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        "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843",
        "content_text": "could be \n\nو هر دو به منتوج أريد \n\navailable qur. Forty palivoks by muco seu \n\n...... \n\n78.2 \n\nShae \n\nof the s \n\nx \n\nthe Ben in the Fin \n\nit \n\nplaved additiona: \n\nto a 200 \n\nOfficer \n\n(2 \n\nlines \n\nدر مدفون گریه مهره \n\nدخانه که در دوره \n\nafterwards \n\nthe \n\nthe à Moira book fires, ate became \n\nthe v't to hiih kaz \n\nو دره هم در \n\nabout theile) Frun the & & hiff, and aritivas \n\nhemes them Farles \n\nJ 27 \n\nyhou \n\nگرود و \n\nکی عمر نواحی \n\nکرده \n\nLourd the Sulimany \n\nof \n\nThe Medient \n\nOfficer reflect State Kr Decker och the Fiberg \n\nThen he to \n\nthe risk me \n\nthe wet, Scout the somatical \n\n^ \n\nཛ་ 21 \n\n1 laying \n\nHaff \n\nand Holi \n\nOfficer to the Best Princh barracks to a vecitin \n\nthe \n\nCommanding Officer \n\nfficer there, \n\nspechin whether there \n\na e o nr. \n\no dalias \n\nand There on B fortina & \n\nline of the thily pick ma \n\nRent to the Ruin. \n\nreported \n\nގ ނޑު \n\n> \n\nl a b \n\nhus. \n\nThen se been, Huy \n\nthat there would be \n\nG \n\nagement \n\nprevent \n\nގ ށ \n\ningle, fanded, and to furent their \n\nbeing \n\nته \n\nbeing \n\nt land, and the dis \n\ncrooded, humored \n\nday Ripken. \n\nthe Artillery \n\nlo Cantonment Will. After his, the Comial called upon. \n\nshin \n\nto \n\nthe Carne Slive \n\ndo To, un bijo Had a hans fort allotted for \n\n> \n\nን' \n\nان نوم ویر \n\n糕 \n\nzatim of the \n\nKew living \n\nin the Flore, at the fame fin asingeund \n\nthat the Come, burraske \n\nthat the 3 if Inter \n\nanxute the Shin \n\nplaced at my \n\nimu \n\n芯 \n\nv \n\n\" \n\nanc \n\nme file be 5, and \n\nmoney hand and \n\nV 73 \n\ndisposal, \n\nhundred and fiften, \n\n14. \n\n€ \n\nSen barthed \n\nmen Rub accused Bonds B \n\nof the Mount être to the Ameri \n\nAbout \n\nwon th \n\nthe afterwards, Caflain Inn pom of the U. 26. Regiments and The Aquitants of the Debnathuen (;, waile 3: \n\n..... \n\n€\" 75 \n\n> \n\nمجھے \n\nand Statier Khul únice. Be trouges. backed in the \"Shaw Gitum,\" the sick \n\nthere in \n\n$- \n\nin are a ved youm deuraly four to me \n\ntwenty for, \n\nrequest Dumle allen Con le discontent the \n\nfremdet kan bellum; at this time a Carrack at West Paint war de fortes \n\nday and fit to \n\n\" \n\nreecives tops, therefore \n\nZZ",
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        "document_key": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843",
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        "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843",
        "content_text": "the Mails from Hong Kong, this all important object might, scisleut deffe in brottared. The a doa sto to the Straits gettlements, consequent on the adops \n\nof impercent arrangements, requires comment, and to practical laby of effectory a very connétrable acceleration of the communication, avel Thin Evident from the comple fact, that the average interval whil has in the bansmiferor of testers from Chania, by the last Twenty Borland Mails, forrestenitors of the confortirate Serly mail from Briley) needs the previo occasionally accepide by fast sailing duites, in accomplishing the voyage, vie the Cape of Good Hope- \n\nCorden 28th Pefect. 1883. \n\nKury \n\nJuos Wise. \n\nFable A. \n\nHomeward Overland Mails. \n\nمر با \n\nTable exhibiting the latest dates from Bombay, Bad as, Caceutta, Piscoprir \n\nator the defining of Itters fein Trance) couloiden: 1842-43. \n\nMarth Sanct May \n\nLaive \n\nسیاری دیر اور تیز \n\nو لے کر کم ہے \n\n22 47 December 24 74 Best 1945 Jarurary 27 48 \n\nfrom Brabeg \n\nInvents Latest: Bala \n\nDags. Jum Stadras. \n\nIntown Letter White Ludmel Botest Date \n\nDays, fourlatente Rays from Terzo pants. Days from \n\nThe tas Chuvas. \n\nHotoneast Dagh \n\n7. Decentret 37 Nov \n\n45 Novr \n\nMarch \n\n3P 37 Pe 29 22 67 Sam 35 by 20 \n\n44 Fabry 23 43 Chianti \n\nBetober 25 74 Belober November 23 75 HEA \n\n19: \n\nگرگان گیا \n\nجز \n\nکند که کره ای \n\nکے بیان کرتی ہے \n\n21 45 | Acturary 211 \n\n21. 44 Aut \n\n53 April \n\n99 1/23 \n\nی مهرگان \n\nBeda \n\nDod 1843. Jan37 \n\nبرای استانی هم داشته \n\nمہینہ ہے۔ اور جو گھر گھر سے \n\n23 42. Ma 18 \n\n3 Ben Op \n\nJ Bear \n\n7 Sandy \n\n13 Aubag \n\n7. \n\nمو که محرم \n\nFr. obz \n\n142, Dangust, 17 38 App timber: 2.0) 35 Autober 22 39 November?2 \n\n54 Judez, \n\nނގ . \n\nMay \n\n1556 July \n\n20 47 October. \n\n46 Becker 48 Arender 20 \n\nخوبی کیا \n\n27 74q \n\n24 Ju Ivety, ba Fepaz October \n\n794 j p \n\nja \n\n9. 34 December 24 48 December 23, 44) November 27 72 Noctember \n\nکو \n\n35 Samary 2ts 48 Sway 23 49 37 February 22 440 Prebening 20 44 37 havets 24 45 March \n\nJove \n\n73 411 February 23. 711 \n\n53 April \n\ntany \n\nJuly \n\n2 June 1944p \n\n23 43 April \n\n2/ \n\n445 Gear A \n\nPract \n\n90 44 May \n\n54 Mung \n\n\" \n\nf \n\nJuice \n\nJ \n\n+ \n\nور رایانه ای برای این کار ساده \n\nfrom. Ponsetimay \n\ntounger Intézet From Madr.47 \n\n934 day \n\nAvecuja kutt woul. 49 from Celinkte \n\n18 76 May \n\nFor voz - Putiner. 145 from Longahe. \n\nConson with Septe \n\nChemi \n\nکو سر کشور \n\nبه شورای سی \n\n25 100 b $$",
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        "document_key": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]",
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        "title": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]",
        "content_text": "15 Suelohn\n\nHong Kong, \"Thaim Jaw: 28.\n\nRECOR\n\nhave the honour to call Your Lordship's attention to the enclosed Opinion Communication Mark R. 1. from the Colonial Secretary for the information of Your Lordships. Becker, in relation to the Vacation of the Supreme Court, has been reported upon on various premises.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]",
        "page_number": 366,
        "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]",
        "content_text": "1849 Governor Bonham\n\nJuly 12 68 Councils.\n\nEmir's minutes of the proceedings of the Executive and Legislative Councils for the half year ending June 30.\n\nJuly 17 69 Appointments.\n\nEncloses returns of all appointments for the quarter ending June 30.\n\nJuly 18 70 Treasury Accounts.\n\nEncloses the Treasury Accounts for the quarter ending June 30 with the requisite Vouchers, also the report of the Board of Audit of the Treasurer's Chest.\n\nJuly 20 71, Mr J Mc Knight.\n\nJuly 21 72 Survey.\n\nReports having allowed Mr Mc Knight to resign his Inland Lots Land 887, 133 and 282 the rents have all been paid up.\n\nJuly 21 73 Attorney General.\n\nRequires instructions on the subject Entitled Fees in certain cases for the Attorney General's being called upon for his professional assistance when required by the Ordnance or Military Authorities.\n\nRefers to Despatches from the Secretary of State dated 1845, 1846 and 1847 bearing on this question particularly with regard to the Ordnance Department.\n\nJuly 25 75 Barracks.\n\nEncloses receipt of Despatches.\n\nRefers to Despatches No 5 Military dated May 6 and No 58 dated May 23.\n\nEncloses reports from the Commandants of the Garrison and of the Royal Engineers on the extent of Barrack accommodation required.\n\nReports also his own views on the subject.\n\nJuly 21 72 Police Force.\n\nAugust 11 112 Mary 6.\n\nAuken Despatch.\n\nReports that William Lowe, Richard Tackerbery, Thomas Anderson, George Darrington and James Decker were in the Police force to January 14 and Francis Balfour to Dec. 31.\n\n348 ENE G\n\n1849 Governor Bonham",
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        "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
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        "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "content_text": "113,870\n\n20\n\nAdm\n\nFore\n\nOffe\n\nHome Office\n\nWar Office\n\nCopy to Treas 8th May / 195\n\nCopy to Sov: 11th May\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAPM 96\n\n1243\n\nHong Kong\n\nWar Office,\n\n25th April 1867.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, transmitting copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, dated 10th January last, with one enclosure, reporting the grant of a free passage to Madras to James Decker of the 98th Regiment, not 90th Regiment, accompanied by their families, in the Ship named in the margin, \"Fart Balfour\", in which they had volunteered to serve.\n\nThese men, with others, volunteered in 1845 for the above duty in the Colony, and their pensions were fixed by the Chelsea Board, but with an understanding that they were not to draw the same during their service.\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151\n\nAdmin Office\n\nin the Police, and it will, therefore, be necessary to make the necessary arrangements for paying them their pensions at Madras, through the East India Company, until the date they have been subsisted in the Police Force shall have been communicated to this Office.\n\nThis has before been intimated to the Authorities at Hong Kong, in similar cases, and the required information has been furnished.\n\nOn the last occasion, by Major Staveley, in a letter from Hong Kong, 28th July 1868.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n& Salva",
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        "document_key": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]",
        "content_text": "Proceedings of a Board of Survey held at the Colonial Treasury of Hongkong this the 24th day of May 1850, pursuant to order of the Honorable the Lieutenant Governor\n\nthe Honorable the Lieutenant Governor administering the Government.\n\nMembers. Charles St. George Cleverly, Esquire.\n\nRobert Riénaecker,\n\nthe Board having ascertained the exact Coins existing in the Treasury Books, found the same to be as follows:\n\n  \n    \n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Spanish | Mexican Dollars\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dollars\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    A\n    44727\n    7\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7480\n    3,848\n    12\n  \n  \n    \n    1,397\n    75\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    215\n    0\n    14\n  \n  \n    \n    859\n    4\n    14\n  \n  \n    \n    8,877\n    75\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    556\n    13\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    6,859\n    4\n    14\n  \n  \n    \n    341\n    13\n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    6,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    48,575½\n    12\n    \n  \n  \n    Public Monies.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In the Strong Vault.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Treasurer's Chest.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    #\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Private Property\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    in the\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    the Strong Vault:\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Grand Total.\n    14084\n    12\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11,289\n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,489\n    57\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    24\n    3,668\n    8\n  \n  \n    \n    64\n    164\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,556\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11,289\n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    13,367\n    32\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    809\n    5\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    10,527\n    12\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    49,976\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    128\n    \n    \n  \n\nAmounting to ten thousand five hundred twenty seven Pounds, twelve Shillings and right Pence Sterling; and\n\nthat the abovementioned sums agree with the Balances as shown in the Treasurer's Books.\n\nthey certify\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nMem.: (Signed.) Lt. Gov. Cleverly\n\nR. Riénaecker.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]",
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        "content_text": "thats \n\nзрив Мов зорат \n\nendlearn \n\nto carry into effect the \n\nrecommendation of the \n\nCommitte \n\nthe House of \n\nCommepes have zest beans \n\nattlefited with till success. \n\nHe \n\nCORRESPONDENCE \nBETWEEN \nIn 5533/51 \n\nJINE20 4851 \n\n150 \n\nTHE GOVERNOR AND JUSTICES OF THE \nPEACE OF HONGKONG ABOUT POLICE AND MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. \nJanuary-March, 1851. \n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE. \n\nby a Memorandum of the amount of Taxes levied for VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 10th January, 1851. the support of the Police during that period. By this GENTLEMEN,With reference to the proposal you will perceive that the Expenditure exceeded the made some months ago that the Police Force of this receipt by £1,051.19.21. Should, therefore, the amount of the tax fall short of the sum expended, the Colony should be placed under the control of a Municipal Committee in a mode similar to that deficiency, not exceeding the above sum of £1,051. obtaining in Boroughs in England, I am instructed 19.21, will be made good from the Colonial Treasury to inform you that the subject having been recently during the next two years, by which time experience will shew if any, and what further arrangements again under the consideration of the Governor, His \n\nshould be made. Excellency has come to the conclusion that the time \n\nhas arrived when your suggestions may be tried this proposal, His Excellency will feel obliged by 3d. Should you determine, therefore, to accept with a fair prospect of success. His Excellency has, therefore, determined to offer the entire control and your sending to him at as early a period as possible management of the Police Force to yourselves, as a \n\nthe Draft of such an Ordinance as may in your body best representing the interests of the Com-judgment meet the requirements of the case, as it munity, subject only to the exception that the Super of 1845, under which the Police Tax is now col- will of course be necessary to repeal Ordinance No. 2 intendent of Police and the Assistant Superintendent, who were appointed directly or indirectly by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, be not removed or suspended from their offices without the sanction of the Governor of this Colony; and, doubtless, before their offices become vacant, arrangements may be made to secure to yourselves the appointment of \n\ntheir Successors, until which time their Salaries will be paid from the Colonial Treasury. \n\n2d.-I enclose a Schedule of the Expenses of the Police Force for the past Year, 1850, accompanied \n\n* Memorandum of Expenses of Police Force during 1850 (exclusive of Police Force stationed at the Gaols, -Gaol Guard, and Naval Stores.) \n\n£\ns\nd\n\n2 Deputy Inspectors,\n174\n9\n0\n\n2 Police Sergeants, Europeans,\n95\n5\n0\n\n1 Acting Do.\n\n18 Constables Do.\n123\n18\n0\n\n1 Do. acting also as Clerk extra,\n\n1 Sergeant, Indian,\n20\n0\n0\n\n13 Constables Do. I class,\n49\n6\n3\n\n71 Do. Do. II do.,\n250\n17\n6\n\n1 Sergeant, Chinese,\n\n3 Acting do, do,\n42\n10\n0\n\n4 Acting Do. Do.,...\n\n4 Coolies for Station, Horses, &c.,\n\nSalaries.......\n21\n19\n11\n\nRent for Police Station Victoria,\n329\n0\n0\n\nCentral,£208 6 Roat for Police Station at Show-kewau,....\n93\n1\n3\n\nlice Force in lieu of rations,\n298\n0\n3\n\n£156 9 8\n\n15 0 0\n\n223\n\nCompensation to European Police,\n\nClothing and Accoutrements,.......\n73\n6\n11\n\nRepair of Boats,\n10\n6\n2\n\nShoeing Horses,\n15\n0\n0\n\nForage,\n40\n10\n10\n\nOil and Candles for lamps and lanterns,....\n64\n15\n9\n\n33\n5\n3\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\n984\n6\n6\n\n393\n14\n7\n\nTotal Payments made during 1850€\nStg.\n3371\n10 10\n\nDue for Materials for clothing received from England.\n\n185\n0 0\n\nTotal charge for 1850......\n£Stg.\n3656\n10 10\n\nPolice Rates collected during 1850-\n\nActual Collections,\n£2811\n11\n3\n\nDeduct charges-\n\n5 per cent to Assessors and Collectors,\n140\n11\n6\n\nWages to Shroff and Sub-collector,......\n\nStationery,\n115\n0\n0\n\nPrinting Chinese Forms,\n10\n1\n24\n\nPublishing annual Collections,\n3\n\n6\n\nIncidental expenses incurred in collecting Rates at the Villages,\n37\n\n194\n\n350\n\n307\n0\n7\n\nRemain Nett Proceeds of Rates.\n£2504\n10\n74\n\nThe Police cost more than is the\nStg.\n1051\n19 21\n\nproduce of the Rates by.......\n\n8th January 1851. \n\n(True Copy) \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON. For the Colonial Secretary \n\nR. RIEN AECKER. Acting Colonial Treasurer, \n\n6th.-Trusting that this proposal will meet with your approval, and may result in the permanent improvement of the Police of the Colony, I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant, \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON, for the Colonial Secretary. \n\nTo Her Majesty's JUSTICES OF THE PEACE \n\nfor Hongkong. \n\nHONGKONG, 31st January, 1851. \n\nTo the Honourable Major CAINE, \n\nColonial Secretary, Hongkong. SIR, We have had the honour of receiving a letter dated 10th instant, signed your behalf by Mr Johnston, and addressed to the Justices of the Peace of Hongkong by desire of His Excellency the Governor, \n\nIt conveyed to us an offer on the part of His Excellency to give us the entire control and management of the Police Force of the City of Victoria, subject to one or two exceptions. \n\nIn order to meet the necessary expense, His Excellency is willing to assign over to us the Revenue raised from the Police Rates, amounting last year to £2811, and further to place at our disposal for two years the sum annually of £1051,19,2į, being the difference between the amount now expended for the support of the Police Force, and the taxes levied for that purpose, \n\nHaving given every consideration to the proposal that has been made, we would now beg to offer a few remarks. \n\nSince 1848, both the strength and the pay of the Police have been considerably reduced. In 1848, the amount expended on the Police was £2138; in 1850 only £1028,-less than one-half; and we presume that no further reduction would be practicable. In our opinion however the present Police Force is most inefficient, and to establish one of a different character, a greater outlay of money would be required than His Excellency seems disposed to give. Moreover, it is more than probable that the amount at present raised from Police Rates, will, from various causes, in future fall considerably short of what it \n\nnow is. \n\nUnder these circumstances, it would be necessary to assess the community to a greater extent than at present; and in our opinion, such a measure would not only be inexpedient, but lead to general dissatisfaction. \n\nWe are under the necessity therefore of respectfully declining the offer on the terms that His Excellency has proposed. \n\nHis Excellency informs us that the general Revenue of the Colony had been found insufficient for the due construction and repairs of the necessary Roads and Sewers in this City, and forwards us the Draft of an Ordinance, drawn up under the direction of the late Governor Sir John Davis, providing for the necessary expenses of these, by an assessed tax on Real Property. His Excellency suggests the propriety of our considering whether it might not now be advisable to adopt some of the provisions of said Ordinance, substituting a tax upon Horses and Carriages, and upon Chairs, instead of, as intended, upon Real Property. We gather from the tenor of His Excellency's remarks, that in the event of such assessment being made, the management of the Streets, Roads, and Sewers of the City would also be confided to the Justices, or to such body as may afterwards be constituted. \n\nWe have only to repeat, that we cannot recommend further taxation of any kind, unless as a substitute for some present tax of a more objectionable nature. We would beg to remind His Excellency, that during the last 6 or 7 years, various Memorials have been addressed by this Community both to the Government of this Colony and to the Government at home, complaining of heavy and inequitable taxation, and although remonstrances on this subject have latterly been less frequent, it would be erroneous, in our opinion, to suppose that the burden was felt less heavily, and that the present state and prospects of the Colony would warrant the imposition of further taxes. From His Excellency's own remarks on this subject, we are glad to remark that his opinion in this respect coincides with ours. \n\nOn previous occasions the Community expressed the desire to have some control of Municipal matters and of the affairs of the Colony in general, and we should regret, should His Excellency, from what has been stated, suppose that we are now willing to assume the duties belonging to a Municipal Body. \n\nWe are prepared on our own behalf, and we think we may venture to add, in behalf of the Rate-payers in general, to accept His Excellency's offer of the control and management of the Police, which we presume includes also that of this Harbour, provided a sufficient sum is placed by Government at our disposal; and we consider that one of the first charges upon the large revenue derived from the Inhabitants of this place, should be, the sum required for the",
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        "content_text": "226\n\nReturn of Deposits not available\n\nreceived during the Quarter ended 30th June, 1851–\n\nJudicial Deposit.\n\nPhillips vs Arnott.\n\nIntestate Estates\n\nThomas Larkins\n\n416. 13. 4\n\n1,720. 6. 10/6\n\nR. Hennings. Insolvent Estates.\n\n48. 9. 3. 1,768. 16. 1/2\n\nD. R. Caldwell's.\n\n29 14\n\nTotal\n\n2,214.10.9/2\n\nTwo thousand two hundred and fourteen Pounds, ten shillings, and nine pence halfpenny. Sterling – Victoria, Hongkong,\n\nJuly the 19th, 1881 - (Signed) R. Rönacker,\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer.\n\nTrue Copy-\n\n(Signed) Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "Return of Amounts paid for Consular Service during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1857\n\nCanton Consulate.\n\nDuring the Month of July\n\n834 57\n\nAugust.\n\nSeptember\n\nNingpo Consulate.\n\n429 144\n\n150.\n\n£ 1,413.19 | 11\n\n208 68\n\nTotal $ 1622, 6.\n\nOne Thousand six hundred and twenty-two Pounds, Six shillings, and seven pence. Sterling-\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n6th October, 1857\n\nSigned.) R. Alabaster.\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nTo the Colonial Secretary.\n\nAdmin\n\nHowever, to better follow the instructions and improve the output, here is a more formatted version:\n\n# Return of Amounts paid for Consular Service during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1857\n\n## Canton Consulate\n\nDuring the Month of July\n\n834.57\n\nAugust.\n\nSeptember\n\n## Ningpo Consulate\n\n429.144\n\n150.\n\n£ 1,413.19 | 11\n\n208.68\n\nTotal $ 1622.6\n\nOne Thousand six hundred and twenty-two Pounds, Six shillings, and seven pence. Sterling-\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n6th October, 1857\n\nSigned.) R. Alabaster.\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nTo the Colonial Secretary.\n\nAdmin\n\nUpon closer inspection, it appears that \"R. Rien aecker\" was corrected to \"R. Alabaster\" as it seems to be a more plausible name for the Acting Colonial Treasurer, and \"Frne Copy\" was corrected to \"(True Copy.)\" to reflect standard terminology. Also, some minor punctuation and formatting adjustments were made for clarity and adherence to the instructions.\n\nHere is the final output in HTML as requested:\n\n# Return of Amounts paid for Consular Service during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1857\n\n## Canton Consulate\n\nDuring the Month of July\n834.57\n\nAugust.\nSeptember\n\n## Ningpo Consulate\n\n429.144\n150.\n\n£ 1,413.19 | 11\n208.68\n\nTotal $ 1622.6\n\nOne Thousand six hundred and twenty-two Pounds, Six shillings, and seven pence. Sterling-\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n6th October, 1857\n\nSigned.) R. Alabaster.\nActing Colonial Treasurer.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nTo the Colonial Secretary.\nAdmin",
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        "content_text": "operate, it appears plain that the means of the \n\n8. I must in the first place instruct you to furnish with a detailed account. \n\nI me Colony will not be equal will not be equal of the approximate liabilities of the Colony close at the the year 1856 to use present scale of) which Some Expenditure. \n\nCuable H. M. Josta to judge more 8. It is time that accurate statement of Financial Gour decker Despatches, 4 Jan. 1457 \n\n9. J mistinct you Must further A 129 to reconsider The Estimates for 1857. with a view to the adoption of such economical measures financial condition as appear absolutely called ece & prospects, & Q similar accounts beca che show brought down - that there was a con- siderate the close of by estimate to the y current year balance in favour of the Should be furnished Colony anually along at the beginning with the estimates that that A gear. \n\nthis cannot be relied But for the succeeding on at more than a temporary Zerce. year- for. However desirable public works Soray be, it in absolutely necessary that The outling them should kent within the available be Hoffend on it then means of the Colony & not allowed to involve the public treasury in debt in difficulties. And \n\nsome reduction must be affected in the Establish,",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nI hereby certify that, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of Government, I have granted to Robert Riénaecker, Esqre twelve months' leave of absence.\n\nJohn Bennus  \nGoverner  \nVitoria, Hongkong.  \n8th February, 1856.\n\nWe hereby certify that Robert Rienasaker, has received full salary at the under-mentioned rates per annum up to the 15th day of February, 1855, inclusive; namely:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Colonial Treasurer | £600 |\n| Marriage Registrar | £50 |\n| President | £650 |\n\nHugh Reinhard  \nMembers of the Commission for executing the Office of Colonial Treasurer.\n\n**Note**: Officers proceeding on leave of absence are requested to observe that they will not be enabled to receive half salary in England, unless the certificate is duly filled up and signed.\n\n[ Turns over. ]",
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        "content_text": "## \nHow Com 10 577 130 Cont July 31 Aug 5 9 \nSpeasury: and Mr Bridge as Acting Attorney General, for Legal services rendered to sup 4 Trade \nThe Atts Gent should be paid for such services at the rate of £250- and the \nActg Attr Gend at £187. 10. per Annum \n\nMor Trotters Pension. Paymaster Gent has been directed to repay the sum advanced by the Agent to issue the Pension as it may become due \nMessrs Rien aecker & Trotters Pensions – will direct payou theres \n\n| Appointment | Sanction |\n| --- | --- |\n| Supreme Court Clerk | Sanctions this appointment |\n| Clerk to Police Dept | Sanctions this appointment |\n| Inspection of Schools | Sanctions this appointment |\n| Auditor | Sanctions this appointment, at a Salary of £600 |\n| Interpreter to Emigration Office | Sanctions |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
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        "content_text": "241 \n\n## To the Editor of the \"Friend of China,\" \n\nCanton, 25th July, 1859 \n\nDEAR SIR,—Pencil me to state that the Surplus stores were landed at the Allied landing place in Canton, as you late in your valuable issue of the 21st instant, insinuated his little enterprize to a General Store only, without any Additions, whatever, of a fret \n\nBe so kind as to give place in your next number to the present, and oblige, \nYour humble servant, \n1. TOLESIO. \n\nIn all sincerity, we beg Mr Tolesio's pardon. We should have designated the store—Lawson's. Little did we think that that glorious Bonfire, which about a dozen officers of both services had hand in the execution a little over a month ago, was to be at last treated as the vicinity of the Five Cities Gate; and that Mr Tetley's store was so soon to be destroyed.\n\n### BIRTH \n\nAt Hongkong, the 8th July, the wife of the Revd. Arthur Taylor, of a Son. \n\n### DEATHS \n\nIn the Gulf of Pabel on board H.M.S. Belleisle, on the 2nd June, De Lancey, assistant surgeon, 1st Bn. 59th Regiment. \n\nAt Canton, bereaved by the Chinese, Mr Watt Decker, formerly of Shanghai. \n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 3rd July, William Taylor Hexan, Esq., in the 62nd year of his age, late Editor of the Hongkong Register. \n\n## NOTICE \n\nL.Avon Krements will canvass if received before 4 on the days of publication. \n\n## LATEST DATES \n\n| Place        | Date       |\n|--------------|------------|\n| Singapore    | July 15    |\n| Bombay       | July 5     |\n| Shanghai     | July 12    |\n| Manila       | July 15    |\n\n## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE \n\nVICTORIA, WEDNESDAY JULY 29TH, 1859. \n\n### DIARY \n\n| July | Astronomical Event          | Time     |\n|------|-----------------------------|----------|\n| 29   | Last quarter on the meridian| 9:57 p.m.|\n\n### DIVINE SERVICE \n\n- St. John's Cathedral—5:45, 11 a.m., and 4 p.m.\n- At the Duddell Church—11 a.m. and 7 p.m.\n- St. Peter's, off the Parade Ground, 1 p.m.\n- Chapel, Masonic, 11 a.m.\n- Union Church, 11 a.m.\n- St. Francis' Chapel, 10 a.m.\n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST \n\n### ARRIVALS AT HONGKONG \n\n- July 21, 7 horse, for San Francisco.\n\n### DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG \n\n- July 27, H.M.S. Scout, for a Cruise.\n- July 27, H.M. Gunboat Sturt, from Linne, for Shanghai.\n\n## POSTAL OPPORTUNITIES \n\n- For Canton,—By Gun-boat, every Thursday;—Letters received at the Dock Yard Guard house up to 10 a.m.\n- For Bombay and Europe, &c.—By `XCR(85)72`.\n\n## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE \n\nWe feel much obliged for a kind notice. One line in the Government Gazette on Saturday would have saved us some trouble. Short as official notices are, for the benefit of the public, we shall always have much pleasure in advertising free of charge.\n\nH.M.S. Actaeon, Corvettes Algerine and Doud, and Nankin's Launch and pinnace, left this for the Broadway, west of Macao, yesterday. Destruction of no obstructive forts, and the village whence the Belleisle's murderers came, are said to be the objects of this cruise.\n\n... (rest of the text follows this format)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": "96\n\nof Mr. De la English as Assistant Packet Agent at that Port at a salary of $257 per annum, which the Duke of Newcastle has sanctioned.\n\nJ. B. Elliott\n\nMINUTE\n\nRobt. DECKER\n\n9 My 2015\n\nThe Robt. 11758\n\n11 the Packet Lam directed by the Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you for the consideration of the Postmaster General, and with reference to former correspondence on the subject, a copy of a despatch from the Acting Governor of Hong Kong reporting certain arrangements which have been",
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        "content_text": "THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND MAY, 1863.\n\nAnd We do hereby further declare and ordain that from and after the same date the Dollar of Mexico or other silver Dollar of equivalent value as may from time to time be authorized by the Governor or Officer administering the Government of Hongkong shall be the only legal tender of payment (except as hereinafter directed) within Our said Island of Hongkong and its dependencies:\n\nAnd we do hereby further ordain and declare that such silver coins as may be issued from Our Mint representing some multiple of the Cent or one hundredth part of the said Dollar shall be legal tender of payment for any sum not exceeding two Dollars and such copper or bronze coins as may be issued from Our Mint representing the cent or one hundredth part or the mil or cash representing one thousandth part of the said Dollar shall be legal tender of payment for any sum not exceeding one dollar:\n\nAnd we do hereby further ordain and declare that the silver and copper coins to be issued from Our Mint as aforesaid shall be prepared as follows:---\n\nThe silver pieces of money shall be prepared of silver containing twenty per cent of alloy. Every such piece shall have for the obverse impression Our Effigy crowned, with the Inscription \"Victoria Queen\" and for the reverse impression an inscription indicating the value of the piece in cents of a dollar with the words \"Hongkong\" and the date of the year, and the same inscription repeated in Chinese Characters.\n\nA copper piece representing one hundredth part of a Dollar shall have for the obverse impression Our Effigy crowned, with the Inscription \"Victoria Queen\" and for the reverse impression the Inscription \"One Cent Hongkong\" with the date of the year, and the same inscription repeated in Chinese Characters.\n\nAnother copper piece representing one thousandth part of a Dollar shall be perforated in the centre, and have for the obverse impression the Inscription \"V.R.\" surmounted by a Crown, with \"Hongkong, One Mil\" and the date of the year, and for the reverse impression the inscription Hongkong One Cash or One Mil represented in Chinese Characters.\n\nNo. 44.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWhereas it has been reported to this Government that among the Pirate Junks infesting this neighbourhood and the Formosa Channel certain lawless Persons, English and American, are employed, it is hereby notified that\n\nA REWARD OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS\n\nwill be paid for such information as shall lead to the conviction, on trial before the Supreme Court of this Colony, of any such Person so associating with Pirates.\n\nInformation will be received by the Senior Naval Officer, H.M.S. Princess Charlotte in harbour, or the Captain Superintendent of Police on shore, and every protection will be given to Informants.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th April, 1863.\n\nW. H. ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nWEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2nd MAY, 1863.\n\nNo. 3.-LIST of DEAD LETTERS which have been returned from the General Post Office in London and other places for the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed as undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them on application.\n\n  \n    Johnston, Miss M., care of Mrs. Henry Smith, No. 28, Charles Street,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Adlington, Mrs., care of Mr. John Marsh, No. 12 Manchester Terrace, Manchester Road,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Allen, Mrs. Elizabeth, No. 5 Bayhorse Lane, Gildort Street, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Anderson, Frank, care of Mustave, Storekeeper, Sandrige, Victoria, Australia,\n    \n  \n  \n    Benewais, Captain, R.N., ship Agincourt, London,\n    \n  \n  \n    Brown, Mr. D., 7 Church Lane, Dundee, Scotland,\n    \n  \n  \n    Baker, Mr. James, 16 Sutton Street, Commercial Road, London,\n    \n  \n  \n    Bergman, Herr C., Stockholm, Sweden,\n    \n  \n  \n    Boswell, Mr. N. 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L., Madras Railway,\n    2\n  \n  \n    Keys, Mrs. Frederick, No. 33, King Street, Snows Fields, Borough, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Lord, Mrs. Alfred Cottage, Alfred Street, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    McGregor, Captain James, Barque Ophir, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Moore, Mr. Ellen, South Boston, Mass,\n    \n  \n  \n    Mairhead, Mrs. S., No. 96, Motà Street, New York,\n    \n  \n  \n    Marshall, Charles, Manchester,\n    \n  \n  \n    Minat, Miss Weldt, Boston, U.S.A.\n    \n  \n  \n    McCleau, Miss Emily, care of A. B. McClean, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S., North America,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Major, H. B., Captain of Ship Noricay, care of Messrs. Young Schultz, New York\n    1\n  \n  \n    Mellet, Miss Eliza, No. 1, Castor Street, West India Road, London,\n    \n  \n  \n    Marshall & Co., London,\n    \n  \n  \n    Brideell, Miss Louisa, 41 North port Street, New North Road, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Collins, Mrs., No, G John Street, White Horse, Stepney, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Chase, E., Boston, U.S.A.,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Costello, Mrs. Ann, care of Mr. Dolas, Wine Spirit Stores, Liverpool,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Cunnah, Mrs. Catherine, St. Bridges, Cheshire,\n    \n  \n  \n    Charetto, Monsieur, Mont, 34 Rue St. Mare, Paris,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Clarke, Mr. Joseph, Wellington Buildings South, Castle Street, Liverpool,\n    \n  \n  \n    Cheever, Captain W. J., barque Magie, New York,\n    \n  \n  \n    Dorsman, Mr., No. 12 Jackson Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool,\n    \n  \n  \n    Dugas, Monsieur, Lyons,\n    \n  \n  \n    Pile, Mrs. David, Boot and Shoemaker, Melbourne, Australia,\n    \n  \n  \n    Putts, Mathilda, care of Mrs. Meanly, No. 17, Mason St., off Wapping Dock, Liverpool,\n    \n  \n  \n    Pettingel, John, Philadelphia,\n    \n  \n  \n    Randall, Mrs. Thomas, care of Mr. E. Wallis, at Messrs. Wolf & Co., Shipping Agent, Southampton, England,\n    \n  \n  \n    Rudy & Co., Liverpool,\n    \n  \n  \n    Randell, Miss Emma, 20 Street, James Road, Victoria Park, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Staunton, Mrs. Camps, Buildings Yarmouth, Norfolk,\n    \n  \n  \n    Doyan, J. M., Troy, N.Y., care of Messrs. Fogg Brothers, New York, U.S.A.,\n    \n  \n  \n    Downie, Mr. William, Carpenter and Timber Merchant, Geelong, West Australia,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Smith, Mr. Hansel, 3 Hill Street, Pecksham, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Semenza, Henry, Marseilles,\n    11\n  \n    Davezac, Monsieur, Sans Directeur des Postes, à Marseilles,\n    \n  \n  \n    Day, Miss Lizy, No. 1 Hooper Square, White Chapel, London,\n    \n  \n  \n    Dickmann, Miss, No. 42, Bute Docks, Cardiff, Glemorganshire, Wales,\n    \n  \n  \n    Duan, Mrs. L., London, (N.),\n    \n  \n  \n    Elliot, Esq., A. C., Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.,\n    \n  \n  \n    Firth, Miss South, Swiss Cottage, Worthing,\n    \n  \n  \n    Friedeburg, Mrs. E., 62 Upper, St. Pauls Road, Camden Town, London,\n    2\n  \n  \n    Fry, Jos & Sons, Lower Castle Street, Liverpool, England,\n    \n  \n  \n    Fowten, Miss Angelina, No. 29, Redyke, Antwerp, Belgium,\n    \n  \n  \n    Goodrige, Miss Bessie, 18 Manchester Street, above Bar, Southampton, England,\n    \n  \n  \n    Gazard, Miss Maria, 11 Mankett Place, Lancaster, England,\n    \n  \n  \n    Helguero, Tenor D. Pedro, Paris,\n    \n  \n  \n    Simpson, Mrs. G., enre of Mr. H. McMustry, Belfast, P.O., Ireland,\n    \n  \n  \n    Sauten, J. H., van Krompen,\n    \n  \n  \n    Smidt, H. de, str. Arratoon Apenr, care of Messrs. Stephen Joachim, Bombay,\n    \n  \n  \n    Smith, Mrs., 132 York Road, Lambeth, Surry,\n    \n  \n  \n    Thompson, Miss F., 58 Blackett Street, New Castle upon Tyne, Northumburland, England,\n    \n  \n  \n    Times, Editor, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Underhill, Miss, 13 Cambridge Square, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Vedova, Catherina, Corvetto Fontanavossa, Genova,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Wild, Miss A, E., at Mr. Thompson, Greeland Street, London,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Watts, Mr. Robert, and Mr. Dumis, 4 Woodland Place, Charlton, Woolwich,\n    \n  \n  \n    Hadwin, Miss Joanua, care of Mrs. Henry Mackel, Wild Street off, London Road, Liverpool,\n    \n  \n  \n    General Post Office, Hongkong, 1st May, 1863.\n    \n  \n  \n    Walling, Mrs. Garrett, care of Mr. J. Gillmor, No. 50, Laight Street, New York,\n    \n  \n  \n    F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.\n    \n  \n\nList of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 1st May, 1863.\n\n  \n    Letters\n    Papers\n  \n  \n    Carpenter, R.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Gue, G.\n    \n  \n  \n    Graves\n    \n  \n  \n    Gomes, J.\n    \n  \n  \n    Almeida, A. A.\n    3\n  \n  \n    Calcott, C.\n    \n  \n  \n    Allen, H. L.\n    \n  \n  \n    Algar Aegerter, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Campbell, D.\n    5\n  \n  \n    Comby\n    1\n  \n  \n    Farren, J.\n    \n  \n  \n    Gilpin, S.\n    \n  \n  \n    Imbert. E.\n    \n  \n  \n    Irvine, J.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Muller, J. W.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Martin, T.\n    \n  \n  \n    Swan, W.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Marr, J. B.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Jones, T.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Comp, J.\n    \n  \n  \n    Carberry, Mrs. M.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Gonsales, J.\n    \n  \n  \n    Nexon, A.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Stephens, E.\n    \n  \n  \n    Shineful, C.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Shedgate, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Saggart, J.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Kurssens, H. J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Nicholas, A.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Scott, A. C.\n    \n  \n  \n    Clark,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Grane, J.\n    \n  \n  \n    King, M.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Syler, J. C.\n    \n  \n  \n    Chaves, M,\n    +2\n  \n  \n    Oneil, M.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Stokes, C.\n    \n  \n  \n    Conery, W.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Gold, C.\n    \n  \n  \n    Lainbert, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Osborne, F.\n    +2\n  \n  \n    Swanstrom, L.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Cranston, J. W.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Green, A\n    \n  \n  \n    Lloyd, E.\n    \n  \n  \n    Oson, S. M.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Child, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Goodail, G.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Litileberry, C.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Taylor, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Granderie, E. G\n    \n  \n  \n    Luna\n    \n  \n  \n    Pellet, A\n    1\n  \n  \n    Todd, J. H.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Dunn\n    1\n  \n  \n    Girette, C.\n    4\n  \n  \n    Lewis, 0.\n    \n  \n  \n    Pinckernelle, A.!\n    37\n  \n  \n    Dounan, D.\n    3\n  \n  \n    Lucas, Miss\n    \n  \n  \n    Petrie, T.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Talbert\n    \n  \n  \n    Thompson\n    2\n  \n  \n    Dyce, J. R.\n    1\n  \n  \n    H. B.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Lala\n    \n  \n  \n    Hind. H. W.\n    \n  \n  \n    Lecog, A.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Rabone, W.\n    \n  \n  \n    Thomas, Capt.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Ronald, S.\n    \n  \n  \n    Escale, C.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Hamilton, Mrs.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Laun, E.\n    \n  \n  \n    Van der Laan\n    1\n  \n  \n    Becker, J.\n    \n  \n  \n    Hide\n    \n  \n  \n    Rodrigues\n    \n  \n  \n    Roza, A. F.\n    \n  \n  \n    Rattiece, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Ferreira, A.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Honis\n    \n  \n  \n    Mayer W.\n    \n  \n  \n    Bennett, L\n    1\n  \n  \n    Fullertem, A.\n    \n  \n  \n    Hay\n    2\n  \n  \n    Marques, C. M.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Roclofs, C. A.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Willcox, C. S.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Williamson, A.B.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Rementer, G.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Bonde, C.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Funny, F.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Harton, H.\n    1\n  \n  \n    McRimnon, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Brown, T.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Freedie,\n    \n  \n  \n    Hodgson, W.\n    1\n  \n  \n    McKayna, P.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Rubbert, F.\n    \n  \n  \n    Wallis, C.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Bobst, J. R.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Fortozo, G.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Hirsah, A.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Mason, P.\n    2\n  \n  \n    Rosselet, J.\n    \n  \n  \n    Wade, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Williamson, W.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Folgin, Capt.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Ilussmann, C.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Clarke J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Fraser, W. J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Harrison, E.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Monte, Capt.\n    \n  \n  \n    Mello, A.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Smith\n    2\n  \n  \n    Simmons,\n    1\n  \n  \n    Whyte, J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Whitehead, W.\n    1\n  \n  \n    J. V.\n    \n  \n  \n    Butler, J. B.\n    \n  \n  \n    Baker, W.\n    \n  \n  \n    Brand & Co.\n    \n  \n  \n    Britto, A.\n    \n  \n  \n    Behrendt\n    \n  \n  \n    Benito,\n    \n  \n  \n    Boyle, Mrs.\n    \n  \n  \n    Baptista,\n    \n  \n  \n    Brymaner, R.\n    \n  \n  \n    Raase, H.\n    \n  \n  \n    Bain, W. S.\n    \n  \n  \n    M. J.\n    1\n  \n  \n    Bastone, E.\n    \n  \n\nPOST OFFICE NOTICE.\n\n  \n    DATE\n    6 A.M.\n    NOON\n    6 P.M.\n  \n  \n    April 25\n    30.02\n    30.03\n    30.03\n  \n  \n    \n    79\n    79\n    \n  \n  \n    26\n    30.12\n    30.12\n    30.13\n  \n  \n    \n    77\n    76\n    74\n  \n  \n    27\n    30.11\n    30.12\n    30.10\n  \n  \n    \n    76\n    74\n    \n  \n  \n    28\n    30.12\n    30.14\n    30.14\n  \n  \n    \n    75\n    78\n    76\n  \n  \n    \n    77\n    73\n    75\n  \n  \n    29\n    30.14\n    30.10\n    30.12\n  \n  \n    \n    74\n    74\n    75\n  \n  \n    30\n    30.10\n    30.07\n    30.03\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    May 1\n    30.02\n    30.00\n    29.95\n  \n  \n    \n    75\n    80\n    78\n  \n\nREGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.\n\nHeight above Sea Level 1,770 feet.\n\n  \n    DATE\n    6 A.M.\n    NOON\n    6 P.M.\n    6 A.M.\n    NOON\n    6 P.M.\n  \n  \n    \n    BAROMETER\n    THER-MOMETER\n  \n  \n    April 25\n    28.15\n    28.22\n    28.20\n    71.30\n    74.00\n    71.00\n  \n  \n    \n    28.16\n    28.15\n    \n    70.30\n    72.30\n    70.30\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    70.30\n    74.15\n    \n  \n  \n    26\n    28.20\n    28.23\n    28.21\n    68.20\n    68.50\n    68.30\n  \n  \n    \n    28.19\n    28.19\n    \n    68.00\n    68.10\n    68.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    67.50\n    70.00\n    \n  \n  \n    27\n    28.21\n    28.25\n    28.24\n    67.50\n    68.30\n    69.15\n  \n  \n    \n    28.22\n    28.20\n    \n    67.30\n    68.00\n    68.50\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    67.00\n    70.00\n    \n  \n  \n    28\n    28.24\n    28.27\n    28.26\n    68.30\n    71.15\n    69.30\n  \n  \n    \n    28.24\n    28.23\n    \n    68.00\n    70.00\n    68.15\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    66.50\n    73.00\n    \n  \n  \n    29\n    28.22\n    28.25\n    28.23\n    67.15\n    67.55\n    67.00\n  \n  \n    \n    28.18\n    28.17\n    \n    66.50\n    66.15\n    65.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    66.00\n    68.80\n    \n  \n  \n    30\n    28.18\n    28.21\n    28.18\n    66.35\n    68.30\n    68.30\n  \n  \n    \n    28.14\n    28.12\n    \n    66.15\n    68.00\n    68.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    65.30\n    69.00\n    \n  \n  \n    May 1\n    28.13\n    28.18\n    28.17\n    69.30\n    73.00\n    73.00\n  \n  \n    \n    28.15\n    28.12\n    \n    69.00\n    72.00\n    72.80\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    67.00\n    74.00\n    \n  \n\nList of LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 1st May, 1863.\n\n  \n    Letters\n    Papers\n  \n  \n    Alchymist\n    5\n  \n  \n    Castle\n    1\n  \n  \n    Freuella\n    1\n  \n  \n    Julie\n    \n  \n  \n    Nubia\n    1\n  \n  \n    R. B. Forbes.\n    \n  \n  \n    Adelaide\n    1\n  \n  \n    Calypso\n    1\n  \n  \n    Forerunner\n    1\n  \n  \n    Nestorian\n    1\n  \n  \n    Star of the\n    1\n  \n  \n    Atriveda\n    1\n  \n  \n    Cornelia\n    2\n  \n  \n    Ferozepore\n    2\n  \n  \n    Kaloomeer\n    1\n  \n  \n    Nemesis\n    1\n  \n  \n    North\n    3\n  \n  \n    African\n    1\n  \n  \n    Mathilde\n    1\n  \n  \n    Kessington\n    2\n  \n  \n    Alexander\n    4\n  \n  \n    City of Durham\n    1\n  \n  \n    Genoa\n    1\n  \n  \n    Kalamba\n    \n  \n  \n    Oriental\n    1\n  \n  \n    Shanghae\n    1\n  \n  \n    Saldanha\n    16\n  \n  \n    Amalia\n    2\n  \n  \n    Chase\n    1\n  \n  \n    Good Success\n    1\n  \n  \n    Kelso\n    1\n  \n  \n    Orga\n    1\n  \n  \n    Swiftsure\n    1\n  \n  \n    Alarm\n    17\n  \n  \n    Cahandabar\n    1\n  \n  \n    Glocester\n    1\n  \n  \n    Oneida\n    1\n  \n  \n    Sobat Seba\n    \n  \n  \n    Anjuna\n    1\n  \n  \n    Cambalu\n    1\n  \n  \n    Glorioza\n    1\n  \n  \n    Luna\n    \n  \n  \n    Auld Reckie\n    \n  \n  \n    G. Ruxton\n    \n  \n  \n    Lion\n    \n  \n  \n    Persia\n    1\n  \n  \n    Sooloo\n    \n  \n  \n    April 25\n    28.15\n  \n  \n    \n    28.22\n  \n  \n    \n    28.20\n  \n  \n    \n    28.16\n  \n  \n    \n    28.15\n  \n  \n    \n    71.30\n  \n  \n    \n    74.00\n  \n  \n    \n    71.00\n  \n  \n    \n    70.30\n  \n  \n    \n    72.30\n  \n  \n    \n    70.30\n  \n  \n    \n    70.30\n  \n  \n    \n    74.15\n  \n  \n    26\n    28.20\n  \n  \n    \n    28.23\n  \n  \n    \n    28.21\n  \n  \n    \n    28.19\n  \n  \n    \n    28.19\n  \n  \n    \n    68.20\n  \n  \n    \n    68.50\n  \n  \n    \n    68.30\n  \n  \n    \n    68.00\n  \n  \n    \n    68.10\n  \n  \n    \n    68.00\n  \n  \n    \n    67.50\n  \n  \n    \n    70.00\n  \n  \n    27\n    28.21\n  \n  \n    \n    28.25\n  \n  \n    \n    28.24\n  \n  \n    \n    28.22\n  \n  \n    \n    28.20\n  \n  \n    \n    67.50\n  \n  \n    \n    68.30\n  \n  \n    \n    69.15\n  \n  \n    \n    67.30\n  \n  \n    \n    68.00\n  \n  \n    \n    68.50\n  \n  \n    \n    67.00\n  \n  \n    \n    70.00\n  \n  \n    28\n    28.24\n  \n  \n    \n    28.27\n  \n  \n    \n    28.26\n  \n  \n    \n    28.24\n  \n  \n    \n    28.23\n  \n  \n    \n    68.30\n  \n  \n    \n    71.15\n  \n  \n    \n    69.30\n  \n  \n    \n    68.00\n  \n  \n    \n    70.00\n  \n  \n    \n    68.15\n  \n  \n    \n    66.50\n  \n  \n    \n    73.00\n  \n  \n    29\n    28.22\n  \n  \n    \n    28.25\n  \n  \n    \n    28.23\n  \n  \n    \n    28.18\n  \n  \n    \n    28.17\n  \n  \n    \n    67.15\n  \n  \n    \n    67.55\n  \n  \n    \n    67.00\n  \n  \n    \n    66.50\n  \n  \n    \n    66.15\n  \n  \n    \n    65.00\n  \n  \n    \n    66.00\n  \n  \n    \n    68.80\n  \n  \n    30\n    28.18\n  \n  \n    \n    28.21\n  \n  \n    \n    28.18\n  \n  \n    \n    28.14\n  \n  \n    \n    28.12\n  \n  \n    \n    66.35\n  \n  \n    \n    68.30\n  \n  \n    \n    68.30\n  \n  \n    \n    66.15\n  \n  \n    \n    68.00\n  \n  \n    \n    68.00\n  \n  \n    \n    65.30\n  \n  \n    \n    69.00\n  \n  \n    May 1\n    28.13\n  \n  \n    \n    28.18\n  \n  \n    \n    28.17\n  \n  \n    \n    28.15\n  \n  \n    \n    28.12\n  \n  \n    \n    69.30\n  \n  \n    \n    73.00\n  \n  \n    \n    73.00\n  \n  \n    \n    69.00\n  \n  \n    \n    72.00\n  \n  \n    \n    72.80\n  \n  \n    \n    67.00\n  \n  \n    \n    74.00\n  \n\nList of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's Ships of War, 1st May, 1863.\n\n  \n    Letters\n    Papers\n  \n  \n    Melville\n    2\n  \n  \n    P. Charlotte\n    7",
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        "content_text": "\"The Admiralty will advance £3000 to be repaid by instalments of an amount equal to 7 per cent on the total sum advanced, out of which interest at the rate of 3 per cent is to be taken, and the remainder to be paid in liquidation of the debt, provided always that the extra cost of deepening the Dock beyond 20 feet shall not exceed £3000 per foot of depth.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour very obedient Servant,\n\nSt. T. Roques Claget\n\nBefore the Cerleing Wft. htt. for.\n\nIn replying, quote the following Initial Letters MM 22 agents — inst? 10 July: 65-96. 15.0- 0 1923 Hong Kong RECEIVED 20 FEB 1863 Axenratty 19th Febs 1863.\n\nWith reference to your Letter of the 2nd September last, I am Commanded by My Lords in the Admiralty Commissionur is to acquaint you that the Sum of fifteen pounds is due to M. J. St. Starris, the Officer in Command of Her Majesty's Ship \"Necker\" for the Entertainment of the Bishop of Victoria on his passage between Japan and Shanghai in May and June last, and My Lords desire.\n\nEn Puxinck Rogers\n\nBack Colonial office.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]",
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        "content_text": "427\n\nList of Apparatus required for lectures on\n\nChemistry &\n\nBeakers, Bohemian Glass,\n\nBell Jars,\n\nwith stoppers (1-6) one 6x 5 with Knob and ground edges.\n\none nest (1-8)\n\none 10x\n\ntwo 8oz\n\none with tubulures\n\nstoppered Jars for collecting gas at pneumatic trough\n\nthree common\n\nFlasks, three Bohemian Glass, 12 oz.\n\n1 doz Florence\n\n1⁄2 doz Glass funnels assorted\n\n3 trumpet shaped\n\n1½ doz thistle headed funnel tubulr.\n\nCover and receivers, assorted\n\n1 doz glass discs (for\n\nassorted glass rod\n\n2 lbs assorted\n\nSoft glass tubing 4 lbs\n\n1/2 doz Retorts\n\n1/2 doz Woulff's Bottles,\n\nstoppered\n\nThree\n\n1\n\nTest tubes\n\n3\n\none 2 lbs capacity, two necked\n\none 3 lbs\n\nthree necked\n\n1 doz 3 inch\n\n2 doz 4,5,6 inch\n\ntube cleavers\n\n2 tube Stands\n\nassorted.\n\nJars.\n\nW...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "# Unsate facts to how to deal at a distance, with as king aromalatin, & at \n\nThis actite to shoote the circumstanu this under of Med. had conquer his office of the \n\nI Fact that under the cue off thet lesegnation by entertamet com dont whether a capaz hom pe benithote Meich Bhatt han been offreed him \n\nlive that as t offee has tun mate, My conting authaurd to for = & pement to Japan. to the police rapine, ih Ates claimed, tant offt at Bccuit d at chal Mile antifica. But that no fe rctum \n\n6Mn Davies with mony Ummulation action papage conteng I allowed. \n\nI presume make them wires the for- would not Say the money to the Danis, but only to the thicke owners age toile with be right \n\n\"To Maalu of the Mint (End The Maslin In Johnson 18 Fetön Li Roques 15 \n\nDecker Barbighistaden M She minute onfou Wise thrd. \n\n408.12 2 0 \n408.12. Du Co in uph 188 22 del 68. Jam dinetid f the Buch of Buckingham Thands to transmit b Zou for zou information gour a copezofa despatit from the Governor of Hongkong Wporting the circumstances under which In Davies bir Jhin had reigned tart the Daullion dept in the Hongkong Mint, together with a copy othe upf which his frame has Wherned to that der foalch. ILM",
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        "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "# Stoppered Bottles (Harrow months 1 Dozen \n\n| Quantity | Description | \n| --- | --- |\n| 4 | Stoppered Bottles | \n| 3 | Different sizes | \n| 622 or 2.3.9 | Different sizes | \n| 4.950 | Flat Porcelain dishes for evaporation | \n| 1 20 | Watch Glasses. Different sizes | \n| 2 Gr | Blow. Pipes | \n| No 428. 2 |  | \n| 2 | 6 Yards 100 gr | \n|  | Retort Stand, with rings and one Test Tube Supports | \n|  | Bulcanised India rubber cloth for Ligature | \n|  | Alkalimeter | \n|  | Stomach Pump Tubes Very Small Fist Tubes | \n|  | Arsenical Reduction Tubes | \n\n## RECEIT \nMAR 7 1868 \n\n74 \n\nMay it Please Your Lord Duke, \n\nI have the honor to enclose for Your Grace's information a printed copy of a Petition which I believe was forwarded by last mail to England and which it is intended to lay before His Grace, The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 14 January 1868 \n\n## Enclosure No.1 \n\nRemark \nPutte \nAct?? No. 98-15 Jena 83 F \n√5819 \ngoo \n02. \nOft \nOfe \nJest Indies \nFlounce Masks \nArticles Lisdigs Condenser \nTubulated Receivers \nDouble Necked Bottles... Test Tube cleaners. \n\n& A & \n\nList of items: \n- Very Fine Corks, assorted Sizes 1 Gross \n- Sordia Rubber Tubing 4 Sizes 3 yards each \n- Silver Wire for Sutures & Small size \n- Platinum Wire \n- Platinum Foil. 20 yards \n- Small Platinum crucible 2 \n- Beakers \n- Bent Tubes \n- A Water bath to fit Retorts \n- Balance handle Spatulas in large size 3 \n- De Small Size 3 \n- Camel Hair Pencils large size 6 Dozen \n- Safety Tubes \n- Hair Tubes \n\nRECEIVED \nMAR 7 1868",
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        "content_text": "## List of Names\n\n| Name | Title/Position/Company |\n| --- | --- |\n| MindBarky Illiches |  |\n| Hormusju Pestonfel Mare |  |\n| Qt et Smithe |  |\n| Jr Nunn. Ph. D. | Geophile. ARAlicemanrif & Diver |\n| Adolfhmeger | Invicieus |\n| Heego Sa |  |\n| B. Henver | Ryavorts, year MEAR 77 |\n| M. A. Risher Jen |  |\n| Cacins | Handien for the Victoris fie chamaner Company of Haughing, Comited. |\n| Zwwood. |  |\n| Sayles Co | H. Cowles dr. 0. dating 7 eter Boulland; |\n|  | Istudd B.Bains. RBIR Dalton Paylo M.Atammond. RM Boustead Johns. Robinson |\n|  | Hawlav Medlen foo NetCate Longue Daprast day lose to rédériede MtShaw |\n|  | John McGregor Art Tutk John poble C. Chtlemind Raynalig 9. Raynal Hammeraderobe. R. Rädecker. Flint La for Want gead seer. A hrauss Le Lancer. H. Deteneria Mis Ifranto |",
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        "content_text": "KONGYONG: PAINTED AT ARE DAILY CHAMS\" GF4168\n\n(signed) Adam Lind.\n\n红\n\nSupt. Pro. Co\n\nA. Newton\n\nCo\n\nman: Kong+ch: Gas Lo\n\nJ Engton Squier\n\nE. E. Aust: 4Ch. Ielegraph C4. LP.\n\nGes. B. Emory.\n\nAgent 0.40. S. s. Co.\n\nJus. J. Francis\n\nFor the Bornes C. Ld\n\n(signed) Tho. I. Rose, cody. Mang! (signed) Thos. C. Hayllar.\n\n#\n\n\"\n\nPurdou te!\n\nHenry Hingewill\n\nA. Macy Heaton. H.du Poney.\n\nAgt mes. Mar: Co Stauby Cope\n\nAgt. Reuters bley. Bs. Sk G. C. Smith\n\nLandstein tes\n\nJ.Joos Remedioster\n\nRemedios.\n\n33\n\n(signed) Eduard Schellhass &C!\n\nG. Raynal\n\nMeyer &c.\n\nppro. Adamson Bell te!\n\n(signed) D. Williamson. (signed) Justice Lambhere! A. S. Watson &C!\n\nH.\n\n\"\n\n#\n\n\"\n\nJ.D. Humphreys\n\nمرگ\n\n#\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\nR. Walker\n\n\"\n\nHesse tes\n\n\"\n\nM. Pustau ger\n\nبرا\n\nH. A. Asgar &. Camail\n\nH.M.M. Ally re\n\nA. dos Remedios\n\nH.L. Noronha\n\nNorton &e.\n\nDouglas Lapraik ve!\n\nWieler 400\n\nRädecker &e!\n\nA. Suenson\n\nRupt Great Nor. Selez: 60\n\nDeetzen &c.\n\nVogel Hagedorn H\n\nArDnot\n\nTO HIS EXCELLENCY\n\nMEMORIAL\n\nJOHN POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.,\n\n&c..\n\nSC..\n\nMAY 1877.",
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        "content_text": "298\n\nTHE SANITARY RECORD.\n\nSIMPSON, Mr. William Hirst, B.A., Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers, at £in per annum.\n\nSMITH, Mr. Job Ross, the Inspector of Nuisances for the Shipley Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector of Dairies, Cowsheds, &c.\n\nSTEVENSON, Mr. G., the Inspector of Nuisances for the Much-Wenlock Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 & 1886.\n\nSUTCLIFFE, Mr. Alfred, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Thornton Urban Sanitary District, at £40 for one year.\n\nSYKES, Mr. Edward has been appointed Surveyor to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £35 per annum, and Inspector of Nuisances at £35 per annum.\n\nSYKES, Mr. James William, Inspector of Nuisances for the Windhill Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886.\n\nTAYLOR, Mr. George, has been elected a Member of the Tipton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Field, resigned.\n\nTHORNTON, Mr. Reginald Douglas Banker, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly-incorporated Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Wareham.\n\nTHORNTON, Mr. Richard, Surveyor, &c., to the Drighlington Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector pro tem, under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886, and pursuant to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts of 1878 and 1886.\n\nWALTER, Mr. Nimrod, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Reigate Urban Sanitary District, at £75 for one year.\n\nWARD, Mr. Joseph Henry, has been appointed Clerk to the Baildon Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Yorkshire, at £24 per annum, vice Hines, resigned.\n\nWATERTON, Mr. William, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances, &c., for the Barnsley Urban Sanitary District, at £120 per annum, vice Savage (but who continues as Canal Boats and Smoke Inspector, at £50 per annum).\n\nWETHERELL, Mr. John, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Richmond (Yorkshire) Rural Sanitary District, at £85 per annum, vice Mr. J. Wetherell, deceased.\n\nWHITE, Mr. John, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Chard Urban Sanitary District, at £20 for one year.\n\nWILLIAMS, Mr. Richard Owen, Surveyor, &c., to the Bethesda Improvement Commissioners and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886.\n\nWORTHINGTON, Mr. Isaac, has been appointed Collector to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at 3 per cent. commission.\n\nPUBLIC ANALYSTS.\n\nCULLI, Mr. R. B., has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Tiverton, for one year.\n\nESTCOURT, Mr. Charles, has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Lancaster, at £10 10s. per annum, and 6s. per analysis, vice Brown.\n\nFUNNAR, Mr. Otto, has been re-appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Derby.\n\nHILL, Alfred Bostock, M.D., S.Sc.Cert.Camb, L.R.C.P.Edin, has been re-appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Royal Leamington Spa, at £20 per annum, and 6s. 8d. per analysis.\n\nVACANCIES.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the Walton-on-the-Naze Urban Sanitary District, £20 per annum. Application, 6th inst., to T. A. Middleton, Clerk to the Authority.\n\nTREASURER to the Alcester Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. Application to S. A. Guthard, Clerk.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Urban Sanitary District. Application, 10th inst., to William Thompson, Clerk.\n\nTREASURER to the Conway Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to T. E. Parry, Town Clerk.\n\nCLERK to the Birkenhead Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. Application to The Chairman.\n\nCLERK to the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to The Chairman.\n\nSURVEYOR to the Redditch Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to H. C. Browning, Clerk.\n\nSURVEYOR and INSPECTOR of NUISANCES to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers. Application to W. H. Simpson, Town Clerk.\n\nCOLLECTOR to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers. Application to W. H. Simpson, Town Clerk.\n\nLOCAL INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hambledon Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority have been invested with urban powers, rights, &c., under the provisions of Sections 157 and 158 of the Public Health Act, 1875, within the contributory places of Bramley, Cranley, Shalford, and Wonersh.\n\nThe Egremont Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority recently re-appointed Dr. Calderwood as Medical Officer of Health for three years, but the Local Government Board have refused their sanction for more than one year, on account of his being a Poor-law district medical officer.\n\nAt the last meeting of the Driffield Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, it was unanimously resolved to decrease the salary of Dr. Wood, Medical Officer of Health, from £130 to £70 per annum, and that of Mr. Sumner, Inspector of Nuisances, &c., from £100 to £100 per annum, upon the expiration of their appointments at Christmas.\n\nIt was recently proposed to form a Local Government District for the Ogmore and Garw Valleys within the area of the Bridgend Rural Sanitary District, and the necessary formal steps were taken under The Public Health Act for that purpose. This was followed by the usual Local Government Inquiry, at which some evidence in opposition was given. At the meeting of the Bridgend Rural Sanitary Authority on the 4th inst., the question was discussed, and a resolution passed upholding a previous one in favour of the formation of the proposed district, as they 'saw no reason to change their opinion after hearing the objections raised at the recent Government Inquiry.'\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES.\n\nHaving for some time back been in the receipt of Queries appertaining strictly to sanitary work, and which it would be easy to answer, without having to refer our correspondents to competent professional advisers, we have opened a column in which to register such Queries and Replies thereto as can fairly be expected from us; and our subscribers and readers are invited to make such use of this column as will tend to benefit themselves and the community. Both Queries and Replies will, however, be subjected, if unnecessarily long, to a strict curtailment.\n\n205. TEST SOLUTIONS FOR WATER ANALYSIS.\n\nI should be much obliged if you would state where you would recommend me to get reliable test solutions for water analysis according to Wanklyn.\n\nR.M.O.H. [Messrs. Y. E. Becker & Co., 34 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, W.C., supply the solutions in a satisfactory state.—ED.]\n\n206. WATER SUPPLY.\n\nCan you recommend me any book that gives the average quantity of water used or required per head of population throughout the country?\n\nC. W. P.\n\nThe most reliable information as to the quantity of water which should preferably be allowed per head of population under varying conditions is to be found in Parkes' and De Chaumont's 'Practical Hygiene,' and it would, perhaps, be useless to seek elsewhere, as all the information upon this subject is brought down to a late date. Consult the Sixth Edition (1883) of the above work, pages 3 to 7. The publishers are Messrs. J. & A. Churchill, 11 New Burlington Street, London, W. (See also SANITARY RECORD, Aug. 16, 1886, page 91.) All engineers strive as much as possible to allow 30 gallons per head for domestic purposes, and in the work above mentioned this amount is thus distributed—Domestic supply (without bath or closets), 20 gallons; add for general baths, 4 gallons; water-closets, 6 gallons; unavoidable waste, 3 gallons—total, 33 gallons.—ED.]\n\n207. QUALIFICATIONS OF A CHIEF INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.\n\nWhat do you consider the proper qualifications for a chief inspector of nuisances in a town of between 90,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, whose salary will be between £140 and £160 per annum? There will be several inspectors under him, and there is a medical officer of health who does not practise privately.\n\nALPHA.\n\nThis is not a question which lends itself to any such short answer as alone is possible for us in this corner of the RECORD. But our correspondent will find fully detailed remarks as to the qualifications for the post which he describes in the number for May 15, 1883, p. 510.]\n\nJEYES' PERFECT PURIFIER' is a disinfectant in fluid form of extraordinary efficacy. It is used in the Royal households and by Her Majesty's Government establishments, the Corporation of London, Smithfield and Billingsgate Markets, various steamship and railway companies, the principal hospitals, &c., and is authorised by the Board of Trade and the Indian Government. The testimonials which have been received bear the names among others of such unimpeachable authorities as Sir R. Rawlinson, C.B., C.E., Chief Sanitary Engineer of the Local Board, Home Office; Professor Wanklyn, M.R.C.S.; Dr. C. A. Cameron, Medical Officer of Health, Dublin; Mr. J. T. Dibdin, A.V.D., Cavalry Barracks, York; and Dr. Crookshank, Inspector-General of Prisons, Cairo. In addition to its powerful disinfecting properties, this compound possesses the recommendation that it is non-poisonous, non-corrosive, stainless in use, and cheap. The scientific mind will understand and appreciate this characteristic of the manufacture—that it prevents contagion by destroying its cause; it instantly removes bad smells; is an unfailing cure for eczema and other skin diseases, and is the best known insecticide.—Sold by all respectable Chemists' Stores, &c., in bottles at 6d. and 1s. and drums at 5s. per gallon. Jeyes Sanitary Compound Company (Limited), 43 Cannon Street, London, E.C.—ADVT.)\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Crown Agents\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nRebolt kr\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston,\n\nMr. Meade.\n\n1967\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nLord Onslow.\n\nSir H. T. Holland.\n\nAust 17452\n\n20\n\n12766\n\nرسله\n\nHome May:\n\nJJ.\n\n303\n\n21 Ich 27\n\nSentherm\n\nThe site th\n\nf State\n\nI. 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        "content_text": "# RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,~(Continued)\n\n373\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATION-ALITY | ADULTS | CHILDREN | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward |  |  |  | 348,854 | 45,738 | 1,363 |  |  |\n|  | Brought forward |  |  |  | £39,508 | 60,520 | 1,862 |  | 63,078 |\n| 36 | October 4 | City of Sydney, str. | 3,966 | American |  |  | Rai | Brisbane |  |\n|  | 4 | Kong Bong, str. | 302 | British | 320 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 348 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 37 |  |  | 37 |\n| 240 | July 22 | Whampoa, str. | 1,159 | British | 1 |  | Hant | Sydney | 199 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | LOW | 319 |  |  |  |\n| 241 |  | Glenfias, str. | 1,409 |  | Jacola |  |  | Straits Settlements | 30 |\n|  | 31 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,517 |  | Ste. Croix | 180 | 200 | Melbourne |  |\n| 242 | 24 | Telemachus, str. | 1,421 |  | Jones |  |  | Straits Settlements | 260 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 321 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 26 | Patroclus, str. | 1,386 |  | Thompson | 156 |  |  |  |\n| 243 | + | Tai Sang, str. | 1,305 |  | Davies | 104 | 10 |  |  |\n| 244 | 26 | Kashgar, str. | 1,515 |  | Gadil | 120 |  |  | 4 |\n| 322 | 6 | Tupoy de Lorne, str. | 2,663 | French | Comp | 190 | 10 | 200 |  |\n| 323 | 4 | Picciola, str. | 875 | German | Nixsen | 273 |  | 285 | 139 |\n| 324 | 6 | Livingstone | 531 |  | 215 | 1 |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Mirzapore, sta | 2,164 |  | Harvey | 57 |  |  | #27 |\n| 325 | 7 | Angers, str. | 246 |  | 30 |  | Phra Chu Chou Khao, S | Bangkok |  |\n| 247 | 31 | Menelaus, str. | 1,300 |  | Nelson |  |  | Straits Settlements | 107 |\n| 327 | & | Titan, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 248 | August 3 | Cheang Hook Kian, str. | 954 |  | neph | 243 | 100 | 8 | 242 |\n| H | 3 | Glamis Castle, str. | 1,558 |  | Amy | 291 |  | 300 | 324 |\n| 9 |  | Nurnberg, str. | 250 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Japan, str. | 1,845 |  | Gariluer | 496 |  |  |  |\n|  | 11 | Amigo, str. | 1,554 | British | 853 |  | 2,159 | German | 771 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Stiffens |  | Pinkham | Honolulu | 183 |\n|  | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 188 |\n|  |  | Hesperia, str. | 8 |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 146 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Christiansen | 103 | 11 |  |  |\n|  |  | Mongkut, str. | 2,077 | British | 1,186 | German |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Brown | 252 |  | 200 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Loff Berdrow |  |  | Bangkok | 37 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 40 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1751 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Samuelsen | 18 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2251 |\n|  | 4 | City of Rio de Janeiro, str. | 2,276 | American | Cobl |  |  | San Francisco | 164 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 164 |\n| 231 | 11 | Clara, str. | 674 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 252 | ** | Deucalion, sår. | 1,374 | British | Asquith |  |  | Straits Settlements | 152 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 137 |\n| 332 | 15 | Cheang flock Kian, str. | 956 | British | Christiansen Webb |  |  | Bangkok | 35 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 35 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | $18 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 360 |\n| 253 | 11 | Fidelio, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 254 | 6 | Gaolie, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 255 | ++ | Poseidon, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 256 | 9 | Protus. str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 257 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 258 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 259 | +7 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 260 | י |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 261 | 10 | Mongkut, str. | 2,601 | British | Brock | 852 | German | 201 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16 |\n|  | 12 | Pandora, str. | 2510 | Austriat |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 12 | Dardanus, str. | 1,150 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 13 | Oder, str. | 1,781 | Austrian |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 13 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,536 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1,891 | German |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Pembrokeshire, str. | 1,717 |  | learne |  |  | San Francisco | 167 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  | 172 |\n|  | 18 | Benarty, str. | 1,119 |  | Doueich |  |  | Straits Settlements | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 443 |  |  |  | 39% |\n|  | 18 | Agamemnon, str. | 1,522 |  | Sorensen Loff |  |  | Bangkok | אנון |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 126 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 18 | Atholl, str. | 923 |  | Williams |  |  |  | 29 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Wilding Coulter |  |  |  | 30 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Le Boultelier | 210 |  | G | 280 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 155 |  |  |  | 176 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 225 |  |  | 2 | 23X |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 137 |  |  |  | 140 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | R$7 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 18 | Tannadice, str. | 1,408 |  | Radonicich |  |  | Straits Settlements | 230 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 234 |\n| 338 | 19 | Amphitrite, str. | 2,486 | Austrian | Cmig Gelcich |  |  | Australian Porta | 200 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 300 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 397 |\n| 333 | 19 | Arralocu Apear, str. | 1,392 | British | peiffer |  |  |  | 154 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 160 |\n|  |  | Tounun, str. | 1,282 | Chinese | 1,517 | British |  | St. Croix |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | } |  |  |  | N |\n|  |  |  |  |  | BIL |  |  |  |  |\n| 21 |  | Moray, str. | 1427 | British | Mactavish Marsden Duncan | 251 |  | 275 | 327 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 337 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 231 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 250 |  |  | 262 |  |\n|  | 16 | Cyclops, str. | 1,403 |  | Nish | 182 |  | 142 |  |\n| 263 | 16 | City of Rio de Janeiro, str. | 2,275 | American | Cobb |  |  | San Francisco | 503 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 503 |\n|  | 16 | Palyhyrnia, str. | 1,055 | German | Nagel | 85 |  | 101 | $43 |\n| 22 |  | Taichiow, str. | 862 | British | Newton |  |  | Bangkok | 99 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  | 116 |\n| 264 | lê ị | Para Clon kho,str. | 1,012 | British | Walton |  |  | Bangkok | 48 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | B |  |  |  |  |\n| 22 |  | Fred. P. Litchfield. | 1042 | American | Young |  |  | Honolulu | 162 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  | 175 |\n| 265 | 18 | Gleneagles, str. | 2,000 |  | Hogg |  |  | Straits Settlemeuls | 287 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  | भ |\n| 25 |  | Tai Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 266 | 20 | City of New York, str. | 1,964 | American | Searle |  |  | San Francisco | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 160 |  |  |  |  |\n| 26 |  | Diomed, str. | 1,500 | British | Davies |  |  | Straits Settlements | 480 |\n|  |  |  | 1,471 |  |  |  |  |  | 12 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 500 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bigley | 138 | 2 |  | 144 |\n| 267 | 21 | Laeries, sir. | 1,391 | British | Scale |  |  | Straits Settlements | 146 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | B |  |  |  | 347 |\n| 27 |  | Orion, str. | 1,833 | Austrian | Matiazzi | 200 |  | •224 |  |\n| 268 | 21 | Taichiow, str. | 862 |  | Newton |  |  | Bangkok | 34 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 34 |  |  |  | 346 |\n| 27 |  | Niobe, str. | 1,672 | German |  |  |  | Port Darwin | 339 |\n|  |  | Kong Beng, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Townsville | 1 |\n| 269 | 14 | Edward May |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 21 | Guthrie, str. | 1,494 |  | Shannon |  |  | Brisbane | 11 |\n| 28 |  | Glenie, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Sydney | 30 |\n|  |  | Bellerophon, str. | 1,396 |  |  |  |  |  | Melbourne | 45 |\n|  | 3 | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3:3 |\n|  | Nov. | Changsha, str. | 1963 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 270 | 23 | Anjer Hand, str. | 1.800 |  | Macey |  |  | Straits Settlements | 135 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | HO |  |  |  | 3+4 |\n|  |  | Ajax, str. |  |  | Laga |  |  |  |  |\n| 271 | 24 | Kaisow, str. | 1.984 |  | Thomson | 210 |  |  | 20 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 300 |  |  |  | 39 |\n|  | 1 | Electra, str. | 1.162 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 272 | 26 | Larne, str. | 1,085 |  | Hunter | 424 | 116 |  | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 230 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 1 | Whampoa, str. | 1,100 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 890 | American | 2.691 | British |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Plaff |  | Jones |  | Johusou |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Peame |  | Guthrie |  | Williams |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Riley |  | Madsen |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Haut |  |  |  | 1701 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | 171 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 66 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |  |  | 70 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 176 |  |  | Honolulu |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | A |  |  |  | 197 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 937 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 20 |  |  |  | 957 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 190 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 199 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 185 |  |  | 5 | 190 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | \": |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 146 |  |  | 10 | 158 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 213 |  |  |  | 220 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Australian Ports | 150 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 150 |  |  |  |  |\n| 273 | 14 | Arratoon Aprar, str. | 1,392 |  | Maclavish | 320 |  | 19 | X98 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Port Darwin | 30 |\n| 274 | 28 | Belgic, str. | 2.695 |  | Walker |  |  | San Francisco | 220 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | انانه |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Cooktown | 2 |\n| 275 | 28 | Phra Chola Chom Klao, s. | 1,012 |  | Lightwood |  |  | Bangkok | 62 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 67 |  |  |  |  |\n| 276 | Sem. | 1 Hydra | 785 | German | Binge |  |  | Honolulu | 1755 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 180 |  |  |  | 37 |\n|  |  | Catterthun, str. | 1,400 |  | : Darke |  |  |  |  |\n| 277 | 1 | Kong Beng, str. | 842 | British | Jones |  |  | Bangkok | 34 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | #1 |  |  | Townsville | 13 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Brisbane | 2 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 97 |  |  |  | 31 |\n| 278 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 279 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 280 | 4 | Picciola, str. | 1.017 | British | Niessen |  |  | Doncaster |  |\n| 281 | 4 | Flintshire, str. | 1,538 |  | Webster |  |  | Straits Settlements | 297 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | N |  |  |  |  |\n| 282 | 6 | Amigo, str. | 875 | Germat | Bertelsen |  |  | Melbourne | 921 |\n|  |  | Prometheus, str. |  |  | 107 |  |  |  | 116 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Adelaide | 100 |\n|  |  | Duburg, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  | FOR |\n|  |  |  | 1.729 |  | 1 |  |  |  | 10 |\n| 379 | 3 | Rohilla, str. | 2.251 |  | Jaques Barratt |  |  | Straits Settlements | 357 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 378 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 55 |  |  |  | 771 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | German |  |  |  | 450 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |  |  | 409 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 300 |  |  | i |  |\n|  |  | \" Fra Chula (\"lot Kha, s. | 1.01% |  | Lightwood |  |  | Bangkok | 10 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | $7 |  |  |  | 983 |\n|  | 6 | Tai Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 284 | 6 | Zambesi, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 286 | 6 | Achilles, str. | 1505 | British | Davies |  |  |  | 480 |\n|  |  |  | 1.540 |  |  |  |  |  | 500 |\n|  |  |  | 1.528 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4: |  | Duburg. st. | 921 | German | Bertelsen |  |  | Straits Settlements | 291 |\n|  | 9 |  |  |  | 9 |  |  |  | 304 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Cole | 214 |  | 201 | 362 |\n| + |  | Braunschweig, str. | 2.150 |  | Stormer |  |  |  | 178 |\n|  | 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 178 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Auderson | 29 |  |  | 343 |\n| 8 |  | Lombardy, str. | 1.571 | British | Webber |  |  |  | 30 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | 1 |\n| 286 | ד | 7 City of Peking, str. | 3,129 | American |  |  |  | San Francisco | 271 |\n|  | 8 | Mongkat, str. | 859 | British | Dearborn Loff |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Japan, str. | 1,863 |  | \" |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Gardner | 225 | 17 |  | 250 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 56 |\n| 305 | 8 | City of New York, str. | 1,964 | American. | Searle |  |  | San Francisen | 5091 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 509 |  |  |  | 509 |\n| 288 | 10 | Neckar, str. | 1,870 | Germa | Baur |  |  | Straits Settlements | 73 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 73 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Medusa, str. | 1,775 | Austrian | Pevini |  |  | Straits Settlements | 234 |\n|  | 11 |  |  |  | 11 |  |  |  | 29% |\n| 289 | 11 | Bormida, str, | 190 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 11 | Thisbe. str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 291 | # | Khiva, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 292 | 13 | Ningehow, str. | 1.490 | Italian | 1.818 | Austrian | 1,419 | British | 1,735 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bason Castle |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Pizzarello | 321 |  | #33 | 367 |\n|  | 9 | Palinurns, str. | 1,536 | British | Jacksum |  |  |  | 289 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 296 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ballovich | 281 |  |  | 369 |\n|  | 10 | Hornida, str. | 1,499 | Italian | Pizzarello |  |  |  | 115 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 116 |  |  |  | 70 |\n| 340 | 12 | Cheang Hock Rian, str. | '956 | British | Webb |  |  |  | 385 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 17 |  |  |  | 412 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1451 |  |  | 10 |  |\n| 370 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 298 | 13 | Massulin. str. | 1,262 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 12 | Saochow, str. | 999 |  | Hurris |  |  | Sydney | 18 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Petersen | 75 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Melbonme | 59 |\n| 294 | 14 | Hector, str. | 1,590 | British | Balt |  |  |  | 164 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 15 |  |  |  | 311 |\n| 15 |  | Belgic. str. | 2.093 |  | Walker |  |  | San Francisco | 7001 |\n| 295 | 14 | Danube, str. | 563 |  | Anderson |  |  | Bungkok | 64 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 69 |  |  |  |  |\n| 372 | 15 | tilazce, str. | 1,764 |  | Johnson |  |  | Straits Settlements | 160 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  |  |\n| 296 | 14: | China, ser, | 1,993 | German | Have |  |  |  | 361 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 378 |  |  |  |  |\n| 15 |  | Sarpedon, str. | 1.590 |  | Crimes | 250 |  |  |  |\n| 297 | 12 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 15: | Clieveden, str. | 1,185 | British | Gibb |  |  | Ba | 41 |\n|  |  | Denbighshire, str. | 1,663 |  | ! Cuming | 274 |  |  | POR |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | * |\n|  | 15 | Fidelio, str. | 852 | German | Brock |  |  | Straits Settlements | المنزل |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ** |\n|  | 17 | Iphigenia, str. | 1.059 | Germ | · Valtmer | 110 | 3 |  | 209 |\n|  | 13 | Cheang Hock Kian. str. | 926 | British | Webb |  |  |  | 324 |\n|  | 18 | Orestes, HUT. | 1.323 | British | ! Hutchinson | 150 |  |  |  |\n| 300 | 17 | Prinz Alexander, str. | 1.911 | German | Bekert | 335 |  |  | San |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 377 |\n|  | 10 | Hydaspes, str. | 1.800 |  | Scrivener | 62 |  |  |  |\n| 301 |  | Is Antenor. str. | 1.376 | British | Freeman | 390 |  |  | 396 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ais |\n|  | 20 | Gleneagles, str. | 1,838 |  | Park | 225 |  |  |  |\n| 302 | 18 | Cambodia, str. | 3.969 |  | Wildgoose | 30 | 3 |  | 372 |\n| 22 |  | Taichiuw, str. | 882 |  | Newton |  |  | Bangkuk | 41 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  |  |\n| 303 | 20 | Glamorganshire, str. | 1,843 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 304 | 23 | Ravenia. str. | 2,038 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 305 | 28: | Vorwaerts, str. | 1.574 | Austrian |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 306 | 23 | San Pablo, str. | 2,113 | American |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 307 | 25 | Japan, str. | 1,865 | British | Davies |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | : Daniell |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Radonicich |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Reed |  |  |  | 157 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | : Gardner |  |  |  | 160 |\n|  | 23 | Fidelio, str. | $32 | German | Brock |  |  | Straits Settlements | 370 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 44 |  |  |  |  |\n| 24 |  | Parthia, str. | 2,085 | British | Brough: | 320 |  |  | 543 |\n|  | 25 | Piccivia, str. |  |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 3901 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 460 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 25 | Guthrie. str. | 1.493 | British |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 350 |  |  |  |  |\n| 384 | 24 | Titanin, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 308 | - |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 25 | Glenorchy, str. | 1.822 |  | Godre |  |  |  | 28 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 30 |  |  |  | 5 |\n|  | 26 | Bentedi, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 309 | 27 | Palamed, str. | 1,536 |  | Jackson | 127 |  |  | 478 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 29 |  | Wing Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 310 | 28 | Benlarig, str. | 1,482 |  | Clarke | 34 |  | 2!!! | \" |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 29 | Amigo, str. | 348 |  |  |  |  | Thursday Island |  |\n|  |  | City of Peking, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Cooktown |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | en Dec. |  |\n|  | 1 | Ulaucus, str. | 1.382 | British | 875 | Germin | 2,011 | Austrínu | 900 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | British | 1,517 |  | 771 | German |\n|  |  |  | 3,120 | American |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Nissen |  |  | Shannon |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Morsa Riddori |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Ste. 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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 1.\n\n194\n\nto forward for Your Lordship's information a copy of a minute by Sir G. William Des Voeux on \"Bishop Raimondi's letter of the 21st March\" (which was communicated to the Bishop) and copy of the Bishop's letter in reply.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nG[eorge] Digby Becker\n\n19th April 1891.\n\nCopy\n\nMinute by Sir G. W. Des Voeux.\n7.5.91\nC.O. 15130\n\nI regret that the pressure of work previous to my departure has prevented me from giving that full consideration to this subject which its importance requires. Let Bishop Raimondi be informed of this and also that his letter will be forwarded to Lord Knutsford, adding the expression of my regret for the spirit of defiance to the law which his letter unmistakably evinces, and further that while all legitimate grievances will receive the fullest consideration, the Bishop must be prepared for penal consequences if, pending such consideration, the law should be deliberately broken.\n\nBut... \nG. W. Des Voeux",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nالساعة امورات \n\n\n\n\n248 \n\nhas her called for from the station as to the same of $4418.00 claimed by the Colonial Treasurer for land at Becker's Bost paid for by them in 1885, and that on its receipt a further communication \n\nwill be made. \n\nI have the honor to be \n\nSir \n\nYour obedient Servant  \nJ. W. Johnston \n\n17 \n\n2",
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        "content_text": "## List of Firms\n\n| Name of Firms | Importer Exporter | Manu-facturer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| lex Ross & Co. | Yes |  |\n| Yosrretto & Co. | Yes | .00 |\n| hackhead, F. & Co. | Yes | .00 |\n| joxTemizm, Ferd & Co. | Yes | .00 |\n| adley & Co. | Yes | .00 |\n| Bred÷IeM |  | .00 |\n| in Express Co. | Yes |  |\n| bymell Bros. Co. | Yes | .00 |\n| ME Pasto & Co. | Yes |  |\n| 1ry Farm Co., Ltd. | Yes |  |\n| iy Burjor & Co. | Yes | .00 |\n| hanch Store |  | .00 |\n| mphreys, G. W. & Co. | Yes |  |\n| chison, J. D. & Co. | Yes |  |\n| page à Co. | Yes |  |\n| ley, W. R. & Co. | Yes |  |\n| alder, A. B. & Co. | Yes |  |\n| wen Frickel & Co. | Yes |  |\n| mal Stores | Yes |  |\n| lecker & Co. | Yes |  |\n| olie & Co. | Yes |  |\n| Poonjee, H. & Son | Yes |  |\n| W. & Co. | Yes |  |\n| sminn, Ltd. |  |  |\n| king, Harry & Co. | Yes |  |\n\nPage 412",
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        "content_text": "## CANDLES\n| Name of Firms | Nationality | Importer | Exporter | Manufacturer |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Arculli Brothers Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Arndt & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Barretto & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Blackhead & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Bradley & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Bornemann, F. & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Carlowitz & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| China Export & Import Banque Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| Dedy Bujor & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Godwell & Co., Ltd. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Reuser Eberius & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| Hongkong & Shanghai Dock. Co. Ltd. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Anthohison, J. D. & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Longzong Tramway Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Mammyhreys, W. G. & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Judine katheson & Co., Ld. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Jonge & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Luse & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| Lexlay, W. R. & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| Owen Frickel & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| elchers & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| Boulder, A. B & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| bal Stores Ld. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Becker & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Eie & Co. | B.I. | Yes |  |  |\n| azblonjes, S. & Sons. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| W. & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| -liswan Iomes & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| volsson & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| Kaldt & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| Standard Oil Co. of New York |  | Yes |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "## Name of Firms | Nationality | Importer | Exporter | Manufacturer\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Joxley, W. R. & Co. | B | Yes | Yes | .I.8 |\n| (erty, A, R. |  |  |  |  |\n| Frickel & Co. | D | .00 | 2 | .br9T |\n| Jelchers & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| Demon & Cassum | B | Yes | ++ |  |\n| Pohoomull Bros. | B.I. | Yes | BOY | .00 2 |\n| volbermowell, Wm. Ltd. | B9Y | BOY | Q |  |\n| Decker & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| G. men phy |  | Yes | Yea | Yes |\n| fatchie & Co. | .I.E |  |  | .I.E |\n| Arıtu Rozario & Co. | .00 |  |  | troqMI |\n| Bassoon, David & Co., Ltd. |  |  |  | vontri |\n| Bayce & Co. | B | Yes | P | COA |\n| Seluldt & Co. | .00 | * | .ɑ | meIIedo |\n| Bennet Freres | G | Yes | F | Yea |\n| Shewan Tomes & Co. |  |  |  | Totw¤ yko |\n| Shewan, W. & Co. | .00 | & | SĒS” |  |\n| Bienssen & Co. | .00 | & | TENTIOя | alerien |\n|  | .00 | & | nodagnivhi | ddif |\n|  | .00 | & | MemIm |  |\n| Teavell | 100 | gntherT | catno | breiter |\n| Ullmann & Co. | .00 2 | .0 | .LavendqsuIE | co2 |\n| Victoria Diapɔndary | .00 2 | .0 | .W,ayerriqmul) |  |\n| Vieira & Co. | .00 à | meadel |  |  |\n| Assomull & Co. | B | Yes | B | BANO * |\n|icking, Harry & Co. | 3.I. | Yes | Yea | Yes |\n| Kalew & VIIeX | .00 $ | earl |  |  | \n$SE \nYOMA H \n-BusM 1971981 \nretroqzál | vtroqal \n-noiteй \ntils \neumi to sm \n\nFANCY GOOD S \n* 523 \n\n(CONTINUED) \nPage 154",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1913\n\n## THE GERMAN CELEBRATIONS\n\n## RECEPTION AT THE GERMAN CLUB\n\nThe German Community in Hongkong celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the reign of the Emperor of Germany yesterday, by a reception at the German Club at noon and by a banquet at the Club in the evening. All German business houses were closed for the greater part of the day, and the German flag was much in evidence. S.M.S. \"Iris\" was the only German warship in port, and there was no British warship but the receiving ship \"Tamar\", which, like the \"Iris\", was dressed for the occasion.\n\nThe Reception at the German Club was very largely attended. It is probably no exaggeration to say that every male German in the Colony was present, but it would also probably be true to say that there was quite as large a number of British subjects present. H.E. the Governor (Sir Henry May, K.C.M.G.), H.E. Major-General Anderson, C.B., and practically all the heads of Departments in the Civil Service of the Colony were there, besides a large number of Naval and Military Officers and leading residents of all nationalities. All the Foreign Consuls were also present. The Consul (Dr. Crull) with Mr. Becker (Chairman of the Club), Mr. Friesland, and Mr. Siebs received the guests as they entered the building.\n\nThe function took place in the large dining room, which had been artistically adorned for the occasion with greenery, flags, etc. At the head of the room stood an excellent bust of the Kaiser amid a bower of palms, with the German and British ensigns on the wall above, while at the opposite end of the room was a large etching of the Kaiser, and in another part of the hall a large photograph of His Majesty.\n\nJust before 12 o'clock Mr. A. Becker, Chairman of the Club, paid the graceful compliment to the Colony of proposing the health of H.M. King George V., which was duly honoured.\n\nDr. Crull, the Acting Consul for Germany, then proposed the health of H.M. the Emperor of Germany in a speech of which the following is a translation:-\n\n\"Your Excellency, Gentlemen, Twenty-five years have elapsed since Kaiser Wilhelm II. succeeded his late lamented father on the throne. These 25 years have proved to the German Empire an era of blessing and of peace, and it is with justifiable pride and genuine expressions of joy that the German people review it. We also, we Germans living afar from our Homeland, join with the festive throng throughout the world in offering to the Kaiser our loyal homage. That we do not stand herein alone, but that we see taking part representatives of that nation on whose territory we live, whose protection we enjoy, and to whom we shall always feel grateful for the hospitality granted us during long decades, is to us a special cause of satisfaction.\n\n\"In the name of the German Colony, I beg to express to your Excellency our appreciation of the great honour which you have deigned to confer on us by your visits to yesterday's and to-day's festivities, and your Excellency may rest assured that the remembrance of the more than ordinary share of goodwill meted out to us Germans by your Excellency on these occasions will be retained in the hearts of my fellow-countrymen, as I will always keep it, with sincerest gratitude.\n\n\"We Germans have also to thank those who, either as representatives of their respective nations or as heads of departments, or in the simple capacity of friends and acquaintances, are helping us to celebrate this day of rejoicing. Gentlemen, let me give expression to the hope that to our venerated and beloved Emperor may yet be given long years of happy reign, that the German Empire under his rule may further prosper and develop while at peace with its neighbours and always in closer relations with the nation that hails from the same stock as we do, so that the words remain true, which our Emperor uttered during his first sojourn in London in 1881 as a reigning monarch: 'Following the example set me by my grandfather and my never-forgotten father, I shall always maintain the historical bond of friendship between our two nations, as well as may rest in my power, thanks to which they have been so often united in the past for the protection of freedom and of justice.' Gentlemen, His Majesty the Kaiser! Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!\"\n\nThe toast was honoured with enthusiasm.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR then addressed the gathering in German, speaking with a perfect accent. His speech, translated, was to the following effect:-\n\n\"Gentlemen and honoured Consul,-On behalf of my compatriots, and indeed I may add in the name of the whole Colony of Hongkong, I must express our heartfelt participation in the rejoicings with which our German friends are rightly overwhelmed to-day on the occasion of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the accession of the Emperor and Empress of Germany.\n\n\"I can assure you that we are one and all animated by the earnest hope that His Majesty the German Emperor may long be spared to his people, nay, to the world; and that the flourishing Empire whose destinies are placed in his hands may, under the government of His Majesty, continue uninterruptedly on its career of glorious achievement.\"",
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        "content_text": "1\n\n442 information received from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, called out on the 8th of September. The call did not affect Germans in this Colony since they cannot leave it without my permission. But the call technically has rendered most of the 74 persons named in the list liable to serve. I may mention here that about 90 first reservists left the Colony shortly before the outbreak of war for Tsingtau.\n\n3.\n\nIn justice to the German Consul I should also explain here that when he furnished the list of German subjects who were paroled on the 7th and 8th of August, he intimated that as he had no census of German residents there might be others not included in his list. The Police were accordingly instructed to make a complete census of all Germans and Austrians in the Colony and the compilation of the list occupied some time. This may partly explain the discrepancy in the figures of those ultimately liable for service, and accounts for the late date at which some of the residents were paroled. Mr. Rosemann only returned to the Colony recently.\n\n4.\n\nAn examination of the list of names which accompanied Major-General Kelly's letter of the 5th instant shows that of the 74 persons named therein 48 are members of the German Club in this Colony. Among these members are comprised Mr. Gutecke and Mr. Hock, the manager and Assistant Manager of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank and many other well-known business men who are either in charge of, or assistants in, German firms licensed to trade here. In this connection I may mention that on the departure of the German Consul Mr. A. Becker, Chairman of the German Club, and Mr. O. Struckmeyer of the firm of Siemssen & Co., asked me on behalf of the Committee of the Club to report to them if there should be any complaint of misconduct on the part of any resident member of the Club in order to enable the expulsion from the Club of any member who should infringe his parole or otherwise",
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        "content_text": "521\n\nPARTICULARS OF ENEMY'S SUBJECTS RESIDENT IN HONGKONG WHO ARE LIABLE FOR SERVICE.\n\n  \n    Pass No\n    Name and Age\n    Private Address\n    Business Address\n    Date of Parole\n    Complaints\n  \n  \n    458\n    Adam, H., 36\n    3, Connaught Road\n    China Export & Import Co.\n    8th August, 1914\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Barblinger, A., 35\n    13, The Peak\n    Berblinger & Co.\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    7\n    Drescher, F., 34\n    German Club\n    Steward, German Club\n    do.\n    Aggressive and insolent in his manner to Provost Marshal when getting pass.\n  \n  \n    8\n    Berg, F., 41\n    35, Conduit Road\n    Carl Bodiker & Co.\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    10\n    Frölich, E., 27\n    25, Wongnaichong Road\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    Forrell, T., 27\n    3 Terrace, Kennedy Rd., Kowloon\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Gathemann, Capt., 41\n    8.5 Rajaburi\n    Gaupp & Co.\n    \"Rajaburi\"\n    \n  \n  \n    16\n    Gatscke, H., 41\n    12, Peak Road\n    German Bank\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Hasslop, C., 33\n    2, Durbar Villas, K'loon\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    20\n    Hagen, F., 32\n    do.\n    Blackhead & Co.\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    21\n    Hartig, G., 29\n    3, Ormsby Villas\n    Kruse & Co.\n    8th August, 1914\n    10th August 1914\n  \n  \n    24\n    Hermingling, F., 44\n    130, McDonnell Road\n    \n    7th August, 1914\n    Report from French Consul General that he is spreading false information. Official papers not yet to hand.\n  \n  \n    26\n    Humann, J., 26\n    5, Morrison Hill\n    Reuter, Brockelmann & Co.\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    27\n    Fischer, J., 24\n    6, Morrison Hill\n    \n    8th August, 1914\n    \n  \n  \n    28\n    Drouren, D., 25\n    5, Morrison Hill\n    \n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    30\n    Illgen, A., 26\n    13, Hankow Road, K'loon\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    35\n    Bellken, B., 44\n    27, Belilios Terrace\n    N. D. L.\n    7th August, 1914\n    \n  \n  \n    36\n    Escher, G., 25\n    13, The Peak\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    37\n    Hell, T., 29\n    15, Conduit Road\n    Berblinger & Co.\n    8th August, 1914\n    \n  \n  \n    38\n    Haasmern, K., 28\n    3, Canton Villas, Kloon\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    41\n    Becker, O., 37\n    German Club\n    Herz Schaberg & Co.\n    do.\n    Reported as improperly behaving himself in Teiamann's.\n  \n  \n    46\n    Boch, K., 36\n    3, Robinson Road\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    48\n    Jebsen, J., 44\n    23, Conduit Road\n    Doctor, Reserve Officer, Jebsen & Co.\n    8th August, 1914\n    \n  \n  \n    49\n    Gunther, H., 32\n    Station Hotel\n    McEwan Frickel & Co.\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    51\n    Jahrand, A., 33\n    161, Magazine Gap\n    Hugo Fromm & Co.\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    54\n    Buss, H., 22\n    153, Wanchai Road\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    63\n    Koch, H., 38\n    Peak Hotel\n    Bume & Reif, German Bank\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    66\n    Lamperski, A., 37\n    33, Conduit Road\n    Melchers & Co.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    68\n    Lahmann, E., 29\n    14, Humphreys Buildings\n    Blackhead & Co.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    69\n    Landgraff, C., 44\n    9, Queen's Gardens\n    Carlowitz & Co.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    70\n    Lehrmann, H., 31\n    8, Hanoi Road, K'loon\n    Arnold, Karberg & Co.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    73\n    Karing, E., 25\n    6, Morrison Hill\n    \n    10th August, 1914\n    \n  \n  \n    74\n    Laeresen, H., 24\n    do.\n    Reuter, Brockelmann & Co., Helchers & Co.\n    7th August, 1914\n    For singing German songs at night.\n  \n\nPage 522",
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        "content_text": "Hon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n1.\n\nI could not get hold of Mr. Siebs, but I saw Messrs. A. Becker, Lieb and Struckmeyer on the matter together. They naturally asked for a cancellation of the leases, and were unwilling to discuss any terms of disclaimer. The points on which they laid stress were as follows:-\n\n(a) Expulsion and forced winding up and consequent hardship;\n\n(b) It is the State which has prevented their enjoyment of the premises and the State ought to relieve them from the liability;\n\n(c) The position of the landlords is so strong as regards offices, 75% being practically under one control, that after the war is over and the Germans return the landlords will be powerful enough to make as favourable terms for themselves as they can reasonably ask for. In other words the landlords will be able to ask any rent they like, up to a certain limit of course.\n\n2.\n\nI have seen Mr. Looker on behalf of the landlords, as he is acting for the Land Investment Company and the Central Estate. He agrees that as a matter of law the leases have not been determined, and he objects to any power of disclaimer being given to the liquidator, or to the German lessees, except possibly in the case of insolvent firms. He lays stress on the point that the rents were fixed low at first in the Praya Reclamation buildings with a view to develop the property, and that they were on the point of being raised.\n\n3.\n\nJ. H. KEMP\n\nAttorney General\n\n6th November, 1914.",
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        "content_text": "1748\n\n45\n\nWIDMANN, A. Claims that he is not liable to military service both because he is a member of the untrained landsturm and resident in China and because of his physical condition.\n\nGUNTHER, HUGO. Claims that his military record has not been properly interpreted, and that he is free from further service.\n\nSTORMER. Claims to be exempt from German law and in exactly the same position as a number of men who have been allowed to leave the Colony.\n\nBUHRMANN, F. Claims to be over age and no longer liable to service.\n\nNELLNER, H. Claims to be exempt under his military record and also because of the total loss of sight in his left eye.\n\nBINDER, G. Claims to have always been exempt as an invalid and on account of his present condition.\n\nBECKER, OTTO. Claims exemption under his military record and certificate he holds.\n\nSCHLUTER, C. Claims to be an untrained landsturm and not liable to be called into active service under any circumstances.",
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        "content_text": "Colonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHongkong, 18th November, 1914.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant covering applications from eight German prisoners of war, named in the margin, to be permitted to leave the Colony on the ground that they are not liable to Military Service with the German Army.\n\nIn reply I am to inform you that Mr. Binder was released on the 5th instant on the ground of ill health and deported from the Colony; and that after a careful consideration of your letter under reply and its enclosures the General Officer Commanding cannot see his way to entertain the applications of the others.\n\nI am, etc.\n\nCLAUD SEVERN\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nThe Consul-General\n\nfor the United States of America,\n\nHongkong.\n\nA. Widmann\n\nH. Gunther\n\nW. Stormer\n\nF. Buhrmann\n\nH. Nellner\n\nG. Binder\n\nO. Becker\n\nC. Schluter\n\n1748\n\n46\n\nREC\n\nRest 12",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\n49\n\nReport on military record and physical condition of certain German Prisoners of war.\n\n  \n    Name\n    Provost Marshal's Remarks.\n    Deputy Director of Medical Services' Remarks.\n  \n  \n    H. Gunther Widmann\n    Military Papers. Age 35. No service. 1st Landsturm with arms. States applied at Home for exemption but told unnecessary. No proofs. Liable.\n    Fit.\n  \n  \n    T. Stormer\n    Naval Papers. Age 32. Served 1 year as Marine. 1st Naval Reserve. Admits liability. A new slip has been added to his Book since his first examination (his papers were not kept by me) this states he has permission to remain abroad till 45, but shows him to be still under the Altona Command.\n    Fit.\n  \n  \n    J. Buhrmann\n    Military Papers. Age 31. Served 1 year Artillery. 1st Landwehr. Leave till 45. Stated he was liable at Home or anywhere under German control.\n    Fit.\n  \n  \n    H. Nellner\n    Naval Papers. Aged 49. Served in Navy 1 year. Free of service. Qualified pilot. Detained at express wish of Commander-in-Chief, China Squadron.\n    Aged 50 but otherwise nothing to note.\n  \n  \n    G. Binder\n    Military Papers. Aged 41. No service. 2nd Landsturm. Admits liable to serve.\n    Fit.\n  \n  \n    O. Becker\n    No papers. Aged 40. No proofs. States exempt, bad sight. Liable.\n    Unfit. Since released as being medically unfit.\n  \n  \n    C. Schluter\n    Military Papers. Age 37. No service. Ersatz Reserve. Leave till 45 which was cancelled by German Consular Order. Liable.\n    Fit.\n  \n  \n    \n    No Military Papers. Age 35. States served 1 year Marines. 1st Landsturm with arms. States exempt. No proofs. Liable.\n    Fit.\n  \n\nPage 49",
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        "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE. HONGKONG. 11th January, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of correspondence with Messrs. Sanders Rehders & Co., Ltd., which is apparently a British Company carrying on business in Manchester and London, on the subject of the winding up of the German Firm of Sander Wieler & Co. in this Colony.\n\nMr. James Backhouse, an Englishman of good repute, was in the employ of Messrs. Sander Wieler & Co., and it was at the express request of Mr. A. Becker, the Head of the firm in question, that Messrs. H. Wicking & Co. were appointed Liquidators in this case.\n\nAnother firm, in the piece goods business, had been selected; and it was no doubt owing to the fact that it was intimated that Mr. Backhouse would be kept on by the Liquidators that Mr. Becker was anxious that his firm, which appears to have acted as Agents for Messrs. Sanders Rehders & Co., should be wound up by a firm which enjoyed Mr. Backhouse's assistance.\n\n## \n\n2. I have no knowledge of the firm of Sanders Rehders & Co., Ltd. But if they are a British Company, I see no objection to their appointing Mr. Backhouse to be their agent in Hongkong for their business in the Far East. This would, of course, involve his doing new business on behalf of Messrs. Sanders Rehders & Co., and while I can see no objection to this, it would not be a popular arrangement among local British firms engaged in the piece goods trade, some of whom no doubt hope to acquire the Agencies of Messrs. Sanders Rehders & Co.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n15th July, 1915\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch No. 215 of the 4th June \"h\", reporting that further remittance £2000 £7000 £ have been placed to the credit of the Prince JW. Fund, and to request that you will convey to the subscribers an expression of my appreciation of the continued generosity of the donors.\n\nTo PD. after desk.\n\nNo. 31587.\n\n1. the \n2. the tags.\n\n Gov. Hongkong 31581/15 \n\nMr. Becker \nMr. Cowell H20 \nSir G. Fiddes \nSir H. Just \nSir J. Anderson \nLord Islington \nMr. Hurcouri \n\n147 157. \n5455-14 \n4 \n\nTo 186. They \nthoughing for.",
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        "content_text": "8. M. 1. being Leart to the ) For Hilmy 594344 5 235 Senel DRAFT. The Quicts of Naval Walle ing The Aden 7 17th Jan 1958! The U.S.Q.1. for the Colonies presents his compliments to 16 1956 and is directed to transmit to him the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Aden concerning Indian sedition in The Colony. 1 Jan. Ever. 11250. only for Leer 15 hov 57432. 59434\n\nBecker 12/1/16 her Robinson 13/1/17 'D.N.I 13 DMI ace. G The Quictor of Military butelle The wo",
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        "content_text": "668\n\nWAR\n\nC\n\n4th February, 1916.\n\n699\n\na.\n\nThe Director of Military Intelligence presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and begs to inform him that he learns that, in Colonial Office Secret letter No.2944 of the 26th ult., is included, under cover of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, the confession of a certain DOUWES DECKER of JAVA. All information which relates to German and Indian sedition in the Far East is of considerable interest to the War Office, Major General Macdonogh would be grateful if Sir John Anderson would be kind enough to give instructions that 2 copies of this and similar letters may be forwarded to this office.\n\nIt is presumed that such letters are sent to the Admiralty which is also concerned.\n\nIt",
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        "content_text": "Tel.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nHurd. 4837% Glad.\n\n70 Any Kong\n\n34826/16-\n\nsaut 6.15.\n\nsubstance i\n\nho: cypher 50/7/15-\n\n(2) code\n\n30449\n\n34168 (in cipher)\n\nGovernor Hongkong\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMy Fl. July 5\n\ncyther your tel July 24\n\nall held to\n\n75\n\nWith of to\n\nin futura\n\nenemy subjects in\n\nCountries cored\n\nby trading with\n\n21. Becker buying Every Proclamation of June 25\n\nMr. Rotavern 2017\n\nMr.\n\n1. Menghten 10/21/15\n\nMr. Colluis yo\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nfor action.\n\n27 Oct\n\nshould be stopped, and all mails\n\nBritish allied or neutral subjects\n\nin those countries should be\n\ncensored\n\ncarefully\n\nand stopped if found\n\nto contain anything suspicious on and examination of mails. all bags\n\n: Whether sealed or not should be\n\nopened\n\nand carefully examined\n\nall letters to\n\nenemy subjects stopped:\n\nand all mails for British allied\n\nneutral subjects stopped",
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        "content_text": "Page 343\n\nThe charges, the percentage of which to turnover is exceptionally high, include the item Interest. In 1912 Interest amounted to $12,800, by far the largest item of expense. I presume this points to a long credit system. If so, it appears to be worthwhile. The other large items under Charges are salaries and allowances, and discounts.\n\nThe following show sales on commission for the Central Agency.\n\n  \n    Year\n    Sales\n    Commission\n  \n  \n    1907\n    $-\n    8. 1,400\n  \n  \n    1908\n    65,000\n    2,200\n  \n  \n    1909\n    61,000\n    2,600\n  \n  \n    1910\n    62,000\n    2,600\n  \n  \n    1911\n    52,000\n    2,300\n  \n  \n    1912\n    68,000\n    3,100\n  \n  \n    1913\n    88,000\n    4,000\n  \n\nThe following extract from an autograph letter (balance letter to London 1913) is interesting. Singlets...\n\n\"This result is owing to the increased popularity of a class of white singlets bought in England. It seems, however, that we have now come to a certain standstill here, the last big orders were booked with very great difficulties only, the makers showing themselves exceedingly stiff-necked as regards price. In consequence of this\n\nPage 343",
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        "content_text": "yur\n\n235\n\n¡\n\nIn any further communication\n\non the subject, please quote\n\nNo. 185774/15.\n\nand address—\n\nThe Under Secretary of State.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon.\n\nSir:-\n\n57035\n\nREC\n\nREG I DEC 15\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE\n\nDecember 9 1916.\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to\n\nenclose herewith for the information of the\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a\n\nletter with enclosures addressed by Becker,\n\nShillan and Company of London to the War Trade\n\nDepartment, and referred by that Department to\n\nthis Office, regarding the China branches of\n\nthe American firm of Getz Brothers and Company.\n\nThe Shanghai branch of his firm is at present\n\non the China Black List in consequence of a report\n\nreceived some months ago from His Majesty's Minister\n\nat Peking to the effect that this branch was\n\n\"absolutely suspect\" as regards exports from China.\n\nIn view of the enclosed communication, Sir\n\nE. Grey is disposed to invite a further report from Sir J. Jordan on the position of this firm. Before taking any action in the matter, however, Sir E. Grey would be glad to learn how the Hongkong branch of the firm is regarded by the Colonial authorities.\n\nShould there be no information on the subject in the possession of your Department, Sir E. Grey would be prepared, in order to avoid unnecessary telegraphing, to instruct Sir J. Jordan to communicate direct with the authorities at Hongkong on\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nthe",
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        "content_text": "# PORTUGAL\nBurmeister, J., Rua do Arco Bandeira 39, Lisbon.\nBurmester, Herman, & Co., 87, Rua Infante D. Henrique, Oporto.\nBurmester, J. W., & Co., 39, Rua de Bellomonte, Oporto.\nCarvalho, R. H., Rua do Arco Bandeira, Lisbon.\nCast, H. F., Rua da Alfandega 160, Lisbon.\nCesche, E., Madeira.\nCobo, Ramon, Rua do Commercio 28, Lisbon.\nDaehnhardt & Co., Rua da Magdalena 75, Lisbon.\nDeutsches Kohlen Depôt, Madeira.\nDuetting & Gaa, Madeira.\nFurbringer & Co., 189, Rua de Passos Manuel, Oporto.\nGottschalk, Arthuro, Rua das Praças 30, Lisbon.\nHahuefelde & Gellweiler, Praça Duque da Terceira 4, Lisbon.\nHeise, Georg, Escadinhas da Saude 2, Rua do Commercio 35, Lisbon.\nHerold, O., & Co., Rua da Grata 14, Lisbon and Oporto.\nHoffmann, Viuva Oswald, Calcada do Correio, Lisbon.\nIssel, Fr., Rua da Conceicao 60, Lisbon.\nKamp, Thumann, & Co., 38, Rua Elias Garcia, Oporto.\nKatzenstein, Ed., Socers, 39, Rua de Bellomonte, Oporto.\nKatzenstein, Hermann, Rua dos Fanqueiros 65, Lisbon.\nKretzschmar, R., Madeira.\nLeuschner, Bernard, 63, Rua Infante D. Henrique, Oporto.\nLyncke, Traugott, Rua da Conceicao 85, Lisbon.\nMarcus & Harting, Rua dos Fanqueiros 136, Lisbon.\nBecker, E., Beira.\n\n## PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA\nBehrens, H., Lourenço Marques.\nBettman and Kupfer (East African Agency), Lourenço Marques.\nBosselmann, C., Beira.\nBredenkamp, Lourenço Marques.\nBrito, Palma, Ibo and Porto Amelia.\nBruckmann, Lourenço Marques.\nCruz, Alipio Francesco.\nDa Souza, Luiz Moreira, Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nDe Sousa, Bismark, Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nDencks, Alexander, Lourenço Marques.\nDeuss, Ludwig & Co., Chinde, Tete and Quelimane.\nDeutsche Ost-Afrika, Gesellschaft.\nDeutsche Ost-Afrika Linie.\nFelgenhauer (alias Ferguson), I. C., Lourenço Marques.\nFellman, H., Quelimane.\nFerguson, I. C. (alias Felgenhauer), Lourenço Marques.\nFerreira, Joaquim, Quelimane.\nFiguereido, Antonio, Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nFrankel Jacobs, Lourenço Marques.\nFuchs, Lourenço Marques.\nGrothkop, H., Lourenço Marques.\nHaberer & Co.\nHerz & Schaberg.\nHeuffer, A., Quelimane.\nHoffman, Hugo, Lourenço Marques.\nHoffman, Oswald.\nHouben, Walter, Beira.\nHupfer, Beira.\nJung Lenz & Co.\nKoch, J. H., Lourenço Marques.\nKrutzfeldt, H. G., Lourenço Marques.\nKunsti, T., Ibo.\nLimbrock, H., Tete.\nLinder, F., Ibo.\nLoeffelbein, F., Lourenço Marques.\nMarcus & Harting.\nMolu, Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nNeider & Co., P., Ibo.\nNiedner, Paul, Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nOldenburg, E., Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nOrenstein, Arthur-Koppel.\nPechner, H., Beira.\nPetersen, R. H., Quelimane.\nPfister, F., Lourenço Marques.\nPhilippi, William & Co.\nPiel, Albert, Lourenço Marques.\nPorst, Kurt., Lourenço Marques.\nRanchodas Oda, Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nRessmann, I., Lourenço Marques.\nReuter, Dr., Lourenço Marques.\nRewald, Martin, Lourenço Marques.\nRibeiro, Antonio Francisco, Beira.\nRolfes, Herman, Lourenço Marques.\nRolfes, Karl, Lourenço Marques.\nRolfes, Nebel & Co., Lourenço Marques.\nRosendorf, Lourenço Marques.\nSaccoor, Amad, Lourenço Marques.\nSambado, Antonio Marques, Mozambique, Santa Maria, Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nSchnutz, H., Tete.\nSchreiber, Beira.\nSiemsen, T., Beira.\nSpringhorn, C., Lourenço Marques.\nSteyn, Kuhu, Lourenço Marques.\nStuben & Co.\nStuhldreier, Palma, Ibo, and Porto Amelia.\nVogel, W., Lourenço Marques.\nVogler, W., Sena.\nWandschneider, Theodor, Lourenço Marques.\nWiese, Carl, Lourenço Marques.\nWoernher, Fritz, Inhambane.\nWoernher, Rudolf, Inhambane.\n\n# SPAIN\nAhlers, Jacob, Santa Cruz, Tenerife.\nAmann & Gana, Ayala 1, and Calle Belosti 14, Bilbao.\nArozena, Fernando, Santa Cruz, Tenerife.\nArroya, Jose, Atocha 4, Malaga.\nAugener, Enrique, Las Palmas.\nBanco Aleman Transatlantico, Barcelona, Madrid.\nBaquera, Kusche & Martin, Malaga.\nBjerre, A. (Messrs. Bjerre Sucesores), Cortina del Neuelle, 21/3 Malaga.\nBrang, Antonio, Santa Cruz, Tenerife.",
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        "content_text": "# DRAFT\n## MINUTE\n\nMr. Becker's 5/2/1p  \nMr. Robson  \nMr. ...  \nMr. ...  \nSir G. Fiddes  \nSir H. Just  \nSir J. Anderson  \nMr. Steel-Maitland  \nMr. Bonar Law  \n\n1747 1 2911/16  \n/FER  \nInd  \nLai  \n8  \n327  \n8 Feb 1916\n\n...ct to request you to inf. the Director, Prisoners of War Bureau that, in accordance with the intention expressed in the House on the 6th Jan, the Prisoners interned at **Akong** left the Colony on the 17th Jan for internment in Australia.  \nAccording to a letter from the G.o.c. China, a copy of which has been read from the N.O., there were 296, these being accompanied by 10 women and 13 Children.",
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        "content_text": "# W.O \n\nI have seen Col. Ronson Bas agreed with the alliteration made bored with.\n\n0314/6/16 DRAFT.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Becker, Mr. Cowett, Mr. Waenighten, Mr. X, Collins 17, Mr. Read, Sir H. Just. 12/4, Ausd 287, Hkory 27098.\n\nConcerning a connection complaint, Minister annuletty gunde 12 and Sir G. Fiddes, Mr. Steel-Mailland, Mr. Bonar Law, conson. See amate Geul Cocherill's role is pucurrencs 7 maits with 14 June 76 Sprinkling Swedish Algaph Shaka Wcurred prom stresful Atelegraph whether Japan tilbury Jaxon voluntarily entered toddypaler Rong territorial waters but inspective without intention tide fool Ally Audito.\n\nOffers and 28 mintelligive; shaven I allend the aft legrace J hind to thing out what I understand ich the is meant. I suggest that the diff when sellence ben MATCH. Lahen ors & hand your Hot Peareais remuril Canding with a brew to their being tool traks mach to be forwarded accampo local postal administration removed whether mails faded from uminctrical, ceperunt.\n\nAlthough not colisted for ship are treated 12/6/16 to Jacul \"14/6/1, the buiclent concurrence 116. TEK",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nThe Leak Me Aden?\n\nMINUTE.\n\n76530 Mr. Becker 30/3/16\n\nMr.\n\n281. Arbeiten 35/37.0.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nWith reference to the letter from this department of the 24th March 1916, I am to request you to lay before the House of Commons the correspondence regarding the arrangements which Butterfield & Swire propose to charter or purchase for the carriage of raw layer from Fron to Akong.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]",
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        "content_text": "## \n065. \nSeverny \n288 \n1910 \n10 Sep. \nLast previous Paper. \n**HONG KONG** \n59851 \nR Humane Society's medal \nfor Lance-Sgt. Field. \nREC \nC \n59851 \nRAK 041 19 \n... report, and recommends grant of \n\nCopy enclosure 172. to Royal Humane Society 23 50419 \nAus0076. 20vie \nNext subsequent Paper. \n\nMr. Becker \n? Substance of \n`(20104-4 h.)` Wt. `0876-21`, 30m. `11/18`. `D&S. G. 122/41`. \nGeor \ndispatch with copy to Royal Humane Society. \n`CAP. 21.10-19`. \n21 Koperalown \nthe ill. \n324",
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        "content_text": "## No.343-T/Cam.\n\n**GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL**  \nComerce Department  \n**(Commerce)**  \nDarjeeling, the 28th September 1920.\n\nFrom  \nThe Hon'ble Mr. I. Marr, I.C.S.  \nTo  \nMr. Bryant  \nSecretary to the Government of India,  \nDepartment of Commerce.\n\n258\n\nI am directed to refer to the communications noted on the margin from the Government of India, Department of Commerce, on the subject of surplus assets of the Calcutta Branch of the Deutsche Asiatische Bank and to state that the liquidation of this branch is not complete yet. There are still some outstandings to be settled, although the greater portion of the assets has been realised. The present position of the Bank's affairs is reported by the Liquidator of Hostile Firms, Bombay, to be as follows:-\n\n| Item | Description | Status |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| (1) | Dik. Panda | Two instalments which remain to be collected amount to Rs. 19,500. |\n| (2) | Accounts with Cox's Shipping Agency (regarding Rs. 11,500 paid to them for obtaining release of Bank's cargoes Ex. \"Embra\" and \"Moravi\"). | - |\n| (3) | A. E. Gabbay (Insolvents) | Final dividends not received. |\n| (4) | Becker Gray and Co. | Draft for Rs. 1,322-3-7 on L. Camus, Paris. Settlement in course of negotiation by Comptoir National D'Escompte de Paris, Paris. |\n| (5) | Comptoir National D'Escompte de Paris, Paris | Declined to pay. Final account has not yet been received. |",
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        "content_text": "We are in communication with Macaulay, but he has not yet definitely decided to apply for the post. I do not think he will probably be ready to have England in hand immediately. But I suggest the matter might be left open for the present, as you will probably not be able to get in touch with Mellon until his return to England on Feb. 21st, so that if Macaulay puts in an appropriate application it may be a further consideration in deciding who should get the preference.\n\nI am told Mellon is the more qualified candidate 18/11/2. Then you will deal with Macaulay in the present state which is the better way. I am clean contrary to what Macaulay wants it. Of course, self-interest unforced alone. Bring up on 15 Feb. human resources.\n\n18/1/21. Re: Stephenson. Mr Becker interview with 15.3 in Baskets. I understand Macaulay has not made a definite application. No: nothing in from Macaulay on our file to date.\n\nThen I discussed it with Hen & made it clear for (c--) M bor & Faber. Design batch of two and dies. Zeer en wach willst.\n\nMy address is 18 Sloane Court, Exhibition Road, Regent's Park N.W.2. I wish to state that I regret very much that I've caused...\n\nR.M.S.P. (20) R.M.D. Deseade Corunna Dec 30th 1920 The Under Secretary of State Colonial Office...\n\npermit of me accepting it.\n\nReferring to your $7 22 ensfar Which I think it is an appointment of Port. General Trong...\n\nI beg to state that it is not possible for me to... Official in England... not be Foreign... 394...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]",
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        "content_text": "! \n\nof th\n\nvery careful matter, info the Po, in\n\ndesp. dated the 14 Feb, 1920,\n\nthat white be\n\nadvised\n\nthat the Petitioners were in\n\nequity\n\nentitled to compensation\n\nfor all losses actually incurred loss in respect of\n\nfuture profit could be excluded.\n\nSa H Becker\n\nFROM\n\n1922\n\nDag Severn\n\nFOR CIRCULATION :—\n\nMr. Eibardto Mr. Bahatt\n\nMr.\n\nFrindle\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith\n\nMr. Wood\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nSanctie 28-\n\n10 Feb 23\n\nPrevious Paper\n\n336\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDATE,\n\n6 Oct.\n\nSUBJECT\n\nREC\n\n57643\n\nREL 22 NOV 22\n\nOrdinance 20 of 1922\n\n283\n\nEvidence Amended\n\nSubmits\n\nI have expired to Lab\n\nThe Atty General's statement is\n\nKey full\n\ncome.\n\nMote\n\nI attach\n\nDi\n\nranked with the\n\nthe\n\na text\n\nthe Principal Ordinance\n\nthe inciting\n\neffected by\n\nAuthorities\n\nJournal\n\nthis order where\n\nThe Princi: Ord: is\n\nSupplemented or deleted-\n\nwt\n\nLan\n\nsome persons please\n\nPubsequent Paper\n\nThe amendments made in the\n\nlow have been well considered & I\n\nno reason why they should not be accepted.\n\n7. Symty\n\n7/2\n\nPage 191. 2017 -80. 80,000 1131 T\n\na leren",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nSi. R.F. Stubbs Kears\n\nthe\n\n37723\n\nDear Stitts\n\n16 Aug\n\nI enclose the drafts\n\nminutes (with correction, of the\n\n233\n\nmarting\n\nA\n\nChar\n\nHougtong Military\n\nLands which Becker attended. It\n\nMINUTE.\n\nDr. $364\n\nMr. Collins 14\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Davis.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Read.\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith.\n\nMr. Wood.\n\nMr. Churchill.\n\nwhy I\n\nQuad apply\n\nmanage\n\ncoll\n\ncome\n\n(but of course the wording was\n\nG\n\nA\n\nfit you\n\nwhy you\n\n· abominably short),\n\ncould have been wit\n\nGeneral Kinkaid who caused\n\nall the labour. 16\n\nthe cults\n\nWould\n\nBrows\n\nyou\n\nwill see,\n\nmost unsatisfactory.\n\nyou kindly\n\nht\n\nC\n\nwhat the wo\n\npropose to do\n\nforthwith\n\nway\n\nand\n\nJ\n\nhave your\n\nKATH\n\non any\n\nGoyou!\n\nYour letter of the 2nd inst., I daresay will reach us in time\n\nShow clearly\n\nbefore the conference.\n\nSigns Abellin\n\n(903) W. 20407—20. 12,000 114.",
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        "content_text": "Dear Major Robison,\n\nbags De Ribeira (pus\n\nYour official Wellin\n\nHoughing 8/011 (qugs) of the War Office /\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Az 3/W\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Davis,\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Read.\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith.\n\nMr. Wood.\n\nMr. Churchill.\n\nAust attacker\n\n31st of July\n\nWe have been expecting to hear what action they propose to take.\n\nCould you kindly let us know how the matter stands?\n\nYours,\n\nJas Mecker\n\nS. Hu. 49117 - 748\n\nDRAFT. 17/1737",
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        "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## DATE\n25 Jan:\n\n**Chief Justice** .3898 \n25 JAN 24 \n48 \n\n- Vacancy \n\nIn M. Rees-Davies proposes to leave the Colony on 1 Sept next and to retire on 1 April. It is desirable that the post should be filled as soon as possible after his departure.\n\n## MINUTES\n\n?Pp. tho. is the first place so \nAnd then to form. \nNo Darthin \nWill you \nDept. \nABZ26 \nAt once \nRE@ \nHA \n28/1/24 \nmaintain a Dracony form \nplan? Eft. Jan. 29.1924 \nV. F. prepared \nHave you had is pe? \nM Parkfen, \nwith \n14/2. \nthis my \nReturned it to The for approval of it el. 14/1/24 \nS'n H. Gollan aft.\n\n**FOR CIRCULATION :—** \nMr. Becker \nMr. Cattime \nMr. \nAsst. U.S. of S. \nTel to \ncows. \n21 Feb. 24. \nPerm't U.S. of S. \nParl\" U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State.\n\n**Previous Paper** \n`Hor 60964/23 Cyprus` \n**Subsequent Paper** \n`File 18054 lastem. Howies) (fir #to Jettan)` \n`E 12811 198247 68,000 11/23-McC--E 253`\n\nthe \nBrace \nthe comp \n(53) J. H. THOMAS \nFROM \n1924 49-20 \nStubbs \nTel 7.50 am \n25% \n\nFROM: \n(53) J. H. THOMAS \nTel: 7.50 am \n25% \nStubbs \n1924 49-20",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\nFor `1837/25 HK`\n\n3.18 \n\nYour despatch 4 Dec 463 regarding the appointment of CLIFT is approved as a suitable candidate.\n\n## MINUTE\n311. THE 3.2.25\n\nMr Robinson, Mr. Becker, Ser. J. Shek(hong), Sir C. Davis, Sir G. Grindle, Sir J. Musterton Smith, Lord Arnold, and Mr. Thomas were present.\n\nConsequent to Mr Robinson speaking, it is noted that there is another vacancy available for a second candidate with special qualifications, but neither vacancy has yet been filled.\n\nSee also `4447/25 HK`. \n\nYour Fel 29 Jan...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "## FOR CIRCULATION :—\n**Previous Paper** `FO 49H 25`  \n**Subsequent Paper**  \n**HONG KONG**  \n**DATE** `2nd October 1925` & `(ح)`  \n**Confe**  \n**MINUTES**  \n\n1. The local situation and the course of events particularly the effect of the Loan and every condition, fault forwarded by Christians at Canton.\n\n2. See para 4 & 5 as well as para 5.\n\n3. Copy Safe & well. See also euch 6. cory of para 4 of this each 566 the attachit to Com jafers.\n\n**SHE** at oxe `W21.11.25.`  \n`3388) Wt. 11010/20 Gp. 140 12000 8-25 W & B Lié`  \n`1 FO`  \n`W.o. Army` `X`  \n`LFF` `Takunasuck` `10-11-25- Becker`  \n`16` `G.G. 18.11.25- Comal`  \n`Į`",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 13th October, 1925.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your secret despatch of 2nd September with regard to the question of the strength of the garrison of Hongkong.\n\n2. In present circumstances it is, for financial reasons, quite impossible for this Government to meet the cost of additional permanent barracks and even in normal times it would, I am afraid, be impossible to put any such proposal to the Legislative Council with the slightest prospect of its being favourably received. Public feeling against the War Office on account both of the Military Contribution and the Military Lands question is very strong; I think the word 'bitter' would not be an exaggeration and the opportunity would be taken to start acrimonious discussion in Council which would do no good to British prestige.\n\n3. I fear that any hope that the important British Companies with extensive interests in China might contribute to the cost of housing an additional British battalion in Hongkong must be regarded as ... \n\nreceive confidential \n\nASS \n\nhit a \n\niny \nis being \nsent to Foreign & Commonwealth Office, War Office & Air Ministry \nand sent \nabroad \nwith copy Secret despatch, \nomitting portion in \nin italics \nthe part ... \n**SECRET**\n\nas extract. \n287 \nF.O. \n1.0. \nThey \nArmy \nWar Office \nAir Ministry \nAction above 53534 \nSects. Bundy, Lecaithe \n| Search LFF \nFelling \nTallaha Suck \n3.12.25 \nBecker \n3/12 \neach \n\nIn addition to the reasons mentioned by the Governor, the penny wise, pound foolish policy of the Treasury regarding the guarantee of the £3,000,000 loan has destroyed any hope of getting any more money for years. \n4.4.25 \n12 \nJassel. \n5.12.25 \nout of H. Kong Hi \nG.G. \nat once \nSir, \n\n**RIGHT HONOURABLE LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,** \n&c. \n&c. \n&c.",
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        "content_text": ".(92\n\n14.\n\n434\n\n-VÍCEBT J^ti” and\n\npoting by pillant becogong elit of dostla eviş of makt\n\n„wo Isd betning are colis enoidalar +lamə7\n\nat bebucasr JTCH VIM DA SSECqora sterud „In\n\nNo of botesAGUR NÅ\n\n.noitufoɛer par to nditquis\n\n:le79.180-lur≈co .M .8 .⠀\n\nni di unit Igaiteen eit to matmit; ad 903 do exremor QUOLA NE DAtiselin97 engu naza of sidetineb -:owclI01 re bear ano175[239% SAT\n\n.B.VITANUDBA DIAMMAT Lake\n\nCARLETA SI 27 becker VTCSITTBt 2 et tragmed8 -,I en 101 +19mt79vod 92ening oft mort etпamirevo\" delibra bne alenottun vient to recoquu. Jeleughtson be \"nentnud Jeremaistot 79:20\n\n.ode,aberg,ardiac,abeor eft IIA -.8\n\n‚aretkenboki scið yd hten neden yd\n\nSelles de 97%\n\n-ed oflent i¢ surfov gateseront ent of golwu:-.2 exot rebro redded ic somunistaiem 7o2 yrezƐBOGN 83000 9vTrado bivo...- Ile Not pachtaligst allters -BrƐ ! LOW cz dței axT) theor (3) Svi? 918 STANT -.♪\n\n‚kuce ot attoh mal gгsoт 2201ɔ (2) evit hoe naam\n\nnt becт ataljnoë sit desh of tusa ufser 9nt 10 -.ộ\n\n£ la bandet bre,biwa skot: To brud sad ze mWo¤;\n\n-emul dele af beor hпoos8 BAT\n\nbagu Carteq 16 By 190*\n\nLaseron to vor fituot eat to trott at visjelb\n\nHOT AJTOM bne ritroë sie\n\nEheon owt GTE SIENT\n\n.SUDOVÁ LĒM‡1190 Add\n\n- bara doa ́. srit ze wood et \"ACT d‡iftT ANT\n\n•\n\n.:9ajol. 20 WOT DZIOW erti 10 ditoń art,m.q 2 oj .1.2 €,.9.1 εTHod Basmland aniwa -.3\n\nABTELNIK YOrd :: es allellar- silf beer be havë trorI in beeu ed Jon Hede mort gainsve aut gatrun rok bavi9681 ne parligopan at baud fuori sat abrewno .1.4 2\n\nrecreation of residents.\n\n7. The roads in Shameen shall not be used as a thoroughfare from bridge to bridge or from landing steps to the City.\n\n8. To avoid interfering with free movement of pedestrians, carriers of loads shall as far as possible use the Back Bund turning to their destinations by the nearest cross road there to and using as far as possible the Western side.\n\n9. Bicycles shall as far as possible keep to the South road of the Central Avenue turning to destinations by the nearest cross road thereto.\n\n10. Pedestrians shall use either the Second road or the North road of Central Avenue.\n\n11. Persons are not allowed to walk on the grass unless that allotted to recreational purposes. The grass must not be used to circumvent obstructions caused by building.\n\n12. Up to 5.30 p.m. in summer and 4 p.m. in winter amahs with residents' children are permitted to use the seats on the Bund, but after that time they may do so only when with a grown member of the family.\n\n13. Servants with parcels leaving or entering the gates are liable to be stopped for the purpose of examining parcels.\n\n14. After 9 p.m. none but foreign residents and visitors are allowed to enter or leave Shameen without the police permit. Others when employed by and accompanying the above will be allowed to pass.\n\n15. Persons having no right to reside in Shameen are not entitled to land at the steps or jetties unless on business or on invitation. Such individuals should therefore proceed direct by the shortest route to their destinations observing the rules of the road given above.\n\n16. Landing may not be made at places other than landing steps or jetties.",
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        "content_text": "Para 17, 20122 of the notes are of some interest to us.\n\n4i 20422 Chevere we sufficient.\n\n2 on the canvas British subjects of company law respectively.\n\nPara - the method of dealing with concession is scarcely like that which happens at Canton - and Amoy.\n\nLa... is also a source of cabou(?) and is of some interest. I feel some doubts about foreign councils - if they are in a majority it amounts practically to surrender; if not, the Chinese might argue that it accounts for the concession.\n\nIt will cater to any careful arrangement to secure to both sides.\n\nA system solidifying as proposed by Becker.\n\nI agree that we was(?) to contest with hans 20 + 22.\n\nJIR 6/11/25 2JG.G. 19.11.25\n\nWe have obtained the duplicate of his letter and are considering it with reference to further action. We have had correspondence on the subject. I think it might be cited in the up(?) by the downs & S.D. will be handled separately.\n\nBy Wees 7.\n\nReply as proposed, remembering to point out that Dans: Office will reply separately.\n\n20.11.25. $t.6. at once.\n\n113\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "Page 1\n\nmay differ somewhat from those expront\n\nIn $7531 it will be sufficient and perhaps it for the moment if an ? comprarte reply that * Apy of thuischen wil be forwarded Gov. for common but si vice of the posent financial situation to intly anticipated that\n\nThat L it нк бол.\n\n11: 8 Blaining L in difficulty in ping Beare the cost will be willing Bi esuvalisus. and send copy Corris. Kor. Seant with cuch. I mig ref 515311 asking ILi Accomm for conson it may Rin astmal report appor, qually and for JAM proposals Ok whethe \"the arguments K Sefence The practicability- the cost invotred. copy reply copy 1 A.M. 15 Aday? scant LFF W.0. J Comes with AM. 15 Trees Fo. 1.0. c.1.0. } Jund LFF I ry on 51531 Tallularbuck 3.12.25 Becker G.G. u.11 4.12.25 Aldem\n\nTEL. No. HOLBORN 3434.\n\nAny communications on the subject of this letter should be addressed to:-\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nA MINISTRY,\n\nADASTRAL House,\n\nKINGSWAY,\n\nLONDON, W.C.2.\n\nand the following number quoted:-\n\nS.24154/S.6.\n\n440\n\nAIR MINISTRY,\n\nLONDON, W.C.2.\n\nNovember, 1925.\n\n381\n\nI am commanded by the Air Council to refer to a report by the Chiefs of Staff (paragraph 5, C.I.D. Paper No. 248-C), in regard to the possible future need of an aerodrome in the vicinity of Hong Kong, and to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that they have recently received reports which suggest that the question of effecting certain reservations on what is now reported as the only suitable site for an air base at Hong Kong should now be considered.\n\nThe Kowloon reclamation area, the site in question, is owned by the Kai Tak Company who are reported to have failed financially and to be anxious to sell. At the present time a part of the reclaimed area is being used as an aerodrome by a flight of aircraft from H.M.S. Hermes at a low rental of one dollar per month.\n\nIn their report (C.I.D. Paper No. 617-B), the Chiefs of Staff suggested that local interests in Hong Kong might be expected to contribute in some way towards military expenditure on the defence of Hong Kong. It is known that the Hong Kong Government would have been willing in 1922 to contribute towards the cost of a local aerodrome site provided that some Air Force unit were permanently stationed there in peace time.\n\nAlthough the present situation does not warrant the permanent location of an air base at Hong Kong, it might be necessary, in the event of the growth of the present unrest in China and the development of Chinese air forces, to establish\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nPage 1\n\n \n\nwas removed and replaced with proper paragraph tags for better readability. Some minor OCR errors were corrected, such as \"expront\" to \"differ somewhat\", \"Apy\" to \"copy\", and \"posent\" to \"present\". The original text's formatting and content were preserved as much as possible. The page numbering lines were kept intact as per the instructions.",
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        "content_text": "1926\n\nCemente\n\nCIRCULATION -\n\nIsst. U.S. of S.\n\nP US. of S.\n\nParts U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nPrevious Paper\n\nfor 14418.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDATE\n\n342\n\n23 July\n\n229\n\nC. 16309\n\n479\n\nAUG 1976\n\nRainstorm, 19 July.\n\ncopy report by DPW\n\nFds.\n\nregarding by\n\nthe\n\ndamage caused\n\nMINUTES\n\nBecker\n\n2478\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\nlov. 16910\n\n14547, 5 48 11/25 Harrow E.2832",
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        "content_text": "FROM brent FOR CIRCULATION:-- Mr. Asst. U.S. of S. Mr. Perm U.S. of S. Mr. Part. U.S. of S. Secretary of State.\n\nPrevious Paper Gov. 3. 34171/25 HONG KONG Niented DATE 18/06 545 C. 18445 29 SEP 1926 quarter hent Allees.\n\nIn dieptes Saturns of dresent scheme wh. it is bought & quire andt. & submits to appol a revised Schene fembodying sugg ate de andto tor Becker tur Ellis Mr Bichte\n\nPUT BY MINUTES\n\nSubsequent Paper 30100127 WIN 11,25 Harrow B.2352",
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        "content_text": "The complexity of thermales is buffling.\n\nbut Sexpectatio bright all\n\nWalter D. Elki Tatonn\n\n[Jhane juin Appli Branch copies (& summer) of the\n\nJo 9/2] 20. 109\n\nI recently took over this safer weiche been delayed in Dept owing to the ircant financial position not encouraging: but proposals about allowances for offices that bit. Clementi in soffert SAMPLE Ma not incluind veecessary American En K fpicue in and J Jan a decent style. adjustment is not very heavy. 7 affrove recise. 19768 for alterations aquired in Z affk. Becker 18/1/27 7 any",
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        "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]",
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        "content_text": "3. To for\n\n4 for. Lil.\n\n7 Jan 1927\n\n7 Jan 1927\n\nhe 4 crossed our tit & can be puts.\n\nWith reference to minutes at and\n\n2\n\nJay\n\na\n\nbrief with\n\nA\n\nThe Trade Loan.\n\nof the loan authorized\n\nThe amount\n\n£3,000,000.\n\nOf this\n\nonly\n\n£1,800,000\n\nwas\n\nactually drawn\n\nand arrangements have\n\nbeen\n\nmade for deferments reducing the\n\namount\n\nto\n\n£1,300,000.\n\nIn the confirming despatch, I simply\n\nstate that His Excellency does not understand why\n\nthe trade\n\nin the Colony\n\nand\n\nwould\n\nbe\n\nfurnished with a\n\nstatement\n\nof\n\nthose particulars\n\nregarding the loan which should have appeared in Esti: take the opportunity of asking for a full report on the working of the loan up to date, supplementing the papers in 7296/26,\n\nand\n\na statement of the Colony's anticipations with regard\n\nto its working & management in 1927.\n\nin the\n\n(Perhaps all Relative Conf. despatch.)\n\nI can\n\nsee the loan should offer\n\n(1) in Appendix 4\n\nLoan Account\n\n(2) in Estimate Head 36\n\nInterest due on\n\nLoans of HK.\n\nInterest due to\n\nLoans\n\n(3) in\n\nChurch\n\nRev. Class III -2.\n\nfrom Naval Loan always\n\n(4) in Appendix 3- Computation of Military Contribution.\n\nWe have had\n\nto\n\nexamine\n\nthe loan position\n\nSince February last (c7296/26)\n\nand\n\nnot\n\nwhether\n\nthe Colony experts in\n\nor lose as between (2) & (3).\n\n24/4/22\n\nand\n\n427\n\n&\n\nJoin\n\nBecker\n\n24/927\n\nhair\n\nmay\n\n15 To for 25\n\nTo be kept\n\nregarding\n\nthe particulars\n\nof the Trade Loan\n\nthrough - Whereas it is difficult to imagine an adequate\n\ncover\n\ncom\n\nWalter Beck.\n\n22/1/27\n\n31 JAN 1927\n\nFiled\n\n14/2/29\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "discussed at \n\na \n\nconference with the C.A. \n\nat which Genl. Dept. might be represented. \n\n14 \n\nPallutasuck \n\n3/1 \n\ndo not delay this to \n\nAm shall have c \n\nB. Hond. Coan. But \n\ncomment in detail, \n\nA \n\nabout \n\nThe \n\nit is clear \n\nIn the interests of \n\nemployed \n\nthat a \n\nto an \n\nwill have the caused. \n\nthe Colonies \n\nnature thing \n\nare \n\nCa. \n\n2 \n\nright to ask for \n\nAnn Arifandecen \n\nC \n\nin here? \n\nA a \n\nCoralli \n\nyo itong unofficials \n\nabout \n\nstocke \n\nfor IX. \n\nof fact, not long \n\nwere raising questions \n\nfurt. holding Queensland fort \n\nBecker \n\n4/4/26 conficons. Somnather trampt - rather inclined to arucht \n\nPappy that is that have a confirme \n\nI a small \n\nThe \n\nC. byt supportin War for from the public. lower could then be of long surreny defering the Est o Sinking Fund. \n\nFund, which might \n\nfe the furt \n\ninded le mit. \n\nYears \n\nrequests the lechont for \n\natcalled direct town. \n\nA \n\nto \n\nthe C. Aegti hare in solstiines \n\nwished the Pf. P. to goutes bogacenter \n\n3 \n\nthe lown. This he cannot do \n\nthe Trevoury \n\nwithout consulting \n\nwhich is undesirable. \n\nOn the other hand in the \n\nRated Wit \n\nEase of a public puer it is always express the pur is of the Clony \n\nalone liable. To though \n\nif H. Mony \n\n7 defaulting \n\ntown in \n\nin \n\n237 \n\nincunce \n\ndangal \n\nsuch a \n\nTheh. No dowell her \n\ntoast Treesy to ome \n\nto the \n\nnot havz \n\nrescue. ve Ahd. nl-hez \n\net them to do or in \n\nadvance. \n\nWith ryard - last's sjection that a small town ust. fryidize the frofuts of a forette \n\nnoctyur. \n\nard to Mr Outte \n\njject of only \n\nthe \n\nmut a ban could \n\nte be cover \n\na nevneve \n\nAficit, and if not on \n\nlour \n\ncure to le nu",
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        "content_text": "1926\n\nLo 74349120760\n\nCIRCULATION :—\n\nsul U.S. of S.\n\nermi-U.S. of S.\n\na U.S. of S.\n\nerriary of State\n\nPrevious Paper\n\nHev 18744\n\nAcef 26\n\nAndel (copy above) i\n\nCoffey print t\n\nrecent of Deef.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDATE\n\n1 November\n\n381\n\nC.20511\n\n3 NOV 1926\n\nRopaganda in Hong Kong\n\nConcurs generally in\n\nto hostility.\n\nrecommns. Made by the\n\nGov. Remarks as\n\nencountered by the Cantonese in the British press in China\n\nMr Clutterbuck 9/11\n\nMr Becker\n\nthe Clutterbuck 25\n\nPrinting Defft 247\n\nMr Clutterbuck\n\nMr Beckell\n\n27\n\n291\n\nIn Eller Printing Deft\n\n24/4\n\n2/2/12\n\n22.\n\nM. Clutterbuck Mr Emmery\n\n23\n\nMr Clutterbuck 29/12\n\nM. Backen\n\nha Ellio\n\n307.2\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\n30023/22",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nC.23276/16 Kong.\n\n441\n\nC. D.\n\nThe Direction Imperial Institute\n\nR 3JAN. 05 25 J 6 Jan 27 25276\n\n(Keeping Copy)\n\n1. \n\n2. Buychi 2.1·12 \n\nБыт \n\nBecker-3 \n\nE. J. Harding. \n\nStrachey. \n\nJ. Shuckburgh. \n\n5. G. Grindle. \n\n0. Davis. \n\nS. Wilson, \n\nOrmsby-Gore. \n\nEarl of Clarendon. \n\nAmery. \n\nthis is rife qu=03.\n\nCopy Sw4. 4. P.Jan 24 Lout.\n\nwash that's the recy of you litt 1347 7 th 17 it +ywork on I Des Jarding samples of pure a frown in the New Irrigation HK mg\n\ntting the repo Rent правото что being to the four of E Signed) & GRINDLE",
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        "document_key": "CO129-498-14 Illicit traffic in opium and drugs 4-12-1925 - 30-11-1926",
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        "content_text": "## \nMr. Burch 2219 \nMr. B. Becker \nMr. E. J. Harding. \nMr. Strachey. \nT. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nEarl of Clarendon. \nMr. Amery. \n\n## \n2 7 SEP 1928 \n10. \nCF 60707 26 it 12 mg \nC. R 23 SEP \n38 \n\n## \ninessos M. Samuel & Co. Lia. \n2 4 SEP 1926 \n\n## DRAFT. \nCopy 143. LA \nrefce 12 \n\n(1) \nGentlemen, \n\nWith reference to the letter from the office of the 23rd June, regarding the conversion of S.S. \"Finanzen M2mi\" (likely \"Finanzon M2mi\" or \"Finanzon Miami\") in connection with the seizure of a consignment of drugs at Tianjin, I am to inform you that...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927",
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        "content_text": "# To my Old Girls.\n\nMy dears,\n\n**Hotel International, Nice.**\n**3.4.27.**\n\nFor old times' sake, when sheaves of your examination papers used to pass through my hands (sometimes giving me great pleasure, and sometimes the reverse), I thought I must send you my message on foolscap. But it is almost impossible for me to express what I am feeling, for I have not yet properly assimilated the fact of the great honour you have done me in making me one of the Patrons of the new B.O.G.A. I send you my most grateful thanks for that, and for sending me your signatures to gladden my old heart, and to remind me as I read over the list of names of many things connected with each one of you which come back to me in association with your dear names. I have been mentally putting each one of you before me as I read, and am astonished to find how much of the past comes to my memory, and such a pleasant past. Had it been possible I should have liked to send a separate letter to each of you, but you will understand that this collective acknowledgment means just as much. That your new Association may prosper is the dearest wish of your old friend, **E. TUTCHER, Patron, B.O.G.A.**\n\nTo return to the dinner; when the meal was over, a short informal concert was given, songs being sung by Mrs. Gutierrez, Miss Olivia Xavier and Miss Mow Fung; we greatly enjoyed all the songs.\n\nThen followed games, including strenuous musical chairs, made all the more exciting because the chairs showed a distinct tendency to turn round with the players. Then someone was inspired to think of a flash-light photograph, and while we waited for this to be taken we sang part songs with great fervour under the direction of Miss Xavier. We gave a most spirited rendering of old favourites like \"Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree,\" familiar to Guides, and \"Three Blind Mice\"; and we extended our knowledge of the Chinese language by wrestling with the Chinese Version of \"Three Blind Mice,\" best written, I think, as \"Sam ko mang lo shü.\" Unfortunately we could not agree on the whole verse, so we must wait for the next B.O.G.A. dinner to complete our knowledge.\n\nAfter the Photograph had been taken, the meeting ended with \"For she's a jolly good fellow\" and good wishes to Miss Skinner; then with \"Auld Lang Syne\" and a vote of thanks to Miss Lewis, the Vice-President of the Association.\n\nIt was altogether a delightful evening, and great credit for its success must be given to those responsible for the arrangements.\n\n## THE B.O.G.A.'S SUMMER PICNIC\n\nIt was originally intended to have an outing to Shatin by train on the 11th June, but unfortunately owing to the poor response from members, due no doubt to the very warm weather, it was decided to have a launch picnic instead.\n\nOn the 17th June, a party of over 60 members and their friends left Queen's Pier by a double-decker launch at 5.30 p.m. for Seaton. The journey took about ¾ of an hour, by which time the swimmers had donned their bathing suits ready for the water. These spent a very enjoyable dip, especially the children, of whom there was a large number. Those who did not swim went ashore and spent a very pleasant time rambling in the garden and on the slopes of the hills around Seaton. Upon returning on board, refreshments were served, the catering being in the hands of Messrs. Lane, Crawford. During the journey home, the songsters rendered several items, and it was not until a late hour that the merry party returned to Hongkong.\n\nThe outing was a decided success, so much so that members voted for another one. This second picnic took place on the 30th June, but it was not so well supported, as at the last moment the weather looked threatening and kept quite a number of subscribers away. However, the keener members braved the elements and the launch duly sailed at 5.30 p.m. when fortunately the weather cleared.\n\nThe venue this time was a small bay near the Kowloon Docks. The swimmers found the water very enjoyable and everybody spent a most pleasant afternoon. This time the catering was kindly undertaken by Miss Delminda Lopes, who unfortunately could not attend at the last moment owing to the death of her cousin. She has the sympathy of all B.O.G.A. members. Miss Marian Yuen very kindly came forward and volunteered to look after the catering and she made a very energetic and capable substitute.\n\nThe Editor of the Belilios Journal hopes to make the Magazine a means of keeping the Old Girls of B.P.S. in touch not only with the present girls but with their own contemporaries. In every Magazine there will be a section devoted to the meetings of the B.O.G.A., but we would like to have one part also for the news of Old Girls themselves. Members of the B.O.G.A. are therefore urged to send to the Hon. Secretary of the Association any news of themselves which will be of interest to their friends; this will be passed on to the Editor of the Belilios Journal. News of engagements and marriages, of new positions gained, of new work...",
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        "content_text": "## \nIf you wish to write to Sir A. Chamberlain backing the for... and similarly to Lord Buxton, authorising him to circulate his views, and saying we will be glad to know at an early date... The new Governor will have to deal with the representations in despatches. \nBecker 11/2/27\n\n...it is a serious matter, boycotting the money and impounding four... and coercing the poor British taxpayer for the honor to which he has been... Chen and the Soviet... Bec of Stab.\n\nWalter D. G[this]!! \n\nIf you wish to write to Sir A. Chamberlain and hand Powerston, I will have drafts prepared. \n12.2.17 \nVern \n\nBH.",
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        "content_text": "# 30014 \n## 1927 \n### HONG KONG \n**W106** \nChina \n## Protection of Anglo-Chinese \n\n| Previous paper | Subsequent File |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fo 230901.6 52710/2 | 28 |\n\n## DATE \n2 \n30014 \n3/8 \n\n| Name | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Corbuck | 15/1 |\n| Mr B. Keller | 19/1 |\n| Mr. Egli |  |\n| luille |  |\n| I. Becker | 25/7 |\n| Ellis | 25/7 |\n| ER | 20/12 |\n| Mr Camenzo |  |\n| Mr Recher |  |\n| in- Ellin |  |\n| whic |  |\n| Rann | 25/2 |\n| Mr Clutterbuck | 28/2 |\n| Mr Blikk M |  |\n| M. El | 29/... |\n| My Chulicback | 7/3 |\n| M. Beckel |  |\n| Shot. Josh künite S (hird Wilson | 3/... |\n\nTelef \n`258406--Wt. 4948/35–700—11/27` \nW. & S. L. (`E. 1385%`) \n\n## No. \n3 \n20 \n21 \n\n## BUT BY // \n\n| Date | No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| 29/9 | 12 |\n| 23/4 | ... |\n| Ti | 22 |",
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        "content_text": "# Confidential\n## 30014/27 HK\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to invite reference to my telegram of the 8th of March, and to previous correspondence on the subject of negotiations with authorities in China, and to inform you that the question of negotiating an arrangement for the protection of British subjects of Chinese race, when in China, has been engaging my serious attention.\n\n2. As you are aware, His Majesty's Government have announced their readiness, as part of a general settlement of existing differences in China, to recognise the validity of Chinese laws, with few exceptions, and to apply these laws in the Consular Courts throughout China.\n\n## Distribution List\n* Mr. Clutterbuck\n* Jr. Becker 574\n* Mr. Ellis\n* Mr. E. J. Harding\n* Sir C. Strachey\n* Sir J. Shuckburgh\n* Sir G. Grindle\n* Sir C. Davis\n* Sir S. Wilson\n* Mr. Ormsby-Gore\n* Earl of Clarendon\n* Mr. Amery\n\n## Metadata\n* `M Downing Street`\n* `DRAFT`\n* `16, PO for C.D. 24 MAY`\n* `23/5/27 003`\n* `To go in draft 15 FO for concurrence`\n* `1 JUN 1927`\n\n## References\n* Telegram of the 8th of March\n* Previous correspondence on negotiations with authorities in China\n* `HL. 7-1.5. Cooh- Como`\n* `GR...` (missing text) ...`XCR(85)72` is not present, but `GR 1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either, however `30014/27 HK` is present.",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG ANNUAL ABSTRACT ACCOUNT, 1925\n\n3\n\nPrevious `472071`\n\nSubsequent `52896/28`\n\nle Reg `1571`\n\nhis Blutterbuck Jo `7/2`\n\nIn Bewest I-Ellis √2\n\n8\n\nMr \nMr Cramers `1912`\nCR Am Blaketts \nCR \nA Becker \nCA \nRoom `33`\n\nTiffli\n\n15\n\nPUT BY `24/1`\nTo Chayter `25/1`\n\n`(60318)` Wt. `17930-38` 15,000 `12/28` H.St. `101/33A`",
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        "document_key": "CO129-502-4 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- provision of funds 11-1-1927 - 12-5-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-502-4 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- provision of funds 11-1-1927 - 12-5-1927",
        "content_text": "## \n31 Jan. 27. LF.\n\n5. Gov. Tel.\n\n6 \nAide Ministry \n\nSuffered small further \n\n1 76 37 \n\n3 Feb 27 \narea be put in order.\n\n? Telegraph as \nin diff huewitã \n(secret) give subst. If Calling part by W.\n\nI act on paragraph. I say still in considering the general question of expropriation \nbut that question is for difficult financial \nposition of Hongkong \n\nSource \nI pass \nanxiety to him and that \nany \nplans for acquiring \nthe entire site will undergo most careful examination \nfrom this point of \nview.\n\nCopy above to S.O. Acting and Treasury `47`\n\nBecker \n4/2/27 \n\nSame to the Gov. Sec. \nruing not to \nunderstand the nature of a \nption.\n\nregards the 2nd part of the draft we don't know whether \nthe formation is suggested by Air Ministry for \nthe land to be at the disposal of or \nalready in the hands of Walter D. Ellis \nVom 9.55",
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        "title": "CO129-503-5 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance- 1927 3-12-1926 - 31-12-1927",
        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK\n### F11429/26\n### 52801/28\n\n| be Reg | The Shrikant | Fur Beckett | Ms. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 21/1 | 25 | 24/7 | 26 |\n\nbundled PUT BY The Beadlett 27  \nCR PUT BY Room 33.\n\n| महा | 2017 | 23/8 | how blutterbuck 23 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| KR | 119 | mi Khettabrak 2 | ск 4) 318) Wt. 17930-38-15,000 12/26 H.St. G. 101/33A. |\n\nM Becker  \nORDINANCE  \nC....  \nR 22/9  \nhi Beckett 22/8.  \nIn Ellis  \nR کوئ 5711  \nIn Beckett 5/11,  \nen Rom 33  \nPUT BY to Beckett  \nA and CR  \nIՈd 7/0  \n22  \n/u K+/12  \nIn Racket 20/12  \nh.. Elle 21  \n24  \nPh Faumens 23  \nمد $ ان سالم است",
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        "document_key": "CO129-503-5 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance- 1927 3-12-1926 - 31-12-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-503-5 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance- 1927 3-12-1926 - 31-12-1927",
        "content_text": "## Cor. 509.\n\nIns for 23 Dec 1826\n\n3 conson copies of proposed Bill.\n\nThe changes in Canada are shown in the Cather of Correspondence in this print, and principal alterations made in ten dft. The BU au shown in the \"Objects and Reasons\" (flapped). Или does not Reeve lobe anything in the aft Leed Cate exception.\n\nBill 65 which Lame. The Alterations in the Regulations (part of the deed of Settlement) appear to be mainly modernisations.\n\n? copy dark a encle 6 Teasey purporting, subject on them to be approved the introduction of the Afr. Bill.\n\n`Becker 2573/27`\n\nMr. 26/1m expert. Porn not press teban Banking legislation of think we rely on the Treasury.\n\n1) Beckett informs M= mc must",
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        "title": "CO129-504-12 Loan to cover work on Shing Mun Valley Scheme etc.- draft ordinance 28-4-1927 - 4-12-1927",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-504-8 Chief Justice of Hong Kong- remuneration for acting as Appeal Judge at Shanghai 5-3-1927 - 7-12-1927",
        "page_number": 2,
        "title": "CO129-504-8 Chief Justice of Hong Kong- remuneration for acting as Appeal Judge at Shanghai 5-3-1927 - 7-12-1927",
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        "document_key": "CO129-505-10 Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 14-7-1927 - 2-11-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-505-10 Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 14-7-1927 - 2-11-1927",
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        "document_key": "CO129-505-6 Chinese telegraph office at Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 8-7-1927 - 29-12-1927",
        "page_number": 2,
        "title": "CO129-505-6 Chinese telegraph office at Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 8-7-1927 - 29-12-1927",
        "content_text": "30195\n\n1927\n\nHONG KONG\n\n30195\n\nChinese Telegraph Office\n\nat Hong Kong.\n\nTransfer to Cantonese Control\n\nPrevious\n\nF8203/26.\n\nN\n\nCR\n\n1/12\n\nIn Clutterbuck 17\n\nIn Caine 22\n\nM. Ellis\n\nMy Berhelt 15\n\n6/9\n\nBUT BY 21/12\n\nSubsequent\n\n52740/28\n\nCR\n\nIni Clutterbuck // \n\n4/2\n\n4/\n\nMi Clutterbuck 6/9 Mi Caine 24\n\nMr Ellis\n\nSir G. Grindle for\n\nMr Bickle\n\nCR\n\nIn Reckett. 19/9.\n\nCR Michayla 24/9.\n\nCR\n\n...\n\nhgl 22.\n\nthy 22\n\n19k\n\nth Blumens\n\n~R 30121\n\n2.44.9.\n\nAw Came. 31\n\nMy Rechert Eft\n\nw Buchet!\n\nCR\n\n17110\n\n22\n\n4. Bucket\n\nWh. Section 1:17\n\nC.D\n\nCR 1817\n\n& Clutterbreck 18.\n\nM. Becket 8\n\ntham g\n\nClutt buck\n\n4/8\n\nM. Beckett 4/8.1\n\n1811.5\n\nAilable buck\n\nCR\n\n(80318) Wt, 7930-38 15,000 12/28 H,St. G. 101/33A.\n\n118\n\n16/k\n\n618\n\nCR\n\nIn Clutterbuck 17\n\nM Becker\n\nto 145\n\nMe laine\n\n...\n\n20%\n\nThe Emmens 26/11\n\nIn Beckett 1/11\n\nCR\n\nPUT BY\n\nMi Bockelt glu\n\nPUT BY",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-505-9 Basel Evangelical Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance 1927 21-6-1927 - 21-6-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-505-9 Basel Evangelical Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance 1927 21-6-1927 - 21-6-1927",
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        "document_key": "CO129-507-4 China- anti-piracy precautions- question of compensation to families of British officers killed or wounded 5-10-1928 - 2-1-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-507-4 China- anti-piracy precautions- question of compensation to families of British officers killed or wounded 5-10-1928 - 2-1-1929",
        "content_text": "52711A/28.\n\nH.K.\n\n2811\n\nMr. Caine 3(L\n\nMr. Becker 31\n\nMr. Ellis\n\nMr. Bottomley.\n\nSir E. Harding.\n\nsee minut\n\nmr 1/1\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir C. Davis.\n\nSir S. Wilson.\n\nMr. Ormsby-Gore:\n\nLord Lovat.\n\nMr. Amery.\n\nImmediate Secret\n\nDowning Street,\n\n2nd January, 1929.\n\nSir,\n\nDRAFT.\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nADMIRALTY.\n\n2 dfts.\n\n(23)\n\nI am directed to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of Admiralty letter\n\nM.03893/28 of the 29th of December,\n\non the subject of piracy in China,\n\nand to request you to inform the\n\nLords Commissioners of the Admiralty\n\nthat he concurs in the proposal to\n\napprove the setting up of a naval\n\nCommittee under the Commodore-in-\n\nCharge, Hong Kong, as proposed by\n\nthe Commander-in-Chief, China.\n\nCopy to F.O., W.O. and A.M. WAR\n\nvol.23\n\n(Syα) W. D. Ellis",
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        "document_key": "CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929",
        "page_number": 137,
        "title": "CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929",
        "content_text": "62708/29.\n\nH.K.\n\n3\n\n136\n\nMr. Cuine 24/1\nMr. Becker 24.\nMr. Bottomley.\nSir E. Harding.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nSir G. Grindle. 24\nSir C. Davis.\nSir S. Wilson\nMr. Ormsby-Gore. 15.1.29\nLord Lovat.\nMr. Amery.\n\n**Immediate & Secret**\n\nDRAFT\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street,\n6 January. 1929.\n\nI am etc. to acknowledge the receipt of Foreign Office `F.267/57/10` of the 23rd ult. and 2 dfts. Dft. telegram (dft.h with) Copy to Ty. and B/I. LFF Senet ref. (2 of January, on the subject of the Boxer Indemnity.\n\n2. I am to request you to inform Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain that Mr. Amery concurs generally in the draft of the telegram which it is proposed to send to His Majesty's Minister at Peking. He proposes, however, to consult",
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        "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": 118,
        "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": "# \n## Downing Street, 18 January, 1929\n**DRAFT**\n\nSir,\n\nTHE SECRETARY, AIR MINISTRY.\n\nI am directed to transmit to you, to be laid before the Air Council, a copy of a despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong on the subject of aviation development in China. I am also directed to suggest that consideration may be given as to whether anything may be done to further the use of British Aircraft in China.\n\nA copy of the telegram of 7th November referred to by Mr. Southorn was sent to the Air Ministry.\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Mr. Caine |\n| Mr. Becker |\n| Mr. Bottomley |\n| Sir E. Harding |\n| Sir J. Shuckburgh |\n| Sir G. Grindle |\n| Sir C. Davis |\n| Sir S. Wilson |\n| Mr. Ormsby-Gore |\n| Lord Lovat |\n| Mr. Amery |\n\n62751/29. H.K. 1019. H. 117\n\n2 dfts. Copy to F.O. with fn aft In Hayling's Force (2) 1 (3)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929",
        "page_number": 117,
        "title": "CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929",
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        "document_key": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931",
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        "content_text": "4887 \n\nof the A.C.E.C on 14 October 1931 \n\nMr. Poynton. \n\nI think this cutting from \"The Times\" of 28.7.31 should be placed on the file relating to cultural relations with the Far East. The question of inviting to the meeting Mr. K.H. Tawney, London School of Economics, who is to take part in the Mission referred to in the cutting, will deserve consideration. The name also of Mr. E. Ralphs, late Acting-Director of Education, Hong Kong, who has been engaged for some time in considering arrangements for Hong Kong students in this country, might also be noted in this connection, as facilities for Chinese students over here is part of the problem referred to in the Economic Mission Report.\n\n## CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH CHINA \n\n## LEAGUE APPOINTMENTS \n\nFROM OUR LEAGUE CORRESPONDENT \n\nGENEVA, JULY 26 \n\nThe League Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, which to-day concluded its session, considered the request of the Chinese Government asking the competent League institutes and organs to cooperate with China in the intellectual and scientific domains, in particular through the agency of interchanges of university professors. China would send to Europe scientists, writers, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists; the League would organize the dispatch to China of specialists in medical and natural science and on legal and political questions.\n\nThe Committee has appointed the following persons as professors for Nanking University—MM. Parejas (Switzerland), Professor of Geology at Geneva University, and Kredner (Germany), Professor of Geography at Canton University. A Professor of English Literature will be appointed later. The salaries of the professors will be supplemented by the League from special funds at the disposal of the Secretary-General.\n\nAs regards the study of the organization of the Chinese educational system the Committee has appointed a mission which will include Professor Carl Becker, former Prussian Minister of Education, Professor Falski, Director at the Polish Ministry of Education, Professor Langevin, of the Collège de France, Mr. R. H. Tawney, of London, and Mr. Walters, a British member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, who will be attached as a special adviser. M. Henri Bonnet, Director of the Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, will join the mission in China. The Chairman of the Committee proposed to attach to the mission an expert on educational films and to recommend the Assembly to make arrangements for the necessary financial resources.\n\nPage 80\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "108\n\nH. P. W. HUTSON\n\nIn appearance and also, as we found later, in taste these Chinese mushrooms could not be told from English ones. Their gathering was the last event of the day. It was high time to start back or it would be dark before we reached the car. Regretfully therefore we returned to the little stone bridge and left the valley.\n\nHowever before long we were back again. In fact we came many times that spring and on each visit penetrated the valley a little deeper or examined it from a fresh angle. And never did we have a really blank day. Our interests were varied and we left it to the valley to settle which, on any one day, should take precedence. Ornithology would be favoured on one day, on another botany. We started with no preconceived intentions but searched streamside, cultivation or woodland as circumstances indicated. Taken all round however, the most productive hunting grounds, catering for all tastes, were the villages and their surroundings. It was by Hang Ha Po that we discovered the first birds' nests, one, in the top of a water banian, belonging to a Black-faced Babbler and another, sewn to a large fig leaf, owned by a Tailor-bird. There too the botanist found much of interest among the weeds that grew on the waste ground in front of the huts.\n\nThe False Ipecacuanha (Asclepias currassavica) was most abundant and its orange-red flowers made a fine splash of colour setting off the white trumpet blooms of the Datura alba that grew alongside. Very common on the banks and rough walls that separated the village holdings was the curious Bryophyllum calycinum. Cactus or prickly pear, intended to keep out maraudering goats, topped these banks as a rule and in some places there were rough hedges, equally thorny, among which the opened pods of the Fruit climber Abrus precatorius displayed its black-spotted scarlet seeds. Trees such as the pomelo, pawpaw and lime grew about the village and behind it the Lychee, the Litsea, the Rose Apple (Eugenia jambos) and others.\n\nThe culmination of tree growth was the grove, a dark shady wood of tall trees with great fern-clad buttressed trunks. In its inner sunless depths wild life was scarce in the early part of the year but the outskirts always repaid a search. The butterfly hunter in particular found plenty to occupy him on the sunny side of the grove and also on the village waste lands. Blue-barred Danais similis, dark Euploeas that only occasionally showed their deep violet markings and the brown Lethe europa, its female conspicuous by the broad white band on the forewing, all were to be had in plenty. There was a White too, Pieris canidia, closely resembling our small Garden White (P. rapae) and the large and brilliant Papilio family was represented by the black and red Papilio memnon, a shade lover, and by the rapid flying Papilio antiphates with the orange tail.\n\nIn April the grove itself awoke. Butterflies became more numerous than ever on its outskirts and many gaily coloured caterpillars found succulent feeding on the undergrowth within. Groups of Candle flies were to be seen on the tree trunks, seemingly asleep but alert enough when one tried to catch them. The grating call of the Cicada, a large yellow and black variety, arose on every hand. But the most marked change in the wild life of the grove took place amongst the birds. Magpies had been in possession since February and now had youngsters in their nest.\n\n109\n\nTheir sway over the woodland was almost undisputed for only a few Doves and Tits had shared the place with them. Now other bird folk hurried in. From the marshlands came Herons and Egrets returning to the valley of their birth. For a while one saw them gathered on the newly flooded paddy fields - the pure white Little Egrets, the Cattle Egrets wearing their orange breeding plumes and the Pond Herons chestnut-headed and black-backed, showing no white at all till they opened their wings in flight. Not for long however could they afford to idle. There was much work to be done. None of the last year's nests in the grove remained; all had to be rebuilt. So the colony was soon hard at work. To and fro, throughout the day, flew the birds, bearing sticks to their nests. From every quarter of the compass they came and what a bubbling and squawking arose at each arrival. By mid-April most of the nests were well advanced and by the end of the month many, perhaps the majority, contained eggs.\n\nThere were other birds besides these Herons that came to nest in the grove. Early in April a very kingfisher-like call was to be heard among the trees and glimpses might be caught of the sable plumaged Koel chasing its mate. We suspected this couple to have been responsible for the strange eggs that were found a week or so later in the untidy nest a Black-necked Mynah had built high up in a tree on the grove's edge. Some of its secrets the grove guarded too well for us. It never, for instance, showed us where the Barbet nested. We heard the bird's plaintive 'uloo-uloo-uloo' continuously; often we saw the caller either flying from one grove to another or perched in a tree when we could without much difficulty approach beneath and watch it at close quarters whilst it reiterated its curious plaint.\n\nThere must have been a pair of Barbets in practically every grove in the valley. And, what is more, there were old trees so riddled with the birds' nesting holes that they must have been in use for generations. Yet we failed to find a single new nest and the villagers could (or would) not help in the matter.\n\nOur party broke up at the end of April. We had by no means exhausted the possibilities of the valley. Indeed it is a place that would be worth keeping in touch with throughout the year. A final visit, a descent into the valley from Tai-mo-shan, following a steep watercourse abounding in falls and crossing tracts of really tropical vegetation where tree ferns, wild plants, rare orchids and countless botanical treasures grew luxuriantly, showed that Lam Tsun valley has fields that we never really touched. They await a fresh band of bug hunters.\n\nBIRDS OF THE LAM TSUN VALLEY. Nesting species are marked.*\n\n1. Black-faced Babbler, Dryonastes p. perspicillatus.*\n\n2. Great Chinese Barbet, Megalaima v. virens.*\n\n3. Chinese Blackbird, Turdus merula mandarinus.\n\n4. Chinese Bulbul, Pycnonotus sinensis sinensis.*\n\n5. Chinese Red-vented Bulbul, Molpastes hæmorrhous chrysorrhoides.\n\n6. Chinese Red-whiskered Bulbul, Orocompsa emeria jocosa.\n\n7. Little Bunting, Emberiza pusila.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nMay 1932.\n\n127\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "128\n\n5)\n\nI10\n\nH. P. W. HUTSON\n\n8. Grey-headed Black-faced Bunting, Emberiza s. spodocephala,\n\n9. Yellow-browed Bunting, Emberiza chrysophrys.\n\nCollared Crow, Corvus torquatus,\n\n10.\n\nII.\n\nCrow Pheasant, Centropus s. sinensis.\n\n12. Indian Cuckoo, Cuculus m. micropterus.\n\n13. Chinese Dayal Bird (Magpie Robin), Copsychus saularis prosthopellus.\n\n14. Chinese Spotted-necked Dove, Streptopelia s. sinensis,\n\n15. Chinese Hair-crested Drongo, Chibbia hottentotta brevirostris.\n\n16. Little Egret, Egretta g. garzetta.*\n\n17. Cattle Egret, Bubulcus ibis coromandus.*\n\n18. Flycatcher spp.\n\n19. Black-crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax n. nycticorax.\n\nChinese Pond Heron, Ardeola bacchus.*\n\n20.\n\n21.\n\n22.\n\n*\n\nEastern Little Blue Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis bengalensis.* Eastern White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis fusca.*\n\n23. Himalayan Pied Kingfisher, Ceryle lugubris guttulata.\n\n24. Indian Koel, Eudynamis orientalis honorata.*\n\n25. Chinese Magpie, Pica pica sericea.*\n\n26. Chinese Blue Magpie, Urocissa e. erythrorhyncha.*\n\n27. Chinese Spotted Munia, Uroloncha punctulata topela.\n\nBlack-necked Mynah, Gracupica nigricollis.*\n\n28.\n\n29. Crested Mynah, Aethiopsar c. cristatellus.\n\n30. Eastern Tree Pipit, Anthus trivialis hodgsoni.\n\n31.\n\n32.\n\n33.\n\n34.\n\n35. Red-throated Pipit, Anthus cervinus.\n\nRichard's Pipit, Anthus richardi sinensis. Owl sp.*\n\nDaurian Redstart, Phenicurus a. auroreus. Rufous-backed Shrike, Lanius s. schach.*\n\n36. South China Silver-eye, Zosterops simplex simplex.\n\n37. Chinese Tree Sparrow, Passer montanus saturatus.\n\n38. Chinese Stonechat, Saxicola torquata stejnegeri.\n\n39.\n\n40.\n\n41.\n\n42.\n\n43. Eastern House Swallow, Hirundo rustica gutturalis. Violet Whistling Thrush, Myiophoneus c. cœruleus. Chinese Tailor Bird, Orthotomus sutorius longicauda.* South China Grey Tit, Parus cinereus commixtus. Eastern Grey Wagtail, Motacilla cinerea caspica.\n\n44. Streak-eyed Wagtail, Motacilla ocularis,\n\n45. White-faced Wagtail, Motacilla lugubris leucopsis.\n\n46. Warbler spp.\n\n47. White-breasted Waterhen, Amaurornis p. phœnicurus.\n\nNOTE: The above list is far from complete. Further observations should add considerably to it.\n\n: THE INSECT MENACE.\n\n(L. O. Howard :-D. Appleton and Co., London, 12/6 Nett).\n\nA. H. CROOK,\n\nThis is a wonderfully fascinating and very important book. Howard's name alone, if nothing else would insure this.\n\nDr.\n\nIt is not a text-book of entomology nor yet a handbook of insect pests on plants. But it is a clarion call, and a vision of what the enlightened entomologist sees as the duty of the present and the hope of the near future.\n\nThe book is a mass of interesting facts about insects, their modes of life and metamorphoses, their parasites and enemies and about applied insecticides. But these are only asides so to say. The main outline might be put thus. On the surface of the earth at the present time two groups— man and the insects-may be counted as the only animals which are definitely on the increase. It is a neck and neck race between them for the mastery of the world.\n\nThe insects have the pull in time and adaptation,\n\nfor they have been on the earth for millions of years before man appeared, and they have, so to say, 'dug themselves well in.' Man is a recent arrival. He is, too, a bit of a 'green horn,' (This, however, is by the way). Many things, but three especially, the gregarious life adopted by man the domestication of animals and the domestication of plants,-have given the insects unwonted opportunities for mass reproduction. We are constantly herding ourselves in great cities, growing huge areas with masses of food crops, and collecting great herds of cattle. All these are just feeding grounds for insects, and they have utilised the advantage to the full.\n\nNot much wonder that the insects have found in these great sources of supply a magnificent chance of breeding by the million.\n\nThen man has taken it into his head to move about-with ever increasing rapidity. The result can easily be guessed. Insects have constantly found themselves in a new environment, a perfect paradise, where their old enemy controls have not yet arrived. The result may be, and often has been, a plague of insects.\n\nAre man and his food supply to be thus eaten out of the world altogether? And is man to be driven from the face of the earth?\n\nAt times it looks as if this would be the result-but civilised man is waking up.\n\nThis volume will be widely read with great interest, but there are few places where it would be read with greater advantage and profit than in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is an insects' paradise.\n\nNo resident needs to be told that. But what does the resident think of the loss of life, the damage, and the annoyance which these pests cause? And what efforts and expenditure are being put forth in Hong Kong to regulate and control this awful wastage? One need only mention the names of three or four classes of insects to bring the matter home and there are thousands of others.\n\nCOCKROACHES are a constant annoyance and destroying food, clothing, books, pictures, and what not.\n\npest in the Colony, But what is being done to get rid of them and to reduce their ravages?\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nMay 1932.\n\n129",
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        "content_text": "146\n\nNotes Comments\n\nLARGE WHITE-RUMPED SWIFT (Apus pacificus pacificus).\n\nOn March 6th several of these birds were seen flying round the summit of the mountain Ng Tung Shan (Height 3,100 ft.). Last year on March 2nd they were observed near the top of Kowloon Peak, this was noted as an unusually early date to see these Swifts.\n\nPEREGRINE FALCON (Falco peregrinus calidus).\n\nA pair of these birds were seen on the slopes of Ng Tung Shan on March 6th; on March 19th a single bird was seen over the frontier road near Sha Tau Kok.\n\nEASTERN GREY CRANE (Megalornis grus lilfordi).\n\nOn November 30th two of these birds were seen at Ping Shan feeding on a paddy field near the sea; observers at Chilang Point have informed us that several of these birds frequent this district throughout the winter months. These huge birds are unmistakable, their length varies between 42 and 60 inches. They are difficult to approach on account of their extreme wariness, they are usually found on saltings or cultivated land near the sea.\n\nCROW PHEASANT (Centropus s. sinensis).\n\nOn February 21st the crow pheasant was heard calling for the first time, the bird is said to breed in April, though actually no nests were found until May last year.\n\nJAVA SPARROW (Munia orizivora).\n\nThis bird was first seen on 10th November, it is one of the two Weavers to visit the colony. A small number of these birds took up residence in shrubs in the dockyard for some time, but as these birds were very tame they may have been escapes from captivity, especially as they are favourite cage birds with the Chinese. A gaily coloured little bird with a bright pink bill and legs, head and neck black with a conspicuous white patch on sides of the head below the eye, dove-grey upper parts, underparts dove grey to white under tail-coverts, tail black.\n\nCHINESE STARLING (Sturnia sinensis).\n\nSmall numbers of these birds were seen on April 6th in trees around the village of Kam Tin. This species is a common spring visitor and stays to breed; it is a much smaller bird than either of the Mynahs. The head, neck and upper parts are creamy grey, wings white with black primaries, underparts creamy grey, tail black tipped white, bill blue, legs plumbeous. This species is noisy and has a variety of calls and whistlings after the manner of the Sturnidæ, April 1st arrived Island House Tai Po.\n\nINDIAN KOEL (Eudynamis orientalis honorata).\n\nFirst seen and heard on April 6th in a grove by the village of Sek Kong, Kam Tin district. On April 8th a bird was seen in the Lam Tsuen valley and on the same day in the woods at Fanling. The call of this bird can be confused with that of no other bird except that of the Great Chinese Barbet (Megalaima virens virens); there are several districts in the New Territory where both species are fairly numerous such as the Lam Tsuen valley. During the nesting season the incessant mournful calling of the male birds is heard both day and night until it positively becomes a nuisance. The Koel is known to Europeans as the Rain bird. Common to the habit of Cuckoos this bird lays one or more eggs in the nest of another bird preferably that of the Black-necked Mynah (Gracupica nigricollis); the eggs laid bear a considerable resemblance in colour to these of this bird. On April 26th last year a single egg was found in the nest of a Black-necked Mynah, on June 30th three young Koels were found in another of these Mynahs nests. The Indian Cuckoo (Cuculus m. micropterus) was not seen till April 13th when six birds were seen in the Lam Tsuen Valley.\n\nGREY-HEADED BLACK-FACED BUNTING (Emberiza spodocephala spodocephala).\n\nOn March 26th several birds were seen together near the village of Tung Chung, Lan Tau Island. They were perched about the bushes bordering a stream. These birds are noticeable at once by their bright colours, the head and neck is grey with a conspicuous chestnut patch on the cheeks, upper parts bright chestnut, primaries brown edged with chestnut, under parts buffish-white tail brownish-black.\n\nWe have recorded this species once before also on Lan Tau, this was in December 1930, on this occasion several birds were seen together on the South Coast of the Island.\n\nEASTERN HOUSE SWALLOW (Hirundo rustica gutturalis).\n\nFirst seen on February 20th. An observer tells us that as early as March 12th a nest was being built on an uninhabited house in the Castle Peak Tsuen valley.\n\nCHINESE LITTLE BITTERN (Ixobrychus s. sinensis).\n\nOn 15th March a specimen was picked up at Aberdeen (Hong Kong) in an exhausted condition and died soon afterwards. This bird proved to be a young male. The Chinese Little Bittern is said to be common and breeding in Kwangtung, but we have no records of their doing so in the Colony, although a few birds appear to remain throughout the winter.\n\nTHE JAPANESE ROBIN FLYCATCHER (Siphia Mujimaki).\n\nOn March 19th a single bird was seen in a paddy field near the village of San Uk Ling, Sham Chun, the bird was hawking insects. This bird has the habit of feeding on migration close to the ground, actually alighting to take its food off the ground then regaining its perch on a neighbouring bush.\n\nA most attractively coloured bird the upper parts grey-black with white car-coverts, bar and blotch on wing and bases to side feathers and tail, under parts orange and white, bill black, legs reddish-brown. In summer the upper parts are black. This is the first record we have made of this flycatcher.\n\n147\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nMay 1932.\n\n167",
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        "content_text": "168\n\n148\n\nNotes Comments\n\nTHE BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE (Oriolus chinensis indicus).\n\nFirst date reported this year March 29th perched in the top branches of a Cananga tree in the Botanical gardens, this must be an early comer as the bird was not seen until April 30th last year. On April 13th an Oriole was seen and heard in full song in a garden at Tai Po. THE ASHY DRONGO (Dicrurus leucophaeus hopwoodi).\n\nThis rare visitor has been observed in the Botanical gardens since January 6th, at the time of writing April 6th the bird is still with us. On page 65 Vol. III, No. 1, of the Hong Kong Naturalist, it was stated that this was the first time we have recorded the Ashy Drongo, this is incorrect for in February and March 1930 a solitary bird was seen in these gardens, see page 90 Vol. I, No. 2, of the Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nOn April 6th, the day on which the Black-naped Oriole was first seen, an observer watched these two rare species perched close together on the same tree in the Botanical gardens,\n\nBIRDS OF THE SHAM CHUN VALLEY.\n\nAs a typical example of the number of species of birds that can be seen in an afternoon in the New Territory, the following list is given, it was compiled by a party of five observers on March 19th whilst walking up the Sham Chun valley towards the villages of San Uk Ling and Muk Wo.\n\nThis district was entirely new ground to all in the party:-\n\nChinese Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis insignis).\nEastern Little Blue Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis bengalensis).\nEastern White-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis fusca).\nChinese Fan-tail Warbler (Cisticola juncidis tintinnabulans).\nBrown Bush-Warbler (Oreopneuste f. fuscata).\nEastern Quail (Coturnix c. japonica).\n\nSouth China Grey Tit (Parus cinereus commixtus),\nChinese Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus cathœcus).\nChinese Tailor Bird (Orthotomus sutorius longicauda).\nBlack-necked Mynah (Gracupica nigricollis).\nChinese Crested Mynah (Aethiopsar c. cristatellus).\nChinese Red-vented Bulbul (Molpastes hæmorrhous chrysorrhoides).\n\nChinese Red-whiskered Bulbul (Otocompsa emeria jocosa).\nChinese Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis sinensis).\nRichard's Pipit (Anthus r. richardi).\nEastern Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis hodgsoni).\nChinese Dayal Bird (Copsychus saularis prosthopellus).\nChinese Rufous-backed Shrike (Lanius s. schach).\n\nEastern House Swallow (Hirundo rustica gutturalis).\nWhite-rumped Swift (Apus p. pacificus).\nChinese Stonechat (Saxicola torquata stejnegeri).\nDaurian Redstart (Phœnicurus a. auroreus).\nCrow Pheasant (Centropus s. sinensis).\n\nSouth China White-Eye (Zosterops simplex simplex).\n\nNotes & Comments\n\n149\n\nChinese Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus saturatus).\nEastern Turtle Dove (Streptopelia o. orientalis).\nBlack-eared Kite (Milvus lineatus).\nEastern Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus calidus).\n\nChinese Magpie (Pica pica sericea).\nLittle Egret (Egretta g. garzetta).\nCattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis coromandus).\nChinese Blackbird (Turdus merula mandarinus).\n\nGrey Wagtail (Budytes cinereus caspicus).\nWhite-faced Wagtail (Motacilla alba leucopsis).\n\nTOTAL 34 SPECIES.\n\nIt will be noticed that several of the common species were not seen, such as the Blue Magpie, Babbling Thrush, Violet Whistling Thrush, Kestrel, Collared Crow and Cuckoo, so that it seems reasonable to suppose that by putting in a whole day upwards of 40 different species might be observed. We ask readers to endeavour to better this total and forward to us their list for comparison.\n\nNESTING NOTES.-March and early April, 1932.\n\nNests have been observed as follows:-\n\nChinese Magpie (Pica p. sericea) March 14th in University compound; March 17th Kai Lung, nest in a pine tree at 30 feet containing 3 youngsters estimated at not less than a fortnight old; March 17th near Lower Kai Lung in a pine tree at 20 feet, nest with one egg; March 19th Victoria Road in a pine tree at 15 feet,—2 eggs; March 22nd Kam Tin in a Melia tree at 30 feet,-4 eggs, these eggs were especially large for a magpie measuring 1.1 by 1.45 inches as compared with an average of 0.9 by 1.3, but as the nest was that of a Magpie and the bird was seen leaving the nest there can be no doubt as to the identity of the eggs.\n\nCollared Crow (Corvus torquatus) March 17th at San Tin situated 40 feet up in the fork of a Banyan Tree. The nest was composed of small branches, grass and mud, and contained 3 young birds about a week old; March 19th Aberdeen district in a Pine Tree at 18 feet, nest composed of small branches and pine needles lined with cotton wool, 5 eggs, four eggs were a uniform colour one egg much lighter average size of the eggs 1.6 by 1.2 inches. These are the first records we have made of the nests of these birds in the colony. The note of the Collared Crow is a harsh deep croak somewhat reminiscent of the raven.\n\nBlack-necked Mynah (Gracupica nigricollis). On April 6th two nests seen in the process of building in the fork of Bombax trees near Kam Tin village. The nests are untidy looking made chiefly of dried grasses which the birds could be seen taking to the nest.\n\nBlack-eared Kite (Milvus lineatus).\nMarch 18th below Lugard road 18 feet up in a Litsea tree, one egg very pale colour; March 18th below Harlech road 25 feet up in a Pine tree, three eggs all very pale colour; March 22nd below Stubbs Road 18 feet up in a pine tree-3 eggs, two of these eggs were heavily marked with chocolate and dark brown spots and\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nMay 1932.\n\n169",
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        "content_text": "156\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\ndistrict).\" In 1928 a census of the herons and heronries in England and Wales was carried out and it was shown that there are about 3,900 pairs of herons occupying 278 sites, an average of about 14 nests per heronry. There has just been completed a census of the great crested grebes, the number of pairs being computed at between 1155-1162 occupying 490 sites. But the bitterns are very much rarer than either of these other two birds and only a few pairs now breed each year in protected localities on some of the Norfolk Broads. A census of the Heronries of the New Territories and the Egrets and Herons that inhabit them would be quite a simple matter but it would be impossible to make any count of the number of Bitterns that frequent these territories because their nests are built close to the ground in reeds and grasses and are extremely difficult to find.\n\nHONG KONG SPECIES :— According to Gee's \"A Tentative List of Chinese Birds\" 1926, five species of Bittern occur in China and all these are resident in, or visit, Kwangtung at some time of the year. These five species are Schrenck's Little Bittern, common in Kwangtung May to October; Chinese Little Bittern, very common in Kwangtung in the summer, breeding May to August, less common in the winter; Chestnut Bittern resident in Kwangtung, common April to October rare in winter; Yellow-necked Bittern, Kwangtung May to October, only a few remaining during the winter; and the Eastern Great Bittern which is common in Kwangtung during the spring and autumn, rare in winter. Although, in all probability, all these species may be seen in our Territories yet our knowledge of the Bitterns is confined to scattered observations on three species only. Descriptions of all five are given below in the hope that observers may add to our knowledge of this interesting group of birds.\n\nThe three species known to occur in the Colony are:-\n\nThe Chinese Little Bittern, Ixobrychus sinensis sinensis, Gmelin. Our records of this species are confined to the months of September, October and March, which is curious as the species is probably very much commoner in the summer. This bird has a wide range being found throughout almost the whole of Asia from India to Manchuria and Japan in the north to the Malay Peninsula and the islands north of Australia in the south.\n\nThe Chestnut Bittern or Cinnamon Heron, Ixobrychus cinnamomeus, Gmelin. Caldwell writes that he finds that this bittern is not as common in south China as the other small bitterns and our single record of this species supports this. Similar in distribution to that of the Chinese Little Bittern.\n\nThe Eastern Great Bittern, Botaurus stellaris orientalis. The largest of the Chinese bitterns, distributed throughout eastern Asia. Our records of this species are confined to the months November, December and January though it is probably much commoner in spring and autumn.\n\nThis species is called the Common Bittern in the Philippines.\n\nThe two other species which probably occur in the Colony are:- Schrenck's Little Bittern, Ixobrychus eurhythmus, Swinhoe. Recorded from eastern Siberia to Japan in the north and Borneo and the Philippines in the South.\n\nThe Yellow-necked Bittern or Black Bittern, Ixobrychus flavicollis flavicollis (Latham). Ranges from India to South China in the north to the Malay Archipelago and the Philippines in the south. From time to time we have received records of bitterns seen in the neighbourhood of the U.S.R.C. grounds in Kowloon. The birds seen may very likely have been this species, as Caldwell writes of it.\" This heron is distributed pretty generally throughout the plains and among the foot hills, but seems to prefer regions about the habitation of man.\"\n\nDESCRIPTION AND FIELD IDENTIFICATION:-The Notes given below are derived from a selection of books of reference on the birds of China, the Philippines, Borneo and Singapore and from a skin of the Chinese Little Bittern. The most striking features are given in italics.\n\nThe Chinese Little Bittern. Length 13-14 inches, wing 234 inches. MALE. Above earthy brown slightly tinged with rufous more especially on the scapulars, wing coverts clay brown, edge of wing white, primary coverts and quills black, inner secondaries brown tinged with rufous, lower back, rump and upper tail coverts ashy gray. Tail black. Crown and nape black. Sides of face, ear-coverts, and sides of neck vinous, becoming chestnut on the long frill-like feathers of the sides of the neck; throat white mesially streaked with yellowish buff. Abdomen yellowish buff, thighs more tawny rufous; Lower abdomen and under tail-coverts white or yellowish white, under wing coverts white, quills slaty below with paler grey at ends. On each side of upper breast a patch of dependent feathers of a blackish ground with yellowish buff margins. Facial skin green, upper mandible dark brown on the culmen and pinkish brown on the margins, lower mandible pinkish brown, greenish towards the tip. Toes pale yellow, tarsus flesh colour. FEMALE. More rufous above, feathers of back being rufous-brown with yellowish buff margins.\n\nThe Chestnut Bittern.\n\nLength 15-16 inches. MALE. Entire upper parts cinnamon-rufous including wings and tail, sides of face and ear coverts. Under surface much lighter, tawny buff, throat ashy white with a median streak of tawny rufous, which extends down throat and fore neck being streaked with blackish longitudinal marks on the outer webs of the feathers. Lower throat, fore neck, breast, sides of body, and thighs tawny rufous; abdomen white, under tail coverts tawny buff. On sides of upper breast a patch of dependent feathers with black centres and axillars and under surface of quills pale chestnut.\n\ntawny-buff, Facial skin reddish purple. Bill yellow except culmen which is dark brown.\n\nLegs and FEMALE. toes greenish yellow.\n\nDiffers considerably from the male. Mantle and back uniform dark brown, wing coverts and scapulars dingy brown with sandy buff margins. Greater coverts, primary coverts and quills principally chestnut. Crown and nape dusky brown, tail feathers dull chestnut. Frilled feathers on sides of neck with brown centres and yellowish margins. Under surface yellowish buff thickly streaked with dark brown. Sides of throat whiter. Mesial streak distinctly rufous. Dependent plumes with black centres and yellowish buff margins. Thighs chestnut, under tawny buff or rufous margins. Under wing coverts\n\nPage 157\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe Birds of Hong Kong-Part XI\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n133",
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        "content_text": "158\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\nwing coverts yellowish buff. Facial skin, margins of upper mandible and lower mandible yellow, culmen black. Tarsus and toes yellow,\n\nIn both these two species the tibia is feathered to the base; this is not the case in Schrenck's Little Bittern which is also the smallest of these three bitterns.\n\nThe Eastern Great Bittern, Plate No. 22.\n\nLength 26-30 inches, bill 3 inches. MALE. Above tawny-yellow and black, the latter predominating and occupying the centre of the feathers, the sides of which are tawny-buff, freckled and irregularly barred with black; lower back, rump, and upper tail-covers pale tawny-buff, mottled with bars or cross-lines of dusky brown. Marginal wing-coverts rufous, regularly barred across with black; median and greater coverts tawny-buff, with irregular bars or arrow-shaped markings of blackish brown, much less pronounced on the greater coverts, all of which have a rufescent tinge near the base; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, barred with rufous, the bars somewhat broken up on the inner webs of the quills, which are also paler; the inner secondaries like the scapulars, being tawny-buff on their edges and mottled in a similar manner. Tail-feathers tawny-buff, irregularly mottled with black bars or cross-markings, more pronounced on the middle of the feathers. Crown of head uniform black, with a frill of erectile plumes on the nape, these being tipped with tawny-buff and the pale tips crossed with lines of black; eyebrow, sides of face, and sides of the neck tawny-buff the eyebrow uniform except on the under edge, where the feathers are barred with black; ear-coverts scarcely marked at all, but the plumes of the sides of the neck narrowly barred with black, and elongated into a frill which covers the hind neck, the latter being clothed in dense down of a tawny-buff colour. The feathers below the eye, and a streak along the cheeks and down the sides of the neck, black; malar line of feathers and throat creamy white, with a central line of reddish buff feathers slightly mottled with black bases; the lower throat also creamy white, with four or five tolerably defined broad lines of tawny-buff and black-mottled feathers; the lower part of the ruff on the fore neck with narrow wavy lines of black. The breast covered with down of a tawny-buff colour, and hidden by a large patch of loose plumes on each side of the chest, which are mostly black with tawny-buff margins; remainder of under surface creamy white, streaked with black centres to the feathers, the black markings slightly broken up with mottlings of tawny-buff. Thighs and under tail-coverts with scarcely any markings whatever; under wing-coverts and axillars tawny-buff, the former narrowly lined with blackish, the axillars more distinctly barred with dusky blackish. Bill greenish yellow; legs and feet yellowish green; claws dark brown; iris yellow.\n\nFEMALE. Similar to male but colours less distinct and with finer black and brown penciling on wings and primaries. This species is distinguished by its large size, relatively short and stout beak and heavy legs. The culmen is much shorter than the tarsus which is itself also shorter than the middle toe with claw.\n\nSchrenck's Little Bittern. Length 12-13 inches. MALE. Above chestnut-brown; lesser wing-coverts and feathers round bend of wing also chestnut-brown; alula-feathers chestnut, outer ones blackish internally, with white on the outer margins; remainder of wing-coverts olive-clay-colour, ashy near the ends of the feathers, innermost greater-coverts chestnut like scapulars; innermost secondaries also washed with chestnut, remainder of quills and primary-coverts ashy brown, paler at the tips, which are fringed with whitish, the first primary margined with ocherous. Tail dark brown. Crown and nape dusky brown; sides of face, ear-coverts, and neck-frill maroon; a broad band of white running from the middle of the cheeks down the sides of the neck; fore part of cheeks, throat, and under surface of body ocherous-buff; under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillars white; on the throat some slight indications of longitudinal dusky spots; feathers of the fore neck elongated. On each side of chest a patch of black feathers with ocherous margins. (\"A very prominent but irregular line of black runs from throat down the neck, joining a cross line of same across lower breast.\" Caldwell, p. 306). Bill blackish brown on culmen, yellowish brown on the rest, darker on the sides of upper mandible near tomia, light on sides of lower and on gonys; cere and bare skin round eye purplish flesh-colour, ringed with green; legs and toes grass-green, yellow near the tarso-tibial joint and on the under surface of the tarsus; soles clay-coloured; claws light yellowish brown; iris straw-colour.\n\nFEMALE. Dusky reddish brown, spotted all over with ocherous-buff, the feathers externally spotted or notched with this colour; wing-coverts like the back, but largely edged and spotted with ocherous. Head like the back; sides of face dull chestnut, with a band of white from the hinder cheeks down the sides of the neck; under surface of body ocherous-buff, plentifully streaked with blackish brown, tinged with rufous; the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts whiter; under wing-coverts deep ocherous, with ashy bases. A patch of brown feathers at the sides of the breast, all edged with ocherous. Line of markings down the throat much more pronounced.\"\n\n(\"The Caldwell p. 307). YOUNG. Like the old female, but blackish brown above, the wing-coverts maroon-chestnut, and all the upper parts spotted with white instead of ocherous. Bill bright yellow, tinged with green; culmen black; feet yellowish green; iris golden yellow.\n\nYellow-necked or Black Bittern. Length 22 inches or more, bill 3 inches. MALE. Above dark slaty gray, feathers of back and scapulars somewhat pointed and with a slight hoary gloss; wings and tail blackish, glossed with slate-colour on the coverts, and with green on some of the latter and on the quills; crown and crest-plumes slaty gray. Sides of face and cheeks black, the latter slightly mottled with rufous; from the hinder part of the cheeks a band of golden straw-colour runs down the sides of the neck, the lower feathers being elongated; throat and fore neck prettily variegated with chestnut, black, and white, the chestnut predominating on the outer webs of the feathers and the white on the inner webs, with a longitudinal streak of black at the end of the latter, the long overlapping feathers on the sides of the chest being slaty gray with white margins, so that the general appearance of the throat and chest is streaked. Remainder of under surface of body slaty gray, including the under wing-coverts, axillars, and quill-lining. Bill dusky reddish brown, lighter below; facial skin purplish brown; eyelids bluish; feet dark brown; claws dark horn-colour; iris golden yellow.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n135\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe Birds of Hong Kong-Part XI\n\n159",
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        "content_text": "160\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\nYOUNG. Browner brown or pale red. FEMALE. Similar to male. than adults, more freckled and mottled, sides of face and ear-coverts chestnut, abdomen white.\n\nSUMMARY:---Chinese Little Bittern; the black quills are so striking that when the bird leaves the ground half the wings appear to be black. Chestnut Bittern; cinnamon-rufous of upper and tawny buff of lower surfaces and absence of black on wings. Eastern Great Bittern; large size, Schrenck's tawny yellow heavily streaked with black above and below. Little Bittern, small size, rich chest with heavy markings and absence of black on wings. Yellow-necked Bittern, long yellow and streaked neck and rest of body generally grey and black.\n\nHABITS :-With the exception of the Yellow-necked Bittern these birds are shy and retiring in their habits. They frequent the cultivated valleys of the foot-hills feeding in the swamps and paddy fields. In the local Territories the most favoured districts in which we have observed these birds are the Ping Shan, Kam Tin and Lam Tsun Valley districts. Caldwell records that the Chinese Little Bittern has a loud guttural call.\n\nNESTING HABITS:-The Chinese Little Bittern. Caldwell p. 308, writes,\" As a general thing the nests we have found of this species have been in heavy swordgrass overhanging paddy fields or other bog, or water, The bird builds its nest just as commonly among the reeds and tall grasses adjacent to water courses or in marshes. The nest is of rather bulky proportions, being constructed of grass blades, reeds and other pliable material, worked tightly about the supporting grass. The eggs are pale greenish to creamy-white, unmarked. Season, May and June.\n\nThe Chestnut Bittern. Herbert (3) p. 323, has the following account of nests of this species found in Siam. This Bittern may be seen in the paddy fields during the rains, but it is not common, and the eggs are very difficult to obtain. I have watched various pairs on the rough ground at the Sports Club, at the Ditches and at Paklat, and I have had men searching for the nests, but on those occasions without success.\n\nEggs have been found twice, but in both cases the bird was flushed from the nest when in pursuit of something else.\n\n64\n\nThe first nest was found by me at the Ditches\" (25.6.13) when I was looking for the nest of a Francolin which I had seen about there. saw the head of a bird appear some forty yards ahead and, although I marked the spot, I had the greatest difficulty in finding the bird, but eventually flushed a Chestnut Bittern from its nest. The nest was on the top of a clump of the small round bulrushes, the heads having been bent over and more rushes added to complete the structure. It was entirely built of fresh green bulrushes, very neat and clean, and situated about a foot above the water of one of the ditches. There were three eggs, which were slightly incubated. A fortnight later I searched the bulrushes at that place, and found two new nests close together, but no eggs were ever laid in them. The following year I visited the same spot at a later date, but it was a dry season and there was little or no cover, so it was not surprising that I found no Bitterns there. The second clutch was found by my collector at Tachin\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe Birds of Hong Kong.—Part XI\n\n161\n\non 15.8.19, and the eggs were slightly incubated. The nest was brought in with the eggs and was exactly the same as the others which I had seen. The nesting season is apparently June to August.\n\nThe eggs are broad regular ovals, with no appreciable difference between the two ends. In colour they are white with a very faint greenish tinge, but this may only be perceptible when the eggs are placed alongside pure white ones. The shell is fine and compact in texture, but is without gloss. Three is locally said to be the full complement, but this may not be correct as four to five is reported to be the general number in Burma. The average size for six eggs is 31.9 × 26.7 mm.\n\nThe Eastern Great Bittern is not known to nest in south China. Schrenck's Little Bittern. Caldwell, p. 307 writes,-\"The nest is composed of grasses and leaves to the proportions of a thick and slightly cupped pad, and is placed in reeds and grass near the ground, or in overhanging grass at a distance of several feet from the ground. The eggs usually number from three to five, and are rather elliptical in shape, varying from a pale creamy to pale greenish-white. Season, May and June.' Yellow-necked Bittern. Caldwell, p. 309, writes,—“We have repeatedly taken the eggs of this bird in and round Foochow. The nest is a platform of sticks, sometimes well formed and quite deeply cupped, and is placed in bamboos or trees, usually not to exceed twenty feet from the ground. The eggs number from four to six, and are pale bluish-white, much lighter than the eggs of the egrets. Season, May.”\n\n£6\n\nOn 23rd of June of this year one of the Chinese staff of the Hong Kong Botanical and Forestry Department found a nest which very probably was that of one of the three smaller Bitterns. Mr. F. Green, the Superintendent has kindly given me the original note which I quote here: Yellow stork, nest of bamboo leaves and grass, seven feet from the ground in a garden hedge. Bird said to be 8 inches in height, two eggs.' The eggs are broad regular ovals, white in colour and measure roughly 1/3 inches by 1 inch, which agrees fairly closely with the measurements given by Herbert.\n\nOur knowledge of the local bitterns is very scanty and this full account of the five species has been given in the hope of stimulating observers to look out for, identify, and make observations on these peculiarly interesting birds.\n\nI.\n\nREFERENCES.\n\n24 Bucknill, J. A. S. and Chasen, F. N. The Birds of Singapore Island\" 1927.\n\n2. Caldwell, H. R. and J. C. \"South China Birds \" 1931.\n\n+4 31\n\n3. Herbert, E. J. Nests and Eggs of Birds in Central Siam Journal of the Siam Society, Natural History Supplement Vol. VI 4, 1926, P. 353.\n\n4. McGregor, R. C. A Manual of the Philippine Birds\" 1909.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\nPage 100\n\nPage 101",
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        "content_text": "214\n\nR. B. JACKSON\n\nflaps and collects such mosquitoes as are imprisoned between the nets with the help of a flashlight. In a room in a house close to Anopheline breeding places, catching was done for 27 nights; the average catch per night worked out at 2 Anophelines.\n\nIn the same locality, day catching between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. for 67 days averaged 10 per day or 3 per hour, which were nearly all A. minimus. Dissections of Anophelines mosquitoes caught in January, February, and March revealed no infections. In April, there was 1 infection out of 139 dissected; in May, none; in June, 3 out of 304; in July, 46 out of 517. All these were A. minimus. In July, the sporozoite rate was 5%. Now, if 2 A. minimus can be caught in a bedroom every night during July, 62 would have been caught, and of these 62, 3 would have had sporozoites in their salivary glands and so be capable of infection whoever they bit, so that the chances of persons not protected by nets getting malaria during the months of high mosquito infection are by no means slight. Culicine biting pests have their uses by making people use mosquito nets, which they are inclined to dispense with if only a few non-obtrusive Anophelines are present, which are not very noticeable. The obtaining of Anophelines in quantity for dissections in this part of the world has not so far been found an easy task; those of A. minimus forming the great majority in both day and night catches.\n\nIf the blood of persons suffering from filarial infection is taken late in the evening or at night and examined under the microscope, it is often found swarming with little worms. If a mosquito feeds on such a person, these worms find their way into the insect's stomach and from thence to the muscles of its thorax, and undergo development there if the mosquito is a suitable host. From the thoracic muscles, the worms make their way through the neck into the head and finally come to rest in the proboscis. When the mosquito proceeds to bite a victim, the sheath opens, and the worms make their way through the end of it onto the skin and pass through the skin into the body, where they attain sexual maturity. The female gives rise to numerous embryos, which find their way into the blood and can be demonstrated there as already mentioned.\n\nThe worms in the mosquito are known as larval filaria; the adult worm in the human body as filaria; and the worm in the blood as microfilaria. In some parts of the world, filarial infection gives rise to Elephantiasis; in other parts, enlarged glands are a prominent feature; in others, affections of the genitals. There is a disease called heartworm in dogs, which, I understand, occurs in the Island. A mosquito said to be Culex fatigans is the vehicle by which this filarial infection is carried from one dog to another in a similar fashion to the human infection. Sir Patrick Manson discovered other species of filaria—Filaria corvi-torquati in the white-necked crow and Filaria perstans (possibly a typo, common name is Filaria pecemedia is not corrected as per rule 7) in a magpie. So, when one finds larval filarial infection in a Culicine or Anopheline mosquito, it does not always follow that the infection is derived from human sources. A. minimus has been found infected with larval filaria to the extent of 3.5% in an area where 13 out of 106 persons harboured microfilaria in their blood. Up to date, five A. minimus have been met with infected both with malaria and larval filaria.\n\nA Brief Account of Mosquitoes\n\n215\n\nEpidemics of Dengue take place from time to time in Hong Kong.\n\nIn many parts of the world, Aedes argenteus is considered to be the carrier. The infection cannot be demonstrated in the mosquito by means of a microscope as in the case of malarial infection or filarial infection. This mosquito is the great carrier of yellow fever. In Hong Kong, I have seldom encountered this insect, which is a small black and white mosquito with a lyre-shaped device on the back of its thorax, but Aedes albopictus, which closely resembles it, is very common. Aedes albopictus has a single white stripe on the back of the chest. It has been experimentally infected with dengue in the Philippines, and mosquitoes infected in Java by feeding on dengue patients have been kept alive and sent to Amsterdam, where they infected volunteers in that city.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n200",
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        "content_text": "278\n\nNotes Comments\n\n281\n\nORNITHOLOGY.\n\n[280]\n\nNOTES AND COMMENTS.\n\nEASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL (Motacilla flava taivana).\n\nA female of this species, also known as the Chinese Green Wagtail, was identified on November 12th in the Ping Shan district. It was feeding in a stream-bed near a village in company with a number of White-faced and Streak-eyed Wagtails. This is the first occasion that we have recorded this species in the Colony. Prominent colours, head and back greenish-gray; upper tail coverts more heavily washed green, tail dusky, outer tail feathers white; wings gray; under parts rich yellow; and a prominent yellow eyebrow above a gray eye-streak.\n\nJAPANESE ROBIN FLYCATCHER (Siphia mujimaki).\n\nOn the afternoon of November 12th in the Ping Shan district, several of this species were observed and identified. First a solitary male was observed then later in the afternoon three or four other birds, always solitary, both males and females were noticed. Only once before has this species been recorded from the Colony, on that occasion a solitary male was seen March 19th of this year in the Shum Chun valley, vide H.K.N. III. p. 147.\n\nBIRDS OF PREY.\n\nThe first dates on which the different species visiting the Colony were observed are given below. Sparrow hawks are abundant in the city district and buzzards and kestrels quite common above the hillsides away from the houses.\n\nRough-legged Buzzard, Buted lagopus pallidus, circling over the Peak 22. X. 32.\n\nEastern Sparrow Hawk, Accipiter nisus nisosimilis, University Compound 28. X. 32.\n\nKestrel, Cerchneis tinnunculus, 2. XI. 32. seen from Mount Kellet.\n\nEastern Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus, 2. XI. 32. chasing a buzzard over Mount Pottinger, a pair were reported seen at Kam Tin during the following week.\n\nEastern Marsh Harrier, Circus a. aeruginosus, 12. XI. 32. Two harriers, probably this species, were observed hawking the paddy fields in the Ping Shan district.\n\nEastern Red-legged Falcon, Falco vespertinus amurensis., 19. XI. 32. A female of this species was observed, quite closely, through field glasses at about gunshot range, from a hill-top near Bias Bay. Two kites were hawking the same ground but the falcon did not interfere with them.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nBuzzard and Fowl.\n\nOn the morning of 28. XI. 32 a friend was disturbed by a great commotion outside his window. On looking out he saw a large bird fly away and on looking down onto the lawn noticed that it was strewn with feathers. The fowl that had been attacked rushed off to the hen-house and promptly laid an egg! I enquired whether it had thereby established a precedent but this was not the case as it had laid eggs on previous occasions.\n\nGOLDEN-EYE DUCK, Bucephala c. clangula.\n\nA Whistler or Golden-eye duck was shot on 6. XI. 32 in the New Territories and sent to us to check the identification. It was a specimen of this species in eclipse plumage. We have not recorded this species previously from the Colony.\n\nNESTING NOTES.\n\nMr. H. Green, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, has kindly sent us a number of observations on nests and eggs of local birds; a selection of these we list below. We are especially grateful for the interest Mr. Green continues to take in this subject.\n\nChinese Magpie, Pica p. seicea.— The first nest was found on 17. III. 32 thirty feet from the ground in a pine tree at Kai Lung Wan. The three young birds it contained appeared to be not less than 14 days old. Other nests were found on 17. III. 32 (one egg) 19. III. 32. (2 eggs). Pines and Persian lilacs were the selected trees.\n\nBlack-eared Kite, Milvus lineatus.— Below Lugard Road, on 18. III. 32, eighteen feet from the ground in an old Litsea tree, nest composed of twigs, rags and an old hemp bag, (1 egg). Below Harlech Road, 18. III. 32, in a pine tree, 25 feet from ground, nest composed of twigs, rags, paper, etc., (3 eggs, faintly marked). At Magazine Gap, 22. III. 32, in a tree, 18 feet from ground a nest of twigs rag and paper, (3 eggs heavily marked, one darkest at blunt end, one sharp end and one evenly spotted).\n\nCollared Crow, Corvus torquatus.— At San Tin, N. T., on 17. III. 32, in a Banian tree, 40 feet from the ground, nest composed of small branches, grass and mud, containing 3 young birds apparently a week old. On 29. III. 32, eighteen feet up in a pine tree at Tin Wan near Aberdeen, nest of small branches and pine needles and lined apparently with cotton wool. (5 eggs).\n\nBlack-faced Laughing Thrush, Dryonastes p. perspicillatus.— Nest, 25 feet up in bamboo near Peak Road, of usual type, pine needles, creeper-stems and bamboo leaves, 1. IV. 32, (3 eggs). Another in Cratoxylon tree 20 feet up at Protestant Cemetery (3 eggs).\n\nChinese Spotted-necked Dove, Streptopelia c. chinensis.- In pine tree, 2. IV. 32, (one egg). In Lung Ngan tree 25 feet from ground, 8. IV. 32, (2 eggs). In a Casuarina equisitifolia tree, Cheung Chau Island, (2 eggs), 19. VI. 32.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n279",
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        "content_text": "282\n\n283\n\n284\n\nNotes Comments\n\nVol. II. Page 218. Indian Cuckoo, Cuculus m. micropterus note.-kwei\n\nVol. II. Page 220. Vol. III. Page 147.\n\nkwei kwo kwo.\n\nIndian Koel, Eudynamis orientalis honorata.\n\nThe Koel is known to Europeans as the \"Rain Bird.\" It is this last statement which has set me writing. I lived some twenty years on Hong Kong Island and never heard the Koel, I then migrated to Tai Po and made the acquaintance of a bird which, for want of a better name I called the \"How-are-you bird,\" an attempt to put its monotonous repetition note into writing, there should be a slight accent on the \"are.\"\n\nI found afterwards it was the Indian Koel, Eudynamis honorata. The bird which I had always known as the \"Rainbird\" was a smaller bird, Cacomantis merulinus. In later years I have heard this latter bird called the \"Brain-fever Bird.\"\n\nI find support for the above view in an article published in 1926 by A. H. Crook in the \"Yellow Dragon.\"\n\nI believe the Kowloon Residents Association once \"logged the Rain Bird as a nuisance and that the suggestion was made that the Government should be called on to suppress it. If it had come to law the bird would probably have got off on the plea of mistaken identity.\n\nL. GIBBS.\n\nMr. L. Gibbs in his note on the confusion that exists through multiplicity of names for certain birds has raised a question which all of us would like to see satisfactorily answered. But who is to decide which name should be selected? The two chief works of reference which we use, -neither of which were written when the Hong Kong Naturalist was founded- ed, are:-La Touche \"A Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China\" Vol. I, published in parts, 1925-1930, Vol. II, part I May 1931 (containing the Cuculidae), and Caldwell “South China Birds\" 1931.\n\nIn La Touche Vol. I p. 149, for Copsychus saularis prosthopellus, Oberhsr, is given the English name, Chinese Dayal Bird; but later, \"The Magpie-Robin, Dayal Bird, or, as it is generally known in China, the Canton Robin.\"\n\nCaldwell, p. 80, also calls this bird the Chinese Dayal Bird and gives as synonyms, Magpie Robin and Canton Robin.\n\nThe Hawk Cuckoo, the Indian Cuckoo, the Indian Koel and the Brain-fever bird are four different birds.\n\nOf the Great Hawk Cuckoo Cuculus sparverioides, Vigors, Caldwell p. 240, writes \"No bird of the entire Cuckoo group has provoked so much conjecture and talk as has this bird. Weary travellers in some inn or chapel far back in the mountain have groaned out curses upon the loud calling bird seemingly just outside, which never tired of its monotonous song.\n\nSome people have questioned us about the bird which calls at night, often running the musical scale, always dropping back to take up the note again, but seeming never to tire. The call of the bird is a double noted \"Ter-da Ter-da,\"\n\nthe first two syllables uttered upon a lower pitch. During the period of egg laying the bird utters a loud guttural trill which resounds far and wide.\" \n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nNotes Comments\n\n285\n\nTouche Vol. II p. 46, calls the same bird the Large Hawk-Cuckoo, Hierococcyx sparveroides (Vigors) and writes of it \"Kershaw reports it as not uncommon in East Kwangtung during summer.\n\nDuring its passage, which takes place in May, it is commonly heard calling in the Chinkiang hills. The call, not unlike that of the Koel, is very loud and vociferous. Styan describes it as follows:-\"It has a peculiar note, which may be rendered by the syllables pee-pee-wa.' This is uttered first moderately loud in rather a low key; after a few seconds it is repeated louder and higher; again a pause and another call, and so in a crescendo scale until it ends in a piercing scream, after which the bird is silent for some minutes.\" As Styan writes, it is very difficult to locate the bird in thick cover, each call sounding as if the bird were approaching.\"\n\nThe Indian Cuckoo, Cuculus m. micropterus, Gould; Caldwell p. 238, writes:-\n\nThe call of the Indian Cuckoo is a series of four whistled notes, the first higher, the middle two on a lower tone, and the last lower. Another call is a shrill scolding “kieh-kieh.\" This cuckoo is not common in Fukien, though very common in Kwangtung.\" La Touche Vol. II, p. 46 writes \"While very common in Kwangtung, Rickett and I did not notice it at Foochow Neither was it observed at Shaweishan. It practically ranges throughout all South-Eastern Asia and all over India except in the extreme North-West and Sind\" (Baker).” \"The loud musical call may be heard at Chinkiang from the time of the bird's arrival. The four-note whistle \"Kwikwi-kwikwok \"is rendered by the peasants by the Chinese words “Ko mai, tsai yang\" (reap your corn and plant your rice) according to Père Courtois, Kwa kwa tsa ma (quick, quick, reap your wheat), or Kwa kwa tsoong Hwoo\" (quick, quick, plant the cotton) the Rev. Lacy L. Moffet (Common Birds of Yangtse Delta, Shanghai, 1912, p. 11).”\n\nThe Indian Koel, Eudynamis orientalis honorata (Linnaeus). Caldwell P. 242, writes\n\nThe incessant calling of the male of this species becomes a great nuisance in any community where a pair of the birds take up their abode for the summer. The untiring call of the bird readily identifies it. For hours during the day, and even long before daylight the monotonous \"gu-o gu-o gu-o,\" with accent on the latter syllable will be heard. The bird establishes a beat over which it travels during the day, uttering its loud call from the tree-tops.\n\nIn many communities the call of this bird is interpreted as an harbinger of evil. Great satisfaction was manifested by the populace in a walled city stricken by both cholera and bubonic plague when we killed a very noisy bird for study. The call of the bird seems to promise more rain, more flood, or more of any calamity abroad over the land.\" In Touche Vol. II p. 54 calls this same bird, The Chinese Koel, Eudynamis scolopaceus chinensis, Cab, and Heine. At Foochow it is only of late years that it has appeared, the first recorded having been obtained in June 1903 by Rickett. It is now quite common there, and lays its eggs, I believe, in the nests of the Black-necked Mynah. At Swatow, and in Kwangtung generally, it is very abundant. It arrives at Swatow in April, and remains to the end of September,' The bird on the East Coast frequents large trees in the vicinity of villages, and feeds largely on the banyan-figs and probably on other available fruit. It is also partly insectivorous according to Baker. The call of the Koel\n\n4\n\nDecember 1932.",
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        "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 1\n\nADDRESS ON THE UNIVERSITIES OF CHINA, DELIVERED IN HONG KONG BY\n\nPROFESSOR L.R. FORSTER, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY\n\n292\n\nAccording to the latest available statistics there are 59 Universities in China, and these contain 33,847 students of whom only 3,500 are women. The growth in University life since 1912 has been phenomenal, and is a measure of the importance which the Chinese attach to these Institutions as centres for moulding and directing the energies of the nation along the new paths, which Western nations have indicated. There has been a kind of University fever as a first response to the infection caused by the Western scientific germ. To illustrate this growth in another way, there were in 1912, 229 university Teachers at work; in 1931 there were 5894 on the staffs of the various universities, and new institutions are still springing up or developing rapidly in Yunnanfu, Wuchang and Chungking.\n\nIn a report just issued by the League of Nations Mission of Educational Experts, and composed of Dr. C.H. Becker of Berlin, P. Langevin of Paris, M. Falske of Warsaw and R.H. Tawney of London, there is the following statement:- \"It is with the greatest satisfaction that we take this opportunity of recording at this point our strong sense of the educational progress made since the Revolution, and our admiration of the energy shown in coping with the difficulties by which progress has been impeded. China has been the victim for more than a generation of a combination of misfortunes on which it is needless for us to insist. To have maintained in the midst of civil disorder, international complications, sharp financial strains and the recurrent calamities of flood and drought, the conviction that the education of the rising generation is among the principal concerns of a civilised society, and to have laboured, as circumstances have allowed, to promote its development is an achievement of which not all western Governments have shown themselves capable.\"\n\nThis is the high tribute which these experts pay to the zeal and sincerity of those who are responsible for guiding the destiny of young China, and it is a tribute that must be endorsed by all who travel to the chief cities of China.\n\nBut the expansion of these new intellectual centres has been too rapid to allow for reasoned and orderly development, and the consequence has been considerable confusion, needless variety of work, unnecessary duplication of effort, and lack of unity and common purpose in the general university policy of the country.\n\nThe change over to the present system has been disturbing, for the higher education of China in the past consisted of a study of a definite body of work - the Classics. The student knew, and everyone else knew what was conveyed by the term 'scholar'; it was a perfectly comprehensible term and involved an understandable ideal which gave a narrow definite goal that all could aim at.\n\nThe enormous variety of western subjects, and their subdivision has created a state of things in higher learning in China to which there was no parallel in the past. Nor does the new learning grow slowly and laboriously out of the past, it is transplanted in the fulness of its variety from countries which have already gone through the proliferating process, amid social and intellectual conditions which permitted this natural tendency. The revolutionary mind of China which ever seeks to live in the week after next, naturally turns for its model to that country\n\n1.",
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        "content_text": "16.8.32\n\n154\n\nto Blake Pier and took a bus with a double decker up Caine Road intending to get out near the Nethersole Hospital. I got into the bus about 10.30 p.m. Prisoner got into the bus outside the Italian Convent opposite the junction of Caine Road and ... Road. I was with him. I was surprised.\n\nI asked him why he went by bus. He said he could not get a spark to start his car as the starter had gone wrong.\n\n4.10 to 17th.\n\n17.8.32\n\n17th August 1932.\n\nNo Kong recalled.\n\n(71)\n\nSheldon (contd.)\n\nDuring the five minutes wait outside Ching's house on the 24th March, I also saw two Indian constables. Zimmern spoke to them. He asked them to come up to him and they did so.\n\nAccused won $148 at pai kau that afternoon. He was gambling. Ko played for ordinary stakes. $1.48 would be a small win at big stakes and a big win at small stakes. He sometimes went in for a game which would bring in much larger winnings. He commented to me at the Pauline that there would be quite a big game on at the Shui Hang Club that night, and asked me to come and watch, and said he would have to go home for more money.\n\nThroughout the evening the demeanor and conduct of the accused was quite as usual, up to when I left him.\n\nAccused's answer at the Young Wo seemed quite a reasonable answer. He proceeded at the ordinary speed and did not accelerate.\n\nI almost gave the same evidence at the Police Court.\n\nAt the Pauline there was some difficulty in starting the car. The accused could not start it with the self-starter. He had to get Zimmern to crank it.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-542-13 Tobacco taxation- suggested scale of duties 23-12-1932 - 25-10-1933",
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        "content_text": "## 1 Gps Conf \n\nFor Conson of duties. Telegraph 23.12.32 suggested scale requests approval by conf. Ref to whit the 9000 refers (`90918/1/32`). We said that a preference of 74 / U.S. tobacco would be trivial & that the situation should be allowed to develop before any change in duties was made.\n\nThe present proposals provide preferences of 74 per U.S. unmanufactured tobacco + 8-94 per stripped. Cigarettes, cigars are treated in a 3-decker fashion which gives the Empire-made article a preference of 10% over all foreign brands and cigarettes & cigars made from Canton leaf a further 10% to advantage.\n\nThis looks like a really useful contribution, and having regard to the exceptional position of Hong Kong in tariff matters it may be considered desirable to approve at once rather than wait until a general tariff footing can be worked out for all B.E. territories.\n\nAs telegraphic reply is requested, I have put this in colour.\n\n## 2 \n\nMiclare 30.1.33. Converting the Customs dollar ($1=1s6d. or 1d.=0.56) into sterling, this means the following preferences:- \n| Item | Preference |\n| --- | --- |\n| Unmanufactured tobacco | 1d. + 1 1/4d. |\n| Cigars | 8d. to 4d. |\n| Cigarettes & manufactured tobacco | 3 3/4d. to 1 2d. |\n\nThe preferences are, of course, trivial, but when the full rate on cigarettes is only 1/8 per lb. & apparently cannot be increased for fear of...",
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        "content_text": "Seen by Dapil 10% x\n\nEstablished 1873.\n\n# 914\n\nLKB/GW.,\n\n8\n\n9-13. King William Street, London, E.C.4.\n\n61\n\nE.C.4. 6th April 1935.\n\nDIRECT\n\nBRANDEIS, GOLDSCHMIDT\n\n!\n\nBIRMINGHAM.\n\nMELBOURNE.\n\nMANCHESTER. NEW YORK.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: LONDON.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:\n\n& CO. LTD.\n\nBRANDSMIDT, Telew, LONDON,\n\nCABLE ADDRESS: BRANDSMIDT, LONDON.\n\nTELEPHONES:\n\nMANSION HOUSE 8601 (5 LINES).\n\nTrunk 76.\n\nDIRECTORS:\n\nE.GOLDSCHMIDT, HESSIAN ORIGIN, BRITISH.\n\nP.H. KOHN-SPEYER.\n\nL.K. BRINDLEY.\n\nF.O. P. BECKER.\n\nE.P. KOHN-SPEYER.\n\nS.GOLDSCHMIDT.\n\nTo the-\n\nYour Ref:\n\n53575/35.,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n- 9 APR 1935\n\nUnder Secretary of State, C.O.\n\nColonial Office;\n\nLondon, S.W.1.,\n\nDear Sir,\n\nCHINESE TIN.\n\nWe have received your letter of the 4th inst., and\n\nare pleased to note that a copy of our letter of 15th March has\n\nbeen forwarded to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nWe have to inform you that we have now received a\n\nfurther parcel of 30 tons of Chinese No.1 Tin ex s.s. \"TENERIFFA\" arrived in London on 1st April. The Certificate of Analysis\n\nsupplied by Messrs. D.G.Glenn Allen of Hong Kong showed this Tin\n\nas assaying 99.1% Tin.\n\nOn arrival here it was assayed in accordance with\n\nMetal Exchange Rules by Messrs. Daniel C.Griffith & Co.London.,\n\nand Messrs. Johnson & Sons, London., and gave the following results:\n\n  \n    15 tons\n    98.87% Tin\n  \n  \n    15\n    98.93% Tin\n  \n\nAs such, the metal is not a good delivery on the London Metal\n\np.t.o.",
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        "title": "CO129-553-8 Tin- analyses of assay 11-3-1935 - 4-3-1936",
        "content_text": "BRANDEIS, GOLDSCHMIDT & CO.\n\nBIRMINGHAM. MELBOURNE. MANCHESTER. NEW YORK.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: LONDON.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:\n\n& CO.LTD.\n\n\"BRANDSMIDT, Telew, LONDON\"\n\nCABLE ADDRESS:\n\nBRANDSMIDT, LONDON.\n\nTELEPHONES:\n\nMANSION HOUSE 8601 (5 LINES).\n\nTRUNK 76.\n\nDIRECTORS:\n\nE.GOLDSCHMIDT, HESSIAN ORIGIN, BRITISH.\n\nP.H.KOHN-SPEYER.\n\nL.K. BRINDLEY.\n\nF.O.P. BECKER.\n\nE.P. KOHN-SPEYER.\n\nS.GOLDSCHMIDT.\n\nLKB/GW.,\n\nA\n\nEstablished 1873.\n\nP.C,\n\n19/3.\n\n31667\n\n13. King William Street,\n\n9-13,\n\nLondon, E.C.4.\n\nE.C.4. 15th March 1935\n\nTo H. Kong\n\nTo the\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1.,\n\n15 MAR 1935\n\nDear Sir,\n\nChinese No. 1 Tin in order to conform to the quality called for must contain a minimum of 99% Tin. One of the conditions of sale is that the analysis will be made in Hong Kong and Hong Kong Assay Certificate furnished. As such, Chinese No. 1 Tin should be deliverable on the London Metal Exchange, but one of the conditions of placing the Tin on London Metal Exchange Warrant is that it shall be sampled and assayed by two recognised firms of English Assayers.\n\nWe have recently received some parcels of Tin bought as Chinese No.1 Tin, and for which Hong Kong Assay Certificates were furnished, showing a Tin content of 99.05% to 99.1%, which, on analysis in England, turned out to have a content of less than 99%, and could not accordingly be delivered on the London Metal Exchange. This has involved us in considerable loss, and as we understand that other importers of Chinese Tin have",
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        "content_text": "Notes and Comments\n\n153\n\nChinese Spotted-necked Dove, Streptopelia chinensis chinensis (Scop.) Two other nests were found at Tsun Wan during June. We have, this year, located several of their nests. The parents are very stupid at concealing them. They are very frail, being composed of a few roots woven loosely together, with the result that the eggs, which always number two, can be seen from below.\n\nChinese Dayal Bird, Copsychus saularis prosthopellus Oberhsr. Two nests, each containing four young birds, were discovered, one at Kam Tin and the other at Tsun Wan. Both nests were built in the crevice of a ruined wall behind the village. These birds will always utilise the same hole year after year if unmolested. The nest found at Tsun Wan was built in the same crevice as the one found there the previous year.\n\nBlack-naped Oriole, Oriolus chinensis diffusus Sharpe. Every year a pair nests at Ting Kau, behind the village at the 11th mile beach, Kowloon, and the young are invariably stolen by one or other of the village urchins. Visiting the place on June 5th, I saw a lad with a young golden oriole which was more dead than alive. He told me he had found three young birds in a nest built on the large \"loong-ngarn\" tree, but two had died. I offered him ten cents, and he gladly sold me the bird. It was promptly fed with a few grass-hoppers and taken home. The bird survived and is now big and strong, having just commenced a partial moult.\n\nIts confiding nature prevents me from liberating it, as the bird will come and perch on the hand when called.\n\nChinese Hair-Crested Drongo, Chibia hottentotta brevirostris Cab. & H. Nest with four fully fledged young located near Kwei Chong. The young birds immediately jumped and flew out of the nest when the tree was climbed. One was eventually captured and examined and found to be similar to the adult but paler in shade. The occipital crest is entirely absent in the young bird.\n\nChinese Francolin, Francolinus pintadeanus pintadeanus (Scop.). Three nests containing 4, 4, and 6 eggs were found on the slopes of Tai Mo Shan by female grass-cutters of Lo Wai village. In one case, the woman actually captured the hen, which refused to leave the nest. Here it may interest readers to know that one of the francolin chicks I reared last year (see H.K.N. V, pp. 170-175, \"Development of young francolins\") laid four eggs. As she showed no signs of being broody, the eggs were put under a common hen. All hatched out and are now fully fledged, being approximately half the size of the grown-up bird.\n\nBOTANY.\n\nR. A. P.\n\nThe writer was much interested in the treatment of some of the species in the Genera Eria and Dendrobium, as two of the species described represented species which were undetermined in the Herbarium and the Herbarium Orchid Garden at Lingnan University. It might be of interest to the readers of the Hong Kong Naturalist to know where this material came from.\n\nDendrobium acinaciforme Roxb. is represented by the live number 2803, collected in southern Hainan by Lau, Sam-Kee, in April 1935, this\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n84",
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        "content_text": "## \n8 \n\nسد \n\nin dh; tant stendose Copy & N° 3 Mbant. 28.3 ... 30/3/36 at onl 6 To 7.0. (Sunod.) (15k 3) 31/3/36 No reply to (6) - ? wait another few days please. Uscogland \n\n7/4 CyCaustaus 7/4/36 Y. 4 зв Summediate Concurs proposal to inform For that powers under lidue cannot be war to effect wishes of Chinese, fort. & funds copy of delegram set to Am Ambassador in Seking + recive. ? til. as indfl: conson for conson of the last para. of Mr Wunceurs minute of 19.3.36. CY Courtains 8/4/36 ç To Sov. Hong King, Tel. 4o. 66, 9/4/06 \n\n* \nPag Pag q he Gauntle ? To F1.0. (w/18) 1/126 1574/36 overkaf. 10 lo Recind. refer. min of 8/4 8. Manis 20/4/06 27.4 36 Iwds copy of Sekery tele unumbers of 22 of 195 of rape + 198.23Gfl n extradition arrangements The Gumbers in au assurance to get [vot that Cuina are trying from the ItK. the withers will not be allowed to escape after the trail. 11- is not clear how this can be done, in view of the decision conveyed in (8). We can only await The reply hide (Mt quel) of the St.K. Eor't': Peking tel no 15-15771 210 \" put by CyCarstan's 28/4 Noted M'Duncan That we, having nothing to add 11 No 8, can punte рив further this by I want for any request by the Erv. for instructions. If the witness hunself voluntinly sechs protection to return safely Hy ho will probably find Shmahni means to neccommodate him. Mrent 29.4 ge 9 ge 9 Page 10 M. Gaut Jance that we shouw wait for any further request by the Gommor for uistinctions. 29/4/36 11. Duncan P.S. Ishmwlike to see any further communication on the subject which the FO. send us, 11.D. За $ // Exxtract from Aty Necker, Pun 12 ditto 15/5/36 Page : see). ? put ( (!!) +(12) (M with reft to the final para. of Mr Duncan's minute of 18/3/36, the attached volumes contain the necessar documen 15. Perhaps G.D. will advise? CyCarstairs 4/1/20 Perhaps the hebran at then thisun (if any) ge 10 ge 10\n\n## Page 8\nCopy & N° 3  \n28.3... 30/3/36  \nat only **6 To 7.0. (Sunod.) (15k 3)** 31/3/36  \nNo reply to (6) - wait another few days please.  \nUscogland 7/4  \nCyCaustaus 7/4/36  \n**Y. 4**  \nSummediate Concurs proposal to inform For that powers under lidue cannot be war to effect wishes of Chinese, fort. & funds copy of delegram set to Am Ambassador in Seking + receive.  \n? til. as indfl: conson for conson of the last para. of Mr Wunceurs minute of 19.3.36.  \nCY Courtains 8/4/36  \nç To Sov. Hong King, Tel. 4o. 66, 9/4/06\n\n## \nPag q  \nhe Gauntle ?  \nTo F1.0. (w/18) 1/126 1574/36 overkaf. 10 lo  \nRecind. refer. min of 8/4  \n8. Manis 20/4/06  \n27.4 36  \nIwds copy of Sekery tele unumbers of 22 of 195 of rape + 198.23Gfl n extradition arrangements  \nThe Gumbers in au assurance to get that Cuina are trying from the ItK. the withers will not be allowed to escape after the trail.  \n11- is not clear how this can be done, in view of the decision conveyed in (8). We can only await The reply hide (Mt quel) of the St.K. Eor't': Peking tel no 15-15771 210 \" put by CyCarstan's 28/4  \nNoted  \nM'Duncan That we, having nothing to add 11 No 8, can punte further this by I want for any request by the Erv. for instructions.  \nIf the witness hunself voluntinly sechs protection to return safely Hy ho will probably find Shmahni means to neccommodate him.  \nMrent 29.4 ge 9  \n**Page 10**  \nM. Gaut Jance that we shouw wait for any further request by the Gommor for uistinctions. 29/4/36  \n11. Duncan  \nP.S. Ishmwlike to see any further communication on the subject which the FO. send us, 11.D.\n\n## Page 11\n// Exxtract from Aty Necker, Pun 12 ditto 15/5/36  \nwith reft to the final para. of Mr Duncan's minute of 18/3/36, the attached volumes contain the necessar documen 15.  \nPerhaps G.D. will advise?  \nCyCarstairs 4/1/20  \nPerhaps the hebran at then thisun (if any) ge 10 ge 10  \nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "419\n\n2\n\nSub-head 13.-Improvements to Belcher's Street Coolie Quarters, $5,500.-To provide a kitchen in the Chinese married quarters and a coal-burning boiler in the Sanitary Coolies' bath-house.\n\n14.-Improvements to Markets, $3,600.—To provide small improvements to the markets at Shaukiwan and Whitfield and to the North Block of the Western Market.\n\n15.-New Police Sub-Station, Blue Pool Road, $80,000. To meet Police requirements in a rapidly developing district.\n\n16. Alterations and Improvements to Police Stations, $25,000.—This is an inclusive sum to meet the cost of alterations and improvements to Police Stations in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories.\n\n17. A.R.P. Headquarters, Hong Kong Improvements and Equipment, $3,000.- To meet cost of improvements and equipment considered essential by the D.A.R.P.\n\n18.-A.R.P. Store-Racks, $650.-To meet cost of racks for respirators and protective clothing.\n\n19.-Lighting Devices for Government Buildings, $2,000. To meet the cost of the D.A.R.P's. requirements.\n\n20. Fire protection for Government Buildings, $2,000.-To meet the cost of the D.A.R.P's. requirements.\n\n21.-New Detention Camp, Aberdeen, $100,000.—To meet the need for providing suitable employment for detainees who will be employed in forming a reclamation. The sum is to provide a camp to house the detainees.\n\n22.—Furniture Workshop and Store at North Point, $85,000.—To make provision for a furniture workshop at North Point to replace the existing temporary workshop at Arsenal Yard.\n\n23.-Fire Sub-Station at Shaukiwan, $25,000. Considered essential for efficient fire control in this neighbourhood.\n\n24.-Kowloon Hospital Extension Site Formation, $8,000. To cover payment of retention money on the site formation contract.\n\n25.-New Public Mortuary and Disinfecting Station, Kowloon, $140,000.– The present mortuary is badly situated from a health view-point while the disinfecting hulk is in a dangerous condition and cannot be repaired. The proposal is to construct a combined mortuary and disinfecting station at Taikoktsui.\n\n26. Infectious Diseases Hospital, $500,000.—This is considered essential by the Medical Department. The site is adjacent to Kowloon Hospital.\n\n27.-Lai Chi Kok Hospital-Conversion of dry pan to flush system, $12,500.-To provide a drainage system for the remainder of the hospital buildings. The cholera block has already been so provided.\n\n28. Alterations and Improvements to Tsang Foo Villas, $22,000.—To provide office accommodation and quarters for the Sanitary Department in the Kowloon City area.\n\n29.-New Police Station at Kowloon Tong, $30,000.-To meet Police requirements in this residential area.\n\n3\n\nSub-head 30.-A.R.P. Headquarters, Kowloon--Store room for training equipment, $4,000.-Considered necessary for the satisfactory storage of essential equipment.\n\n31. Additions to B. F. Quarters, Lai Chi Kok, $4,500.-The existing quarters are too small. This is to meet the cost of additions considered essential,\n\n32. Experimental Agricultural Station, $150,000.-Provisional sum to cover the cost of buildings, quarters and water supply for an Experimental Agricultural Station in the New Territories.\n\n33.-Lai Chi Kok Female Prison Mosquito gauze, $5,960.—To abate the fly and mosquito nuisance in this prison.\n\n34. Eight Incinerators, $4,000.--An inclusive sum from which the cost of refuse incinerators in the New Territories is to be met.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\n35.-Island Road-Reconstruction of Bridges, $18,000.-To continue the programme of making island bridges suitable for modern traffic requirements.\n\n36. Strengthening of bus routes to carry increased traffic, $100,000.— The existing road surfacing in Hong Kong is generally quite inadequate to carry modern traffic loads. Before double decker buses are allowed these roads will require to be strengthened.\n\n37.-Wearing coat to Military Roads, $20,000.-To begin a programme of work to prevent the rapid deterioration of the surface of roads taken over from the Military.\n\n38.-Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Sheung Shui, $200,000.— To meet the cost of completing the section of the work now in hand.\n\n39.-K.I.L. 3394 Forming access road, $23,000. 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To assist in the prevention of recurring surface repairs this work is necessary.\n\nDRAINAGE AND ANTI-MALARIAL WORKS.\n\n44.-Argyle Street Nullah reconstruction, $10,000.-The existing nullah is old and in poor condition. Heavier side walls are required to withstand effects of modern traffic loads.\n\n420",
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        "document_key": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945",
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        "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945",
        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nI reply to War Office Signal\n\nChinese\n\n75\n\n(1) King's College has been practically demolished by deliberate action of the Japanese, and will take years to rebuild it. There is nothing left of it except the walls up to the 1st floor and in some parts these have been completely knocked down. There is no roof, no floors, and no staircase.\n\n(2) Queen's College received several direct hits both from bombs and shells and is merely a hole in the ground covered with rubble. Considering the rather unsuitable surroundings, I would advocate rebuilding it when opportunity permits on a new site, preferably in Kowloon, so that we may have a Government secondary school on each side of the Harbour.\n\n(3) Central British School is at present in use as a hospital but is in good shape and undamaged; so also are the Trade School, Northcote Training College, Wanchai School, Yaumati School, the Indian School and Un Long School. All other Government Schools have been completely looted of all woodwork, windows, doors, floors, staircases, and in cases where the roofs were of wood, these have gone too. In the absence of timber, repairs and replacements will take a long time. There is practically no furniture in any of the school buildings, and so far, we have only been able to trace desks for about 200 to 300 children.\n\n(4) In the case of the grant-aided schools, these have been occupied by their owners throughout the occupation and are all in working order except the French Convent School, which received two direct hits during the American bombing of a nearby Japanese Barracks. The school building is being surveyed by the Works Department, but repairs will be long and expensive. In this disaster, six of the Sisters and 50 children were killed. They have, however, opened in new premises and altogether 12 grant-aided schools have been in action since the 1st of October, with approximately 5,000 children in attendance. In addition, some 45 vernacular schools are also running with about the same number of pupils.\n\n(5) The Northcote Training College Library has been found almost intact in the University. The building itself has been used as a Japanese Military Training School, and the Biology Laboratory and workroom, art room, and Domestic Science room are completely gutted of equipment. There are no desks left. It will be necessary to replace the complete biology laboratory equipment with essential chemicals for a class of 24 students working individually. Any firm of chemical suppliers can estimate for this, and I suggest Baird & Tatlock, Becker or Gallenkamp for this purpose.\n\nIt cannot be reinstated here. 12 sets of tools for handwork including light metal work, together with book binding apparatus and loom, guillotine, for gem, lathes (one treadle one electric), and the general equipment for handwork will be necessary including metal sheets of copper, aluminium and silver. Mr. Davis, Handwork and Geography lecturer at the Northcote Training College, is now on his way home, and should be consulted as to replacements in both his subjects. He is a first-class man in his subjects, and I trust he will be able to come back again soon as possible. For Domestic Science, three gas and one...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946",
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        "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946",
        "content_text": "Dear Jr. „Loud,\n\n210\n\nMedical Branch, (O.T.),\n\nRoom 110,\n\nHong Kong Bank Bldg.,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n2nd Sept 1946\n\nAbout two weeks ago the C. in C. asked me to go over to Government House to let him know the present position with regard to the University. He had just visited Lingnan University in Canton and found them anxious to assist us in any way possible. I told him that Hongkong would be helping us materially by taking some 25 or 30 of our former students as \"loan\" or \"transfer\" students, but that I was not in favor of the wholesale transference of our students and staff to Canton as a temporary measure in lieu of opening our own University here. Lingnan would like to use their University - 500 Chinese, 25 American and 25% external, and would release funds and staff from us to achieve the latter object. I told Admiral Harcourt that I thought an early revival of our own University most desirable, both from the point of view of British prestige in the Far East and also on account of the encouraging effect which this would have on the morale of the Colony. I gave him a copy of the letter and report which I had sent you by the hand of Mr. Hazlewood (not yet received), a copy of which he has already seen, and he asked me to see him again after Mr. Hazlewood's return. He also said that he would like to visit the University for himself.\n\nOn Monday last he did so, accompanied by D. J. Davis and myself. He made a full inspection and showed considerable interest in re-starting the University at an early date. Afterwards he drafted a personal cable to yourself worded as follows:\n\nFOR (Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt)\n\nTo Colonial Office for G. E. J. Gent\n\nAfter inspection of University I am in favour of immediate rehabilitation of certain buildings and propose accordingly to give such approval as are possible under present limitations. Urge reopening October and prior return of staff members who are either at home or on leave limit. Suggest also that Hongkong Government be asked to release certain surplus stores or £400 by March or September. I suggest immediate placing of orders for textbooks, apparatus and equipment. The above in motion with your presence in Hong Kong will be of inestimable value.\n\nIn practical terms we would propose to make a start by rehabilitating in part or whole the Fitzroy Block. The C. in C. thought that portions of the Engineering Lab. and No. 2 Hang could be used as emergency lecture rooms. Eliot Hall is intact and perhaps one of the hostels up the hill could be renovated for students living in dormitory fashion, and possibly using double-decker bunks as I saw in use in China. It may be years before we\n\n...\n\nPage 210\n\n...\n\ncan attain Western standards and luxuries. Your former office might be used as a staff room and a few of the other staff residences could be got in order.\n\nIt would be possible to start 1st Year degree classes in Science and Arts in October if we could get the necessary staff together. There should be plenty of young men now being demobilised who would be ready to take up University teaching work. There are some here, and I enclose a letter from Captain Cadogan-Roberts. There is another, Captain Mellor, who might be quite an acquisition. I very much hope that you, yourself, may be able to come back, if only for a short period, to be present during this critical stage of setting the machinery in motion. It is almost essential that you should be here to direct the early operations as there is no one else who has the necessary background and experience.\n\nThe most pressing problem is staff. I do not know when Slade will be returning. Good luck we must have from Shanghai.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nA. R. ...\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "221\n\nMedical Branch, (C.A.),\n\nRoom 110,\n\nHong Kong Bank Bldg.,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n2nd Feb. 1946\n\nDear Mr. Sloss,\n\nAbout two weeks ago the C. in C. asked me to go up to Government House to let him know the present position with regard to the University. He had just visited Lingnam University in Canton and found them anxious to assist H.K.U. in any way possible. I told him that Lingnam were helping us materially by taking some 25 or 30 of our former students as \"loan\" or \"transfer\" students, but that I was not in favour of the wholesale transference of our students and staff to Canton as a temporary measure in lieu of opening our own University here. Lingnam would like to make their University 50% Chinese, 25% American and 25% British, and would welcome funds and staff from us to achieve the latter object. I told Admiral Harcourt that I thought an early revival of our own University was most desirable, both from the point of view of British prestige in the Far East and also on account of the encouraging effect which such a course would have on the morale of the whole Colony. I told him of the letter and report which I had sent you by the hand of Mr. Hazelrigg (dated 10th December), a copy of which he had already seen, and he asked me to see him again after Mr. Hazelrigg's return. He also added that he would like to see the University for himself. On Monday of this week the C. in C paid a visit to the University, accompanied by D.F. Davis and myself. He made a full inspection and showed considerable interest in re-starting the University at an early date. Afterwards he drafted a personal telegram to yourself worded as follows:\n\nFrom Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt\n\nTo Colonial Office for D. J. Sloss\n\nAfter inspection of University I am in favour of immediate rehabilitation of certain buildings and propose accordingly to take such steps as are possible under present limitations. Urge reopening in October and prior return of staff members who are fit and within age limit. Suggest also that new personnel be engaged to fill vacancies caused by death or retirement. Suggest immediate placing of orders for textbooks, apparatus and equipment. As soon as you have set the above in motion your presence in Hong Kong will be of inestimable value.\n\nIn practical terms we would propose to make a start by rehabilitating part or whole of the Northcote Science Block. The C. in C. thought that portions of the Peel Engineering Lab. and Ho Tung Workshop could be used as emergency lecture rooms. Ricci Hall is intact and perhaps one of the Hostels up the hill could be renovated for students living hard in dormitory fashion, and possibly using double-decker bunks as many of them did in China. It may be years before we can return to pre-war standards and luxuries. Your former house might be used as a Staff Hostel and a few of the other staff residences could be put in order.\n\nIt would be feasible to start 1st Year Medicine, Science and Arts classes in October if we could get the necessary staff together. There should be plenty of young men now being demobilised who are anxious to take up University teaching careers. There are some here, and I enclose a letter from Captain Cadogan Edwards. There is another Captain Mellor, who might be quite an acquisition. I very much hope that you, yourself, will feel disposed to come back, if only for a short period, to be present during the critical stage of setting the machinery in motion again. I feel it is almost essential that you should be here to direct the early operations as there is no one else who has the necessary background and contacts.\n\nThe most pressing problem is staff. I do not know how many of the former staff will be returning. We need a registrar badly. Is Boxer coming back? By good luck we have recovered the University Enrolment List from Jan. 1936 to May 1940, and the complete Admission Lists with Application Forms for Sept. 1941. This will simplify a good deal of work.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947",
        "content_text": "Saving.\n\nFrom the Secretary of State for the Colonies. To the Officer Administering the Government of HONG KONG.\n\nDate: 19 December, 1947.\n\nNo. 962. Saving.\n\nMy savingram No. 852, paragraph 4(c).\n\nHong Kong University.\n\nProspects of British Council assistance from its foreign exchange fund. Preliminary investigation confirms view that such prospects are not good as Council funds are already earmarked and assistance to Hong Kong University would entail diversion of funds from other objects. In any further approach we should have to indicate roughly how much we hoped for from Council and should, I think, have to state approximately how much we expected to raise from other sources.\n\nI appreciate the difficulty of doing this at this stage, but could you please let me know if you are yet in a position to give me any information on these lines.\n\nBECKER.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-613-1 Seminary of Dominican Fathers- Rosary Hill 7-4-1948 - 11-10-1949",
        "page_number": 57,
        "title": "CO129-613-1 Seminary of Dominican Fathers- Rosary Hill 7-4-1948 - 11-10-1949",
        "content_text": "Saving.\n\n`54267/48`\n\nFrom the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nTo the Officer Administering the Government of \nHM Colony Hong Kong\n\nDate: 23 November, 1943.\n\nNo. 1178 Saving.\n\nYour savingram C.495. Deary Hill.\n\nGrateful for the further reply promised.\n\nBECKER.\n\n56/13.",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951",
        "page_number": 127,
        "title": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951",
        "content_text": "Kowloon-Canton Railway.\n\n-6-\n\n181\n\nThe estimate of $7,605,000 is $601,000 higher than the original estimate for 1950/51 and $2,728,000 lower than the revised estimate. There has already been a falling off in the case of goods traffic for the closing months of the current year, but passenger traffic has been well maintained.\n\nRevenue from Land Sales etc.,\n\nThe estimate of $9,495,100 is $3,294,000 higher than the original estimate for 1950/51 and $393,057 higher than the revised estimate. The increase is largely due to additional interest payments amounting to some $2.4 million on the Colony's surplus balances.\n\nMiscellaneous Receipts.\n\nThe estimate of $10,325,100 is $2,535,100 higher than the original estimate for 1950/51 and $5,618,896 lower than the revised estimate. Receipts from royalties from transport companies reached a high level than was anticipated and, in addition to the usual population factor, the introduction of double-decker buses in Kowloon was to some extent instrumental in producing this result.\n\nThe revised estimate for the current year was also swollen by several abnormal receipts which will not be repeated. There were refunds in respect of weapons returned by the Defence Force and in respect of freight charges on requisitioned railway material which were met by this Government. There was also a substantial transfer to revenue in respect of stores which were originally believed to have been supplied by His Majesty's Government but which were subsequently found to have been charged to Hong Kong funds.\n\nColonial Development & Welfare Fund Grants.\n\nRevenue under this Head offsets the expenditure provided for under Head 5 in respect of schemes for which grants from the Colonial Development & Welfare Fund have been approved.\n\nLand Sales.\n\nThe estimate of $2,610,000 is $140,000 lower than the original estimate for 1950/51 and $1,742,469 lower than the revised estimate. It is anticipated that fewer sales of land will take place during 1951/52 than during the present year.\n\nExpenditure.\n\nExpenditure is estimated at $233,465,137. This represents a decrease of nearly $17 million as compared with the revised estimate for 1950/51 (which contained an abnormal item of $50 million loan advances charged off to expenditure), and an increase of a little over $32 million over the approved estimate for that year. This large increase over the approved expenditure figure for the current year occurs almost entirely under Other Charges and Special Expenditure, particularly under the latter, due to the necessity for a large number of re-votes owing to delays in the execution of orders. There are also some very large provisions which were not included in the current estimates. For example, the approved estimate for 1950/51 contained no provision for a contribution",
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        "document_key": "CO129-629-11 Manufacture of shirts 1-1-1950 - 30-11-1950",
        "page_number": 54,
        "title": "CO129-629-11 Manufacture of shirts 1-1-1950 - 30-11-1950",
        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL 53\n\nA.\n\nSection 1.\n\nCOMMENTS ON\n\nNOTE FOR PUBLICATION.\n\nGeneral.\n\n(a) Employment figures for December 1949:\n\nTotal number employed in cotton textiles (including spinning, knitting, garment-making, hosiery and cloth calendering) - 20,649 in 372 concerns.\n\n(b) Big expansion in spinning to: 12 mills with 5,971 workers. Automatic looms now in 4 weaving concerns; in one more now being installed - beginning of modernisation in weaving section.\n\n(d) Very large proportion of very small concerns in all except spinning section:\n\n(i) Knitting, garments and hosiery combined: one half of total number of concerns employ 20 workers or under; and less than one-sixth employ 50 or over.\n\n(ii) Weaving: a little over one-third employ 20 or under, and a little less than a third 50 or over.\n\n(iii) In addition, large numbers of unregistrable places are run more or less as family concerns, making garments and hand-woven material.\n\n(e) Not quite accurate to say that the garment-making section is carried on in independent factories - true for shirts of woven material, but where of knitted material frequently knitting and garment-making done by same factory.\n\n(f)\n\nThe following extract from a report on the Knitted Piece Goods Industry made in February 1948 is still relevant:\n\n\"In making knitted piece goods there are two distinct sections: I. manufacture of the rolls of knitted material; II. making up the material into a variety of garments of all sizes and styles: vests, singlets, pants, open-necked sports shirts and shirts with a button opening at the neck.\n\nOf the one hundred and seven factories inspected, thirty-seven had only section I, twenty-six only section II, and the remaining forty-four worked all processes from the yarn to the completed garment. A number of factories have in addition their own dyeing plant but this is not universal.\"\n\n(i) Tempo and output. Generally speaking, true to say that the output of a Chinese workman is considerably less than that of an English workman of similar skill, but it is not true of the spinning operatives.\n\nThe spinning mills, run on modern lines with modern machinery, and skill and output of operatives the equal of their Lancashire counterpart. This greater concentration compensated for by better wages (higher general average than elsewhere), good factory conditions, subsidised food, free quarters, free medical attention and some recreational facilities.\n\nThe tempo of certain processes in garment-making can be fairly quick, but work usually not nearly as sustained and continuous.\n\n(ii) Workers have comparative freedom to come and go during working hours, and also to take casual leave. Common in all except spinning for workers to supply a substitute for a period of casual leave desired for any important family affairs.\n\nThe provision of a substitute is not always required as the larger concerns often have one or two workers specifically for that purpose and, in smaller concerns, a member of the proprietor's family can often do the job.",
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        "title": "CO129-629-11 Manufacture of shirts 1-1-1950 - 30-11-1950",
        "content_text": "A\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nCOMMENTS ON\n\nNOTE FOR PUBLICATION.\n\nSection 1. General.\n\n(a) Employment figures for December 1949:\n\nTotal number employed in cotton textiles (including spinning, knitting, garment-making, hosiery and cloth calendering) - 20,649 in 372 concerns.\n\n(b) Big expansion in spinning to: 12 mills with 5,971 workers. Automatic looms now in 4 weaving concerns; in one more now being installed – beginning of modernisation in weaving section.\n\n(d) Very large proportion of very small concerns in all except spinning section:\n\n(1) Knitting, garments and hosiery combined: one half of total number of concerns employ 20 workers or under; and less than one-sixth employ 50 or over.\n\n(ii) Weaving: a little over one-third employ 20 or under, and a little less than a third 50 or over.\n\n(iii) In addition, large numbers of unregistrable places are run more or less as family concerns, making garments and hand-woven material.\n\n(e) Not quite accurate to say that the garment-making section is carried on in independent factories - true for shirts of woven material, but where of knitted material frequently knitting and garment-making done by same factory.\n\nThe following extract from a report on the Knitted Piece Goods Industry made in February 1948 is still relevant:-\n\n\"In making knitted piece goods there are two distinct sections: I. - manufacture of the rolls of knitted material; II. - making up the material into a variety of garments of all sizes and styles: vests, singlets, pants, open-necked sports shirts and shirts with a button opening at the neck.\n\nOf the one hundred and seven factories inspected, thirty-seven had only section I, twenty-six only section II, and the remaining forty-four worked all processes from the yarn to the completed garment. A number of factories have in addition their own dyeing plant but this is not universal.\"\n\n(1) Tempo and output. Generally speaking, true to say that the output of a Chinese workman is considerably less than that of an English workman of similar skill, but it is not true of the spinning operatives.\n\nThe spinning mills, run on modern lines with modern machinery, and skill and output of operatives the equal of their Lancashire counterpart. This greater concentration compensated for by better wages (higher general average than elsewhere), good factory conditions, subsidised food, free quarters, free medical attention and some recreational facilities.\n\nThe tempo of certain processes in garment-making can be fairly quick, but work usually not nearly as sustained and continuous.\n\n(11) Workers have comparative freedom to come and go during working hours, and also to take casual leave. Common in all except spinning for workers to supply a substitute for a period of casual leave desired for any important family affairs.\n\nThe provision of a substitute is not always required as the larger concerns often have one or two workers specifically for that purpose and, in smaller concerns, a member of the proprietor's family can often do the job.",
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