article 8 (ii) of the Treaty, it is understood that—\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | His Majesty The King relinquishes all existing treaty rights relating to the system of Treaty Ports in China. His Excellency the President of the National Government of the Republic of China and His Majesty The King mutually agree that the merchant vessels of the one High Contracting Party shall be permitted freely to come to ports, places and waters in the territories of the other High Contracting Party which are or may be opened to overseas merchant shipping and that the treatment accorded to such vessels in such ports, places and waters shall be no less favourable than that accorded to national vessels and shall be as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country. The term \"vessels of a High Contracting Party\" means all vessels registered under the law of any of the territories of that High Contracting Party to which the Treaty signed this day applies. |\n| (b) | His Majesty The King relinquishes all existing treaty rights relating to the special courts in the International Settlements at Shanghai and Amoy. |\n| (c) | His Majesty The King relinquishes all existing rights with regard to the employment of foreign pilots in the ports of the territories of the Republic of China. |\n| (d) | His Majesty The King relinquishes all existing treaty rights relating to the entry of his naval vessels into the waters of the Republic of China; and the Government of the Republic of China and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom shall extend to each other in connexion with the visits of the warships of the one High Contracting Party to the ports of the other High Contracting Party mutual courtesy in accordance with ordinary international usage. |\n| (e) | His Majesty The King relinquishes any right to claim the appointment of a British subject as Inspector-General of the Chinese Customs. |\n| (f) | All the courts of His Majesty The King which have hitherto been sitting in the territories of the Republic of China having been closed down in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty signed this day, the orders, decrees, judgments and other acts of any of His Majesty's courts in China shall be considered as res judicata and shall when necessary be enforced by the Chinese authorities; further, any cases pending before any of His Majesty's courts in China at the time of the coming into effect of the Treaty shall if the plaintiff or the petitioner so desires be remitted to the appropriate courts of the Government of the Republic of China, which shall proceed to dispose of them as expeditiously as possible and in so doing shall so far as practicable apply the law which the court of His Majesty would have applied. |\n| (g) | His Majesty The King relinquishes the special rights which his vessels have been accorded with regard to coasting trade and inland navigation in the waters of the Republic of China, and the Government of the Republic of China are prepared to take over any properties of His Majesty's nationals or companies which have been used for the purposes of these trades and which the owners may wish to dispose of, and to pay adequate compensation therefor. The Government of the Republic of China relinquish the special rights which have been accorded to Chinese vessels in respect of navigation on the River Irrawaddy under Article 12 of the Convention signed at London on the 1st March, 1894.(3) Should one High Contracting Party accord in any of his territories the right of coasting trade or inland navigation to the vessels of any third country, such rights would similarly be accorded to the vessels of the other High Contracting Party provided that the latter High Contracting Party permits the vessels of the former High Contracting Party to engage the coasting trade or inland navigation of his territories. Coasting trade and inland navigation are excepted from the requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each High Contracting Party in relation thereto. It is agreed, however, that the vessels of either High Contracting Party shall enjoy within the territories of the other High Contracting Party with regard to coasting trade and inland navigation treatment as favourable as that accorded to the vessels of any third country subject to the above-mentioned proviso. |\n\n2. With reference to the last sentence of Article 5 (i) of the Treaty, the Government of the Republic of China declare that the restriction on the right of alienation of existing rights and titles to real property referred to in that Article will be applied by the Chinese authorities in an equitable manner and that, if and when the Chinese Government decline to assent to a proposed transfer, the Chinese Government will, in a spirit of justice and ...\n\n(3) \"Treaty Series No. 19 (1894),\" C. 7547.\n\nPage 31\nPage 30\nPage 32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572503, "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": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "content_text": "## ARTICLE 4\n\n(iii) His Majesty The King agrees that the British Concession (including the whole British municipal area) at Tientsin and the British Concession at Canton shall revert to the administration and control of the Government of the Republic of China and that the rights accorded to His Majesty in relation to those concessions shall cease.\n\n(iv) The administration and control of the British Concession (including the whole British Municipal Area) at Tientsin and the British Concession at Canton, including their official assets and official obligations, shall be transferred to the Government of the Republic of China, it being mutually understood that the Government of the Republic of China in taking over administration and control of those concessions will make provision for the assumption and discharge of the official obligations and liabilities of those concessions and for the recognition and protection of all legitimate rights therein.\n\n## ARTICLE 5\n\n(i) In order to obviate any questions as to existing rights in respect of or as to existing titles to real property in the territory of the Republic of China possessed by nationals and companies of His Majesty The King, or by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and in particular questions which might arise from the abrogation of the provisions of treaties and agreements provided for in Article 2 of the present Treaty, the High Contracting Parties agree that such existing rights or titles shall be indefeasible and shall not be questioned upon any ground except upon proof, established through due process of law, of fraud or of fraudulent or dishonest practices in the acquisition of such rights or titles, it being understood that no right or title shall be rendered invalid by virtue of any subsequent change in the original procedure through which it was acquired. It is also agreed that the exercise of these rights or titles shall be subject to the laws and regulations of the Republic of China concerning taxation, national defence, and the right of eminent domain; and that no such rights or titles may be alienated to the Government or nationals (including companies) of any third country without the express consent of the Government of the Republic of China.\n\n(ii) The High Contracting Parties also agree that if it should be the desire of the Government of the Republic of China to replace by new deeds of ownership existing leases in perpetuity or other documentary evidence relating to real property held by nationals or companies of His Majesty The King or by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, the replacement shall be made by the Chinese authorities without charges of any sort, and the new deeds of ownership shall fully protect the holders of such leases or other documentary evidence, and their legal heirs and assigns, without diminution of their prior rights and interests, including the right of alienation.\n\n(iii) The High Contracting Parties agree further that nationals or companies of His Majesty The King or His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom shall not be required or asked by the Chinese authorities to make any payments of fees in connection with land transfers for or with relation to any period prior to the effective date of this Treaty.\n\n## ARTICLE 6\n\nHis Majesty The King having long accorded rights to nationals of the Republic of China within each of the territories of His Majesty to travel, reside, and carry on commerce throughout the whole extent of the territory, the Government of the Republic of China agree to accord similar rights to nationals of His Majesty within the territory of the Republic of China. Each High Contracting Party will endeavour to accord in his territories to nationals and companies of the other High Contracting Party, in regard to all legal proceedings and in matters relating to the administration of justice, the levying of taxes, and requirements in connection therewith, treatment no less favourable than that accorded to his own nationals and companies.\n\n## ARTICLE 7\n\nThe consular officers of one High Contracting Party, duly provided with exequaturs, shall be permitted to reside in such ports, places, and cities of the territories of the other High Contracting Party as may be agreed upon. The consular officers of one High Contracting Party shall have the right within their districts in the territories of the other High Contracting Party to interview, communicate with, and to advise the nationals and companies of the former High Contracting Party, and the nationals and companies of one High Contracting Party within the territories of the other High Contracting Party shall have the right at all times to communicate with the consular officers of the former High Contracting Party. The consular officers of one High Contracting Party in the territories of the other shall be informed immediately by the appropriate local authorities when any of their nationals are arrested or detained in their consular districts by the local authorities. They shall have the right to visit within the limits of their districts any of their nationals who are under arrest or awaiting trial in prison. Communications from the nationals of one High Contracting Party in prison in the territories of the other High Contracting Party addressed to the consular officers of the former High Contracting Party will be forwarded to the appropriate consular officer by the local authorities. Consular officers of one High Contracting Party shall be accorded in the territories of the other High Contracting Party the rights, privileges, and immunities enjoyed by consular officers under modern international usage.\n\n## ARTICLE 8\n\n(i) The High Contracting Parties will enter into negotiations for the conclusion of a comprehensive modern treaty or treaties of friendship, commerce, navigation, and consular rights upon the request of either of them or in any case within six months after the cessation of the hostilities in the war against the common enemies in which they are both now engaged. The treaty or treaties to be thus negotiated will be based upon the principles of international law and practice as reflected in modern international procedure and in the modern treaties which each of the High Contracting Parties have respectively concluded with other Powers in recent years.\n\n(ii) Pending the conclusion of the comprehensive treaty or treaties referred to in the preceding paragraph, if any questions affecting the rights in the territory of the Republic of China of the nationals or companies of His Majesty The King, or of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, or of the Government of India, should arise in future, and if these questions are not covered by the present Treaty and exchange of notes or by the provisions of the existing treaties, conventions, and agreements between the High Contracting Parties which are not abrogated by or inconsistent with the present Treaty and exchange of notes, such questions shall be discussed by representatives of the High Contracting Parties and shall be decided in accordance with the generally accepted principles of international law and with modern international practice.\n\n98", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572504, "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": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943", "content_text": "# ARTICLE 9.\n\nThe present Treaty shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged at Chungking as soon as possible. The Treaty shall come into force on the day of the exchange of ratifications.\n\nIn witness whereof the above-mentioned plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and affixed thereto their seals.\n\nDone at Chungking this 11th day of January, 1943, corresponding to the 11th day of the first month of the thirty-second year of the Republic of China, in duplicate in English and Chinese, both texts being equally authentic.\n\n**H. J. SEYMOUR.**\n**(L.S.)**\n**(L.S.)**\n**(L.S.)**\n**H. E. RICHARDSON.** **TSE VUNG SOONG.**\n\n## EXCHANGE OF NOTES.(*)\n### A.\n\nNote from Dr. Tse Vung Soong, Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Sir Horace James Seymour.\n\nSir,\n\nDURING the negotiations for the Treaty signed to-day between His Excellency the President of the National Government of the Republic of China and His Majesty The King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and India, a number of questions have been discussed upon which agreement has been reached. The understandings reached with regard to these points are recorded in the Annex to the present note, which annex shall be considered as an integral part of the Treaty signed to-day and shall be considered effective upon the date of entrance into force of that Treaty. I should be glad if Your Excellency would confirm these understandings on behalf of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**TSE VUNG SOONG.**\n\nHis Excellency Sir H. J. Seymour, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., His Majesty's Ambassador at Chungking.\n\n### ANNEX.\n\n1. With reference to Article 2 and Article 8 (ii) of the Treaty, it is understood that-\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | His Majesty The King relinquishes all existing treaty rights relating to the system of treaty ports in China. His Excellency the President of the National Government of the Republic of China and His Majesty The King mutually agree that merchant vessels of one High Contracting Party shall be permitted freely to come to ports, places and waters in the territories of the other High Contracting Party which are or may be opened to overseas merchant shipping and that treatment accorded to such vessels in such ports, places and waters shall be no less favourable than that accorded to national vessels and shall be as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country. The term \"vessels of a High Contracting Party\" means all vessels registered under the law of any of the territories of that High Contracting Party to which the Treaty signed this day applies. |\n| (b) | His Majesty The King relinquishes all existing treaty rights relating to the special courts in the International Settlements at Shanghai and Amoy. |\n| (c) | His Majesty The King relinquishes all existing rights with regard to the employment of foreign pilots in the ports of the territories of the Republic of China. |\n| (d) | His Majesty The King relinquishes all existing treaty rights relating to the entry of his naval vessels into the waters of the Republic of China, and the Government of the Republic of China and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom shall extend to each other in connexion with the visits of warships of one High Contracting Party to the ports of the other High Contracting Party mutual courtesy in accordance with ordinary international usage. |\n| (e) | His Majesty The King relinquishes any right to claim the appointment of a British subject as Inspector-General of the Chinese Customs. |\n| (f) | All the courts of His Majesty The King which have hitherto been sitting in the territories of the Republic of China having been closed down in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty signed this day, the orders, decrees, judgments and other acts of any of His Majesty's courts in China shall be considered as res judicata, and shall when necessary be enforced by the Chinese authorities: further, any cases pending before any of His Majesty's courts in China at the time of the coming into effect of the Treaty shall, if the plaintiff or petitioner so desires, be remitted to the appropriate courts of the Government of the Republic of China, which shall proceed to dispose of them as expeditiously as possible and in so doing shall, so far as practicable, apply the law which the court of His Majesty would have applied. |\n| (g) | His Majesty The King relinquishes the special rights which his vessels have been accorded with regard to coasting trade and inland navigation in the waters of the Republic of China, and the Government of the Republic of China are prepared to take over any properties of His Majesty's nationals or companies which have been used for the purposes of these trades and which the owners may wish to dispose of, and to pay adequate compensation therefor. The Government of the Republic of China relinquish the special rights which have been accorded to Chinese vessels in respect of navigation on the River Irrawaddy under Article 12 of the Convention signed at London on the 1st March, 1894.(*). Should one High Contracting Party accord in any of his territories the right of coasting trade or inland navigation to vessels of any third country, such rights would similarly be accorded to vessels of the other High Contracting Party provided that the latter High Contracting Party permits vessels of the former High Contracting Party to engage in the coasting trade or inland navigation of his territories. Coasting trade and inland navigation are excepted from the requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each High Contracting Party in relation thereto. It is agreed, however, that vessels of either High Contracting Party shall enjoy within the territories of the other High Contracting Party with respect to coasting trade and inland navigation treatment as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country subject to the above-mentioned proviso. |\n\n2. With reference to the last sentence of Article 5 (i) of the Treaty, the Government of the Republic of China declare that the restriction on the right of alienation of existing rights and titles to real property referred to in that Article will be applied by the Chinese authorities in an equitable manner and that if and when the Chinese Government decline to assent to a proposed transfer, the Chinese Government will, in a spirit of justice...\n\n(2) A similar exchange of notes took place between the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Plenipotentiary for India.\n(3) `Treaty Series No. 19 (1894), \"C. 7547\".`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572724, "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": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942", "content_text": "## LA \nE PROM 18 AT PUT OF STAKL \n212 QUILBER 31, 1949 \n156 \n\n(1) It is suggested after further study that the text of an article with regard to coastal trade, inland navigation and related questions, for possible insertion in the draft treaties on extra-territoriality might be phrased mutatis mutandis as follows: \n\n\"The Government of the U.K. relinquishes the unequal rights which vessels of the U.K. have been accorded with regard to the coastal trade and inland navigation, and the special rights which naval vessels of the U.K. have been accorded in the waters of the Republic of China.\n\n\"The Government of the U.K. and the Government of the Republic of China mutually agree that the merchant vessels of each country shall be permitted freely to come to the ports, places, and waters of the other which are or may be open to foreign commerce and shall receive in such ports, places, and waters treatment not less favorable than that accorded to national vessels or the vessels of the most favored nation. The coastal trade and inland navigation of each country are exempt from the requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each country in relation thereto. It is agreed however that vessels of either country shall enjoy within the territories of the other with respect to the coastal trade and inland navigation the most favored nation treatment.\"\n\nSuch an article might be inserted in the draft treaties as a new Article Five, the present Article 6 being renumbered Article 7, et cetera.\n\n(2) You are requested to communicate to the British Foreign Office the foregoing and to ask that the Department would appreciate receiving at an early date such comments as the British Government might wish to offer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572937, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "Ext.6972/42.\n\nX X X\n\nCypher telegram from Secretary of State for India to Government of India, External Affairs Department, dated 22nd December, 1942.\n\n**SECRET**\n\n221 72\n\n22057. His Majesty The King and the President of the Republic of China mutually agree that merchant vessels of one High Contracting Party shall be permitted freely to come to ports, places and waters in the territories of the other High Contracting Party which are or may be opened to overseas merchant shipping and that treatment accorded to such vessels in such ports, places and waters shall be no less favourable than that accorded to national vessels and shall be as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country. The term 'vessels' of a High Contracting Party means all vessels registered under the law of any of the territories of that High Contracting Party to which the treaty signed this day applies.\n\n\"His Majesty The King relinquishes the special rights which his vessels have been accorded with regard to coasting trade and inland navigation in the waters of the Republic of China. The President of the Republic of China relinquishes the special rights which have been accorded to Chinese vessels in respect of navigation on the river Irrawaddy under Article 12 of the Convention signed at London on the 1st March, 1894. Should one High Contracting Party accord in any of his territories the right of coasting trade or inland navigation to vessels of any third country, such rights would similarly be accorded to vessels of the other High Contracting Party provided that the latter High Contracting Party permits vessels of the former High Contracting Party to engage in the coasting trade or inland navigation of his territories. Coasting trade and inland navigation are excepted from the requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each High Contracting Party in relation thereto. It is agreed, however, that vessels of either High Contracting Party shall enjoy within the territories of the other High Contracting Party with respect to coasting trade and inland navigation treatment as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country subject to the above-mentioned proviso.\"\n\nO.T.F.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572949, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "## \n(e) His Majesty the King relinquishes any right to claim the appointment of a British subject as Inspector-General of the Chinese Customs.\n\n(f) All courts of His Majesty the King which have hitherto been sitting in the territories of the Republic of China having been closed down in accordance with Article 2 of the treaty signed this day, the orders, decrees, judgments, and other acts of any of His Majesty's courts in China shall be considered as res judicata, and shall, when necessary, be enforced by the Chinese authorities: further, any cases pending before any of His Majesty's courts in China at the time of the coming into effect of the treaty shall, if the plaintiff or petitioner so desires, be remitted to the appropriate courts of the Government of the Republic of China, which shall proceed to dispose of them as expeditiously as possible and, in so doing, shall, as far as practicable, apply the law which the court of His Majesty would have applied.\n\n(g) His Majesty the King relinquishes the special rights which his vessels have been accorded with regard to coasting trade and inland navigation in the waters of the Republic of China, and the Government of the Republic of China are prepared to take over any properties of His Majesty's nationals or companies which have been used for the purposes of these trades and which the owners may wish to dispose of and to pay adequate compensation therefor.\n\nHis Excellency the President of the National Government of the Republic of China relinquishes the special rights which have been accorded to Chinese vessels in respect of navigation on the river Irrawaddy under Article 12 of the Convention signed at London on the 1st March, 1894. Should one High Contracting Party accord in any of his territories the right of coasting trade or inland navigation to vessels of any third country, such rights would similarly be accorded to vessels of the other High Contracting Party, provided that the latter High Contracting Party permits vessels of the former High Contracting Party to engage in the coasting trade or inland navigation of his territories. Coasting trade and inland navigation are excepted from the requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each High Contracting Party in relation thereto. It is agreed, however, that vessels of either High Contracting Party shall enjoy within the territories of the other High Contracting Party, with respect to coasting trade and inland navigation, treatment as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country, subject to the above-mentioned proviso.\n\nWith reference to the last sentence of Article 5(i) of the treaty, the Government of the Republic of China declare that the restriction on the right of alienation of existing rights and titles to real property referred to in that Article will be applied by the Chinese authorities in an equitable manner, and that, if and when the Chinese Government decline to assent to a proposed transfer, the Chinese Government will, in a spirit of justice and with a view to precluding loss on the part of nationals or companies of His Majesty the King whose interests are affected, undertake, if so requested by the national or company of His Majesty to whom permission to alienate has been refused, to take over the rights and title in question and pay adequate compensation therefor.\n\n3./", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572989, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "## OUTWARD TELEGRAM \n187 \n125 \n\n**F. 7/34. CYPHER (TYPEX)** \n\n**FROM:** \nD.O. \n\n**TO:** \nCANADA \nAUSTRALIA \nNEW ZEALAND \nSOUTH AFRICA. \n\n(Sent 5.5.p.m. 19th Dec., 1942.) \n\n**SECRET.** \n\nMy telegram D.No. 559 of 17th December. Extra-territoriality. Chinese \n\nHis Majesty's Ambassador, Chungking, has now been sent further instructions of which the following are principal points. \n\n(1) My telegram D.No. 559, paragraph 1(C), His Majesty's Ambassador has been instructed to continue to press for national treatment for the carrying on of commerce. He will point out (a) United Kingdom Government, though preferring to defer navigation questions to the later treaty, have met Chinese desire to deal with them now (see paragraph (2) below); (b) our proposal exactly carries out the Chinese idea of stating the principle of national treatment while reserving elaboration for the commercial treaty.\n\n(2) Coastal trade and inland Navigation. Subject to certain amendments, we are accepting the Chinese counter-draft which covered, besides the question of coastal trade and inland navigation, the question of overseas merchant shipping (see (g) and (a) respectively of paragraph 1(D) of my telegram D.No. 509 of 4th December). The latest revised draft proposed by us in accordance with the decision to meet Chinese wishes in this matter is to the following effect:- \n\nBoth H.C.P. agree that merchant vessels of one H.C.P. may freely come to ports, places, and waters of other H.C.P. which are or may be opened to overseas merchant shipping and that treatment accorded to such vessels shall be no less favourable than that accorded to national vessels and shall be as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country. Vessels defined as all vessels registered under the law of any of the territories of H.C.P. to which the treaty applies, \n\nWe relinquish special rights which our vessels have been accorded with regard to coasting trade and inland navigation in China. China relinquishes special rights accorded to Chinese vessels on the Irrawaddy in the 1894 Convention. Should one H.C.P. accord in any of his territories the right of coasting trade or inland navigation to vessels of any third country, such rights would similarly be accorded to vessels of other H.C.P. provided the latter permits vessels of the former H.C.P. to engage in coasting trade and inland navigation of his territories. Coasting trade and inland navigation are excepted from the requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each H.C.P. in relation thereto. However, vessels of either H.C.P. shall enjoy within the territories of other H.C.P. with respect to coasting trade and inland navigation treatment as favourable as that accorded to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572998, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "134\n\nand are to be regulated according to the laws of each High Contracting Party in relation thereto. It is agreed, however, that vessels of either High Contracting Party shall enjoy within the territories of the other High Contracting Party, with respect to coasting trade and inland navigation, treatment as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country, subject to the above-mentioned proviso.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office note that the Department of State intend to accept the wording now proposed by the Chinese Government and that there is no reference to the taking over of any American properties that may have been engaged for the purposes of coastal trade and inland navigation and the payment of adequate compensation therefor.\n\nThe Foreign Office are also inclined not to raise this latter point but to assume that the reservation of coastal trade and inland navigation to ships flying the Chinese flag does not necessarily preclude the use of foreign-owned wharves, etc., for the purposes of these trades.\n\nDOW\n\nIn connexion with the understanding on coastal trade and inland navigation, His Majesty's Ambassador will inform the Chinese Government of the long-established practice under which trade between India on the one hand and Burma or Ceylon on the other is regarded as coastal trade.\n\n## FOREIGN OFFICE,\n17th December, 1942.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573000, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "# OUTWARD TELEGRAM\n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be kept under Lock and Key.]**\n\nirl \n136 \n\n**[This telegram is of particular secrecy and should be retained by the authorised recipient and not passed on].** \n\n`(F 8299/828/10)` \n\n**[CYPHER]** \n\n## WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTION\n\nTO: CHINA \nFROM: FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING \nNo: 1602 \nDecember 18th, 1942. \nD. 6.35 p.m. December 18th, 1942. \n\nRepeated to Washington No.559 SAVING. \n**IMMEDIATE** \n\n189 My immediately preceding telegram [extraterritoriality] paragraph 2. \nFollowing is text referred to:- \n\n\"His Majesty The King and the President of the Republic of China mutually agree that merchant vessels of one High Contracting Party shall be permitted freely to come to ports, places and waters in the territories of the other High Contracting Party which are or may be opened to overseas merchant shipping and that treatment accorded to such vessels in such ports, places and waters shall be no less favourable than that accorded to national vessels and shall be as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country. The term 'vessels' of a High Contracting Party means all vessels registered under the law of any of the territories of that High Contracting Party to which the treaty signed this day applies. \n\n2. \"His Majesty The King relinquishes the special rights which his vessels have been accorded with regard to coasting trade and inland navigation in the waters of the Republic of China. The President of the Republic of China relinquishes the special rights which have been accorded to Chinese vessels in respect of navigation on the river Irrawaddy under Article 12 of the Convention signed at London on the 1st March, 1894. Should one High Contracting Party accord in any of his territories the right of coasting trade or inland navigation to vessels of any third country, such rights would similarly be accorded to vessels of the other High Contracting Party provided that the latter High Contracting Party permits vessels of the former High Contracting Party to engage in the coasting trade or inland navigation of his territories. Coasting trade and inland navigation are excepted from the requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each High Contracting Party in relation thereto. It is agreed, however, that vessels of either High Contracting Party shall enjoy within the territories of the other High Contracting Party with respect to coasting trade and inland navigation treatment as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country subject to the above-mentioned proviso\". \n\n**O.T.P.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573010, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "# \n\nWith the Compliment \nof the \nUnder Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs \n`(F8288/828/10)` \n\n1 \n\n6 DEC 1942 \n\nColonial Office \n\nW. B.L. Monson Esq) \n\n175 \n\nThis telegram is of particular secrecy and should be retained by the authorised recipient and not passed on \n\nCypher \n\nSir H. Seymour. No.1679. \n\n**WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTION** \n\nFROM CHINA \n\n**MOST SECRET** \n\nUSUAL DISTRIBUTION \n\nFROM CHUNGKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE. \n\n15th December, 1942. \n\nD. 4.50 p.m. 15th December, 1942. \n\nR. 6.25 p.m. 15th December, 1942. \n\n146 \n\n173. \n\n17 \n\n**IMMEDIATE** \n\nMy telegram No.1677 paragraph 9. \n\nFollowing is navigation formula as communicated to us on 14th December: \n\n*His Majesty's Government and Government of Republic of China mutually agree that merchant vessels of each country shall be permitted freely to come to ports, places, and waters of other countries which are or may be opened to overseas merchant shipping and that treatment accorded to such vessels in such ports, places, and waters shall be no less favourable than that accorded national vessels and shall be as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country. \n\nHis Majesty's Government relinquish the special rights which vessels of the United Kingdom and India have been accorded with regard to coasting trade and inland navigation in waters of Republic of China. Should either country accord right of inland navigation or coasting trade to vessels of any third country, such rights would similarly be accorded to vessels of other country. The coasting trade and inland navigation of each country are excepted from requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each country in relation thereto. It is agreed however that vessels of either country shall enjoy within the territory of other country, with respect to coasting trade and inland navigation, treatment as favourable as that accorded to vessels of any third country\". \n\n2. I request your authority to accept first paragraph in place of our l(a) in the hope that we may thus avoid further consideration of Chinese text referred to in paragraph 1 of your telegram No.1587. We see however little objection and some advantage in accepting latter text also seeing opening of ports to overseas shipping is in any case at discretion of Chinese Government. \n\nO.T.P. \n\n3. I request your authority to accept second paragraph subject to \n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | insertion of sentence providing for corresponding relinquishment by China of her Irrawaddy rights under convention of 1894. |\n| (b) | Addition of words \"subject to reciprocal treatment\" after the words \"of other countries\" at the end of second sentence, and addition of following sentence at the end: \"and that these and other matters connected with navigation of waters of the two countries will be discussed and dealt with on a basis of equality and reciprocity in comprehensive Treaty of Commerce and Navigation referred to in grp. undec.? Anglo-Chinese Treaty signed to-day.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573018, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "154 \n\n(b) The Government of the United States concurs in the addition in the second paragraph of Article IV of the American draft of the first part of the proposed sentence, as follows: \"It is also agreed that these rights or titles shall be subject to the laws and regulations of the Republic of China concerning taxation, national defence and the right of eminent domain.\" As regards the further language proposed by the Chinese Government that such rights or titles may not be alienated to the government or nationals of any third country without the express consent of the Chinese Government, if after further consideration the Chinese Government continues in its desire to include in Article IV a provision along those lines, the Government of the United States would not be inclined to raise objection provided that the Chinese Government for its part should see its way clear to making a declaration in a supplemental note to the effect that the restriction on the right of alienation of existing rights and titles to real property in question would be applied in an equitable manner and that if and when the Chinese Government should decline to give assent to a proposed transfer the Chinese Government would undertake, if the American party in interest should so desire, to take over the right or title in question and pay adequate compensation therefor.\n\nFour. The Government of the United States is prepared, in response to the wish of the Chinese Government, to concur in the deletion from Article V of the American draft of the words \"and to the carrying on of commerce\", and is agreeable to deferment of this subject for regulation in the comprehensive treaty to be negotiated in future.\n\nFive. As regards the amendment to Article VI of the American draft proposed by the Chinese Government, it has been the concept and assumption of the Government of the United States that upon the abolition of extraterritoriality and related special rights in China the Chinese Government would of course wish to accord to the United States, its officers and other nationals rights similar to those normally enjoyed in friendly countries under modern international practice. In the light of this concept and assumption and of the favourable attitude which this Government has adopted and is prepared to continue toward requests of the Chinese Government for the opening of Chinese consular offices in American territory, and in the expectation that the Chinese Government would not perceive objection to the opening of American consular offices at such places in China as would be appropriate, this Government would be inclined not to raise objection to the suggested change.\n\nSix. As mentioned heretofore, it has been the concept of the Government of the United States that the interests of both countries could best be served at this time by the conclusion of a brief treaty along broad general lines and containing no unnecessary particularization. Nevertheless, while some of the matters mentioned in the suggested exchange of notes (such as special courts in the International Settlements at Shanghai and Amoy) would seem to be covered in general by the provisions of the draft treaty, and some other points (such as inland navigation and the visits of foreign warships) are not actually related to the question of extraterritoriality, the Government of the United States perceives no objection to an exchange of notes covering various matters of interest to either Government.\n\nIn this connection there is appended a suggested new draft note from the Chinese Government to cover various questions raised by the Chinese Government, including the questions of coasting trade, inland navigation and visits of naval vessels, as well as matters which the Government of the United States...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573031, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "167\n\nIn connexion with the coasting trade and inland navigation in waters of the Republic of China and that, while the Government of the Republic of China reserves the right to limit the coasting trade and inland navigation to the Chinese flag, the Government of the Republic of China does not contemplate applying restrictions which would have the effect of making material alterations in the existing practice pending the making of further arrangements between the two Governments. It is further understood that it is the concept and intention of the Government of the Republic of China and the Government of the United States of America that questions in regard to coasting trade and inland navigation will be resolved on the basis of what is normal and usual in modern international practice between friendly countries.\n\nIt is mutually understood that questions which are not covered by the present treaty and exchange of notes and which may affect the sovereignty of the Republic of China shall be discussed by representatives of the two Governments and shall be decided in accordance with generally accepted principles of international law and with modern international practice.\n\nIf the Chinese suggestion of a reference to a restriction on the right of alienation of existing rights and titles to real property is included in Article IV, with reference to Article IV of the treaty, the Government of the Republic of China hereby declares that the restriction on the right of alienation of existing rights or titles to real property referred to in that article will be applied by the Chinese authorities in an equitable manner and that if and when the Chinese Government declines to give assent to a proposed transfer the Chinese Government will, in a spirit of justice and with a view to precluding loss on the part of American nationals whose interests are affected, undertake, if the American party in interest so desires, to take over the right or title in question and to pay adequate compensation therefor.\n\nIt is mutually understood that the orders, decrees, judgments, decisions and other acts of the United States Court for China and of the Consular Courts of the United States of America in China shall be considered as res judicata and shall, when necessary, be enforced by the Chinese authorities. It is further understood that any cases pending before the United States Court for China and the Consular Courts of the United States of America in China at the time of the coming into effect of this treaty shall, if the plaintiff or petitioner so desires, be remitted to the appropriate courts of the Government of the Republic of China which shall proceed as expeditiously as possible with their disposition and in so doing shall, in so far as practicable, apply the laws of the United States of America.\n\nI shall be much obliged if Your Excellency will confirm the foregoing.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573051, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "## 187\n\n\n2. \n\nOn the question of commerce in Article 6, I could make no apparent impression on him in a long discussion, in the course of which I made full use of all possible arguments and warned him regarding Article 12 of the Burma Convention of 1894. He will refer the matter to the Government. I did not offer to give up inland navigation in favour of coast trade, preferring to reserve this for a later meeting. He insisted, of course, the Chinese Government were determined to make a \"clear cut\" and, though willing to discuss future arrangements in negotiations for a Commercial Treaty, would not be prepared to commit themselves in any way now. I can only suggest that you authorise me to seek the best compromise formula which will leave the matter open for later discussion.\n\n*8.* Minister for Foreign Affairs agreed to clause 2.\n\n*9.* As regards clause 3, Minister for Foreign Affairs said that our draft (of agreed minutes) required methodical further studying, as the Chinese Government might wish to impose restrictions on foreigners for reasons of national security in peacetime. I presume we cannot well object.\n\n*10.* As regards clause 4, after some digression, Minister for Foreign Affairs intimated that, while accepting the principle, the Chinese Government considered it unnecessary to include the matter in the exchange of notes. He will have our draft studied. I think we may have to accept a simple statement of principle in accordance with international practice. I thought it better not to raise the question of assurances regarding court procedure from the 1931 mandate at this interview.\n\n*11.* As regards clause 5, right to acquire real property, Minister for Foreign Affairs was strongly averse to raising the matter and urged that it be reserved for later treaty negotiations. I was able, however, to make some impression by the argument that with the abolition of treaty ports, we should be worse off than Powers with declarations attached to treaties of 1928, and I pressed for reciprocal rights to acquire real property subject to the laws and regulations of the country and on terms no less favourable than those accorded to nationals of other countries. I mentioned the possibility of reservations in the case of India and Burma. Unless instructed to the contrary, I shall continue at the next interview (which is not yet fixed) on the above lines.\n\n*12.* Other points discussed are covered for the purposes of record in minutes by me, which will follow by the next air bag.\n\n[Amendments received from Chungking].\n\nO.T.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573053, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "## 2.\n\nIn discussion with the Minister regarding Article 6, I could make no apparent impression on him despite a long conversation where I utilized all possible arguments and warned him about Article 12 of the Burma Convention of 1894. He will refer the matter to the Government. I did not offer to give up inland navigation in favour of coast trade, preferring to reserve this for a later meeting. He insisted, of course, that the Chinese Government were determined to make a \"clear cut\" and, though willing to discuss future arrangements in negotiations for a Commercial Treaty, would not be prepared to commit themselves in any way now. I can only suggest that you authorise me to seek the best compromise formula which will leave the matter open for later discussion.\n\n## 7.\nMinister for Foreign Affairs agreed to clause 2.\n\n## 8.\nAs regards clause 3, Minister for Foreign Affairs said that our draft (of agreed minutes) required methodical further study as the Chinese Government might wish to impose restrictions on foreigners for reasons of national security in peacetime. I presume we cannot well object.\n\n## 9.\nAs regards clause 4, after some digression, Minister for Foreign Affairs intimated that, while accepting the principle, the Chinese Government considered it unnecessary to include the matter in the exchange of notes. He will have our draft studied. I think we may have to accept a simple statement of principle in accordance with international practice. I thought it better not to raise the question of assurances regarding court procedure from the 1931 mandate at this interview.\n\n## 10.\nAs regards clause 5, the right to acquire real property, Minister for Foreign Affairs was strongly averse to raising the matter and urged that it be reserved for later treaty negotiations. I was able, however, to make some impression with the argument that with the abolition of treaty ports, we should be worse off than Powers with declarations attached to treaties of 1928, and I pressed for reciprocal rights to acquire real property subject to the laws and regulations of the country and on terms no less favourable than those accorded to Nationals of other countries. I mentioned the possibility of reservations in the case of India and Burma. Unless instructed to the contrary, I shall continue at the next interview (which is not yet fixed) on the above lines.\n\n## 11.\nOther points discussed are covered for the purposes of record in minutes by me, which will follow by the next air bag.\n\nO.T.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573126, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "261 \n\n7. We suggest a new draft note in which our rights in regard to treaty ports, special courts, and employment of foreign pilots are relinquished and in which the Chinese Government will insert names of ports normally open to foreign commerce and to the overseas merchant shipping of friendly countries. The draft note also provides for the visits of vessels of each country to places of the other open to overseas merchant shipping and for national treatment and treatment as favorable as that accorded to vessels of any third country. The note provides for the relinquishment by the United States of the special rights which our naval vessels have been accorded in Chinese waters and for the extension by both governments of the mutual courtesy of visits by warships in accordance with international usage and comity. The note mentions that coasting trade and inland navigation are not related to extraterritoriality and are matters appropriate for reservation for the comprehensive treaty. It states, however, an understanding that our special rights in connection with the coasting trade and inland navigation in Chinese waters are relinquished and that, while the Chinese Government reserves the right to limit the coasting trade and inland navigation to Chinese vessels, the Chinese Government does not contemplate, pending further arrangements between the two Governments, applying restrictions which would materially alter existing practice, it being the concept and intention of the two Governments that such questions will be resolved on the basis of what is normal and usual in modern international practice.\n\nThe note states an understanding that questions not covered by the treaty and notes and which \"may affect the sovereignty\" of China are to be discussed by representatives of the two Governments and decided in accordance with generally accepted principles of International Law. (This latter suggestion was made by the Chinese Government on November 17th).\n\nIf the Chinese suggestion in regard to restriction on the right of alienation is included in Article 4, the note will include the Chinese declaration mentioned above in paragraph 3 (2) above.\n\nThe note also includes an understanding that the acts of the United States court for China and the American Consular Courts shall be considered res judicata and shall, whenever necessary, be enforced by the Chinese authorities; and that any pending cases before those courts shall, if Plaintiff or Petitioner so desires, be remitted to the appropriate Chinese Courts, which shall dispose of them as expeditiously as possible and in so doing apply, so far as practicable, the laws of the U.S.\n\n8. It is, of course, possible that, in the light of our counter suggestions, the Chinese may wish to withdraw some of their suggestions of November 10th for modification of the Draft.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573141, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "276 \n\nMessage received from the Department of State, November 21, 1942. \n\n1. At the time of his call at the Department on November 13th, the Minister Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy discoursed at some length on the aversion of the Chinese to the \"most favoured nation clauses\" which had worked, he said, in the old extraterritorial treaties with China to China's great disadvantage almost from the very beginning of extraterritoriality in that country and he indicated that enlightened Chinese officials of course understood the use of the clause in modern treaties concluded between nations on a basis of equality and reciprocity but pointed out that the general conception of the clause in the Chinese official and public mind is that it is an integral and much resented part of the extraterritorial system. The Minister Counsellor referred to recent articles in the Ta Kung Pao of Chungking advocating that a strong stand be taken by the Chinese to insure that no such clause be included in the contemplated new treaties between China and the United States and between China and other countries. He pointed out that the clause in question had grown to be anathema to the Chinese Government and people for the reason that under it in the extraterritorial treaties various countries large and small as they came on the scene in China had been able to acquire for themselves special rights and privileges and as a result the system of extraterritoriality had been more and more fastened on China.\n\nWe believe that the Minister Counsellor correctly described and explained Chinese feeling in this regard, and it has occurred to us that our negotiations with the Chinese might be facilitated by substituting for any specific reference in the treaty to \"most favored nation treatment\" other language which will be no less effective and which might be more acceptable to the Chinese and might thus obviate avoidable opposition and delay. In the texts now under consideration the only references to \"most favored nation treatment\" occur in the second paragraph of our proposed additional article on coasting trade, inland navigation, etc. In our opinion the language of that paragraph might be altered to read: \"The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of China mutually agree that the merchant vessels of each country shall be permitted freely to come to the ports, places, and waters of the other country which are or may be opened to overseas merchant shipping, and that the treatment accorded such vessels in such ports, places and waters shall be no less favorable than that accorded to national vessels and shall be as favorable as that accorded to the vessels of any third country. The coasting trade and inland navigation of each country are excepted from the requirement of national treatment and are to be regulated according to the laws of each country in relation thereto. It is agreed however that vessels of either country shall enjoy within the territory of the other country with respect to the coasting trade and inland navigation treatment as favorable as that accorded to the vessels of any third country.\"\n\n2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573168, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "# 303\n\n1. If it should prove necessary to make provision for \"most favoured nation treatment\" in any respect in the present treaty (which is not at present the case) the Foreign Office are ready to adopt the expedient suggested by the Department of State. As regards coastal trade and inland navigation, please see under section 3 of the Foreign Office memorandum of the 23rd November.\n\n2. The Foreign Office would be grateful to be informed of the reception which the Chinese Government give to the proposal for expanding the preamble. For their part they would have no objection to introducing the principle of equality in this way into the British treaty. It should be mentioned that the Chinese Government have proposed the omission of the words \"and for this purpose to settle certain matters relating to jurisdiction in China\" from the preamble of the British draft.\n\n3. It seems to the Foreign Office preferable to retain the original wording of the second paragraphs of Articles 2 and 3 of the United States treaty if this can conveniently be done, since the phrase concerning \"legitimate rights\" provides some protection for respectable private interests in the areas which are being handed over. It is not our intention to ask that such interests should be indefinitely maintained if they are in conflict with the Chinese laws and regulations; but it is reasonable to require that if they are expropriated or otherwise liquidated adequate compensation should be paid. The Foreign Office would suggest that the matter be further discussed with the Chinese Government on these lines.\n\n4. The Foreign Office agree with the proposed amendment of Article 4 (Article 5 of the British draft), which should be satisfactory to the Chinese Government.\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE,**\n26th November, 1942.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573177, "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": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "## Special Courts. \nThe Foreign Office agree that these will disappear.\n\n## Coastal and inland navigation. \nSee below under 3.\n\n## Pilots. \nThe Foreign Office also assume that the Chinese Government have in mind the general pilotage regulations of 1868. Shanghai is the port chiefly affected by this question, and prior to the war, there was at Shanghai, as the Department of State are aware, a foreign licensed pilots' association functioning under a Sino-foreign charter. Candidates admitted to the association were required to buy a share in a company formed to own the pilot ships and other property used by the association. On resignation from the association, members were refunded the amount of their shares. His Majesty's Government have no wish to retain any special privileges in this respect, but for the safety of big ships (including naval vessels) navigating the difficult entrance to Shanghai, they consider that the Chinese Government should be invited to agree to employ a sufficient number of qualified foreign pilots when Shanghai again becomes open to allied shipping and until an adequate number of Chinese pilots can be trained to take their place. It would also be desirable to secure from the Chinese Government an undertaking to assume responsibility for the financial obligations of the Licensed Pilots' Association towards those of its members whose employment was terminated.\n\n## Foreign warships. \nHis Majesty's Government would not wish to retain any of the special rights which His Majesty's Ships have been accorded in the waters of China. The Foreign Office would suggest that any exchange of notes should acknowledge this and add the following:\n\n\"His Majesty's Government and the Chinese Government shall extend to each other the mutual courtesy of visits by their warships in accordance with international usage.\"\n\n2. The Foreign Office would see no objection to exchanging notes on treaty ports, special courts, the employment of pilots, and visits of foreign warships on the lines indicated above. They agree that it would be desirable to cover the problem of cases pending before the British courts in China and judgments already delivered in an exchange of notes in the terms proposed by the Department of State, subject to the two following insertions:\n\n(a) at the end of the first sentence \"... and shall, when necessary, be enforced by the Chinese authorities\";\n\n(b) before the words \"be remitted\" - \"... if the plaintiff or petitioner so desires\". This is desired in order to cover cases where the parties might prefer to settle, or to submit the dispute to arbitration.\n\nIn rendering the final phrase for the purposes of the British draft treaty, it will be necessary to say \"apply the laws which a British court would apply\". The Foreign Office assume that there will be no objection to Consuls finishing contested probate and administration matters in a non-judicial capacity. It will also be necessary in matrimonial cases where a decree...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575123, "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": "CO129-590-21 Government funds- temporary provisions 23-12-1941 - 4-12-1942", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-590-21 Government funds- temporary provisions 23-12-1941 - 4-12-1942", "content_text": "# DRAFT ORDER IN COUNCIL\n\nAt the Court at ...\n\nThe ... day of ... 1948\n\n## Present\n\nThe King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\n\nWhereas circumstances have arisen in the Colony of **Hong Kong** (hereinafter called \"the Colony\") which render it expedient that provision should be made whereby functions exercisable by the Governor of the Colony (hereinafter called \"the Governor\") and other authorities under laws in force in the Colony should, so long as the said circumstances continue, be exercisable by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State or by the Minister of Transport, and that such laws should be modified in other respects;\n\nAnd whereas the said functions include those conferred upon the Governor by the **Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939**, and by certain provisions of the **Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1940**, in their application to the Colony;\n\nNow, therefore, His Majesty, in exercise of the powers vested in him and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:\n\n1. (1) This Order may be cited as the **Hong Kong (Temporary Provisions) Order in Council, 1942**.\n\n(2) In this Order, the word \"enactment\" means:\n| | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) (i) | any Ordinance, |\n| (ii) | any provision, not made by virtue of an Act of Parliament, contained in an Order of His Majesty in Council, |\n| (iii) | any Regulations, Rules, Order, Proclamation or other instrument made under an Ordinance or provision as aforesaid, |\n\nhaving the force of law in the Colony on the twenty-fifth day of December, 1941;\n\n(b) \"merchant shipping functions\" means functions relating to ships or vessels (including functions in connection with the payment of compensation in connection with the acquisition thereof), their masters, crews (including apprentices), navigation at sea and aids to safety in navigation, wreck and salvage, ...\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-21 Government funds- temporary provisions 23-12-1941 - 4-12-1942.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578688, "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": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "82\n\nObstruction.\n\nPort headline.\n\nRequisition by Port Trust of\n\nProperty.\n\nTenders for work.\n\n36.\n\n(2) If the completion of the work is urgently necessary in\n\norder to avoid danger to life or property, notice may be\n\ndispensed with.\n\n(1) In this section the expression \"obstruction\" includes\n\nany dock, pier, wreck, vessel, timber, raft, or other thing\n\nwhich, whether floating or fixed, in the opinion of the Port\n\nTrust obstructs or is likely to obstruct the free and safe use\n\nand navigation of the Port or has been constructed or placed\n\nin the Port in contravention of Port by-laws.\n\n(2) Obstructions may be removed at any time by the Port Trust\n\nand, if their removal is impossible, they may be destroyed and\n\nthe owner of the obstruction or the person who placed or\n\npermitted the obstruction to be in the Port shall be liable\n\nto pay the expenses of removal or destruction unless the\n\nobstruction was lawfully made.\n\n(3) Any timber, wreck, or other property which may come into\n\nthe hands of the Port Trust in the course of the removal or\n\ndestruction of an obstruction may be retained by the Port\n\nTrust until such time as the expenses are paid by the person\n\nresponsible to pay the same. Provided that if no owner be\n\nknown the property may be sold after the expiration of one\n\nmonth and the proceeds retained by the Port Trust.\n\n37. The Port Trust may, with the approval of the Governor in\n\nCouncil, establish at any time a limit in the waters of the Port\n\nunder its jurisdiction beyond which construction from the shore may\n\nnot be extended and shall designate such limit as the \"Port headline\"\n\nfor any part or the whole of the waters of the Colony.\n\n38. When previously authorised by the Governor in Council, the\n\nPort Trust may acquire, hold, possess, sell, dispose of, or lease,\n\nreal and personal property; and may either by itself or in co-\n\noperation with others construct maintain and operate roads,\n\nrailways, vessels, plant, and equipment; and generally do such\n\nthings and exercise such powers as it deems necessary for the\n\nefficient administration, management, and control of the Port,\n\nharbour works, and other property under its jurisdiction.\n\n39. (1) Whenever any works are to be executed under the direction\n\n...\n\n20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578775, "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": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "25.\n\n26.\n\n•\n\nlaws for any act or work to be done by any person and such person does not complete such act or work within a reasonable time after notice given to him by the Port Trust so to do, the Port Trust may itself do or complete the act or work or cause the act or work to be completed and may recover from the said person all reasonable expenses incurred without prejudice to the prosecution of such person for his failure to comply with the Port by-laws.\n\n166\n\n(2) If the completion of the work is urgently necessary in order to avoid danger to life or property, notice may be dispensed with.\n\n(1) In this section the expression \"obstruction\" includes any dock, pier, wreck, vessel, timber raft or other thing which, whether floating or fixed, in the opinion of the Port Trust obstructs or is likely to obstruct the free and safe use and navigation of the Port or has been constructed or placed in the Port in contravention of Port by-laws.\n\n(2) Obstructions may be removed at any time by the Port Trust and, if their removal is impossible, they may be destroyed and the owner of the obstruction or the person who placed or permitted the obstruction to be in the Port shall be liable to pay the expenses of removal or destruction unless the obstruction was lawfully made.\n\n(3) Any timber wreck or other property which may come into the hands of the Port Trust in the course of the removal or destruction of an obstruction may be retained by the Port Trust until such time as the expenses are paid by the person responsible to pay the same. Provided that if no owner be known the property may be sold after the expiration of one month and the proceeds retained by the Port Trust.\n\n(1) All powers, duties, obligations of the Harbour Master and Hong Kong Government including the power to make by-laws and collect dues, fees, rates and tolls as provided in legislation amended by this Ordinance shall on an appointed date be transferred to the Port Trust in so far as these powers, duties and obligations are consistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, on such terms as the Governor in Council may think desirable.\n\n(2) On the appointed day or from time to time as decided by the Governor in Council and on such terms as the Governor in Council may think desirable, the Port Trust shall take over such vessels,\n\n20.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578824, "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": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "245\n\nTung\n\nMEMORANDUM\n\nAs directed at the meeting of the Hong Kong Port Consultative Committee held on the 15th November, I have ascertained how the functions formerly controlled by the Harbour Master, Hong Kong are dealt with in a number of other ports.\n\n2. There is a lack of uniformity in the allocation of duties and in the titles given to the officers controlling these functions, and for the purposes of this memorandum my enquiries have been directed to finding out which of the functions are controlled by the equivalent of the Harbour Master in other ports and, where possible, to whom the residual functions are allocated. The information which I have collected is summarised, very briefly, in the following paragraphs.\n\n3. London. The Port Authority is not responsible for lights, navigational buoys or pilotage, but the view was expressed to me that these should be under the control of the Harbour Master. The Chief Harbour Master is known as the River Superintendent. He is responsible for soundings and surveys, the enforcement of the river by-laws including petroleum and explosives regulations, mooring and berthing in the river (except at private berths), the examination of lightenmen and watermen, the surveying, measuring and registration of river craft (except barges and tugs covered by a Board of Trade Certificate), wreck marking, notices to mariners, advice to the management on intended encroachments or accommodations - and the collection of tonnage dues and pier and river tolls. He is not responsible for navigation in the approaches to the dock systems nor within the docks, which is controlled by Dockmasters responsible through Dock Superintendents to the Chief Traffic Manager. Dredging and wreck raising, in pre-war times controlled by the River Superintendent, are now carried out by a separate department in accordance with the requirements made known by the River Superintendent. The River Superintendent and his Assistant Harbour Masters are precluded from acting as expert witnesses in collision enquiries without the express permission of the Port Authority.\n\n4. Liverpool. The Marine Surveyor and Water Bailiff to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board has similar responsibilities to those of the River Superintendent of the Port of London Authority but in addition he is directly responsible for salvage, dredging, lighting and buoying. In view of the damage done to the dock facilities by tugs, the Board has recently obtained powers to license and survey tugs and other river craft and to satisfy itself as to the competency of their crews. The Docks and Harbour Board is also the pilotage authority. The pilots are examined and licensed by a Committee set up for the purpose. Their employment is controlled by a Superintendent of Pilots appointed by the Board, but the Pilots themselves are not employed by the Board.\n\n5. Lagos. The port facilities are controlled and operated by the Nigerian Government through a Director of Marine with a large technical staff. The Marine Department undertakes pilotage, towage, mooring, marine surveys, the licensing of boats and lighters, and maintains lighthouses, buoys and beacons.\n\n6. Mombasa. The port facilities are controlled and operated by the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbour Administration, which is a separate administrative and financial unit responsible to the Governor as High Commissioner for Transport. The Railways and Harbour Administration is responsible for the provision of pilots, lights and buoys, and undertakes mooring and the registration, licensing and surveying of dhows; but is not responsible for the Mercantile Marine functions.\n\n7. Singapore. The Singapore Harbour Board is concerned mainly with the control and operation of the berths, quays and warehouse facilities in the harbour area. It is not the conservancy, lighting or pilotage authority. The principal officers of the Straits Settlements Government include a Master Attendant who is responsible for the Mercantile Marine (Shipping) Office, Registry of Shipping, Licensing of River Boats, Marine Court, Court of Inquiry, Licensing of Pilots, the operation and maintenance of lighthouses and the application of the explosives regulations. The Surveyor General of Ships is responsible for marine surveys, and an Immigration and Passports Officer is responsible for the collection of landing fees and fines, and the issue of certificates of admission.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578829, "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": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "2577\n\nCertificate of Registry, Transfer of Shares, Mortgaging, etc., is closely linked with the work of the Ship Surveyor. As soon as the Transfer Restrictions Act is suspended I anticipate considerable activity in this sub-department.\n\n(ii) Shipping Surveys. Title -\n\nHarbour Master, Hong Kong, is the Issuing Authority.\n\nThese include the issue of International Convention Certificates (International Passenger and Safety Certificates, Loadline Certificates, etc.), Surveys for Registry, Classification, etc., Surveys for Emigration Licences as issued under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, Special Surveys as provided for under the Simla Rules, etc., and the Surveys of launches and lighters as provided for under local legislation.\n\nThe periodic inspection of vessels in order to see if the necessary standards are being maintained is not the business of a Port Trust.\n\n(iii) Mercantile Marine Office. Title - Superintendent of Mercantile Marine.\n\nThis office is devoted exclusively to the welfare of the seaman. His agreement with the Master, pay, conditions of service, sickness, Unemployment Insurance, National Health and Pensions Insurance, etc.\n\nThe work of this office has been greatly increased as a result of the war and legislation intended to better safeguard the interests of the seaman.\n\nIn addition, we have the problem of Chinese crews which is bound to become more complex as more definite relations are established with China.\n\n(iv) Emigration Office. Title - Emigration Officer.\n\nThe duty of the Emigration Officer is to see that the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance are correctly observed, e.g., the vessel is properly manned, equipped and stored, adequate safety measures are in order, etc., that the intended emigrant receives a fair deal with respect to his or her passage, etc.\n\nIn this connection I work closely with the Surveyors and The Secretary, Chinese Affairs.\n\nThe title is rather misleading if considered with \"Immigration Officer\" whose duties are entirely different.\n\n(v) Examinations of Masters and Mates. Title - Principal Examiner of Masters, Mates and Engineers.\n\nNautical and Engineering Surveyors who are specially detailed carry out these duties under supervision, and the present Deputy Harbour Master usually takes the oral examination of Masters and Mates.\n\n(vi) Discipline of Crews and Enforcement of By-Laws. Title - Marine Magistrate.\n\nThe Deputy Harbour Master or myself sit in the Marine Magistrate's Court every morning and hear complaints directly concerned with offences on board vessels in the port or offences against the Port Regulations.\n\nThere can be no objection to the system, for officers so qualified are best able to decide such cases as are within our powers.\n\nA Port Trust would prosecute in cases concerning offences against the \"By-Laws\".\n\n(vii) Courts of Enquiry. Title - Marine Court (The Harbour Master is Chairman).\n\nA Marine Court is convened as provided for in the Shipping and Navigation Ordinance, and deals with Collisions, Strandings, Sinkings, Burnings, etc.\n\n2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579900, "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": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "content_text": "MEMORANDUM\n\n99\n\nAs directed at the meeting of the Hong Kong Port Consultative Committee held on the 15th November, I have ascertained how the functions formerly controlled by the Harbour Master, Hong Kong are dealt with in a number of other ports.\n\n67\n\n2. There is a lack of uniformity in the allocation of duties and in the titles given to the officers controlling these functions, and for the purposes of this memorandum my enquiries have been directed to finding out which of the functions are controlled by the equivalent of the Harbour Master in other ports and, where possible, to whom the residual functions are allocated. The information which I have collected is summarised, very briefly, in the following paragraphs.\n\n3. London. The Port Authority is not responsible for lights, navigational buoys or pilotage, but the view was expressed to me that these should be under the control of the Harbour Master. The Chief Harbour Master is known as the River Superintendent. He is responsible for soundings and surveys, the enforcement of the river by-laws including petroleum and explosives regulations, mooring and berthing in the river (except at private berths), the examination of lightermen and watermen, the surveying, measuring and registration of river craft (except barges and tugs covered by Board of Trade Certificate), wreck marking, notices to mariners, advice to the management on intended encroachments or accommodations and the collection of tonnage dues and pier and river tolls. He is not responsible for navigation in the approaches to the dock systems nor within the docks, which is controlled by Dockmasters responsible through Dock Superintendents to the Chief Traffic Manager. Dredging and wreck raising, in pre-war times controlled by the River Superintendent, are now carried out by a separate department in accordance with the requirements made known by the River Superintendent. The River Superintendent and his Assistant Harbour Masters are precluded from acting as expert witnesses in collision enquiries without the express permission of the Port Authority.\n\n4. Liverpool. The Marine Surveyor and Water Bailiff to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board has similar responsibilities to those of the River Superintendent of the Port of London Authority but in addition he is directly responsible for salvage, dredging, lighting and buoying. In view of the damage done to the dock facilities by tugs, the Board has recently obtained powers to license and survey tugs and other river craft and to satisfy itself as to the competency of their crews. The Docks and Harbour Board is also the pilotage authority. The pilots are examined and licensed by a Committee set up for the purpose. Their employment is controlled by a Superintendent of Pilots appointed by the Board, but the Pilots themselves are not employed by the Board.\n\n5. Lagos. The port facilities are controlled and operated by the Nigerian Government through a Director of Marine with a large technical staff. The Marine Department undertakes pilotage, towage, mooring, marine surveys, the licensing of boats and lighters, and maintains lighthouses, buoys and beacons.\n\n6. Mombasa. The port facilities are controlled and operated by the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbour Administration, which is a separate administrative and financial unit responsible to the Governor as High Commissioner for Transport. The Railways and Harbour Administration is responsible for the provision of pilots, lights and buoys, and undertakes mooring and the registration, licensing and surveying of dhows; but is not responsible for the Mercantile Marine functions.\n\n7. Singapore. The Singapore Harbour Board is concerned mainly with the control and operation of the berths, quays and warehouse facilities in the harbour area. It is not the conservancy, lighting or pilotage authority. The principal officers of the Straits Settlements Government include a Master Attendant who is responsible for the Mercantile Marine (Shipping) Office, Registry of Shipping, Licensing of River Boats, Marine Court, Court of Inquiry, Licensing of Pilots, the operation and maintenance of lighthouses and the application of the explosives regulations. The Surveyor General of Ships is responsible for marine surveys, and an Immigration and Passports Officer is responsible for the collection of landing fees and fines, and the issue of certificates of admission. The Director of...\n\n1\n\nGR", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586754, "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": "CO129-604-5 Immigration- control over entry from China 4-3-1948 - 6-1-1949", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-604-5 Immigration- control over entry from China 4-3-1948 - 6-1-1949", "content_text": "Secretariat 2/528/468\n\nNo: 46.\n\n**SECRET**\n\nCopied to:\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies (No. 26.)\n\nGovernor, Singapore\n\nHigh Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n14th July, 1948.\n\n43\n\n58\n\n15314/14/40 R15.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to refer to your despatch No. 8 (99/936/47) of 7th January, 1947, (copied to the Foreign Office as your despatch No. 42), enclosing copy of the Chinese counter draft for a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation. Although I understand that negotiations with His Majesty's Government and the Chinese Government for a Treaty of this nature are at present suspended, it may be useful to place on record the views of this Government. The Chinese counter draft has been considered by the various departments concerned in this Government, and the following observations are submitted.\n\n2.\n\nArticle 3,(3). The Commissioner for Foreign affairs for Kwangtung and Kwangsi, which is the designation of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative in Hong Kong, would not presumably come within the description of \"accredited diplomatic Representative\". It seems desirable to avoid perpetuation of this trouble-causing office, and to get the Commissioner replaced by a Consul General. If negotiations for a treaty are resumed it might be appropriate to take up this point then.\n\nArticle 4 (5)\n\n3.\n\nThere are strong objections to this article in its present form. I would prefer omitting it altogether, or dealing with the subject outside the Treaty itself by an exchange of letters. The important words are \"hitherto enjoyed\", for although there is no treaty right for Chinese to enter Hong Kong freely, and although the Hong Kong Government has enacted laws under which the entry of Chinese is subjected to the same restrictions as those applicable to the Nationals of other states, the fact remains that hitherto in practice the Chinese have at most times been exempted by administrative action from the rigorous application to them of such restrictions. A further point is that this privilege of exemption from compliance with Immigration Regulations has been extended only to Chinese Nationals of Chinese race. It has in the past been relatively\n\nHIT BAZLAGIO MAJ. STY'S AMBASSADOR,\n\nBRITISH EMBASSY,\n\nNANKING.\n\n23 JUL 1948 O.O. KLGY,\n\n1\n\nPage 1\n\n \n(end of page 1)\n\n(start of page 2)\n\nPage 2\n\n \n(end of page 2)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-604-5 Immigration- control over entry from China 4-3-1948 - 6-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589190, "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": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "APPENDIX I (D.4)\n\nMEMORANDUM\n\nAs directed at the meeting of the Hong Kong Port Consultative Committee held on the 15th November, I have ascertained how the functions formerly controlled by the Harbour Master, Hong Kong are dealt with in a number of other ports.\n\n2.\n\nThere is a lack of uniformity in the allocation of duties and in the titles given to the officers controlling these functions, and for the purposes of this memorandum my enquiries have been directed to finding out which of the functions are controlled by the equivalent of the Harbour Master in other ports and, where possible, to whom the residual functions are allocated. The information which I have collected is summarized, very briefly, in the following paragraphs.\n\nPage 120\n\n3. London. The Port Authority is not responsible for lights, navigational buoys or pilotage, but the view was expressed to me that these should be under the control of the Harbour Master. The Chief Harbour Master is known as the River Superintendent. He is responsible for soundings and surveys, the enforcement of the river by-laws including petroleum and explosives regulations, mooring and berthing in the river (except at private berths), the examination of lightermen and watermen, the surveying, measuring and registration of river craft (except barges and tugs covered by a Board of Trade Certificate), wreck marking, notices to mariners, advice to the management on intended encroachments or accommodations and the collection of tonnage dues and pier and river tolls. He is not responsible for navigation in the approaches to the dock systems nor within the docks, which is controlled by Dockmasters responsible through Dock Superintendents to the Chief Traffic Manager. Dredging and wreck raising, in pre-war times controlled by the River Superintendent, are now carried out by a separate department in accordance with the requirements made known by the River Superintendent. The River Superintendent and his Assistant Harbour Masters are precluded from acting as expert witnesses in collision inquiries without the express permission of the Port Authority.\n\n4. Liverpool. The Marine Surveyor and Water Bailiff to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board has similar responsibilities to those of the River Superintendent of the Port of London Authority but in addition he is directly responsible for salvage, dredging, lighting and buoying. In view of the damage done to the dock facilities by tugs, the Board has recently obtained powers to license and survey tugs and other river craft and to satisfy itself as to the competency of their crews. The Docks and Harbour Board is also the pilotage authority. The pilots are examined and licensed by a Committee set up for the purpose. Their employment is controlled by a Superintendent of Pilots appointed by the Board, but the Pilots themselves are not employed by the Board.\n\n5. Lagos. The port facilities are controlled and operated by the Nigerian Government through a Director of Marine with a large technical staff. The Marine Department undertakes pilotage, towage, mooring, marine surveys, the licensing of boats and lighters, and maintains lighthouses, buoys and beacons.\n\n6. Mombasa. The port facilities are controlled and operated by the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbour Administration, which is a separate administrative and financial unit responsible to the Governor as High Commissioner for Transport. The Railways and Harbour Administration is responsible for the provision of pilots, lights and buoys, and undertakes mooring and the registration, licensing and surveying of dhows; but is not responsible for the Mercantile Marine functions.\n\n7. Singapore. The Singapore Harbour Board is concerned mainly with the control and operation of the berths, quays and warehouse facilities in the harbour area. It is not the conservancy, lighting or pilotage authority. The principal officers of the Straits Settlements Government include a Master Attendant who is responsible for the Mercantile Marine (Shipping) Office, Registry of Shipping, Licensing of River Boats, Marine Court, Court of Inquiry, Licensing of Pilots, the operation and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589196, "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": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "(v) Examinations of Masters and Mates. Title - Principal Examiner of Masters, Mates and Engineers.\n\nNautical and Engineering Surveyors who are specially detailed carry out these duties under supervision, and the present Deputy Harbour Master usually takes the oral examination of Masters and Mates.\n\n(vi) Discipline of Crews and Enforcement of By-Laws. Title - Marine Magistrate.\n\nThe Deputy Harbour Master or myself sit in the Marine Magistrate's Court every morning and hear complaints directly concerned with offences on board vessels in the port or offences against the Port Regulations.\n\nThere can be no objection to the system, for officers so qualified are best able to decide such cases as are within our powers.\n\nA Port Trust would prosecute in cases concerning offences against the \"By-Laws\".\n\n(vii) Courts of Enquiry. Title - Marine Court (The Harbour Master is Chairman).\n\nA Marine Court is convened as provided for in the Shipping and Navigation Ordinance, and deals with Collisions, Strandings, Sinkings, Burnings, etc. It is set up whenever there is a reason to believe that incompetence has occurred which might involve a Certificate of Competency, or where the interests of a British Shipowner, Shipper or Merchant indicate such a procedure.\n\n(viii) Courts of Survey - Not mentioned in the Memorandum.\n\nThese are set up whenever a Shipowner objects to a decision made by a Surveyor in respect of the withholding of a Certificate, etc., or where the crew of a vessel protest against the seaworthiness of a vessel, the conduct of the Master, etc.\n\n(ix) Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund - Not mentioned in the Memorandum.\n\nI am Chairman of the Committee which administers this fund, and our primary duty is really the welfare of indigent seamen found in Hong Kong.\n\n(x) Dangerous Goods - Not mentioned in the Memorandum.\n\nThe question of the carriage of dangerous goods in ships has international implications, and we have an Ordinance and Regulations specially devoted to this most important aspect of the stowage of such goods in ships.\n\nThere is no doubt in my mind that a Marine Department should be the proper authority for the correct observance of these Regulations.\n\nLand storage is controlled by the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade.\n\nPage 120\n\n126\n\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594825, "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": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "## (v) Examinations of Masters and Mates\n\n**Title- Principal Examiner of Masters, Mates and Engineers.**\n\nNautical and Engineering Surveyors who are specially detailed carry out these duties under supervision, and the present Deputy Harbour Master usually takes the oral examination of Masters and Mates.\n\n## (vi) Discipline of Crews and Enforcement of By-Laws\n\n**Marine Magistrate.**\n\n**Title G**\n\nThe Deputy Harbour Master or myself sit in the Marine Magistrate's Court every morning and hear complaints directly concerned with offences on board vessels in the port or offences against the Port Regulations.\n\nThere can be no objection to the system, for officers so qualified are best able to decide such cases as are within our powers.\n\nA Port Trust would prosecute in cases concerning offences against the \"By-Laws\".\n\n## (vii) Courts of Enquiry\n\n**Title- Marine Court (The Harbour Master is Chairman).**\n\nA Marine Court is convened as provided for in the Shipping and Navigation Ordinance, and deals with Collisions, Strandings, Sinkings, Burnings, etc. It is set up whenever there is a reason to believe that incompetence has occurred which might involve a Certificate of Competency, or where the interests of a British Shipowner, Shipper or Merchant indicate such a procedure.\n\n## (viii) Courts of Survey - Not mentioned in the Memorandum\n\nThese are set up whenever a Shipowner objects to a decision made by a Surveyor in respect of the withholding of a Certificate, etc., or where the crew of a vessel protest against the seaworthiness of a vessel, the conduct of the Master, etc.\n\n## (ix) Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund - Not mentioned in the Memorandum\n\nI am Chairman of the Committee which administers this fund, and our primary duty is really the welfare of indigent seamen found in Hong Kong.\n\n## (x) Dangerous Goods - Not mentioned in the Memorandum\n\nThe question of the carriage of dangerous goods in ships has international implications, and we have an Ordinance and Regulations specially devoted to this most important aspect of the stowage of such goods on ships.\n\nThere is no doubt in my mind that a Marine Department should be the proper authority for the correct observance of these Regulations.\n\nLand storage is controlled by the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594831, "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": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "# APPENDIX I (Do4)\n\n## **MEMORANDUM**\n\nAs directed at the meeting of the Hong Kong Port Consultative Committee held on the 15th November, I have ascertained how the functions formerly controlled by the Harbour Master, Hong Kong are dealt with in a number of other ports.\n\n2. There is a lack of uniformity in the allocation of duties and in the titles given to the officers controlling these functions, and for the purposes of this memorandum my enquiries have been directed to finding out which of the functions are controlled by the equivalent of the Harbour Master in other ports and, where possible, to whom the residual functions are allocated. The information which I have collected is summarized, very briefly, in the following paragraphs.\n\n3. London. The Port Authority is not responsible for lights, navigational buoys or pilotage, but the view was expressed to me that these should be under the control of the Harbour Master. The Chief Harbour Master is known as the River Superintendent. He is responsible for soundings and surveys, the enforcement of the river by-laws including petroleum and explosives regulations, mooring and berthing in the river (except at private berths), the examination of lightermen and watermen, the surveying, measuring and registration of river craft (except barges and tugs covered by a Board of Trade Certificate), wreck marking, notices to mariners, advice to the management on intended encroachments or accommodations and the collection of tonnage dues and pier and river tolls. He is not responsible for navigation in the approaches to the dock systems nor within the docks, which is controlled by Dockmasters responsible through Dock Superintendents to the Chief Traffic Manager. Dredging and wreck raising, in pre-war times controlled by the River Superintendent, are now carried out by a separate department in accordance with the requirements made known by the River Superintendent. The River Superintendent and his Assistant Harbour Masters are precluded from acting as expert witnesses in collision inquiries without the express permission of the Port Authority.\n\n4. Liverpool. The Marine Surveyor and Water Bailiff to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board has similar responsibilities to those of the River Superintendent of the Port of London Authority but in addition he is directly responsible for salvage, dredging, lighting and buoying. In view of the damage done to the dock facilities by tugs, the Board has recently obtained powers to license and survey tugs and other river craft and to satisfy itself as to the competency of their crews. The Docks and Harbour Board is also the pilotage authority. The pilots are examined and licensed by a Committee set up for the purpose. Their employment is controlled by a Superintendent of Pilots appointed by the Board, but the Pilots themselves are not employed by the Board.\n\n5. Lagos. The port facilities are controlled and operated by the Nigerian Government through a Director of Marine with a large technical staff. The Marine Department undertakes pilotage, towage, mooring, marine surveys, the licensing of boats and lighters, and maintains lighthouses, buoys and beacons.\n\n6. Mombasa. The port facilities are controlled and operated by the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbour Administration, which is a separate administrative and financial unit responsible to the Governor as High Commissioner for Transport. The Railways and Harbour Administration is responsible for the provision of pilots, lights and buoys, and undertakes mooring and the registration, licensing and surveying of dhows; but is not responsible for the Mercantile Marine functions.\n\n7. Singapore. The Singapore Harbour Board is concerned mainly with the control and operation of the berths, quays and warehouse facilities in the harbour area. It is not the conservancy, lighting or pilotage authority. The principal officers of the Straits Settlements Government include a Master Attendant who is responsible for the Mercantile Marine (Shipping) office, Registry of Shipping, Licensing of River Boats, Marine Court, Court of Inquiry, Licensing of Pilots, the operation and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595082, "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": "CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947", "content_text": "82\n\nGoing steamers are closed to foreign flag. \nThey have put every obstacle in the way of recovery by British owners of fixed and floating property. They have, in fact, destroyed the transport system the British built.\n\nThe Chinese Government have purchased a number of vessels but ignorant and inefficient operation has resulted in so poor and costly a service that prices have risen out of all reason and trade has not reopened.\n\nChina Merchants Steam Navigation Company, a Government monopoly in which many influential Chinese have interests, has to a great extent monopolised all transport and exerts considerable political pressure on the Government to maintain an exclusionist policy.\n\nUnder the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation yet to be negotiated, another effort will be made to secure for British interests means of trading on the rivers and coast if not under the British flag at least under the Chinese flag with British control.\n\nIn order to keep close touch with the situation in China and South East Asia as affecting British shipping the Ministry of Transport is posting a Senior Official at Hong Kong.\n\nIt is hoped that budding Chinese port officials and shipping men generally will be able to receive British training, for although China has undertaken international engagements in respect of measures to ensure safety of life at sea etc., performance lags far behind promise.\n\n155", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]