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        "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
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        "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
        "content_text": "* Surveyor Generals & chartment \n\nStatement of Expenditier \n\non the Public Works to the probable Expenditure \n\nAs excription of Work: \n\nCompletion of Recons Lear \n\nContinuation of o \n\ndo dos to doshimped, thence by dywan to Sylam. \n\nVe \n\nto Chuck chu \n\nTo bestiare te Chuckpywan. \n\nDue ducts in tieto ix. \n\nSundry toork on roads ry \n\nrepairing \n\nChikichu read the \n\nthridges repairs and rebuilding imperfect brides. \n\nVereerd. \n\nMainage, of taddy land, Hougnenhoong ballig, St. \n\nPreparing land for buildings, Su Chinia location, &c. \n\nPublic Buildings biz: \n\nYovernment Honk. \n\nSublic offices and Cour / House. \n\nRisor and house for Carler. \n\nDebtors Wast \n\nRegistrar's house are offiei. \n\nHouse of Conctione. \n\nExperide on tor he \n\nalosti/4s fur that \n\nVictoria Hongkong \n\nthe hall year ending September 2017 1944 and Estimate of to March 31% 1847 \n\nExporded during the Expireded during Amount Aditional quarterinding 30th the half year wuthorize for amants required of i \n\nMarch 1944. puding 26 Seph1844|tooshdin progrefe le Ghiarch, 1847%. \n\nreturn to Fedaiawn, \n\n遘 \n\n& \n\n1,422 20 \n\n2,810 \n\nفي \n\n1,800 49 \n\n6,20008 \n\n24,569 \n\nItal cost \n\ntruck. \n\nGrain letal. \n\ntvork. \n\n14,200 \n\n21,850 \n\n17,452 \n\n10,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n20,000 \n\n20,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n22,000 \n\n10,00 \n\n80,000 \n\n5,000 \n\n10,500 350 \n\n45,000 100,000 40,000 4,500 \n\n5322 hd 10,02971 105327 28 6031 82 6,206 40 \n\n45,000 \n\n40,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n4,300 4900 \n\nPolice Stations, \n\n50,000 \n\n20,000 60s or \n\nsundry repairs to beverarment buildings, temporary offices and Court house, including temporary church and hitchens at Government Hinse: \n\nResidence for Government officer se Abang huldings) paying rent, \n\n10,120 1,417 \n\n7,25 259374 \n\nHarbor Master's pier and sea toall, and bulding boat sheds, stous, the \n\n-Sea wall to form public Quay, or Marine locationes under. Government \n\nHilly \n\n2,520 87 \n\n3,000). \n\n20,000. \n\n20,000. \n\n3,962 \n\n25,000 \n\n4,75376 \n\n48,120: \n\n48,120 \n\nbetween top Lindsay's premises ain the north Barracks. \n\nExpenses of Surveyer Generals istablishment in. \n\nHages up to March, 1844. Salaries subsequently. \n\nCarlingencies. \n\ncontingencies on estimated toorht, 10 per \n\ntoorts, 10 per cent, big on $481200 is \n\nHlabamount \n\nas, \n\nmount expended on finished works as per Surveyor General's return 105 Heber, 844- Viz; \n\nDeducting for works in progress at the date of \n\nSurveyor Cenerals return, the subsequent \n\nExpenditure on which is included in this \n\nstatement, viz. Albany Buildings. # 17651. \n\nTemporary Church. \n\n431.75 \n\nKitchend to Govt: House. 4044- \n\n$196,882123 \n\n22,12675 \n\nLeaving a balance of as rotended hering $174,785.48 174,788 48 \n\nItals $187/7/14-54 \n\n\"stal amount of actual and anticipatid expenditière, \n\nVictoria, Horgheng, 5. Proveniber, 181014. \n\nC \n\non \n\n174,755 48 \n\n9947.35 26914.68 73338.92 $29,320 \n\n827,435, 779 \n\n3827,435 079 \n\nthe Public Works mding 31 March, 18467. \n\nLigued) Chat Dr. Bro: Cleverly \n\ndeling Surveyor Veneral. \n\nAhue Wymerup",
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        "content_text": "REPORT & ESTIMATE No 50F 1851,\n\nDEBTORS\n\nPRISON\n\nYard\n\n28×20\n\n20\n\nJanuary or Feral.\n\nPart of yard.\n\nBath Room 3x6\n\nYeran dah\n\n8 ft Wide\n\nBath/wc\n\nFemale Dormitory\n\nKeeper\n\nDay Room\n\n16'-0\"x12'\n\n12:6x9\n\nKitchen\n\nVerandah\n\nاور علم مگر قوم\n\nPLAN\n\n12\n\nDormitory\n\n12'-0\"x8'; 12:6\n\navailable for 4 persons\n\nPart of yard\n\nBoundary wall.\n\nSith word\n\nChunam Distemper -,\n\n12'-0\"x12:6'\n\nBath\n\nGround\n\nTRANSVERSE\n\nSECTION.\n\nVENTILATOR.\n\nEND ELEVATION.\n\nO\n\n263\n\n2012\n\ngradatio",
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        "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]",
        "content_text": "No. 82.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n[MAY 23, 1857.\n\nMAY 23, 1857.]\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt is hereby notified that, on and after Monday, the 25th instant, the Garrison Gun will be fired at 8 o'clock P.M.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d May, 1857.\n\nNo. 83,\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.\n\nWhereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN have been received through The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, disallowing Ordinance No. 15 of 1856, entitled—\n\n\"An Ordinance for amending the Law of Evidence and Trial by Jury\"; -\n\nNotice is hereby given of the same, and the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid are declared to be null and void, and of no effect.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 23d Day of May, 1857.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 78.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands at Aberdeen, for the Construction of Docks, will be held at the Surveyor General's Office on Monday, the First day of June next; the sale to commence at Three o'clock in the Afternoon.\n\nAfter which, one Lot on the Queen's Road, near the Old Protestant Burial Ground, will be sold on the ground. Plans of the Lots to be sold and the Conditions of Sale, which, with regard to the Docks are very special, may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.\n\nThe following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the sale is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th May, 1857.\n\nSchedule of Lots of Land proposed to be Sold.\n\n  \n    ORDER OF SALE\n    LOCALITY\n    BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS\n    CONTENT IN SQUARE FEET\n    FIXED ANNUAL RENT\n  \n  \n    1 (For Docks)\n    Marine, ABERDEEN\n    N. 600, S. 600, E. 840, W. 840\n    1 1/4 Acres\n    £100\n  \n  \n    2 (id)\n    Marine, ABERDEEN\n    N. 600, S. 600, E. 840, W. 840\n    1 1/4\n    \n  \n  \n    9\n    Inland, VICTORIA, Queen's Road East\n    N. 40, S. 40, E. 100, W. 100\n    4,000\n    £0 0 100 0\n  \n\nTaos. L. WALKER, Acting Surveyor General\n\nPUBLIC SALE\n\nANE, CRAWFORD & Co, have been instructed by the Administrator to the Estate of the late N. CROSBY, Jr., to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,--\n\nThe whole of the STOCK-IN-TRADE appertaining to the SHIPCHANDLERY business of the deceased, consisting of an Extensive assortment of Russian and Manila Ropa, Flax and Cotton SAILCLOTH and TWINE, BLOCKS, NAILS, TAR, PITCH, PAINTS, OIL, TURPENTINE, BUNTING, BEEF, PORK, BRANDY, WINE VINEGAR FLOUR, CANDLES, SOAP, and a great variety of other valuable Goods.\n\nAfterwards,\n\nThe HOUSEHOLD and COUNTING-HOUSE FURNITURE, viz., Dining, Toilet, and Side TABLES, COUCHES, CHAIRS, BEDSTEADS, WARDROBES, PICTURES, CURTAINS, &c., complete KITCHEN RANGE, & very large patent iron TREASURE-CHEST, DESKS, TABLES, COUNTERS, &c., &c., &c.\n\nAnd,\n\n1 WATER-BOAT, with FORCE-PUMP, SAILS, and FITTINGS.\n\nThe Goods will be put up in Lots to suit Purchasers.\n\nAlso,\n\nby order of the Mortgagee, will be sold,-All that PIECE or PARCEL of GROUND, situate, lying, and being in Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, abutting on the North side thereof on the Sea at high-water mark, and measuring thereon SEVENTY-THREE feet on the South side thereof, on the Queen's Road, and measuring thereon EIGHTY feet; on the East side thereof, on a close registered in the Land Office, at Victoria aforesaid, as Marine Lot number Seven, in the name of George Thomas Braine, and measuring thereon ONE HUNDRED AND TEN FEET; and on the West side thereof, on a close registered in the said Land Office, as Marine Lot number Sixty-two, in the name of Douglas Lapraik, and measuring thereon ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN FEET,-which said Piece or Parcel of Ground contains in the whole 8,855 SQUARE FEET and is registered in the Land Office as MARINE LOT NUMBER SIXTY-SIX-YEARLY RENT £68,13,2,—with the MESSUAGES, DWELLING-HOUSES, and BUILDINGS thereon erected.\n\nFor Particulars, apply to G. C. TURNER, Esq., or the Auctioneers.\n\nThe sale of the Ground and Landed Property will take place on Mr Caosay's premises, on MONDAY, the 1st day of June, 1857, at Noon precisely; and that of the Stock-in-Trade and Household Furniture on FRIDAY, the 5th day of June, 1857, commencing at 11 o'clock a.m.-it being understood, that the Transfer of the former need not be effected sooner than the 12th June, thus affording sufficient time for the delivery of the Goods.\n\nTERMS OF SALE.—One-third the Purchase-money to be paid, if required, on the fall of the Hammer; and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer. The GROUND RENT, from the 25th December, 1856, to be paid by the Purchaser.\n\nHongkong, 21st May, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Firm of BUYERS & Co., SHIPWRIGHTS, will cease to exist from this date; and the Business will in future be carried on by the undersigned in his own name.\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1857.\n\nJ. C. COWPER.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.\n\nIn the Estate of NATHANIEL CROSBY, J. Esquire, late of the Queen's Road, Victoria, Ship-chandler, deceased,\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of the above named have been granted to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK, of Victoria aforesaid, Merchant; and that all persons having any Claims to the said Estate, or who are indebted, are requested to send in and pay the same to the said DOUGLAS LAPRAIK,\n\n4. COOPER TURNER, Proctor for the Administrator,\n\nDated 13th March, 1857.\n\nIn re DAVID SIMEON, deceased,\n\nNOTICE,-All Claims against the above Estate, must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR before the 13th day of November, A.D. 1857, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.\n\nAll persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate Payment to-\n\nNORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator,\n\nPENINSULAR & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steam-ship “NORNA,” Capt. ROGERS, with Her Majesty's \"Mails, Passenger, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 25th May, at 2 P.M. CARGO will be received on board until Noon on the 23d; SPECIE until Noon on the 24th; and PARCELS until 4 P.M. on the 24th.\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\nCONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED,\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels ; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\nROBT. S. WALKER,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,\n\nHongkong, 12th May, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr HENRY DAVIS in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 22d Instant.\n\nDAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 28th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\n355\n\nIn the Estate of TSOO-A-TUCK, of Victoria, Carpenter, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith,\n\nTSOO-A-TUCK, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 18th February, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of CHARLES MARKWICK, late Auctioneer, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned. All Claims against the Estate must be sent in before the 1st day of October, 1857, and all parties indebted are requested to make immediate payment to\n\nG. DUDDELL, D. LAPRAIK,\n\nExecutors.\n\nHongkong, 11th April, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of GEORGE DOWMAN, Master Mariner, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned without delay.\n\nH. MAGNIAC,\n\nM. A. MACLEOD, Administrators.\n\nHongkong, 24th March, 1857.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith.\n\nHENRY RUTTER, Administrator,\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nIn Equity,\n\nMURROW, STEPHENSON.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED,—that all monies now or henceforth to become payable to the late firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON AND COMPANY, be paid to JOSEPH FROST EDGER, Esq., (or his Deputy, he having been lawfully appointed Receiver in the said suit, by virtue of an Order of this Honourable Court; the receipts of the said JOSEPH FROST EDGER being alone good discharges for such monies.\n\nDated the 13th day of November, 1856.\n\nGASKELL & BROWN. Complainant's Solicitors,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nALL Persons having Claims against, or being indebted to, CHEONG ALLUM, late of the ESSING Shop, Victoria, Hongkong, are requested to forward particulars to Mr E. K. STACE, Solicitor, &c., Queen's Road.\n\nCHEONG ALLUM.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, March, 1857.\n\n亞霖謹啟\n\n店昇裕\n\n查明〇丁\n\n十七日張\n\n已 年二月\n\n士新\n\n爹機客\n\n月丁便時單數\n\nFOR SALE\n\nAt the Office of the “ China Mail.\"\n\n張亞霖欠\n\nForms of POWERS OF ATTORNEY, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECK BOOKS, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE.\n\nBLANEY, WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES,\n\nAlso,\n\nSAILING DIRECTIONS for the RIVER MIN ;\n\nAnd,\n\nA Table, shewing the COST OF TEA, with all CHARGES-Tea, as bought by the Picul, and sold by the Pound Avoirdupois.\n\n19th March, 1857.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.— PRICE, $12 per Annum. $1 Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, -Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents; half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "## CAPTY \n**SUPT** \n\nf \n\n**PREVENT TOWER** \n\n**MAO STRATT** \n\n**PRIVIES** \n\n**SERVA** \n\n**CELLS TO MAGISTRACY** \n\n**EARTH SURE.** \n\nA \n\n**RITGNEN Cook** \n\n**KITCHEN** \n\n**SERVANTS** \n- **STORES** \n\nTU \n\n**PASSAGE** \n\nAND **VERANDAH** \n\n**SERIANTS** \n\n**THIRD** \n\n| **INSPEC** | \n**COURTH** | \n**INSP** | \n**DINING ROOM** | \n**DERY** | \n**PRESENT** | \n**NORTH** | \n**WATH** | \nГ. | \n**STATIO** | \n**POLICE** | \n**OFFICERS QUARTERS - CENTPEL** | \n\n**CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENTS** \n**QUARTERS** \n\n**GROUND. PLAN** \n\nty's **BATH** \n\n\n**VERANDAH** \n\n**BED ROOM** \n\n## User \n\nE \n\n**BATH** \n\n**SLAYANTS** \n\n**SECOND** \n\n**INSPECTOR** \n\n**FIRST** \n\n**INSPECTOR** \n\n**DRAWING ROOM** \n\n**VERANDAH** \n\n**BATA BATH** \n\n**SUPT.** \n\nFOUR **INSPECTORS** \n\n**BASEMENT** \n\n**ELEVATION** \n\n**PRESENT GATE.** \n\n**EAST ELEVATION** \n\n**ARGUTHNOT ROAD** \n\n\n## FIRST FLOOR \n\n**WHYTTEN** \n\n**BATH** \n\n**DRESSING ROOM** \n\n**BED ROOM** \n\n**VERANDAH** \n\n**BED ROOM** \n\n**BEDROOM** \n\n**DINING ROOM** \n\n**DRAWING ROOM** \n\n**BED ROOM** \n\n**BAT K** \n\n**BATM** \n\n**DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT** \n\n## SECOND FLOOR \n\n**VERANDAH:** \n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT Y ESTIMATE N°C OF 1862 \n\n**OFFICERS QUARTERS** \n\n**CENTRAL POLICE STATION** \n\n**PLAN O** \n\nSurveyor General. \n\n\n\n506",
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        "document_key": "CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "# \n124\n\nFarm Overseer employed by Complainant. Yesterday about 1:50 o'clock I was at the works at Pokfulam - I saw the Complainant running and the defendant pointing a pistol at him. He said something but I could not understand. I was a little over 10 feet from the defendant at the time. To Prisoner: I was standing inside your kitchen, leaning against a window. A Tak was on the embankment.\n\nDefendant says: I don't believe. I used the pistol. My boy will be able to state the facts.\n\nWong A Sam declared states: DEC.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]",
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        "content_text": "477 \n\n(6) \n\nTo a Juror:- I was formerly employed with A-Hó, HIP SHING shop. I left there more than a month ago. I am looking for employment. When did you return the seven dollars? I returned the money at three o'clock in the morning. I could get $5 a month, and my food for working at my trade.\n\n根吳 \n\nCHENG-A-YÜ declared, states:- I am Interpreter to the Inspectors of Brothels. I am paid $15, and have free quarters. I have been employed since the 26th June, 1876. On the evening of the 16th instant, I gave seven dollars to the last witness, and three to KAN-TSAI. I told them to go to the house No. 258, Queen's Road Central, top-floor. That is the district watchman's house. I had suspected that it was a secret brothel. The Inspector told me that it was suspected. Inspector LEE had given me the notes between six and seven o'clock. I watched. The men came and said they could not do anything as it was a family house. NG-A-KAN went away. KAN-TSAI and myself met MAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN, and MAN-A-ON said he had a few Hongkong paper dollars, which were no use to him, and he said---\"Let us go and drink the dollars.\" He said this to me. He did not show them. He put his hand in his purse, but he did not show them. I did not say anything, but we adjourned to an Opium shop, not a smoking place. I had been waiting there, while the two men were in the house in Queen's Road, and we went back. I knew LÓ-A-MAN for some time. We were always good friends. A man named A-LING who came out from a room said---“Do you want to go to drink? If you do I'll take you.\" We were talking in the shop. CHENG-KAN-TSAI and LÓ-A-MAN, and MAN-A-ON and A-LING went away together. KAN-TSAI said \"I'll invite you.\" I said, if you get a case let me know. They went away. I went to the painter shop, Wellington Street, waiting, and I told KAN-TSAI where I would be found, and to let A-ON and A-MAN know what was intended to be done. A-ON came and told me about the case, but he said he would not give evidence as he was going away. A-KAN then happened to come, and I told him to go to the place. I then went and told Inspector LEE, and at 12:30, I went to Lyndhurst Terrace with the Inspector. LÓ-A-MAN and MAN-A-ON had given me the number of the house. KAN-TSAI opened the door. We arrested two women and a man. The man and women are now in Gaol on remand. Inspector WHITEHEAD took them to the Station. Inspector LEE, KAN-TSAI, and myself went to Peel Street. We did not know what house to go to, and the man Kan-Tsai called A-KAN. Somebody spoke from a house in Peel Street, and said he is at the opposite house. A woman said-\"I saw somebody go into 42, pointing to 42. We called at the house 12, 'A-KAN, A-KAN.'\" The Inspector then knocked the door with a stick. No answer. A woman looked out from 1st floor. The Inspector told her to open the street door. She came and opened. We went up the stairs. We had not yet heard A-KAN's voice, and did not know he was there, further than what we had learned on the street from the woman of the opposite house. The folding doors on the stairs which were pointed out to the Jury, were closed and fastened. The Inspector climbed over the barrier, and opened it for me. We went up. I called out A-KAN. KAN-TSAI followed us, stopped at the staircase. A-KAN opened the trap door. Inspector LEE and KAN-TSAI went up. A-KAN pointed his finger up towards the roof, and I remained on the stairs. I don't know what happened. KAN-TSAI has returned me $2. A-KAN gave me back $7. This was about two o'clock. I never employed KAN-TSAI before. I have employed A-KAN before.\n\nThe Registrar \n\nTo the Jurors: The informers get one dollar reward, when they get a case. General pays the money. I am employed by the Registrar General's department.\n\nBy the Coroner, at the suggestion of Inspector LEE:- When we went to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, was any remark made by KAN-TSAI in reference to the house of a black-eyed woman? Yes: he said, \"A-KAN, I believe, has gone to the house of black-eyed SAM.\" He said one of the girls belonged to black-eyed SAM's house. KAN-TSAI went to the house of the \"black-eyed\" woman first. The black-eyed woman said that the man had gone to the house which she pointed out.\n\n鄭堯 \n\nCHAN-A-SZ declared, states:- I am a widow and live at Canton. I came down here on the 15th instant, and went to visit the servant who lives at 42, Peel Street, called CHAN-A-YEE. We were old friends, and I stayed there, as I wanted to get some employment. On the night I came, there were the mistress of the house, who is here---LAU-A-YEE---my friend CHAN-A-YEE and myself in the front of the house. The deceased, who was a servant, was called A-SÓ, but I don't know her surname, and the woman who is in Hospital occupied the second room. Nobody occupied the third room. CHAN-A-YEE slept in the passage. There were no men in the house. On the night of Tuesday about twelve o'clock, the mistress got up to worship. I heard her, and very soon I heard a great noise. I was so frightened that I did not come out of the room. I was standing with A-YEE. Afterwards I saw the Inspector in the house. I was taken into custody with my friend, the servant A-YEE. She is servant to the mistress LAU-A-YEE.\n\nHer CHAN-A-SZ Mark.\n\n(7) \n\nCHAN-A-LOK declared, states: I am a servant woman to LAU-A-YEE of 42, Peel Street. The last witness calls me A-YEE. I was engaged on the 28th day of 8th moon. To-day is the 12th of 9th moon. I had a child of the mistress with me in the passage on the night of the 16th. I did not see TAI-YAU go out. I saw TAI-YAU come in with a man about twelve o'clock. I only saw one man. I did not see who shut the door. TAI-YAU had a servant woman of her own. We called her A-SÓ. She is now deceased. LAU-A-YEE was worshipping in the front room at that time. I did not see who opened to let the Inspector into the house. I saw my mistress and TAI-YAU and A-SÓ run through the kitchen. I did not see where they went. I lay still. I was frightened. I knew they were coming to arrest somebody. I did not see anybody praying to a man not to tell the Inspector. I did not hear TAI-YAU say-\"I was fined $100 before, and I had to sell my son to pay the fine.\" Some time afterwards I was arrested and taken to the Station, and kept there all night. We were detained all day yesterday till after the inquest. The deceased was about 40 years of age, I believe.\n\nHer CHAN-A-LOK Mark.\n\nAdjourned at 7 P.M. till 19th at 4 P.M. at Magistracy. Jurors put under the usual recognizances.\n\nJ. RUSSELL,\n\n19th October, 1877.\n\nCoroner.\n\nInquiry resumed at Magistracy this day at 4 o'clock. Jurors answer their names.\n\nLEUNG-A-YUNG declared, states:- I am a coolie employed at collecting rubbish at Lap-sap-wán. I have heard that the deceased was my mother. I identify some of the things shown me as the property of my mother. I recognize the purse, the measuring rule, and some of the clothing. My mother was employed as a servant somewhere in Ching-wan. She was employed in a brothel in Hollywood Road last year. I last saw her about twenty-four days ago. I saw her in my house at Tai-ping-shán. I have a family house in that locality. My mother's name was FUNG-A-SZ. She was fifty-seven years of age. I have learned from a woman who knew my mother that she is dead.\n\nHis LEUNG-A-YUNG Mark.\n\nJOHN LEE further examined, states:- The bundle which I have now shown to the last witness, is the same which I found lying on the head of the deceased. The purse was taken from her person at the Civil Hospital. The standing orders I referred to were those which I learned from Inspector PETERSON, who was then Chief Inspector of Brothels. The standing order was that any house which I suspected to be an unlicensed brothel, if I could get any man to go in and stop with the women, or if I went myself, to take the women into custody. At that time the cases were tried by the Registrar General. That has been the course of procedure. Soon after I joined, I recollect a case where I got evidence of the keeping of an unlicensed brothel at West Point, and I took the persons before the Registrar General, and the persons accused fetched a door to the office, and said we had broken it in. I recollect Mr. SMITH, who was then at the Registrar General's Office, said we were not to break, but simply enter.\n\nHas it not been the custom to report to the Registrar General, when you had reason to suspect a house being an unlicensed brothel, and obtain his authority to enter? Answer. It has not been so; but, in cases where we have failed to get men to stop so as to obtain evidence, and where a suspicion still existed, then we would report to the Registrar General. In that case, the Registrar General would summon the persons before him and investigate.\n\nHas there been any change in the procedure since the Magistrates' Court was made the tribunal under the \"Contagious Diseases Ordinance,\" instead of the Registrar General's Office? Answer.- No, there has not been.\n\nTo a Juror:- Has there been any order given by the Registrar General to employ the class of men like A-KAN and KAN-TSAI, and other men? There has been an order to get evidence, and it is known to the Department, because the Registrar General signs the bill which is paid from the secret service fund. I had no instructions in reference to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace.\n\nTo Mr. SMITH, Juror:- In previous cases have you had to chase the people on the roof? Yes; it is a common occurrence for the women to run to the roof. I have pursued them over as many as twenty houses. In the course of the proceedings before the Registrar General or the Magistrates, I presume it would transpire whether the pursuit of women on the roof had taken place? Yes, it would. Have you ever had your attention called to the fact that such pursuit was improper or illegal? Answer.- I have not. In a case tried on the 3rd November last, a woman got out of the front window of a house, and ran along the ledge and got away. That came out in evidence at the Police Court.\n\nJOHN LEE.",
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        "content_text": "## TRACING D. BLOCK PLAN\nat present Shewing the position of the Building used for the Civil and Lock Hospitals. Timied Red.\n\nA Present Civil Hospital\nNew Female Lock Hospital now used as Annexe to the Civil Hospital for Male Lock patients\nC Sale Pox Ward for 9 patients\nD Formerly Government School now used as Female Lock Hospital\n\n| Label | Description | \n| --- | --- |\n| E |  |\n| S | $21 |\n| T | RN |\n| S |  |\n| A | 3 |\n| $20 | C |\n| 一 | 2 |\n| 606 | 3 |\n| A | 24 |\n| 316 | H |\n| • $ p |  |\n| T | A |\n| L | 6 |\n| R | O |\n| A | 369 |\n| D | 664 |\n| 761 | 695 696 |\n| R | D |\n\nBERLIN MISSION\n\n| Label | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| H | H |  |  |  |  |\n| S | T | E | E | T |  |\n\nSCALE 80 FI°≈ 1 INCH.\n\n| Description |\n| --- |\n| Coolies Barracks Kitchen |\n| Servants Quarter |\n| Dead House |\n| Hot water apparatus & ... | \n200 FI |",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure: \n## THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE IN TONQUIN\n\nThe wire briefly informs us that France has concluded a treaty with Annam. This is emphatically vague and might even be considered unsatisfactory, if it were not that it is tolerably easy, under present circumstances, to forecast what the main lines of the document are. The French have no doubt simply written down all they wanted and the young King, Kien-Phuc, and his ministers have meekly signed the paper and considered themselves reasonably well treated in having even so small a say in the matter. The fragmentary and erratic treaty which Dr. Harmand concluded last August doubtless but very imperfectly represents the new paper. The right to establish Custom houses in a few named towns therein stipulated for is now probably expanded to a complete liberty to establish such buildings wherever the protectors may please, now or at any future time. It is not at all improbable that a cheap show of generosity will be made in the retrocession of the province of Binh-Thuan to Annam! This district, the ancient Ziampa of Marco Polo, would be of no pecuniary advantage to the French. On the contrary, it would probably make Cochin-China budgets even more unsatisfactory reading than they are at present. By the simple process of returning the province France will be able to lay claim to magnanimity and at the same time will save a great deal of money. Instead of administering Binh Thuan at her own cost France will simply send the same number of Residents thither as she would otherwise have done and will make Annamese revenues pay for them.\n\nThe proceedings of France in the south are, however, not of so much interest to Hongkong as the possibilities in Tonquin. There undoubtedly the Republic will extend her protecting influence to the utmost. Residents will be settled in all the towns of the slightest importance, and the country will be as undistinguishable from Cochin-China as Cambodia is at the present moment. A great endeavour will be made to divert the trade of the country to Saigon, but however that trade may be favoured, it is practically certain that a great part, if not the principal part, of the import and export business will find its way to Hongkong. Numbers of Chinamen are flocking into the country already, but they are Chinamen from Hongkong, or Canton, not Chinamen from Saigon, or rather from the neighbouring mart of Cholen. It is of course the Celestials who make the trade of a country in the East, and the Chinamen in Tonquin will not fail to keep up their relations with their principals or friends, notwithstanding the temptations that may be held out to them to divert the flow of merchandise in another direction.\n\nThe present state and the prospects of the country under its new rulers are therefore matters of very considerable interest to Hongkong. At present in their fear that all the trade of the country will find its way to this colony, the French are inclined to place a variety of restrictions on foreign trade. They are afraid that they will only have the shadow and that all the substance will find its way across the Gulf. The prospect is no doubt aggravating. Tonquin is not merely a very rich colony; it is the only rich colony our neighbours have got. That it should be developed only for the swelling of the money bags of perfide Albion is too exasperating to endure just at present. When, however, it is discovered that without foreign capital Tonquin will not be so very great an acquisition after all irritation will tone down into tolerance. Tonquin promises any amount of wealth, but before money can be got out of it, it must be put in, and that is just where French colonists fail.\n\nThere are not many French colonists in the country yet, and there are no immediate signs that the number is to be increased to any very considerable extent. The few there are are not of a very estimable character from the point of view of a political economist. They are divided into two classes, the cantiniers, the pot-house and wine-shop keepers, and the somewhat more aspiring few who do not keep cabarets, but sell liquor wholesale to those who do. Both of these make money, but they do not make money for France and still less for the colony. Least of all do they advance the prospects of Tonquin. With the laudable object of putting an end to the multiplication of these sorry négociants, General Millot has issued a proclamation. Whether, however, from a hopeless recognition of the fact that no other Frenchmen but dram sellers would come to settle in Tonquin, or with a view to control foreign traders, the edict embraces merchants of all kinds. No one is to be allowed to establish a business of any kind whatever in the country without the express permission of the Government. This is not the way to encourage the bringing of capital into the country, and Tonquin wants money even more desperately than does the French Government itself. The idea may merely be to put an end to the terrible number of drinking shops, but it seems also to be intended to keep down the establishment of foreign firms of whatever kind. The suggestion may appear ill-naturel, but it seems to be borne out by a further vexatious ordinance, issued within the last few weeks. No \"armed exploring parties\" are to be permitted throughout the whole extent of the protectorate. This virtually means the prohibition of exploration of every kind, except such as is sanctioned by the French Government and supported by detachments of French troops. Beyond the limits of actual military occupation, no foreigner is safe unless he is armed. The word \"pirate\" is wonderfully misused down in Tonquin. Any native of the country is stigmatised as a pirate if he objects to the French domination of the country, and with this definition of the word the vast majority of the population of Tonquin are pirates. They are absurdly badly armed, but twenty foot long spears and swords which bend double with every blow, are quite formidable enough weapons against Europeans who have no arms at all. The exploitation of Tonquin is therefore likely to be delayed for a considerable time. Colonists from France with money to set themselves up are devoutly prayed for, but do not seem likely to come. Meanwhile foreigners are apparently warned off no matter how much money they may be willing to spend. This, however, is sure to right itself in time, possibly with the next Governor or Commissary-General, or if not with him, then with his successor, and administrators-in-chief of Tonquin succeed each other with even greater rapidity than Governments in France itself.\n\nMoney is wanted in Tonquin, but it must not be mistaken what it is wanted for. It is not for the cultivation of the country, for there is not a country in all this world that is more thoroughly cultivated than Tonquin as far north as Thai-Nguyen and Hung-Hoa. The lower delta lands are almost wholly given over to rice, but north of the Song-cau river and in the country above Son-tay, Tonquin is more like a large kitchen garden than an ordinary agricultural landscape.\n\nPage 4113\nREGP 19 JUL 84",
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        "content_text": "178 \n\nहै \n\nHo Kai, whose generous Christian spirit has led him to provide the building for such a useful work, and to the medical gentlemen who are prepared to devote their energies and care to it gratuitously, much praise is certainly due, but the community must not forget and let us hope the Government also will not forget—that it has a part to fulfil, for the future maintenance of the hospital will chiefly depend on rich subscriptions that may be raised. One donation has been already received from the Hon. E. R. Belilios, who has endowed the hospital with $5000 as a fund for the supply of medicine, while the sum of $8000 was collected by Dr Chalmers and others from various benevolent friends, European and Chinese, toward the cost of the site, which was bought for $22,000.\n\nThe new undertaking will not be in any way a rival to the Civil Hospital or the Tung Wa Hospital. It has a different role altogether to fulfil. The Civil Hospital is only open free to the Civil servants and to police cases, the charge for the public being $3 for Europeans and $1 for Chinese per week for medical attendance, board and lodging. The Tung Wa hospital, which was munificently endowed with the sum of $130,000 by the Government, does no work in the way of training students, and in it the old quackery modes of treatment are still observed, which must greatly militate against its doing much good. The field therefore lies open for an extensive work in the Alice Memorial Hospital. There, it is to be hoped in course of time, students will be reared who will carry the benefits of the medical skill and knowledge into the heart of China, and Hongkong thus become a centre of much wider influence than at present. When the scheme of teaching has been started, the English Doctors in Hongkong, it is expected, will give lectures on the different branches of medical science. Hong-kong has particular facilities in carrying on this work, as no other port in the Far East has such a number of skilled English Doctors ready and willing for such labour. At all times five Doctors may be counted on to give lectures to the students, and as occasion requires help may be offered by the naval and army Doctors at this station. It besides is the natural complement of the higher education granted by the Government Central School. Of what good is it to educate Chinese boys to a high standard when there is no means of completing that education so as to open up a useful profession to them? At present the better educated boys are mostly absorbed as clerks in the Chinese Government employ where, if there reports are to be believed, they are far from well trusted, and are remunerated in a miserable manner altogether incompatible with the care and trouble spent in their education. It is to be hoped that the institution of which the foundation stone was laid to-day will be the means of giving an outlet to their knowledge and abilities which will bring more profit to them and far more lasting good to the empire of China.\n\nTHE BUILDING.\n\n+\n\nThe Alice Memorial Hospital will occupy the corner of Hollywood Road and Aberdeen Street. To the former it will have a frontage 45 feet long and 30 high, with two storeys; to the latter, a frontage 100 feet 3 inches long and 45 feet high, with three storeys. This difference is caused by the descent of Aberdeen Street, which gives the building a basement floor entering from that street. On this basement floor are the male and female waiting rooms for out-door patients—who enter by separate doors—and the dispensary, while there are also a room for the coolies, store closets, and a small mortuary 19 feet by 6 ft. The out-door patients are thus completely separated from the in-door patients; for whom the entrance is by Hollywood Road.\n\nOn the first floor and the floor above are the wards for the in-door patients. On the first floor are two large wards, one 33 feet by 23 feet, the other 36 ft. 10 in. by 22 ft. 8 in. There is also on this floor an operating room 24 feet by 28 ft. 6 inches, a bath room, and a surgeon’s room. On the floor above, there are three wards of the same size as the two wards below, a large kitchen for the use of the patients on one side, and lavatories and attendants' room on the other. The passage to the rooms on the first floor is by a covered way which passes along a verandah, the second floor being gained by a covered staircase. There is at the back a yard 18 feet by 38 ft. 10 in., which has been retained for light and ventilation to the building. Judging from the design, the building, though of a plain exterior, will be very substantial. The only bit of ornamentation is an architrave round the window. Its appearance, however, will suit the character of the work to be done inside, and the structure will form an imposing and enhancing addition to the architecture of the neighbourhood.\n\nThe hospital will be built of brick and stone. The basement will be entirely of stone, and the upper part mainly of brick with stone facings. The floors will be of teak wood, and the walls will be brick, pointed and colour washed. The wards should be roomy and airy. On the ground floor they will be 16 feet high, and on the upper floor they are open to the roof, having a height 14 foot to the tie-beam, and 22 feet to the apex of the roof. The building is situated on Inland lot No. 62A and occupies an area of 4500 square feet and it will have in front of it on Hollywood Road a new Chinese church which is being built under the auspices of the London Mission Society for the Christian Chinese in the Colony. It will be the wish of all who have the welfare of the natives at heart that the much needed Hospital and medical school may be soon in operation, and that true success may be the outcome of the labours of the gentlemen who have strive to provide this boon. The architects are Messrs Bird and Palmer.\n\nTHE CEREMONY.\n\nThe ceremony of laying the foundation stone took place at five o'clock this evening, in the presence of a fairly large and influential gathering of the European and Chinese friends and supporters of the institution. The stone was laid in the North West corner of the building, at the junction of Hollywood Road and Aberdeen Street, and the adjoining space covered in by a mat-shed, the supports of which were prettily wreathed with flowers, and baskets of flowers were also suspended from the roof. Seats were provided for the ladies, of whom there were between twenty and thirty present. Among those who were present, besides His Excellency the Acting Governor (Hon. W. H. Marsh) and Mrs Marsh, were—Hon. F. Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary; Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice; Hon. A. Lister, Colonial Treasurer; Hon. E. J. Ackroyd, Acting Attorney General; Hon. Wong Shing; Commodore Morant; Colonel G. C. Murray, Assistant Commissary General of Ordnance; Captain Porter, H. E.'s Aide-de-camp; Dr P. C. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon; Dr C. J. Wharry, Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital; Dr P. Man-Bon, Dr Young, Dr Hartigan, Dr Ho Kai, Dr G. P. Jordan; Dr Poate; Mr J. H. Stewart Lockhart; Mr H. MacCallum, Mr J. Thurburn; Mr D. R. Crawford, Mr G. H. Bateson Wright; Mr N. J. Ede; Rev. J. C. Edge; Rev. Mr Reusch, Rev. Mr Bender, Rev. Mr Hartmann; Messrs Wei Ayuk, Ching Se Kai, Kwan Hoi Chun, Leung Yat Nan, Lee Sz Hin, Woo Lin Yuen, Ko Hong Tik, Wong Ng Ching, Wei Lin.\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "No. \n\nDate. \n\nTime. \n\nRETURN OF FIRES AND ALARMS OCCURRED DURING THE YEAR 1886,--Continued.\n\n  \n    Situation of Fire.\n    No. of Building destroyed.\n    Damage.\n    Cause.\n    REMARKS.\n  \n  \n    Grass on hillside near Aberdeen,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mosquito curtain at No. 10, Jardine Bazaar,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Firewood in cook-house of No. 3, Hin Lung Lane, No. 50, Jardine Bazaar,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    No. 4, Square Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chimney at No. 224, Queen's Road West,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chimney of Medical Hall,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Firewood in the kitchen of No. 31, Gongh Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    A piece of cloth at No. 9, Wellington Street,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    41 May 30,\n    11.30 a.m.\n    Third Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    42 31,\n    8.30 a.m.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    43 June 30,\n    2.30 p.m.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    44 July 3,\n    7.30 a.m.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    45 3,\n    Midnight\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    46\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    47\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    48\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    49 30,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    50 August 3,\n    12.45 p.m.\n    No. 24, Circular Pathway,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    51 13,\n    9.45 p.m.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    52 13,\n    5 p.m.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    53 14,\n    Noon.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    54 17,\n    8.30 p.m.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    55 20,\n    10 a.m.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    56 26,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    57 30,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    58 September 5,\n    9.30 p.m.\n    Chimney of No. 21, Ladder Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    59\n    8.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    60\n    9,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    61 1,\n    11 p.m.\n    No. 3, Ezra Lane,\n    \n    Mat Screen.\n  \n  \n    62 12,\n    4.20 a.m.\n    No. 824, Queen's Road West,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    63 15,\n    4 p.m.\n    Grass on hill near Cape D'Aguilar and Stanley Road,\n    \n    $3,500\n  \n  \n    64 17,\n    7 p.m.\n    No. 41, Salt-fish Lane,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    65 17,\n    6.30 p.m.\n    A Kerosene Lamp No. 47, Hollywood Road,\n    Lamp burst.\n    \n  \n  \n    66 19,\n    4 p.m.\n    Grass on hillside near Chai Wan,\n    \n    Trifling\n  \n  \n    67 27,\n    10 a.m.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    68 29,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    69 October 2,\n    5.45 p.m.\n    Chimney of No. 10, Queen's Road Central,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    70 6,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    71\n    6 a.m.\n    Chimney of No. 18, Hollywood Road,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    72 11,\n    9 p.m.\n    Carpet in Hongkong Hotel,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    73 12,\n    6.30 p.m.\n    Grass on Mount Davis,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    74 21,\n    10.45 p.m.\n    A mosquito curtain in No. 5, Third Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    75 22,\n    12.30 p.m.\n    A matshed at Stone Cutters' Island,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    76 22,\n    \n    No. 3, Kan Ü Fong,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    77 23,\n    5.50 p.m.\n    No. 3, Tuk Hing Lane,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    78 November 2,\n    12.50 p.m.\n    Grass on hill near Tai-tam-tuk,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    79 2,\n    7.20 p.m.\n    Some mats on No. 51, Caine Road,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    80 6,\n    \n    Chimney of Tsimshatsui Station,\n    \n    $12,000\n  \n  \n    81 November 8,\n    \n    Chimney of No. 95, Second Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    82 13,\n    10,\n    No. 218, Hollywood Road,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    83 10,\n    17\n    A bundle of firewood in No. 10, West Street\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    84 11,\n    3\n    Rattan shavings in No. 15, Tik Lung Lane,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    85 18,\n    \n    A mattress in No. 74, Praya East,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    86 20,\n    11\n    Flooring of No. 88, Bridges Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    87 20,\n    32\n    Cook-house No. 6, Praya, Hunghom,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    88 22,\n    \n    No. 17, Hollywood Road,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    89 24,\n    \n    Horse Repository, Garden Road,\n    \n    $40,000\n  \n  \n    90 24,\n    5.40 p.m.\n    A mosquito curtain No. 60, Praya, Yaumati,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    91 26,\n    9 p.m.\n    No. 106, Queen's Road West,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    92 26,\n    \n    Chimney No. 36, Praya Central,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    93 29,\n    5 p.m.\n    A mosquito curtain No. 7, Circular Pathway,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    94 December 5,\n    5 p.m.\n    A mosquito curtain Square Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    95 7,\n    37\n    Hillside near North Fort,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    96 11,\n    59\n    Bed board at No. 23, Taipingshan Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    97 13,\n    \n    Grass on the hill at Aberdeen,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    98\n    15\n    Chimney of No. 39, Pottinger Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    99 16,\n    5 a.m.\n    No. 91, Queen's Road West,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    100 16,\n    33\n    12.30 p.m.\n    Grass on hill between Chaiwan and Shekò,\n    \n  \n  \n    101 17,\n    7 a.m.\n    No. 223, Queen's Road West,\n    \n    $16,000\n  \n  \n    102 17,\n    8 p.m.\n    Wooden partition at No. 20, Jervois Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    103 19,\n    5.40 p.m.\n    No. 67, Bonham Strand West,\n    \n    $18,000\n  \n  \n    104 20,\n    1.40 a.m.\n    Mat-bags in No. 155, Praya West,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    105 20,\n    \n    A coal godown in Ship Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    106 22,\n    3 p.m.\n    Cook-house of No. 42, Jervois Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    107 24,\n    5 p.m.\n    A matshed in Italian Convent's Garden at Kaulung,\n    \n    $80\n  \n  \n    108 25,\n    33\n    5.50 p.m.\n    Chimney of No. 91, Praya West,\n    \n  \n  \n    109 28,\n    7 p.m.\n    1st floor of No. 23, East Street,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    110 29,\n    5 p.m.\n    Grass on the hillside above Pokfulam Road,\n    \n    \n  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BREWER,\n\nActing Superintendent Fire Brigade.",
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        "content_text": "Specifications\n\nREC\n\nC. O.\n\n553\n\n382\n\nREGO 9 JAN 88,\n\nThe school building of the Basel Mission in High Street contains one large schoolroom and two rooms and a Kitchen for a teacher.\n\nFig. A. Quoder to get two schoolrooms instead of one, the teacher is to be provided with other quarters, the walls of his rooms are to be taken out and the whole building is to be divided by a new wall into two schoolrooms as large as shown in Fig. B.\n\n2.\n\nIn order to get more light into the schoolrooms, the windows on two sides are to be replaced by larger ones.",
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        "content_text": "quarters $60 per \n\n芝 \n\nmuch below the actual value. \n\nI believe arguable rooms in this neighbourhood are often rented for $10 a month and I think \n\nthe two rooms, kitchen and \n\nbackyard belonging to these quarters could not be valued at less than $120 per annum. \n\nI request the enclosure which belongs to M Chapman \n\nbe returned to me \n\n5. A. Gordon, \nSuperintendent. \n\n610 \n\nMinute by the Colonial Secretary: \n\nTo Audit for report. \n\n23.3.88. \n\n57. J. Stewart \n\nC. O. \n\n15012 \n\nREC. \nAPRO 7 AU MO \n\nCol: Secti \n\nMinute by the Audit Clerk: \n\nThe Hon The Colonial Secretary) \n\nreferred to \n\nHer Haywood: 2 \n\nThe late Gaoling Superintendent \n\n2 recd \n\n# \n\nIt is considered that \n\nthe value of quarters for all \n\nsubordinate officers below the Warder of the Gaol should be \n\nat a uniform rate, viz: $10 \n\nper month, which sum \n\nhas always been allowed. \n\nThe Secretary of State had, on several occasions, invited \n\nthe attention \n\nof the Governor \n\nto this subject - Vide Despatches \n\nNo 254 of 4 November, 1884, \npara.",
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        "content_text": "of the Committee.\n\nEncl. 3. 17th Dec.\n\n1890.\n\nThe customary Report on the Ordinance by the Acting Attorney General is annexed, and a copy of the Drainage Bye-Laws referred to therein is\n\nenclosed\n\nfor Your Lordship's information.\n\n4.\n\nPrinted With six.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nGwder Volus\n\nSpare Copies)\n\n*\n\nEnclosure 2\n\nREPORT.\n\n63\n\nC. O.\n\n3905\n\nThe Committee appointed on the 29th November, 1888, to enquire into and report on the extent of over-crowding which is supposed to exist in Victoria have to report as follows:---\n\n(Red 24 FEB 91\n\n1. For the purpose of carrying out the investigations deemed necessary the city was divided into 275 blocks by the late Surveyor General as shown on the plan of the city in the Board Room.\n\n2. The superficial area of each block has been given to the Committee by the Surveyor, as also the area of the half of the various streets surrounding each block.\n\n3. The cubical contents of each floor have been ascertained by the measurement of the floors of one house in each row of houses of the same size and description. It is assumed that for practical purposes this has given a near enough approximation to accuracy. Of course, wherever there appeared to be any clearly appreciable difference of size between houses in a row, further measurements have been made to approximately ascertain the amount of such differences.\n\n4. The cubical measurements given in the tabular statements are gross measurements, i.e., no deduction has been made for the space occupied by partitions, fittings, furniture, etc., etc., nor for the space occupied by the people living in the rooms. This is a point of considerable importance. An ordinary three-storied Chinese house when it is completed by the builder has, as a rule, three living rooms and three kitchens. In the more recently constructed houses of this class the living rooms are separated from the kitchens by means of a back-yard. In the older houses the separation is by means of a brick partition wall. When such a house is let, in the great majority of cases the tenant of each floor, i.e., the living room and kitchen, begins at once to divide the living room into 4, 6, 8 or more cabins by means of thin wooden partitions, and then to sub-let these small cabins separately. These wooden partitions occupy a very appreciable amount of space, and when to the space occupied by them is added that taken up by other fittings, furniture, clothing, etc., etc. and also the space occupied by the persons living in the rooms, a very considerable deduction has to be made from the gross space of the floor before the nett clear air space available in each cabin is arrived at.\n\nThe rough model of a three-storied Chinese dwelling on view in the Board's Offices illustrates the points here alluded to, and the following table shows the gross measurements of four ordinary floors together with the amount of clear air space therein.\n\n  \n    STREET.\n    FLOOR.\n    GROSS MEASUREMENTS.\n    CLEAR AIR SPACE.\n  \n  \n    17, Caine Lane,\n    Ground.\n    8,544 cubic feet.\n    5,634 cubic feet.\n  \n  \n    28, Upper Station Street,\n    Do.\n    9,133\n    7,725\n  \n  \n    46, Bridges Street,\n    Do.\n    4,890\n    2,614\n  \n  \n    11, Tung On Lane,\n    Do.\n    4,992\n    3,546\n  \n  \n    TOTAL,\n    \n    27,550 cubic feet.\n    19,519 cubic feet.\n  \n\nIt will be seen that on an average something like 29 per cent. should be deducted from the gross measurements of the rooms to arrive at the clear air space available for the persons living in these rooms. Taking the cubical contents gross",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nTHE CHINA REVIEW.\n\na wash for the feet. It is also applied to ulcers of the face, in convulsions of children and in prolapsus ani.\n\nIn the official medical records of Hong Kong, the first mention of Datura is made by Mr. Hugh McCallum, in the analytical section of the Colonial Surgeon's annual report for 1882.1 Mr. McCallum, the then Government Analyst, has obligingly placed at our disposal some notes of the investigations made by him which led up to the discovery that a Solanaceous plant and possibly Datura alba was a common stupefying agent amongst the Chinese in Hong Kong. He states, that during the years 1880-1882, cases of alleged drugging were frequently before the courts, and nearly always connected with robbery; the victims being in most cases returned emigrants. An impression seems to have pervaded the minds of the Magistrates and the Police that the complainants were either drunk from alcohol, or that the cases had simply been trumped up by some evil-disposed person for the sake of revenge. In June or July 1882, a Chinese female child was brought late one evening to the Civil Hospital, by the Police, in a narcotised condition. The girl had been stolen, and was found by the Police in a junk about to leave the harbour. When roused, the child was most vicious, and the temper displayed by her pointed to madness. The pupils of both eyes were widely dilated. Left alone the child soon fell asleep, and next morning, beyond displaying great stupidity, was quite well. The pupils were still dilated.\n\nMr. McCallum then proceeded to examine a bundle of flowers reputed by the Chinese as a stupefying drug, an extract of which acted as a powerful mydriatic, both when administered internally and when applied locally to the eye. Some of the extract was given to a small monkey, and the effects produced by it were similar to those observed in the case of the little girl. The flowers were submitted to the Director of the Botanic Gardens, and identified as those of Datura alba.\n\nShortly after this, and while the Datura investigation was still being conducted in the Government Laboratory, a second instance of mydriatic poisoning was brought to the notice of the Civil Medical authorities. Mr. McCallum's note of this case runs as follows: A Chinese barber in good health, but old and anemic, soon after the beginning of his evening meal, felt himself getting giddy, and shortly afterwards became unconscious. He was found by the Police next morning still stupid and talking a lot of nonsense.\n\nWhen brought to the Hospital at 11 a.m., his gait was unsteady; he trembled and looked very foolish. The pupils of both eyes were widely dilated, and he complained of a pain in his throat. Next day he recovered; the pupils were, however, still dilated, and he complained of feeling giddy. In his official report, Mr. McCallum remarks that unfortunately it was impossible to prove what particular plant was used in either of these cases, but no doubt it was a Datura, and most probably the variety known as D. alba.\n\nSince 1882, there have been several cases of poisoning by Datura. We shall, however, only allude to a particular case which came under the notice of one of us, wherein it was conclusively proved that the flowers of Datura alba had been employed.\n\nAt about 5 a.m., on the 8th of May 1885, two adult females (Ch.) and an adult male (Ch.) were brought by the Police to the Civil Hospital suffering from a mydriatic poison. As the police version of the affair was so confusing, it was decided to defer making enquiries, until the patients had so far recovered as to be able to remember the early details of the occurrence.1\n\nOn the morning of their discharge from the Hospital, the elder of the women stated, that about ten o'clock on the night of the 7th, she saw the third patient put a small bundle into the utensil which contained the evening meat. When she enquired why he did this, he replied that it was good medicine. Later on, she saw him remove the bundle, and observed that he threw it into a corner of the kitchen. The woman, who gave her evidence in a very straightforward and intelligent manner, was requested to proceed at once to her home, make a careful search for the supposed drug and bring it at once to the Civil Hospital. In half an hour she returned, bearing in her hand a bundle of flowers, which, although somewhat mangled, were easily recognized as those of Datura alba.\n\nThere is no record at the Hong Kong Civil Hospital of a single case of Datura drugging terminating fatally.\n\nThe symptoms, as displayed by the Chinese, appear to vary but little. Soon after the administration of the drug, the victim suffers from dimness of sight, and staggers as he attempts to walk: he chatters away in an unintelligible manner, and laughingly grasps at imaginary objects. This latter is perhaps to the ordinary observer the most striking feature in Datura poisoning. The patient sits up in bed and picks at the bed clothes as though to catch some passing object, and will amuse himself by attempting to draw out imaginary threads from the ends of his fingers. If the case is a mild one, the patient will, if left alone, fall asleep, and after several hours' rest be practically well. In severe cases the patient acts more like a maniac. He recoils with a shriek from anyone who comes near him, and offers the most violent resistance to medical treatment. In all cases the pupils are dilated, and mydriasis will remain for some time after the other symptoms have subsided.1 The effects of Datura are usually produced in about fifteen minutes after the administration of the poison, but the activity of the herb would have to be in a liquid form to act so rapidly as this.\n\nThe reader is referred to Dr. Norman Chevers' Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for details of cases of poisoning in India by Dhatura (the Hindustani name for a species of Datura), and for an interesting account of the professional poisoners or Dhaturepas.1\n\nPharmacists ought not to experience much difficulty in obtaining in China a good quantity of this plant for medicinal uses. Even if the supply of the wild variety fails, any number of plants could on demand be grown from seeds in the south of China. In the Hong Kong Botanic Gardens may be seen some very fine specimens raised in this way. The leaves and seeds are included in the Pharmacopoeia of India (p. 175); and preparations of them are in constant use for a variety of disorders.\n\nPARTS USED AND DESCRIPTION.-The fresh entire plant. The leaves vary considerably in size, the largest are about 8 inches long and 5 inches broad, very unequal at the\n\n1Hongkong Govt. Gaz., Vol. XXIX., p. 662.\n\n1Dr. Chevers states that persons who have been drugged by Dhatura should have more than a week allowed them to recover their memory.2 ({Med. Jurisp. for Ind. (1870), p. 210).\n\n1In the annual report, for 1885, of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, the following occurs in the Toxicological section (par. 877, p. 43); 'The symptoms in most pointed to some variety of stramonium or datura, administered in the form of decoction or infusion, but the quantities sent for examination have generally been too small from which to extract any of the alkaloids.' We are of opinion that if the enquiry is directed into the proper channel, no doubt it will be found that Datura alba is in use for criminal purposes in Singapore just the same as in Hong Kong and the Kwangtung province of China. Singapore is more a Chinese than a Malay Colony. In Hong Kong we believe the flowers are generally employed by the criminal: this will probably account for the fact that the majority of cases of Datura drugging are not very severe. The violent resistance offered by the victims to the use of the stomach pump and their determination in refusing all liquid emetics render it almost impossible to thoroughly empty the stomach; so that unless the analyst makes a direct search for atropine, there is danger of his missing the poison in the small quantity of material saved. If the food has been drugged, no difficulty should be encountered in detecting the poison, if a fair quantity of the meal has been left.\n\n5\n\n135",
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        "content_text": "Shippers of cargo can be informed that I have 500 of the Dizle Brigade at my disposal if they want men, but they will have to pay them.\n\n8. W. Robuisons.\n\n## Inclosure 3\n\n613  \nC. O.  \n7333  \nRECO IR 29 APR CS\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 233.**\n\nThe following Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board on the 13th day of March, 1891, amended on the 2nd day of April, and approved of by the Legislative Council on the 22nd instant, are hereby published for general information.\n\nBy Command,  \n**W. M. DEANE**,  \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1891.\n\n### Bye-laws for licensing and regulating Common Lodging-Houses\n\nmade under sub-section 12 of section 13 of Ordinance No. `24` of 1887 and sub-section D of section I of Ordinance No. `26` of 1890.\n\n1. A Register of all common lodging-houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in the form of Schedule A appended to these bye-laws.\n\n2. Before a house can be registered as a common lodging-house, an application must be made to the Registrar General in the form of the Schedule B hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the number of the rooms to be set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar General.\n\n3. The Registrar General shall transmit each application for the registration of a house as a common lodging-house to the Sanitary Board, and the Board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its Officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a common lodging-house.\n\n4. Any house to be registered as a common lodging-house must be substantially built and in a good state of repair, the floors must be paved with tiles or cement concrete or with lime concrete rendered with one inch of Portland cement or boarded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws regulating house drainage, there must be adequate kitchen, ablution, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board; and unless when the supply of water is constant, there must be a proper cistern for the storage of water.\n\n## Registrar  \n## Registration  \n## of houses.  \n## R.  \n## Da.",
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        "content_text": "560 \n\n50 cents per day. About one year afterwards I told the interpreter that $1.50 was too little and I wanted $2.50 per day. From that time until 21st June, 1897, I received $2 per day and the interpreter fifty cents. I used to receive the money once a week while the gambling was going on but if there was no gambling he did not pay me. I used the money for my own private purposes and never told the Inspector and he knew nothing about it. This I affirm to be the truth. The interpreter used to give me the money in the kitchen when no one was present.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of \"The Statutory Declarations Act 1835\".\n\nDeclared by the declarant Maria Antonia da Silva at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong this 22nd day of July, 1897, through the interpretation of Capitolino João Xavier of Victoria aforesaid, the said Capitolino João Xavier having been also first declared that he had truly, distinctly and audibly interpreted the contents of this document to the said declarant and that he would truly and faithfully interpret the declaration about to be administered unto her.\n\nBefore me\n\n**(Sd.) Bruce Shepherd, J.P.,**  \nVictoria.\n\n**(Sd.) Marla A. Silva**",
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        "content_text": "716\n\n14-\n\nEnclosure C.\n\nMeasures to give effect to Mr. Chadwick's Recommendations of 1882.\n\nLEGISLATION.\n\nThe Public Health Ordinance, 1887.\n\nUnder date of the 22nd December, 1886, the then Sanitary Board, which consisted of Mr. J. M. Price, Surveyor General, Dr. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, Registrar General, Major T. C. Dempster, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, Dr. Manson, Mr. A. P. McEwen, Mr. N. J. Ede, and Dr. Ho Kai, forwarded to Government the draft of a proposed Public Health Ordinance with Bye-laws to be made thereunder, accompanied by a memorandum by Dr. Ho Kai, protesting against the measure.\n\nThis memorandum opens with the following words:- \"By this Ordinance and the Bye-laws made thereunder, landed property in this Colony to the extent of millions of dollars will be sacrificed, vested interests greatly interfered with, and public confidence shaken to its foundations. This Ordinance, together with its Bye-laws, contains nearly all the important provisions of a Building Ordinance sought to be introduced last year into the Legislative Council, and which, as soon as it was known, created quite a sensation in this Colony.\"\n\nHe went on to write:- \"From an economical point of view, the idea of sacrificing the millions of square feet at an average price of $5 or $7 per square foot is even more ridiculous. What is this enforced sacrifice for? Simply for the sake of a theory that the Chinese public require all such sanitary improvements to promote their health and welfare. But I challenge the soundness of that theory. I say the Chinese in general do not require this sacrifice or even desire it.\"\n\nIt is not for the welfare of the poor to have the valuable space occupied by their small rooms narrowed in order to provide for a model privy, a superb kitchen, and sumptuous back-yard of 10 feet wide, while at the same time the wicked landlords continue to charge the same rent or even a higher one for improvements and increase in capital necessary to effect such improvements.\n\nJust fancy the position of the poor tenant if this Bill becomes law. He will be forced to pay an enormous rent for less space than before, plus all sorts of sanitary improvements which, however good in themselves from a European standpoint, they do not care for, and which they think, at least their constitutions do not require. They may say that they are habituated to such cities like Canton, Kowloon City, &c.; compared to which Hongkong, as it now stands, is a paradise, a model of cleanliness, a perfect sanitarium, and that if more improvements are required, let those who advocate them pay for them, and not they.\"\n\nThe Bill, as drafted by the Sanitary Board, was remodelled by embodying in it the principal provisions of the more important Bye-laws proposed to be made under it, and on the 6th of May, 1887, the Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of it in the Legislative Council, quoting in support of the Bill the report of Mr. Chadwick referred to by the Chamber of Commerce, and urging Mr. Chadwick's remarks as a justification for a drastic Sanitary measure. Among the most important provisions of the Bill were the following:-\n\nOpen Spaces around Dwellings.\n\n(a.) That in any new building, a habitation intended for human habitation should not be allowed to shut on the hillside, but should have a space of 4 feet clear between it and the hillside.\n\n(b.) That, subject to an appeal to the Governor in Council, in any new domestic building, a clear space forming a back-yard of at least 10 feet in width along the entire back of such building, and kept at all times open to the sky, should be provided.\n\nOvercrowding.\n\n(c.) That every domestic building or portion thereof found to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult to every 300 cubic feet of clear internal space should be considered to be in an overcrowded condition.\n\nIt was mentioned by the mover of the Bill that this latter provision was calculated to displace 20,000 of the population.\n\nC. S. O. HAG\n\n\"China Mail\" 12th May, 1887.\n\n\"Supplement Daily Press\" of 7th July, 1887.\n\nVide section 59 of Ordinance 24 of 1887.\n\n15\n\nIt is no exaggeration to say that the Bill excited, as was foreshadowed by Dr. Ho Kai's memorandum, a storm of opposition.\n\nThe first reading was followed by a series of leading articles in the \"Daily Press\" against the Bill.\n\nOn the 11th of May, a deputation of Chinese waited on the Acting Governor and addressed His Excellency on the subject of the Bill.\n\nThey pointed out that the provision of 10 feet backyards, kitchens, and privies would cost from 10 to 20 million dollars. That the poorer classes would suffer by the curtailment of accommodation; that privies for common use were against Chinese social habits; and that no compensation was offered.\n\nOn the 23rd of June, a memorial praying for the postponement of the consideration of the measure, and signed by all the Unofficial Members, the representatives of all the leading European or American Firms in the Colony, and by a very large number of Chinese, was presented in the Council Chamber to His Excellency Major-General Cameron, the Acting Governor.\n\nThe memorial contained a statement that the signatories \"had great doubts as to the foundation for the deplorable picture drawn of the Sanitary Condition and prospects of Hongkong, based upon statements made 13 years ago\" (referring to Dr. Ayres' report of 1874), and the then Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council (Honourable P. Ryrie) said that while the memorialists had no objection to such Sanitary measures as were necessary to preserve the health of those who occupied tenements in the Colony, they objected to several clauses of the Bill which interfered with their property. He indicated specially the clause requiring 10 feet back-yards.\n\nThe late Mr. Granville Sharp, in the course of some remarks adverse to the Bill, stated that the memorial had been signed \"by the whole community.\"\n\nOn the 3rd of July, a large meeting of Chinese was held at the Tang Wa Hospital against the Bill.\n\nThe Bill was read a second time on the 21st of July, and on the 20th September, the Honourable A. P. McEwen (a member of the Sanitary Board who had therefore assisted in drafting the original Bill) and the representative on the Council of the Chamber of Commerce, moved that instead of 300 cubic feet of air-space being provided for each adult in a domestic building, only 200 feet be provided.\n\nAfter much discussion, the Honourable J. Bell-Irving moved, by way of a compromise, and the Honourable C. P. Chuter seconded, that 250 feet only be provided.\n\nThe amendment was supported by all the Unofficial Members but lost.\n\nOn the 23rd of September, the Bill was read a third time against a unanimous Unofficial vote and passed against a similar vote.\n\nThe Bill, which from first to last was strenuously opposed both in and out of Council, underwent numerous modifications during its passage through the Council, with the following effect on the provisions (a.) and (b.) mentioned above. (a.) was applied only to buildings (intended for human habitation) erected on land obtained from the Crown after the passing of the Ordinance.\n\nIn cases of land obtained from the Crown before the passing of the Ordinance, it was applied with a number of exemptions which rendered the provision practically nugatory, as far as the object it was originally intended to effect was concerned. (b.) was relegated to the proposed new Building Ordinance, in which it never found a place, and this all-important provision was therefore lost. (c) was forced through the Council by the official vote, in the teeth of the strongest opposition on the part of all the Unofficial Members, including the representative of the Chamber of Commerce, which body now complains that Government has not exacted an allowance of 600 cubic feet, or three times what its representative and the other Unofficial Members considered sufficient.\n\nIn the \"Daily Press\" (which had strongly opposed the Bill all through its passage) of the 26th September, 1887, we find the following remarks in a leading article:-\n\n\"One of the chief grievances of residents in this Colony, Chinese and Europeans alike, is the great scarcity of house accommodation and the consequent high rents.\n\nThis grievous state of things the Government proposes to make worse and worse by enforcing laws against overcrowding. Every person is to have 300 cubic feet of space to sleep in, although even...",
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        "content_text": "OP Y.\n\nEnclosure No. of Governor's Despatch No. 364 of 1901. 485\n\n*********\n\n****\n\n*********\n\nNo.254.\n\nC.O.\n\nFrom the Principal Civil Medical Officer. 36049\n\nREC\n\nTo the Honourable the Colonial Secretary.\n\nRECE 14 OCT 01\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital,\n\nHongkong, 24th August, 1901.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to report that when at home I observed the wonderful advances that have been made in aseptic surgery at the London Hospitals since my last visit.\n\nThe operating theatre here is simply a disgrace to the hospital and the patients have not a fair chance, from the structure of the building it is impossible to keep it free of dust and the light is very deficient.\n\nI have taken the opportunity of consulting with Mr. Tooker concerning this matter whilst he has been in hospital and I would suggest the erection of a new operating theatre on the site of the present hospital kitchen. This would be in direct communication with the main building as there is already a passage between the two.\n\nIf this is sanctioned I would recommend that Mr. Ram, who is now at home on leave, be requested to draw up plans for this addition. I ask this, as I know he is making a study of hospital construction and this is a special and new departure.\n\nIt is necessary for the theatre to be dust proof, so that no germs can obtain admission, that the walls be tiled and the roof made of glass.\n\nThe hospital kitchen might be erected opposite the present Dispensary where there are some buildings now",
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        "content_text": "C. O. P Y No. 101.\n\n151\n\nEnclosure to Despatch No. 34 of the 7th August, 1903.\n\n38377\n\nRec? \n\nnd 15 SEP 021\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th January, 1897.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter No. 2 of the 7th instant,\n\nI am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to grant you an allowance of $130 per annum as compensation for the privilege you have until recently enjoyed of rearing vegetables for your private consumption in the Government Kitchen Garden.\n\nThis allowance will be personal to yourself and cannot be drawn by your locum tenens nor by you whilst you are absent on leave.\n\nO. Ford, Esq.,\n\nSuperintendent,\n\nBotanical and Afforestation Department.\n\nI have etc.;\n\n(Sgd.) J. H. Stewart Lockhart,\n\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "## Part II. PUBLIC HEALTH\n\nSection 54 (4) gives compensation for the compulsory slaughter of infected animals which have been bred in the Colony.\n\nSection 56 provides that animals brought to the Colony to be slaughtered for food shall not be kept in any Government Depôt for a longer period than twenty-one days, and that if condemned by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon as unfit for food, they shall be removed forthwith.\n\nSection 75 (6) authorizes the Governor to cancel the lease of a stall in a Government market if the lessee has been convicted of a breach of the Bye-laws for the regulation and sanitary maintenance of markets.\n\nSection 82 makes the procedure for dealing with unwholesome food in markets and public places the same as with such food in shops and private premises (cf. s. 83). The destruction of unwholesome food may now be ordered by the President instead of by the Board, on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health or of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.\n\nSection 88.---Public vehicles may not be knowingly used for the conveyance of persons suffering from an infectious disease; if any such vehicle is so used, power is given to detain it until it has been satisfactorily disinfected.\n\nSection 89.---The Board may recover the cost of the disinfection of infected premises, and may (shall in certain cases) give compensation for articles destroyed in such process.\n\n## Part III. BUILDINGS\n\nSection 100.---Blue bricks may be used only in the uppermost storey of a building instead of in the two uppermost storeys.\n\nSection 101 (1).---The thickness of the walls of new buildings in relation to their height is somewhat increased.\n\nThe following comparative scale shows the proposed increases in thickness:\n\n| PRESENT SCALE | PROPOSED SCALE |\n| --- | --- |\n| For walls not exceeding 40 feet in length, clear of a cross wall. |  |\n| Height of Wall | Thickness of Wall |\n| 12 feet | 9 inches |\n| 12-25 feet | 13½ inches |\n| 25-40 feet | 18 inches in lowermost storey and 13½ inches for the rest |\n| Height of Wall | Thickness of Wall |\n| 12 feet | 18½ inches |\n| 12-25 feet | 18½ inches |\n| 40-50 feet | 22 inches in lowermost storey and 18 inches for the rest |\n| 40-55 feet | 22 inches in the two lowermost storeys and 13½ inches for the rest |\n| 50-60 feet | 22 inches in the two lower-most Storeys and 18 inches for the rest |\n| 55-70 feet | 22 inches in lowermost storey, 18 inches in two next above and 13½ inches for the rest |\n| 70-80 feet | 27 inches in lowermost storey, 22 inches in the next above, 18 inches in the next storey and 13½ inches for the rest |\n| 70-80 feet | 31 inches in lowermost storey, 27 inches in the next above, 22 inches in the next, 18 inches in the next, and 13½ inches for the rest |\n\nNo storey shall exceed 15 feet in height without the permission of the Building Authority.\n\nWalls more than 40 feet in length clear of a cross wall shall be increased 4½ inches in thickness beyond the above scale.\n\nSection 102 (1).---No wall shall exceed 60 feet in length clear of a cross wall without the consent of the Building Authority (with the exception of boundary walls); the limit under the present law is 35 feet.\n\n(2).---A wall may not exceed 76 feet in height without the approval of the Building Authority; the present law says 80 feet but in that case the height of the wall is measured from the top of the footings whereas it is now proposed to measure it from the level of the adjacent foot-path or street. [cf. also s. 188 (5).]\n\n(3) requires tie-rods for all external walls exceeding 30 feet in length, clear of a cross wall.\n\nSection 107 requires the side wall of a corner building having a shop front to be returned for a distance of nine inches in buildings of not more than one storey, whereas the present law requires only six inches.\n\nSection 108.---Lath-and-plaster and other hollow walls are prohibited outside the European Reservation and the Hill District except by permission of the Building Authority.\n\nSection 109.---New walls are required to have suitable bonding.\n\nSection 112 requires the renewal of the impervious covering to ground surfaces, when such has perished.\n\nSection 118.---The level of the ground floor of every new building must be at least six inches higher than the level of the ground outside such building.\n\nSection 116.---The ground storey of every new building shall be at least twelve feet high and every upper storey shall be at least eleven feet high; coolie quarters, bath-room, kitchens and latrines need only be nine feet high. The present law requires a height of at least nine feet in all cases.\n\nSection 117.---Boarded floors in a ground storey of a new building shall be at least two and a half feet (average) above the ground level, and ventilating openings in the walls shall be protected by gratings for the exclusion of rats.\n\nSection 119.---All wooden floors hereafter constructed shall be made reasonably water-tight.\n\nSection 120.---The floors of new buildings outside the European Reservation and Hill District shall have cement skirtings twelve inches high.\n\nSection 121.---All staircases hereafter constructed shall have a tread of at least eight inches and a rise of not more than eight and a half inches per step.\n\nSection 122.---New ceilings are prohibited outside the European Reservation and Hill District, except by permission of the Building Authority.\n\nSection 123.---Corbels shall be set in cement mortar.\n\nSection 132 requires the floors of verandahs and balconies to be supplied with gutters and downpipes.\n\nSection 136.---No balcony shall hereafter be projected from any building which exceeds 1 times in height, the width of the street on which it fronts.\n\nSection 139 contains a new prohibition as to the enclosure of verandahs or balconies by blinds at night.\n\nSection 140.---Adequate kitchen accommodation shall be provided in all domestic buildings. The internal surface of the walls of all such kitchens shall be rendered in cement mortar to a height of four feet from the floor.\n\nSection 141.---The kitchens of tenement houses hereafter erected shall only extend across half the width of the house, except in the case of corner houses.\n\nSection 143.---Hoods for charcoal fires shall be of sheet metal—the alternative of a lath-and-plaster hood having been deleted.",
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        "content_text": "## Prasent\nTotal Depth of Lot | 40 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total area of lot | 560 Sq ft |\n| Yard | 140 |\n| Yard | 112 |\n| Scale | 1 Linck = $ Feet |\n\nKITCHEN | 14.0 | \n| --- | --- |\nBRIDGE | 23 | 8.o*\n7. | *00 \nProposed Law | 560 Sq FT | 13 \n\n330339 \n338",
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        "content_text": "## Distribution of Relief at Ts'am Chau\n\nDistribution 18 and among those missed by the Chinese at Ts'am Chau is done in three ways. (1) There is the official relief fund, to which the Governor of Kwang Sai, Wong Chi Chun, has promised a contribution of 1,000 piculs, towards which he has already paid down $2,000. The Prefect, Chong Tso Ke, has contributed $1,000, and the district magistrate, Chau Shiu Lim, 700 taels. This fund is intended primarily for relief only inside the city of Ts'am Chau, and is administered by means of the Po Kap Kuk, or tithings (10 families). Each head of a tithing reports those who are destitute among the ten families under his supervision; the man so reported is given a ticket by the Po Kap Kuk, for which he obtains rice at the rate of 3 oz. a day, i.e., he is given 15 oz. of rice, as the distribution is made once in five days in the Temple of Literature. The fault in this system is that it can relieve only those who are householders in Ts'am Chau; moreover, certain shopkeepers, who, owing to the suspension of trade, are absolutely starving, can obtain nothing, as the gentry will not believe in their indigence. The pawnshops have been closed in Ts'am Chau all this year, and I can see no signs of any business being done even on the market days.\n\n(2) The Fa-ti-pau, who is himself a poor man, makes a daily distribution of rice at the likin station, giving an ounce of rice to all starving people who come to the station, but the relief does not reach far, as the Fa-ti-pau cannot afford to issue large quantities of rice.\n\n(3) The Cantonese merchants resident in Ts'am Chau have subscribed a sum of $2,000 which has been sent down here to purchase rice. This rice is intended for distribution in the market towns, i.e., in the countryside, not in the city. But the rice has not yet arrived, and therefore relief has not as yet commenced.\n\n## Meeting with the Governor of Kwong Sai\n\nThis morning I visited the Governor of Kwong Sai, who handed me the appended list of famine-stricken districts in this prefecture.* His Excellency informed me that in his opinion the district which is suffering most of all is Nanning, and that the area of distress extends from Nanning the whole length of the West River to N'am Pong. Whatever is to be done must be done without delay, otherwise the people for whom relief is intended will be dead. His Excellency promised every assistance to measures taken by the Hong-kong community for famine relief.\n\n## Telegram to Your Excellency\n\nAccordingly, I sent to Your Excellency this morning the following telegram: - \"Arrived Ts'am Chau. Seen Governor Wong Chi Chun promises assistance. Famine work here in hands of Fee. Required for immediate continuance of work $550, which pay to account Fee, Hongkong Shanghai Bank. Relief needed till next harvest, and July. Estimate rice required Ts'am Chau district till then 1,350 piculs. Convert all contributions into rice and forward to Wuchow. Arranging for transmission from Wuchow up West River. Proceed Kwai Yun to-morrow.\"\n\n## Request for Information on Relief Fund\n\nIt will be a great assistance to me if Your Excellency will kindly telegraph to me at Nanning the amount of money at which the Hongkong relief fund is estimated, for any suggestions that I can make must be based upon the sum of money available for use. But as far as I can now see, it will be handy if we are able to establish three distributing centres at N'am Peng, Ts'am Chau, and at Kwai Yun. I will report later on N'am Peng and Kwai Yun, and also on Nanning, though I do not consider that it is probable that Nanning can be relieved from Hongkong owing to the delays of transport by junk from Kwai Yun up the West River. As far as Kwai Yun, steam transport is available. The companies which run launches are Chinese-owned and their headquarters are, I believe, at Wuchow. I am writing to Mr Fox to suggest that he should urge these companies to grant free transport for rice forwarded from Hongkong and would venture to suggest that Your Excellency should approach the Viceroy at Canton in this matter. Rice should also be duty-free. I mentioned both these matters to H.E. Wong Chi Chun, who said he would do what he could, but that the authority did not rest in him.\n\n## Distribution Arrangements\n\nDistribution at Ts'am Chau has been so excellently organised by Mr Fee that I cannot but recommend that he should be placed in charge of this distributing centre. Mr Jaffray is leaving to-morrow for Wuchow to arrange for missionary workers at any centres established, and also to endeavour to arrange the question of transport from Wochow up river.\n\nThe Chinese officials should be requested to provide at each distributing centre - (1) free quarters for the distributors, (2) a suitable place in which the distribution shall take place, (3) kitchen fittings for the cooking of rice gruel in large quantities, (4) free delivery of rice from the rice boats by coolies at the place of distribution or kitchen. They should also issue a proclamation in the distributing centres and country round about, notifying the distribution which is to be made by the Hongkong relief fund.\n\n## Next Steps\n\nI leave to-morrow morning at 6 am, for Kwai Yun by launch, and will report further after I have seen what is the condition of affairs there. I would urge that no time should be lost in sending rice up to Wuchow, and that in any case the distribution at Ts'am Chau should not be permitted to cease for lack of funds.\n\nI am,\nYour Excellency's obedient servant,\nC. CLEMENTI.\n\n*The number of starving people in the Famine District of Kwei-Ping is as follows: -\n\n| District | Number of People |\n| --- | --- |\n| Within the city and suburbs | 2,644 |\n| Daily going to the Protestant Church for food | about 3,500 |\n\nThe following is the approximate number of people in various districts at present requiring relief: -\n\n| District | Number of People |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Wing-Wo-Li on the West and South banks | about 14,000 |\n| 2. Upper and lower Shung-Keung-Li | about 13,600 |\n| 3. Kwan-Ling Li | about 14,500 |\n| 4. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Hau-Luk-Li | about 2,410 |\n| 5. Sheung-To-Li, near the river banks | about 1,100 |\n| 6. Sheung-Shau-Li | about 10,700 |\n| 7. Sun-yat-Li near the river banks | about 9,000 |\n| 8. Kut-yee-Li near the river banks | about 12,000 |\n| 9. Chung-shan-Li | about 14,000 |\n| 10. Chiu-Li near the river banks | about 8,400 |\n| 11. Po Li | about 5,000 |\n\nThis gives a total of 150,000 people in a state of starvation in the various districts around Kwei-Ping. In other places where the famine is not of so serious a nature, rice is procurable at low rates.\n\nPage 2\nPage 212",
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        "content_text": "## Wednesday, 20th May\n\n### IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\n#### BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR HENRY S. BERKELEY (ACTING **Chief Justice**):\n\n##### THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL.\n\nLiu Chui eling Li Kwai Fán was charged with the murder of Yueng Kuo Wán, the Reformer schoolmaster, in Gage Street, on 10th January, 1901.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty.\n\nMr E. B. Sharp, K.C., Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution; and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defence.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:- Messrs. W. Nicholls, P. Dow, R. Saron, J. W. Crouch, P. Hardman, J. A. T. Plummer, and A. S. Anton. Foreman, Mr Dow.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General, in opening the case, said the accused was charged as being a member, in fact the leader, of a gang of four men who committed this deed in concert together. All four of these men had been for some time known to the Crown by name, but the other three unfortunately were not before the Court. They had not been caught, and in all probability would never be found within the jurisdiction of this Colony, so that they could be caught. The prisoner only returned to Hong-kong last month and was arrested.\n\nThe circumstances of the murder were fairly notorious. Deceased lived at 52, Gage Street, in a corner house fronting upon that street and Aberdeen Street. He rented the whole of the first floor, consisting of a large room and two cubicles and a kitchen in the rear. The ground at the back was almost one storey higher than in front. The first floor was entered by the back from a lane and was practically on a level with the lane, which debouched into Aberdeen Street by a short flight of steps. Deceased conducted a night school for the teaching of English to Chinese boys and young men. The classes commenced at six o'clock, in the large front room.\n\nOn the evening in question, deceased was sitting at a table in the centre of the room, reading to a class from a book. The door was on the latch for the convenience of pupils arriving late, and it was consequently easy for anybody to enter without attracting any particular attention. The wife of the deceased man, her daughter, and two small children were in the cubicles at the back of the premises.\n\nAbout half-past six o'clock, a man suddenly appeared in the classroom. He was not noticed for a moment by a few there, but not by the deceased. This man walked a certain distance into the room, fairly close up to the table, and suddenly discharged three or four shots at the deceased. The shots took effect, and deceased fell forward onto the table. The pupils fled in panic, and in the confusion, the man who fired the shots, along with another man who accompanied him, escaped.\n\nHis Lordship: I presume you are going to prove this—that these officials publicly offered a reward for the man's apprehension or assassination.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General: I shall prove that.\n\nThe circumstances of the murder continued. Deceased's wife and daughter rushed into the room, found him in a state of collapse, and called the police. When the injured man was taken to the hospital, Dr. Bell found that his injuries were too serious to allow of the extraction of the bullets. He died the next morning. Three bullets were found in the body, and the cause of death was certified to be internal hemorrhage. Deceased made a dying declaration implicating the Chinese Government, saying that they had offered a reward of $20,000 for his life.\n\nTam Chung, a Yaumati fisherman, said he made the acquaintance of the prisoner on his uncle's marriage boat at Yaumati in April, 1900. Witness went to live with him in the capacity of a cook. He left on the 5th January, 1901, as he was afraid of being implicated. The prisoner had pointed out this Yueng Kus Wan to him and asked him to assist in beating him. Witness refused.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General continued, saying the Chinese Government had sent the man down from Canton, and \"everything was to be done.\" Prisoner reconnoitred the back of the house and presently came down and joined his two companions at the foot of the flight of steps. There they had a short conversation, and then the other two men went up the steps and entered the house, the prisoner mounting guard at the corner so as to command Aberdeen Street and the lane at the back of the house. The shots were fired immediately after these two men entered the house.\n\nPrisoner said he had come from Canton and asked witness to put him up. They refused. The prisoner disappeared and was not seen again. But presently, afterwards, the whole gang were back in Canton, where they stayed in Li Ka Chuk's barracks for ten days or more, during which time the murder was very frequently discussed, and the prisoner frequently referred to it, boasting that he committed the deed and claiming the reward for it.\n\nLi Ka Chuk, the mandarin in Canton, he said, offered a reward of between $10,000 and $20,000 to anyone who would kill Yueng Kus Wan. Prisoner asked the pilot to help him get someone to kill the deceased. Prisoner said that if there was a reward, he would get someone to kill the deceased.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General concluded by saying that the jury must leave out of consideration any sympathy they might have with the Reform movement. Notwithstanding the extraordinary breach committed by the Chinese Government or officials of the fundamental principles of international rights and the intolerableness of having a foreign government's emissaries entering their territory for the purpose of murdering somebody who was under the protection of their flag but was obnoxious to that foreign government, it was conceivable that the Chinese officials who organised this affair were actuated by patriotic motives.\n\nE. W. Carpenter, P.W.D., was the first witness. He put in and proved plans of the house 52, Gage Street.\n\nHis Lordship: Because it is a very serious allegation to make against those officials.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General: I think I will prove it to your Lordship's satisfaction.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General continued, saying this mandarin really organised this murder, although he did not actually come to Hongkong; and some of his braves were in the gang who committed the murder. Yung Ching Kai, captain of the Chinese gunboat Ai Yui, came to Hongkong and acted as intermediary between the mandarin and his emissaries. Prisoner was the leader of the gang who committed the deed.\n\nAfter other witnesses had given evidence, Dr. Bell went into the box. He described the man's condition when brought into hospital and spoke to the dying deposition made by the deceased and written down by witness at the time.\n\nDeceased's deposition was to the effect that he was teaching at the English school in Gage Street when very quietly the murderer came in and shot him four times. He did not know...\n\nThe wife of the murdered man next gave evidence. When she heard the report of firearms, she said, she came out from the cubicle where she had been lying on the bed and met all the pupils running out. When she went into the front room, she found her husband leaning forward with his head on his hands. He was bleeding.\n\nA young Chinese who was a student of the deceased and who was in the room when the murder was committed gave evidence as to the deed.\n\nCross-examined—There was no other stranger in the room but the man who fired the shots. Prisoner was not there.\n\nCross-examined—Witness was a fisherman and had his own boat in Yaumati. He gave up cooking in January, 1901, before which date he had never been a fisherman. His uncle gave him the boat. Witness had a brother named Tam Tai who visited the house where he was cooking for the prisoner, but witness knew nothing about his antecedents, nor whether he was hiding from the police in consequence of...",
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        "content_text": "## IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION\n\n### BEFORE HIS HONOUR BERKELEY (ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE)\n\n#### THE GAGE STREET MURDER TRIAL\n\nA Liu Chui alias Li Kwai Fan was charged with the murder of Yeung Kue Wan, the Reformer schoolmaster, in Gage Street, on 10th January, 1901. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nMr. E. H. Sharp, KC Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. F. R. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), conducted the prosecution; and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, barrister-at-law, was for the defence.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled—Messrs. W. Nicholls, P. Dow, R. Saxon, J. W. Crouch, P. Hardman, J. A. T. Plummer, and A. S. Anton. Foreman, Mr. Dow.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General, in opening the case, said the accused was charged as being a member, in fact the leader, of a gang of four men who committed this deed in concert together. All four of these men had been for some time known to the Crown by name, but the other three unfortunately were not before the Court. They had not been caught and, in all probability, would never be found within the jurisdiction of this Colony, so that they could be caught. The prisoner only returned to Hong Kong last month and was arrested.\n\nThe circumstances of the murder were fairly notorious. Deceased lived at 52, Gage Street, in a corner house fronting upon that street and Aberdeen Street. He rented the whole of the first floor, consisting of a large room and two cubicles and a kitchen in the rear. The ground at the back was almost one storey higher than in front. The first floor was entered by the back from a lane and was on a level with the lane, which practically debouched into Aberdeen Street by a short flight of steps.\n\nDeceased conducted a school for the teaching of English to Chinese boys and young men. The classes commenced at six o'clock. In the large front room, on the evening in question, deceased was sitting at a table in the centre of the room, reading to a class from a book. The door was on the latch for the convenience of pupils arriving late, and it was consequently easy for anybody to enter without attracting any particular attention. The wife of the deceased man, her daughter, and two small children were in the cubicles at the back of the premises.\n\nAbout half-past six o'clock, a man suddenly appeared in the classroom. He was seen for a moment by a few there but not by the deceased. This man walked a certain distance into the room, fairly close up to the table, and suddenly discharged three or four shots at the deceased. The shots took effect, and deceased fell forward onto the table; the pupils fled in panic.\n\nHis Lordship—I presume you are going to prove this—that these officials publicly offered a reward for the man's apprehension or assassination?\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General—I shall prove that.\n\nTam Chung, a Yaumati fisherman, said he made the acquaintance of the prisoner on his uncle's marriage-boat at Yaumati in April, 1900. About July or August of that year, he again saw him on that boat. Prisoner said he had come down from somewhere to look for some business but did not say where from; he stayed on Hollywood Road. Witness went to live with him in the capacity of a cook. He left on the 5th January, 1901. He had pointed out this house to Sergeant Sullivan. During the time he lived with prisoner, he remembered a pilot from the Au Fui coming to the house. On one occasion, he heard the pilot telling the prisoner there was a man named Yeung Kue Wan living in Hong Kong and asking what was his occupation. Li Ka Chuk of the Chinese Government, he said, offered a reward of between $10,000 and $20,000 to anyone who would kill him and also to give several buttons; could the prisoner get someone to kill him? Prisoner said that if there was a reward, he would get someone to kill him. Prisoner asked the pilot to stay for dinner. The pilot not only did so but stayed for several days. Prisoner asked witness to assist him to beat Yeung Kue Wan. Witness said he had classmates trading in this Colony, and it would be very difficult to secure his services. There were six men living in the house. All of these conspired to join the prisoner. He heard the people discussing what they were to do with the deceased; prisoner suggested that he and two others should go down the street, keep a watch on Yeung Kue Wan, and, if he went to a house where there were only a few people present, shoot him; if there were many people, they were not to shoot him; if there were a few people present, shoot him. Witness left the prisoner's house because he was afraid of being implicated. He went back to his uncle's boat on 5th January.\n\n| Name | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tam Chung | Yaumati fisherman, acquaintance of the prisoner |\n| Li Ka Chuk | Mandarin in Canton, offered reward for Yeung Kue Wan's assassination |\n| Yeung Kue Wan | Deceased, Reformer schoolmaster |\n| Li Kwai Fan (Liu Chui) | Accused, leader of the gang |\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General continued his opening statement, detailing the events surrounding the murder. The murder happened about half-past six. Deceased's wife and daughter rushed into the room, found him in a state of collapse. Tsui Fak mounted guard at the junction of Gage Street and Aberdeen Street. Prisoner reconnoitred the back of the house and presently came down and joined his two companions at the foot of the flight of steps. There they had a short conversation, and then the other two men went up the steps and entered the house, the prisoner mounting guard at the corner so as to command Aberdeen Street and the lane at the back of the house. The shots were fired immediately after these two men entered the house. The gang of four got into a sampan and went out to the Harbour.\n\nE. W. Carpenter, P.W.D., was the first witness. He put in and proved plans of the house 52, Gage Street.\n\nDr. Bell gave evidence about the deceased's condition when brought into hospital. He found that the injuries were too serious to allow of the extraction of the bullets. Deceased made a dying declaration implicating the Chinese Government, saying that they had offered a reward of $20,000 for his life.\n\nThe trial continued with further witness testimony, including that of the wife of the murdered man and a young Chinese student who was in the room when the murder was committed.\n\nPage 369  \nPage 501",
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        "content_text": "# ५२ \n\nLo Chat, brothel keeper at No 60 Temple Street, Yaumati, states:- \n\nOn the evening of the 3rd August, I do not know what time, perhaps about 7 o'clock, this Sergeant came into the brothel. He was in uniform. He was talking to one of the prostitutes, Chun Tai, in the kitchen, on the ground floor. He was only there a few moments. There was a small crowd outside, about ten men or so. Certainly not twenty outside. They came there to see what had happened because a policeman had come to the house. I do not know if any hawker had come in because I had been upstairs.\n\n## Cross-examined by the Sergeant\n\nWhat part of the house did I enter first?\n\nA. The passage at the back of the sitting room. The sitting room is in front. The doors were shut in front. The sitting room is only used as a public room, and I only saw him in the passage. The girl Chun Tai does not live in my house. I do not know if she is a prostitute or not. I was told she was. I am not sure that they were talking together, the Sergeant and the girl. I saw them go out together, the Sergeant first. There was a light in the sitting room and another in the kitchen which lighted the passage. He was only one or two minutes in the house.\n\n## Cross-examined by me\n\nI did not see him enter the house. I had been upstairs about half an hour. I know the Sergeant was not in any other part of the house. Yes, I said to the Magistrate that the Sergeant was laughing with the girl. I do not know what they were laughing at, in the sitting room!\n\n## Cross-examined by Sergeant\n\nI am the mistress of the whole house.",
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        "content_text": "## Statement of Witness\n\nSee Shing, a moulder without employment, living at No 1 Fuk Shing Lane, Yaumati, states:\n\nI remember on the 3rd August seeing the Sergeant hand-in-hand with a girl at the entrance to the kitchen of a brothel. I do not know the number. It is in a street in Yaumati. About 20 men were at the entrance of the brothel, and the Sergeant took a piece of firewood and was in the act of throwing it at the people, but the girl took it from him. I saw the Sergeant enter the house. I do not know that he followed anyone. I saw him come out about ten minutes later, and he dispersed the crowd by waving his hand. They all went away but one man whom the Sergeant kicked. I saw the man fall after being kicked from behind. The Sergeant went away. I saw the man's thigh was bleeding. I then went away.\n\n### Cross-examined by Sergeant\n\nWhen the Sergeant first entered the house, I was standing at the entrance of the next house. I was standing at the right-hand side of the crowd. I saw into the house because I came right in front. I have lived in Yaumati for two months. I do not know the girl, and I do not know if she is a prostitute or not. I did not see any men in the house, Chinese or others. I did not see anyone leave the house.\n\n### Cross-examined by me\n\nThe girl caught hold of the Sergeant's hand. It was about 7 o'clock in the evening. It was dark, but there was a lamp in the entrance. The Sergeant was about 15 paces (points to that distance) from me when he kicked the man. It was dark, but there were lamps about.\n\nTaken by me this 28th day of August 1903.  \nThe 4th Police Clerk",
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        "content_text": "Page 317\n\nof tens any\n\n„undre kept skom ton btb\n\nSercombe Smith:-\n\n* eguart W. Od\n\nr Atkinson:-\n\ngna to wond vd asod wynne daad delen hom blái mặ\n\nxxine as oism I Insa nae or redre og froh I\n\nSoh I inden fo A Chob I 11,306 verdh any way I\n\n.Apt garon erð voy\n\n(enan\n\nr Sercombe Smith:-\n\nelly:-\n\nIr Gompertz:-\n\nWitness:-\n\nS seladus ekort *bel, mi siest men met AI\n\nIr Gompertz:-\n\nor Atkinson:-\n\nKelly:-\n\nTA\n\nor Atkinsonf-\n\nKelly:-\n\n* r*i ed al\n\n.enotan q been the mar ekrem enroy a at ex\n\nphum Judo over of exit bistesin 1 fan: riund UT)\n\nmid 101 baba iliv ele\n\n**row\n\n* O NE* and th\n\nI\n\n1\n\nct sun tay bikov brat\n\nکم\n\nOY\n\nI rey 20que I\n\nA\n\nGV\n\nte\n\nJon den IJK\n\nai Fitness:-\n\nDr Atkinson:-\n\nThe Chairman:=\n\nKelly:-\n\nThe Chairman:“\n\nChì nộ pin MERA VIA” I\n\n* tu sech by not\n\nlog - K\n\nA\n\nKelly:-\n\nBAM *2 Japan bany\n\n. nike den, bra val OK\n\n} \n\nSVAKI 90.\n\nThe Chairman:-\n\nWhen was the date of the one he paid in the kitchen?\n\n27th December.\n\nHe was out of the Colony then.\n\nHe was out at 7.30 in the evening of that day. (To Kelly). What date do you say you left the Colony?\n\n27th December.\n\nWhat does he say he paid on the 27th December?\n\nThis is a $5 item.\n\n$10 item, was not it?\n\nDid you ever live at 208 Des Voeux Road?\n\nNo, Sir, never lived there.\n\nDid you lodge there?\n\nNo, Sir.\n\nI paid it in the kitchen on the 27th August 1905, $5.\n\nHe said December just now, in his examination in chief. Have you any more questions, Mr Kelly?\n\nIt is not a question. It is only on the 10th June, the Commission was formed then, and it is hardly likely that I should take money, knowing the Commission was on\n\nif I was in the habit of taking money.\n\nYou had better reserve these remarks to the end. It\n\nwill be more convenient.\n\nThat is all I have got to say, Sir. Except my declaration,\n\nthat is all.\n\nSend the witness down with a Chinese constable, to get his roki, Cheng Kwong. Tell the constable he is not to allow any communications between the two men.\n\nWitness withdraws.\n\n+\n\nbeck kutok\n\nA\n\nMr Sercombe Smith:-\n\nLeung In, called)-\n\nThis is Mr Kelly's answer to the first charge.\n\n(Quotes).\n\nWhat is your name?\n\n.\n\nA.\n\nLeung In.\n\nPage 317\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 317\n\nAfter reordering and proofreading:\n\nPage 317\n\nThe Chairman:-\n\nWhen was the date of the one he paid in the kitchen?\n\n27th December.\n\nHe was out of the Colony then.\n\nHe was out at 7.30 in the evening of that day. (To Kelly). What date do you say you left the Colony?\n\n27th December.\n\nWhat does he say he paid on the 27th December?\n\nThis is a $5 item.\n\n$10 item, was not it?\n\nDid you ever live at 208 Des Voeux Road?\n\nNo, Sir, never lived there.\n\nDid you lodge there?\n\nNo, Sir.\n\nI paid it in the kitchen on the 27th August 1905, $5.\n\nHe said December just now, in his examination in chief. Have you any more questions, Mr Kelly?\n\nIt is not a question. It is only on the 10th June, the Commission was formed then, and it is hardly likely that I should take money, knowing the Commission was on\n\nif I was in the habit of taking money.\n\nYou had better reserve these remarks to the end. It\n\nwill be more convenient.\n\nThat is all I have got to say, Sir. Except my declaration,\n\nthat is all.\n\nSend the witness down with a Chinese constable, to get his roki, Cheng Kwong. Tell the constable he is not to allow any communications between the two men.\n\nWitness withdraws.\n\nMr Sercombe Smith:-\n\nLeung In, called.\n\nThis is Mr Kelly's answer to the first charge.\n\n(Quotes).\n\nWhat is your name?\n\nA.\n\nLeung In.\n\nPage 317",
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        "content_text": "03\n\n5\n\nHon. Mr Gompertz : You said the inspector came to see your house and said the kitchens had to be done again ? - Yes.\n\nWhere did you see him on the next occasion ? In his house.\n\nYou went to his house ? Yes.\n\nAnd that was the occasion he said it was all right ? Yes.\n\n221\n\nWhat time was that? About eight o'clock in the morning.\n\nWas there anybody else there ? The cook, but he could not see because he was inside the kitchen and the door was between us.\n\nYou did not see him ? When I first entered I saw the cook who was in the kitchen.\n\nDid you see any of the inspector's family ? On the first occasion I saw the inspector's wife.\n\nI am speaking of the occasion when the inspector said it was all right.\n\nI did not see the inspector's wife then.\n\nOr anyone belonging to him? - I did not notice because when I went there I saw only him.\n\nHon. Mr. Chatham: What sort of a contractor is he, you say of the Yik Lee firm ?\n\n- Open air space, concrete work, drainage, limewashing and any sort of work.\n\nAnd are these the only houses you have ever limewashed ? About the time in question ?\n\nNo, in the ordinary course of business ? I have limewashed houses elsewhere.\n\nA great deal of it? Some.\n\nHave you ever had trouble with other houses ? Not much trouble.",
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        "content_text": "in the beginning of October, 1906 of the Hon. Dr J.M Atkins qry\n\nImAtkins The Principal Civil Medical Officer of Hongkong.\n\nOn the 19th of October, 1904, the Hon. Dr.JM Atkinson P.C. M. O. paid a flying visit, of about five minutes duration, to Kennedy Town Hospitals. (^1) On the 28th of November 1906, the Hon. Dr Atkinson, in company with the Medical Officer in charge made an official visit to Kennedy Town Hospitals.\n\nOn that occasion, the Hon. P. C.M. O. was dissatisfied with everything about the buildings at that time, I mention, suffered in appearance from the effects of the, memorable, Hongkong Typhoon, of the 18th September 1906. (8) The principal cause of the Hon. P. C.M. O's displeasure, as far as I could gather, was that a small window of a store room was not fastened. (The size of this window is about 40\"x10\") This store room is not in reality a store room, but a kitchen for Hindostani patients, which",
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        "content_text": "was never used in my time • 255 About two months before the above-mentioned visit, I had placed in this kitchen, or store room, a large rattan armchair, which could hardly be taken through the doorway owing to its size.\n\nThe Hon. P.C.M.O. suggested the possibility for thieves to come through the window; firstly, this was hardly possible, secondly, as we are not allowed in the Hospital grounds, except those on or in possession of a permit, the suggestion was entirely impossible.\n\nAt this point I may add that when I handed over stock on leaving it was correct. This fact alone shows the suggestion was groundless.\n\n\"(9) Another point of displeasure was the fact that the long grass on the hillside was not cut.\n\nOn painting to the Hon. P.C.M.O. that the Chinese staff under me was small, and that they could not possibly be spared from the Hospitals and ward duties to cut grass, I was requested to state how I expended my time during",
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        "content_text": "## PROPOSED QUARTERS TAI PO\n582\n\n### VERANDAH\n### BED ROOM\n### DRYING ROOM\nDOWN TO KITCHEN\n### VERANDA\n### SITTING ROOM\n\n| Location        | Dimension    |\n|-----------------|--------------|\n| VERANDAN        | 14.0         |\n| BED ROOM        | 8.0 x 6.0    |\n| DINNER/LIVING   |              |\n| STORE           |              |\n| STORE           |              |\n| ENTRANCE        |              |\n| LOUNGE          |              |\n| VERANDAN        | 41.0 x 6.0   |\n| LATRINE         |              |\n| HOVSK           |              |\n| COOLIE          | 12'x10'      |\n| B.O.            |              |\n| LOOSE BOX       |              |\n| BATH            |              |\n\n### STAFF QUARTERS\n| Staff        | Dimension    |\n|--------------|--------------|\n| COOK         |              |\n| BOY          |              |\n| NI BOY       |              |\n| AMAH         | 9.0          |\n| VERANDAN     |              |\n| SERVANTS QUARTERS |              |\n| COACH HOUSE  | 12'x10'      |\n\n### KITCHEN\n| Feature      | Dimension    |\n|--------------|--------------|\n| RANGE        |              |\n| CHAIR STORE  | SYS          |\n| COAL         |              |\n| TO HOUSE     |              |\n| SUNDRIES     |              |\n\n### BASEMENT PLAN\n| Feature      | Dimension    |\n|--------------|--------------|\n| COOLIES      | 12'x10'      |\n| COOLIES      | 12'x10'      |\n| STALL        | 12'x6'       |\n| MARKET ROOM  | 12'x6'       |\n| KITCHEN      | 9'x6'        |\n\n### GROUND PLAN\n### FIRST FLOOR PLAN\n### STABLE BUILDING\n\nScale of feet\n\nDIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS  \nHONG KONG\n\nScale of feet  \nCHATER ROAD  \n152.0",
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        "content_text": "## BUILDINGS MISCELLANEOUS\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chapel, green house & sexton's quarters at Colonial Cemetery | Ties damaged in the roofs of the Chapel and sexton's quarters; glass broken and casement windows blown down in the green house. |\n| Matshed fernery at Colonial Cemetery | Blown down. |\n| Matshed for sexton at Kai Lung Wan Cemetery | Do. |\n| Matshed for sexton and Watchman at Cheung Sha Wan Plague Cemetery | Do. |\n| Custodian's matshed at Wonguchi-chong Recreation Ground | Damaged. |\n\n## PIERS AND SEA-WALLS\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Harbour Muster's Bamboo Pier | Entirely blown away, |\n| Queen's Starne Wharf | Mat covering blown down. |\n| Temporary Murray Pier | Shore end blown away. |\n| Blake Pier | Matshed shelter blown down. Damage to railing and standards, etc. |\n| Kowloon City Pier | Damaged. |\n| Cheung Sha Wan Plague Cemetery Pier | Entirely washed away. |\n| Bamboo Pier at Green Island Gunpowder Depôt | Blown away. |\n| Tsim Sha Tsui Police Pier | Slightly damaged; a flight of steps was washed away and other minor items. |\n| Pitched slope at end of Arsenal Street | Damaged. |\n| Pitched slopes in Cadogan Street and adjoining Marine Lot 293 | Slightly damaged. |\n| West abutment of the Bridge at Bowrington Canal | Damaged and stones dislodged. |\n\nPage 19\n\n## PARTICULARS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY DAMAGED BY RAINSTORMS OF 18-25TH JULY OR BY TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY, 1908\n\n### Damage due to Rainstorms of 18-25th July when 16.20 inches of rain fell.\n\n| Location or description of property | Particulars with reference to Collapse |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 26 Leighton Hill Road | The Verandah in front of No. 26 collapsed about 4 a.m., July 26th, no one injured. No apparent cause for collapse. |\n| Beaconsfield - temporarily occupied by Registrar General's Office and Sanitary Dept. | The retaining wall to the East of Beaconsfield collapsed shortly after midnight on the 25th of July. No one was injured. The collapse was apparently owing to the soil having got thoroughly saturated owing either to drain leakages, or defects in paving. The wall itself appeared to be very badly constructed at this point. |\n| Nos. 72-74 Bonham Strand West | The Kitchen roof North, and West wall of No. 72 collapsed prior to Typhoon, on the 27th July. No one injured. Cause of collapse defective walling, building was an old one. |\n| Rural Building Lot 6-Gough Hill Road | A portion of the retaining wall of the Tennis Ground on Rural Building Lot 6 abutting on Gough Hill Road collapsed on July 24th. The collapse was caused by the heavy rain getting behind the wall. |\n| No. 87 Stone Nullah Lane | A portion of the end wall and roof collapsed here on the 24th July. No one injured. The wall was defective and gave way, causing the roof to collapse. |\n| Abertholwyn \", Peak Road and May Road | Large portions of the retaining walls in front and in the rear of this house fell. Some of these blocked May Road for a length of about 50 feet and demolished about 40 feet of the Government boundary wall between May Road and \"Clovelly\". No one was injured. Large masses of earth fell with the retaining walls. |\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS RAINSTORM DAMAGES\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Notice Boards on Wongneichong Recreation Ground | All blown down and damaged. |\n| Headstones at Colonial Cemetery | 64 headstones including those belonging to the Naval and Military were blown down and otherwise damaged. |\n| Nullahs below Barker Road | Broken. |\n| Bank at Colonial Cemetery | Collapsed. |\n| Bank at rear of Braeside | Do. |\n| Bank at Forbes Street | Do. |\n| Gas Lighting | Lamp glasses, mantles, shades, posts, &c., broken, caused by rain and wind. |\n| Nullah at Aberdeen adjoining the Paper Mills | Wall partially collapsed. |\n\n### DAMAGE DUE TO TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY\n\n| Location or description of property | Particulars with reference to Collapse |\n| --- | --- |\n| Nos. 40-42 Market Street, Hunghom | The rear walls on the first floors collapsed. No one injured. These are old buildings and the walls were in a defective condition. |\n| Nos. 62, 64 and 66 Kowloon City Road | The roofs, party walls and West flank wall collapsed. These were old stone buildings with very defective walls. |\n| Nos. 36, 38 and 40 Portland Street, Mong Kok | The flank, party walls and roofs of these houses collapsed on the 28th. A considerable loss of life occurred. Cause of collapse, defective walling- the buildings had been tied together previously with iron tie rods. |\n| Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Fook Shing Lane, Yaumati | The whole of the 8 houses were practically demolished with the exception of the kitchens. A considerable loss of life occurred. These houses were old ones and, as they occupy a sheltered position, the collapse must be ascribed to the defective condition of the buildings. |",
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        "content_text": "# 170 \n## 110 \n\nThe Tai station is where the junction of the Altaishan-Manas and Altaishan-Chuguchak tracks is located. It has only been in existence for a year and was created by the energetic Amban of Altaishan, who is trying to extend the Tai system to these districts. A Mongol camp, Utubuluk, lies nearby and is in charge of the station. A tiny trickle of water comes slowly down here from the Sanreshan.\n\nAt mile 7, we crossed a similar trickle, and from then on, we kept crossing dry beds down which the melted snows descend from the mountains, fertilizing the whole plain. At mile 14, we passed, a mile to our left, the small lama temple of Bayinobo, and at mile 22.3 reached another known as \"O wa te miao,\" where the lamas allowed us to stay for the night. This temple is wealthier than Bayinobo, and its shrines are clean and well cared for. Among the countless votive offerings of little value hanging on the walls, such as old guns, bows and arrows, swords, scarves, mule-bells, etc., was an old coat of mail and casque, which might have been of some value.\n\n## September 22\nThe lamas here allow themselves moustaches, a privilege that would shock the Dalai Lama.\n\nContinuing westwards, we reached the princely residence after 9 miles. This is situated about a mile from the hills, on the south side of the valley. The range at its back is called the **Bayin zurkan aderik**. The encampment is visible soon after leaving Owatemiao. It consists of a group of yourts lying around the tribal temple, which is built halfway up a large natural mound, this being surmounted by a joss of the ordinary pattern and a large obo of sticks, to which hang white and yellow streamers. The yourts are half-enclosed by mud walls built with entire irregularity, and the sight of these explained the meaning of the other two remains of walls on the plain, former encampments from which the Prince had moved.\n\nThe Prince lives at the south-east end of the encampment, in two white yourts in summer and in a low mud house immediately behind these in winter. In this latter, he is able to have a Russian stove. His Highness sent me his greetings and kindly caused two yourts to be erected for me on the plain. I called on him in the afternoon. He is a fat lad of 20 years, rather shy but with agreeable manners. He has never been to Peking and should have gone this year but excused himself on the plea of business. The trouble of getting there and back and the great expense are probably the real reasons. He has been to Chuguchak several times and has come into contact with Russians there, which explained why his room was full of photos, watches and clocks, and the inevitable gramophone. He told me that no foreigner had ever visited his capital, and seemed very gratified that one had come. The Government pays him an annual subsidy of 2,000 taels and presents of silk. His brother is Gegen of the family temple here. He has no soldiers. His favourite amusement is fox-hunting with an eagle, and this sport he indulges in sometimes five days a week in winter. The huge bird was brought into the room during our conversation and made such a din that it was impossible to hear ourselves speak. The Prince is married but has no children as yet. He speaks no Chinese; as a boy, he learnt a little from a Shansi man but has forgotten it all. His name is Ochingwang. He was dressed in a dark red silk robe and wore huge spectacles and a Chinese pork-pie hat with a peacock feather and red button. He agreed to furnish camels for the six days' journey to Chuguchak. The population of his capital must be some 250, of whom more than 200 will be lamas, but the neighbourhood is crowded with yourts. A small stream trickles past the encampment. His subjects who live close by pay no taxes of any kind; they simply work for His Highness and give their animals when required or take care of his beasts. Those of his subjects who live at a distance pay taxes in animals when required, these occasions being when the Prince marries or makes a journey. I was told that they then give one animal out of every ten. This seems excessive, but I believe what happens is this: The Prince sends round a man who asks how many animals a family possesses. If the owner has 200, he will drive 150 to the mountains and say he has only 50; of these, 5 will be taken. No one seems to mind, and the State is run in a happy patriarchal manner.\n\n## September 23\nThe day was spent idly in camp, and arrangements were made for the camels to leave on the morrow. The Prince's factor said that I could pay any sum for these that I pleased—that it was simply a present and would be divided among the Prince's servants. His Highness was embarrassing in his attentions all day. He sent Tartar koumiss in the morning, followed by a dinner from the princely kitchen in the afternoon, while a roll of silk and a present of money arrived for my suite. Towards sunset, the wind, which had been violent all day, increased to a gale, and the Prince very thoughtfully sent men to tie the roofs of the tents securely.\n\n## September 24\nThough the morning was grey and cold and a drizzle falling, there was nothing to do but set out for Chuguchak. We continued up the valley to the west by a well-defined track. At mile 6, we reached the end of the Bayinzurkanaderik and crossed some brooks that flow down the valley behind the range. The stream is known as the Khobakingol. The valley, hitherto 5 miles broad, now became double that width, taking in all the valley up to the Semustau, as the Hassacks call the impenetrable wall of mountains to our left (the Mongols call it Hottenula). Near to where the valley broadens is a large Mongol encampment, and this is the only one we sighted all day, despite the fact that water is abundant and pasturage is excellent. At mile 23, we reached a fair-sized stream known as the Damingol, by the side of which was a Hassack camp. The stream flows north and south and is diverted eastwards by the Semustau range. It forms a good deal of marshy ground. The natives say it flows into the Khobakingol. The people of this district were prudently stacking a great deal of grass into ricks for winter fodder. They say they have to pay two taxes—the first being one sheep per tent per year to the Tourgout Prince, the other being 9, 6, or 3 taels a year to the Chinese Government at Chuguchak, according to the class in which they are placed. They dislike this arrangement but seemed very merry notwithstanding.\n\n## September 25\nA little wood is burnt here when the Hassacks are energetic enough to bring it from the north face of the mountains that lie to the north of the camp. Last night was fearfully wild; a violent gale blew from the west, accompanied by hail and thunder and lightning. The hills this morning were deep in snow.\n\nAll day long, thousands of geese were flying south.\n\nAt... \n\nLeaving to the west, we began at once to climb steadily through low hills, which soon became mountains. Water was fairly abundant, and the mountain sides were covered with grass. The track was good the whole way and certainly possible for carts. We reached the top of the pass at mile 9 and, keeping north-west, began to descend the Semustau mountains, maintaining their west direction. In front of us lay a confused mass of low mountains. The Saureshan kept parallel with us in a north-westerly direction. Descending very easily for 2 miles, we passed a second obo and entered Russian territory, which at this point runs like a wedge for a few miles southwards into the hills. At mile 11, we began to descend abruptly down a small stream, and at mile 18 were abreast of the Mongol Tai maintained by the Chinese Government along this, the only road to Chuguchak from the east. The valley of the stream now broadened to a plain, across which we looked towards the Zaisan mountain range. The track turned west and kept on the lower slopes of the hills and above the plain. At mile 21, we were abreast of a Russian picket a mile to the right of us. Here the track turned south-west up a gently sloping valley, keeping up this for 13 miles, we halted at one of the numerous Hassack camps.\n\nThe Hassack name of the picket is Jeldi. It commands the valley. There are said to be between thirty and forty Cossacks maintained there from March to September every year, the only months when the road is in use. They are said to scrutinize travellers very closely. I do not know if this is correct, for the picket showed no sign of life as we passed. The valley in which we slept is called Baimirze, and the mountains to the left of us are the Minkerjirgal.\n\n## September 26\nThe wolves were unusually busy last night, and the dogs were at work the whole night leaping round to face the attack. Night in a nomad encampment is by no means as delightfully still as could be wished. The cattle and horses are tethered to the tents and keep a perpetual lowing and neighing, the sheep and goats are quite close and bleat at intervals, while the camels join in the chorus with their hateful complaining noise, and dogs are perpetually barking at real or imaginary foes.\n\nAscending the gentle slopes of the valley, which is here some mile wide, we passed half a mile later a mound 300 yards to our left, a boundary mark; and we were now back in China again. The valley then gradually grew broader, the top of the ascent was reached imperceptibly, and we began to descend gently by the gully of the Ulanhodjur. At mile 6, the valley seemed to end, the hills closing in on either side, just leaving room for the stream to descend sharply through the mountains. At mile 9, we were abreast of the Government station of Ulanhodjur and then descended the picturesque narrow gorge, sometimes 200 feet above the stream, at other times descending to and crossing it. The road now became impossible for carts. The hills maintained their height; as we descended, we found ourselves soon among mountains again.\n\nAt mile 15¼, at an obo, we came to an unusually steep descent, lasting a mile and a quarter, and here we had the last view of the snow-clad mountains of the Saureshan behind us and the first view of the plain of Chuguchak. At mile 21, we were out on the plain, with the mounts of Tarbagatai running on our right to the west. Passing to the Government station of Ulanhotto, we kept in a south-westerly direction across the plain to the encampment known as Shobonobo. The plain was covered with good pasturage.\n\n## 111",
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        "content_text": "83\n\nanaparf to ongaffwo ode starpon Isizolo of oonefotos daly go2+ihmon quotemash o 2 bus) doundh aonimoit \"I bum 20\n\nCJ .00% go (boilutionnb ator ons na dal v M. [Law yerng ord II .07 to of notranjén wath de god I (custani meri ode to gatuovo ort *HOUпTOVO\" && robw,9 .olf br Buenod & OROIT Srið doa\" erit ‚olest Edarintan boy look good onfa won and doldu hna verogo“q at duit bna dousen montro i mor) Jodim\" Koduo\" 510 oft nĵstingOD *o* of oldalters oħe od man about 32 older the crop of blow of 03 na pafoh tuods by nuauori & occult to corta ere omge 910.: bug tofhand buuona bus nå moldugnoo o ovoi- ON O BDIÍD.BOY. a suit to gattily!! ene avosqgt de vlclospo door of bonogome at a dobrly tostan win eft to chic mandhar fror qi Profxam bio od te etin add a od ton ***w onnid & vié ontloor \\'Iv* Indot nde .2 QUIVUI *o aufrou énonumy out Rodan aneroit enović To Do visokonang to moltifamat atris mt mote mwao bocpotong via not older wovet count onl S JA Venugong art gatxinado to oocería ti oldalketa niame fi of savo sesibiru of al doidu da oumit Jodan od 10% bonut od neo growing old duoreri danɛoтd of? -mon 70% blog y lentoy davors oft aufy onole band of. to ooing .cotequcon groping-\n\nshops and stalls will be entirely met even with a two-storied building. Reckoning on a revenue of $30,000 per annum the resumption will also be paid for in a comparatively short space of time.\n\n4.\n\nThe Honourable Director of Public Works has already ear-marked these houses for resumption I believe. I therefore strongly recommend that the question of resuming the 4 houses be referred to him for consideration at an early date 1.e. before any steps have been taken to prepare plans for re-building them and that if possible this entire area be taken over by Government.\n\n5.\n\nThe collapse of the 3 houses has entailed thaødemolition of a latrine and kitchen within the market both of which are Gore nment property and which it will be waste of money to rebuild in any case. The rebuilding of the market might therefore be hastened and work commenced on this, the Eastern portion first, the empty space on the west side being made temporarily available for the stall-holders ejected from the Eastern portion.\n\n22nd. September, 1910,\n\n(Sd.) E. D. C. Volfe, H. S. D.\n\nDrw dobry, todrom went out to drop fairon 6.\n\n.* & Tor: oftalí a ml borovooot od b'Hogn 000,00£) od tldarion wor not mot beriwob nunsyo\" or to odamizno niet ♬ và ɑreog duften bainoja ono caraut, effe mojathuoo bedshiqaith a dore at at farne tag 000,087 al defro and ruins rog 000,813 abisty oouqa on Boranf +i bra ( 115620900 Wedrioada al quthižudon tant\n\nblon tinmot dinit #fon to fkntos here ofena Care Clins not to ofon one not eosqn olztil snd bee,bei:itanup ogral ni oroi Jednar and affata not buanob Jaown wine s at æterit .acidstenov 6 23 mvor / low al hee jointalk bødningaŋ violet a m! Tot brarioh oilt ca ♪ ploillfaw y:ev onotonoild et #I eqoifa",
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        "content_text": "# 531\n\noutrageous book maltreatment and no doubt salvole et eelfooo detdirı neftatm. no #ɔes of mao Savaal @joddao to Jof a guiron vraTƏ sett att ta joiłało man? „hool voyed war otvort aid nowhɗ hooà \n\nba and tagad voodirend or to brud orit daw nonźitate „Á Â. malka 1 osmnu o' to 'acminco salanovson offt boxebno urte entsë sit 27. qom dansdnos stul too preso of anaraqxe no atd to odnow all deontnog wait to has ad Jid onIr dar confe the nt Surf totagmikon Yorkerounoo tasi ald Aro baa, Iow \n\n+ \nwitloco amigawana ovd sit of .ok twan 20licno aki vá abČNADER \n\nSatdala buvoanx \n\nJodaiq HIT rid \n\nmode 11 qoof of meerÏómng \n\ntu as al monotone de row doun sa gutok moed over I *Tene falchdim to starta no- eofjngo young paano busi \n\nNO KRBO A 2015 vefach nur auf z veita 04 to 07 duo-la barovon wen dari go pian mead on 165 vid sort coquads to khairmos VEN A MOTO) tant fund you fart IIer ytov wond I wont low406 bocading no bontt yflatoxénarok mood wed \n\n32145 Dia os noljub 142) to Dobranovs stead anî fobnimalb yo dug \n\n0079 THɔnd yDab ut dein \n\nDen 1992 Frigu að mond orna intre, @mette halooonos na osfat are to emolsuan Butab A MOT\" Rub A Juoda 10 orqato orlé rafts bra bmoneraquű translovoð ni duomonegəl ytað bral wild na Bogtado ald Dok of qaiyá hongo eta «eoitto ali bra *0630 YP ri Maoh ɖoad jon qart at dud deal to havt tenere o' to somanongă Bru yincolnat \n\n.marriojed doof sulj ñdie droĴLBO AⱭ \n\nhattimen ashfoon won six ‚oref yuzumat .200 odd Juoda deaq 23 no I SAR AÐ TIM to onion wit griqcuh yd yitab selfogord yom oa art articia/nors to Beatark Baljuk yr of Anibrooos madt betroqoʻr \n\nmation to havi ort! Jogitnon chi to darbsand sit not to JOBIČNO D \n\ntransferred me to Kowloon for my making so many complains daily, with- \nout giving me the right of quarters &c 'after that when he came to know that the Peak Watchman post is not transferable he told me again to go to the Peak, but for the change of air I asked him to \nallow me to stay at Kowloon for some time at my own expenses. There \nremained for about 13 months.\n\nAnd as at that time the Kowloong scavenging work was taken by the Government bullock cars were engaged to remove the rubbish, and as work was well arranged than that of the Peak and the climate of the Kowloon suited me, even the people of Kowloon were commending my good work than any other foremen, I asked the Head of Sanitary Department to let me stay at Kowloon even at my own expenses for the house, but he jealously transferred me again to Peak, and again at the Peak he refused to repair my kitchen which were not suitable for me on account of fuel and up to now the kitchen are in insanitary conditions as it is also the Government building, and again about four months ago he told me to be transferred to Mateukok slaughter house without knowing my religious rites which are not right for a man of \nmy caste to serve at a slaughter house, where cows are being killed \nand on my protest and making inquirys then he cancelled the transfer \nand some time ago a complain was made againt me by a Bankrupt stating that he owed me some money, and without first making any investigation he recommended to the Government for my dismissal for \nmoney lending contrary to Colonial Rules Nos. 40 and 41 but I am very thankful to our late Government Lugerd, who ordered an inquiry into the matter and at which I pleaded that the present Sanitary \nrules given to me to perform my duties do not prohibit a man from \nlending the result of which was that.\n\nThat His Excellency the Governor Lugerd minuted that the regulations given to me for the performance of my duties do not prohibit \nme from money lending and order the Colonial Secretary to issue a \ncircular to all Government Department to prohibit all their \nemployees from money lending, same as the Police Department employees.",
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        "content_text": "# MASA KERANI FINANCIAL MERING APRIL \n\n(3) \n327 \n\nat the Flat and asked to see the Kitchen and subsequently assaulted her in a very indecent manner. \n\nFinding however that she was temporarily \"unwell\", he left, saying that he would return on the Friday following or Monday. There was no one in Fr. Xavier's Flat at this time, her Amah being out and her husband at work. Her husband returned about half past five and she thereupon informed him of what had taken place; he reported the matter to Mr. Tratman, the Acting Head of the Sanitary Department at about 9 o'clock on the following morning. Mr. Tratman after considering the matter saw Mr. Xavier again in the afternoon of the same day and suggested to Mr. Xavier either that he (Mr. Xavier) should hide on the premises in order to watch if and when the Inspector returned on Friday or that, as it seemed to him (Mr. Tratman) that it would be difficult to hide in such small premises, the Amah might be stationed in a neighbouring place and if the Inspector arrived on Friday, she might after the lapse of a minute or two come and see what was transpiring. \n\nFr. Xavier arranged the former of those two alternatives; he hid in a cupboard in which was a hole through...",
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        "content_text": "## \n(4)\n\nSee over for \npi \n3 \n443 \n\nMr. XAVIER was then called and sworn. He said when he arrived home on Tuesday evening, the 22nd April, about 5:30 p.m., his wife told him that I had been to the house, and what I had done. He went the following morning to the Head of the Sanitary Department and told him about it. Mr. Tratman told him to come back at 5:30 to see him again. Mr. Tratman asked him if there was anywhere he could hide, and he explained to him how it could be done. Mr. Tratman told him to watch the inspector next time he went to the premises. As I was going back on Friday, he told him to get half a day's leave, and if the inspector returned to go and report to him. Witness telephoned to his brother-in-law, Mr. Botelho, to meet him outside the Seamen's Institute. The brother-in-law met him, went home with him, and they arranged to have the afternoon off to watch the inspector, and if the inspector did not turn up they would get Monday afternoon off as well, as the inspector said he would either come on Friday or Monday afternoon.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, April 25th, Mr. Botelho and witness were in the house, and the latter's wife was on the verandah to see when the inspector was coming. About 3 o'clock she saw them coming and told them. Witness got into a wardrobe with a small hole in the back of it, and his brother-in-law got under the bed. The inspector knocked at the door three times and witness' wife opened it to him. His wife stood between the washhand stand and the bed so that he could see her. The inspector stood and looked at her, smiled at her, and then went into the kitchen. His wife stood as before. The inspector came back, took his hat off, and put it with his stick and papers on the washstand. His wife asked the inspector if he had brought the sweets, and the inspector replied that he had not been in to town to get them. The inspector then kissed her, put his arm round her waist, sat on the bed, and drew her towards him. He then unbuttoned his trousers in front. Witness",
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        "content_text": "## Questions \nBy Mr. Hewett. \n\nMost two or three times a month? \nYes, \n\n## Answers. \n(16) \n473 \n\n## By Mr. Bullin. \nWas there anyone on the premises when I took the paper? \nNo one. \n\nDid you not ask me when I will return to see the kitchen? \nI did not ask you when you were coming back, I told you to go away. \n\nDid I not tell you to see that the partition of the verandah was removed? \nYou said you were coming back in 3 days' time but no mention made about the partition or kitchen. \n\nDid I behave properly to you? \nNo, only you quizzed me on my breast and put my hand on the lower part of my cloth and you said you cannot.\n\nAnything else? \nNo, because you came across the cloth and you said you cannot.\n\nDid I behave in any other improper way? \nNo. \n\nOn Friday the 25th were you not at the back verandah in the afternoon? \nYes. \n\nAbout what time? \n2 o'clock I was in the verandah until you arrived.",
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        "content_text": "# The Caloocan Clarion\n\nThe fact that no issues of this paper have appeared lately is due to the fact that we have been off on a holiday? Who in the world wants to work all the time. We don't and we are compelled at times to put aside the scissors and the paste pot and take a trip to Heyman's home for weary ones on Calle Pinpin. We are now back on the job, a little bit the worse for wear and deucedly short of funds. We wouldn't mind having some of our delinquent subscribers come through as we sure feel that a plate of beans or wieners would improve our health. Our office is at the same old place and we still can write our name to a receipt. Don't crowd.\n\nThe war news from the front has been quiet lately. The French news censor licked the English news censor for trying to cop all the glory. General Joffre says that the French are tired of doing all the fighting and having the English claim all the credit.\n\nGeneral French has lost his powder puff. There will be a suspension of hostilities until a new one arrives from London.\n\nThe Portuguese army surrendered in a body yesterday to a corporal and seven men of the German army. They will be put to work making tamales for the export trade.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n**GORDON & Co's DRY GIN DISTILLERY, LONDON. APRIL 1, 1917**\n\nT. Graydon Moody has won the championship mile race at the International Athletic Meet at Dublin.\n\nCarl Hess called at the office last week and wanted to know if he owed anything. We got a dollar out of him on account.\n\nBacoor is now the most orderly town in the islands at the present time. The town received a thorough purification some years ago.\n\nThe Ananias Club of the Philippines held its regular annual meeting at Clarke's Saturday last and awarded the prizes for the three best liars in the islands. One went to Henry De Wolff and the other two were awarded to Joe Wolfson.\n\nThe Czar of Russia has conferred the Double Cross on his Imperial Allies King George of England and President Poincaré of France.\n\nJapan is trying to make an alliance with Germany and says that she is willing that, besides ceding back Kiaochau, Singapore and Hongkong should be turned over to the Germans.\n\n## O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nNo. 50\n\nA number of prominent British citizens called at this office last night, but as we were entertaining a delegation of friends from the Caloocan Turn Verein and the Malabon Lodge A. O. H., they did not come in. We tried to persuade them to stay and promised them lots of fun, but they said they were out of training.\n\nMcCulloch Dick was arrested last night on the Escolta for masquerading in false attire. Dick had got himself up as a neutral.\n\nBy means of our own private wireless, we learn from the trenches in Europe that while the soldier boys appreciate the sacks and sweaters and scarfs and bands and such things the women are knitting for them, they would also like to have some one knit for (or otherwise produce) certain other things. Why not knit the boys a good pipe and package of tobacco? Why not knit them plenty of cigarette paper and tobacco? Why not knit them a lot of matches in waterproof match boxes? Why not knit them a few cans of beef extract for hot broth while they are in the trenches? Why not knit them a supply of stationery and pencils for writing home? And a lot of the brave boys would like to have some shattered bones knit for them. Why not knit them a few mending outfits?\n\n**GORDON'S Dry & Old Tom Gin**\n\nBest for Cocktails, Rickeys, Fizzes, etc.\nTake no Substitute\n\n**Kuenzle & Streiff. Ltd**\n343-347 SAN JACINTO\n\n**O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915**\n\n## Carnival Opens\n\nA Hint To Mack\n\nWe have received a copy of the new \"Agricultural\" monthly edited by that famed Kansas expert Mark Cretcher. We think that too much of the bureau's appropriation has been spent in paper and ink. If Mr. Cretcher would follow Cyclone Jim's plan and get out and try and make something of value come out of the ground, he would show more real intelligence and be of more value to the people. Incidentally, he would be less criticised. If Mr. Cretcher does not know anything about coconuts, he might start a bean farm or something of the sort. Cretcher has been roasted to a frazzle and from all reports, he is a very decent fellow. He perhaps needs the job he is at present holding and we have no objection to his staying on the payroll. We think, however, that he should stop fooling and get down to real business.\n\nToday is the day. Manila is in fiesta garb and worry and care have been shelved that revelry and merry-making may reign supreme. The big Carnival of 1915 is on and when the great carnival parade winds through the streets of the gay capital this afternoon, it will mark the opening of this famed celebration for which the Philippines are known all over the wide world. Already confetti is being scattered over our sidewalks and pathways, already the maskers are seen mixing with the laborers and the tradesmen. At eight tonight, the only people in the town who will be working will be the policemen, the car-conductors, and the engineers in the light and ice-making plants. Everybody else will be bound for the gay white city on the Luneta to partake in the merriment and have a good time. The carnival city is more beautiful this year than ever before and the Hubbub is full of wonderful attractions from Coney Island and other pleasure resorts. The big ball which will open the carnival this evening is the Devil's Raising Ball and the crowd that attends generally does it. It's merry hell long about midnight. Some elegant costumes will be worn at the ball this year, say the modistes, and it will be worth the price of admission to those who do not dance to go and look on. There will be lots of good things to eat and drink on the carnival grounds. Come early and stay long. Make this the best Carnival we have ever had.\n\nHe Was A Yid\n\nMacfarlane, the Insular Lumber Company manager, tells a story of a Jew soldier in the German army who had accomplished some gallant deed on the field of battle and had been mentioned for the Iron Cross. The Kaiser was present at the town when the Iron Cross was to be presented and decided to make the presentation himself. He asked if the Jew was a man of family and was told that he had a wife and six children and was quite poor. The Kaiser, thinking that the Jew might better appreciate a gift of money, asked him when he was brought up, whether he would rather have the Iron Cross or a hundred marks. The Jew said, \"Your Highness, what is the value of the Iron Cross?\" The Kaiser replied that it was worth a couple of marks, whereupon the Jew said, \"Well, Your Highness, I will take the Iron Cross and 98 marks.\" Mac does not say what the Jew got.\n\nDiscovered\n\nProfessor Waters has been discovered by the daily press. They are certainly getting wise to this Kansas faker at a pretty late day. Waters should be prosecuted by the Philippine government for estafa.\n\nThe man who flooded the German position on the Yser, says a cablegram, has been decorated with the Order of King Leopold. What's that, a rubber medal?\n\nThe entrance of Portugal into the conflict somehow reminds us of the By assisting old man Noah's elephant up the ark's gangplank.\n\nIt seems about time now for the employment of a couple of real tropical agriculturists in the bureau. Why not give Prautch and Lyons a show? Governor-General Harrison has made it pretty evident to everyone in the islands that he has some backbone and wants to do the right thing. He should compel the agricultural bureau to stop wasting its funds and commence to get results.\n\n## Portugal And The War\n\nThe resignation of the Portuguese cabinet was first announced on December 6th, 1914.\n\n...according to a dispatch received here from Lisbon, as stated in an official cablegram received by the German Consul here; but the same was not acknowledged and accepted by Reuter until January 26th, 1915, when he announced the fact in a cablegram dated London, January 25th.\n\nAnd there are still people who declare that the German news-service - official as well as unofficial--is badly informed and brings only faked news.\n\nThere has been so much talk about Portugal being on the brink of war against Germany and of sending an army to the aid of the allies, but we never heard anything of the accomplished fact.\n\nNow this wonder is cleared up.\n\nIt was on the Spanish mail between Hongkong and Singapore; on board were some Portuguese officers heading home from Macau. They were a miserable-looking lot. Their sadness caused the compassion of their fellow-passengers. One of these, a Spanish merchant, asking them for the reason of their sadness, whether or not they did not like to go to war, received this answer: \"We are longing for the war as we are soldiers, but say, isn't it a pity, thrice we sent a declaration of war to Germany but never even a confirmation of receipt.\"\n\nGermany has more to do than to acknowledge little Portugal's war-declarations!\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### THE CARNIVAL NEEDS That Ten Pesos YOU NEED A LITTLE FUN\n\n**RICHTER'S DRY GOODS STORE**\n114-116 ESCOLTA\n\n| Corsets        | Description                                                                                   |\n|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| AMERICAN LADY  | The Corset that braces, buoys up woman and beautifies the modern through the active hours...  |\n| MADAME LYRA    | ...soft, light and pliant- yielding to every demand of the wearer.                           |\n\n**E. E. ELSER INSURANCE**\nFIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT\nGeneral Agent\nNew York Life Insurance Co.\nKneedler Bldg.\nPHONE 129\n\n**MANILA GARAGE**\nAUTOMOBILES FOR HIRE\nTel. 1004\n665 NOZALEDA\nJOHN CANSON, Proprietor\n\n**DINE AT THE GAS KITCHEN**\n168 ESCOLTA\n(AT YOUR SERVICE)\n\n**Manila Foundry and Machine Works**\n(Successors to Ges. Y. Taylor Machine Shops)\nManufacturers and Dealers in Machinery and Supplies. Brass and Iron Castings\nRepair Work A Specialty\n500 to 520 Reiss Regents\nTel. 8543, P. O. Box 1055\nCable Address: \"MACHINIST\"\nCodes: Western Union, A. B. C. 5th Edition",
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        "content_text": "Jerbottin\n\nThe Pro have telephoned asking whether we wish the letter from Neville to be sent on to Marseilles or await his arrival here. I told them unless they heard to the contrary, to keep the letter until the arrival of Neville in England. Their doubt arose from the fact that passengers often come overland from Marseilles.\n\nThat's true, but in this case there does not seem much likelihood of Neville doing so. On the other hand, there is no reason why he should not know what has been done before he arrives; if you would like the letter to be sent to Marseilles (there is plenty of time) we can send a wire to Pro telling them to.\n\nON OFFICE: MARK LANE. E.C.\n\nFounded entirely by Nautical Men in the interests of the personnel of the Merchant Service.\n\nIt stands for the Legal Defence of its Members' Certificates.\n\n£5,000 expended on Legal Defence.\n\nIt fosters Nautical Education before, and on board its Training Ship, H.M.S. \"Conway,\" at an expenditure amounting to £12,000 per annum.\n\nSons of Members are educated at greatly reduced fees.\n\nIt dispenses nautical information through its widely circulated and influential monthly JOURNAL AND REPORTER.\n\nIt exercises a vigilant oversight on legislation and other matters affecting the profession, being represented on the Parliamentary Committee of the Chamber of Trade, Committee of the Nautical College, Technical College, (the largest in the world), of Trade Committee, Committee of Loyd's Register Society, Brick Charity, Arbitration Committee, and other matters relating to the Merchant Service.\n\nIt relieves cases of distress amongst its Joes aged and Widows.\n\nIt maintains Homes for Aged Mariners.\n\nThe Mercantile Marine Service Association, ESTABLISHED 1887, AND INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 1893. (In which was amalgamated THE SCOTTISH SHIPMASTERS' AND OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION).\n\nThe recognised head of the Nautical Members of the Merchant Service.\n\nIncorporated by Special Act of Parliament for conserving the interests of the British Mercantile Service, and promoting the general welfare of nautical men by education, technical knowledge, redress of grievances, procuring employment, care for the helpless and aged, and by every possible means making for the welfare of the Service, &c.\n\nSubscriptions—Commanders, One Guinea; Officers, Half a Guinea; Associates, Two Guineas; \"Reporter,\" Four Shillings, and Postage One Shilling per annum.\n\nTelegraphic Address—“TOPMAST,\" LIVERPOOL\n\nCaptain J. McKAY, President. Captain J. KITCHEN, Vice-President.\n\nCommander A. HOUGHTON, R.N.R., Deputy Vice-President.\n\nSir R. A. HAMPSON, J.P., Hon. Treasurer.\n\nALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THOS. GOTT, Secretary.\n\n614 TOWER BUILDINGS, WATER STREET, LIVERPOOL.\n\nTELEPHONE No 326 (Three lines).\n\nNEWSROOMS AND BRANCH OFFICES—\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, LONDON. S.W.\n\n15th June 1915.\n\n27596 REC! REG? 16 JUN 1915\n\nIn answer to your communication of the 8th June, I have to inform you that when he arrives in this country, Mr. S. A. Neville can call at this office, when the Committee will look into his case.\n\nI must inform you that the Liverpool Homes for Aged Mariners only receives inmates who are in good bodily health and able to look after themselves.\n\nI am, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\nSecretary.\n\nP.T.O.",
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        "content_text": "makes a careful examination to see if any floors need repair, if any gratings are missing, and so on.\n\nThe accompanying diagram, kindly drawn for me by Dr W.J. Kosdman, late Acting Medical Officer of Health for Hongkong, and now H.M.O.H. Kowloon, shows the arrangement and mode of occupation of a typical 'floor' of a modern Chinese house in these districts.\n\n| Area Description | Label |\n| --- | --- |\n| (washing hung up to dry here) |  |\n| Verandah open to the air |  |\n| Area not less | A |\n| sliding \"hook\" |  |\n| sliding \"door\" |  |\n| Staircase |  |\n| Yard | D |\n| sliding door |  |\n| Window |  |\n| Kitchen |  |\n| Passage (usually occupied) |  |\n| A, B, C, D. separate dwelling |  |\n\nScale 1/8\" = 14' 1\"\n\nThe foregoing constitute the main predisposing causes, but the direct cause of the prevalence of tuberculosis in Hongkong is, facile princeps, the expectoration habit. Nearly all writers on tuberculosis in the tropics note this peculiar trait. In the houses of the poor a person will expectorate anywhere on the floor, or, if he is ill in bed, on the bedclothes. Owing to the unavoidable overcrowding in the poorer districts the children play about on the floor, putting everything into their mouths, breathing a vitiated atmosphere and one often tubercle-laden. These are the reasons for the extensive prevalence of tuberculosis among the native population here and for the relatively high proportion of cases met with among children. A subsidiary but analogous cause is that manner of feeding their infants which many mothers, themselves tuberculous in many instances at least, indulge in, of first chewing the food and then placing it in the mouths of their babies.\n\nFurther, experiment has shown that there is considerable danger of transmission of tubercle bacilli from one person to another by means of eating utensils, if these are uncleaned. In China the eating together in common, the using of the same general dish, the insertion of individual chopsticks into the food supplied for the meal, the transference of food with the chopsticks of one person to the mouth or dish of another.",
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        "content_text": "£18\n\nSteamship Companies concerned, it was unanimously decided that the Companies should deal direct with their own crews.\n\nThanking you for your kind offer of assistance. The next morning, 13th January (Friday), I replied to Mr. Sutherland as follows:-\n\n\"The Chinese Seamen's Wages. \"Your letter of yesterday's date was not delivered to our Mr. M. K. Lo until 7 o'clock last evening and we note that it was unanimously decided by the principal steamship companies concerned that the companies should deal with their own crew.\n\n\"As a matter of record, we desire to state that yesterday morning we stated not only that we were representing the interests of the Chinese Seamen's Union, but also that our clients under our advice had agreed to postpone the strike if you and the other principal steamship companies would let us know, in the course of yesterday, that they were willing to negotiate, in order to allow time for the matter to be decided by negotiation.\"\n\nThe strike was now on, and, beyond writing a few letters on behalf of the Union to Captains of steamers relating to the Chinese crew, there was nothing for me to do that day.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\nPrevious to this, it may be necessary to state, the Committee formed at the meeting of the Tung Wah Hospital had offered to mediate, which fact precluded me from acting on the suggestion originating from Canton.\n\n[March 25th, 1922\n\nREMINISCENCES OF THE\n\nSTRIKE:\n\n[BY ALICE GRANT-SMITH.]\n\nOn the 11th February I wrote officially to the Secretary of Chinese Affairs and set out the proposals in detail. One hardly knows where to start with your strike recollections. There has been such a jumble, comedy and discomfort overlapping one another, and already the comedy takes premier place in memory's gallery.\n\nI was sent for by the Hon. Mr. Hallifax and informed verbally that the Government could not in any case accept the proposal embodied in paragraph \"b\", and, regarding the proposals generally, he suggested that, as the mediation was in the hands of the Tung Wah Hospital, I should do nothing further in the matter. I do not wish to appear \"wise after the event,\" but I may mention that at this interview I expressed strongly the view that the Government should permit the re-opening of the Union on the men returning to work.\n\nFeeling that some good could be achieved, and no harm done, by pursuing the friendly tentative efforts at negotiations, I telegraphed to Canton and offered my personal services if they were required.\n\nOf course, such an experience as we have recently passed through in Hongkong was funnier and infinitely more uncomfortable than it could have been in any other country, where the ordinary comforts of civilisation obtain in bathrooms and kitchens and where people are not absolutely dependent, as they are here, on their servants for the most primitive services.\n\nWe used to talk of the Peak Tram as a leveller, where Taipan and junior met on terms of equality and class-distinction could only be indicated by the frigidity or cordiality of bows; but now we have had a supreme and more effective leveller.\n\nUnfortunately, as the Canton gentleman held no official status in relation to the Seamen, both he and I had reluctantly to leave matters very much as they were, but the altruistic motive of the originator of the proposals cannot be too highly commended, and I only regret that respect for confidential communications does not permit of my disclosing the name of one who had really exerted his best endeavours to bring the parties at variance to an agreement at a time of emergency.\n\nLife was hard enough down below, but it had its compensations even when the kitchen floor gurgled and sobbed as the damp oozed up underfoot for two cruel days, and husbands came home laden with mops and wooden trellis mats to keep dry the feet of the all-of-a-sudden-capable cook-general who had taken the place of a large staff of Chinese servants.\n\nOn the whole, the cook-general took kindly to their new work and took wailing babies off the hands of unaccustomed mothers who, many of them, were getting to know their babies for the first time and were wondering whether they had not rather over-rated the charms of the little darlings.\n\nCook-generals who only had the duties of cook-generals and coolies, and not baby-amahs, to perform, hurried through their new work.\n\nThe next, the 14th January (Saturday), one of the Officials of the Union called on me and we discussed the position. I pointed out to him that the matter should be decided by arbitration and that the refusal to arbitrate would be taken as an implication that the seamen were afraid to subject their demands to an impartial investigation and that such demands would consequently be considered unjustifiable.\n\nAfter a long discussion, he authorised me to tell the Secretary for Chinese Affairs that the Union would agree to leave the matter to be decided by two arbitrators, one to be appointed by each side, and, in case of disagreement, by an umpire to be appointed by the arbitrators. But the Union Official wanted me to stipulate the condition that the arbitration should proceed on the principle that the award should go only as to quantum.\n\nI at once proceeded to see the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and laid the proposal before him, but, as the members of the Union afterwards declined to proceed to arbitration, the details of this conversation are now immaterial.\n\nAfter this I did nothing further professionally.\n\nOn the 10th February I received a confidential communication from an English gentleman occupying a position of importance and responsibility in the service of the Chinese Government in Canton, wherein it was suggested to me the possibility of the settlement of the strike on the following basis:-\n\nUnion's first letter of demand for an increase dated the 25th November, 1921, their second letter dated 23rd December 1921, and their third letter dated 12th January, 1922, have none of them been answered. And as we now know, on the very day I myself came on the scene, i.e., the 12th January 1922, the shipowners still took up the attitude of a determined refusal to negotiate with the Union, and elected to deal direct with their own crew.\"-Yours faithfully,\n\nM. K. LO.\n\nHongkong, March 21st, 1922.\n\nOne young mother could not think why baby suddenly turned from a peaceful, beautiful, sleeping young god into a peevish crying brat, until she discovered that her amah had been giving him powders to keep him quiet at night. I am told the young mother is now going in for a course of instruction in Mother-craft.\n\nNot only in the baby line have there been revelations. Boys have been discovered to have feet of such muddy clay that their imprints have been left wherever they went, and it will take months of supervised cleaning to remove their traces.\n\nIn the good old days, old-fashioned fathers and husbands who loved to encourage the home and fireside ideals in their women-kind said that \"the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.\"\n\nThe Hongkong public has discovered a new truth-a woman who can cook a good dinner may defer a strike settlement.\n\nAs early as the second day after the departure of our servants a rumour was circulated that the strike was likely to be settled within a few hours and all the demands of the seamen be granted,\n\n'big noises' because one of our social stars of extreme brilliance, a dresser beyond criticism, an artist in making the home beautiful, could deck her table and grace her board, but she could not provide the table with food. Think of the tragedy! Money to burn, means to pay a No. 1 and No. 2 boy, a No. 1 and a No. 2 cook, but no food.\n\nEIGHT-HOUR DAY ON SCOTTISH RAILWAYS.\n\n(a) The promise of a definite minimum increase in wages based upon the offer made by the shipping companies published in the Daily Press of the 18th January to commence from day of resumption of work, and the appointment of an arbitration board to decide upon the maximum advance and the date from which all advances shall take effect.\n\n(b) Consent to the re-establishment of the Seamen's Union in Hongkong concurrently with resumption of work, it being further understood that regulations to govern all Unions in Hongkong will be drawn up by the Government without delay.\n\nThe National Wages Board has tactfully handled the thorny problem of the Scottish Railways dispute, in which the employers sought to abandon the principle of an eight-hour day, thereby arousing the suspicion of Labourites throughout the country that an attempt was being made to introduce the thin end of the wedge with a view to the subsequent general abandonment of that principle. The Board framed a compromise, upholding the eight-hour day, except for a small category at wayside stations, and stipulated the agreement was not to be regarded as a precedent for the abandonment of the principle elsewhere.",
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        "content_text": "I doubt if you are.\n\n6\n\nwill kitchen thing him of specially for the purpose unlike Kom desfatches have been from by Sie I learnton funth, who way futaps also disemat for subject worth him.\n\nFüßen.\n\nFr. J. Inesterton-Smith.\n\nThe scheme las outlined whit for E. Stubbs Soundh\n\n+\n\nI think 35 794 the 334 affern to be.\n\nmugst without further delay, instruct the local authorities to detaile.\n\nA. JR. 9/54/22\n\nAnd he R. Stubb Loday, $10.8.22 out the\n\nerstand that Sir E. Stubbs spoke to Mr. Wood on this subject when he called rere on his arrivel in England. He is now at Oxford and will be coming to the C.O. again in a fortnight's time. These papers, this and 35794, should be read before the question of a further interview for vercal discussion is settled. It seems to me olear that Sir E. Stubbs is moving on the right lines, and perhaps we might at once request that details may be worked out as per the end of par. 5 of 35794.\n\nA.S.J. 9.3.22\n\n* 35794 belas. 17.5\n\nMK Food?\n\nSecretary of State: Abolition of Mui Tsai System,\n\nI had a long talk with Sir Reginald Stubbs, the Governor of Hong Kong, who is home on leave about this question. It is interesting to note that the proposals put forward by the Joint Committee of the Society for the Protection of Mui Tsai and of the Anti Mui Tsai Society would involve its continuance for some 20 years, and Sir Reginald Stubbs quite rightly rejects these proposals as being out of harmony with the definite decision taken by the Secretary of State and announced to Parliament.\n\nSir Reginald Stubbs puts forward an alternative scheme in his despatch of the 10th June, and I agree with the Department that this alternative scheme should be approved and the Hong Kong Government authorised to implement it without delay.\n\n16.3. LL. m I aqui. PW. 18.8.\n\nPage ...",
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        "content_text": "All the houses at Leighton Hill are being constructed by Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs, and those on the Homestead site by Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood,\n\nIn addition, 12 houses at Happy Valley were completed for subordinate officers early in the year.\n\nGood progress was made with the new police married quarters, containing 6 BQte, in Caine Road.\n\nAlterations were carried out to the Kitchen Block at Government House, and a new Garage Block was commenced which includes quarters for the Custodian and two rooms for guests, for whom accommodation cannot be found in the main building.\n\nThe quarters for scavenging coolies at Hospital Road were completed towards the end of the year, and good progress was made with similar quarters in Belchers Street.\n\nFoundations were commenced for the large building (New Fire Brigade Station) opposite the Central Market, the details of the accommodation of which were given in last year's report. A temporary Fire Station was completed in Wanchai.\n\nA contract was let, and work commenced, for a maternity section next to the Victoria Hospital, Barker Road, the Peak, and plans were prepared for the alteration to the main hospital block, and to the nurses' quarters; also, an outpatients' block was commenced at the Civil Hospital.\n\nIn Kowloon, quarters for the Royal Observatory staff were completed, and an extension to the pig lairage at Ma-tau-kok was made.\n\nThe preparation of the site for the Kowloon Hospital was in progress.\n\nDrawings were prepared for the new police station at Yau-mati and Mong-kok-tsui, and for an extension to the fire brigade station at Kowloon.\n\nOther works of a minor nature were carried out.\n\nIn the New Territories, work was proceeding in connection with the rebuilding of four of the prison sheds at the Lai-chi-kok branch Prison.\n\nGood progress was made with the new clerks' quarters at Taipo, and the land bailiff's quarters at Pingshan.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS,\n\nThe following Motor roads were in hand :-\n\nA road contouring the South side of Mt. Davis and linking Pokfulam Road with the Victoria Road was completed, as was also\n\nthe extension of Lugard Road; the first section of the road from Taitam Gap to Shek O, about one mile in length, was also completed, and good progress was made with the second section thereof, and a contract for the third section was let; the two latter sections are also each about a mile in length.\n\nA twenty-foot road from Wanchai Gap to Magazine Gap and from thence to Chamberlain Road was under construction; one, from Bowen Road to Wongneichong Gap, being the first part of the new road to Repulse Bay, was completed; and good progress was also made with the twenty-foot road from Bowen Road contouring the hill towards Sookunpoo Valley, passing over the ridge where it will be joined by Broadwood Road.\n\nA further section of the scheme for widening Kennedy Road was completed and progress was also made with the scheme for widening Queen's Road, East, as opportunity afforded, though there still remains a considerable portion to be dealt with before the widening can be accomplished. Work on the scheme for the diversion of a certain portion of the Shaukiwan Road through Quarry Bay Village and the improvement of the alignment and levels of a considerable section of the same road on either side of the diversion was commenced.\n\nIn Kowloon, further progress was attained with the extension of the Coronation Road to the North West of Mong-kok Village.\n\nThe section of the Kowloon City-Mong-kok-tsui Road, East of the Railway, was nearing completion, and the section, West of the Railway, was making good progress. The excavation from the hills to form the above-mentioned roads was being utilized to fill in the low lying areas to the south of the Old Kowloon boundary line.\n\nExtensive widenings of existing roads were carried out as follows:-\n\nKowloon City Road, between K.I.L. 1150 and the bridge over the stream course West of the Hill of the King of the Sung'; from this latter point a sixty-foot width of roadway was constructed on a new alignment to the New Kowloon City-Mong-kok-tsui Road.\n\nSalisbury Road, between Nathan and Chatham Roads. Hankow Road, between Salisbury and Peking Roads, Argyle Street, between Coronation Road and Ho-mun-tin.\n\nThe improvements to the Taipo Road, between the 3rd and 5th milestones, and the section of this road—and the construction of a bridge—at Ma-nin-shui were completed.\n\nA road extension, 10 feet wide, was made from the Fanling-Sheung Shui Road to the Sheung Shui Police Station,\n\nPage 27\n\n...\n\nPage 26\n\n...\n\nPage 15\n\n83",
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        "content_text": "21\n\nMOTOR BOATS\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nThe Twin Screw Tunnel Stern Motor Launch \"ENRICA\"\n\n(Built of Steel).\n\nLength overall.--56' 0\" Breadth moulded.-11' 6\" Depth moulded.-3′ 6′′ Draught moulded.-18\" to 19\" D. W. capacity on above draft. --3 tons.\n\nSpeed.-8 knots. Engines.-Twin set \"Kelvin\" Motors, each 30 h.p.\n\nInstalled with Electric Light. Price $10,000 or near offer.\n\nThe Motorboat \"KEIKUNG\" (Built of Teak). Length overall.-29.8/10. Breadth.-7.5/10. Draught (approximate). -18. Engine -- \"Kelvin\" Paraffin Motor.\n\nPrice $1,800 or near offer.\n\nAPPLY\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nHELENA MAY\n\nINSTITUTE.\n\nExtensions Opened.\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\non Page 11.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1922.\n\nOpening Rate: closing Rate\n\nSELLING.\n\nHongkong Hotel,\n\n2/63/4 2/6.13/16\n\nAstor House Hotel,\n\nExtensive alterations have been made to the Helena May Institute. A new dining hall, situated in the basement, has been provided. The entrance to this room is by a fine staircase, about nine feet wide, from the main hall. The new room is fitted with all modern conveniences. The woodwork is teak, with an attractive colour scheme of buff and white, and the splendid lighting arrangements and the large verandah windows, from which a view of the Peak can be obtained, all add to the charm of this welcome addition. The hall seats about a hundred diners and is so arranged that it can also be used for dances and cinematograph shows. Connected with the dining hall are a new kitchen and pantry, both spacious and well-fitted.\n\nSeven more bed-rooms have been provided, including a room for the matron. They are fitted with teak furniture and look very cosy little places. The library, to which has been added several new books, has been moved to one of the new rooms of the extension and a better lighting system has been installed.\n\nThese extensions were made owing to the generosity of the late Sir Ellis Kadoorie. The cost of the furnishing was undertaken by the Institute. The architects were Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs.\n\nNESTLE & ANGLO-SWISS CONDENSED MILK\n\nTHE COWIE HARBOUR COAL COMPANY LIMITED. SILIMPOPON COAL.\n\nThe extensions were thrown open for the first time yesterday afternoon. It was quite an informal gathering and there were no speeches.\n\nAmong those present were Mrs. Claud Severn, Mrs. Bullock, the Hon. Mr. E V. D. Parr and Mrs. Parr, the Hon. Mr. Perkins and Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Spring P. L. Knight, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. D. Cousland, Commander, and Mrs. Samson, Commander Radcliffe, Mrs. A Mackenzie, Miss MacKay, the Rev. J. T Holman, and many others. The Acting President of the Institute (Mrs. J. H. Kemp) was unable to attend owing to slight indisposition.\n\nPEKING NEWS.\n\nSolving the Cabinet Problem.\n\nThe Council of the Institute has arranged an attractive programme for the winter months, including musicales, dances, lectures, religious services, readings, cinematograph performances and a new feature, the children's hour.\n\nA Peking telegram states that late at night on the 19th, the President and Wong Chung-wai had a private consultation on the Cabinet question and eventually reached a settlement. A manifesto was issued next day to the effect that the request that Tang Shao-yi should form a Cabinet was withdrawn, and that Wong Chung-wai had been appointed Premier.\n\nAnother Peking message states that the terms for the return of the naval squadron from Canton have been arranged, and they will be put into effect when the Peking Government is in a position to meet the arrears of payment.\n\nWUCHOW UNREST.\n\nSTAR THEATRE.\n\n\"The Miracle of Love\".\n\nENTERTAINMENTS\n\nTHE CORONET\n\nHOTELS\n\nLEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG:\n\nPeak Hotel,\n\nRepulse Bay Hotel.\n\n'SHANGHAI:\n\nPalace Hotel,\n\nGrand Hotel Kalee.\n\nPEKING:\n\nGrand Hotel des Wagon Lits.\n\nThe Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.\n\nIn conjunction with\n\nThe Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.\n\nand\n\nThe Grand Hotel des Wagons Ltd.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL.\n\nCENTRAL LOCATION,\n\nELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.\n\nHOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.\n\nIsl. Central 373.\n\nTelegraphic Address: \"VICTORIA\n\nJ. WITCHELL,\n\nTo-day at 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.15.\n\nORIGINAL CAST\n\nIN\n\nTHE GIRL\n\nIN THE TAXI.\n\nWORLD\n\nPHONE. 1337\n\nKOWLOON\n\nTHEATRE\n\nTO-NIGHT at 9 15 TO-MORROW at 5.45\n\nand 9.15.\n\nHAROLD LLOYD\n\nIN\n\n\"A SAILOR MADE MAN.\"\n\nTHEATRE\n\nPHONE 1337\n\nManager.\n\nTHE EUROPE HOTEL.\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nDANCING AFTER DINNER EVERY\n\nMONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.\n\nTEA DANCES\n\nTUESDAYS and THURSDAYS.\n\nThe Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of Mr. F. R. Martens.\n\nTelephones in every Room.\n\n148 Nom\n\n81 163\n\nTelephone No. 2740 (9 lines).\n\nSUBSIDIARY COINS.\n\nHongkong 50 ct. pieces\n\n10\n\n5\n\n124 pm.\n\npar\n\n19.5/5% dir.\n\nJanctu sub. coins\n\nHengsong. S pr 22. 1922.\n\nWEATHER REPORT.\n\nSept. 22nd 11% 17.\n\nIt has decreased slightly over L., and lightly from Vladivostock to Weihaiwei.\n\nThe typhoon which passed the Bonins on September 19 has moved to the E. of Hakkaido.\n\nThe anticyclone is now centred near Weihaiwei. It is moving eastward.\n\nHowever inclement the weather outside, there is always a feeling of tranquility inside the Star Theatre. This evening the management is exhibiting as a special attraction the film version of Cosmo Hamilton's famous novel, \"The Miracle of Love.\"\n\nIt took three weeks to erect the elaborate \"set\" of the House of Lords for \"The Miracle of Love.\"\n\nIt is a stirring story of English high life, with Wyndham Standing and Lucy Cotton in the chief parts. The hero is a younger son of a British noble family who is about to renounce his career as an idle and impecunious lord and seek his fortune outside of England, when he suddenly becomes heir to the title through the accidental death of his elder brother. A love story has been worked into the plot, which is said to abound in thrilling situations.\n\nFORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.\n\nDistrict.\n\nFormosa Channel\n\n2 South\n\ncoast of China between H.K. & Lamocks.\n\nThe Military and Gambling.\n\nNews from Wuchow brought back by a resident who has been there on a pleasure trip reveals very much the same state of topsy-turveydom that has been prevalent for months past. Soldiers of the Fourth Division of the Cantonese Army who have been garrisoning the town are said to be sadly out of hand on account of arrears in pay, and to secure funds they have transformed themselves into gambling monopolists. In the main street there are as many as forty concerns doing a brisk business in fantan, and officers are unable to enforce discipline on the men. The situation is given a farcical touch by the elaborate precautions of three gunboats in midstream, which appear to apprehend danger from the military, for their steam has been continually kept up ready for any emergency since their arrival under the orders of Chan Wing-son.\n\nReports are filtering into Hongkong of fighting between the Kwangtung and Yunnanese troops on the one hand and the Kwangsi troops on the other, further up the interior.\n\nPublic confidence appears to have been very badly shaken, for the majority of the shops remain closed, whilst those that venture to continue business close their shutters very early in the evenings. Pedestrians are a rare sight at night, many of the inhabitants preferring the safety of barred doors to walking about in the streets, where, as likely as not, they would stand the risk of being robbed by the military.\n\nRECORD ENROLMENT AT SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY.\n\nA record number of students has been enrolled in St. John's University (Shanghai), 340 in the collegiate department and 250 in the middle school.\n\nat 2 p.m. 6 am 2pm.\n\n76 17\n\n84 86\n\n6 4 Sa. 23 m 10 49 69 4 9\n\n22nd. to 28th, Sept. 1922\n\nLow Water\n\nHongkong\n\nHoogkong\n\nMean Time\n\n1, b. m.\n\nMean Time\n\nft. m. 7.3 20 48 6.%\n\nb. I\n\nft. n\n\nm 3 34\n\n1.7\n\n4\n\n1.7\n\nopen\n\nopen\n\n5\n\nотд oy orq sun. 24 4.25 0.00 1.16\n\nMon, 25 air\n\n21st 83 faeu. 26\n\n3 Wed 27 m 1\n\n3 19a 4.9a al Thar 28 m 1 59 65 I 9 24 2.4 4 ANA 4.7 7 4.4\n\n1.5\n\n14 44 69\n\n4 40 1,1\n\n11 4 11 *7a 720\n\n6.4\n\n0 30a 5.8\n\n5 la 31\n\nm 13\n\n69\n\nIn\n\n650 19\n\n1 586\n\n5.3\n\n6.7\n\nm\n\nm. morning a. afternoon\n\nWeather\n\nRain. Highest\n\nTemperature on the Lowest\n\nair Temperature on the 22nd 75\n\nT F. CLAXTON, Director.\n\nH.K. Ob... vatory, Sept. 21.\n\n5 7 14\n\n5 15 2.6\n\nm 5 56 1,8\n\n1\n\nTientsin.\n\nCordillere, from\n\nVongtsonpao li Laridle Street, from Shanghai.\n\nKianghing Engiok West, from Taipeh.\n\nLootengsi, from Amoy.\n\nMinleechan, from Shanghai.\n\nChengsoychor 11 Old Peel\n\nStreet, from Shanghai.\n\nPianchang, from Amoy.\n\nKihung, from Kobe.\n\nYungsikshang, from Kobe.\n\nLiang Laitsak, from Shanghai.\n\nHongkong's Most Modern & Coolest Picture Palace.\n\nTO-DAY at 5.15 and 3.15 p.m.\n\nTHE DRAMA OF A GIRL WHO KEPT STRAIGHT:\n\nA REALART PICTURE:\n\n\"THE LAND OF HOPE\"\n\nALICE BRADY\n\nA Powerful Story of The Dreams & Accomplishment of a Boy\n\nIn an Ad prod. Lawl\n\nHARRY SNOB POLLARD COMEDY.\n\n2.30 & 7.15 p.m.\n\nCHARLES HUTCHISON in\n\nSTAR\n\nDOUBLE ADVENTURE\" Ejendea, & mai ti,\n\nTHEATRE.\n\nPEKING ROAD, KOWLOON. Tel. Kowloo... 7\n\nThe biggest house exhibiting the lust ; ietur s\n\nTO-DAY to MONDAY, 25th. 5,30 and 95 10.\n\nLUCY COTTON\n\nin\n\n\"THE MIRACLE OF LOVE.\"\n\nA Cosmopolitan Special Picture.\n\nking at the Star Ferry Wharf for Hongkong Rodne FREE FERRY TICKETS BOTH WAYS. Open Daily #30 jo buô pm, and 1 to 9 pm, Saturdays 2 to 2.1 pm.. 3 to 5 15 pm\n\nSEE HAND BILLS.\n\nto 9 pm.\n\nJAPAN COAL\n\n- AND\n\nGENERAL IMPORTS AND\n\nEXPORTS\n\nAGENTS FOR:\n\nLiangtsuche Lharlie & Co.\n\nTHE MIT UBISHI MARINE & FIR» INSURANCE CO (2), from Shanghai\n\nTHE OSAKA MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE CO.\n\n9235, from Chinkiang.\n\nTH. KRING Superintendent.\n\nHongkong, September 21, 1922\n\nEASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ARIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO\n\n11377/19th, Bankasia, from\n\nMadras.\n\n9044, 15th. Lampert Hongkong 6 29 3. Hotel, from Ningpo.\n\n57 2.8\n\nM. E. F. AIREY,\n\nSuperintendent,\n\nHongkong. 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        "content_text": "Tyele and Co.\n\nN. Cowan.\n\nP. Soares.\n\nA. J. M. Soum.\n\nRam Ribars.\n\nC. H. Windsor.\n\nO. Kitchen.\n\nM. A. Comol.\n\nV. R. Pithawalla.\n\nJ. A. Mahlain.\n\nC. Bunara Bran.\n\nH. Binketi.\n\nHarry J. Lamb.\n\nJ. P. Victore.\n\nA. S. Comen.\n\nE. J. Rozane.\n\nMarióle 3.0. Accunde.\n\nE. Liemaratz.\n\nB. M. Alaradis.\n\nO. O. du Koer.\n\nJ. C. V. Ribeiros.\n\nA. P. Remedios.\n\nO. O. C. Alves.\n\nJ. C. Souza.\n\nP. C. Gourco.\n\nF. R. Lauren100.\n\nT. E. Winfield.\n\nH. W. Bean.\n\nW. Jackson.\n\nR. C. Contie.\n\nC. E. Sandstrom.\n\nK. H. Mohamed.\n\nP. A. Jampetgis.\n\nV. Currum.\n\nDu Nicolli.\n\nJ. D. Bernardo.\n\nJ. A. Palmer.\n\nC. Almeida.\n\nH. Gittins.\n\nM. A. da Silva.\n\nF. Ribido.\n\nJ. Crummer.\n\nC. A. Fulcher.\n\nR. M. Bazeland.\n\nG. F. ds Roza.\n\nJ. Armiton.\n\nJ. Reves.\n\nJ. H. Pinna.\n\nC. L. Binua.\n\nCasimiro 1. Sousa.\n\nJ. Roze.\n\nA. Norton.\n\nA. K. Souza.\n\nF. N. Gmha.\n\nA. Kadec.\n\nJ. J. Remedios.\n\nM. E. F. Airey.\n\nC. P. Simpleton.\n\nJ. S. Jenningar.\n\nA. J. M. Rodrigues.\n\nC. O. Karques.\n\nD. H. Cameron.\n\n823",
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        "content_text": "181\n\n# Excess as Approved\n\n| Head. | Subhead. | in Appropn, by S.W': Acot.1922. | Excess. | Brought formrd |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| K.O.R. Maintoe.of Way, worką and Stations, Plantations |  |  | 5.37 | 5.37 |\n|  | Points and Crossings. |  | 13.61 | 13.61 |\n|  | Tools and Plant |  | 3.17 | 3.17 |\n|  | Logo.Carr, & Wagon Department, Stationery |  | 11.58 | 11.58 |\n|  | Fanling Branch Line Running Repairs, Carr. and Wagon | 400.00 | 407.45 | 7.45 |\n|  | Pensione. |  |  |  |\n|  | Tools and Plant, Haintes.of Way and Works Sp.Expenditure, Alteration of Stairs of extension of kitchen at K.C.R.3th. |  | 2968.85 | 2968.85 |\n|  | Civil. Police |  |  |  |\n|  | Charitable Services, Charitable Allowances . |  | 4.31 | 4.31 |\n|  |  |  | 15572.64 | 15572.64 |\n|  |  |  | 18439.38 | 18439.38 |\n| W. Orphane |  |  | 2238.02 | 2238.02 |\n| Dowling John at Sydney |  |  | 1.11 | 1.11 |\n| Teoi Hin Ki |  |  | 24.00 | 24.00 |\n| Grants in aid of Charitable Inst. Strangers Home for Asiatics |  |  | 2.90 | 2.90 |\n| **Total** |  |  | **309,626.95** |  |\n\n**(Signed)**  \nH.H.PHELIPS.  \nAuditor. 11.9.23.",
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        "content_text": "# \n## V.-PUBLIC WORKS\n\n### BUILDINGS\n\nDuring the year under review the following works made fair progress:- The Senior Officers' Quarters on the Homestead Site at the Peak, and at Leighton Hill, the former under Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood, and the latter under Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs; and the new Offices for the Public Works Department. Good progress was made with the following works:- In Hongkong, foundations of the new Fire Brigade Station, opposite the Central Market; Maternity Block and alterations to the Sisters' Quarters, Victoria Hospital; site formation for the new Queen's College Building; and the Miniature Rifle Range at The Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. In Kowloon, new Police Stations at Yaumati and Mongkoktsui; and the underground Seismograph Room at the Royal Observatory. The undermentioned works were completed:- In Hongkong, additions and reconstruction of the Kitchen and Garage Blocks at Government House; Outpatients Department, Government Civil Hospital; Quarters for Scavenging Coolies, Belchers Street; Temporary School for Chinese Boys, Morrison Gap Road; Married Quarters for Police, Caine Road; Gardeners' Quarters, Colonial Cemetery; accommodation for Chinese Linesmen at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station; and various Public Conveniences. In Kowloon, Extension to the Fire Brigade Station; new Class Rooms at the Kowloon British School; and various Public Conveniences. In the New Territories, the Land Bailiffs' Quarters, Ping Shan, and the Clerks Quarters, Taipo. Other smaller works of minor importance were also accomplished. The reconstruction of certain sheds at Laichikok for purposes of a prison was nearing completion.\n\n### COMMUNICATIONS\n\nThe 2nd and 3rd miles of the road from Taitam Gap to Shek O and Cape D'Aguilar; the extension of the road contouring the hillside in Wongneichong and Tai Hang Valleys; and the diversion of the road leading from Pokfulam Road to Victoria Road were completed. Broadwood Road was extended to connect with the new Motor Road contouring Wongneichong Valley. Substantial progress was made with the undermentioned works- Improving and widening road through Quarry Bay Village; a low level road (25 feet wide) from Island Bay to Big Wave Bay and another of equal width to effect a junction with it, and link up the 3rd mile with Shek O Gap; and the 1st Section of the Road contouring the hillside above Conduit Road. Fair progress was made with the extension of the 20-foot road from Magazine Gap to Peak Tram Station, Chamberlain Road.\n\n## \n-24 -\nNo University Hostel at present exists for women students- whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921: but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.\n\nUniversity fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chibli, Yunnan and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China and Australasia.\n\nDuring 1922 honorary degrees were conferred upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G., and the late Mr. E. H. Sharp, c.m.g., a member of the Governor's Executive Council. A benefaction of $500,000 was received from the Rockefeller Foundation for the foundation of full-time Chairs in Medicine and Surgery. The complete scheme includes a grant of a further sum of $250,000 for a full-time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and provides for the creation of complete medical units for the teaching of the three subjects in the Government Civil Hospital. The University is to make provision out of its own funds for assistants to the professors of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology and it is desired to erect a Hostel for medical students in proximity to the hospital. Eight scholarships of $200 each were founded by the China Medical Board for medical students who shall have carried out their pre-medical studies at the Canton Christian College, the University undertaking to remit fees to the extent of $100 a year. A sum of $10,000 was presented to the University Union by the Hon. Sir C. Paul Chater, Kt., c.m.g., for the foundation of a Library in memory of the late Dr. Jordan, formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor in the University. A sum of $5,000 was collected for the extension and partial refurnishing of the Athletic Ground. An appeal was issued in the course of the year asking for a sum of from four million to five million dollars for the general purposes of the University.\n\nThe total cost of the land, buildings and equipment of the University may be placed at approximately $1,750,000 and their replacement value at not less than $2,500,000, while the invested endowments exceed $3,000,000.\n\n- 25 -\n## Page 249\n## Page 24 \n\n## Page 25",
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        "content_text": "## Opium Conference\n14 OCT 24\n\n### British Delegations\n\nTo AGM. Gletcher comm q let zyw\n\nTo his M. Delevingne - 50 Cor 4855) Bomen\n\nTo ago The then lit. D. Beather\n\n1118824,27 65,000 11/23-MoC - E 258 Brigh\n\n### MINUTES\n\nThe arrangements for the British Delegation. They follow:-\n\n* Sir 17. Delevingne is the sole British Delegate,\n\nThe \"Advis Pub. No. for Band 1 Darbada with fain Sat, 14 Nov.\n\n### Matters relating to the Delegation\n\n* To Do Beatty.\n* hat she Count DA ÁLL \n* The Fram Fund (Capt. Broke).\n\n## Previous Paper\n48567 \nHD 483425s.\n\nWhether any objection to the Rev. Jenahr (of the Rhenish Mission) and to the Rev. August Ragel (of the Basel Mission) and to the Hildesheim Mission sending representatives to Hong Kong in connection with formal recognition.\n\nIn January it is clear that now the laseren in Iceland and to the individual ... \n\nG. GRINDLE\n\n### Details\nDATE: 14 October\n\n## Subsequent Paper\nTo his M. Delevingne - 50 Cor 4855) Bomen\nTo ago The then lit. D. Beather\n\n### Expenses\n\n* At the Metropole - Fazi myself \n* In Kitchen Rad alas the to Punimda Hotel de Bergues, brond cou107. reis, however, of representakén dis M. Dulionid, A Kitchen a t. way Lewd made by 2572 instrating was hot sing anangeran to cette expens L. the Metropole, thereby incurred to \n\n## ROM. CO. CIRCULATION\n\nthe same time future. Stutto was left that Mr. Thomas who advised that in using bacudan 5. $(3) the auc \n\n1924 the powerd the for in Council should not depart from the main purposes of the Ordinance set out in Mr. S. 5 (1) 212) of the Ord. Mr. Asst. U.S. of S. the Thomas wished that a formal recognition of the soactic be submitted cabin in 4 general list. In the meantime the Governor Perm U.S. of $. Par U.S. of S. Secretary of State.\n\nexquerd for the formal recognition of the soactic be hosted with be readmitted & Houghing with \n\nWhether Celeron In Jenahr (of the Rhenish Mission) sending f given it is clear discul that now the laseren in Iceland and to the (of the Basel Mission) to Hong Kong in your Wellin yet applied for to formal recognition in aud Led akaus в G individual \n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE \n\nHỒNG KONG \n48415 \n360 \n\n| Reference | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| `HD483425s` | Previous Paper |\n| `48567` | Previous Paper |\n| `Cor 4855` | Subsequent Paper | \n| `XCR(85)72` is not present, however `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either, `HD 483425s` and `48567` are present as file references | File references |",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\nDATE 1 Oct:24.\n\nDear Ketcher,\n\nI understand that Parkin explained to you the difficulties which will constantly be met with in order to facilitate the Consultations which required it in the Convalescence of the British Delegation. It is undeniable that, if possible, the British Delegation should be accommodated at the Metropole.\n\nLa... made known that it is tentative because he cannot get there in time. However, the accommodation at the Metropole is available. If you could send a brief telegram to ascertain whether accommodation will be available, it would be possible for you to alter your arrangements.\n\nYours sincerely,\nM. Ketchen Esq. CBE\n\nMINUTE.\nJ.J.P. 20/2\n\nTo: \n- Sir O. Davis\n- Sir G. Grindle\n- Sir H. Read\n- Sir J. Masterton Smith\n- Lord Arnold\n- Mr. Thomas\n\nIn connection with the Instructions to the British Delegation in Ex... Conference. I have been asked to write to you expressing the great difficulty of your being drawn into informal discussions (either before or during the Conference) with representatives of other Powers.\n\nYou should be most careful to avoid expressing any views which might be taken as official. It is not possible to avoid such discussions altogether, but if it is likely, you should... \n\n...not... discussion... \nTo ins... 123... not...",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\n\" for L. Parkin  \n11 S.P. Waterlow Way. C.B.E.,  \n$2>3 HIC.\n\n(2) Capt. W. Tonhuism, C.B., N.V.O. R.N.  \nA.G.M. Hatcher Sy. Cinige,  \n\nMINUTE.  \nJP. 37+  \n247. Collein 4/4  \n\nSir G. Davis.  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nC. D.  \n5 NOV  \nAdmity.  \nCBE  \n7.  \n399  \n\nDear Sir H. Read.  \nSir J. Masterton Smith.  \nLord Arnold  \nMr. Thomas.  \nCermeste Chapies wi  \nThen R. W na watu Conve  \n\n(3) Hitchen.  \n(4) Capt Tankini Lore  \n\nI will remember that  \nA.K. Prinez mesting  \nFull Run on  \nderde d  \nbe issues.  \na to th  \nthat a  \nI had  \nwhich  \noff July, it Report Scr.  \nbogad  \nposition to prepare  \nbefore this  \nit was  \nthe  \nLabo  \nG  \nmiddle of Sept, before \n\n5. for any sig. by be. Chutturact que \n\nMr.  \nMr.",
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        "content_text": "## FOR CIRCULATION\n**Previous Paper**\nCopy Admiral Fuller s.o.cons - 8 iz \nCopy Sun & Stubbs. 14 Apl:25. `G00/1201/22`\n\nTo Mr Hitcher to 285 June \nnew Graving dock at HR. \nReports result of his intervind with \nRear Commial Juller.\n\n## MINUTES\nIt is clear \nIt is best \nto be \nnext \n\nSubsequent Paper \n7344855 \n18624 27 60,000 \n41:23-Mo \n11/23-MoC E 258 \n\nSir G. Grindle \nAdus \nthe next besok. \nB. Coven \nY.. \n27/6.\n\nI gather from In Hetitive that them wing waiting for \nto take \nthe supports that if you do so, the simplest thing \npreferred to do so \nfor you \nen clony \nto write shortly \nau \nwil be \nto Adeniral Fuller, \na copy of his letter, a saying you \nand be glad to know (confiducially). That ind \nsand with it wh \nthe Aduh take in the watter of com there any consons \n13/7/24 he does noth \n\nI have \n(Sad) L. S. AMERY \nE 1981\n\ndifficulties were placed in the four of such transhipments. This statement has occasioned surprise. \n\nRuce published in the Skotone Air Gazette Notification No 702 the 1st of May 1919. I have been unable to ascertain (owing to lack of records in my possession) the transhipment facilities at Singapore. It is prohibited \"except in the case of consignments British-protected Persons\". \n\nIn view, however, of the restrictions at Singapore & I have been of opinion that similar facilities should be allowed at Hong Kong. I will direct that a request be made for the amendment of the Revenue Ordinance.\n\nI will communicate to Kanda the suggestion that the right to issue import certificates be conferred on a Central Bureau.\n\nHONG KONG \nDATE 606 c6 29550 \nFROM Ketchen 1.5.n. \n20th June \nREC (REL 23 JUN 24 \n\n**FOR CIRCULATION** — \nMr. Bec \nMr. Proprie \nMr. Asst. U.S. of S. \nPerm L.S. of S. \nParl U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State.\n\nPage 363 \n\n| Name | Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Mr Hitcher | 285 June | new Graving dock at HR. |\n\n... \n7344855 \n18624 27 60,000 \n41:23-Mo \n11/23-MoC E 258 \n\nSir G. Grindle \nAdus \nthe next besok. \nB. Coven \nY.. \n27/6.",
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        "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n### THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH\n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\nWILLIAM DESMOND IN \"STRAIGHT THROUGH\" \nWANDA WILEY IN \"GETTING TRIMMED.\" \nOUR OWN TOPICAL.\n\n## QUEEN'S THEATRE\n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \nLON CHANEY IN \"THE NIGHT ROSE\" IN SIX PARTS. \nSaturday, July 11th. \nLILLIAN GISH IN \"THE WHITE SISTER\" IN ELEVEN PARTS. \nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY. At all Shows. \nWILLIAM DUNCAN AND EDITH JOHNSON IN \"THE FIGHTING GUIDE\" (IN SEVEN REELS), \nADDED ATTRACTION: \"A GAME LADY\" (COMEDY IN TWO REELS) AND TOWN TOPICS.\n\n## WORLD THEATRE NOTICE\n\n#9 \nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well Stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently Received Large and Well Selected New Stocks. \nCome and Select your Menu from us \nMAGASIN GÉNÉRAL, The Corner Shop, Phone 3312. Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\n## [101 \nTHE NAME MOUTRIE ON A PIANO IS A GUARANTEE OF RELIABILITY. \nEASY TERMS ARRANGED. \nS. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD., CHATER RD.\n\n| Ad | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 117 | CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. |\n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. PROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands.\n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments.\n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers.\n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties.\n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st.\n\n## GERMAN LOANS. UNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG\n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation only 2 per cent., compared with 12.5 per cent. for old holders.\n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. Bankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be possible to parry out much differentiation and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby.\n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list.\n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON\n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. COMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH\n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going.\n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously.\n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. Bluebell makes all the bread for them and the bluejackets have been doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore.\n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. TO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA?\n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the Peking and Tientsin Times.\n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor, the number 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again.\n\n## HOME CRICKET. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872. Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 60 not out.\n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November.\n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. RIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. \nPARIS, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repair, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after luncheon at the Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. C. Denison Pender.\n\nA message from Fez says the French evacuated two advanced posts after destruction of defences northward of Wezzan. A later despatch reports that the Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergha region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south.\n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes.\n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. MR. 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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.\n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW. BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuehlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh floor apartment at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and was killed. The accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the Berengaria to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio.\n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. Violent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit.\n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97.\n\n## LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nL. C's are clearing out their stock of Aertex Underwear at reduced prices - $3.00 per Garment.\n\n## GAUNTIE HATS. HOSE AND SOCKS\n\nThe Ideal Hat for Sportsmen. Price $7.50 \nThe Ideal Summer Sock-Light Weight-Silk Mixture in Drab Brown and Grey Shades. $1.75 Pr. \n6 Prs. $10.\n\n## GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nGOLF HOSE and KHAKI SHORTS.\n\n## E. MERCK, Darmstadt. 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Come and select your menu from us \n\n**MAGASIN GÉNÉRAL**, \nThe Corner Shop, \nPhone 3312. \nBeaconsfield Arcade. \n\nThe name **MOUTRIE** on a piano is a guarantee of reliability. Easy terms arranged. \n**S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.**, Chater Rd. \n\n[CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] \n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. \n\nPROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands. \n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments. \n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers. \n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties. \n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st. \n\n## GERMAN LOANS. \n\nUNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG. \n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation at only 2 per cent., compared with 5 per cent. for old holders. \n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. \n\nBankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be impossible to carry out such a differentiation, and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby. \n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list. \n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repairing, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after a luncheon at The Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. O. Denison Pender. \n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes. \n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. \n\nMR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the coal crisis, Mr. Baldwin said that he thought it was clear that the possibilities for negotiation were not yet exhausted, and appealed to both sides to explore every opportunity for a settlement. \n\nHe disagreed with a Labour member who declared that the deadlock was complete. \n\n## FLYING RECORDS. \n\nAMSTERDAM, July 8th. Mynheer Grase, the chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew a standard Fokker D.XIII machine of 450 h.p., with a Napier Lion engine, 100 kilometres at an average speed of 266 kilometres per hour, and 200 kilometres at an average speed of 265 per hour, with a load of 500 kilogrammes. These feats are believed to be world's records. \n\n## 'SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. \n\nENGLISH TOURISTS WIN AGAIN. \n\nNEWCASTLE, New South Wales, July 8th. The English Association Football team beat Newcastie by 3 goals to nil. \n\n## FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.--Reuter. \n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. \n\nCOMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH. \n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been a boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going. \n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously. \n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. `Bluebell` makes all the bread for the bluejackets have been helping them and doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore. \n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. \n\nTO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA? \n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the `Peking and Tientsin Times`. \n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor car, No. 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again. \n\n## HOME CRICKET. \n\nOXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872 Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 68. \n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \n\nIn the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November. \n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. \n\nRIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. A message from Fez says the French northward of Wezzan evacuated two advanced posts after the removal of stores and destruction of defences. A later despatch reports that Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergba region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south. \n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuhlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh-floor fashionable apartment at the Carlton Hotel and was killed. \n\nThe accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the `Berengaria` to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio. \n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. \n\nViolent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit. \n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. 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        "content_text": "60\n\nTable XIII.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF LAI CHI KOK WATER SAMPLES\n\n  \n    Date.\n    Description of samples.\n    Pollution Index as C.C.\n    Remarks.\n  \n\n61\n\n--\n\nTable XIII.—Continued.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES of Lai Chi Kok WATER SAMPLES\n\nContinued.\n\n  \n    Date.\n    Description of samples.\n    Pollution Index as C.C.\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    21-1-25.\n    Unfiltered water\ndo.\nFiltered water\n    キ\n0.5\n    Raw water.\n  \n  \n    17-6-25.\n    do.\nTap water, kitchen water work\n    2.5\n50\n    Below standard.\nExcellent.\n  \n  \n    15-7-25.\n    do.\nTap water, servant quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n    50\n    do.\n  \n  \n    18-2-25.\n    Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water. coolic quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nUnfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n    ++1\nキ\n1.4\nT++\n50\n50\ndc.\n50\n10\n    Raw water.\nUnsatisfactory\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\nVery good.\nExcellent.\nNot up to standard\n  \n  \n    19-8-25.\n    Unfiltered water\ndo.\nFiltered water\ndo.\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\n    0.1\n1.1\n++\n1\n50\n10\n    Raw water.\nUnsatisfactory\nRaw water,\nNot up to standard\nExcellent.\n  \n  \n    18-3-25.\n    Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n    0.5\n1\n50\n50\n    Raw water.\nBelow standard.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n  \n  \n    22-4-25.\n    Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n    0.1\n0.5\n50\n50\n    Raw water.\nRaw water.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n  \n  \n    20-5-25.\n    Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\n    1++\n0.1\n50\n50\n    Below standard.\nRaw water.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n  \n  \n    16-9-25.\n    Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\nTap water, street fountain near un-numbered house Castle Peak Road\n    0.1\nT++\n5\n50\nT\n50\n    Raw water.\nBelow standard,\nExcellent.\nBelow standard.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n  \n  \n    21-10-25.\n    Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, Lai Chi Kok Prison\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nTap water, street fountain Castle Peak Road opp. Wong O Village\n    0.1\n6.2\nTHI\n2\n50\n50\n50\n    Raw water.\nBelow standard.\nExcellent.\nUnsatisfactory.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n  \n  \n    18-11-25.\n    Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\nTap water, coolie quarters, Standard Oil Co.\nTap water, kitchen servant quarters, Filter Bed\n    0.01\n0.5\n1.2\n50\n50\n    Raw water.\nRaw water.\nUnsatisfactory.\nExcellent.\nExcellent.\n  \n  \n    17-6-25.\n    Unfiltered water\nFiltered water\n    \n\n    Very good.\n  \n\n215",
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        "content_text": "# REPORT FOR 1926\n\n## STAFF \nIn 1926 the Staff was reduced by five. Miss Munro, after a serious illness, has now gone home on leave. Mrs. Ng and Mrs. Wei resigned for reasons of health and Miss Fok and Miss To were transferred to King's College.\n\n## ATTENDANCE \nThe attendance during 1926 was satisfactory, the average daily attendance being four hundred and ninety-two, and it is gratifying to be able to report that the dwindling in numbers during the course of the year, so noticeable in the past, was much less pronounced. One class, 7c, had exactly the same numbers and names on the roll at the beginning of December as at the beginning of January, which for B.P.S. is an achievement, but which it is hoped will shortly be looked upon as the normal and not the exceptional condition throughout the School.\n\nI would here urge parents not to withdraw their daughters from the School during the year. The time for a girl to leave is at the close of the school year, in December. It has been found that premature withdrawals are very unsettling to the School, and sight must not be lost of the fact that a girl who fails to complete a session is indirectly responsible for depriving another of admission, as entries are not encouraged after the work of the year has begun. The accommodation of the School is taxed to the utmost; each year applicants are perforce refused admission. This year one hundred and forty-six applications had to be refused.\n\nIt is to be regretted, therefore, that a girl should enter upon the school year without the intention of remaining until the end of it.\n\n## HEALTH \nThe health of the School remains good. In October Dr. Minett, the M.O. of Schools, medically examined one hundred and sixty-nine entrants. The report on eyes and teeth was not satisfactory, out of the number examined there were fifty defects, mainly eyesight.\n\n## STUDIES \nSince the last report was submitted several changes of a progressive nature have been introduced, the chief being the extension of the study of English to the lower classes of the School.\n\nIn January, 1926, the Remove Class, which had previously had studies in the ratio of three hours Chinese to two of English, was included amongst the English Classes, and the hours were changed to one and four respectively. In this way pupils are afforded an opportunity of reaching the standard of English required for the Junior Local in the remaining four years.\n\nThis change has proved a success and has been appreciated by the girls. It is now possible to carry the English teaching down two years further, two divisions of Class 7 and one division of Class 8 now learning English in the ratio of three to six. An important result of this change is that girls are encouraged to pass from Class 7 to the Senior School, and to pursue their studies up to the Standard of the University Locals.\n\nIn 1925 the subject of Hygiene was introduced by means of informal health talks into the curriculum of the School. In the lower classes these are given in Chinese, in the English junior classes they form the subject of colloquial lessons and in the Senior Classes the subject is treated formally as Domestic Science. In 1926 Domestic Science replaced Needlework as a subject for the Senior and Junior Locals. Needlework is taught five years in the Junior and four years in the Senior School: it was therefore felt that it could be well discontinued in favour of a wider and more generally useful subject. The old cookery kitchen was small and inadequate, and it was found possible last year to fit out as kitchen a more suitable room. The subject of Housewifery has recently been introduced, and although it has not yet been possible to set apart a room for this purpose, it is hoped that certain structural alterations will render it possible to allocate the room above the kitchen to the service of this new and important branch. The girls are responsible for the entire cleanliness and freshness of the place, the washing of paint, curtains, cleaning of windows, \n\n## Prize Giving \nfound in the second half of the Magazine. After the reading of the Report for 1926, Miss Skinner spoke of her coming departure on leave and wished the girls a happy and successful year. Mr. Wood then gave away the prizes, which included the awards on the results of the Senior and Junior Local Examinations, the Government Free Scholarship Certificates, the English and Chinese class prizes and the certificates for First Aid and Home Nursing. A full list of prizes and prize-winners will be found at the end of the Head Mistress' Report. The second innovation came when Mr. Wood spoke to the students in Cantonese instead of in English. His speech was listened to with great attention and interest.\n\nThe proceedings ended with a vote of thanks to Mr. Wood, proposed by Miss Lewis.\n\nSpecial thanks must be given to those who contribute every year to the Prize Fund. The list of names was published in the newspaper report of the day's proceedings, but it is perhaps not sufficiently understood that the list of prizes owes some of its length to the generosity of the donors to the Prize Fund.",
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        "content_text": "## 28r. B 29/0\n\n**AB Mr. Ellisia**\n\nMr. E. J. Harding.  \nMr. Strachey.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nSir C. Davis.  \nSir S. Wilson.  \nMr. Ormsby-Gore.  \nEarl of Clarendon.  \nMr. Amery.\n\n**DRAFT.**\n\n70. OF 21272 th. 2nd\n\nAGM Hitchen  \nDear Hitchen,\n\n3 0 NOV 1928  \nC. D. R 3ONOV 0  \nCOR 198\n\nI bother you with another of Tony. We have had a letter from the War Office saying that they have had an application from Honorary Captain R. Ho Tung, a student at the R.M.A. Woolwich, for instruction with the Royal Tank Corps. In W.O. refusing the request, they state that a decision has been made not to allow foreign officers to examine the interior mechanisms of Tanks.\n\nI have since learnt that Ho Tung, who is the son of a British subject and might in future be a person of great influence in China, proposes to ask the Germans if they won't grant his request, and they ask whether, in new exigencies, we (or rather the Tank Corps) should refuse.\n\n... \n`XCR(85)72` is not present, but `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either. The text seems to be a letter or memo.",
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        "content_text": "P.24\n\n31\n\nI heard a third shot and then saw the officer in Charge jump off to see who was firing. I saw B.722 run towards the corner of the Station and the big tree. I myself ran straight through the compound into my barrack room.\n\nAs I ran in I heard several more shots. I can usually distinguish between rifle and revolver shots, but was in too much of a hurry to distinguish at the time. I realised that someone - I didn't know who - must be firing at the O. in C. Before the alarm went I heard something like 20-25 shots. I did not see anyone as I ran in. In my barrack room I left my door open. I put on my boots standing and got my rifle and 30 rounds. While I was going out, I saw B.722 run past the door with his revolver in his right hand. He went straight into the Station by the back door, and immediately afterwards I heard the alarm ringing. I saw no-one else pass my door. I myself went in through the passage to the other barrack room.\n\nI did not see B.9 or B.543 or anyone in the compound. Into the big barrack room I looked through the west window nearest to the kitchen and then saw B.543 at the top of the slope near the S.W. corner of the Station running towards the compound gate with his rifle held at the ready. I saw no one else. I saw him fire 2 shots towards the married quarters.\n\nWhen I got to the window, I fired 5 shots at him from my rifle, three before he disappeared round the corner and then 2 more. L.8.B.349 was the senior in the barrack room. On his orders we manned the windows. B.722 closed and locked the door in the corner by the cook-house. The other door was left open, so that we could see into the Charge Room. I heard several more shots fired outside and upstairs. I did not see B.543 again. About 5.10 p.m. B.722 telephoned. I did not go into the Charge Room. I fired 22 shots in all, but only the first 3 at any visible target. Whenever we heard a shot, we fired in reply.\n\nTo Mr. King: \"I put on my boots as a precaution. It is the...",
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        "content_text": "## P.26 \n2 \n\n## P.27 \n22. 8. Jury present. \nEnquiry continued. \n\n13. Jewan Singh deod. \"I am L.S.3.349 with 16 years' service and have been at Lok Ma Chau since 3rd November last. On 21st July last I came off duty at 4 a.m. and afterwards was up and about until 2.30 p.m. I did not see the O. in C. go out at that time. I didn't know he was going out or that I was senior officer in the Station. I went to bed about 2.45 p.m. and very soon fell asleep on my bed in the main barrack room. About 2.30 p.m. I saw B.543 come in for a handkerchief. I did not see him afterwards. I was still asleep about 5 p.m. when B.722 aroused me. B.722 made a report to me. I then realised I was in command in the Station. I got up and put on my boots. I got my rifle and belt with pouch. I took up my position at the barrack room door opposite the charge room. After he roused me B.722 ran out into the passage towards the back door. I heard no shots fired in the passage or from that direction. I saw B.553 fire some shots through the window towards the flag-staff. I looked through the next window but saw nothing. The next thing I heard was shots upstairs. I ordered the other three to go to their alarm posts and fire if any one saw B.543. My fixed alarm post was in the barrack room at the north window. B.722, as Station Guard, had his post in the Charge Room, but he didn't go there. He stood near the door of our room next the kitchen. I ordered him into the Charge Room. He did not go. He may not have heard. I did not repeat the order. I could see into the Charge Room, and so could B.315 who stood by the door on that side. We did not shut that door, but kept it open 4 or 5 inches. I saw no-one enter the Charge Room. In my opinion B.543 must have got the Lewis Gun upstairs before the shooting started. I myself fired 25 shots from my rifle. We fired whenever we heard a shot. I never saw anything to fire at. I can give no reason for so firing.",
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        "content_text": "NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CHINA AUCTION\n\nSPORTY GOODS.\n\nThe Undamaged buy is anounced the spanning at imalo stare\n\nROOMS\n\nIndustrial and Commercial Bank Bakang.\n\nsild, Queen's Road, Centrul at No Bk House Streler and Bissnésand Housekee\n\nCiljnennt be Heeers Powell & G\n\nDijaga and Burcjaluka in 10t| Beperti al tepk, sporta pieds. Perf Pontracting sise undertaker\n\nInspection of Store verdalle in. Hod.\n\nTAUPOLE & SONE\n\nBlackan, 28d detokes, 1981.\n\nOm Furniture for disposal\n\nMy private paAN AL BELONGA peshk\n\nFOR SALE OR HIRE.\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND, KOWLOON MARINE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLint. Col. Robertson, Hong Kong Club, will be glad to receive any article which may be give\n\nauctioned as Armisting Day for\n\nthe bench of Karl Halge Fund,\n\nLOT NO. 73\n\nChioare Boden, 72,768 vs. ft. Apply\n\n19, & RADERY 4 00, LTD.\n\nPOPULAR\n\nand earsally hases th! EFFERVESCENT SALTS\n\nameponse to this approud may be\n\nmade\n\nPrescribed\n\nconstipation.\n\nIle in anaouraged to appeal headache, indigestion liver and\n\nsenim thin your owing to the vary įkalney disorders, Motach com MEN KOLLA KITla sent last year.\n\n(PÍNIALA, STE, Blo\n\nNOTICE\n\nItse kemby notifed that Sporlal Current Papénit a/c Pana Boska,\n\n27 in the game of Tang Yai Kan and X, 514 In the same of Tank But Sing\n\nwith\n\nYokohama Specie Bank, LLC., Hong! Konur, have been reported lost ar stolen and the sang nay kepeby declared to be canceled.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIL SKOTT & CO.\n\n―\n\nJ\n\nWe have this day authorsand Mr.\n\nPeter Ball Helga Melbyn to sigu Fr Pin Рег Procure, Mr George Bravet Wetten kavag handed in Kin power of attorney.\n\nIL SKOTT A CO. Fongkong, 19th Getaber, 1981\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe Pearl of the \"Kingship at\n\nChilier and the Golden Jubilea!\n\nThey are justly calabratori and MEN LIQDAN LAD I LINDLADÍ,\n\nThey can\n\nbe procured\n\nin Hongkong—\n\nSincere & Co., Berlin & Co., The Pharmacy,\n\nand\n\nKing's Dispensary and in Kowloon-\n\nThe World Drug Co.\n\nTAAI HING\n\nGentlemen's Tailors &\n\nMilitary Uniform\n\nisa\n\nLatest Style Hata\n\nFar Spa. Cheap.\n\nstablishment of the App Satisfaction Guaranteed. of Prayer\" will take place at the Catholic Cathedral an Sander, the 126, Pottinger Street, Central\n\n18th Ovember, 1881.\n\nMORNING SERVICE 8 mm.\n\nEVENING SERVICE L24 pm.\n\nA Triduum will be bold also a\n\nthe above place at 530 pm, on the | three (2) days preceding the celebration.\n\nG\n\nPARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, De 3604) day of October, 1831, at 3. athena of the Tablic Werka Department, by Order at His Excellency the Governor att nae Let of Crew Land 1 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colay of Hong Kong for a term M 75 JOLER Cencing fron E\n\nJuly, 1898, with the option of\n\nTeroval of a Crawa Best to be\n\nJced by Far Surveyor of Ris\n\nHONGKONG\n\nMUSIC CO.\n\n26. Wyndham Street.\n\nTal 2290.\n\nDealers in Munke,\n\nMusical Merchandise and\n\nAccessories Alag\n\nExpert in Repairing all types of\n\nMusical Instrumenta\n\nand\n\nPiano Tuning.\n\nMajnatý thu King, furi Reasonable Charges.\n\nther term of 24 years less the\n\nlast three days thereof.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\nTO LET.\n\n8, Conduit Red\n\nDWELLING HOUSES.\n\nrose\n\ngro Lad\n\nnaturalebed. Garden.\n\nKo 22 Confult Road.\n\n|Hour.\n\nGodown at Daddell Street.\n\nOffer Rossa 16. Queen's Loud. Central.\n\nLINNTRAD & HAVIS,\n\nALEXANDRA HITILDINGE\n\nTO LET-IN THE PEAK.\n\nNA Z MIŠINTAIN VEW\n\nApply to\n\nPERCY SHITH SETH\n\nAPT PVING\n\nNOTICE.\n\nClassified Advertisements\n\nwill not be accepted for insertion after 6 p.m.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLAMMERT'S\n\nAUCTIONS\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe Undersignad katy pocultad Instruction tolly Public Auction\n\n'TL'ESDAY,\n\nThe 17th Detaker, 1983. COMMERCİNE at 18.30 a.m.\n\nat The Star Furniture StormX.\n\nSo, 22, Wing Lack Building, Hankow Road, Kawhon.\n\nA Quantity of Valuable Beaned\n\nFurniture and Garipu.\n\nOn View from Monday, the 26th October, 1951, Catalogue will be issued. Terms: --Cash on Delivery,\n\nLAMMERT BROS.\n\nAuctionem.\n\nOUR BREAD\n\nFRENCH BREAD\n\nCOFFEE ROLLS SANDWICH FREAP\n\n=\n\nDELIVERED DAILY\n\nIn Kawloon f November JL, JOSE, Platou place widers in adorner\n\nMARCEL\n\nCONFECTIONER\n\nM-NATHAN ROAD TO\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMOL & MAS, Y. MORL Bolder of Japaanse Government Caricate\n\nCares Sprained Ankle and Wrist app. \"South China Morung Prat” 4. Wyndham Streit. -Ial Koer), Telephone 2801.\n\nNEW\n\nVictor\n\nRecords\n\nUSED CARS HUGHES & HOUGH\n\nWATCH\n\nThis Cobe wary day for\n\nLIMITED.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have receive instruction to sell by Pahle\n\na dual basin in GUARANTEED I>ED CARS\n\nToday Special PALATIN, BEVEN 1926-1927-70r Account of the Caprerasli. modal, da mechanical order\n\nMONDAY, . #875.\n\n་\n\nThis cat fi guaranteed agafant j ali mochandaal defecta for a period | of thirty days.\n\nPhase to-day for a trial run, HONGKONG INED CARS, LTTI, Phone: 28481 (Qiles) H£750 (Show Room).\n\nRARE CHINBR\n\n|COʻNINE CHAFTSMEN AT\n\nDISPLA? OF CHINESE PIREWORKS\n\n· QUAIRĪT” CHINESE CUSTŪRIS\n\nALL TO BE SEEN AT THE\n\n\"CHINA\"\n\nEXHIBITION,\n\nCITY HALL\n\nsch, min 4 7th November, 1981\n\nCHEME PUNCIEH\n\nDEXTERHE-ORIENT\n\nMortimer Uk & Rinate Agenta “PEAR BANSIONS,”\n\nHerend à Five-rammad ndictments.\n\nkatarken & Sandstad had MÜKƏ modern conjuction with garage\n\nSAMRAŞ BUILDINGS\"\n\nthe 28th October, 1991,\n\nat their Halen Rome, No. F. Queen's Rond. Central (French Bank Beliding BaseTMENİ | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising of --\n\nSideboard, Dining Table and Chales, Dressing Tubền, Ten Chest, ¡Croekary, Eléctile Pra, Chasale- H. BILA Ware Wall Plates, Gleaner, Kitchen Utensils, Daner Barem,... mka.\n\n*\n\nTexten Carpeta\n\n:\n\n· Cabinet Gramophone, Goud Caller tom of Recordi, mostly Red Seal. High Class Carpenter'a Tuola, I Laths. Several Pots of Rhododen\n\nCrysalidocarpus\n\nrom\n\nAnd\n\n*(Mauritius Palm).\n\nיי\n\nNote.\n\nNow on View.\n\nThe above are high claw\n\n'pute and in good conditiam mod\n\nbe sold without reserve. Loved from Kowinna Ten for The sentence of bayern.\n\nTerm-Cash on Dativars\n\nBUGRES & ROUGH, LTD.\n\nMake Canones. ilangkanje, zied Oetoboř, 1961\n\nTHE\n\n│\"SOUTH CHINA\n\ni\n\nMORNING POST\"\n\nis always on sale at\n\nSELFRIDGE'S\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLondon, W. 1.\n\nThe fol - sharp poitibeyken in the Ewe Carton Mẫu have\n\n· bass lost at manda The Team For Denda are in deʊ pay. The Pakka ke warned not in accept these calientern\n\nPo skarva Scrip. No. 14876-848242/341 kc, în x/n Yan Ching Chun\n\n14981-276485:20 Az.\n\n200\n\n100\n\n100\n\n100\n\nfor\n\nOCTOBER.\n\nTSANG FOOK. PIANO CO.,\n\n8, Des Voeux Road, Central,\n\n(Entrance lee Honge Street)\n\nTelephone 21648.\n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS\n\nAT\n\nAll other Advertisements 4 p.m.\n\nGray's Yellow Lantern Shops Alexanden Bldg. Tel. 21854\n\n140:33–440691/900\n\n17726–898257/454\n\n17727–222457/50% 40-\n\n17728-878381/456\n\nChau Chik Nia\n\n-do\n\n---\n\nTHE SOY KUT BANK.\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\n-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"& BAD ONE.\n\nUNITED\n\nMATSO\n\n- EDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nFor a good fit\n\nto go\n\nA-MAN, HING\n\n1\n\nCHEON.\n\n(LATE AA-MEN HING CHEANG.\n\nECU\n\nTAILORS. DIAPERS\n\n& OUTFFITERS\n\nto Military Officers\n\nfor many years.\n\n34. Qarena Rood Central.\n\nT! 23334\n\nWHITE ANTS\n\nand cockroaches will be banished from every place where care is taken to use\n\nFLUIDE EXPRESS.\n\nSale Agents: Compagnis Ostore. Proman Bukhang. Das Vanch Boyd, Canteni,\n\nTH. SI5\n\nANCHORS\n\nBUTTER\n\nFOR OVER\n\nHALF A CENTURY\n\nthe \"ANCHOR \"symbol has been the Sterling\n\nnurk of baller,\n\nIt is your guarantee i\n\nFINEST QUALITY.\n\nAsk For It By The Kaize\n\nsold by-\n\nThe South China old Storage Co., Ltd.\n\n221 Da Vomux Rand Centr\n\nThe Cafeteria. Peninsula Hotel, Kowloos. Rahim Store. Shameen Distritor.\n\nARGE SIZ\n\nExtra moisture.. Easier shaving\n\nWilleme Sharing Creem is the diman at 90 years' experienes in making Father for sukuning the hoord and com\n\nalling the skin.\n\nTrabanels 10% intera meistars them way ather Fedkar we know of Thara why your ride aldas sa swiftly and smoothly, and your beard comes all\n\nsa dasa and clean, Willana la millal ve tõeline poravnavalenty!\n\nAdnak at Williams Aque Velva niður shaving, well knep your side smooth and soft all day long-leak as Wi inther Inmuna 195. Try this. habeat playlag domination. For sale everywhat\n\nDodge & Seymour (China) Ltd.\n\nHagk my Shangbai-Harbin\n\nWilliams\n\nSHAVING CREAM — AGUA VELVA\n\nCLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID\n\nFOR EVERY ADDITIONAL DAY\n\n50\n\nIF NOT PREPAID A BOOKING FEE OF\n\n50 IS CHARGED.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE=EN\" CENTRE LATHE, Amarinan makA VI, DE, Melor X 1.2, complete with whiske for KIR GRUN Going Thong. Desar\n\n= (1 Bed\n\nPORNALE – MANOMAG CAR, 200 ronning vier, Jeromeni til 2002 1945. Can banen 12 Kathan Garags, Köni Ja amat Team dua Na\n\nFOR SALE. 1990 SUNBEAM boleč tyrke, overkant valve quim, perfect Peking crter, prien 1975, or senrent Konfor selling, wwIAL mon at WIH BIT NO. 26, \"g С. И Pet\"\n\nFOR MALE-ZA-TRAR ICARETER CAMERA Pie 15\" x 24\" PONTEARE and plate. Terra) F714 \"Campur Sheller swabbe uztenaten, ailment new.\n\nReplies in the following Box Nombora uze lying at this\n\nC\n\nNo Te TH 10) Pe Koh, KAI BAT PUT A L\n\nHid KT 840 149 R44 8 20\n\nbakııı Replies to the following Box Numbers were called for and/or forwarded ta nádvertisers, yesterday:—\n\nYALE\n\nE\n\nwww\n\nZuma pa andrium should neeskijaky MěTETİRMİZM, THES necovariis far pukilentiam, hatt ta medwore that replies received by the person Cực shom they are intended.\n\nTHE MAXI-KAUNE RUPEI ELL\n\nTe\n\nHax No. 1,\n\n#K. FI. PAL\"\n\nS\n\nH\n\nWe will forwačil teplies to the stated nádro L Live Advertiser desires\n\nIf the wants) kalvnctioors are quickly met and they de met derden any further repila tevazásd, we shall be glad to be\n\ncomplir In that cløbct\n\nyou\n\nPosted replies to advertisements will be accepted, if they ar not sufficiently stamped. Correct postage in Three Cent..\n\nLOST.\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nWANTED.-TNI\n\nSAFE The Evek med chillin, Kanisan po Write Box No. 14, “S. C. K.\n\nTHE AMERICAN CONSILATS GENERAL WHL FENOL Bulatan for a STENOGRAPHER, Thorval knowledge of Englik, Contamme, atomography vasential. Applien išoma, jelang začećanom sisi vžgečlanew, will on received by maat volt.\n\nED\n\nWANTED TO BUY.\n\nWANTED TO MITOM \"BOB\" časa in puod condition Write Box Nu C. H Fool\"\n\n$106_ Wrike Bust Ha, 241, \"4 (LM).\n\n| FOR BAR\"LL TEARETEK theo\n\nmonth Goal polgan, Aly\n\nKe\n\nTỉnh Bình Hà Lan Hà T\n\nP\n\nPOST\n\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 23.\n\n1931.\n\nNow On Sale\n\nThe New\n\nVICTOR DANCE\n\nRECORDS\n\nFor October\n\nS. Meutrie & Co., Ltd\n\nChater Road.\n\nFOR SALE BY AGE BOILER & STEAM PIPE COVERING.\n\n| KOPRIGERATOR, far tally man\n\nswing chang. Chiar fearing Colony,\n\nFriss Box Na Bail, \"8. C. M. Be“\n\nFOR SALE—AVEIEN 7. H. 1928\n\n5. C, PAL\"\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBUSY BEES WORKING PARTY. TATEGEMAN JONG DRIVE = The Halana May Salatuta, Thersing, Orsakar 29, at 12pm, land, at St. Dunstan and Local Chart\n\nTelephoto 27900,\n\nPREMISES WANTED.\n\nWa malu a speciality of thủa cines of work and\n\nskall it led te quote for carvering with zapantas Magmada Plate Covering or 4-bestos Rope Lagging.\n\nTHE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO., Zanna Bunding, Chater Road, Bing Kong\n\nTUITION GIVEN.\n\nPREMISTS TO LET.\n\nTO LET, XBET CRESCENT, WANTED,\n\nValready\n\nwell 1993 and graduate Tasekáč, PUPILS IN EMPT garden and a Putnamien Erba v J Brandaza, se turn an Tich NovembR PIL. Apply to 7. 3. Dvening Chan\n\nWetta Box No. 24L, PE (C. S. Park.\"\n\nvary\n\nTO LET.—ndary Street, Keminen, uns. VOLGAN'S SCHOOL AT DVMa- i PEAN HOG.DE WIN all makers on sewing and eating. Everse gosZAR Tegen de dinge Apply to soul. Apply Salam, 4D, Hankow\n\nCaBxtreme-Oriani, Kand, Kowloon,\n\n14 REWAN 10 will be plea. La sajose benzine hack by Sirs. Thompson, BA WANTED TO PURCHASE (1) WANTED. – Furdsked me thľuzakk\n\n|et FLAI, Dreamber til, at a HT Carharra Bend, Jewison, pet IPAR- Jak hal 14 de may end keel. Wene Bax 200, 100, Frmer zal jubing, sin desc.\n\nKÓW Zapad 12 Belober evening, 380T GUN. Nast in excellent lery them Kongkang apierem sad camion Swami Fill Bulk. We what marka en meeka Bave band Bead NA. 12, 13. C. H. ETM for Uhren Jokes, very taske nhl Bay Wanted TO BUY-PEIZEZEN'S Do My Lata may kasas\n\n\"ODE TUN, EDTA, Son-ha\n\nFOUND.\n\nWANTED TO M'T—A km, m\n\nPOUND at kepulag Bay sa Sunday, FURNITURE AN CAMIONAC MARKET Corting the beer by Jellery Nabina, M, Nalikan\n\nHi Mera Homes | Kent, Kriens\n\nbattle, etc.\n\nIN\"\n\nPOSITIONS WANTED.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nc\n\n| WANTED TO RENT A ROOM IN | muita að Ölben mit used by pesant\n\nCentral position. Partan\n\nCM. Pool\"\n\nHULSE TO LEGING 7_ Almai Villa, Kaylyn, Apple so The Ya Ring C., Sukan Senad Wei Handen.\n\nWANTED KNOWN.\n\nTO 19 turvasan PLATS, VIFATE CHRISTMAS E NEW ama ng Kerian, s YEAR GREETING CARDS rated with skate, whites And MoRAKTILIN pg ddha bet kad sad thestamble at Ye Olde Pompetir, 192,\n\nPREMISES TO LET.\n\nwith a sad\n\nVORAN PALAU\n\n--་་\n\nDANIG JIMI HAC \"LUTCART MACHINA, OFFICE to 127—in Almunten for jy dan lage sormonta\n\nACCESSORIES for at kad at\n\nKONG HGTOR ACE Or ch Indent, Bank of Canden Pallding mad Kuntoon_Ersach, CE, Naharkand, (a falen). Sekoub,\n\nTO LET N« 5 Torme Bulldogs, Kimberley Hans. Komison. Apply walker, Vabantal. Apply Motorradtory HONG Spezia Dominican Peseradik.\n\nTO LET-New In-roomed PLATE, DIJEL\n\nWith ikeaa \"bačkissem, že Hankas\n\nTad, Kowloon, mext to Kawled TO LET SUTES OF OFFICES\n\n1200 D6 Du del index, SL. Googa's FOR FALL-IN\n\nHotel ARMSTRONG\n\nAvaliable sheet (lecember. „SIDDELEY, in perdues audition, Madery convenience. Ale thereelding. Any Love, Englan ENGLISH LADY Wing We rotsen (trial by Appartment Owner buying Tromel fata de Haan\" and \"ing | Masshawa, Chebleven Kalk Kaling. La Europa In the Spitz, would act or 'two kit. Fiat +ra\" Wre Paklong Ram Apply Tang Tack Co,.\n\nTelephone COMPANION, A TANK CHANGE of BeINK MA, “8. C230 BMG\" skilizan la apekaner the past prize\n\n| APARTMENTS WANTED. Wrike Box No RTU HAUL M. PE FOR SALE-STUDEBAKER LIGHT\n\n11. Khanghai body, in kood run TDUNG CHINESE, with good kaoria Phát h c N Wedge në Kresh and French, in years at 1700 songs, Wek Bor SA, experlones Panting, Actomia, 20. \"XCITE Booking correspondenče, type — writing. Filling. Cennt, weke 2031 POR BALKON DEJE UKOONakitud TION,\" whe\n\nwtelligenes BULL TERRIER PUPR Box merka\n\nMake For No M2, 1C M. PULS *S, C. X. Post\"\n\nTOK ALETAKAN KYIGHT. EUROPEAN DRAFTSMAN WAK, all vul. fumator, 1925. good mation\n\nexperience, werki LOCAL.power! 1 PE SITUATION. Would be willing sofer. Write Box No. 271, “I £32 berapi masnih zammencing malary. Root Pl redcmera Walta Den Ka M4, \"g.\n\n|UPRIGHT_PLANE FOR SALE IN\n\ngood m Pele kada Plazas\n\nWANTED.—-—--German, long yan ye. ¡waste Box No. 650, \"$ C. X. PartTM marice In Import Export, Knowledge (mu\n\nand Dark language, who Tok anÉN-LAW THEY AUSTIN Wiltą Ben NA, MT, M. C. BL 1942\" |tyre. Can be tried nay time, 3:180, for wear sar Base, . King's Park TOUNG CHINGUR der POS). Budings, Kowloon, TION, Can Trentak secgnty, Il p quared Picker write Box No HE, FOR SALE - AUSTIN – SEVEN, IN PA, CIC. PAL,\n\npospollent ryoung order. Fully Insured.\n\nEwelingben.\n\nENGLISHMAN with vinculite sia (Blackden, especting ability, trade med venneren, bl apes for ENGAGEMENT, Easter\n\nPast\"\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nPhysi\n\n•\n\nNATAL, MILITARY & AR PORCE LDIRECTORY NO 1 Detiker 1990 ON BALEA Yeodde Fromerie, DJ\n\n• Price 20 centL\n\nCOLOURED PICTURES « Bong-| keng Customa, mekkle for framing\n\n|TO LET – Fame roomed LOLSF. K\n\nSo High & Burgh, Gil, SaLK 'SE | WANTIL:--Bachelys British, re- '34 pm not. Appy HB, QA Pat\" Calon Baling, Tid Plast\n\nAula konan BOARD, Hesekne\n\nKawinen. Bersabar Eat. Mata PHOTO ALEUMS, et term, in Box 774, 19, C. M. Fast Name printed in Cold, Price Kil\n\nApply E. 6. M. Past”\n\nTO LET Now Pirkoromai Mocones, la 7, Shounen Hil| Hanč, Deep Water Bay Garage vilachri\n\ntem canin\n\nC. K\n\nThe command. Magsilent. APARTMENTS TO LET, STRONG GLER CYLINDERS VIEW. MAJATA FORMS NOROMA. TWITT de from town Apply Time Tark, ('0, 1 Queen's\n\n“entru Telesham 2500).\n\n--\n\n-\n\nApply\n\nBANSARD.\n\nAPARTMENT TO LET-Lady RONGKONG — Main PAYING GUEST,, der bergi 187 page 18 pm man kabla ** | TO EXT -*weished HOLME MAGINATION, with verandak, over 2. 32 Panel Phafukum Modern Saltatlan, bar | Jooking the mik, of water-frank mar kathon maand gauge serommodation, buty, karlegt. All modern con FORTH of ATTORNET, FULL Vicjant from middle of Nevesker fer | Tanners, and perllong Tond, Waw TESTAMENT A LEAKE (ema tweder mania, Wola Ban No. Mh. | Box No: 951, 8. C. 1, PAL\"\n\nTamty-des_serta sack. Apply MR. CNL\n\n'C. M. \"Pa\"\n\n30\n\nLET.-glow, Niew\n\nMAP\n\n10 1:37. —Pak levels, friskal de bussed, Light und GAME 192- THE TORT\" TYPECON roomed HOUSE, teng being, for, Roods.\" Tebrate Matheson, Jarga besalitilly kihegrovhed, also matala Emanche from March 1998. Hoone (vodka, välialul view of Socket lag the Ông and Houreiracy. G. E. 1. Refrigerator and poke furry, power. Ton voimal, olors, Thigh\n\nI H\n\nme bé ens if required. Write Bax No. Content Track Cond. Weste bat deritani, Pris 1, mate va ME, \"COM \"PAL **\n\n1294, 49, \" C. M. PAL\"\n\nMurrayers – A. TO LES, - From 1st November, 1981, TO LET. THe well furnished single\n\n-\n\n(thrior suite kaba Oli Di sana Seried at Morray Barrachi, ŝino. Apply\n\nWHEN A Madem\n\nF\n\nJAR SALE. ACH AUSTIN VE 2 Al2ON, in ræclient condition and newly re unkolaterad... Engine in frie CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND + class cuming poder add owner driv\n\nTARY AMAK for Wy of 17 Buonchos. Zrice $1,360, Wrier Bas Kowloon de Witte Box No. 445. Xu, 29, *5. © E. Pool\" \"S. C. H. Pe\"\n\nTADIBA Beautifully marDed WANTED. -- Olce Assistant SHOST- SQUIRREL COAT made sporially HAND TYPIST par with side bas (pobrsary iku yaar) from mich erlenen preferred. Fromspent weer klik. Full Jenaik, rond median siar. Ema and Kwal synaserta... for puitable Marasin 1990. Apply keen STL mmallake. Apply in ama bamburicing Prima. KER.\n\nan Thi Na Mi, C. I. Ban\n\nCONTENTS OF EUROPEAN FLAT WANTED. COVERS member 16 years she, zumal-key code\n\nBerbak, French an German tar 5. top hoor, 200 Nathan Kol girl sped 12, 15 mm G Esply, panna, sata bid 1947 PULA, MIK HE Phông khhay requced, preciom ex- Owane Jeneing Cahay, Fries 31,800. patroon na štro E tank way for quick sale. May be ved at kys Imparat Chemien! Trămatzes CENZORY BAG ont. Kap, Ti), 38867 se wenz\n\nRix No.4K CLE. Put\n\nPerleri\n\nhen.\n\nTHE ADVERTIERE winken to Bent FOR BALDO\n\nHome Oxford\" TOUZËR applicants wie segħek, BOL NO WARISAN MAR 1. P25\"The pazitim ka ng Fatirely Pow been led\n\nAny trial, Avely Major Kewiecie, Peak Hotel WANTED. —Yome Ladiaa gentlemen for CANVASSING WORK FOR FALK-BUCK MUSER 19 Comanianega kaas, maar 1920 Blade) în perfort, work,\n\nTenis Cable persons for meg, mg malitian Tapurtian, a vi Apply Room 2 Tanne Beldig, đá by sporting Rate Bec Na 100,\n\n- - - -\n\nNo. 184 WASHER Kit, 4 prong BEDROOMS, WHk all man da CNIOR TO THE COMPANIES DR-\n\nDrop HOUSE ¦ vemences, in sand, paly, FIA, DINANCIA OF RANGKONG, Ska with all madera convenience pand\n\nKawa Peking copy Apply “8, 47, 24. PHE pings Apply to Credit Father Date, bet fint & and 7 JUN\n\nFranck\n\nPURIDGE MARKERA 118 maak. Being TL NI. PLAGE\n\nTO LET WLOON, from Novom: FAZILLS, # ceste sach. TO HE LET-BAD Vega Rand, Ponty, andőt, with indar MITCHELL'S\n\nIngia kame, quiet GUN, PREM\n\nCentral, Ground Tror, divided * REPNITTING.\n\nwapa na tegu 266. ADDIT|Mitzelni. Dean & Co. Lei\n\nGAL DAL\n\n-\n\nTO LET.--GROUND FLOOR, Na, dy Cammy Buildings, (s. 194) MathAS | WANTED—Billeh bachelor to jata\n\n3\n\n2\n\nYEAR\n\nGUARANTEE\n\nand\n\nYEAR\n\n5\n\nEASY PAYMENT.\n\nGENERAL ELECTRIC ALL STEEL REFRIGERATOR\n\nWrite or call for fuel particniner,\n\nOn How\n\nBanging life Co., Lim Wan. G. 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        "content_text": "26\n\n00\n\n8\n\n23. That afterwards Zimmern, Christie and your Petitioner went to a pharmacy and that Christie bought some potassium cyanide, a needle, and glass tube; that then your Petitioner and Zimmern went to see a lawyer, Mr. Man Wai Lo, and Christie and Zimmern to see two other Lawyers to ascertain whether in the case of homicide a minor could be charged with murder; that they accordingly interviewed the lawyers and that your Petitioner paid the fees. Parenthetically, your Petitioner humbly points out that it was stated that your Petitioner interviewed only one lawyer, and that that interview was in the presence of Zimmern. The lawyer was the aforesaid Man Wai Lo, who gave evidence at the trial but failed to identify your Petitioner; he produced his counterfoil receipt book, which showed that the name of the payer was Cheng Shin Wu and not Cheng Kwok-yau; that no other receipts or counterfoils were produced or other evidence of payment by your Petitioner than that of Zimmern and Christie's statements.\n\n24. That Zimmern said that his and Christie's intention was that the poisoning should be done in a Cinema; that Fung would drop down \"dead\" on the syringe being inserted, and that he would be carried out; that Christie and Zimmern would get $2,000 each, and Fung $1,000, assuming Fung to have come into the conspiracy to swindle. That your Petitioner said he would pay $2,000 down and the balance of $8,000 into a banking account. That Zimmern and Christie had no intention to kill Fung but only to swindle your Petitioner; and that on the 22nd of March 1932, your Petitioner stated that he had experimented with the poison on a fowl, and that it had died after two jumps.\n\n25. Christie's evidence, except that he did not speak of the discussion about a knife or dagger on the 13th of March 1932, agrees in the main with the evidence of Zimmern as above stated; that is to say, as to the attempt to beat and slap Fung, and the statements of intentions of your Petitioner and the reason therefor, the offer of $10,000 (dollars), and the statement that your Petitioner had two men watching Fung, which statement is re-stated many times in the evidence both of Christie and Zimmern: and, your Petitioner here parenthetically points out that one of the witnesses for the prosecution, Souza, who had taken part in the attempt to slap Fung's face at the Nathan Hotel, spoke in his evidence of a sum of $10,000 (dollars), and that it was referred to by your Petitioner at a restaurant as a sum of $10,000 owing to your Petitioner by a man who had taken away your Petitioner's girl.\n\n26. Christie then proceeded to say, that he had studied chemistry at school; that he proposed the use of poison; that it did not really matter whether the advice which the lawyers gave to him was satisfactory or not, because he had no intention to kill Fung; that his intention was to swindle your Petitioner; that your Petitioner told him about the experiment on the chicken; that he bought a second hypodermic syringe for your Petitioner, and that your Petitioner kept it in his pocket; that he saw your Petitioner on the 25th March 1932 at the Tung Sham Hotel at 5 a.m.; that your Petitioner had not been there the previous night; and that your Petitioner gave him certain information and a $10 bill; that he next saw your Petitioner on the 28th March 1932; that they went to the Empress Hotel and booked room No. 47, and that your Petitioner signed the register in the name of Yuen and paid the $5 deposit; that he had with him Souza and a Chinese friend called Yuen; that your Petitioner sent Yuen away and sent Souza out of the room, and said that your Petitioner wanted Christie to go to Canton and look for Zimmern, as your Petitioner wanted Zimmern's evidence as to certain dates and times; that your Petitioner then wrote on a sheet of paper in English:\n\n6.30 to 8.30\n8.30 to 9.30\n9.30 to 10\n10 to 11\nJimmys kitchen\nPauline Academy\nhome\nChui Hang gambling club.\n\nthat your Petitioner asked him to memorise the items; that he read over the paper once or twice; that then your Petitioner tore up the paper; that Souza came in unexpectedly while he was memorising and saw the paper; that he went to Canton by train on the 29th March 1932; and that your Petitioner gave him $10 (dollars) for his fare; and that he arrived back on the 31st March 1932 and was then arrested. Souza, in his evidence, said that he saw something in the hand of Christie, a piece of yellow paper; that on the paper were the times and movements of your Petitioner after the murder; and it explained the times and movements of the night when George Fung was murdered.\n\n27. That a witness, Lau Tim, a boy from the Empress Hotel, produced and proved the record of the booking, and the booking by Christie of room 47 on the 28th March 1932, pointing to Christie in Court; and that Christie was with three others, two appeared to be Chinese and one not Chinese.\n\n28. That Zimmern's evidence as to the 24th of March 1932, the day of the murder, was in substance that he went with your Petitioner and others to the Chinese Civil Service Club at about 4:30 p.m. and remained till about 6:50 p.m.; that your Petitioner and one Lau Hing Shu (not the said chauffeur of your Petitioner) and Zimmern went to dinner at Jimmy's Kitchen; that after dinner, your Petitioner appeared excited, and they then went to the Pauline Dancing Academy, arriving soon after 8 p.m.; that your Petitioner left the table for the telephone at 8:30 p.m. to 8:40 p.m.; that they, Lau Hing Shu, your Petitioner, and Zimmern left the\n\nPage 9\n\n27\n\n10581\n\nі",
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        "content_text": "71\n\n14.\n\nwas in fact that accused went to that office though he did not go to the other offices.\n\nOn the 22nd March accused met Zimmern in Queen's Road and was told he had tried the hypodermic syringe with excellent results on a fowl. Later also Christie met him and at his request procured a larger syringe, a 5 c.c. also from the Tharmoy. That was the end of the project to procure or to help to pretend to/procure the death of Fung. They both insist that they had no idea of harming Fung but of winding accused out of the promised $10,000.\n\n118\n\nComing to the day of the murder, the 24th March, on that day Zimmern and Christie both saw the accused at the Fung Shan Hotel between 1 and 2 p.m. and accompanied him later to the cinema which they left before the picture was over inasmuch as accused did not appear to like the show. At about 4 p.m. Christie fades temporarily out of the picture but Zimmern remained for the rest of the day in the company of the accused.\n\nZimmern will tell you that after playing billiards at the South China Athletic Association and visiting the Chinese Civil Servants Club where the accused won $150 at cards and after another visit to the South China Athletic Association, the accused suggested going to a supper at an eating house called Jimmy's Kitchen in Wanchai. To that place the two went together with a young Chinese friend of the accused named Iau Wing Chui somewhere about 7 o'clock. Zimmern will say that at the meal accused seemed irritable and nervous.\n\nAbout 8 o'clock the three came back from Wanchai and visited a dancing academy named Pauline's in the King's Building and then somewhere between 9 and 9:30 p.m. proceeded in the accused's Austin to 50 Village Road where he was living.\n\nOn the way up Shan Kwong Road to Village Road in the Austin, Zimmern will tell you he saw a crowd at the corner of Yick...",
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        "content_text": "- 17 -\n\n74\n\nquestioned him. The accused, in fact, gave Christie certain instructions as to what he was to tell Zimmern to say of their movements on the evening of the 24th; instructions which Christie wrote down at the time on a piece of paper and memorised, and subsequently tore up. Their instructions were these: to say: From 6 to 8.30 p.m. the two of them (Zimmern and the accused) were at \"Jimny's Kitchen\"; from 8.30 to 9.30 at Pauline's Dancing Academy. Then to Village Road and thence to the Chui Fan Club.\n\nAs a result of this interview, on the morning of the 29th Christie went to Canton by the 8 o'clock train; he located Zimmern at the Oriental Hotel on the 30th, and returned to Hong Kong by the \"Tatshan\" on the 31st, the two of them being arrested on arrival by the Police on suspicion of complicity in the murder. They were thereafter detained separately until April 2nd; one on the 1st and one on the 2nd made a voluntary statement. On April 4th the accused himself came up to Police Headquarters in company with his solicitor, as he had done also on March 25th, and was now detained and subsequently charged.\n\nNow, My Lord and Gentlemen of the Jury, that was the evidence as the Crown knew it when the accused was first brought before the Magistrate, and it was not until June that any further evidence as to the commission of this murder came into the possession of the Police.\n\nOn June 20th certain information led to the arrest of two other men, number 9 on your list, whom I have referred to and also number 10; the former being a private chauffeur employed by Mr. Cooke, of Bimey Villas, the second a bus driver in the employ of the Hong Kong Hotel Company. Both will be called as witnesses. As to Chui, he will admit he was an accessory and a principal in the second degree. In view of the importance of his evidence, the Crown has decided\n\nto",
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        "content_text": "# PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY \n## Notes on 1934 Estimates. \n### HONG KONG \n#### BUILDINGS. \n\nSub-head 1 - New Government Civil Hospital, $600,000.—To complete general site development and cover the cost and erection of steel framework of the main hospital block.\n\n2. - Market: Wanchai, $60,000. - The scheme is to reprovision Wanchai market on a site below the Naval Hospital and opposite the existing market. The existing building which consists of 44 stalls is old and congested. The new market will be a two-storey closed building containing 100 stalls and caretaker's quarters, etc.\n\n3. - Market: Bowrington Canal, $18,000. This market was referred to in Notes on Estimates 1933, page 1, sub-head 3. The building will be of the two-storey open type with caretaker's quarters, etc., and will now consist of 24 stalls. The proposed site is on Canal Road West approximately opposite Tang Lung Street.\n\n4. - Market: Arsenal Street, $18,000. - This market was also referred to in last year's Notes on Estimates at page 1, sub-head 4. The proposed site is at the junction of Arsenal Street and Lockhart Road. Accommodation will comprise 24 stalls and caretaker's quarters, etc., in an open type building.\n\n5. - Latrine and bathhouse at junction of Hennessy Road and O'Brien Roads, $3,000. - This work will be completed and payment of this sum is for retention money.\n\n6. - Upper Levels Police Station, $50,000. - The construction of this station has been long delayed. The proposed building is sited between High Street and Hospital Road, approximately on the area occupied by the old Police Training School. It will be five-stories in height and comprise, in addition to the usual station accommodation, four flats for European married officers, quarters for six single European officers, sixty Indian and sixty Chinese policemen and interpreters.\n\n7. - Senior Officers' Quarters, May Road, $100,000. - To provide quarters for twenty Senior Officers on a site immediately below May Road Tram Station. The quarters will consist of two blocks, each five-stories in height and containing in all five 5-roomed, ten 4-roomed, and five 3-roomed flats. The expenditure in 1934 will principally be in connection with site development and foundations, etc.\n\n8. - Quarters at Peak Wireless Station, $20,000. - To provide accommodation consisting of twelve single rooms with kitchen and lavatory premises for Chinese operators. At present, full use cannot be made of the station owing to lack of quarters.\n\n9. - Furniture Workshop and Store, $27,000. - A two-storey building of light construction sited adjoining the P.W.D. Store at Bullock Lane. The ground floor will be used as a workshop and the upper floor as a furniture store.\n\nPage 202",
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        "content_text": "C.S.O. I in `4301/29`. \n\n[No. 17-16.8.33.-.3] \n\n**A BILL** \n\n**INTITULED** \n\nAn Ordinance to amend the law relating to town cleansing, nuisances, domestic sanitation, the licensing of certain premises and trades, and the disposal of the dead. \n\n**BE** is enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: \n\n## PART I. \n\n### PRELIMINARY. \n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health (**Sanitation**) Ordinance, 1933. \n\n2. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them, \n### Saving as to tenancy contracts. \n\n3. In this Ordinance,- \n### Interpreta tion :- \n'Author of a nuisance' means the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues. \n'**Author of a nuisance**' \n\n'**Bake-house**' means any premises on which bread, biscuits or confectionery are baked for sale as food for man, and also includes any premises on which such food is prepared for baking, or on which the materials for the preparation of such food are stored. \n\n'**Balcony**' means any stage, platform, oriel or other similar structure projecting from the main wall of any building and supported by brackets or cantilevers. \n\n'**Basement**' means any cellar, vault, or under-ground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding two feet above the floor level. \n\n'**Building**' includes any part of every domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, godown, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, sunshade, garage, well, water closet, urinal, septic tank, cow shed and hoarding. \n\n'**Building Authority**' means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance. \n\nPage 225",
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        "content_text": "C.S.O. 4301/29.\n\n# A BILL\n\n## INTITULED\n\n[No. 12/31-25.7.33.—10.J]\n\nAn Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the construction of Buildings.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Buildings **Short Ordinance, 1933**.\n\n## Exemptions and Savings\n\n2. The provisions of this Ordinance with reference to the construction of buildings and the carrying out of works shall not apply in the case of buildings or works belonging to the Crown or to the Colonial Government or upon any land vested in any person on behalf of the naval or military departments of His Majesty's Service; but all the provisions of this Ordinance in relation to hoardings, scaffoldings, and verandahs, balconies and areas on or over or into un-leased Crown land shall apply without exception to all buildings throughout the Colony.\n\n3. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them.\n\n## Interpretation\n\n4. In this Ordinance,\n\n* (1) \"Adjoining owner\" means the owner or one of the owners, and \"adjoining occupier\" means the occupier or one of the occupiers, of land, buildings, storeys or rooms adjoining those of the \"building owner\".\n* (2) \"Author of a nuisance\" means the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues.\n* (3) \"Authorised architect\" means any individual whose name appears in the list of authorised architects hereinafter provided for.\n* (4) \"Balcony\" means any stage, platform oriel or other similar structure projecting from a main wall of any building and supported by brackets or cantilevers.\n* (5) \"Basement\" means any cellar, vault, or underground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding 2 feet above the floor level.\n* (6) \"Building\" includes any part of a domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, go-down, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, sun-shade, garage, well, water closet, urinal, septic tank, cow-shed and hoarding.\n* (7) \"Building Authority\" means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n385",
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        "content_text": "C.S.O. 1 in `4301/29`.\n\n\n[No. 17-16.8.33.-.3] \n\n**A BILL** \n\n**INTITULED** \n\nAn Ordinance to amend the law relating to town cleansing, nuisances, domestic sanitation, the licensing of certain premises and trades, and the disposal of the dead. \n\n**BE** is enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: \n\n## PART I. \n\n## PRELIMINARY. \n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health (**Sanitation**) Ordinance, 1933. \n\n2. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them.\n\n### Saving as to tenancy contracts. \n\n3. In this Ordinance,— \n\n#### Interpreta tion :- \n\n* 'Author of a nuisance' means the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues. \n  * **Author of a nuisance**\n* 'Bake-house' means any premises on which bread, biscuits or confectionery are baked for sale as food for man, and also includes any premises on which such food is prepared for baking, or on which the materials for the preparation of such food are stored. \n  * **Bake-house**\n* 'Balcony' means any stage, platform, oriel or other similar structure projecting from the main wall of any building and supported by brackets or cantilevers. \n  * **Balcony**\n* 'Basement' means any cellar, vault, or under-ground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding two feet above the floor level. \n  * **Basement**\n* 'Building' includes any part of every domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, godown, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, sunshade, garage, well, water closet, urinal, septic tank, cow shed and hoarding. \n  * **Building**\n* 'Building Authority' means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance. \n  * **Building Authority**",
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        "content_text": "C.S.O. 4301/29.\n\n# A BILL\n\n## INTITULED\n\n`[No. 12/31-25.7.33.-10.]`\n\nAn Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the construction of Buildings.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Buildings Short Ordinance, 1933.\n\n## Exemptions and Savings\n\n2. The provisions of this Ordinance with reference to the construction of buildings and the carrying out of works shall not apply in the case of buildings or works belonging to the Crown or to the Colonial Government or upon any land vested in any person on behalf of the naval or military departments of His Majesty's Service; but all the provisions of this Ordinance in relation to hoardings, scaffoldings, and verandahs, balconies and areas on or over or into un-leased Crown land shall apply without exception to all buildings throughout the Colony.\n\n3. Nothing herein contained shall vary or affect the rights or liabilities as between landlord and tenant under any contract between them.\n\n## Interpretation\n\n4. In this Ordinance,\n\n(1) \"Adjoining owner\" means the owner or one of the owners, and \"adjoining occupier\" means the occupier or one of the occupiers, of land, buildings, storeys or rooms adjoining those of the \"building owner\".\n\n(2) \"Author of a nuisance\" means the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues.\n\n(3) \"Authorised architect\" means any individual whose name appears in the list of authorised architects hereinafter provided for.\n\n(4) \"Balcony\" means any stage, platform, oriel or other similar structure projecting from a main wall of any building and supported by brackets or cantilevers.\n\n(5) \"Basement\" means any cellar, vault, or underground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding 2 feet above the floor level.\n\n(6) \"Building\" includes any part of a domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, go-down, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, shade, garage, well, water closet, urinal, septic tank, cow-shed and hoarding.\n\n(7) \"Building Authority\" means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\nPage 180",
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        "content_text": "## Q. 48\n\n197. Governor's Residence at Fanling-Sketch plans for a building of six rooms were prepared during 1932 for a site at Fanling, but this scheme was subsequently abandoned in favour of an adjoining larger site further away from the main road. Sketch plans were prepared and approved for a building containing on the ground floor a Hall, Living room, Dining room, Office for His Excellency and one Office for the A.D.C. and Private Secretary, with kitchen, etc., and servants' quarters situated at a lower level. The first floor comprises five Bedrooms, Dressing room and Bathrooms. A Garage for 2 cars and Stables of 3 stalls, with quarters, etc., are provided, and a Guard House is situated on the approach road connecting the house with the main road. A contract was let to Messrs. Tung Shan & Co. on 22nd June, 1933, and on 20th December, 1933, a Contract for the Garage, Stables and Guard House was let to the same Contractors. Good progress was made and the main structural work of the house was completed by the end of the year. The foundations to the Garage, Stables and Guard House were laid and the brickwork commenced.\n\nExpenditure\n$79,211.48\n\n198. Tai O Police Station: Additions.-The work consisted of the erection of a storey over the Charge Room and Cells, to provide additional accommodation. The work was completed in July.\n\nExpenditure\n$3,815.79\n\n199. Roads. Kerbs, channels, and surfacing to roads and footpaths were laid in front of the new buildings erected during the year on the main streets, Un Long.\n\nExpenditure\n$1,834.61\n\n200. Drainage:-(a) Training Nullahs.-A small stream-course South-East of the level crossing near Island House, Taipo, was trained for a length of 50 feet, and 261 feet of 30″ x 15″ open channel and 30\" diameter storm water drain in the open space North-East of Lots 930 and 933 Sha Tau Kok were completed.\n\nExpenditure\n$2,023.87\n\n(b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works.—A 6″ sewer was laid for a length of 421 feet in Shun Tak Street and at the rear of T.M.L's 1176 to 1178 Taipo Market.\n\nExpenditure\n$1,449.31",
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        "document_key": "CO129-550-2 Keung Tsz Pan- petition against sentence of death 18-10-1934 - 18-10-1934",
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        "title": "CO129-550-2 Keung Tsz Pan- petition against sentence of death 18-10-1934 - 18-10-1934",
        "content_text": "181\n\nNo XXI.\n\nJohn Beveridge Mackie 88. Xd. Fraser. M.O. in charge Kowloon Mortuary. M.B. Edin. D.T.M. (Liverpool)\n\nI have done about 6,000 p.m's here.\n\n- man and woman.\n\nOn 21st July I did p.m. examinations of 2 bodies. Man was identified as Im Chun by his brother Im Hai. Woman was identified as Keung Wai lan by same man. Woman was about 25 years of age, 5'2\" high, physique average. Death had occurred between 7 and 14 hours before I saw body. I couldn't be sure within an hour each way.\n\nCondition consistent with death between 2 and 3 a.m.\n\nExternally blood over abdomen and lower chest, lower and upper lips had trickled down right side of neck.\n\nBlood on lips came from wound in lung.\n\nBlood on abdomen from wound in chest wall.\n\nI should say one wound.\n\nb\" obliquely downwards and inwards from left nipple was wound with clean out edge, 1\" long, gaping \" wide in centre.\n\nLength straight up and down.\n\nI then opened body.\n\nFifth rib was divided 1à\" from mid line.\n\nWound 1\" long on anterior surface of heart bag.\n\nHeart bag full of blood.\n\nWound 1\" long in front of middle of left ventricle and about 1\" long in right ventricle.\n\nHeart was empty.\n\nOther organs normal.\n\nMan was about 25 years old, 5'9\" high, average physique.\n\nDead about same time as woman.\n\nDried stream of blood running down left side of chest with diffused blood stains over left side of abdomen and chest. Consistent with chest having rubbed against something. Vertical wound 3\" inwards from left nipple.\n\nEdges were clean cut, 1\" long and gaping \" in centre.\n\nOn withdrawal of knife or on entry in slanting direction length might be greater than width of blade.\n\nWound was straight up and down.\n\nInternally immediately below junction of 5th rib and sternum there was wound.\n\nWound on anterior surface of heart bag.\n\nWound 1\" long in right ventricle.\n\nIn each case there was only one wound.\n\nPosition and character of wounds similar in many respects. In each case one blow.\n\nRequiring considerable force.\n\nCartilage of rib penetrated in each case.\n\nWounds probably not self-inflicted but it is possible.\n\nWounds inflicted in prone position.\n\nBoth would live for some time: man might have got up and walked.\n\nIf two persons lying side by side two wounds could be done quite quickly.\n\nInflicted by single-bladed, single-edged weapon.\n\nExhibit 2 could have inflicted both the wounds.\n\nSome force required to withdraw the knife from ribs.\n\nI would expect traces of blood on knife blade.\n\nBlood would not necessarily spurt.\n\nTwo persons died from wounds described.\n\nNo XXI.\n\nHenry John Best 88. Xd. Fraser.\n\nOverseer P.W.D.\n\nOn 21st July I went to 211 Lai Chi Kok Road and made measurements.\n\nI had plan (Ext.4) prepared from those measurements.\n\nOn left it shows 3rd floor of 211 with kitchen of 213.\n\nTo right is vertical section of 211.\n\nThat shows dividing wall and bamboo trellis between 211 and 213.",
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        "content_text": "14.\n\n30\n\nthink will I die\".\n\nHe said accused said so.\n\n(Hin Shing Lo argues statement is inadmissible).\n\nOn 30th July at Gospel Tabernacle I got from Chu Lam this suitcase (Ex.15) and white topee (Ext.16).\n\nThey have been in my charge ever since.\n\nSuitcase contained $566 H.K. and 40¢ Chinese coin and a Chinese 10¢ note.\n\nOn 14th August I took accused from Hospital to Yaumati Station.\n\nI was in office with him from 3.15 p.m. to 4.20 p.m. then interpreter was sent for.\n\nAccused was then charged.\n\nBidmead, P.O.409, Interpreter Fu and myself were present. Before Bidmead arrived no questions were put to accused.\n\nI heard accused cautioned and accused then read over the printed caution carefully.\n\nAccused then made a statement which interpreter took down.\n\nNo questions were put to accused.\n\nFu read over statement and accused leaned over and checked him.\n\nAlterations were made while they read it over together.\n\nThey were made at accused's request.\n\nAccused read statement out aloud.\n\nAbout half way through his voice began to get lower and I asked him to speak louder.\n\nHe signed at 6.5 p.m. and Bidmead also signed.\n\nxxd. Hin Shing Lo.\n\nWhen Im Hei made a statement accused was not present.\n\nHe made statement partly on 23rd July and partly on 24th July. Four of the witnesses live at 206 Hong Mei Road.\n\nThere was a guard on accused all the time he was in hospital. I visited him first on 21st July at noon, second time a little more than a week later, I think 27th July, third time on 30th July.\n\nI didn't go with an interpreter.\n\nI was at the mortuary when I heard of prayer confession.\n\nOn dark and clouded night it would be possible to get into the cubicle because the wall and boarding are white.\n\nDistance is not more than twelve feet from kitchen roof to cubicle window.\n\nIt would be difficult to distinguish faces but you could see form.\n\nNo rexn.\n\nFu Yuk Ching dd. xd. Fraser.\n\nSergt. Interpreter, Yaumati Police Station.\n\nI took this statement (Ext.19).\n\nAt 4.35 p.m. I cautioned him in form on printed form. Voluntary statement.\n\nNo questions.\n\nRead statement over and signed it.\n\nNo xxn.\n\nStatement read in Chinese and then English translation.\n\nClose of case for Crown.\n\nThe alternatives open to him were explained to accused.\n\nAccused having been informed elected not to make any statement.\n\nHin Shing Lo opens.\n\nAccused and deceased Keung were husband and wife.\n\nExtreme provocation.\n\nTwo statements of accused.\n\nLei now Yan ss. xd. Fraser.\n\nFormerly pastor of St. Stephen's Church now of St. Mary's Church.\n\nI know accused for a little over two years.\n\nHe used to come to our church meetings.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "168\n\n110\n\nHead 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nHead 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY.\n\nEstimate\n\n  \n    Expendi-ture up to 31st December, 1937.\n    Approved Estimate, 1938.\n    Revised Estimated Expendi-ture, 1938.\n    Estimated Expendi-ture, 1939.\n  \n  \n    $\n    $\n    $\n    $\n  \n  \n    Buildings.\n  \n  \n    1 Central Government Store\n    300,000\n    35,000\n    33,015\n  \n  \n    2 New Sub-station, Wanchai Gap\n    205,000\n    80,000\n    186,985\n  \n  \n    3 New Government House\n    15,000\n    15,000\n    20,000\n  \n  \n    4 Ellis Kadoorie School-Conversion Annexe into Gymnasium\n    2,000,000\n    of\n    \n  \n  \n    5 Vernacular Normal and Middle School-New Latrines\n    4,000\n    2,500\n    4,000\n  \n  \n    6 Queen Mary Hospital-Additions and Improvements\n    2,500\n    \n    2,500\n  \n  \n    7 G.C.H.--Alterations to \"C' Block for Infant Welfare Centre\n    10,000\n    2,850\n    2,850\n  \n  \n    8 Western Market Reprovision South Block\n    95,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    9 New Garage, Quarters, etc., Kennedy Town\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10 Latrine, Electric Road\n    40,000\n    100,000\n    30,000\n  \n  \n    11 Prisons--Alterations\n    5,000\n    5,000\n    20,000\n  \n  \n    12 D.R.O.'s House-Enclose verandah\n    20,000\n    1,400\n    1,400\n  \n  \n    13 Mong Kok Market--(a) Flush Urinal\n    4,500\n    4,500\n    \n  \n  \n    (b) Store Room and Kitchen\n    1,000\n    1,000\n    \n  \n  \n    14 Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House-Incinerator\n    5,000\n    5,000\n    \n  \n  \n    15 Latrine, Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City.\n    18,000\n    5,000\n    13,000\n  \n  \n    16 Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve-New Plant House\n    2,300\n    2,300\n    \n  \n  \n    17 Au Tau Police Station-Garage\n    3,500\n    3,500\n    \n  \n  \n    18 Un Long-Public Latrine\n    5,500\n    5,500\n    \n  \n  \n    19 Herbarium and Library, Botanical and Forestry Office, Extension\n    3,700\n    3,700\n    \n  \n  \n    20 Botanical and Forestry Office, Lai Chi Kok\n    2,500\n    2,500\n    \n  \n  \n    21 Roads\n  \n  \n    General Works.\n  \n  \n    22 Drainage :—(a) Training Nullahs\n    97,806\n    110,000\n    110,000\n  \n  \n    (b) Miscellaneous\n    6,395\n    29,000\n    19,000\n  \n  \n    23 Miscellaneous\n    63,683\n    88,000\n    88,000\n  \n  \n    24 Port Works\n    25,265\n    30,000\n    30,000\n  \n  \n    \n    1,852\n    3,500\n    3,500\n  \n  \n    Communications.\n  \n  \n    25 Island Road-Strengthening Bridges\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    26 Bowen Road-Widening and forming footway between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station\n    45,000\n    10,000\n    10,000\n  \n  \n    \n    30,000\n    10,000\n    20,000\n  \n  \n    27 K.I.L. 3394-Forming access roads from Ma Tau Wai Road and Argyle Street.\n    30,000\n    \n    20,000\n  \n  \n    28 Argyle Street, eastern end of\n    120,000\n    10,000\n    50,000\n  \n  \n    29 Layout of a Government Quarry-Hok Un\n    286,000\n    75,000\n    \n  \n  \n    Carried forward\n    958,035",
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        "content_text": "29.8\n\n110\n\nHead 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nApproved Revised Estimated Expendi-ture up to 31st December, 1937.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1938.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1938.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1939.\nEstimate.\n\n$\n$\n$\n$\n$\n\nPUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued,\n\n20,000\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,400\n\n4,500\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n5,000\n5,000\n\n13,000\n2,800\n\n3,500\n\n5,500\n3,700\n\n2,500\n\n5 Ellis Kadoorie Buildings.\n\n1 Central Government Store\n\n300,000\n35,000\n\n2 New Sub-station, Wanchai Gap\n\n33,015\n\n8 New Government House\n\n205,000\n15,000\n\n4 New Police Station-Stanley\n\n80,000\n15,000\n\nSchool Conversion Annexe into Gymnasium\n\n2,000,000\n100,000\n\nof\n186,985\n20,000\n100,000\n50,000\n\nCommunications.-Continued\n\n81 Saigon Street at K.M.L. No. 49-Forma-tion and surfacing\n9,000\n4,000\n\n6 Vernacular Normal and Middle School— New Latrines\n4,000\n\n32 Sai Kung Road Extension, East of N.K.I.L. 68\n4,000\n8,000\n8,000\n2,500\n\n7 Queen Mary Hospital-Additions and Improvements\n2,500\n\n33 Tsun Wan Market Road\n15,000\n8,000\n\n34 Bridges strengthening\n7,000\n8,000\n\n281,000\n50,000\n30,000\n\n8 G.C.H. Alterations to \"C\" Block for Infant Welfare Centre\n2,850\n\n9 Western Market Reprovision South Block\n95,000\n\n10 New Garage, Quarters, etc., Kennedy Town\n100,000\n\n11 New Dog Kennels, Kennedy Town\n20,000\n\n12 Latrine, Electric Road\n5,000\n\n18 D.R.Ö.'s House-Enclose verandah\n1,400\n\n10,000\n\n35 Castle Peak Rond, North of T.W.M.L, &- Realigning, regrading and surfacing...\n19,000\n2,500\n19,000\n2,850\n\n36 Improvement to area N.E. of bridge at Tai Po Market\n40,000\n30,000\n\n37 Kowloon-Canton Road; Improvements to Kowloon-Muk Fu Ferry Section\n\nMiscellaneous.\n10,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,900,000\n\n500,000\n\n14 Mong Kok Market-\n\n(a) Flush Urinal\n4,500\n\n(b) Store Room and Kitchen\n1,000\n\n15 Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House- Incinerator\n5,000\n\n16 Latrine, Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City.\n18,000\n\n17 Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve-New Plant House\n\n18 Au Tau Police Station-Garage\n2,300\n3,500\n\n19 Un Long-Public Latrine\n5,500\n\n44 Chai Wan Cemetery Extension-Develop-ment\n\n20 Herbarium and Library, Botanical and Forestry Office, Extension\n\n8,700\n\n21 Botanical and Forestry Office, Lai Chi Kok\n2,500\n\nBrought forward............\n1,083,035\n\n38 Colonial Cemetery-Laying out new areas\n2,000\n\n1,000\n1,000\n\n912\n\n2,000\n\n89 Reinstatement of retaining walls\n2,000\n2,000\n2,000\n2,000\n\n40 Traffic signs, etc.\n8,000\n2,485\n3,000\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\n41 Street Name Plates\n2,901\n5,000\n5,000\n5,000\n\n42 Wongneichong Development\n65,000\n20,000\n20,000\n35,000\n\n43 North Point Reclamation-Sewer exten-sion\n20,000\n2,120\n5,000\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n6,000\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\n45 Rewiring of Government Buildings\n22,000\n\n22,000\n\n46 Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas\n7,989\n7,000\n7,000\n6,000\n\n;\n\n47 Bathing shed at Kennedy Town for Government Schools\n1,200\n\nT\n\n1,200\n\nGeneral Works.\n\n48 Tsan Yuk Hospital-Additions and Alterations\n20,000\n\n1\n\n22 Roads\n97,806\n110,000\n110,000\n140,000\n\n49 Botanical Gardens-Lay out of Albany Site\n5,000\n\n23 Drainage :-\n\n(a) Training Nullahs\n\n(b) Miscellaneous\n\n24 Miscellaneous\n\n25 Port Works\n\nCommunications.\n\n50 Air Raid Precautions\n1,000,000\n\n6,395\n\n29,000\n\n19,000\n\n43,000\n\n63,683\n\n88,000\n88,000\n\n88,000\n\n25,265\n\n30,000\n30,000\n\n34,800\n\n1,852\n\n3,500\n3,500\n\n9,500\n\n51 No. 2 Police Station-Switchboard\n\n52 Victoria Peak, Improvements to Layout.\n\n58 Kowloon Hospital, Nurses Quarters- Grilles\n3,200\n\n20,000\n\n5,000\n\n200,000\n\n1,500\n\n8,200\n\n2,000\n\n1\n\n2,000\n\n54 New Kowloon Cemetery No. 7 (Custom Pass)\n14,396.64\n\n20,000\n40,000\n\n55 Hammer Hill Urning Ground\n5,000\n\n26 Island Road Strengthening Bridges\n\n27 Bowen Road-Widening and forming footway between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station\n45,000\n10,000\n10,000\n10,000\n\n30,000\n\n10,000\n10,000\n20,000\n\n28 K.I.L. 3394- Forming access roads from Ma Tau Wai Road and Argyle Street.\n30,000\n\n20,000\n\n29 Argyle Street, eastern end of\n120,000\n10,000\n\n50,000\n\n30 Layout of a Government Quarry-Hok Un\n286,000\n\n150,000\n\n56 Recreation Grounds\n\n57 Repairs to Seawall and Road at Lai. chikok\n\n58 Cheung Chau-Compensation for realign-ment of Houses\n5,500\n\n32,300\n\n20,000\n\n29,800\n\n3,000\n\n62,500\n14,444.00\n\n45,000\n44,000\n\n4,000\n\nI\n\nT\n\n4,800\n\nI\n\n2,500\n\nCarried forward\n1,093,095\n\nCarried forward......\n2,085,235\n\n299\n\nPage 250\n\nPage 251",
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        "content_text": "373\n\nSub-head 11.-New Dog Kennels, Kennedy Town, $20,000.-To reprovision the old kennels which are sited on an area of ground recently disposed of to the Hong Kong and China Gas Company, Limited.\n\n12. Latrine, Electric Road, $5,000.-To provide a public flush convenience for this district.\n\n13.-D.R.O.'s house, enclose verandah, $1,400.-The title is self-explanatory.\n\n14.-Mong Kok Market (a) Flush urinal, $4,500.-There is no convenience of this type at the Market.\n\n(b) Storeroom and kitchen, $1,000.--The lack of storeroom and kitchen causes inconvenience to the Staff employed at the Market.\n\n15.-Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House incinerator, $5,000. The present incinerator is of insufficient capacity. It is proposed to replace this by a larger one.\n\n16.-Latrine, Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City, $13,000.-To provide a public flush convenience in this district.\n\n17.-Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve, new plant house, $2,300.-To provide a small plant house for use by the Botanical and Forestry Department.\n\n18. Au Tau Police Station, $3,500.-There is no garage accommodation at this outlying station. This is now considered essential.\n\n19.-Un Long-Public Latrine, $5,500.-To provide a public convenience in this district.\n\n20.-Herbarium and Library, Botanical and Forestry Office, Extension, $3,700.-Owing to the existing premises being badly overcrowded facilities are impaired and contents are liable to be damaged. Extension is now urgently required.\n\n21.-Botanical and Forestry Office, Lai Chi Kok, $2,500.-There is no office at Lai Chi Kok Store at present and the provision of one will permit the Assistant Supervisor to carry out a large proportion of his Kowloon office work without returning to Headquarters at Peak Road.\n\nGENERAL WORKS.\n\n22.-Roads, $110,000.--For surfacing, channelling and foot-paths to new roads as buildings are erected or realignments of streets take place.\n\n23.-Drainage (a) Training Nullahs, $13,000.-To train stream courses where this is required as a result of new development.\n\n(b) Miscellaneous, $98,000.—To provide sewers and storm-water drains for newly developed areas.\n\n24.--Miscellaneous, $34,800.--This vote is to meet the requirements of all Departments and provides funds for minor works which are considered too small for separate votes.\n\n25.--Port Works, $3,500.-To cover the expense of taking soundings, borings, and for preliminary investigations in connection with new or proposed harbour works, foreshore dumping, etc.\n\n3.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\nSub-head 26.-Island Road, Strengthening Bridges, $10,000.—To continue a small reconstruction programme which was commenced last year in connection with minor bridges which require strengthening to take present day traffic.\n\n27.-Bowen Road, Widening and forming footway between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station, $20,000.-To complete this work which was commenced last year.\n\n28.-Kowloon Inland Lot 3394-Forming access roads from Ma Tau Wai Road and Argyle Street, $20,000. The increase of building development in this area now requires that facilities be given to open up further land for disposal.\n\n29.-Argyle Street, eastern end of, $50,600.-Owing to the development towards the eastern end of this street, it is necessary to open it up to its full width.\n\n30.--Layout of the Government Quarry, Hok Un, $150,000.-Required for the preliminary development of a road quarry for Kowloon and for transporting existing plant from Tsat Tse Mui Quarry and re-erecting at Kowloon. The quarry will also be required in connection with the programme of strengthening and improving the Kowloon-Muk Fu Ferry section of the Kowloon-Canton Road.\n\n31.-Saigon Street, $1,000.-At Kowloon Marine Lot No. 49-Formation and surfacing. This street has been partially developed for some years. It is now considered necessary to complete the formation and surfacing.\n\n32. Sai Kung Road Extension, $8,000.-When this extension was formed a temporary diversion was made to a section adjoining Kai Tak Aerodrome. The diversion encroached slightly on a portion of the area which had been acquired by the Air Ministry. The Air Ministry have now requested that the road be constructed to its final alignment.\n\n33.-Tsun Wan Market Road, $8,000.—To complete the formation and surfacing of the public roadway surrounding this market.\n\n34.-Bridges Strengthening, $30,000.-To continue the programme of bridge strengthening.\n\n35.-Castle Peak Road North of Tsun Wan Marine Lot No. 8, realigning, regrading and surfacing, $19,000.-To continue work in connection with road alignment which was put in hand last year owing to the sale of a large area of land adjoining the road.\n\n36.-Improvement to area North East of Bridge at Tai Po Market, $5,000— To commence work on bringing this low lying and swampy area up to final development level.\n\n37.-Kowloon-Canton Road, Improvements to Kowloon-Muk Fu Ferry Section, $500,000.-To commence a programme of improvements to the alignment and grading and to strengthen and resurface this section of the Kowloon-Canton Road.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n38.-Colonial Cemetery, Laying out new areas, $2,000.-To extend the burial area within the existing boundaries of the cemetery.\n\n374",
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        "content_text": "## Particulars\nBrought forward\n\n### Maintenance of buildings:-\n26. Repairs of hospital buildings  \n27. Limewashing and painting  \n\n### Burial expenses:-\n28. Coffin expenses  \n29. Burial expenses  \n30. Tomb stones  \n\n### S. \n31. Ambulance running expenses  \n### T. \n32. Incidental expenses (hospital)\n\n| Estimate for 1938 | Expenditure for 1938 | Estimate for 1939 | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  | $171,469.00 |  |\n| $86,720.00 | $132,747.41 |  |  |\n| 1,500.00 | 2,200.00 | 2,500.00 | Considered essential |\n| 3,500.00 | 2,000.00 | 3,500.00 |  |\n| 5,000.00 | 3,487.40 | 5,000.00 | Increase in price of coffins. |\n| 750.00 | 1,400.00 | 1,500.00 | Increase due to motor hearse being unserviceable use Tung Wahs. |\n|  |  |  | Increase in price of tomb stones. |\n| 200.00 | 158.00 | 200.00 |  |\n| 1,000.00 | 2,855.55 | 3,000.00 | Travelling allowances, postage transport and coolie hire, dust bins, tea for patients and paper. |\n|  |  | 1,500.00 | One new ambulance |\n|  |  | 3,000.00 | One motor pump |\n|  |  | 1,200.00 | One new refrigerator |\n|  |  |  | One sewing machine |\n|  |  |  | Additions and alterations to hospital buildings |\n|  |  |  | Nurses training school |\n| $101,670.00 | $146,048.36 | $188,669.00 | TOTAL |\n\n## TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL\n### SPECIAL EXPENDITURE FOR 1939.\n\n| Estimate for 1938 | Expenditure for 1938 | Estimate for 1939 | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $8,000.00 |  | $10,000.00 | Present ambulance not serviceable. Replacement. |\n| 500.00 | 600.00 | 500.00 |  |\n|  | 175.00 |  | It |\n| $5,000.00 |  | $10,000.00 | Construct pump house, shelter for outpatients, kitchen for nurses and wards and M.O's and Sisters' quarters. Improvements to hospital kitchen, screening against flies. |\n| $5,000.00 |  | $19,775.00 |  |",
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        "content_text": "## Sub-head 13.—Additional Public Latrines, $50,000.—This is an inclusive sum provided to meet the cost of additional latrines which may be requested by the Urban Council.\n\n## 14.—New Girls Reformatory, $5,000.—It is proposed to provide a Reformatory or Rescue Home for young prostitutes, which would be managed by the Salvation Army. No definite site has yet been selected and meantime only a token sum is considered necessary.\n\n## 15.—New Public Health Centres, $100,000.—Health centres have been requested by Hon. 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It also occupies a valuable building site.\n\n## 21.—New Queen's College, $5,000.—No site has yet been decided upon and it is unlikely a Contract will be let in 1940. The sum provided is to cover the cost of any investigational work necessary.\n\n## 22.—New Vernacular Girls College, $50,000.—This building will be known as the Eastern District Vernacular Girls School and will replace the present Vernacular Normal School for women which occupies rented premises in Lee Garden Street. A site has been selected in Eastern Hospital Road, Soo Kun Poo.\n\n## 23.—New Teachers Training College, $235,000.—It is proposed to construct this College on the site of the old Diocesan Boys School, Bonham Road.\n\n## 24.—Hong Kong Prison, Stanley—Additions and Improvements, $10,000.—This sum is required to meet certain alterations and extensions considered necessary by the Commissioner of Prisons.\n\n## 25.—Botanical and Forestry Buildings—Alterations and Improvements, $2,400.—This sum includes for the provision of a drying room and enclosing an office verandah.\n\n## 26.—Breezy Point Quarters—Car Park, $5,000.—The Honourable Commissioner of Police recommends the provision of this accommodation—at present officers leave their cars in Park Road and cause congestion.\n\n## 27.—Postal Kiosks:-\n| Location | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Shaukiwan | $3,700.—The licenced stamp vendor in Shaukiwan does not wish to continue the business. A postal kiosk is therefore necessary. |\n| (b) Tsun Wan | $3,700.—The kiosk at Tsun Wan is considered necessary by the P.M.G. |\n\n## Sub-head 28.—Two Public Latrines at Tai O, $10,000.—These are considered necessary by the District Officer, South.\n\n## COMMUNICATIONS\n\n## 29.—Island Road—Reconstruction of Bridges, $10,000.—To continue the programme of making island bridges suitable for modern traffic requirements.\n\n## 30.—Tin Hau Temple Road Extension, $50,000.—An extension of this road will open up many desirable building areas for some of which applications have already been received.\n\n## 31.—May Road widening Aigburth Hall to Conduit Road, $55,000.—This is considered a most necessary improvement. There is great traffic congestion beyond Aigburth Hall and a through motor road to Conduit Road is very desirable.\n\n## 32.—Magazine Gap Road widening between Bowen Road and May Road, $20,000.—This section of road is narrow and leaves little room for pedestrians. It is proposed to construct a footpath, where practicable, and to improve certain bends.\n\n## 33.—Causeway Bay Road—Raising and widening including strengthening seawall, $80,000.—To raise and widen the length of road between Causeway Bay tram terminus and King's Road to approved levels. This will involve partial reconstruction of the existing seawall.\n\n## 34.—Mount Cameron Development—New 20 feet road (Sections A-B and B-C), $55,000.—Government has decided to encourage building development on Mount Cameron where there are numerous desirable building sites. An access road to the higher levels of Mount Cameron is essential and it is proposed meantime to proceed with the two lower sections of the road which will open up approx. 12 building sites.\n\n## 35.—Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Muk Fu Ferry, $500,000.—The sum provided is for the reconstruction of the section between the Sham Shui Po and the Kowloon Reservoir. This section at present is extremely tortuous and is quite unsuitable for modern traffic.\n\n## 36.—K.I.L. 3394—Forming access roads, $10,000.—To facilitate development and to give direct access from Ma Tau Wai Road to Argyle Street.\n\n## 37.—New Territories Roads—Reconstruction of Bridges, $50,000.—To continue the programme to make these roads suitable for modern traffic. Many of the bridges are now approaching a dangerous state and require reconstruction.\n\n## 38.—Castle Peak Road—Realignment near Tsun Wan, $19,000.—To continue diversion work necessitated by the adjoining reclamation.\n\n## 39.—Road to Fanling Volunteer Camp, $8,000.—The improvement of this road has been requested by the Commandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\n## DRAINAGE AND ANTI-MALARIAL WORKS\n\n## 40.—North Point Reclamation—Sewer extension, $5,000.—To continue work as filling in progresses.",
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        "content_text": "COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR 1939\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n$36,068,988 $36,132,019.97 $3,380,161.04 $3,817,129.07\n\n$4,994,254.00\n\n81-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRA-ORDINARY.\n\nSub-heads:\n\nEstimated. Actual. Increase. Decrease.\n\n1 Buildings.\n\n2 New Sub-station. Wanchai Gap\n\n180,985 263,128.53 76,138.53\n\nCentral Government Stores\n\n20,000 33,880.85 13,880.85\n\n8 New Government House\n\n110,215.00 15,000.00\n\n4 Ellis Kadoorie School-Conversion of Annexe into Gymnasium\n\n4,000 3,524.57 475.43\n\n5 Vernacular Normal and Middle School. ---New Latrines\n\n2,500 2,110.34 389.66\n\n6 Queen Mary Hospital-Additions and Improvements\n\n10,000 8,906.68 1,093.82\n\n7 G.C.H.-Alterations to \"C\" Block for Infant Welfare Centre\n\n2,850 2,380.23 519.77\n\n8 Western Market-Reprovision South Block\n\n40,00 40,000.00\n\n9 New Garage, Quarters, etc., Kennedy Town\n\n30,000 30,000.00\n\n10 Latrine. Electric Road\n\n5,000 2,349.06 2,650.94\n\n11 Prisons-Alterations\n\n20,000 18,119.35 1,880.65\n\n12 D.R.O.'s House Enclose verandah.\n\n1,400 1,351.56 48.44\n\n13 Mong Kok Market--\n\n(a) Flush Urinal\n\n(b) Store Room and Kitchen\n\n14 Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House- Incinerator\n\n4,500 1,948.22 2,551.78\n\n1,000 1,000.00\n\n5,000 5,000.00\n\n15 Latrine, Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City\n\n13,000 13,000.00\n\n16 Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve New Plant House\n\n2,300 2,300.00\n\n17 Au Tau Police Station-Garage\n\n3,500 3,150.00 350.00\n\n18 Un Long-Public Latrine\n\n5,500 5,500.00\n\n19 Herbarium and Library, Botanical and Forestry Office, Extension\n\n3,700 3,221.28 478.77\n\n20 Botanical and Forestry Office, Lai Chi Kok\n\n2,500 2,419.73 80.27\n\nGeneral Works.\n\n21 Roads\n\n140,000 236,900.56 96,900.56\n\n22 Drainage:-\n\n(a) Training Nullahs\n\n(b) Miscellaneous\n\nMiscellaneous\n\n24 Port Works\n\n48,000 27,502.73\n\n98,000 85,830.41 15,497.27 12,169.59\n\n34,800 42,990.39 8,190.39\n\n3,500 2,803.03 696.97\n\nCommunications.\n\n25 Island Road-Strengthening Bridges.\n\n10,000 10,000.00\n\n26 Bowen Road-Widening and forming footway between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station\n\n20,000 3,640.35 16,359.65\n\n27 K.I.L. 3394-Forming access roads from Ma Tau Wai Road and Argyle Street\n\n20,000 20,000.00\n\n28 Argyle Street, eastern end of\n\n29 Layout of a Government Quarry- Hok Un\n\n50,000 75,000 43,008.25 25,159.67 6,991.75\n\n65,285.00 49,840.83 75,000.00\n\nCarried forward\n\n$958,035 $858,960.38 $195,110.33 $294,184.95 $445,500.00\n\nCarried forward\n\n$36,068,988 $36,132,019.97 $3,880,161.04 $3,317,129.07\n\n$4,994,254.00\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nIncreased cost of materials and modification of plans.\n\nWork brought forward from 1938.\n\nWork suspended.\n\nLess work undertaken.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\nNo work undertaken,\n\ndo.\n\nWork commenced late in the year.\n\nLess work undertaken.\n\n„Over estimated.\n\nWork not started.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\nOver estimated. Work not started.\n\nOver estimated.\n\n140,000.00\n\n25,000.00 15,000.00\n\nIncreased building activity.\n\nLess work undertaken.\n\ndo.\n\nEmergency conditions. Over estimated.\n\nWork not started.\n\nLess work undertaken.\n\nWork not started. Less work undertaken.\n\ndo.",
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        "content_text": "42\n\nxxd. Macnamara.\n\nCut might have been caused by instrument like Exb.K.\n\nLO TING KIU. dd. xd. Murphy\n\nWidow of Hau Shek Po who was killed on 22nd March. He was 48 years of age. He lived at Yung Shu An. My husband went to sea until 4 years ago when he began farming. Accused is my husband's elder brother. He lived in the same house with us. My husband & I had left hand part as you faced house, and accused lived in right hand part & centre was a common kitchen. I slept in kitchen behind a tall cupboard. On day of my husband's death I came home for a meal at 9 a.m. My husband, accused & my son & my two orphan nephews were in the house. Accused was in his own quarters. I heard his voice coming from his quarters. My husband was in his part of the house. He came into the kitchen & sat down on the stone step beside the boilers. Accused's wife was also there sitting beside the boilers. I was cooking puddings. About 1 p.m. I had finished cooking. I put the puddings down beside my bed. I had given my husband $40 that morning to buy pork for a festival & to worship his dead mother's tomb. I told him there was no need to worship till 100 days after death. My husband said if he had known that he would not have bought pork. Accused then called out \"who asked you to buy pork?\". \"Why be so offensive?\". My husband replied \"If I didn't buy pork who would buy it?\". I saw my husband during that conversation. I saw nothing in his hands. I then heard my son call out \"Uncle has got a chopper\". I ran out & saw my husband standing beside the boilers. His face was covered with blood. Accused also was in the kitchen. They were still struggling. I then saw accused, who had a chopper in his hand, raise it & strike my husband on the head three times. I tried to separate them & take chopper from accused's hand. The fight stopped & accused went to his own house. My husband went to his house. During the fight they both went into accused's house. I pushed accused into his cubicle. At no time did I see anything in my husband's hands. Neighbours came to our house & attended to my husband. I got a deck chair & my husband lay down in it. I then went to Sai Kung to report to police. It took me 2-3 hours to walk there. I reported & four Indian Police came back with me. When we got back to my house my husband was lying in the kitchen on a grass bed in front of boilers. He was still alive. When he saw the police he called \"Indians, save life\". He died very shortly afterwards. I never heard any quarrel between my husband & accused. I identified body at Mortuary. xxd. Macnamara.\n\nI went to Sai Kung & reported to Interpreter. I told him my husband & his brother had a fight. I told him his brother had cut my husband with a chopper. Constables brought no medical supplies to stop bleeding. I told interpreter wounds very serious & a doctor must be sent for. Accused cut his own hand when I was separating them. If accused says my husband had a knife & attacked him that is untrue. I know accused cross-examined my son on that point. I did not see what treatment neighbours applied to the wounds. When I first saw them they were struggling. I did not see the beginning of the fight. I saw accused strike my husband on the head three times. HAU YUNG HING. dd. xd. Murphy\n\nMy age is 13; son of deceased. On the day my father died, after morning meal I went out to play with younger brother. After playing for two hours or so I went into the kitchen to get some pudding. I got some & ate it standing by the boiler. My mother & my father were both in the kitchen. I was eating my pudding when I saw accused in his own house reach up to the cockloft & get a chopper. He said \"I picked this knife up cut you to death\".\n\nMy father was then sitting down beside the boilers. He had nothing in his hands.",
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        "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
        "content_text": "them as comfortable as people could be who were sleeping on cement floors in the basement of the building. The American Consulate people were on the Peak, in Mr. Bruin's house; there were twenty of them there and they were \"all right\".\n\n84\n\nLater they were taken to Stanley, as also Sir Athol and Lady McGregor and a group of their friends. They all remained out of Stanley as long as they could.\n\nAbout the 5th of January orders were issued for people to assemble on the Cricket ground; we heard rumors of this at the Queen Mary Hospital. Everything was rumors, because all telephone connections had been cut, and my last chat with the Blackburns was a day or two after the capitulation. Then everything went dead.\n\nThe hospital lived on rumors: we were to be evacuated, the Japanese were taking over, we were to be taken to Formosa, all Hongkong was to be taken to Formosa; the war of nerves was worse than the war with the Japanese had been. Matrons were relieved of duty due to breakdowns; they reappeared after a few days. The kitchen staff walked out because they couldn't endure the brainstorms of the Sister in charge. A pretty little Portuguese masseuse who had been caught at the Jockey Club together with a number of nurses and A.N.S. from the Queen Mary Hospital, and had just escaped rape, many of the others did not; she succeeded in hiding under a bed for eighteen hours and later walked barefoot, disguised as a Chinese coolie woman from Happy Valley to Pokfulam, was severely reprimanded by the Principal Matron for her carelessness in leaving her belongings behind in the upstairs room which she had been sharing with some other girls. She was told that she should have asked a Japanese officer to protect her while she went to fetch her effects. She told me this story herself; I knew her well and can vouch for its authenticity.\n\nThe situation reached a crisis on the 19th of January when it was announced that the Japanese were evacuating everyone to Stanley Prison. Sick or well, everyone was to go. Packing began frantically; all Chinese patients who could be moved had already been shifted to their homes, or to other hospitals, as also as many convalescent patients of other nationalities. My husband and I talked the matter over quietly, and decided not to go to Stanley, to try our luck with the Japanese rather than go to a place where we would be completely isolated and entirely in the hands of people who had shown us very little consideration at any time. We were following an instinct only, but subsequent events entirely justified the decision. We therefore notified Dr. Selwyn-Clark that we proposed to remain where we were, if necessary with the Japanese soldiers when they arrived.\n\nAt six o'clock the morning of the 21st Dr. Selwyn-Clark telephoned to say that he begged us to go to the War Memorial Hospital on the Peak where we could be with our friends the Blackburns. He was so insistent that we agreed to this. I might add that orders for the evacuation of the War Memorial Hospital had already been given. The evacuation of patients had been going on all during the previous day, and during that morning of the 21st the Hospital Staff were packed into lorries and trucks together with a mountain of furniture and various kinds of equipment. They were then kept waiting for about two hours, no one knew why, sitting in the glorious sunshine; it all happened on a most lovely Hongkong winter day, and was a picturesque sight, the Sisters in their white veils and red-lined capes with gay paper parasols over their heads to shield them from the warm sun. Picturesque if one could forget the tragedy it involved.\n\nThe amount of luggage evidently annoyed the Japanese soldiers who began tossing out card tables and pouffs and other pieces of furniture and finally ordered everybody off the lorries and went through the mass of equipment, taking out all white blankets and mattresses as well as many other things. They could clearly be heard laughing when they were not shouting, and seemed to consider it all a great joke. Those same women went that day into bare rooms, just four walls and a floor, and very often the window and door blown out by shell explosions, or perhaps a hole in the roof. I wondered how they slept and how they kept warm. I heard later that they didn't. They had neither beds nor mattresses nor chairs nor tables nor blankets, nor anything else they needed. The nights in the winter in Hongkong are very cold. And the floors in many of the rooms at Stanley Prison are cement or stone.\n\nDr. Selwyn-Clark told my husband later that never in his life had he seen anything to equal the savage cruelty the Japanese showed in the handling of patients taken there. One or two of them died on the way, if I remember rightly.\n\nno\n\nI",
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        "content_text": "Hi,\n\nYour suggestions re electric feet and will let you know my results. We have a poor stock of emetine hydrochloride for injection. Can you help with some tablets, please? There appears to be great difficulty in getting any base for making up ointments and as such would appreciate any assistance in this line. M. and B., I presume, is not available or sulphathiazole for that. We have bacillary dysentery cases with only mag. sulph. to treat them with.\n\nM. and B. or sulphathiazole could help us a lot. BI powder we still have some but could do with some more. A great emergency now arises with 10-cc syringes as we have only two in camp and no spares. This item is one you may be able to assist me with, as many syringes as you can spare, we will be glad to receive them. I will write you further next week. Diphtheria is well in hand now and we have a fair supply of antitoxin. Many thanks and all the best. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. God bless you.\n\n11\n\n(i) Letter dated December, 1942, from same officer.\n\n\"Many thanks for the items received. Diphtheria is now controlled but our main problem of malnutrition is worrying me a lot. I am feeding 257 men daily at 'Jimmy's Kitchen' here and have at least another 150 men to add to my list.\n\nBismuth, sodii sal. and sodium bicarbonate are now required rather urgently. My very grateful thanks for all your help.\n\n!!\n\n(j) Receipt dated December, 1942, from same officer.\n\n\"Received the sum of Military Yen two thousand (and one thousand on each occasion during October and November).\"\n\n(k) Letter dated December, 1942, from same officer.\n\n\"Some more nicotinic acid. We have some 500 cases of painful feet, etc. (pellagra like). 5000 tablets of nicotinic have been received by me. I do hope you are well. My best wishes and kindest regards.\"\n\n(l) Letter dated January, 1943, from same officer.\n\n\"Many thanks for the M.Y.1000 received O.K. I will be able to do quite a lot now and put some of these men on their feet again. I omitted to include zinc oxide in my list to you. We are completely out and would be grateful to receive some. All is well now. My best wishes and grateful thanks.\"\n\n(m) Receipt dated 3rd February, 1943, from same officer.\n\n\"Received one thousand military yen and one tin tablets.\"\n\n\"I wish to place on record the valuable assistance rendered to the Shamshuipo Camp by Mr. Watanabe, Interpreter, Prisoners of War Camps, Hong Kong.\n\nMr. Watanabe/",
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        "content_text": "26\n\n77\n\nIn the main College buildings classrooms, laboratories, etc., originally not intended for residential use, and obviously unsuitable as such, are now being used in that capacity by internees. The residential sections provided for masters and boys give suitable accommodation for a number much below that now in occupation. For comparison it may be stated that when used for their normal purposes these residential sections housed a maximum of 180 boys and masters but now, with five cubicles, or accommodation for 10 boys uninhabitable owing to damage by gunfire, they accommodate 289 internees. The former occupants were provided with common rooms in addition but these are now used as dormitories and, with the classrooms, accommodate 212 persons, bringing the total to 501.\n\nTwo large rooms, which are occupied, are not weatherproof and are unfit for habitation owing to damage which has not been repaired. Sacking is used to cover the shattered windows but, while this keeps out daylight, it is no protection against cold, rainstorms and typhoons. Of the total number of 501 internees living in the main College buildings, 40 are in the Science Block which was built as a laboratory and lecture room and is entirely unsuitable for residential purposes. It possesses only one water closet and a shower bath fitted by resident internees whose number was, for a considerable time, as high as 54. Requests have been made but materials for increasing sanitary facilities have not been made available. Excepting the Science Block, the main College buildings provide an average of 46 sq. ft. of floor space for each internee, a bath (mostly of the shower type) and a water closet for every 20 and a water tap, with basin or slab, for every ten.\n\nEach bungalow, normally occupied by a single family, now houses 32 people with an average floor space per head of 46 sq. ft. Sanitary and washing facilities are adequate.\n\nThe accommodation provided in the servants' quarters is a little better than the camp average as regards floor space and toilet amenities.\n\n(2) The buildings specified in the second category were built as quarters for Europeans and are, of course, suitable, provided the number of occupants is within reasonable limits. The married officers' quarters consist of 3-storied blocks containing flats of 3 or 4 rooms, while the bachelors' quarters consist of single bedrooms with common rooms and communal washing and sanitary arrangements. In the early months of internment these quarters, mostly occupied by families and mothers with children, were grossly overcrowded, some of the larger flats accommodating 30 or more internees with a floor space per head of less than 30 sq. ft. As a result of departures from camp, conditions were ameliorated to a certain extent and the larger and smaller flats now accommodate on an average 21 and 16 internees respectively. The larger flats are provided with a bath and two water closets, the smaller with one of each and all flats with a kitchen sink.\n\nThe servants' quarters attached to these flats, varying in floor area between 54 and 70 sq. ft. are each occupied by two adults, a mother and child or even a married couple with a baby. The occupants of these small rooms use the toilet and washing facilities provided for servants.\n\nAs cooking in camp is on a communal basis flat kitchens have, where possible, been converted into living quarters, measuring about 72 sq. ft. They are occupied similarly to servants' quarters, but the occupants use the flats' bathrooms, etc.\n\nIn the married officers' quarters, including servants' rooms and converted kitchens, the space available averages approximately 40 sq. ft. per head.\n\nIn the bachelors' quarters situated in the former Prison Officers' Club, single bedrooms are now occupied by two adults and other rooms according to size. One room on the ground floor, occupied by eight men, has been damaged to such an extent as to make it unfit for habitation.\n\nThe average space per head in this building is 49 sq. ft. Toilet and washing facilities are adequate.\n\n(3) The third category consists of eight buildings, of two or three stories, erected for use by Asiatics Indians and Chinese.\n\nSix blocks were married quarters and are mostly laid out as small flats of two rooms with verandahs at front and back. Each flat is provided with a water closet, a kitchenette and a washing tap (placed in W.C.). The rooms measure approximately 140 and 100 sq. ft. and accommodate four and three internees respectively.\n\nOwing to structural damage, some rooms do not accommodate a full complement as stated above, but, even then, the average number of persons living in each of these small flats is 6.6.\n\nOne of the bachelor blocks is occupied by single police—two in each room of 92 sq. ft.—and washing and other facilities are adequate.\n\nThe second bachelor block stands apart from the others. It is used as a hospital and quarters for nursing staff.\n\nFJ\n\n27\n\n78\n\nExcepting the hospital buildings, the \"Indian Quarters\", as this section of the camp is known, accommodated 748 internees and the average space available to each is 36 sq. ft.\n\nThe resident nursing staff, numbering 55, reside in four large rooms on the top floor of the hospital building. The average space per head is about 60 sq. ft, and five water-closets and five shower baths are provided. This is poor accommodation for staff whose work is particularly trying and gives little facility for rest to those on night duty.\n\nDoctors and other male staff directly attached to the hospital live in the 'Leprosarium' a building previously part of the Hong Kong Prison and then used for the accommodation of leprous prisoners.\n\nLighting and ventilation of all accommodation, with the exception of damaged rooms is adequate. Artificial lighting is by electricity.\n\nThere is no means of heating rooms nor is such normally required.\n\nA limited amount of furniture, the property of previous residents, was available in St. Stephen's College, the bungalows and the European Officers' quarters, but none whatever in the 'Indian Quarters' section of the camp,\n\nExcluding the Hospital, Leprosarium and the Science building the total area available for internees is approximately 98,000 sq. ft., which allows 41 sq. ft. per head. and when one considers the figure already given it will be realised that a maximum and equitable use is being made of the space provided. It must be remembered that there is no communal accommodation, such as dining and sitting rooms, and that the areas given per head represent the total floor space available to internees for all purposes.\n\nThere is, without doubt, serious overcrowding in camp, which is a constant danger to the health of the community. Overcrowding facilitates the spread of communicable diseases and is particularly dangerous when combined with a state of general malnutrition such as exists in the camp. Nor must we forget the serious effects on the nervous system of prolonged residence in overcrowded rooms in this uncertain existence of ours. Should an epidemic occur in this camp its control would be difficult as conditions, particularly as regards housing, would favour its spread and the results might be serious.\n\neven\n\nIt is generally considered that 6 ft. of wall space for each bed is the minimum that can be regarded as affording some degree of protection against the spread of disease from one occupant of a room to another, but such spacing is impossible in this camp; in rooms where tuberculous cases are accommodated. The spread of tuberculosis, dysentery, or, in fact, of any disease, whether conveyed as a droplet infection, by contact or by insects, is facilitated by lack of adequate accommodation. What would be a reasonable standard of housing in our present circumstances? Obviously we cannot have the amenities we enjoyed in our own homes but it would not be unreasonable, in my opinion, to expect at least the standard of accommodation provided for British troops in South China (including Stanley) in pre-war days—a floor space of 80 sq. ft. and a cubic space of 1,000 cubic feet per head. If we take that as our standard, and we cannot be satisfied with a lower one, it follows that the accommodation at present provided is only about half of what we require for reasonable comfort and the maintenance of health.\n\n8. HOSPITAL\n\nThe ground and first floors of a building already referred to were used as a hospital which had accommodation for 70 patients in six wards—three for males and three for females. The building was not very satisfactory, it was too small to meet the hospitalisation demands made necessary by serious overcrowding in quarters, its lay-out made impossible the proper segregation of dysentery and other infectious diseases, and washing and sanitary facilities were poor. In spite of this, and the many difficulties met in regard to staffing, equipment, medical and surgical stores, heating, lighting and water supplies, this hospital did magnificent work in caring for the sick and the majority of internees benefited at one time or another from its services. This is clearly shown by its record of admissions which were 1,521 in 1942, 1,189 in 1943, 1,468 in 1944 and 795 for 8 months in 1945, a total of 4,604.\n\nIn addition there was an out-patient department where specialist services were available.\n\n9. PERSONAL HYGIENE\n\nFew internees were able to arrive in camp with adequate supplies of clothing, footwear, and bedding and for several months many had to sleep on concrete floors.\n\nSome were able to bring in bedding from the Chinese hotels where they had been interned before arrival in camp. Much of this was bug infested and gave considerable trouble",
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        "content_text": "WEI HOLL\n\nARCHITECT\n\nARCHITECTURAL OFFICE\n\nW. D.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n十\n\nINSTAL\n\nTANLIGHT\n\nCOAT PLASTER,\n\nLIME 1 CENT RENDER, FLOOR.\n\nI SKIRTING\n\nWASL TO CON BLOCKS\n\nLIVE WASH TO\n\nDON. BACKO\n\nSHELVES\n\nFURD\n\nCUP\n\n**BRIZTINGS\n\nSECTION A-A\n\nSINK\n\nO DADO\n\nNO PLASTRE ABOVE\n\nKITCHEN\n\nI'LEMT LINDI REDUCING TO SE\n\ns'ab\n\nW.C\n\nLIVING ROOM\n\nLGHT IMPER\n\nESDUCING to 3%\n\nin's 5:0 STANDARD METAL WINDOW\n\nCENT ZENDEK, WINDOW BOARD\n\nCONCEITE\n\n10! o\n\nONE UNIT\n\nA\n\nEPTHS\n\nSHOWER\n\nBALUSTRADE,F-a' Hien\n\nMPIA AT «*%2 ZAI 2*, KA FLAT\n\nSCALE\n\nWASTE\n\nKITCHEN\n\n52\n\nLIVING ROOM\n\nCONCERTE PARTITION\n\nPLAN\n\nI INCH - 2 FEET\n\nA\n\nCONCRETE WORKERS FLATS AT SHEUNG LI UK\n\nKOWLOON\n\nWETION OMITTED\n\nNINg\n\nLOAD\n\nSITE\n\nSCALE\n\nPLAN\n\nINCH = 300 FT.\n\n*******\n\nW.C\n\nSCHEDULE Ov OPENING EACH UNIT\n\nINO\n\nWINDOW\n\nSTANDARD METAL\n\nING.\n\n3:4′′ 12°\n\nIN\n\nLOUVER\n\nWeb\n\nW.C. INO\n\nA\n\n13' 20'\n\nDook\n\n4′′ × 2/2′′ FAMI\n\nDOOR SIZE 2'5¾× 6'8\"\n\nDooz\n\n4′ = 3½′′ FRAME\n\nDOGE SIZE: 2'6\"\n\n49\n\nEnd\n\nDELWING NO A\n\nP 172\n\nSCALE: FINCH- 2 FT.\n\nDATE: 23rd NOVEMBER, 1950",
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