[ { "id": 217811, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "\nAppendix to First Report of Selest Committe \n\n4. \n\nin the Affairs of the East India Compe. \n\n4. Establishments. \n\nEstablistements 1 . - An Account of the Expense of The East-Initia Company's Estuchment at Canton ; the Hames of the Servants, and the irmount of Sataris \n\nand & mathoments of Each and the thote Post for the Maintenance of the same in each \n\nActaries and Emoluments \n\nBeing the propertion of Commission assigned \n\nto Servant of Salaries to t \n\ntil tant \n\nکی تحریم \n\nelle Commission \n\nandole distinet Officed at the tonal \n\nFast my \n\nSupra Cargued and Writers \n\nseason of app cifutes. I \n\n1061/1 \n\nSir James Brabazon lekinston Kut stumes Maloneys, \n\n1001/2 Star Thuna \n\nSie am burts Fig \n\nCastings Jugne, Eng \n\nEnglund \n\nund \n\nIndia \n\nchina to Cristeand li Chinia, and from \n\nbon chend to the in Consignhunt British Arth \n\n10.001 \n\n0333 P. 3.33 \n\nPr 337 \n\n6.945 \n\nsous 5. William Henry Chicheley Howden, Esgr 6.250 \n\n1003/4 - Favenci Itas \n\nwulf 7. William Bay, \n\nres, Exght \n\nwa710- Charles MEllell Ege \n\nin Consignment from England and Shutia to China, and fu Cheria to Engl \n\n\\on Consignmiy \n\nWorth Hor \n\nChoric to the \n\n10,001 \n\n.333 \n\n20.333 \n\nتو تی تھی میں \n\n7.60 \n\n7.669 \n\nвідно усво \n\n6.250. \n\n6.341 \n\nمر کے لوگو با کمری \n\nOlab \n\n9.304. \n\n4-723 4.96 137: 5.0023 \n\nChesa porn England and India To China, and pens. \n\nOn Conveyor next \n\nOn Campignanents \n\nfrom China to the \n\nBritish Nort \n\nTotal \n\n1026/27 \n\n• im löysignment \n\nfrom china to Greytownt \n\nfrom England \n\nIn Cançoignnex lši \n\n* Dentin to Chwin, ty \n\nSom Chena ly the \n\nBailik Forth \n\nPurity where \n\nIctal \n\nYear \n\nSince \n\n10/27/20 \n\nIndia to China fron \n\nfrom England and \n\nOn Cungrynonents \n\nChina to England \n\nJun, Chania to thre \n\nAmerican Colonics \n\nBritish Barth \n\nTotal \n\npom England and \n\nPontia le cheñce V \n\nfan Chine to \n\nEngland \n\nfrom Chua Vo the \n\nBulish Na. \n\n9.682 11.242 \n\n297 11.539 7.689 \n\n7.34 \n\n7.233 \n\n233 174 7.407 \n\n2.379 \n\n7.022 \n\n0.069 \n\n9.368 \n\n9.615 9.507 \n\n5,707 \n\n2/17.020 176. 6.817 57.0762 \n\n0.069 \n\n9.360 \n\n9.6157.009 \n\n7.427 \n\n6.321 \n\n247 206 57.630 185 37845 \n\n7.674 9.360 \n\ng.b157009 \n\n€9,877 7.342 7.342 \n\n2.1/3 \n\n1.000 \n\n2.113 1.052 \n\n6.527 7.000 \n\n2.014 $:900 \n\n2/1 \n\n6.119 \n\n0.679 7.144 \n\n0.000 \n\n6.623 \n\n7.026 \n\n7.2/237317 \n\n5.507 \n\n4.006 \n\n2.301 \n\n2.50/ \n\n4.311 \n\n2.273 \n\nStudent of the Chous \n\n2. 2017 \n\n2.346 \n\n3.750 2.267 \n\n6.009 \n\n6.250 4.607 \n\n4.772 \n\n3.9300 \n\n5.448 \n\n4.016 \n\n4.159 \n\n3.042 \n\n2.341 \n\n2.811 \n\n7t \n\n2.203 \n\n4:278 \n\nsingunge \n\n1.966 \n\n2.032 \n\n2.499 \n\n2.37.5- \n\n1.005 \n\n1.005 \n\n2.029 1.649 \n\n1.695 \n\n1.695 \n\n71749 2.031 \n\nLalgo 2.0051-637 \n\n1.950 \n\n3.175 \n\n1.649 \n\n1.695 \n\n-4.51 \n\n2.03/ \n\n1891/13-James Bannerman, Ergh. \n\n1016/15. \n\nکی سر ترکی کے دورے کے \n\nChat Muja \n\n'cribanks, Reg. \n\nJohn. I fancis Davis Engli \n\nبه \n\nattuwances as a \n\nJames Frederick Mugont Duniell. Exy = 1.805 \n\nHomus Charles Smith, Esqu \n\nDo.. Allowana ws \n\nSonn Jackson, Bratz \n\nDo... \n\nQ, \n\nStudent of the \n\naliowane as a \n\nChinese Sivnguage. Stückent of the \n\nachinise Surgeat D for attending examination of \n\nO for the purpose of learning the \n\n1818/19 Gange Best te benior Esgt, \n\nRobert Burland Huddlestone, Erg Edward W \n\nکی شرح کنه \n\nدندیم رہا ہے \n\nکر کے رقم کمه \n\nخری تور آ گیا \n\nboo \n\n46.00 \n\nStudent of the Chimie \n\nther \n\nde \n\n1020/21 Hugh Hamilton Lesietray Eugh \n\nDr. ullowunes \n\nPotent Inglis, Engr. \n\nFallowance as \n\nDe \n\n10rups Juhn Hawer ustell Enghe \n\nHenery \n\nMatthew Clarke „Est \n\n44.2 \n\nJohn Bensley Thornhill, Esq \n\nHertz Their as Stavershaw, Engh \n\n10287 Frederick Juha Morris, Exep- \n\nPersons fitting \n\nProfessional and within die texist Officis \n\nind the Factory \n\nHead Henry Hauling \n\nChaplain \n\nHenry actoth. \n\nde \n\nGood Gopeansed, Secageen, inclucting Table Allowana, \n\naccount of hi vidike, at Mucon, \n\nus Curturing store \n\nJohn \n\nThomas Cutledge \n\nSamat 3 Au \n\nJohn Fleeved \n\ndo \n\nنا لگا کر \n\nlitering to Hey, if afectory \n\nito- \n\n1.244.0 \n\n1.975 1.503 \n\n1.000 \n\nکورہ مودی کو وا کرے انگری \n\n} \n\n1.340 \n\n1.240 \n\nک عورت کیا کر \n\n3.00 \n\nواع لولا مجيب \n\nجو امریکی محور \n\n2.0052.127 76 \n\n2.005 1.537 \n\nf \n\n1.592 2.030 \n\n1.592 \n\nгод \n\n174 | 7.310 \n\n167 6.790 \n\n4.300 \n\nگری که \n\n3.262 \n\n2.007 \n\nJUC \n\n1.759 \n\n500 μου \n\n900 900 1.32 \n\n4.4.577 \n\n1490 17.333 \n\nJou \n\n!། \n\n\"700 \n\nJy \n\nSin you \n\nwww \n\nво \n\n4.00 \n\nbo \n\n1.240 \n\n2.000 \n\n1.000 \n\n2.000 500 1.000 \n\n1.240 \n\nJ \n\n1.248 \n\n14y \n\n2.500 \n\n2.500 \n\n1.964 \n\ndtv. \n\nARZ Juhn Francis Davis, Alting \n\ndo-- \n\nJohn Russell Reeves Assistant dow \n\nRead Dr. Murrison. Interpreton and Kunstulan \n\nBefying Writers, occasionally Employed in the officis Howard Butler, domestic fearents, I ch \n\napoptivate apartment, \n\nCast of Maintenare Comprising Rent and Repairs. \n\nas well as Furniture supplied whereto, cone the expense of the Public Puble kept. at the Factiny' \n\n1.11 0 \n\nکی شیرین \n\nمی می شود \n\n70.122 \n\n74.2533 \n\n76.1041. \n\nS0102 \n\n15.abs \n\n17.090 \n\n16.095 \n\n23.707 \n\n91.343 \n\nEast India Hinde \n\n17th March 1830 \n\n} \n\n16.942 \n\n(05:04 10 \n\nहै। \n\n16.433 \n\nDry.5540 \n\nThe. G. Lived \n\nWeek \n\ncok Bank \n\n1.003 \n\n£72.304 \n\n16. \n\n29.006", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "30 Holliday Wise C\n\n30 W. Pyke.\n\nI. &. Ballantine\n\nI. M. Hayrs Sir J. Cochrane\n\n&. Waller\n\nofficers of the dot. M. N. I.\n\n5 M Markivick\n\n100 Smith #Brimelove\n\nJaen soni\n\n10 Leut Wood. B. N.\n\nFor 25 pd\n\nJ. St. George. P. Marcussen\n\nfir\n\nfir 25\n\nS. Miller.\n\nfio\n\n10\n\nN. Burns.\n\n20 N. Quus.\n\nC. Smith\n\n10 G. Reope\n\nH. Cochrane.\n\n5 F. Friend\n\n24\n\nJ. Cairns.\n\n10\n\nJ. Parratt.\n\n12\n\nJ. Edwards.\n\nJ. F. Caldwell J. W. Reid.\n\nCast : Bruce. Pract.\n\nCommander Syster H. B3. H. Long.\n\nR.M. McKellar I. Raweterne.\n\nW. S. Parish.\n\nV. Slanter.\n\nC. show.\n\nC. Board.\n\nG. Brayson.\n\n5€. Wadmant.\n\n5 6. Quinland.\n\n20\n\nP. Dudgeon.\n\nst I. L. Mactican.\n\nje 100 Lt Wilson. R.M.\n\npo\n\n20 Bood C. Gutystaff.\n\nfro\n\nHon : M. Gan : Daguilar pd 100 H. B. Commelin. po\n\nA. Aríderacvé\n\nI. L. Fresh.\n\nA. Scott.\n\nR. Strachant\n\n50 L. Routh.\n\nJie 204. S. Carpenter.\n\nI. Funk.\n\n25\n\n10\n\n40\n\n10\n\nJ. W. North.\n\nM. Cooper.\n\nR. Lowrie.\n\nJ. B. Pain.\n\nD. Henne.\n\n1. Conner.\n\nC. 8. Coffin. St. Col: Tripp. Vesey & Co bot : Chesney\n\npo so\n\nFryer Kleme\n\n6. Jamcomb.\n\nBouller.\n\nJ. M Murray,\n\nHon.\n\nJu 10 Mrs Huline.\n\nG. B. Hoga 10 A. Lyce\n\npr 50 C. Aleure\n\nthe 24.\n\nG. M. Stewart\n\n50 R. Diggles.\n\n40\n\n10\n\n150\n\nfor 20\n\npo 100\n\n50\n\n2.0\n\nG. Balls. 10 J. M. Metcalf\n\n$34\n\nfre\n\n10\n\n6. H. Gibbone\n\npid 10\n\n10\n\nH. Mannl\n\nfed 10\n\nI. B. Write\n\nfed 10 fio\n\n10\n\nfd voo\n\n10 Z. Richardson.\n\nfor 50\n\n16\n\nbockerell &\n\n500 C. Moorhouse.\n\nfor 20\n\n200\n\nBell Co\n\n400 €. de Oladui\n\npr 25\n\n20\n\nW. Bell.\n\nG. Strachant\n\nJ. Frise\n\nfed so\n\n& Vindlay\n\nHatcher Larkins & Co po 100 6. Hindley\n\n25 J. A. Gibb.\n\n100\n\nG. F. C. Batemans. pr. 5 A. Shimmer\n\nF\n\n20\n\nJ. S. Gamet.\n\nW. Hutcrrison\n\nAkie Comprador por\n\npr 30 Cast: Frecar, Royserts.\n\n70-\n\nOswald. Disandt t\n\n10 J. Pett\n\n20\n\npr\n\n10 D:Cel: Farquharson\n\n20\n\nCapt. F. M. Edwards gêt 50 A. Boate.\n\nCapt. C. Edwards, 18th\n\nJ.\n\nL. C. Tebles.\n\nCast: Bruce, 18th\n\nJo\n\nR. Wilkinson\n\nFro 100\n\nJ. S. Ford. A. Griend.\n\n6\n\nR. Suglis\n\npo 200\n\npr 100 A. Pennsy\n\n25 A. HC. P. Edwards pe 25\n\nThri Mr Morrisons. fc 316 f. b. B.\n\nC.N. Burgess. p. 10 B.G.\n\nPhillips te leere.\n\nS. R. Cottond.\n\nW. Hay G. W. Frazer, - Jauneey.\n\nJ. Slegers.\n\nPo 10\n\npe 25 B. Butler.\n\n10 G. H. H. Gill,\n\n10 J. Robertson.\n\nfor 20\n\n20 Jamieson How the 50 f. 4. Edger.\n\nfir 50\n\nfor 20\n\nfer | 10\n\nvon How to for 100.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "189\n\nI\n\n90\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n...parvenus, assuming an official importance which is highly injurious. Some years ago, he was arrested by the French Government, at Boulogne, and is presumed to have been irritated at this circumstance, for he wrote an violent letter to the police in Paris, in which, after lengthy complaining of this infraction of the Law of Nations, he ended by saying, that the Bourbons had committed an act on his person which might hurl them from the throne.—Journal by T. HAYES, Esq., Vol. 1, p. 243.\n\nThe undersigned in our trade requests that claims against him be sent for liquidation immediately, and that those justified to him likewise discharge relatives due. He begs also to state that he has transferred his business to Mr. HENRY VAUCHER, formerly of Custom.\n\nCHARLES WEISS. Hongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nMR. HENRY VAUCHER, in retiring from the above, solicits the Patronage hitherto bestowed on his predecessor, and gives notice that the Business will be carried on in his Own Name and Responsibility from the date.\n\nHongkong, June, 1856.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\n[No. 23.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThere is some difference of opinion in these two cases. There is in fact a considerable difference between asserting by the Neutrality ordinance No. 1 of 1865 that the ships of war of our Ally the Emperor of China shall be seized and confiscated by the SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE AND CHIEF MAGISTRATE!! if found in the harbour of Hongkong, and the second paragraph of the above opinion. \"We (the Law Officers of the Crown) do not concur in the conclusion of the Acting Attorney General\" \"that the Chinese are to be considered as beyond the pale of civilized nations,\"\n\nTHE CHILD OF FRANCE !\n\nOn the evening of Wednesday last, the 28th ult., an unfortunate accident which caused the death of 26 Chinese passengers happened to the steamer \"Knee\" as she was proceeding up the river,\n\nThe Emperor of France has obtained a son. This is a fact, in no way to be disputed. We can all remember instances when political sagacity and party prophecy\n\nThe \"Rose\" left, this about ten minutes past six o'clock, and had reached the western side of Tonkun bay, when having hugged the land too closely, her starboard bow struck on a sunken rock, opening so much of her side that she immediately filled forward and went down, drowning 26 Chinese in the forecastle, Fortunately for others on board, her stern part hung on the rock, and it was but until the next day that the whole of the body of the vessel went down. Before a coroner's jury held on view of ten of the bodies that had been brought here, the engineer stated that he chanced to be on deck at the time the vessel struck, that he heard the Captain saying \"stop her\" which was immediately done,—that in a minute or so, he heard the Captain again cry \"go on, all right,\" when the engines were put to work, but they had only made three revolutions when the water rushed into the engine room; that having again turned off the steam he was engaged in drawing the fires, but before he was enabled to do so, the water had reached his middle. Hay—\n\n144 Dak Kassa, 15 taels long by 9 in. thick and 11 in. deep TEAK BEAMS, before delivery, in Merchant's packages, weighed at $7,4-7.\n\nHongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nDE SILVER & Co., Auctioneers.\n\n\"EXSAMUEL RUSSELL\" AND \"QUICKSTEP\"\n\nThe undersigned are landing, and offer for Sale,—\n\n150 Punces Gallego CEDAR. 2,500 Gallons American BRANDY. 10,000lbs Winchester SOAP. 50 Pairbanks PLATFORM SCALES—weight from 240 to 1200lbs.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nAn Invoice of OYSTERS, Green PEAS, Fresh PEARS, APPLES, QUINCES, and CRANBERRIES.\n\nHongkong, 2nd June, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED. SUPPLY of Sill's New York BUTTER. Also, Trade Dozen Bus's Triangle ALE.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st June, 1856.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 JUNE, 1856.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of DIVINE SERVICE in the Cathedral Church of St. John are, on Sundays at 7 A.M. and 4 P.M.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of PERLIC WORSHIP in the UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M. on the Evening of every Wednesday at half-past 8\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Camberwell Green, London on the 1st April, the Wife of Captain The JAMARON of the P. & O. Steamer \"Brisbane,\" of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 22nd May, the Wife of Mr. Asterio DUS SANTOS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 28th May, the Wife of Mr. Duxa KIXI E CARNEO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Macao, the 25th May, Mr. J. M. DE FONSECA, Harbour Master, to Miss MARQUISHA LOUREIRO, Daughter of the late Senhor Antonio Loureiro, Esq.\n\nA Victors. Hongkong, on the 1st June, M. HUSIND CHYTHESHEX to Miss FURSA B. DA SILVA SOUZA,\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt the Missionary House, Springfei, on the 4th February, Mr. NICASIUS BAYJIES, of Boston, and late of Stungcar, aged 21.\n\nAt Lackbear, near Exeter on the 1st April, the Sister, of du John Bourring, Governor Hongkong\n\nTHE Government Gazette of 31st Ultimo contains\n\nin the natural course of life and death, and in barran—desa. Wow them not a man named Bradshaw, a great man Canterbury, brawler, years since turned to forth the most villanous epithets upon Queen Victoria ? Did he not talk of Josci, using the name in Highest compare Now, that Bradshaw was of the hopeful school who predicted barrenness to the Queen: they had such unquestionable authority for the inevitable fact. Truly, Her Majesty—as, in due season, we shall learn on the Civil List—very soon confounded these prophets; and, at the present hour, most satisfactorily up—plies the picture of Byron :-\n\n\"A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a sovereign and seven stilling pieces.\"\n\nThus, no delicacy can be more brilliant than the bestowed upon the fanaticism at the Tuileries on Sunday may be only promissary of the many olive-bunches to be vouchsafed to Napoleon and Engine: to the very prophetic party, as in due time rebuked the soothsayer's\n\nThe first flower in this legal parterre is a con—Ordinance No. 2 of 1856, Entitled an Ordinance to explain the law as to the removal of riots—then follows, No. 9 of 1856. Entitled\n\n20\n\nThere can be no doubt of the fact, that Henri Cinq is\n\nas his wife is not yet added a baby—not a sin—\n\nby centricuting to France a boy that, even at Barnum's Baby-show, would, it is said, carry off the first prize for weight and size.\n\nAn Ordinance to explain certain enactments relating to shipping :then comes No. 10 of 1856 Entitled an Ordinance for Lis Pendens and Purchasers; a measure that has duly passed the mock Legislative Council and are in full bloom and lily-bud—\n\nTHE following proclamation appears in the Government Gazette of last Saturday :--\n\nThe Queen, conveyed through The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely—\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1855, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1856, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nNow, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.\n\nOn the death of Sir William Molesworth: as most of our readers are aware, the difficulty of filling the situation of Colonial Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nLord Palmerston was, not so much to\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to—morrow on the Parade Ground, commencing at 6 o'clock, the following:--\n\n1—Grande: Collscom March—Gay'l\n\n2—Cavatina Op. The Enchantress—Balfe.\n\n3.—Negro Quadrille—Tullien.\n\n4—Bird of Paradise Waltzes—Kémewig.\n\n5—Carmen Fiko—Fritze.\n\n6—Caling, T.Kelly.\n\nQu'un puce y déposa, tribut de sa fleur, Verre les portes, et tuinteur tu enches\n\nJeune fille et Jeune fleur\n\nAh! nos los reals Jamais à no monde profane,\n\nà ce monde de deuil, d'angoisse femelle!\n\nLe te bete et flétrir, le soleil brile et fane\n\nJeune fille et jouoc Beur\n\nTudors, pauvre lisa, si l'ère di un éve: Tu ne trains plus\n\nplus à jour le froid et in allen; Elles ont achevé leurs traiches matins,\n\nJeune file et je flaut.\n\nMais ton père, Elisa, ur ta centre incline.\n\nAux ridden front a more la pleur:\n\nEt Vimix caène, le Temps Canche sur sa razine,\n\nJeune file at jeune flour,\n\nChateaubriand.\n\nmost talented man to fill the situation ci Celo—Colonies, not even in Great Britain, than the\n\nto be shoved into the piace. From the awe Eew long that respectability will be maintained, nil Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nAttorneys of the Hongkong Court at present, precious specimen of a proclamation we are when the profession may be overcrowded with strongly led to believe that Lord Palmerston has 20 exactly hit upon the least ignorant of his dy men from the unusual sources of supply which the present Ordinance opens up, it is not easy to say.\n\nI Colony lies.\n\nancs? The cause of it is perfectly plain. The We asked, What was the cause of the Ordin—Attorney General comes from Botany Bay, that\n\nof the deft. The imperial prince is eager to hear the Pope's suck and, doubtless, will be father digna, we should rather say encored, by godfatherty gifta piece of the true cross set in a bit of gold brengt by Siba to Sulomen: or, in a diamond locket, a pinch of iron filings from the fetters of St. Peter and St. Paul. Yet, his loltasse no thought of Henriking, the lineal descen whilst the Pope is godfather to the son of parceny, baa dit of Joris, now somewhere in any? But such is the conversent memory of the Vatican.\n\nfiength of years be grated to Loria Napoleon, he a Kemperor. Pessibly, we say for history tells us not may possibly rear baby now in his crile inte stuff for to look for grecs mea in the sons of great inen. Crom—\n\na son of sufficient alty to ale a pause. It rany wall fefe has le rouse to rate a gdom; and he loft seem odd, and yet destiny pinys such prawks with la hopes an inations—yet even a Seroud of Tecember may bogo First of April.—Lloyd's W. N., March 23.\n\nWIDOWS, FAMILIES, AND RELATIVES OF OFFICERS.\n\nWe annex the rules and regulations appended to the warrant given in a recent number of the Gazette, for\n\neven teli the quarter of the world in which that even if now, a place to which respectablering a £ards of money in lieu of pensions, coti This may seen an extreme saer—Attorneys were likely to go and the govern passionate lowances, and gratuites, to the widows, tion, hnt we must either suppose this extreme ignorance existing in the Colonial Secretary, or in\n\nment very wisely got hold of the next best families, and relatives of officers killed in action or dying substitute in allowing their officials connected of wounds recived in the face of the enemy, within six\n\nmonths after being wounded.\n\nNo body here\n\nthe Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Law with the law to become lawyers—but there is no Officers of the Crown, seeing that on the 15th March 1856 the folowing Notification appeared wante, and nobody has asked for the Ordinance. His in the Government Gazette:-\n\nExcellency the Governor and the Attorney Gen—\n\nan or dying of words received in face of the enemy, 1. The cmount of mousy to be paid to a widow, widow and children, ar other relatives of an officer inted in\n\nbranch of the service be sny bave belonged to, be the within six months after being wounded, shall. Whatever\n\ninfantry of the line, as set forth in the following scale, viz.\n\nTo the willow, widow aut chil—dren, ebilen, filies,mativer. state, or sisters of..............\n\nDiffe\n\nDizto\n\nJitk\n\nDitto\n\nDitto\n\nCawley\n\nTref\n\nLieut Colbel £175...£1500\n\nMajor 4575... 9300 Captain 3625, 1960 Lieutenant 1190 700 Coruat... $10..... Ensign... 450\n\nA question having risen as to the Law by which Con—eral, like true cosinopolites, resolved to legislate tracts ethered into with Her Majesty's Subjects on C irrespective of creed or color,\" and with the strong regulation price sized for commissions in cavalry and nese Territory hy Chinese Subjects for the Cession of Property in China, should be regulated; watter shape of getting for the present a cheap interpre—hert retered by the Barl of Clarender to the law ter, bold out this Ordinance as a bait. It is made Gfficers the Crown, whose opinion is as follows\n\n\"War of opinlot that Brdish Tribunala and Jedrini\n\nin a fine large spirited manner \"Alienage or Chin—Authorices in China are bound to ohmerve the rules and Tu fallowing is the charmeter given of Sir John incipies of Publie ur Enternat Tuw, so they are set to do is to take the usual caths, one of which ese status no disqualification \"ail stunt you have Boaring twenty years ago. There are few people we do and oneur in the conclusim of the noting, Ac Now, the persou for whom this Ordinance was and received by the auton consent of European natione nathes is the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty. who have bad anything to do with His Excellency torny-General, that the Chiness are to be considered as who will not agree that the likeness is a wonder—beyond the pale of civilized nations.\n\nIn a queationa that may evine botere any Kritina Tri—\n\nexpressiy mande is, as we have betise sid bunal in Chung relating to the ownership or occupation of\n\na Morrison school boy who has studied in\n\nBut it sun! in no case exceed the sum of money actually The French Gerament has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nNo. $3.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n91\n\n3. In the event of an offer leaving a widow and Mr. Speerivales four paints which particularly re—children, who may or might have established a claim to quire legislative action at this time. He anys the persion, compassionate allowance, or gratuity, then The number allowed to immigrate to this country and in that case the mouey awarded in lieu thereof shall should not be too great. We may not be prepared to he held in trust by the Secretary of State for War, and afford them weful employment. They any code in ex the interest thereof, at the rate of £3 per cent. per ann cess, and not settle down, and assimilate to our institu all be receivable by the widow, ustil her death, when Haas and Waiks. the money shall be divided, share and share alike, among jadicions ineu, and xot unreasonable, to allow for the It is therefore the preference of many the children than alive of such deceased officer, provided present the law which fixes a capitation tax to re they shall have attrined the age of 21, otherwise the provided it is so administered as not to interfere with money shall still continue to be held in trust and the rutamerce,\n\nbusines event, however, of de witlow anrviving her said children future duty from observation of its nulla, or in com And judgunat only indicate the nosey all than become her sole and absolute pro—plinee with the future wants and desires of our own perty, as Inid down in Article 2; but should such chirou people. survive the widow, yet still die before attaining the age of 21, then and in that case the money, after discharging deserves consideration. The amouai freit by the pre—2. The amount of the license required from minera alt just liabinties, shall become the property of the Crow sent law is uppressive. Few are possessed of good 4. In the event of an officer leaving a child or children, claims. The tax beggars them. It drives them to the but no widow, the mouny shalt he laid in trust, and the\n\nmountsics and tickets like wild beasts. It is the interest thereof, at the rate of $3 per cent. per anner,\n\nwith hanger, sickness and despair. It turns theci, what stated in Article 3, shall be applied by the Secretary\n\ntheir honourable character with our trading population of State for War for the benefit of such child or children,\n\nin the country shows is not necessary, int cheats and antit he, she, or they shal! attain the age of 21, when\n\ndoes. It will in time fill our pisose. It makes them fathe and hase us as a people, and our name, our country, property of such surviving child or children. they understand we profess. If put to the fordicz, stand— and our government and the Christian religion, which share and share alike. Should, however, such child asard of four dollars per month, the sum affords a hand Chronicle, March 20,\n\nagain demandell his goods, tendering the whole wit In a genera! urder, Jated Feb. 25, the Commander-la- of freight us by the bill of lading. for all the goods was thereupun offered him, but subject by a correspondent at Kerteh, of \"inute details of lines A delivery order chier draws attrusion to the publication in a newspaper, to the charges for storage and cartage which had an and works, strength of garrison, and various tallitary crued upon them. The goods had, in accordance with a arrangements;\" and, referring General Vivian to the notice to that effect given by the shr's agent, heen particulars, he authorises him to arrest the individual ceased to slischarge; and it is satisfactorily proved that believe that such folly will nes be repeated. He then laced in a public warehouse each night when the ship and send him away at once, unless he has reason to\n\ntheir salty, but rendered unavoidable by the fact that this disposition the goods was not only necessary for proceeds as folows\n\nThe Commander of the forces has occasionally seen\n\ninterest applied for their benefit up to that age. In the in nered the passage to and ice of those engaged the goods are not suffered to retain on the whart at similar things from this cams. Strength of regimenta\n\nthe\n\nahones, us in the case of the widow, shall become the\n\nchildren die before attaining the age of 21 years, then unul in that case the money, after discharging all just labilities, shall become the property of the Crown,\n\nsobe State and County resece, and they appear willing pay it. Iat lower, as some have prepused, there is danger of new legislation, to two or three gene, to incrense it again.\n\nThis appears, after the brief experience of a fe months, to be suc opinion of the people generally the mining districts.\n\ncease.\n\nmight. The bellent, however, declined to pay his freight sickness, butteries, gins, quuntly of ammunition, the and receive his goods subject to these charges, and there state ui preparation, means of transport, the very situa agon fled bis like: for non-delivery. It is not suggested tion of concealed histories, the strength of pickets, the that the charges upon the goods were any other or\n\nbest mes of attacking them, all recklessly detailed as greater thus expenses necessarily incurred in trans. on purpose to usiruet an enemy. Couaou precace—ng the progress of the disenarge, and the question to porting them to and keeping them in a warehouse dur—tion for the sake of the aring requires that this should he determined is, whether under the clearances, He then appeals to the right sense of duty of alt officers ship owner. these chargee should be borne by the shipper, or the and non-comissioned officers, and concludes by requir—ing the generals of disisiou to bring the tenor of the order The decision was in favor of the defendant. The cou—signnee must pay freight in ace for all his merchant belonging to the arany,\" who are permitted to versin to the notice of the \"known correspondent of newspapers ship, or if the ship master storex the metsandise as it she to the rules of the army under whose protection they dives it by wishes to take it away as he comes from the in the canige, and who toast consider themselves ainen— is discharged until the whole roast is discharged, the c consignze must pay storage, curtage, California\n\nTHE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWe resume consideration of the Itev. Mr. Speer's \"Pica\" for the Chinese in California.\n\nNUMBER OF CBINASE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Speer pablished, some eight or ten months ago, a statement of the cuber of Chinese the\n\nThe Times, as might be expected, is írate at this under, says that it ever too late, and that Generati Codrington has now loat whatever reputation he formerly\n\npossessed.\n\n\"I\" obsives our temporary, \"the abjectionable commivation appeared in our columes, it was written by a military officer, and, if General Codrington has any real ground of complaint, it is pro—hale that the writer, too trenical in his detaile, did not imitate the exudon which is always practised by por—fessional correspondents.\" In these observations, the\n\nis a melter which demands the attention of the Legisino Lere is not materially differeus, or the departures Times averlooks the fact, that the same general order\n\n3. The mode of collecting the Foreign micers' licenses supposed to be in this country. Probably the number\n\nture.\n\nIt is to be feared there, is some thing radically since last spring may have been about equal to the also draws attention to similar exposures of the prepara wrong in the present system. How often do you reat of Chinamen shot, or stabbed, or wipped, or stripped ted with the five well-known Companies.\" Probubig, pressly prohibits teus for the future—Home News, arrivals. the Chinese in California are chiefly contre—lions of the rug by newspaper correspondents, and ex— and searched, or maltreated and insulto in some other says Mr. Speer, there are not a thousand Chiuames in Marele 25, way, by the collerters. How frequently do we reus the State who are not members of our or other of these under the \"items\" head of our newspaper announce ments like this one Three Chinamen Shot—A For eigu miners' tax collector of Lousty, on Wednesday last, shot three Chiasmon who resisted him in the dis—River.\" charge of his duty. The difficuity took place on the→→→→→\n\n5. In the event of an offices leaving at his death neither widow, child, sur children, then the money shall be paid to his father; and if he leave no father, it may be pa to his mother, for his or her sole and absolute benefit. provided that he or she shall establish a claim thereto. And in the event of there being neither father nor mother, then the money shall be paid to the sister or sisters, as the case may be, share and share alike, provi ded they shall have attanned the age of 21 years, aud that cheie claint shall be established. But should any sister or sisters be under that age, in the money shall be held is as by the Secretary of State for War, and the interest be applied, as stated in Article 4, until such sister or sisters shall become 31 years of age, when it shall become the absolute property of the survivors or Survivor. Simuli wo survivors or survivor ritnin the age of 21, then the tanney, after discharging just liabilities, shall become the property of the Crown.\n\nNow it is admitted that these people are provokingly 6 No grast or money undar provisions of this warrant slow; are fearful and suspicious; are cunning in evading sal be made to Ray person who would not be eligible the enllector, and play maoy tricks to wary L. But far pension compassionate allowance, or gratuity under\n\nhave they no excuse? farther, if they have one, the provisions of the royal warrant of the 15th of June, are they so dangers and ferocious: anges that yield: 1958 ( fadier alone excepted whose claim nnst be esta blished as set forth in Article 5), but the ineligibility of of the forest? Does the humane administration of law to no remelin, tad must he dealt with like furious beasts widow to any grant under this warrant shall not affect aot extend west of the Aueries Desert? Are men to the interests of the legitimate child or children of a decensed ulicer, for whose benefit the money shall be\n\nhe murdered at will by an irrespacaible petty officer, for held in trust, and the interest seplied by the Secretary tionalde entstitutionality? Is such as officer licensed resisting se pecuolery obligation, and that of ques. of State for We, as stated in Article 4, except they be to slaughter a man that is not imble; or because he left in such pecuniary errcumstances as wou'd disquely don't cinderstura Buglish; or because he is a stranger, them for the co:upassionate kilowances wider the pro—\n\n*\n\nvisions of Article 3. Should, however, such chill and poos, and sick, and friendless? ebildren die before attaining the age of 21, then and that use the money, after dislarging t just abilities, shult become the property of the Crowd,\n\npazzuities.\n\nCompanies. The following is the computation hy then, buse erived in Csforma; that have returned hence to in a tabular form, of the total number of Chinese that their native land: that have died here; and faully, their estincale of the number in the spring of last year in the\n\nState:\n\nWe read in the Prassing correspondence of the Times: let: I have lately reserved from Hum. santative there, Calone: Hodges, was led to make various burg informs me that, some few weeks back, our repres representations to the senate of the quantities of am—munition that left, flat neutral port for Russia In the course of the examination that these reclamations gave vine to, I am informed it turned out that thees supplies hud in west instaurea been shipped thither frota England 9,200 or that purpose. For.instance, two houses in England 6,807 had suippes to Hamburg two cargoes of lead, three ofẾ 84'petre, und eleven of sulphur. The parties implicated 38.387\n\nin the air are described to me as standing very high in England, andarsong them a member of Parliament.\" Homes News, March 26.\n\nNames.\n\nArrivals. Deartares. Drecna'd Prasat Young-wo Copy...6,900 Couto Company....8,00 Sza-yap Company1,050 Yun-wo Company.......2,500 Ning- euy Company 2,809\n\n2,503\n\n1,300\n\n400 £tu\n\n14.000 6.500\n\n(ii)\n\n160\n\n$780 1.269\n\n300\n\n173\n\n1.780\n\nTotal 18,249 8,522 1,290 Adding to these, the ana,ber of Chinese not members of the Companies, and probably there may be found 40,000 of the race at present in this country.\n\nM. Mazzini lately sent £30 to some friend at Rome. The letter was intercepten or the past-ofice, the bills\n\nTHE US. STEAM FRIGATE NIAGARA.\n\nThe United States steain frigate Niegore was recently seized, cashed, and applied to the fand for ruising a launched from the socklyn Navy Yard. The last mail have absencterised this act as a slawefu: and grant statue to the Immaculate Virgin. The French papers\n\nThere are two things that can be done. First, the from the Rust brought account of the launch, and a robbery Home News, March 26. penalties of an payment of the miners' license may be description of the magnificent vessel. From the New 7. In the event of it being represented and satisfac—efred, and they may be guarded su us to prevent acts! Yor's Herald we take the following:- torily prove to the Secretary of State for War, that any of brutality to encuarage men of a desirable character The Niagara is one of the five steam frigates now in\n\nAllading to the unsightly smallness of the ladies' bon—wilow na wiose bekali money shall be held in trust for to perform the duties; and also so as to be a heu tu\n\nnets, an eminent musical gentleman in London, writing the henefit of herself and children, under the provisions\n\nprocess of construction for the United States Navy. Her to a friend in Bristol, suys:-\"I have to lames the grezi the region. Legal gentlemen can readily devise such main dimensions are: 2oanage, 5.204; extreme length iparcase, among the fetals part of my practice, of tic of this warrant, shall thereafter so conduct hersell' as t\n\nFor instance, ability to work upon the on deck, 24 feet; load le, 323 feet. She is to be county roads, at a certain rule per day, until the demand shipped egged; mainmast, I feet long and 3 feet 4 ining in the ear, injured, I firmly believe, from the present douloureux in the forehead, loss of sigit, and great juffer—of the license is satisfied.\n\nches in diameter; mein yard, 55 feet long, and mizea Secuud, it seems almost equally necessary to consti—spunker boot 67 fest. Fail complement of vinn .\n\nased fashion of neuting hosneta on the week instead of tute an office, or to appoint an officer, to whom those Some kiea of her immense capacity may be formed fo\n\nthe head. During the past month i have been in attend—ordmarily subject to the foreign mers' tax may appeal the following schedule of her masts and spara, which are\n\nance upon zwn young ladies with the the-doalonzēta in erhead, and several others with similar complaints. frora de collector in speriat rases, and who may decide now be.ug ball:- the circus ces that warrant a remission the tax.\n\nIt is high time that the frivolous bonet of the present There are some cases of exceeding hardship aris: from\n\nYards Length Diam. Length, Diam.\n\nday should be done away with.\"-- Home News, Mirch 28, the caprices and the cores of collectors. They\n\nFr. io. In. Ft. in. If.\n\nhave no rules. One told me that holes old tea, boys,\n\nWOMEN AND WArones-Mr. Beunct, the watah-maker 111:00 871 10:05 24 packure, and sick people, go free.\" There are no de\n\nof Cheapside, in a letter to the Times, recommends that 07:08 21 76:11 191 women should be employed as wetch-makers. We give nius, un real responsibilities in the whole mater. Muinroyal It is mere spullation,\n\nthe practical part of his conuication:-\n\nMainmast Maintop\n\nMaiuto gallant\n\nFereskysa?! \n\nMireutop\n\nbeenme unworthy of the Clown, or stall neglect or ill. treat her children, then and in that use the Secretary of Sture for War shall have full power to tasks such arrange ments for apportioning the interest of the money, and making better provision for the children, as in his judge ment may see must advisabic.\n\n8. The allowances to be granted under the authority of this warrant are not applicable to the cases of others kifled in sesion, or dying of weands before the declin\n\non of war with Russia, hur it is to lake n retrospective rfect up to that date; and therefore, say officer's willow to whom there may have been granted a pensior, com—passionate allowances for children, or gratuity for herself\n\nod children, or any other relative of an officer, who may 4 Betler protectios must be extended to Chinese re. Main skil have receive a peusion under the warrant of 15th June, sinents generally. Some means should be devised by Foremast 1855, who tony wish to rotate such pension, allow-whch the statements of Chinese should be received Burstop acers, or gratuities, for the sun fixed wider the provisions regard to crimes affecting their lives, persons au po Puteopgallant of this warrant, shall be permitted to do so; but in that porty. They do dot perhaps understand sufficiently the Porevoval case, whatever suns may have been received by or al care of on oala to be adicuted in our Courts to enjoy aumuns of the widow or exildren, or other relatives, wil at equal privilege with those acquainted with the sanc Mzent be deducted from any amount to be paid under the terrasons of Christianity. But no other maans prepubly of this warrust. But in every case of a sum of money than receiving their affirmation, allowing it the credence. Mzentopgallant being awarded Guder the provisions of this warrant. that, according to internal evidence and the accompany Mccoyal interest inerton at the rate of 63 per cent. per annu\n\ning Creumstances, it seems fairly to deserve, will prevent\n\nMizens kysall wil he allowed how the day of the officer's death.\n\ndegraded and autward centness from rubbing, bruising. U. Should the widow, or any other relative of a deceas. cheating or killing a Chinaman, wien to white witness ed officer wi. prior to 23rd October, 1855, has been granted pension, and other uliowaned, under the\n\nThe protection of the Chinese miners from marauders is vital to their quite, and to their usefulness to our provisions of the warrant of 15 June, 1835, wish to cocinute such pension and lowances by sum of respect for lass, where they are pistered by night av jihoon\n\nthemselves. They can have no heart for industry, and na money in eu therevf, in conformity with the terms of this wherau, it will be necessary that application to the\n\nby day, by fous wretchies, who battly rob a camp in Spanker hoora fect be made to the Secretary of State for War, within\n\nthe five of a hundred, if no lites are present, and who: Spanker ga year from the October, 1855. And shoul the\n\nhave no compunctions in murdmg even the unresisting. Spanker gaff duw, or my other reiative of a deceased offers, whe.\n\nThere are heen hundreds of sua case, An interior Forespunker gaf since 2311 October, 1855, may have already, or\n\nnewspaper says of these cobbers: -\n\nNot camerated hereafter be granted, a prasion and other allywuuees. wish to epimute such penting und allowsares for of money in hen thereof. mudes the provisions of this warrent, it will be acessary that application to tha fert be made to the Secretary of State for War, with a year from the date of the said pens and user allow lances being granted.\n\n1. A return of all sams paid under the provisions of this warrant and be faid nasly briore Parliament an ufter the 1st of Aynl. Gaven at our Court at Sail James's, Ritis ist day of March. 1856, in the 19th year of Our Reign-By Her Majesty's command,\n\nPATHONE.\n\ny\n\nth\n\nis near.\n\nSwinging boom. Maintop stuldingsafl boom Maintop gallantanil hacm\n\ndo. Mainrayal de Bowsprit, outboard Jihkoom\n\n35:04 12) \n\n51.03 134\n\n23:07 81 32:09\n\nE\n\n14:06\n\nbi\n\n21.00\n\nJUI:GO 35\n\n00:09 23\n\n50.00 YO\n\n07:09\n\n54\n\n31.09 7\n\n21:10 214 47:03 21:06 13:03 34 19:06 35; & 32 72:10 50:04 15 Ai:0x 11 27:09 S 34:10 8 13:00\n\n16\n\n4+\n\n55:00 }] \n\n4:00\n\n11:04 TTE 62:00 21 33:00 8 $1.00 } 23:00 51\n\n22.03 10.11\n\n2xtú\n\n17:00 4\n\n20:00 24\n\n38:00 ia\n\nX5:00 -\n\n.67:00\n\n15\n\nThe French Government has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nTHE ENGLISH TOWERZ—The English language has its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\nTHE ENGLISH LANGUAGE\n\nThe English language har its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and Mr. Steers stood at the command of any other language of men.\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\ndevelopment and condition, inve been the result of a It has been erroneously stated that this steamer will surprisingly indmate anion of the two noblest languages be the largest in the world. The Adriatic, now upon in modern Europe, the Teutonic aud Kopanic. It is the stocks at the Messrs. Steers' shipyard, will be larger well known in what relating these two stand to one portion of the contents of his bill of lading by several hundred tons. Her uit diensions are another in the English tongue; the former supplying, estimates that she will go 17 kuols an hour with a good\n\nbreeze, und 18 knots under steamI\n\nted by Di Secretary of State for War, shall be constitu—having been in dieu thereof, and shall be the sole and standing auto—upon the agents of the ship and demanded a delivery of feer: depth of hold, 33 feet 2 inches; tormagt. 5,898, latter, the spiritual conceptions. In truth, the English upon the asters hereis costined; but shall not al or in any way invelidate any act heretvicze per. bed by our Secretary of State for War under the\n\nthe goods so discharging, offering to pay the freight, dur carpenter'z measurement. Like the Niagara, this steamer tunguage, which, be no mere accident, has produced on them. This the consignees of the ship derlined to isions of the last mentioned warrant”—Home News, \n\nis divided into watertight tch 26.\n\nthis our Royal warraul, to be administered and inter—first day aded guan the wharf, he thereupon called Length over all, 352 feet; extreme breadth of hy, sin far larger propuctions, the blaterial groundwork; the\n\nR LEGISLATION WANTED FOR THE CHI—NESE IN CALIFORNIA, continue our notice at the Rev. Mr. Speer's hlet entilled a \"Plea for the Chinese in California,\"\n\nthe whole contents of the bill of lading. The libeliant and cylinders 100 inches. The lenses Steere are rapidly cel poetry (Shakspeare), ans, with ali right, be called a Works, 12 feel stroke, modern times, as distinguished from the audient classi ther, professed his willingness to do so, provided at the hastening the completion of the Adriatic, with all their world language; and, like the English people appears goods were ready for delivery; but he declined to take disposable force, and she will probably be ready fur destined hereafter to pressil with a sway more extensive\n\ndelivery order for the goods and receive them as they laeting by the middle or last of March. offers were repeated from day to day while the vessel about four months.—California Chronicle, bỉarch 26 came out in the usual course of the discharge. These It is thought that the Magura will be ready for ses in was being unladeu; and on the last day the libellam\n\nBorede to, but required him to pay all the freight due on (oscillating) are from the Novelty. Her engines and uphorne the greatest and most predominant poel of\n\nFor in wenith, good sense, and closeness of structure, even than its present over all portions of the globe. no other of the languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243520, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "# TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE EARL OF CARLISLE, LORD LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND.\n\nWE the undersigned Deputy Lieutenants and Magistrates of the County of Kerry, most earnestly but respectfully Memorial your Excellency on behalf of a former member of our body, JAMES HICKSON, Esq., whose sad reverse and history may be summed up in a few words.\n\nHe lost his property in 1847, and in the year following emigrated with his family to America, and practised as a Barrister in New York for some years, but in consequence of the failing health of his wife and children, to whom the climate seemed fatally unsuited, determined on returning to this country in the latter part of the past year.\n\nWe beg your Excellency's attention to the accompanying local address, as attesting the feelings of affection and respect entertained towards him by his former friends and neighbours.\n\nWe would now ask your Excellency kindly to consider this peculiar case, and when an opportunity occurs to give this gentleman one of the many situations which we know him to be fitted for by education and character.\n\nFrom his knowledge of the country, from his kind and conciliatory manners and disposition, and from his professional experience, we believe he would be well fitted for a Stipendiary Magistracy. Any appointment will be gratefully accepted, and we can assure your Excellency, that seldom has a case calling so strongly for sympathy, and for the kind exercise of patronage, been submitted to your Excellency's consideration.\n\n## Signatories\n\n| Name | Title/Position | Location |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Castlerosse, M.P. | D.L. | |\n| Henry Arthur Herbert, M.P. | Lieutenant of the County, Colonel Kerry Militia | Muckross Abbey, Killarney |\n| D. B. De Moleyns | D.L. and J.P., Lieut.-Colonel, Kerry Militia | |\n| W. D. Godfrey, Bart. | D.L. and J.P. | Kilcoleman Abbey |\n| Peter Fitzgerald | Knight of Kerry, D.L. and J.P. | Valentia |\n| Richard Chute | D.L. and J.P., High Sheriff | Chute Hall |\n| W. Talbot Crosbie | D.L. and J.P. | Ardfert Abbey |\n| McGillicuddy of the Reeks | D.L. | Whitefield |\n| O'Donoghue | J.P., Major, Kerry Militia | |\n| William Denny | D.L. and J.P. | Tralee |\n| Charles Blennerhassett | J.P. | Ballyseedy |\n| Richard Mahony | D.L. and J.P. | Dromore Castle |\n| James Crosbie | J.P. | Ballyheigue Castle |\n| John D. Stokes | Major-General, J.P. | Lassinagh House |\n| Oliver D. Stokes | J.P. | Caragh Craig |\n| Robert Leslie | J.P. | Tarbert House |\n| James Butler | D.L. and J.P. | Waterville |\n| John Hurly | J.P. | Tralee |\n| Edward Hussey | J.P. | Dingle |\n| Alexander Elliott | J.P. | Tanavalla |\n| Francis C. Bland | J.P. | Derryquin Castle |\n| Thomas De Moleyns, Q.C. | J.P. | 30, Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin; and Hillville, county Kerry |\n| Nicholas Donovan | J.P. | Tralee |\n| Daniel De Courcy M'Gillicuddy | J.P. | Tralee |\n| George Gun | J.P. | Plover Hill |\n| William De Moleyns, Clerk | J.P. | Killorglin |\n| G. Fitzgerald O'Connor | J.P. | Tralee |\n| George Hilliard | J.P. | Tralee |\n| Daniel Cronin Coltsmann | J.P. | Flesk Castle, Killarney |\n| John Leahy | J.P. | South Hill, Killarney |\n| Edward Rae | J.P. | Keel |\n| William Godfrey Hickson | J.P. | Redclyffe |\n| Jerome Quill | J.P. | Tralee |\n| John Leahy | J.P. | Mologhmarky |\n| William Hilliard | J.P. | Coole Lodge |\n| Robert Conway Hickson | J.P. | Fermoyle, Castlegregory |\n\n444 \nVentry, Burnham House, Dingle", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256414, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "content_text": "THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND MAY, 1863.\n\nAnd We do hereby further declare and ordain that from and after the same date the Dollar of Mexico or other silver Dollar of equivalent value as may from time to time be authorized by the Governor or Officer administering the Government of Hongkong shall be the only legal tender of payment (except as hereinafter directed) within Our said Island of Hongkong and its dependencies:\n\nAnd we do hereby further ordain and declare that such silver coins as may be issued from Our Mint representing some multiple of the Cent or one hundredth part of the said Dollar shall be legal tender of payment for any sum not exceeding two Dollars and such copper or bronze coins as may be issued from Our Mint representing the cent or one hundredth part or the mil or cash representing one thousandth part of the said Dollar shall be legal tender of payment for any sum not exceeding one dollar:\n\nAnd we do hereby further ordain and declare that the silver and copper coins to be issued from Our Mint as aforesaid shall be prepared as follows:---\n\nThe silver pieces of money shall be prepared of silver containing twenty per cent of alloy. Every such piece shall have for the obverse impression Our Effigy crowned, with the Inscription \"Victoria Queen\" and for the reverse impression an inscription indicating the value of the piece in cents of a dollar with the words \"Hongkong\" and the date of the year, and the same inscription repeated in Chinese Characters.\n\nA copper piece representing one hundredth part of a Dollar shall have for the obverse impression Our Effigy crowned, with the Inscription \"Victoria Queen\" and for the reverse impression the Inscription \"One Cent Hongkong\" with the date of the year, and the same inscription repeated in Chinese Characters.\n\nAnother copper piece representing one thousandth part of a Dollar shall be perforated in the centre, and have for the obverse impression the Inscription \"V.R.\" surmounted by a Crown, with \"Hongkong, One Mil\" and the date of the year, and for the reverse impression the inscription Hongkong One Cash or One Mil represented in Chinese Characters.\n\nNo. 44.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWhereas it has been reported to this Government that among the Pirate Junks infesting this neighbourhood and the Formosa Channel certain lawless Persons, English and American, are employed, it is hereby notified that\n\nA REWARD OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS\n\nwill be paid for such information as shall lead to the conviction, on trial before the Supreme Court of this Colony, of any such Person so associating with Pirates.\n\nInformation will be received by the Senior Naval Officer, H.M.S. Princess Charlotte in harbour, or the Captain Superintendent of Police on shore, and every protection will be given to Informants.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th April, 1863.\n\nW. H. ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nWEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2nd MAY, 1863.\n\nNo. 3.-LIST of DEAD LETTERS which have been returned from the General Post Office in London and other places for the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed as undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them on application.\n\n \n Johnston, Miss M., care of Mrs. Henry Smith, No. 28, Charles Street,\n 1\n \n \n Adlington, Mrs., care of Mr. John Marsh, No. 12 Manchester Terrace, Manchester Road,\n 1\n \n \n Allen, Mrs. Elizabeth, No. 5 Bayhorse Lane, Gildort Street, London,\n 1\n \n \n Anderson, Frank, care of Mustave, Storekeeper, Sandrige, Victoria, Australia,\n \n \n \n Benewais, Captain, R.N., ship Agincourt, London,\n \n \n \n Brown, Mr. D., 7 Church Lane, Dundee, Scotland,\n \n \n \n Baker, Mr. James, 16 Sutton Street, Commercial Road, London,\n \n \n \n Bergman, Herr C., Stockholm, Sweden,\n \n \n \n Boswell, Mr. N. W., Salem Mass, U.S.A.,\n \n \n \n Brijant, Mrs. Ette., 96 Sackett Street, South Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.,\n \n \n \n Bradley, Mr. P. M., No. 17 Van Brant Street, Brooklyn, New York,\n \n \n \n Bradley, Joseph, barque Oliver Cromwell of Shields, London,\n \n \n \n Baker, Mr. A. Ú., Assistant Engineers' Department, Navy Yard, Philadelphia,\n \n \n \n Greenock, Scotland,\n \n \n \n Jackson, Mas. E. M., Mayors Office, Town Hall, Sydney,\n \n \n \n Kelly, Miss Elizabeth, 15 Astrol Street, North End, England,\n \n \n \n Kor, S. L., Madras Railway,\n 2\n \n \n Keys, Mrs. Frederick, No. 33, King Street, Snows Fields, Borough, London,\n 1\n \n \n Lord, Mrs. Alfred Cottage, Alfred Street, London,\n 1\n \n \n McGregor, Captain James, Barque Ophir, London,\n 1\n \n \n Moore, Mr. Ellen, South Boston, Mass,\n \n \n \n Mairhead, Mrs. S., No. 96, Motà Street, New York,\n \n \n \n Marshall, Charles, Manchester,\n \n \n \n Minat, Miss Weldt, Boston, U.S.A.\n \n \n \n McCleau, Miss Emily, care of A. B. McClean, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S., North America,\n 1\n \n \n Major, H. B., Captain of Ship Noricay, care of Messrs. Young Schultz, New York\n 1\n \n \n Mellet, Miss Eliza, No. 1, Castor Street, West India Road, London,\n \n \n \n Marshall & Co., London,\n \n \n \n Brideell, Miss Louisa, 41 North port Street, New North Road, London,\n 1\n \n \n Collins, Mrs., No, G John Street, White Horse, Stepney, London,\n 1\n \n \n Chase, E., Boston, U.S.A.,\n 1\n \n \n Costello, Mrs. Ann, care of Mr. Dolas, Wine Spirit Stores, Liverpool,\n 1\n \n \n Cunnah, Mrs. Catherine, St. Bridges, Cheshire,\n \n \n \n Charetto, Monsieur, Mont, 34 Rue St. Mare, Paris,\n 1\n \n \n Clarke, Mr. Joseph, Wellington Buildings South, Castle Street, Liverpool,\n \n \n \n Cheever, Captain W. J., barque Magie, New York,\n \n \n \n Dorsman, Mr., No. 12 Jackson Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool,\n \n \n \n Dugas, Monsieur, Lyons,\n \n \n \n Pile, Mrs. David, Boot and Shoemaker, Melbourne, Australia,\n \n \n \n Putts, Mathilda, care of Mrs. Meanly, No. 17, Mason St., off Wapping Dock, Liverpool,\n \n \n \n Pettingel, John, Philadelphia,\n \n \n \n Randall, Mrs. Thomas, care of Mr. E. Wallis, at Messrs. Wolf & Co., Shipping Agent, Southampton, England,\n \n \n \n Rudy & Co., Liverpool,\n \n \n \n Randell, Miss Emma, 20 Street, James Road, Victoria Park, London,\n 1\n \n \n Staunton, Mrs. Camps, Buildings Yarmouth, Norfolk,\n \n \n \n Doyan, J. M., Troy, N.Y., care of Messrs. Fogg Brothers, New York, U.S.A.,\n \n \n \n Downie, Mr. William, Carpenter and Timber Merchant, Geelong, West Australia,\n 1\n \n \n Smith, Mr. Hansel, 3 Hill Street, Pecksham, London,\n 1\n \n \n Semenza, Henry, Marseilles,\n 11\n \n Davezac, Monsieur, Sans Directeur des Postes, à Marseilles,\n \n \n \n Day, Miss Lizy, No. 1 Hooper Square, White Chapel, London,\n \n \n \n Dickmann, Miss, No. 42, Bute Docks, Cardiff, Glemorganshire, Wales,\n \n \n \n Duan, Mrs. L., London, (N.),\n \n \n \n Elliot, Esq., A. C., Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.,\n \n \n \n Firth, Miss South, Swiss Cottage, Worthing,\n \n \n \n Friedeburg, Mrs. E., 62 Upper, St. Pauls Road, Camden Town, London,\n 2\n \n \n Fry, Jos & Sons, Lower Castle Street, Liverpool, England,\n \n \n \n Fowten, Miss Angelina, No. 29, Redyke, Antwerp, Belgium,\n \n \n \n Goodrige, Miss Bessie, 18 Manchester Street, above Bar, Southampton, England,\n \n \n \n Gazard, Miss Maria, 11 Mankett Place, Lancaster, England,\n \n \n \n Helguero, Tenor D. Pedro, Paris,\n \n \n \n Simpson, Mrs. G., enre of Mr. H. McMustry, Belfast, P.O., Ireland,\n \n \n \n Sauten, J. H., van Krompen,\n \n \n \n Smidt, H. de, str. Arratoon Apenr, care of Messrs. Stephen Joachim, Bombay,\n \n \n \n Smith, Mrs., 132 York Road, Lambeth, Surry,\n \n \n \n Thompson, Miss F., 58 Blackett Street, New Castle upon Tyne, Northumburland, England,\n \n \n \n Times, Editor, London,\n 1\n \n \n Underhill, Miss, 13 Cambridge Square, London,\n 1\n \n \n Vedova, Catherina, Corvetto Fontanavossa, Genova,\n 1\n \n \n Wild, Miss A, E., at Mr. Thompson, Greeland Street, London,\n 1\n \n \n Watts, Mr. Robert, and Mr. Dumis, 4 Woodland Place, Charlton, Woolwich,\n \n \n \n Hadwin, Miss Joanua, care of Mrs. Henry Mackel, Wild Street off, London Road, Liverpool,\n \n \n \n General Post Office, Hongkong, 1st May, 1863.\n \n \n \n Walling, Mrs. Garrett, care of Mr. J. Gillmor, No. 50, Laight Street, New York,\n \n \n \n F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.\n \n \n\nList of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 1st May, 1863.\n\n \n Letters\n Papers\n \n \n Carpenter, R.\n 2\n \n \n Gue, G.\n \n \n \n Graves\n \n \n \n Gomes, J.\n \n \n \n Almeida, A. A.\n 3\n \n \n Calcott, C.\n \n \n \n Allen, H. L.\n \n \n \n Algar Aegerter, J.\n 1\n \n \n Campbell, D.\n 5\n \n \n Comby\n 1\n \n \n Farren, J.\n \n \n \n Gilpin, S.\n \n \n \n Imbert. E.\n \n \n \n Irvine, J.\n 2\n \n \n Muller, J. W.\n 1\n \n \n Martin, T.\n \n \n \n Swan, W.\n 1\n \n \n Marr, J. B.\n 1\n \n \n Jones, T.\n 2\n \n \n Comp, J.\n \n \n \n Carberry, Mrs. M.\n 1\n \n \n Gonsales, J.\n \n \n \n Nexon, A.\n 1\n \n \n Stephens, E.\n \n \n \n Shineful, C.\n 1\n \n \n Shedgate, J.\n 1\n \n \n Saggart, J.\n 2\n \n \n Kurssens, H. J.\n 1\n \n \n Nicholas, A.\n 1\n \n \n Scott, A. C.\n \n \n \n Clark,\n 1\n \n \n Grane, J.\n \n \n \n King, M.\n 1\n \n \n Syler, J. C.\n \n \n \n Chaves, M,\n +2\n \n \n Oneil, M.\n 1\n \n \n Stokes, C.\n \n \n \n Conery, W.\n 1\n \n \n Gold, C.\n \n \n \n Lainbert, J.\n 1\n \n \n Osborne, F.\n +2\n \n \n Swanstrom, L.\n 1\n \n \n Cranston, J. W.\n 1\n \n \n Green, A\n \n \n \n Lloyd, E.\n \n \n \n Oson, S. M.\n 1\n \n \n Child, J.\n 1\n \n \n Goodail, G.\n 1\n \n \n Litileberry, C.\n 1\n \n \n Taylor, J.\n 1\n \n \n Granderie, E. G\n \n \n \n Luna\n \n \n \n Pellet, A\n 1\n \n \n Todd, J. H.\n 1\n \n \n Dunn\n 1\n \n \n Girette, C.\n 4\n \n \n Lewis, 0.\n \n \n \n Pinckernelle, A.!\n 37\n \n \n Dounan, D.\n 3\n \n \n Lucas, Miss\n \n \n \n Petrie, T.\n 1\n \n \n Talbert\n \n \n \n Thompson\n 2\n \n \n Dyce, J. R.\n 1\n \n \n H. B.\n 1\n \n \n Lala\n \n \n \n Hind. H. W.\n \n \n \n Lecog, A.\n 1\n \n \n Rabone, W.\n \n \n \n Thomas, Capt.\n 1\n \n \n Ronald, S.\n \n \n \n Escale, C.\n 1\n \n \n Hamilton, Mrs.\n 1\n \n \n Laun, E.\n \n \n \n Van der Laan\n 1\n \n \n Becker, J.\n \n \n \n Hide\n \n \n \n Rodrigues\n \n \n \n Roza, A. F.\n \n \n \n Rattiece, J.\n 1\n \n \n Ferreira, A.\n 2\n \n \n Honis\n \n \n \n Mayer W.\n \n \n \n Bennett, L\n 1\n \n \n Fullertem, A.\n \n \n \n Hay\n 2\n \n \n Marques, C. M.\n 1\n \n \n Roclofs, C. A.\n 1\n \n \n Willcox, C. S.\n 1\n \n \n Williamson, A.B.\n 1\n \n \n Rementer, G.\n 2\n \n \n Bonde, C.\n 1\n \n \n Funny, F.\n 1\n \n \n Harton, H.\n 1\n \n \n McRimnon, J.\n 1\n \n \n Brown, T.\n 1\n \n \n Freedie,\n \n \n \n Hodgson, W.\n 1\n \n \n McKayna, P.\n 2\n \n \n Rubbert, F.\n \n \n \n Wallis, C.\n 1\n \n \n Bobst, J. R.\n 1\n \n \n Fortozo, G.\n 2\n \n \n Hirsah, A.\n 1\n \n \n Mason, P.\n 2\n \n \n Rosselet, J.\n \n \n \n Wade, J.\n 1\n \n \n Williamson, W.\n 1\n \n \n Folgin, Capt.\n 1\n \n \n Ilussmann, C.\n 1\n \n \n Clarke J.\n 1\n \n \n Fraser, W. J.\n 1\n \n \n Harrison, E.\n 1\n \n \n Monte, Capt.\n \n \n \n Mello, A.\n 1\n \n \n Smith\n 2\n \n \n Simmons,\n 1\n \n \n Whyte, J.\n 1\n \n \n Whitehead, W.\n 1\n \n \n J. V.\n \n \n \n Butler, J. B.\n \n \n \n Baker, W.\n \n \n \n Brand & Co.\n \n \n \n Britto, A.\n \n \n \n Behrendt\n \n \n \n Benito,\n \n \n \n Boyle, Mrs.\n \n \n \n Baptista,\n \n \n \n Brymaner, R.\n \n \n \n Raase, H.\n \n \n \n Bain, W. S.\n \n \n \n M. J.\n 1\n \n \n Bastone, E.\n \n \n\nPOST OFFICE NOTICE.\n\n \n DATE\n 6 A.M.\n NOON\n 6 P.M.\n \n \n April 25\n 30.02\n 30.03\n 30.03\n \n \n \n 79\n 79\n \n \n \n 26\n 30.12\n 30.12\n 30.13\n \n \n \n 77\n 76\n 74\n \n \n 27\n 30.11\n 30.12\n 30.10\n \n \n \n 76\n 74\n \n \n \n 28\n 30.12\n 30.14\n 30.14\n \n \n \n 75\n 78\n 76\n \n \n \n 77\n 73\n 75\n \n \n 29\n 30.14\n 30.10\n 30.12\n \n \n \n 74\n 74\n 75\n \n \n 30\n 30.10\n 30.07\n 30.03\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n May 1\n 30.02\n 30.00\n 29.95\n \n \n \n 75\n 80\n 78\n \n\nREGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.\n\nHeight above Sea Level 1,770 feet.\n\n \n DATE\n 6 A.M.\n NOON\n 6 P.M.\n 6 A.M.\n NOON\n 6 P.M.\n \n \n \n BAROMETER\n THER-MOMETER\n \n \n April 25\n 28.15\n 28.22\n 28.20\n 71.30\n 74.00\n 71.00\n \n \n \n 28.16\n 28.15\n \n 70.30\n 72.30\n 70.30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 70.30\n 74.15\n \n \n \n 26\n 28.20\n 28.23\n 28.21\n 68.20\n 68.50\n 68.30\n \n \n \n 28.19\n 28.19\n \n 68.00\n 68.10\n 68.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 67.50\n 70.00\n \n \n \n 27\n 28.21\n 28.25\n 28.24\n 67.50\n 68.30\n 69.15\n \n \n \n 28.22\n 28.20\n \n 67.30\n 68.00\n 68.50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 67.00\n 70.00\n \n \n \n 28\n 28.24\n 28.27\n 28.26\n 68.30\n 71.15\n 69.30\n \n \n \n 28.24\n 28.23\n \n 68.00\n 70.00\n 68.15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 66.50\n 73.00\n \n \n \n 29\n 28.22\n 28.25\n 28.23\n 67.15\n 67.55\n 67.00\n \n \n \n 28.18\n 28.17\n \n 66.50\n 66.15\n 65.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 66.00\n 68.80\n \n \n \n 30\n 28.18\n 28.21\n 28.18\n 66.35\n 68.30\n 68.30\n \n \n \n 28.14\n 28.12\n \n 66.15\n 68.00\n 68.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 65.30\n 69.00\n \n \n \n May 1\n 28.13\n 28.18\n 28.17\n 69.30\n 73.00\n 73.00\n \n \n \n 28.15\n 28.12\n \n 69.00\n 72.00\n 72.80\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 67.00\n 74.00\n \n \n\nList of LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 1st May, 1863.\n\n \n Letters\n Papers\n \n \n Alchymist\n 5\n \n \n Castle\n 1\n \n \n Freuella\n 1\n \n \n Julie\n \n \n \n Nubia\n 1\n \n \n R. B. Forbes.\n \n \n \n Adelaide\n 1\n \n \n Calypso\n 1\n \n \n Forerunner\n 1\n \n \n Nestorian\n 1\n \n \n Star of the\n 1\n \n \n Atriveda\n 1\n \n \n Cornelia\n 2\n \n \n Ferozepore\n 2\n \n \n Kaloomeer\n 1\n \n \n Nemesis\n 1\n \n \n North\n 3\n \n \n African\n 1\n \n \n Mathilde\n 1\n \n \n Kessington\n 2\n \n \n Alexander\n 4\n \n \n City of Durham\n 1\n \n \n Genoa\n 1\n \n \n Kalamba\n \n \n \n Oriental\n 1\n \n \n Shanghae\n 1\n \n \n Saldanha\n 16\n \n \n Amalia\n 2\n \n \n Chase\n 1\n \n \n Good Success\n 1\n \n \n Kelso\n 1\n \n \n Orga\n 1\n \n \n Swiftsure\n 1\n \n \n Alarm\n 17\n \n \n Cahandabar\n 1\n \n \n Glocester\n 1\n \n \n Oneida\n 1\n \n \n Sobat Seba\n \n \n \n Anjuna\n 1\n \n \n Cambalu\n 1\n \n \n Glorioza\n 1\n \n \n Luna\n \n \n \n Auld Reckie\n \n \n \n G. Ruxton\n \n \n \n Lion\n \n \n \n Persia\n 1\n \n \n Sooloo\n \n \n \n April 25\n 28.15\n \n \n \n 28.22\n \n \n \n 28.20\n \n \n \n 28.16\n \n \n \n 28.15\n \n \n \n 71.30\n \n \n \n 74.00\n \n \n \n 71.00\n \n \n \n 70.30\n \n \n \n 72.30\n \n \n \n 70.30\n \n \n \n 70.30\n \n \n \n 74.15\n \n \n 26\n 28.20\n \n \n \n 28.23\n \n \n \n 28.21\n \n \n \n 28.19\n \n \n \n 28.19\n \n \n \n 68.20\n \n \n \n 68.50\n \n \n \n 68.30\n \n \n \n 68.00\n \n \n \n 68.10\n \n \n \n 68.00\n \n \n \n 67.50\n \n \n \n 70.00\n \n \n 27\n 28.21\n \n \n \n 28.25\n \n \n \n 28.24\n \n \n \n 28.22\n \n \n \n 28.20\n \n \n \n 67.50\n \n \n \n 68.30\n \n \n \n 69.15\n \n \n \n 67.30\n \n \n \n 68.00\n \n \n \n 68.50\n \n \n \n 67.00\n \n \n \n 70.00\n \n \n 28\n 28.24\n \n \n \n 28.27\n \n \n \n 28.26\n \n \n \n 28.24\n \n \n \n 28.23\n \n \n \n 68.30\n \n \n \n 71.15\n \n \n \n 69.30\n \n \n \n 68.00\n \n \n \n 70.00\n \n \n \n 68.15\n \n \n \n 66.50\n \n \n \n 73.00\n \n \n 29\n 28.22\n \n \n \n 28.25\n \n \n \n 28.23\n \n \n \n 28.18\n \n \n \n 28.17\n \n \n \n 67.15\n \n \n \n 67.55\n \n \n \n 67.00\n \n \n \n 66.50\n \n \n \n 66.15\n \n \n \n 65.00\n \n \n \n 66.00\n \n \n \n 68.80\n \n \n 30\n 28.18\n \n \n \n 28.21\n \n \n \n 28.18\n \n \n \n 28.14\n \n \n \n 28.12\n \n \n \n 66.35\n \n \n \n 68.30\n \n \n \n 68.30\n \n \n \n 66.15\n \n \n \n 68.00\n \n \n \n 68.00\n \n \n \n 65.30\n \n \n \n 69.00\n \n \n May 1\n 28.13\n \n \n \n 28.18\n \n \n \n 28.17\n \n \n \n 28.15\n \n \n \n 28.12\n \n \n \n 69.30\n \n \n \n 73.00\n \n \n \n 73.00\n \n \n \n 69.00\n \n \n \n 72.00\n \n \n \n 72.80\n \n \n \n 67.00\n \n \n \n 74.00\n \n\nList of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's Ships of War, 1st May, 1863.\n\n \n Letters\n Papers\n \n \n Melville\n 2\n \n \n P. Charlotte\n 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266194, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "content_text": "## M. Ellut\n\nSeemingly enlarged \n\n137 \n\nAmendment of leave if in \nabsence \n\nI think there cannot have been a good reason for doing so during the period of residence \nsince from 6 to 5 parts \n\nthe right to \n\nLeave \n\na person having \n\nabsence \n\n6 weeks \n\nvacation \n\nThe \n\npost requiring Key...\n\n11th July The Hive & Graves brass Domestics \n\nJuly 15/16. \n\nGovernor \n\nRight Honorable \n\n\"Edward Cardwell, M.P.\n\nCivil leave is requested for Mercantile Marine officer, praying modification of Rule as to leave of absence and Service \n\nRecommends to favorable considerations.\n\nIn the year, on the 3 months in here.\n\nLittle \n\nwally young men to them \n\nfulfill.\n\npass, on \n\nJuly Salary \n\nBut \n\nindulgence asked for, of allowing them leave on full pay justified for the present, 1/3 that indulgence was granted by the P. & O. - Thames, \n\nwhen \n\nthe able Buller officer who went to \n\nIn 7 Rogers. \n\n2585. Hong Kong 865 \n\n\"Some exceptions may be \nunavoidable, but I think that as far as possible \nit is a view that as \nuniformity should be preserved \nin the Colonial Regulations about Civil Officers. I am anxious therefore \nthat this \ndespatch should \npass under your inspection before a decision is adopted on it. \n\n13 Sept\". \n\nC.A.M.\n\ninclined to increase \n\nA vacation leave of 6 months in each year or \non two years - leaving half pay as it stands. have the advantage of avoiding \n\nThe ... all befouling questions of who factor in operation. Under the proposed \nall the Hong Kong officers could be brought \ninto line. \n\nto a certain extent \nof \n\nleave. \n\nIt will also have the advantage of \nthe want of uniformity (as \nterming with other colonies) on that \nfact to maintaining...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302313, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "# List of Thirty four Prisoners pardoned and released by His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy in Her Majesty's name on the 30th of November and 1st of December 1877 on the recommendation of the Acting Superintendent of the Prison and the Colonial Surgeon for Extraordinary Services rendered in connection with the \"Yesso\" Calamity.\n\n| Name | Crime | Date of Sentence | Sentence: Yrs | Mos | Days | Date of Release |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| A. F. Chambers | Stealing Money by false pretences | 18th May 75 | | | 9 | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| G. Parcher | Manslaughter | Augt 77 | | 2 | | 1st Dec. 1877 |\n| G. H. Kamilton | Stealing money by false pretences | 9th Nov 77 | | | 2 | 1st Dec. 1877 |\n| J. Tierney | Remaining behind from his ship | 5th K... | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| P. Carls | Refusing duty | | | | 4 | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| C. Lomble | | | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| W. Butler | | 3rd | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| A. White | Larceny | 19th Nov | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| M. Kelly | | | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| M. Heart | Assault | | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| Wong A Lau | Larceny & Previous Convictions | 22 Dec 75 | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| Cheang a Leong | Piracy & Wounding | | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| Lum a Chune | Attempted Buggery | | | | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| Wong a Sze | Larceny | 18th Mar. 76 | | 3 | | 30th Nov. 1877 |\n| Toi a Choi | Larceny from the person | 9th Sep. 77 | | | 2 | 1st Dec. 1877 |\n| | | 12th Sep. 77 | | | 15 | 1st Dec. 1877 |\n\n12201 \n\n70 \n\n470 \n\nlatter number 72, six are now in Gaol.\n\n(signed) J. C. Dempster, Captain, \nActing Superintendent, \nHongkong Gaol. \n24th July, 1878.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317883, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# RETURN of CHINESE PASSENGERS SHIPS cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong,—( Continued.)\n\n## XX.—RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from Places out of the Chinese Empire, during the Year ending the 31st day of December, 1881.\n\n| No. | DATE CLEARED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATIONALITY OF SHIP | ADULTS | CHILDREN | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | TOTAL |\n| | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Brought forward, | | 202,815 | | 1,153 | 154 | | | |\n| 1 | Oct. 12 | Hungarian, str. | 37 | | 15 | | Lennox, str. | | 15 |\n| | | Cascapedia, str. | 984 | British | 1,327 | 1,924 | W. McD. Alison | Straits Settlements | 3,251 |\n| | Brought forward, | | 51,343 | | 9,103 | | | | 54,399 |\n| 2 | Jan. 2 | Alden Besse, | 812 | American | 330 | | W. A. Fraser | San Francisco | 330 |\n| 3 | | Jason, str. | 1,411 | British | 149 | 17 | Brown | Straits Settlements | 166 |\n| 4 | | City of Peking, str. | 3,448 | American | 982 | 24 | G. G. Berry | San Francisco | 1,006 |\n| 5 | | Priam, str. | 1,572 | British | 200 | 3 | Butler | Straits Settlements | 203 |\n| 6 | | Rosetta, str. | 2,249 | British | 158 | 13 | A. E. Barlow | Straits Settlements | 171 |\n| 7 | | Saez, str. | 1,390 | British | 238 | 23 | Eaton | Straits Settlements | 261 |\n| 8 | | Phoenix, str. | 683 | German | 361 | 7 | H. J. Behrens | Straits Settlements | 368 |\n| 9 | | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,392 | British | 180 | 10 | Mactavish | Straits Settlements | 190 |\n| 10 | | Dale, str. | 645 | British | 298 | 6 | J. Thompson | Bangkok | 304 |\n| 11 | | City of Tokio, str. | 3,148 | American | 673 | 13 | Cobb | San Francisco | 686 |\n| 12 | | Consolation, str. | 764 | British | 161 | 37 | R. Young | Straits Settlements | 198 |\n| 13 | | Patroclus, str. | 1,650 | British | 272 | | M. R. White | Straits Settlements | 272 |\n| 14 | | Rajanattianubar, str. | 982 | British | 84 | | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 84 |\n| 15 | | Gaelic, str. | 1,713 | British | 436 | 10 | W. H. Kidley | San Francisco | 446 |\n| 16 | | Anjer Head, str. | 1,300 | British | 766 | | A. Roper | Straits Settlements | 766 |\n| 17 | | Khiva, str. | 1,500 | Austro-Hung. | 150 | | M. de Horne | Straits Settlements | 150 |\n| 18 | Nov. 3 | Clara, | 939 | British | 4 | | A. S. Cutler | Antigua, West Indies | 4 |\n| 19 | | Avoca, str. | 905 | British | 205 | | J. P. Hassall | Straits Settlements | 205 |\n| 20 | | Ocean, str. | 1,090 | Austro-Hung. | 75 | 1 | H. Webber | Straits Settlements | 76 |\n| 21 | | Torwarts, str. | 1,817 | German | 198 | | J. Marussig | Straits Settlements | 198 |\n| 22 | | Danube, str. | 561 | British | 157 | 1 | A. Clanchy | Bangkok | 158 |\n| 23 | | Japan, str. | 1,865 | British | 136 | 12 | T. S. Gardner | Straits Settlements | 148 |\n| 24 | | Kasugar, str. | 1,515 | Japanese | 161 | | R. G. Murray | Straits Settlements | 161 |\n| 25 | | Ravenna, str. | 2,118 | British | 48 | 8 | Stewart | Straits Settlements | 56 |\n| 26 | | Lenroy, str. | 1,411 | British | 220 | 17 | Wallace | Straits Settlements | 237 |\n| 27 | | Danube, str. | 561 | British | 41 | | Clanchy | Bangkok | 41 |\n| 28 | | Consolation, str. | 764 | British | 80 | 10 | Young | Straits Settlements | 90 |\n| 29 | | Antenor, str. | 1,645 | British | 266 | | Bragg | Straits Settlements | 266 |\n| 30 | | Lorne, str. | 1,033 | British | 152 | 1 | McKechnie | Straits Settlements | 153 |\n| 31 | | Lydia, str. | 1,170 | German | 260 | | Paulsen | Straits Settlements | 260 |\n| 32 | | Lord of the Isles, str. | 1,586 | British | 207 | 15 | Folgate | Straits Settlements | 222 |\n| 33 | | Dale, str. | 645 | British | 66 | 1 | Thompson | Bangkok | 67 |\n| 34 | | Cassandra, str. | 937 | German | 251 | | Langer | Various Ports | 251 |\n| 35 | | Bowen, str. | 844 | British | 271 | 33 | Green | Townsville | 304 |\n| 36 | | Oceanic, str. | 2,440 | British | 808 | 23 | J. Metcalfe | San Francisco | 831 |\n| 37 | | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,992 | British | 310 | 79 | A. B. Mactavish | Straits Settlements | 389 |\n| 38 | | Suez, str. | 1,300 | British | 362 | 10 | W. M. Dodd | Melbourne | 372 |\n| 39 | | Auchises, str. | 1,304 | British | 243 | | C. Jackson | Port Darwin | 243 |\n| 40 | | Menmuir, str. | 1,947 | British | 40 | 4 | W. Ellis | Various Ports | 44 |\n| 41 | | Consolation, str. | 764 | British | 51 | | R. Young | Bangkok | 51 |\n| 42 | | Devonshire, str. | 1,513 | British | 384 | 23 | A. Purvis | Straits Settlements | 407 |\n| 43 | | Thibet, str. | 1,071 | British | 100 | | W. K. Jordan | Straits Settlements | 100 |\n| 44 | | Cyclups, str. | 1,403 | British | 635 | 4 | C. Butler | San Francisco | 639 |\n| 45 | Dec. 1 | Rajanattianalar, str. | 793 | British | 67 | | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 67 |\n| 46 | | City of Tokio, str. | 3,448 | American | 1,022 | 27 | J. Maury | San Francisco | 1,049 |\n| 47 | | Nelson, str. | 895 | British | 301 | | J. Thom | Straits Settlements | 301 |\n| 48 | | Danube, str. | 561 | British | 52 | | A. Clauchy | Bangkok | 52 |\n| 49 | | Jason, str. | 1,412 | British | 393 | | R. J. Brown | Straits Settlements | 393 |\n| 50 | | Gwalior, str. | 3,720 | British | 171 | | A. W. Adamson | Straits Settlements | 171 |\n| 51 | | Dale, str. | 645 | British | 22 | | P. H. Loff | Bangkok | 22 |\n| 52 | | Lennox, str. | 1,927 | British | 505 | 27 | D. Scott | Straits Settlements | 532 |\n| 53 | | Belgic, str. | 1,716 | British | 671 | | H. Davison | San Francisco | 671 |\n| 54 | | Geelong, str. | 1,139 | British | 89 | | W. J. Webber | Straits Settlements | 89 |\n| 55 | | Helios, str. | 1,590 | German | 115 | | E. Billinge | Straits Settlements | 115 |\n| 56 | | Japan, str. | 1,557 | Austro-Hung. | 157 | 14 | T. S. Gardner | Straits Settlements | 171 |\n| 57 | | Hector, str. | 1,590 | British | 115 | | E. Billinge | Straits Settlements | 115 |\n| 58 | | Mary Tatham, str. | 1,004 | British | 659 | | J. Gloriey | San Francisco | 659 |\n| 59 | | Tannadice, str. | 1,408 | British | 222 | | S. G. Green | Various Ports | 222 |\n| 60 | | Rose M..., str. | 866 | British | 39 | | Croil | Newcastle, N.S.W. | 39 |\n| 61 | | Sarpedon, str. | 1,592 | British | 54 | | Rea | Straits Settlements | 54 |\n| 62 | | Gleniffer, str. | 1,438 | British | 70 | | Graham | Straits Settlements | 70 |\n| 63 | | China, str. | 1,087 | British | 65 | | Weighell | Straits Settlements | 65 |\n| 64 | | Belgic, str. | 1,716 | British | 420 | | Davison | San Francisco | 420 |\n| 65 | | Rajanattianuhar, str. | 933 | British | 66 | 20 | Hopkins | Bangkok | 86 |\n| 66 | | Gordon Castle, str. | 1,320 | British | 60 | | Waring | Straits Settlements | 60 |\n| 67 | Feb. 1 | Hungaria, str. | 1,460 | Austro-Hung. | 200 | | Doncich | San Francisco | 200 |\n| 68 | | Ho Chung, str. | 847 | Chinese | 156 | 2 | Petersen | Honolulu | 158 |\n| 69 | | Moray, str. | 1,427 | British | 106 | | Butcher | Straits Settlements | 106 |\n| 70 | | Japan, str. | 1,865 | British | 25 | 6 | Gardner | Straits Settlements | 31 |\n| 71 | | Deucalion, str. | 1,639 | British | 130 | 32 | Purdy | Straits Settlements | 162 |\n| 72 | | City of Peking, str. | 3,448 | American | 174 | | Berry | San Francisco | 174 |\n| 73 | | Telemachus, str. | 1,421 | British | 126 | 32 | Jones | Straits Settlements | 158 |\n| 74 | | Laertes, str. | 1,891 | British | 303 | 1 | Scale | Straits Settlements | 304 |\n| 75 | | Oxfordshire, str. | 998 | British | 111 | | Jones | Straits Settlements | 111 |\n| 76 | | Kasbgar, str. | 1,515 | British | 131 | | Seaton | Straits Settlements | 131 |\n| 77 | | Gaelic, str. | 1,713 | British | 93 | 3 | Kidley | San Francisco | 96 |\n| 78 | | Dale, str. | 645 | British | 23 | | Thompson | Bangkok | 23 |\n| 79 | | Naples, str. | 1,470 | British | 384 | 38 | White | Straits Settlements | 422 |\n| 80 | | Urano, str. | 1,519 | Austro-Hung. | 39 | | N. Ucropina | Straits Settlements | 39 |\n| 81 | | Rajanattianuhar, str. | 953 | British | 77 | | Hopkins | Bangkok | 77 |\n| 82 | | Benledi, str. | 999 | British | 40 | | Ross | Straits Settlements | 40 |\n| 83 | | Gleneagles, str. | 1,838 | British | 113 | | Auld | Straits Settlements | 113 |\n| 84 | Mar. 1 | Fleurs Castle, str. | 1,622 | British | 248 | | Kidder | Straits Settlements | 248 |\n| 85 | | Ajax, str. | 1,524 | British | 297 | 31 | Kidd | Port Darwin | 328 |\n| 86 | | Verona, str. | 1,085 | British | 198 | | E. Ashdown | Straits Settlements | 198 |\n| 87 | | Glaucus, str. | 1,848 | British | 295 | 1 | T. S. Jurkson | Cooktown | 296 |\n| 88 | | Rajanattianuhur, str. | 933 | British | 44 | 1 | G. T. Hopkins | Bangkok | 45 |\n| 89 | | Claverhouse, str. | 763 | British | 1 | | Brown | Townsville | 1 |\n| 90 | | Menmuir, str. | 1,217 | British | 17 | | Ellis | Townsville | 17 |\n\n## SUMMARY\n\n| Destination | Adults | Children | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| San Francisco, U.S.A. | 10,989 | 414 | 11,403 |\n| Straits Settlements | 36,545 | 1,414 | 37,959 |\n| Bangkok | 8,006 | 312 | 8,318 |\n| Melbourne | 9,643 | 487 | 10,130 |\n| Sydney | 2,044 | 41 | 2,085 |\n| Port Darwin | 1,198 | 15 | 1,213 |\n| Cooktown | 1,151 | 6 | 1,157 |\n| Townsville | 701 | | 701 |\n| Thursday Island | 240 | | 240 |\n| Antigua, West Indies | 4 | | 4 |\n| Newcastle, N.S.W. | 39 | | 39 |\n| Brisbane | 172 | 2,3 | 2,175 |\n| Cleveland Bay | 16 | | 16 |\n| Honolulu | 158 | 2 | 160 |\n| Various Ports | 251 | | 251 |\n| **Total** | **66,678** | **2,680** | **70,625** |\n\n**Under contract of service**, 50\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Emigration Officer, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324727, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 760, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "750\n\nland\n\ndegrading character of the slavery to which women in houses licensed by the police are invariably and inevitably reduced.\n\nEngland has ever claimed to throw her influence on the side of freedom. The glorious charter of liberty which our forefathers have handed down to us as a jewel of brilliant lustre in the English Crown. The slavery against which they contended was, however, a slavery to labour. But this is a slavery to base passions and unholy lust....\n\nIt is to abolish the horrors of such a slavery, that we seek your influence and aid. Our appeal involves no less than a demand for the entire abolition and repeal of the licensing systems in our Colonies, and that prostitution and its attendant evils may be dealt with according to the principles and by the processes of ordinary laws.\n\n-7200\n\nYour Lordship must necessarily be aware that the Municipal Council of Paris have, after many years of investigation, taken this step, and condemned the system of licensed prostitution which for nearly a century has spread disease and moral blight in that City. They have unanimously voted its entire abolition. In lieu of prison hospitals, they decide to arrange for the treatment of patients afflicted with venereal disease in the ordinary voluntary hospitals, and to deal with any offenders against decency and personal right according as the law directs.\n\nWhilst recognising your responsibility in this matter to be chiefly in our Colonies, we would appeal to your Lordship also as a prominent member of the Cabinet, praying you to lend your influence in favour of the Repeal of the English Contagious Diseases Act.\n\nThe evidence laid before the House of Commons Committee, the conclusions to be derived from which are so admirably set forth in the Report framed by the Minority of that Committee, will be sufficient condemnation of the system to every impartial reader. The more we examine this question and drag into the light all the abominations springing out of it, the more we are led to the conviction that the sins against justice and against morality, which we find always characterising every system of State Regulated Vice, spring from the attempt to deal with prostitution in an exceptional manner and apply to it arbitrary police discretion instead of the ordinary law.\n\nIt is our conviction that in the sphere of law and legislation, the task that lies before us is as simple as it is undoubtedly arduous; that we have to abolish all exceptional laws and all exceptional procedure, and vindicate the authority and restore the supremacy of the Common Law of our ancient Fatherland.\n\nA. W. Williams, Chairman of the National Society for ...\n\nM. George Butler, D.D., Canon of Winchester, on behalf of the British, Continental and General Federation,\n\nJosephine E. Butler, on behalf of the Ladies National Association,\n\nEwing Whittle, M.D., M.R.C.P., on behalf of the Medical Association for Repeal,\n\nFred'k Wheeler, on behalf of Chatham & Rochester Repeal Committee,\n\nJoseph Joyce, on behalf of the Worthing Men's Total League for the Repeal of the C.D. Acts,\n\nWitham C. Crouch, on behalf of the Friends of Bristol,\n\nRelay Secretary of the Repeal Association,\n\nLouisa Martindale, on behalf of the Federation for the Abolition of Regulations re Prostitution,\n\nJohn Rhodes, on behalf of the Association for Repeal,\n\nLettice Floyd, J.P., on behalf of the ...\n\nNotes in the Woolwich Committee for Repeal,\n\n... went on behalf of the Metropolitan ...\n\nPoppyton Guthrie, on behalf of the ...\n\nFree Churches, Sidney, on behalf of the Milling Men's National League for the Tower Hamlets Branch for Repeal,\n\nEdward Grimwade, for Ipswich Auxiliary ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331085, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 168, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "Enclosure\n\n166\n\n13322\n\nRE\n\nREGE 26 JUL 86\n\n2nd June, 1886.\n\nTESTIMONIAL TO DR. AYRES.\n\nAn interesting little ceremony took place yesterday afternoon at the residence of Dr. Ayres, the Colonial Surgeon, who is taking a well-earned leave of absence. Few Government Officials have been harder worked than the Colonial Surgeon, and none have done more than Dr. Ayres has done to entitle him to the gratitude and esteem of those with whom his professional duties have caused him to have dealings. The subordinate members of the various Government Departments have especially experienced the greatest kindness from him, and now that he is leaving for a time they have taken advantage of the opportunity of expressing their warm appreciation of the sympathetic way in which he has always acted towards them. They have accordingly got up a testimonial consisting of the following address on vellum, very artistically executed:\n\nTO PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, ESQUIRE,\n\nMember of the Royal College of Surgeons, England; Licentiate in Midwifery of the same; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, &c., &c.\n\nWe, the undersigned, subordinate members of the Civil Service of Hongkong, having experienced the kindness and consideration shown by you to ourselves and our families, during your term of office here as Colonial Surgeon, wish to express to you our lively appreciation of the same on your departure, and whilst wishing YOU all the happiness which a well-earned holiday can give, have every wish to see you once again administering to our good in the future as you have done in the past.\n\nWe have found that on each and every occasion on which we have been in need of your professional services, not only was your skill most cheerfully given, but also to it you added that which is a far better accompaniment in the treatment of patients, a kindness of manner and a cheerfulness, which, whilst inspiring the poor sufferer with confidence, has at the same time been an earnest exposition of this fact, that more than mere routine of duty, it has been with you a labour into which you have thrown your whole soul. And we should be wanting in gratitude if we allowed you to go away without testifying in some way our humble appreciation of your valuable services.\n\nIt is within the knowledge of us all, that whilst you, having the medical charge of this colony, have of necessity many and very arduous and onerous duties to perform, have, nevertheless, when called upon to attend us or our families, even at what must have been great personal inconvenience, responded to the call, whether by night or day, in the most cheerful manner, and furthermore we feel sure that the rising generation among us will, in future years, feel towards you the same gratitude that we are now expressing, when they are told how very materially you assisted at their entrance into this mundane existence.\n\nIn conclusion, we each and every one of us join most heartily in wishing you God-speed on your holiday, which we trust will be such as to give you renewed health and strength, that you may again return to the colony and resume among us those acts of kindness and professional skill, which words almost fail us to properly appreciate. We have the honour to remain, yours very faithfully.\n\nHere follows a list of over 70 signatures.] Hongkong, 1st June, 1886.\n\nAt three p.m. yesterday, a deputation of those who signed called on Dr. Ayres at his residence. They were Mr. C. W. Duggan, First Clerk of the Police Office, Inspectors Orley, Mathieson, and Bremner, P. S. Baker, P. S. Robertson, Mr. G. J. W. King, Messrs. Rose, McLeod, Butler, Jones, and Nolan. Inspector Orley stated that Mr. Duggan had been requested to act as spokesman for the rest, and Mr. Duggan then presented the testimonial, the address being enclosed in a casket. In doing so, he made some well-chosen remarks, the main purport of which will be found embodied in the address, and he also read the address. Dr. Ayres acknowledged the token of respect feelingly. He said he had been in Government service 22 years, and during that time he had endeavoured to treat those with whom he had to deal as he would wish to be done by. He regretted that for various reasons he had not been able to do as much for them as he would desire, but he was sometimes hindered by matters of which they had no cognisance. They had doubtless occasionally found him somewhat short with them, but he had always afterwards regretted anything of that kind. He had no doubt that the gentleman who would fill the post in his absence would be found ready to do all he could for them, and in every way qualified for the work. He trusted that on his return to the Colony, he should find them all in good health. The proceedings then terminated. We believe Dr. Jordan will be Acting Colonial Surgeon during Dr. Ayres's absence.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "page_number": 299, "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "content_text": "## Document on Seacroft House and Sandown Barrack Battery\n\nIn the year 1861, various owners' properties were acquired by the Secretary of State under the Defence Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 112), entitled \"An Act to make better provision for acquiring lands for the Defence of the Realm.\"\n\nNo notice was given under sections 7 to 9 of that Act requiring Seacroft House and grounds to be kept free from buildings and other obstructions, and the three-year limit imposed by section 35 within which the powers of removal conferred by section 34 must be exercised has long since expired.\n\nAt the time of the purchase of the Sandown Barrack Battery site in 1861, the site of Seacroft House was occupied by a thatched cottage erected about 1845. The battery was built sometime between 1861 and 1864, the cost being met out of the loan for the national defences. Seacroft House was built in the year 1872. The precise distance from the House to the nearest gun in the battery is 141 feet.\n\nThe battery is a redoubt with ditch and closed gorge. Its present object is to assist in the defence of Sandown Bay from a hostile landing. It mounts five guns which fire seaward. They are at present 64-pounders (muzzle-loading rifled), but it is proposed to mount larger guns. It has been usual to fire blank charges, but it is proposed to fire shot, when the concussion will be somewhat greater. The battery is at present used by the Isle of Wight Artillery Militia.\n\nThe quantity of ammunition to be used for practice firing is prescribed by regulation made by the Secretary of State for War, under section 4 of the Militia Act, 1882. No special means or appliances are adopted for diminishing the force of the concussion.\n\n### Regulation on Notifying Station and Battery Practice\n\n| Regulation | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| R.O. 30 | Practice (Station and Battery). Notice to be given to the neighbourhood regarding. |\n\nWhen practice is about to be carried on from works contiguous to buildings or private property which are likely to be injured by the concussion, due notice of such practice should be given in the neighbourhood, in order that precautionary measures may be taken by owners or occupiers to avoid damage. Notice must be given as circumstances may best determine, either by advertisements in the local newspapers (provided such publications are authorised by regulation), or by the Town Crier, but as little expense as possible should be incurred in so doing. As far as practicable, firing from such places should not take place when the wind is blowing in the direction of the houses or buildings likely to be affected.\n\nNo express authority is given by Parliament for expenditure of Public Funds in compensating for damage done to private property by the gun fire, but there is a vote in the Army Estimates (£2,000 this year), under the head \"Compensation for Losses,\" which it is presumed would be legally applicable for compensating such damage, supposing the Law Officers to consider that claims in respect of it are legal.\n\nIt is difficult, however, to see what remedy at law Mr. Wyley's trustees would have if Seacroft House were damaged by the concussion from the gun fire. See the reference to the rule \"Princeps et Respublica ex justâ causâ possunt rem mean auferre,\" in the Saltpetre case, and the remarks of Justice Buller in Governor, &c., v. Meredith, 4 Term, Rep. 797. The officers concerned carry on the gun practice in obedience to general orders, and if they carry out these orders with care and skill, and without negligence, it is presumed that they would not be liable to an action for the damage (Sutton v. Clarke, 6 Taunton 29). At any rate, they would not if the Secretary of State for War subsequently ratified their Acts, for that would make acts of State for which the Crown alone would be responsible (Buron v. Denman, 2 Exch. 167). And no petition of right would lie (Viscount Canterbury v. the Attorney-General, 1 Phillips 301, and Tobin v. the Queen, 11 C. B.-N.S. 310).\n\n### Legal Precedent\n\nIn the case of Hawley v. Steele (L. R., 6 Ch. Div., p. 521), where the plaintiff filed a bill against the General Officer in command at Aldershot to restrain him from using a rifle range acquired under the Defence Act, and for compensation, the Master of the Rolls refused to give range relief. He said, \"I take it to be clear that no man is entitled to use his land by allowing others to come upon it and make a noise which is really intolerable to his neighbours... if the defendant had been the owner of this land, and if the persons who caused that noise and vibration had not been troops of the Government, I should have had no hesitation in granting the injunction.\" The real question is whether the Legislature has authorised the act to be done.\n\nIn concurring in this decision, Baron Pollock said \"it would be extremely difficult to contemplate the use of land for military purposes which did not carry with it the right to fire guns.\" (Hill v. Metropolitan Asylum, 4, 2 B. D. 445).\n\nIt would appear from the above that the Courts of Law will not interfere by injunction to restrain the use by the Secretary of State of land or buildings vested in him as Trustee for the Crown for the purposes of the defence of the realm, unless such user be distinctly and outrageously unreasonable, having regard for the requirements of the Military Department, and the objects for which the land or buildings were acquired. Would then user of a battery for practice purposes with heavy ordnance, and in such a manner as would involve damage to private property in the proximity of it, be an unreasonable user?\n\nPage 38316\nPage 64\nA 52950.-38. \nA 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348441, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong \n26 January 1891\n\nMy Lord,\n\nReferring to Sir Robert Herbert's despatch No. 120 of the 5th June, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that, subject to your Lordship's approval.\n\nbeen at the end of the one year for which he has already been appointed in anticipation of your Lordship's approval.\n\nIt was laid down in par. 6 of despatch No. 8885/90 that appointments in the P.W.D. should only be temporary, & I suppose that rule should apply to Overseers equally with Engineers.\n\nAs a matter of fact, some of the Overseers are retained on the existing staff though their original agreement was only for 3 years.\n\nSince the work done by them is of the same nature, I cannot make out what valuable property this man is to bring with him as the Estimates (pp.17,18) give varying amounts for salaries & travelling allowances, of which added together make a total. Mr. Butler was to have $110 as salary & a few extras. Mr. Dougherty is to have $7200, which seems to be getting a good deal more than Mr. Butler began with ($720 rising ...).\n\nThe Right Honourable, \nLord Knutsford, G.C.M.G. \nC.O. 129/263 \nPage 171 \nRECD REG 26 JAN 1891", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "## Office or Individual\n**Admirally**\n\n## Date\n1895 \n11 Mar \n\n## Last previous Paper\nConfidential No. 4378 \n\n## Chief\n(Subject) \n4378 \n**RECT** \nREG 12 MP 95, China Station \nAdmiral A Butler CB, will fucceed... In Sie... [Bremontle, Keb.conf. \n\n## Subsequent Paper\n29204 \n\n### (Minutes)\nW. Bramstim \n? Copying to for. for wif. L. Z \nat once \n`54712/3 C.P.2.12` \n163 \n**DOMESTIC** \nVadnt the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 364626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-278 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [11-12]", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-278 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [11-12]", "content_text": "To \n\n401 \n\nEnclosure in despatch No 272 \n\nof 14th December, 1897, from Governor Sir William Robinson, \n\nThe Right Honourable \n\nJoseph Chamberlain, M.P. \n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies \n\nfor \n\n10 \n\nBlewetle as follows: \n\nThe humble Petition of William Butler of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong \n\nYour Petitioner in his twenty-first year entered with the services of the Metropolitan Police Force on the 25th October 1869 \n\nand resigned his situation in the Metropolitan Police Force on the 12th December 1872 in order to enter the Hong Kong Police: \n\nthat during the time he was in the Metropolitan Police Force he received \n\na certificate signed by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis certifying that his conduct was good. A copy of this Certificate \n\nis contained in the Schedule hereunder written. \n\nBy an Agreement dated the 12th day of December 1872 and made between your Petitioner of the one part and William Charles Earle on behalf of Her Majesty of the other part for the consideration thereinafter \n\nmentioned your Petitioners agreed to proceed to Hongkong as Constables in the Police Force of the Government of that Colony and to faithfully and honestly fulfill \n\nthe duties required of him by the Government of Hong Kong for the term of five years from the date of arrival in the Colony. It was \n\nfurther agreed that Your Petitioner should be paid \n\nthe salary. and that the Government of Hong Kong would, \n\nif the conduct of Your Petitioner should in the opinion of the said Government have been satisfactory grant him at the expiration of ten years a pension at the rate of 4/77 of his \n\nannual salary in respect of such years. In pursuance of the said \n\nAgreement Your Petitioner arrived in the Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-278 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365138, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "content_text": "381\n\nPrice.\n\nNo,\n\nPrice.\n\nd.\n\n1952. Aleppo\n\n140.\n\n1\n\nId.\n\n1953. Ispahan\n\n1 d.\n\n2d.\n\n1954. Tonga\n\n1d.\n\n1895. Pirwus\n\n21d.\n\n1955. Nico..\n\nld.\n\nNew Series of Reports.\n\nREPORTS of the Annual Series have been issued from Her Majesty's Diplomatic and Consular Officers at the following places, and may be obtained from the sources indicated on the title-page :-\n\nNo.\n\n1892. Antwerp\n\n1893. Amsterdam\n\n1894. Galveston\n\nNo. 2012.\n\nReference to previous Report, Annual Series No. 1702.\n\n1896. Stettin\n\n2jd.\n\n1956. Granada\n\nLil\n\n1897. Martinique\n\nild.\n\n1957. Soul..\n\n1d.\n\n1898. Coruña\n\n23d,\n\n1958. Cadiz\n\n1d.\n\n1899. Calais\n\n1d.\n\n1959. Chinde\n\n¿d.\n\n1900. Honolulu\n\nld.\n\n1960. Stockholm\n\n21.\n\n1901. Rigs ..\n\nza.\n\n1961. Zanzibar\n\nld.\n\n1902. Tripoli\n\nld.\n\n1962. Tokio\n\n1fd.\n\n1903. Batoum\n\n2d.\n\n1063. Asuncion\n\nlid.\n\n1904. Lorenzo Marques\n\n2d1.\n\n1964. Baghdad\n\n1 d.\n\n1905. Batavia\n\n2&d.\n\n1965. Réunion\n\n1d.\n\n1906. Corfu\n\n1ža\n\n1966. Chefoo\n\n2td.\n\n1907. Foochow\n\n1jd.\n\n1967. Newchwang..\n\nJd.\n\n1908. Montevideo\n\n6jd.\n\n1968. Tabreez\n\njd.\n\n1909. China\n\n+\n\n5d.\n\n1969. St. Paul de Loanda\n\nld.\n\n1910. Philadelphia\n\nijd.\n\n1970. Beyrout\n\nid.\n\n1911. Rio Grande do Sul..\n\nBjd.\n\n1971. Yokohama\n\n1d.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n1912. Quito\n\nld.\n\n1972. Warsaw\n\nid.\n\n1913. San José\n\nId.\n\n1973. Sofia\n\nlid.\n\n1914. Dunkirk\n\n1d.\n\n1974. Madrid\n\n2d.\n\n1915. Samoa\n\n18.\n\n1975. Vienna\n\n2d.\n\n1916. Bordeaux\n\n2 d.\n\n1976. Erzeroum\n\nJd.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nCHINA.\n\nKIUNGCHOW.\n\nActing-Consul O'Brien-Butler to the Marquess of Salisbury,\n\n(Received at Foreign Office, October 12, 1897.)\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith my Report on the Trade of this Port for the year 1896.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n1917. Porto Rico\n\nljd.\n\n1977. Berlin\n\nląd.\n\n1918. Galatz\n\nlid.\n\n1978. Adis Abbaba\n\nld.\n\n1919. Christiania.\n\nૐd.\n\n1970. Tumsui\n\nid.\n\n1920. Copenhagen..\n\nhi.\n\n1980. Odesa\n\n24d.\n\n1921. New York\n\n2td.\n\n1981. Brindisi\n\n24d.\n\n1922. San Francisco\n\n34d.\n\n1982. Maono\n\nld.\n\n1923. Kiukiang\n\nId.\n\n1983. Pakhoi\n\nReport on the Trade of Kiungchow for the Year 1896.\n\n14.\n\n1924. Harrar\n\nd.\n\n1984. Peking\n\n2d,\n\n1925. Berge\n\n1d.\n\n1986. Mexico\n\nIld.\n\nTABLE of Contents.\n\n1926. Mannheim\n\n1927. Fiume\n\n1928. Oporto\n\n1929. Hangchow\n\n1d.\n\n1986. Canton\n\nId.\n\n\"\n\n1td.\n\n1987. Naples\n\n14d.\n\nRates of exchange\n\nld.\n\n1988. Port Said\n\nląd.\n\nHardly any statistics of junk trade available..\n\nPAGE\n\n2\n\n2\n\n14.\n\n1989. Algiers\n\nBid.\n\nSteamer trade\n\n1930. Boston\n\n21d.\n\n1990. Vienna\n\nì.\n\nJunk trade\n\n1931. Tahiti\n\nid.\n\n1991. Valparaiso\n\nlid.\n\n1932. Manila\n\nImports\n\nItd.\n\n1992. Gothenburg..\n\n1933. Caracas\n\nld.\n\n1934. Hamburg\n\n1993. St. Michael's (The Azores)\n\nસર્વે.\n\nOpium\n\nld.\n\nForeign opium\n\n3d.\n\n1994. Antwerp\n\nld.\n\nNative\n\nH\n\n1985. Portland\n\n38.\n\n1993. Tangier\n\n13.\n\n1986. Malaga\n\nVarieties, price, &c., of\n\n21.\n\n1996. Swaziland\n\nId.\n\nTrade routes of\n\n1937. Tokio\n\n1}d.\n\n1997. Swatow\n\nld.\n\nKerosene\n\n1938. Genon.\n\n3d\n\n1998. St. Petersburg\n\n4 d.\n\nImport of, by junk\n\n1939. Palermo\n\n3d. 1999. Dar-al-Baida\n\n1d.\n\nMatches\n\n1940. Santiago de Cuba\n\n1 d.\n\n2000. Dantzig\n\n24.\n\n1941. Nouméa\n\nId.\n\n2001. Algiers\n\n1rl.\n\n1942. Frankfort\n\n3ld.\n\n2002. Roma\n\n2d.\n\n1943. Chungking\n\nltd.\n\n2008. Bangkok\n\nld.\n\n1944. Ichang\n\nId.\n\n2004. Nagasaki\n\nld.\n\n1945. Hankow\n\n14d.\n\n2005. Hiogo and Osaka\n\nlid.\n\nExports\n\n1946. Guatemala\n\ntid.\n\n2006. Jeddah\n\n2d.\n\n1947. Syra..\n\nId.\n\n2007. Paris..\n\n1948. Taganrog\n\n2d,\n\n2008. Meshed\n\n1949. Içonda\n\n2jd.\n\n2009. Chiengmai\n\n1950. Panama\n\n218.\n\n2010. Stettin\n\n1951. Shanghai\n\n24.\n\n2011. Vera Cruz\n\n:::::::\n\n1d.\n\n21d.\n\n1d.\n\n\"\n\nk.\n\n1d.\n\nCotton and woollen goods\n\nIndian cotton yarn\n\nRemaining cotton goods\n\nTotal values\n\nNative produce\n\nPigs\n\nAlbumen\n\nFresh eggs Salted yolks Sugar Galangal\n\n(48)\n\n:::::::::::::\n\n4\n\n4\n\n4\n\n5\n\n5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 705, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "702\n\n(6)\n\n15. New Police Stations at Kennedy Town and at Shatankok were completed and occupied by the Police on the 1st and 20th October respectively, while new stations are also in course of construction at West Point and at Saikung.\n\n16. The conduct of the Contingent was on the whole satisfactory, several Sergeants and Constables being rewarded for their energy and zeal.\n\ncells.\n\n(i) Prison. 17. Victoria Gaol at the present time contains 500 separate cells and 14 association cells. It is thus possible to confine 514 persons on the separate system; while in case of emergency 570 persons could be confined by placing 5 prisoners in each association cell. The daily average of prisoners in the Gaol numbered 486 in 1900, as compared with 434 in the previous year, and 510 in 1898. The sanitary condition of the Gaol was good.\n\n18. There were 125 prisoners convicted from the New Territory during the year.\n\n19. One hundred and seventy-six (176) prisoners were employed on non-productive labour during 1900. The remaining 310 were utilised either in manufactures, in building, or in the service of the Prison, and the profit on this labour for the year amounted to $8,394.25.\n\n話\n\n1. I append tables showing:-\n\nVII-JUDICIAL STATISTICS.\n\n(a.) The number of summary convictions in the Police Court for various classes of offences, and the kind of punishment inflicted. Table (I).\n\n(b.) The number of indictments and informations in the Supreme Court of Hongkong. (Table-P).\n\n(c.) A comparison of the number of offences, apprehensions, convictions and acquittals for the last five years. (Table 2).\n\n2. There was an increase in serious offences of 140 cases or 4.12%, and in minor offences of 710 cases or 12.6%. It was found early in the year that one Police Magistrate could not cope with the constantly increasing work and accordingly a Magistrate was appointed to hear cases at Taipó in the New Territory, while a Second Magistrate was also appointed to act in the Police Court at Victoria.\n\n3. Two murderers were convicted and hanged in 1900.\n\nVIII-VITAL STATISTICS.\n\n(a.) Population.-1. The population of the Colony at the Census taken in January, 1897, was 248,880, while at the Census taken in January, 1901, it was 283,975, exclusive of the Army and Navy, which amounted to 13,287 (Army 7,640; Navy 5,647). The total population of the Colony, including the Army and Navy, was estimated at 288,418 up to the middle of 1900.\n\n2. The population of the New Territory, which is exclusively Chinese, was estimated at 100,000 in the year 1899.\n\n(b.) Public Health.-3. Nine hundred and thirty-nine (939) births and 6,773 deaths were registered during the year. This is equal to a general birth-rate of 3.3 per 1,000 as compared with 4.3 per 1,000 in 1899, and to a general death-rate of 23.9 per 1,000 as compared with 23.8 per 1,000 in 1899.\n\n4. The Matshed Hospital at Kennedy Town was re-opened for the reception of Plague cases and was in use from the 16th May to 15th August. The number of admissions was 224, of whom 200 died. In addition to this 107 cases of plague were treated in the Kennedy Town Hospital itself with a mortality of 77.5%. The total number of cases reported during the year was 1,082 and the total number of deaths was 1,034, as against 1,486 and 1,428 in the preceding year.\n\n5. There were only 17 deaths from small-pox last year; whereas in the three previous years the numbers had been 35, 110, and 209. This continued decrease has resulted in a marked apathy in regard to vaccination, the total number of vaccinations recorded being 2,123 less than in 1899.\n\n6. The number of deaths from beri-beri almost doubled during the year, the disease being confined to the Chinese population.\n\n7. Malarial and enteric fevers were more prevalent than in 1899. There was a considerable mortality among the troops from malarial fever.\n\n(7)\n\n8. In connection with this question of Malaria an interesting experiment was tried. The Military Sanatorium has been abandoned for several years on account of the continued suffering of the Troops stationed there from malarial fever. Under the advice of Dr. Young, employed in the China Expeditionary Force, the brushwood was cut down for a distance of three to four hundred yards; swampy places were drained, and Anopheles pools filled in. For several months a company of Indian Troops has been stationed at the Sanatorium and the health of the men is excellent.\n\n(c.) Sanitation-9. Under the provisions of the Insanitary Properties Ordinance of 1899, a large number of buildings throughout the Colony have now been provided with back-yards. The result is a perceptible improvement in the lighting and ventilation of the back part of these dwellings.\n\n10. The questions of the excessive height of buildings and of the resumption of insanitary or obstructive buildings are also engaging the attention of the Government.\n\n11. The City of Victoria is divided into 10 Health Districts with an Inspector of Nuisances in charge of each. There are also five first-class Inspectors for the City, each of whom has the general supervision of two districts.\n\n12. Of the 10 Health Districts, Nos. 5 and 6, which are situated in the centre of the city, show acute surface overcrowding, while districts 9, 4, 8 and 7 are almost as densely crowded. The average density of population in the whole city is 126 persons per acre, or a percentage of 65 persons per acre in excess of that of Glasgow, itself the most densely crowded of the 36 large towns of Great Britain. It is hoped that the projected construction of tramways from East to West Point may help to relieve this congestion.\n\n13. Towards the close of the year the Sanitary and Building Ordinances of the Colony were extended to that portion of New Territory between the shore and the first range of the Kowloon hills, thus bringing an area on the mainland of 18 square miles, with a sea-frontage of some 10 miles, within the jurisdiction of the Sanitary Board.\n\n(d.) Climate.-14. The total rainfall for the year was 73.73 inches as compared with 72.7 inches in 1899. The wettest month was June, the driest was September.\n\n15. The average daily amount of sunshine throughout the year was 5.03 hours, and on 28 days only was no sunshine recorded.\n\n16. The average monthly temperature during the year was 71.6° F. as compared with 71.9° in the previous year. The monthly temperature was highest in August and lowest in January. The highest recorded temperature during the year being 97° F. in the former month and the lowest 37.5° F. in the latter.\n\n17. I append a table showing the direction and force of the wind. Table R. The most memorable storm during the year was the typhoon of the 9th and 10th November.\n\nThat typhoon began on the night of the 9th increasing in intensity with the wind from N.E. About three a.m. the centre passed over Hongkong when the wind blew with terrific force from the S.W. and within four hours over 110 junks and 10 steam-launches were sunk, with a loss of about 206 lives. H.M.S. Sandpiper sunk at her moorings, her crew being, with one exception, gallantly rescued. The dredger Canton River, a large vessel just out from England for work on the Naval Dock, was also blown over and sunk. One man was washed off the wreck. The remainder of the crew were rescued with difficulty by a boat from H.M.S. Tamar, under command of Lieutenant the Honourable FITZWALTER BUTLER, R.N.\n\nIX.-POSTAL AND TELEPHONE SERVICE.\n\n(a.) Post-1. The troubles in the North of China, and the consequent despatch of the China Expeditionary Force, added very considerably to the work of the Post Office. There was a nett increase of 387,050 in the total of international and local correspondence dealt with as compared with the previous year.\n\n2. The Indian Postal Administration opened a Base Post Office in Hongkong and to that office everything received at the General Post Office for the China Field Force was immediately sent.\n\n3. The trouble in the North has also delayed the completion of the Convention for the Partial Postal Union between this Colony and China which had already been forwarded for execution. This Convention should certainly be completed as soon as circumstances will permit.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "No. 289.\n\nHongkong.\n\ndue to him for the period from the date of Mr Hazeland's appt until the date of Mr Jones coming away on also appt another junior to Queen's College to fill the vacancy caused by his promotion.\n\n[There will be such vacancies before you Sir again referred to my papers gu/207 In M. Ommanner 79 it is]\n\nThe above minute does not alter my view. The acting appointment was understood to be temporary, and, if it had not been so posted, we cannot ignore, however much we may blame, the Governor's actions. To object - we are forced- to what has been done, & we must give attention to prevent its repetition in future; but do not think it would be right to take action against a man who began to act in the appointments in September 92.\n\n21. Aug.\n\nConfirmed.\n\nDepts branch\n\n21/8\n\nPut By Pa\n\n4 Sep\n\nHass a\n\nat mei\n\nJditis\n\nMerton Dedt:\n\nDom 3//2. Mr. Jell Sir J Anderson\n\nMr. Harris\n\nMr. Johnson Mr. Esler\n\nMr. Head\n\nMr. Strachey\n\nMr. Cambert\n\nMr. Collins\n\nMr. Blia\n\nMr. Brindle Mr. Boume. Main fiz Mr. Macnaghten\n\nMr. Marsh\n\nMr. Butler\n\n* Mr. Robinson\n\nMr. Fiddian\n\n#Mr. Bate\n\nMr. Barnler\n\nMr. Bacchiel\n\nMr. Chikie\n\n*Mr. Simbbs\n\nMr. Vernon\n\nMr. Malcolm\n\nMr. Keith\n\nMr. Bottomley\n\nMr. Harding\n\nI Chwill\n\nmpell\n\nEa\n\n18619\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 2nd July, 1902.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 142 of the 20th May last, in which you enquire as to the reason why no recommendation has yet been made to you with regard to the appointment of a successor to Mr. F. A. Hazeland as Deputy Registrar and Accountant.\n\n2.\n\nIn reply, I have to inform you that when Mr. Hazeland was promoted to be a Police Magistrate he had already been acting in that capacity since the 26th May, 1900, and Mr. Jones, to whom you refer in paragraph 2 of your Despatch under acknowledgment, had been acting during that period in Mr. Hazeland's substantive post.\n\nAs Mr. Hazeland's promotion, therefore, involved no actual change at the time in the distribution of official duties, there was no pressing need for altering the existing arrangements.\n\n3.\n\nIn July last applications for the vacant post were received from Mr. Jones, Mr. Dyer Ball, and Mr. C... De Melbourne. As the appointment, however, was one to which Cadets have a preferential claim, Sir Henry Blake caused an enquiry to be made as to whether Mr. Kemp, a Cadet whose seniority and attainments entitled him to such consideration, was prepared to accept the appointment in the event of its being offered to him.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\n&c., &c.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387707, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 460, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "The Right Honourable \n\nMy Lord, \n\nLord Onslow, \n\n458 \n52, Baring Street, \nPlymouth. \n\n30 November, 1908. \n\nH.M.Under Secretary for the Colonies.\n\nHerewith I enclose you copies of a letter from Dr. T.H. Knott, Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, who, with Dr. James Lowson, Acting Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, Hong Kong, advised me to wear glasses, as immediately after my severe attack of Fever and Opthalmia the sight of my eyes grew very bad, and the doctors stated the Fever and Opthalmia was due to exposure during the Plague; in fact, even after I recovered from the Fever partially I was kept under close observation for a month. I carried out the orders of Dr. T.H. Knott and bought glasses, and from that time, from the end of September or the middle of October, 1894, until I was invalided in August, 1898, for defective vision, my eyes have gradually got worse.\n\nI went to London and saw Sir Henry F. Norbury, K.C.B., M.D., Director General, R.N., who told me he would do what he could for me, and after waiting four years I wrote to the Right Honourable J. Chamberlain, H.M. Secretary of State, myself, and as my eyesight is getting worse, and I have a large family to maintain, I beg of you to help me in this my request.\n\nI enclose you copies of testimonials from the Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong, and one from Dr. James Lowson of the Government Civil Hospital, and Dr. H. Penny, R.N., Dr. A. Stanley Nance, R.N. Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G., who was the Governor of the Colony at the time, often spoke to me when he visited the Plague Hospitals under my charge. You might refer to the Hon. R.P. Chater, M.L.A., The Hon. R. Belleliss, M.L.A., The Hon. J.J. Francis, K.C., Captain May, C.M.G., Rear Admiral G. Boyes, R.N., Sir Edward Freemantle, G.C.B., C.M.G., Lady Freemantle, also to Sir Alexander Buller, G.C.B.\n\nRear Admiral G. Boyes, R.N., it was who presented me with my Plague Medal on board H.M.S. \"Victor Emmanuel\", and I also have to thank Mrs. T.H. Knott, Mrs. A. Stanley Nance, Dr. T.H. Knott, Dr. A. Stanley Nance, and Dr. ... O'Regan, M.B., R.N., for bringing me through that awful attack of Fever.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "Inclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\nRETURN showing Number of British Subjects of Chinese descent registered at His Majesty's Consulate, Foochow, on the 19th September, 1903.\n\n \n Name\n Born in a British Colony of Chinese Parents\n Dress\n \n \n 1. Kua Seng Watt\n At Singapore\n Semi-foreign\n \n \n 2. Kaw Sien Khiam\n At Penang\n Chinese\n \n \n 3. Ch'ao Leng Ti\n \n Hingking 07307\n \n \n Naturalized British Subjects of Chinese Descent\n \n \n Citigat\n RAFT\n \n \n\n(Signed)\n\nS. R. BRADY, Consul\n\nU.S.\n\n3.gs.\n\nSir.\n\n9 am\n\n7.0.\n\nInclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nRETURN of Anglo-Chinese registered at His Majesty's Consulate, Ningpo.\n\n \n Name\n Father born in-\n Dress\n \n \n Ng Ki-in\n Hong Kong\n Chinese\n \n \n Willie Pao\n \n \n \n \n Hus Tye\n \n \n \n \n Thomas W. Tye\n Penang\n \n \n \n Deey Keng Beng\n \n \n \n \n Chua Teik Quee\n \n \n \n\n(Signed)\n\nR. H. MORTIMORE, Consul\n\nNingpo, September 17, 1903.\n\nInclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Butler to Sir E. Satow,\n\n15 March 1904.\n\nAuod 12025\n\n117\n\nDirected by Sir E. Satow to acknowledge receipt of the letter.\n\n(No. 11.) Sir,\n\nChefoo, September 11, 1903\n\nIn reply to your despatch of the 8th instant, I have the honour to report that there are no British subjects of Chinese race residing in Chefoo at present.\n\nA native of Hong Kong was registered a few months ago in the Consulate, but has since gone to reside at Newchwang. He dressed in the ordinary Chinese costume. No note was made of the nationality of his father, who is residing at Hong Kong.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) P. E. O'BRIEN BUTLER\n\nMINUTE.\n\nStubbs 10/3\n\nMr. Clarke\n\nF. Antrobus\n\nJ. Cox\n\nA. Lucas\n\nJ. Graham\n\nE. M. Ommanney\n\nThe Duke of Marlborough\n\nSPFPI\n\nthat he concurs with his Lordship's proposal & authorizes the withdrawal of the Coastwise Regulations of 1868.\n\n2. With regard to ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395620, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "content_text": "M- & Wilson\n\nPut with these paper, any papers relating to ordinance 16918\n\nCPL\n\nHIL\n\nRusticas\n\nAck:\n\ntaken\n\n91888 d return to me\n\nLee For\n\na say\n\nconfal\n\n25\n\n25800\n\n6/50\n\nJ\n\nthat M. Lyttelton has\n\nnote g\n\nthe views expressed\n\nbefore him\n\nby the Bishop. I will bear them in mind when the ordinance is\n\nC.P.L.27\n\nat once\n\nAckd\n\nMy\n\n201\n\n161\n\n17032 May 1898\n\ndear Lyttelton.\n\nthe smelord and the papers\n\nle Hongking. The letter is for\n\nMy Cousin Joseph Travers - Burly Butler - Trinity\n\n&\n\nthan, the took a hot degree\n\nhas hind his whole clerical\n\nsome 35 years.\n\nLife in Chine\n\nAn Excellent man\n\nthene\n\non you may depends.\n\nAlphington Samuel Nare", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397091, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "# CIRCULATED TO DEPARTMENTS\nNovember 15, 1905\n\n17 Mom JS \nMr. Olivier 2/ MePinkey \nMaret 2/ M*StaA]tayvs Mr. Lambert w Ma Gestina \n22 \nMr. ES Green. 15/1 \nMay Marsh 22- \nMr. Butler way \nMaddies 2714 \nMaylorzien \nMa Hanabial \nMa Stubbs \nMang \nMr. Maleol \nMa Hotzemios \nMa A InHunding \nMa Banpolt \nMan D. In Hendizają \nHeitter 22/1 \nMr Batterber \nMIRSK Reinson 23/11 Aor Anderson 23/11 \nDr \n340 \nC.P.L.4 at once \nNo. 235. Hongkong.\n\n**C.O. 38908 382** \n**RE** \n**Rza! 2 NOV 05**\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 2nd October, 1905.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to ask your approval to a change in the system hitherto obtaining in this Colony of counting leave granted to officers to enable them to attend the Annual Volunteer Camp of Instruction as vacation leave under No. 133 of the Rules and Regulations of His Majesty's Colonial Service.\n\n2. The effect of this system is to discourage the attendance at the Camp of gentlemen who have no full pay leave to their credit or who wish to save up this leave either to enable them to take a summer vacation in a cooler climate in the East or to combine with half pay leave in England under No. 134 of the Regulations.\n\n3. As it is in the Colony's interest that as many Volunteers as possible should attend the Annual Camp, as Government servants are only allowed to do so if arrangements can be made for carrying on their duties in ...\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE** \n**ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,** \n**&C.** \n**&C...**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 419, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "Extract from the \"China Mail\" of 4th October, 1906.\n\nCAPTAIN BARNES-LAWRENCE,\n\nThe Funeral.\n\nOne of the most impressive funerals that has been held in Hongkong for many years was that of the late Hon. Captain Barnes Lawrence, who was laid in his final resting place in the Protestant Cemetery at Happy Valley yesterday. Long before the hour for the funeral, a large crowd of Europeans and Chinese had assembled in the vicinity of the Royal Naval Hospital, Wanchai, from which the funeral was to start; the boatmen from the Harbour Office being lined up on one side of the road holding the wreaths which came from the different departments in the Harbour Office.\n\nShortly after five o'clock, the coffin, a plain teak one, covered with the Union Jack, was carried down from the hospital to the road where a gun carriage was waiting, and it was placed thereon. When the cortege started, ahead of the coffin was a firing party from H.M.S. \"Flora,\" commanded by Captain Grant-Dalton, each man wearing a black band round his left arm and marching with arms reversed. Then came the band of the Second Royal West Kent Regiment, with the drum draped with crepe.\n\nOn either side of the coffin were the deceased gentleman's colleagues from the Legislative Council as follows:- Right, Sir Francis Piggott, Hon. Mr T. Sercombe Smith, Hon. Mr W. Chatham, Hon. Mr A. W. Brewin, Sir Paul Chater, and Hon. Mr Wei Yuk. Left, Sir Henry Berkeley, Hon. Dr Atkinson, Hon. Mr E. A. Hewett, Hon. Mr W. J. Greson, Hon. De V. Kow Kai, and Mr A. G. M. Flathe (Clerk of the Council).\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, walked behind the coffin as chief mourner, followed by his A.D.C. Then came a detachment of 100 men from the naval service, followed by the staff of the Harbour Office, who turned out in strong force, headed by the Assistant Harbour Master, Mr E. Jones. The boarding officers, European employees, Eurasians, Portuguese, and Chinese completed the Harbour Office detachment.\n\nThen came a number of Civil Service cadets, and a large number of friends of the late Harbour Master. Among those whom we noticed were the following:- Captain Lyons, Messrs E. H. Sharp, K.C., J. Dyer Ball, J. Hastings, F. B. L. Bowley, W. Daniels, H. P. White, L. Murphy, A. Saeth, P. N. H. Jones, H. H. J. Gompertz, F. J. Badeley, P. P. J. Wodehouse, A. R. Loze, G. de Champs, C. D. Melbourne, O. H. Wakeman, G. Bastings, G. C. Moxon, A. Wilson, T. F. Hough, J. J. Leiria, J. Wilkie, T. Skinner, E. A. Ram, L. A. M. Johnson, H. N. Mody, B. P. Tocker, P. Jack, H. Humphreys, E. Barton Foreman, and A. B. Mihara, Revs. J. B. France and Pearce, Capt. Pennefather, Captain Milroy, Major Pritchard, Dr Kruger, German Consul, M. Liebert, French Consul, Mr A. G. Romano, Consul for Portugal, and Mr S. Silverstone.\n\nTo the strains of Beethoven's funeral march, the cortege slowly wound its way to the cemetery, which was reached about 5:30 p.m. The coffin was carried to the grave by a party of bluejackets, and the mourners took up their positions around it.\n\nIt was impossible for all who were present to hear the words which fell from the Minister's lips as he read the burial service, but everybody seemed deeply impressed with the solemnity of the occasion. Bareheaded, they stood while the service proceeded, and at its conclusion, most of those present approached the grave and paid a last tribute of respect to their honoured friend. Three rounds from the firing party and the \"Last Post\" from the bugler completed the ceremony, and the Hon. Captain Barnes Lawrence was laid to rest amid a scene of beauty, close to a bubbling stream which tumbled noisily over the stones in its course.\n\nThere were a large number of wreaths sent by the following:-\n\nMiss Barnes-Lawrence, Miss V. Barnes-Lawrence, H.E. the Governor, the P. and O.S.S. Co., Pacific Mail Co., D. and O.S.S. Co., Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Portland Asiatic Co., Y.M.C.A., Officers 119th Infantry, Orderlies Harbour Department, Wardroom Officers of H.M.S. \"Tamar,\" Staff of the Harbour Department (a buoy and anchor), Chamber of Commerce, Mr and Mrs James Macdonald, Mr and Mrs Denison, Boatmen and Messengers of the Harbour Office, Mr D. R. Law, Hon. Mr T. Sercombe Smith, Mr and Mrs A. G. Wise, Mr and Mrs Gompertz, Staff Surgeon Mowat, R.N., and Mrs Mowat, Miss Barker, Hon. Dr Atkinson, Mr R.T.D. Sayle, Dr and Mrs Newell Wilson, Deputy Inspector General and Mrs T. D. Gimlette, Mr and Mrs G. W. Craddock, Mr Duncan Clarke, Commodore and Mrs H. P. Williams, Mr J. E. Ellis, Mrs and Miss Clarke, Mr and Mrs A. B. Skottowe, Major and Mrs Ross, Mr E. E. P. Erskine, Mr C. Gregory, Mr Fung Wa-chun, Messrs D. Sisenon and Co., Mr A. O. Botelho Jr., the Yik On S.S. Co., the Wing On Sang Kee, Mr Francisco Tse Yat, Messrs Tak Kee & Co., Messrs Wing Kee, Mr Kwok Chen, the Sam Wang Co., Nam Tai, the China Merchants Steamship Co., the Wing Shun Co., Mr L. F. Cooke, and Mr Chi Wo.\n\nPage 414", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406834, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n4679\n\nIRECP [January 8.] [Rec 9 FEB 06.\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n127\n\n[947]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received January 8, 1906.)\n\nPeking, November 8, 1905.\n\n(No. 376.) My Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Consul at Chefoo on the subject of the prohibition of the import of 10-cash pieces from other provinces, together with copy of a note which I have addressed to the Wai-wu Pu protesting against this prohibition.\n\n(No. 36.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul O'Brien-Butler to Sir E. Satow,\n\nChefoo, October 25, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose the translation of a letter which has been addressed to me by the Superintendent of Customs at this port, relating to the import of 10-cash copper pieces coined in other provinces.\n\nOn the 25th August the Superintendent wrote to me, stating that the Governor had given instructions that the import of 10-cash pieces from other provinces should at once be prohibited, and requesting that I would give notice of the fact to the British merchants of this port.\n\nI replied that I did not see my way to issue this notice, as I knew of no law or Treaty Regulation which empowered me to place such a restriction on the firms under my jurisdiction.\n\nThe Provincial Government has recently purchased a large supply of copper for the purpose of minting 10-cash pieces, which will be circulated throughout the province, and under these circumstances it is not difficult to understand, and indeed to sympathize with, their position. At the same time the prohibition would appear to be directly in opposition to Article II of the Commercial Treaty of September 1902, and, in view of this fact, I have not felt justified in taking any steps to influence the action of the British merchants at Chefoo.\n\nThirty-five cases of coins belonging to Messrs. Cornabe, Eckford, and Co. have now arrived in Chefoo, and the Customs authorities refuse to release them. All attempts to obtain them through the local officials have failed, and I have the honour, therefore, to refer the matter to you and to request your instructions.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) P. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSuperintendent of Customs, Chefoo, to Consul O'Brien-Butler.\n\nGreetings to Mr. O'Brien-Butler from the Taotai:\n\nChefoo, October 22, 1905.\n\nI HAVE just received your note on the subject of importation of copper 10-cash pieces by Messrs. Cornabe, Eckford, and Co. You say that the Commissioner of Customs has refused to release thirty-five cases of copper money, which have been consigned to that firm by merchants in Shanghae, and that you are referring the matter to me at his request; that you know of no Treaty Regulation by which British merchants are forbidden to import these coins; and that you desire me to obtain the release of the goods from the Imperial Maritime Customs authorities.\n\nNow, these 10-cash pieces have only been introduced into the currency of China during the last year, and it has therefore been impossible to make any special\n\n[1830 h-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407466, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 762, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "2\n\nof the Shui-wu Ch'u which need cause the slightest apprehension.\" I said that there were rumours of difficulties which had arisen in connection with the construction of a custom-house at Amoy, and alterations in the system of publishing customs statistics. His Excellency replied that he knew nothing of the former, but, as regarded the latter, the Board had instructed the Inspector-General to submit statistical and similar reports to them prior to their publication. It was only reasonable that the Board should wish to see what they contained before they were given to the public.\n\nMr. Tang then gave me at considerable length his views on the changes which he wished to introduce in regard to financial reports. Hitherto these had been rendered by the Customs Taotais quarterly; now monthly ones would be required. Some of the Taotais were seven quarters in arrears with their reports, which caused much confusion; for though the Board of Revenue knew the sum total which had to be eventually accounted for, they were in ignorance as to the exact amounts in the hands of various officials. He hoped that by insisting on this new scheme the Board would be in possession of some 15,000,000 taels (some £2,500,000) in a few months, which would otherwise have been lying idle as far as the Government were concerned. Then the Inspector-General would have to furnish a statement respecting the annual expenditure on the Customs Service. He had hitherto received a lump sum every year, for which he rendered no accounts. On my expressing my surprise at this system, Mr. Tang assured me that what he said was true, and added that he had not the remotest idea of the amount of Sir R. Hart's salary. The Customs statistics, he went on to say, were not full enough. For instance, it would be advantageous to have returns showing the country of origin of goods imported, the nationality of the persons handling them, and the flag of the ship they were carried in.\n\nHis Excellency finally begged me to believe his word that no changes beyond those on the lines which he had indicated, and which were for the obvious improvement of the Customs Service, were contemplated. As my visit had been somewhat protracted, I then took leave of his Excellency, as there was evidently little to be gained by further discussion at the time of the question on which I had come to see him.\n\nIn the course of the same day I received your telegram No. 140 of the 2nd August, and as Mr. Campbell was to see Mr. Tang in the evening on other business, I asked him to revert to my conversation of the morning, and to endeavour to obtain some more satisfactory statement.\n\nAfter traversing much the same ground as I had, Mr. Campbell ultimately prevailed on his Excellency to promise that he would verbally instruct Sir R. Hart to issue the Circular in the sense I had requested. He declined to write to Sir Robert on the subject, though pressed to do so. I had the honour to report the above in my telegram No. 149 of the 5th instant.\n\nI requested His Majesty's Consular Representatives at Shanghai and Amoy to ascertain confidentially if any instructions had been received by the Commissioners of Customs at those ports in regard to the two matters which I had mentioned to Mr. Tang. The reply from Sir P. Warren bore out what his Excellency had told me respecting the publication of statistics, while Mr. O'Brien-Butler's report failed to show that there had been any departure from established precedents.\n\nMr. Gardner, acting agent of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank here, gave me confidentially copy of a letter written to him by Sir Robert Hart, which I have the honour to inclose. It will be seen that the Inspector-General is not sanguine as to the future. He briefly reviews the various aspects of the present situation, and puts the question whether the Inspectorate is to become the trustee of the bondholders, and the protected representative of the will of the Treaty Powers, or to remain a purely Chinese office.\n\nLooking at the matter from his own standpoint, and taking into account the welfare of his service, he appears to come to the conclusion that the less the Legations interfere the more likely is the service to enjoy a peaceful though subordinate existence under the Shui-wu Ch'u. Mr. Gardner also left with me copy of an extract from a letter from Sir R. Hart to Sir R. Bredon, inclosed herewith, summing up in a few words the views of the former on the attitude which the Inspectorate should adopt under existing circumstances.\n\nAs I had the honour of stating in my telegram No. 147, I am in communication with Sir R. Hart, whose opinion I asked respecting the new instructions and the general position of affairs. I beg to inclose copy of his reply, in which he sets forth the various arguments which may be urged for or against the right of the Chinese Government to place the Customs under the new Revenue Council, which, as he himself admits, has not yet taken any steps which can be considered contrary to the engagement contained in the Loan Agreements.\n\n3\n\nI also informed Sir R. Hart of the statement made to me by Mr. Tang that he was at perfect liberty to issue a Circular containing the verbal assurances given him by the Administrators-General, if he considered such a course advisable. I inclose copy of a letter I have just received, in which Sir Robert explains why he has deferred taking any action so far, and indicates that he will find an opportunity to issue the Circular and to put its issue on record in despatches to the Shui-wu Ch'u and the Wai-wu Pu on his return to Peking. He also gives his views on the possible position of the Inspectorate-General in the future.\n\nIn acknowledging the receipt of these letters, I shall acquaint Sir Robert of the promise given by Mr. Tang to Mr. Campbell in regard to the issue of the Circular.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE,\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nDraft Instructions to the Inspectorate-General of Customs, Sir Robert Hart.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nWITH reference to the Imperial Decree commanding us to administer revenue affairs, we have already communicated to you the date on which these duties would be entered upon,\n\nHitherto all Customs affairs have been under the control of the Wai-wu Pu and Hu Pu (Board of Revenue). In obedience to the Imperial Decree, we have established the Shui-wu Ch'u (Revenue Council) for the special management of these affairs, and it will enter upon the administration thereof on the 22nd July. Thereafter all Customs affairs which in any way concern revenue business—over and above such as involve international relations, which shall continue to be transacted by the Wai-wu Pu, and the appropriation of revenue, which shall follow the directions of the Board of Revenue—shall be reported directly to this Council, to be considered and dealt with by it.\n\nWe have therefore to instruct the Inspector-General of Customs to act accordingly.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir R. Hart to Mr. H. G. Gardner.\n\nDear Mr. Gardner,\n\nAS being the bankers who issued the guaranteed loans, your people are, of course,\n\nPeitaiho, July 29, 1906.\n\ninterested in whatever touches the Inspectorate of Customs, especially as your Agreement contains a clause, approved of by Imperial Edict, stipulating that during the currency of the loans the constitution of the Customs shall not be changed; it is therefore natural for you to discuss the substitution of the new office of Shui-wu Ch'u for the old one, the Wai-wu Pu, to control Customs business and staff.\n\nIt is a many-sided question, and different people occupying different standpoints will take different views and arrive at different conclusions. Thus the banks will ask: \"Does the change damage loan security?\" The trading public will ask: \"Does it change the transaction of Customs business?\" Legations will ask how it affects their political interests; and the Inspectorate will be curious as to its effect on the standing, permanency, and efficiency of the service; and on all these points different people will differ in opinion.\n\nAs for loan security, an Edict only (P) pledges the Empire. As for current work, Chinese procedure and European differ. As for political interests, the Inspectorate has never been the agent, much less a tool, of any Legation; but its disappearance would be felt by all; it has been a convenience, and perhaps it has sometimes been felt to be an obstacle, although whatever it has done has been in general interests, and \"the most-favoured-nation\" clause has made favouritism and differential treatment impossible. As to the effect of the recent Edict on the Inspectorate, it will, of course, affect it in every way, lowering standing, limiting existence, and perhaps impairing efficiency by delaying work. But the real question we of the Inspectorate have to face is this: \"Are we to...\n\n[2146 aa-2\n\n21\n\nB 2\n\n752", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408882, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 584, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "# No. 49.\n\n## Hongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n**C.0 13570**\nGovernment House\nHongkong,\n16th March, 1907.\n\nI have the honour to state that in November last, in consequence of a report by the Post-master-General regarding the unsatisfactory nature of the Amoy Postal Agency Returns, the Assistant Local Auditor was sent to that Port to investigate the matter.\n\n2. He found from a detailed examination of the accounts, which were in a state of great confusion, that a sum of $1,451.14 was missing, regarding which Mr. J. A. R. Mackinnon, at that time a member of His Majesty's Consular Service and Postal Agent at Amoy, could give no explanation. Mr. Mackinnon was accordingly called upon to refund this sum, and after pressure had been brought to bear upon him through F.P. E'Brien Butler, His Majesty's Consul, the money was recovered.\n\n3. It subsequently transpired that owing \n\n**RIGHT HONOURABLE \nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., \n&c.** \n800- \n8cc...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411575, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nMeanwhile the number of Indians, which had fallen to about 160, or forty below the normal standard, has been increased by thirteen, who have been recruited from India by the police cadet sent from Shanghae for the purpose, and another draft of fifty is expected to arrive in a few weeks. These new men are all under the old terms of service.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \n**PELHAM WARREN**.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n### Extract from the Police Daily Report of March 11, 1907.\n\n#### Attack by Armed Robbers.\n\nAT 2 A.M. on the 11th instant Ling Ong Gaw, dog-cart coolie, reported at the West Hongkew station that a number of armed natives had attacked Police-constable 286 (native) on the Elgin Road. constable Butler, who was on charge-room duty, went into the compound and met Police-constable (72) Morrow coming into the station, and told him to go round to the Elgin Road at once. A few minutes after he heard a police whistle, followed by the report of fire-arms. Inspector Chilver and the foreign and Indian sergeants and constables were called and sent out armed. Police-constable Austin, who was first out, found Police-constable (72) Morrow lying on the ground in the Cunningham Road, apparently shot dead. The ambulance was sent for, and the police-constable removed to hospital, where he was examined by Dr. Marshall, who pronounced life to be extinct. The roads and vacant ground in that part were searched, but no traces could be found of the robbers. Twelve empty cartridge cases were found at the junction of Elgin and Cunningham Roads.\n\nPolice-constable 286 reports that at 2 A.M. he noticed a number of men coming along the Cunningham Road from the direction of the railway, and before he could give an alarm he was seized from behind and thrown on the ground, and threatened that if he made a noise he would be shot. There was a hole dug at the side of the road, presumably for replacing a gas lamp, into which they put the constable, and placed a shutter over him. One of the robbers stood over the top. The gang then broke into shop No. 162-163, Elgin Road, and robbed it of a large quantity of money and clothing, value at present unknown, and ran away into the country.\n\nOn being informed at 2 A.M. of what had taken place, I proceeded at once to the West Hongkew Station, and after examining the shop-people and searching the neighbourhood for traces, I dispatched three different parties in pursuit of the gang. Traces have been found in certain spots, but owing to the heavy rain which fell at 4 A.M. there will be considerable difficulty in following these up. This matter being one of great urgency and importance, I have acted without consulting the native authorities, and have instructed the various parties to arrest on suspicion, and in the event of resistance to use their arms without hesitation. In this connection I have to point out the very serious danger, with small means of coping with it, to which the police in certain of the outlying districts are exposed at night. Armed only with a truncheon, and a whistle to summon assistance, they have to deal with organized gangs of desperate ruffians in possession of fire-arms. I propose, with the approval of the Watch Committee, to arm with carbines or revolvers and ball ammunition all the foreign and a select number of Indian police on second night duty (11 P.M. to 6 A.M.) in the Bubbling Well, West Hongkew, Hongkew, Wayside, and Yangtsepoo districts.\n\nAn inquest was held at the mortuary, Fearon Road, at 11 P.M. to-day by His Majesty's Coroner, and adjourned till 10 A.M. to-morrow.\n\n(Signed) **K. J. McEUEN**, \nActing Captain Superintendent.\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n### **CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n74 \n[April 20.]\n\n### SECTION 4.\n\n(12747)\n\n#### No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 20.)**\n\n(No. 116.) Sir, \nPeking, March 5, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you copies of two despatches from His Majesty's Acting Consul at Newchwang and His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden which have an instructive interest as showing the methods by which the Japanese are turning to account the advantages they acquired in Manchuria under the plea of military necessity during the late war.\n\nMr. Tebbitt reports that the large tract of land acquired in the vicinity of the port by the Military Administration has been transferred to the South Manchurian Railway Company, and Mr. Fulford's despatch gives the Regulations under which these Railway Settlements in Manchuria are to be administered. As Mr. Fulford points out, this procedure will relieve the Japanese Government of the necessity of coming to any arrangement with China on the point.\n\nThis appropriation of land at compulsory rates for military purposes is one of the features in the conduct of the late war which does least credit to Japan, and its retention afterwards for civil purposes seems hardly defensible. But it has enabled her to settle on easy terms large numbers of her surplus population in both Corea and Manchuria, and these oversea Settlements, being in close touch with the motherland, are a powerful factor in consolidating Japanese influence on the continent. In China and Corea, Japan has everywhere shown a tendency to have separate Settlements for her people, and has seldom evinced any desire to co-operate with other nationalities in the matter of residence. Each of these Settlements on the railways in Corea soon becomes a small Japanese Colony, and the same policy is apparently being pursued in Manchuria. People living in such conditions and in such close proximity to their home markets have a great advantage over Western competitors, and must eventually monopolize a large share in the trade of Manchuria. The foreign residents in Manchuria number a few hundred, whereas there are now 34,452 Japanese settled in the country.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \n**J. N. JORDAN**.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n#### Acting Consul Tebbitt to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 8.) Sir, \nNewchwang, February 19, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that at a recent interview with Mr. Segawa, the Japanese Consul, I endeavoured to elicit some information as to the exact status of the so-called Japanese Concession.\n\nMr. Segawa, in reply, informed me that the place was not a Concession. The land purchased in that neighbourhood by the Military Administration (it is said at a compulsory price of 130 dollars, war notes, per mou) was, on the cessation of the military occupation of Newchwang, transferred to the South Manchurian Railway Company. It is therefore merely an extension of the Company's existing property. As such the land will be under the jurisdiction of the Company as soon as the Military Administration hands over the railway (presumably about the 1st April). In the meantime the land is controlled from Dalny, the headquarters of the Military Administration, and is not under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Consul. Mr. Segawa seemed to resent this arrangement, especially as he has no control over the Japanese settlers, to whom this newly acquired land has been leased on easy terms. There are about 700 Japanese there, and from 2,000 to 3,000 in Yingkow. Houses are being built, and a Municipal Council of ten members has been created, subject to the veto of the Governor-General of Kwantung.\n\n[2450 u-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415340, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "## \nThe Secretary of State must be kept fully informed and his wishes respected. We must be \nchary of over-ruling, and even of amending without his whole-hearted concurrence. There must be no room for \nhim to say that we have refused to give him what he \nasked for.\n\nThe Crow Agents will occupy their normal position of agents, carrying out the instructions of \nthe High Commissioner, or of the Secretary of State (acting on his behalf). \nThe Consulting Engineers will not have any \nresponsibility, except that of giving advice on such \nspecific points as may be referred to them, or recommending candidates for appointments when they are \nasked to do so.\n\nWe have practically said this already in \nour letter to the Crow Agents and our despatch to Sir D. Girouard on `Treasury/28160`, of which prints \nare attached.\n\nI do not think the S. of S. should be said to act on behalf of Governor.\n\nR.\n\nA. including the list of materials Inclosed in this \nletter.\n\nI say that a copy of their letter and our reply is being sent to the High Commissioner; and send the High Commissioner a copy of the correspondence accordingly for \nhis information and guidance.\n\nIt is in the spirit of this minute that we \nhave dealt with the indents already received (forwarding to the Crow Agents for compliance indents for nearly £200,000 worth of materials without criticism or comment) and that we should proceed to deal with the \ndemands for staff that are now rolling in.\n\n(Intd) E.G.A.B. \nSept. 19 \n(Intd) C.S. \nSept.20\n\nReply that the position of Messrs Baker and Shelford with regard to the Baro-Kano \nRailway will be as stated at A above, and that all initiative in the matter both of materials and staff \nwill rest with the High Commissioner, and approve \nof the Crow Agents asking Messrs Baker and Shelford to furnish the drawings referred to, and \nasking the C.A what they propose as to remuneration.\n\nI discussed the question of Consulting Engineers with Sir P. Girouard, and his views as to their position are in accordance with what is proposed in paragraph 2 of this letter. He did not endorse the view that Consulting Engineers are unnecessary, but he thought that they should be employed only to the extent suggested by the Crown Agents and (in other words) by Mr Butler; and he was anxious to make use of Mr Shelford's experience by employing him as the Consulting Engineers on that footing.\n\nWe may, therefore, write to the Crow Agents approving of what they say in paragraph 2 and send a copy of the correspondence (including the list of materials) to the High Commissioner.\n\n(Intd) R.L.A. Sept. 20 \nat once.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417707, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 419, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "COPY.\n\n456. Confidential.\n\nFenton.\n\n.50.\n\nPEKING.\n\nC. C.\n\n45125\n\n9 DEC 08\n\n14 October 1908.\n\n415\n\ncir,\n\n41499\n\nNOV 28 1909)\n\nThe question of a joint working agreement for the British and Chinese sections of the Canton-Kowloon railway was touched upon in the correspondence enclosed in my despatch to you No.389 of September 2nd 1908.\n\nI have now received from His Majesty's Consul General at Canton copy of a confidential memorandum which has been drawn up by Mr. Butler Wright, Chief Accountant of the Chinese section, and which appears to contain a clear statement of the subject. A copy of Mr. Jordan's despatch enclosing this memorandum is forwarded herewith for your information.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nwith the highest respect,\n\nRight Honourable\n\nSir,\n\nyour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nSir Edward Grey, Bart., H.P.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nJ.N.Jordan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 727, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]** \n\n4 \n\nThere does not appear to be any insurmountable difficulty why the Kowloon section should not be placed under the working management of the British General Manager at Canton under a satisfactory agreement which will safeguard the mutual interests of the contracting parties. It is hardly likely that the Chinese Government will agree to the British management of their line from the frontier to Canton, seeing that this section will eventually be linked in with the rest of the main line to Hankow, now under experimental construction, the completion of which may perhaps eventually become an Imperial project.\n\nSeptember 25, 1908.\n\n(Signed) \nW. BUTLER WRIGHT.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[3489]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n722 \nTT287 \nRECR\n\nJanuary 28. \n1 APR OS \nSECTION 1.\n\n## Sir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 26)\n\n**(No. 19.) (Telegraphic.)** P.\n\nParis, January 26, 1909. \nI HAVE seen Mr. Addis and communicated to him the message in regard to the Hankow-Canton Railway Loan which was contained in your telegram `No. 43` of the 24th instant. Mr. Addis has had two meetings with the French group, the results of which are as follows:\n\n1. The French group do not raise any objection to the proposed participation of a German group as far as finance is concerned.\n2. They do not dispute the existence of British preferential rights as regards the supply of material and the appointment of engineers.\n3. They do not press the demand that the Belgian group should participate in the British share of the loan.\n\nMr. Addis has also seen the Minister of Finance. M. Caillaux accepted points 2 and 3, but raised objections to point 1 in regard to the participation of a German group, and he will consult the Minister for Foreign Affairs and his other colleagues on that point.\n\nMr. Addis will not leave Paris till to-morrow, when he will go to Berlin.\n\n`[2104 cc-1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 751, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# On the 26th Mr. Wei Han, in forwarding to Mr. Grove translation of a despatch from the Acting Viceroy, mentioned that a force of soldiers had left Canton on the 22nd instant, and on the 27th instant Mr. Grove received a telegram from Mr. Boothby, district engineer-in-charge of section 2, reporting the arrival at Shektan of 100 soldiers.\n\nMr. Wei Han informed me yesterday that he has every hope that this display of force will have the desired effect in overawing the unruly villagers, and that construction work will now proceed without further interruption.\n\nWith Mr. Grove's permission, I have the honour to forward, as Inclosure No. 4, for your confidential information, an extract from his quarterly report referring to the manner in which the accounts are rendered by the chief accountant, Mr. Butler Wright.\n\nThis gentleman has lately, by his unseemly conduct both here and in Hong Kong, in particular by his frequentation of gambling-houses in Canton city, forfeited the friendship and respect of a large portion of the foreign community in Canton, and I venture to think the British and Chinese Corporation would under the circumstances be well advised to have Mr. Butler Wright's accounts audited at the earliest possible opportunity.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Dear Sir,\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Grove to Wei Han.\n\n**HARRY H. FOX.**\n\nJuly 21, 1909.\n\nIN continuation of my letter dated the 20th July, 1909, with which I enclosed copy of a letter from Mr. Boothby dated the 15th July, in which he described the condition of affairs at Shektan and Shekha, and mentioned the fact that the deputy specially appointed by the Viceroy in the beginning of June was powerless to remove certain buildings and obtain the right of entry on land which has been so urgently required for over nine months, I now beg to forward a copy of a telegram dated the 20th July. From this it is apparent that troops have not been sent to these places, neither has the magistrate given such assistance as he was instructed to give by the Viceroy.\n\nMay I ask that you will kindly ascertain from the Viceroy the reason for the delay in the arrival of the troops and the inadequate assistance given to the Viceroy's deputies by the Tsang Shing magistrate.\n\nI shall be glad of the favour of a reply as soon as possible.\n\n## Dear Sir,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n**FRANK GROVE.**\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nWei Han to Mr. Grove,\n\nJuly 26, 1909.\n\nI AM in receipt of a despatch from his Excellency the Acting Viceroy Wu, of Canton, which is stated as follows:-\n\n\"On the 12th instant I received a despatch from the Board of Posts and Communications. It is stated in this despatch that, owing to the obstructions caused to the purchase of land for the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the completion of the construction of the line would be delayed at least for six months, and the expenses for the construction would be increased by 500,000 dollars, and that it is an essential factor in the purchase of land for railway purposes that it be acquired at such a time that no delay to the constructional work is caused, and that he (the President of the Board of Posts and Communications) is informed that considerable obstructions are being raised against the land purchase for this Canton-Kowloon Railway by the villagers; therefore some delay must have been caused to the construction, and that as the foreign officer (the engineer-in-chief) has declared that not only will the expenses for the construction be increased should any delay be caused in the land purchase, but it is impossible to allow the villagers to continually raise persecutions against the railway, and that besides giving instructions to the Managing-Director Wei to give instructions to the land wei yuans, it is a matter of duty that he should send me this despatch asking me to give stringent instructions to all the district magistrates concerned that they should act with earnestness to give efficient support to the protection of the railway, and that they should give instructions to the gentry and elders of the various villages in proximity to the line that they should not cause any obstruction to the railway.\n\nWith regard to the land purchase of this Canton-Kowloon Railway, I (Acting Viceroy) understand that a telegram regarding the delay caused in the land purchase at Sheklung through the dilatoriness on the part of the owners, who expect to have a better rate, has lately been received from that board, and it will be remembered that, upon receipt of this telegram, you have been requested by letter to give me all the particulars of the land purchase, and that the district magistrate of Tung Kun has been instructed to act with earnestness to give adequate support to the protection of the railway, and that they should not allow the villagers to raise unnecessary difficulties against the railway,\n\nNow, besides giving instructions to the district magistrates of Pan Yu, Tung Kun, Tsang Shing, Sun On, &c., to act in conformity with the instructions of the board, that they should act with earnestness to give efficient support to the protection of the railway, and that they should at the same time give notice to the land-owners to make and hand over the sale deeds of all their lands required by this railway, and to accept the statutory rates of this railway for their lands; and that they must not make any frivolous demands which might cause trouble or impediment to the railway work, and they should also at once give stringent instructions to the villages in proximity to the railway that they should not cause any trouble to the railway, as it will make them liable to be punished.\n\n\"I now feel that it is incumbent on me to write this to you with the hope that you will kindly give instructions to the various land wei yuans to make immediate purchase of all the lands required, so as no impediment will be caused to the construction.\"\n\nOn receipt of this letter I beg to write this to you for your information and guidance.\n\nVery truly yours,\n\n**WEI HAN.**\n\nP.S.-Your letter No. 2749 and your letter No. 2754 have been duly received and contents noted. I understand that the force of troops dispatched by Admiral Li, with the instructions that they should station at the various important points of places, left Canton for the places, Shektan, &c., on the 22nd instant.\n\nWith regard to the removal of the houses, I had already dispatched a wei yuan for the district of Tsang Shing, with the instructions that he should act in conjunction with the district magistrate of Tsang Shing to have all the houses removed before the 11th day of the 6th moon of this year (27th instant). This wei yuan had personally reported to me yesterday that they had acted in conformity with my instructions, and it is expected that all the matters would be settled within those few days, so that the constructional work can be started without hindrance.\n\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nReport by Mr. Grove on the Canton-Kowloon Railway (Chinese section) for April, May, and June 1909.\n\n(Extract.)\n\n| Category | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Accounts | The detail rendering of construction account which, as I indicated in my last report, was placed by the chief accountant in the hands of Mr. Power, assistant accountant, upon his joining our staff in March, is now reaching an advanced stage, and figures are being prepared forming a general statement of expenditure against estimate up to the 30th June, thereafter such statement being prepared monthly for the information of myself and district engineers. This first completed statement will, I understand, be ready early in August, and will probably embody June's home expenditure. While I have not myself been handed figures of |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423422, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n### Mr. Grove to Taotai Wei Han\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nCanton, September 6, 1909.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI HAVE to return herewith the letters enclosed with your favour dated the 3rd September, 1909. Mr. Butler Wright's departure was very sudden - in fact, it amounted to his absconding from his duties and from his residence.\n\nI was unaware until Wednesday morning of any rumour to the effect that a departure to Japan on his part was intended, and this rumour, you will remember, I mentioned to you at the time. On Thursday morning, a further rumour reaching me, I at once asked Mr. Butler Wright what his intentions were, and upon learning that he intended asking your Excellency for leave on account of his health, I told him that he must wait until he had your permission to go, and that it would be necessary for him to make over all papers, bank books and accounts in a proper manner to Mr. Power, assistant accountant. His reply was that he would do so, and that he hoped to leave Shameen on Friday evening.\n\nHe actually left unexpectedly on Thursday evening, and simply announced to yourself and myself that he had gone away for about three weeks' holiday on medical advice.\n\nOn Friday morning Mr. Power, assistant accountant, found a letter from Mr. Butler Wright in which was the key of the chief accountant's safe, and the request was made that his (Mr. Butler Wright's) duties might be taken over by Mr. Power.\n\nUpon examination of certain papers it was discovered by Mr. Power and communicated by him to me that there was evidence of the improper handling of large sums of money, the property of the Railway Administration, and I thereupon proceeded to the British consulate and laid the case before the British consul, who, after satisfying himself that the evidence was absolutely convincing, issued a warrant for the arrest of Mr. Butler Wright on the charge of embezzlement and misappropriation of funds.\n\nI communicated with the joint agents, the British and Chinese Corporation, Hong Kong, by telegram on Friday, and, on their advice, procured the issue of the warrant referred to, and on Saturday I called at their office in Hong Kong and personally saw Mr. Gresson, who, together with myself, paid a visit to the police authorities.\n\nUpon ascertaining that Mr. Butler Wright had left by the \"Tenyu Maru\" for Shanghae, touching at Keelung, Formosa, Mr. Gresson sent certain cables with the view of the prevention of his landing at Keelung, as Great Britain has no extradition treaty with Japan. It was, however, ascertained later that the vessel had touched at Keelung and afterwards proceeded to Shanghae with Mr. Butler Wright as a passenger. Cables had already been sent in anticipation of this, and this afternoon (Monday) we learn of his arrest at Shanghae.\n\nThe case will probably be tried before a special Court at Shameen, Canton, in the British Consulate, and I was informed this morning by Mr. Fox that the Crown (Rex B.) would probably prosecute.\n\nWith reference to the total amount of the defalcations it is at present impossible to give a figure of any degree of accuracy. In a few days Mr. Power, who is now working in the matter in conjunction with the auditors already engaged in the office, will, I hope, be able to communicate it to your Excellency.\n\nIn connection with the audit I may say that a complete verification of accounts to date will be shortly forthcoming in addition to an exposure of defalcations. The general statement of expenditure against estimate is already completed for all districts to the 30th June, and will soon be brought up to the 31st August last, so that your Excellency can, I think, rest assured that a thorough clearing up of all matters is in hand, which may go some way to obliterate the memory of the extremely regrettable occurrences reported upon in this letter.\n\nYours, &c.\n\nFRANK GROVE.\n\n## No. 1\n### Mr. C. S. Addis to Foreign Office\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Bank, 31, Lombard Street, London, October 13, 1909.\n\nDear Sir Francis,\n\nSIMON writes that fresh instructions have been sent to M. Cambon to approach Sir Edward Grey with a view to joint diplomatic action at Peking in re the Szechuan Railway extension.\n\nIt appears that Cambon's instructions in the first instance were not sufficiently precise, and that this may account for the delay in his movements.\n\nI enclose a copy of Simon's letter.\n\nYours truly,\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1\n#### M. Simon to Mr. C. S. Addis\n\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine, Paris, le 12 octobre, 1909.\n\nCher Mr. Addis,\n\nD'une démarche faite ce matin au Quai d'Orsay j'ai retiré l'assurance que M. Cambon avait, dès le 1er octobre, été prié d'approcher Sir Edward Grey pour lui faire connaître le sentiment de notre diplomatie au sujet des affaires chinoises, ce sentiment étant d'ailleurs conforme à ce que je vous écrivais le 30 septembre.\n\nJ'ai cru comprendre que les instructions données à M. Cambon n'insistaient pas assez sur la nécessité de faire la démarche commune à Pékin avant toute réunion des banquiers ou même avant toute négociation nouvelle entre banquiers. Il est probable aussi que ces instructions n'indiquaient pas l'urgence des décisions à prendre, car aucune réponse n'a encore été reçue de notre Ambassadeur à Londres.\n\nJ'ai donc obtenu que l'on écrivît à nouveau aujourd'hui pour préciser les instructions et hâter la réponse. Ce n'est qu'après réception de celle-ci et avec l'appui de la diplomatie anglaise que les démarches pourront être faites à Berlin, puis enfin à Pékin. Tout ceci entraîne donc bien des délais et je crains que la situation de nos négociateurs à Pékin ne devienne bientôt un peu délicate; mais que pouvons-nous faire d'autre?\n\nCroyez-moi toujours, cher Mr. Addis, votre tout dévoué,\n\nH. SIMON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424053, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## SANITARY INSTITUTE, HEALTH PRIZE PRESENTATION\n\nThe Hongkong Daily Press, on the 13 preceding days, reported that the number of deaths was 38, and out of that, just about one half had died of infectious diseases. That, gentlemen, is a standing reproach to this Colony, and I am convinced we shall never succeed in putting a stop to it until we get the co-operation of the Chinese, and get them to show us how we can stop this thing without wounding their prejudices and violating the sanctity of domestic life. That is why I say to you that I hope those who have gained all the represented technical knowledge which is borne in mind by these certificates will bear in mind that a very great deal can be done by tact, common sense, and a little give and take in their dealings with those on whom they have to impress the primary laws of sanitation.\n\nThe local branch has done good work in trying to get the community to understand the value of sanitation, and to try to get them to work with us, and not to work against us. Mr. Carter is still the life and soul of the branch; he has all along had the interests of the branch at heart and has done all in his power to foster it. Our thanks are due especially to him and also to our local Secretary, Mr. Ralphs.\n\nA new departure has recently been made whereby lectures on special subjects shall be delivered at the room of the Institute by competent lecturers. These are open to anyone to attend. The President of the Hongkong Branch, His Excellency the Governor, who was supported by Lady Lugard, presided at the distribution of prizes of the Hongkong Sanitary Institute held two days ago.\n\nHis Excellency, in addressing the gathering, said: \"Gentlemen,—As Chairman of the Examiners, I thought it would be of interest to review the work accomplished by the local branch of the Royal Sanitary Institute since its formation five years ago, especially in connection with this movement to present the certificates. There are twelve in all; seven were obtained at the January Examination last year and five at the October Examination. Since then, a regular course of six lectures has been delivered, the attendants numbered 3441, giving an average of Inspectors' lectures. In addition to the lectures, practical demonstrations have been given at the Nuisance Depot and Slaughter Houses by Mr. Gibson and at the Station by Drs. Clark and Pearse. Visits have also been paid to the New Kowloon Waterworks, Green Island Cement Works, Aberdeen Brick and Electric Power Station, Wanchai Dairy Farm, and to new buildings under construction, etc.\n\nLectures on various practical subjects have been given by Messrs. Joseph Albert Buller, Harry Counts, Thomas Hynes, Robert Gardiner McEwan, Charles Walter Thornton Brett (Sanitary Dept.), John Mackay, and Samuel Robert Boyd Willis (Police Force), George Sergeant Major Hutton, and Sergeants Walter Henry Jones and Harry Williams (R.A.M.C.).\n\nThe following candidates have passed the Sanitary Science Examination: Mr. Albert Victor Parker, Public Works Department.\n\nThe following have lectured on Food Inspection: Messrs. Williams & Shinkwio, Mr. Gibson, Veterinary Surgeon, and Dr. Clark, Darby, and Grey of the P.W.D.\n\nThe Council have arranged a Syllabus for those who intend to become Sanitary Officers. The practical examination is for those who wish to obtain from the Institute a certificate certifying their knowledge of Sanitary Science. The Local Government Board, London, accepts this certificate as evidence that the person possessing it is qualified for the office of Inspector of Nuisances by urban or rural district councils outside London; it is also recognized by the Local Government Boards in Edinburgh and Dublin.\n\nThe following officers of the Sanitary Department have passed the Examination for Inspector of Nuisances since the formation of the local branch: J. Reid, W. H. Jolley, G. W. Coysh, C. W. Ward, R. Loan, C. E. Frith, D. J. Mokerzie, D. J. Falloran, R. G. McEwen, H. Coombs, J. A. W. Brett, T. Hynes, J. Mackay (since transferred to P.W.D.), G. Willis (since transferred to Police Dept.); H. J. Gidley, S. Gilley (who have left the Colony).\n\nThe following officers of the Public Works Department have passed this Examination: Messrs. Longstaff and S. R. Boyd.\n\nThe following officers of the R.A.M.C. have also been successful: Sergeant Major Hutton, and Sergeants Williams and Jones.\n\nSeveral candidates from the Army are attending the present course of lectures.\n\nThe following candidates in private employment have passed the Examination: Messrs. H. Lett, Naval Yard Extension Works; G. Phew, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire; C. Langton, Naval Yard; J. B. Winter, Hongkong Gas Company.\n\nIn all, there have been 39 candidates, 26 of whom were successful, a percentage of 66.6 passes.\n\nAt the conclusion of the presentation, His Excellency said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, it is some years now since certificates won by students of the Hongkong Branch of the Royal Sanitary Institute have been distributed publicly. The last occasion was, I think, in 1904, and on that occasion, my predecessor made a long speech in which he told you generally of the objects of the institution and the work which had been done. It was instituted in 1903 on the suggestion of Mr. Carter, and it took shape owing to the energy and organizing ability of its President, Dr. Atkinson, and of various other members of the Body of Examiners, many of whom are still on the Board.\n\n\"I think, gentlemen, that the value of an institution like this, affiliated to a great institution in England, is immense. The certificates can be obtained here and are recognized throughout the British Empire, and they can be obtained without the expense of a voyage home to a higher standard than the Inspection in England. They can be obtained in their leisure hours of the evening by the men who are still doing their work and earning their salaries. These are very great advantages.\n\n\"The Hongkong Branch has led the way in adopting that great principle of affiliation with institutions in England, which I think is of immense advantage to the Colonies, and of which I should like myself to see the Colonies take much more advantage. It is the principle which underlies the Oxford Local Examinations which we have in our schools here; it is the principle upon which the Hongkong College of Medicine intends to frame its future; and it is, as Dr. Atkinson said, the principle which I hope will find still further expression in the Hongkong University of the future (applause).\n\n\"The Sanitary Department of the Government absorbs a great deal of the revenue of the Colony, and consequently has a very considerable staff, and there are architects, builders, and others in the Colony who also require certificated engineers, and the number of these appointments offers inducements to candidates to come and learn and obtain certificates at this branch of the Royal Sanitary Institution.\n\n\"I think, therefore, that the governing body of the Board of Examiners of the Hongkong Branch may feel that they are rendering a great public benefit to the Colony, and I think that our thanks are most heartily due to the body of gentlemen who give their time and thought gratuitously, without any remuneration, to conducting these lectures day by day on these difficult subjects (applause).\n\n\"When I look, as I did just now, at this syllabus of lectures, the different themes of the lecturers appear to me to be so practical and so sound that I honestly wish I had the time myself to be admitted and to come and learn some of these things and endeavour to obtain a certificate (applause).\n\n\"I will not speak to you, gentlemen, now, on the necessity of encouraging sanitation in Hongkong; I will not give you a discourse on the lessons to be learned from the great outbreak of plague or of the great value of having an object lesson here in Hongkong for China. All these are great subjects, but they have grown somewhat hackneyed, and you have heard them discussed by speakers who have more authority than I have.\n\n\"I will only refer briefly to the labours of the Sanitary Commission who have spent their private time and laid this Colony under a great debt of gratitude to them. You have heard, no doubt, a great deal of discussion on their report, and I can tell you you are likely to hear a good deal more within the next week or two.\n\n\"There is only one point which I will allude to before I sit down, and it is this: I will say to those gentlemen I have just had the honour and pleasure of presenting with these certificates, that in their greater wealth of sanitary knowledge, they should not lose sight of the saving grace of common sense (applause). I think that sensible toleration is the most valuable sense a man can have; our rules are good, but not always easy to realize. By the exercise of common sense, a little give and take, and tact, men may often achieve results that are more valuable than all the rules of the text books. You may obtain these results without wounding the prejudices of others. It is your business here to endeavour to impress upon the Chinese community the value of sanitation.\n\n\"The local branch is now established in a suitable room at 7, Beaconsfield Arcade, where members can study. It is here that the lectures are given, and we have the nucleus of a library there. Another important fact is that it is now self-supporting. Generally speaking, the work of the Institute has been well supported.\n\nA vote of thanks to His Excellency, proposed by Mr. Parkins, seconded by Mr. Owen, was carried in the usual way, ended the proceedings.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "# 451\n\n*** \n\nA conversation took place. I argued that a certain line would be a detriment to the Kowloon-Canton Railway, but he did not think the Kowloon-Canton Railway could properly object to a line to Weichow, and eventually to Swatow or Amoy.\n\nHe was anxious to obtain a map of our line (`C.R.E.905-P`) with some figures regarding the cost of the principal works (Tunnel, etc.) in order that he might have some facts and figures to put forward if the Chinese complained of the excessive cost of the British Section. I said I would be glad to give him a copy of this map. A similar map, and a statement of capital cost showing the outlay on principal works would form an attachment to the Working Agreement. He said they, on their part, would soon be ready to supply a similar statement, as soon as they had evolved it from the chaos left by Butler-Wright.\n\n## 26th February, 1910\n\n**(Sd.) P. D. Lugard**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427326, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 410, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "7\n\naub\n\nI JI,2980.00\n\npd to aseeslo\n\nveru Ivon erit to oteer bns noisution dood lioħrajnvos.\n\ndun bexoty sd of oved blow aoaasio suoinsv edt 11s ntenfouro vas de virus of robro ni alictistavoo edt 0011 „be792 RÌ WOdef grasenaar vidi,ei Ji GÀ toys to mustani neidone ai vos\n\nWit- Lemieuloare adequoosai ai sit freq ;/seocomte so breg oft ni joc) gamot tead nid ai Jon1-\n\nball vec old no bettiqueq 973 orecair seuod gatrisod\n\nd of atingial guftuojui edd guind of cariapor si 182015 ono sat på før ((1) s) stoss 1981 to I :670) polisaf noxe **Î Its en petlovo 000! #jednog do don ́s Inn±000 130 mongolųra mno eid to genit 10 wt sy et al\n\n19lt to benipper al fada*\n\n) world) :'[rieges rentalso add of a shumglad body ČZZA\n\n+\n\nme notðlavey ons ecf110 aid of ton 10 congas 23 (1) otoketvong add to erfonand not 63 :Jues af\n\n? . ה:*\n\nud arhimi tejaival s SUT ARLO UN 0001 MĚ I\n\n3\n\noyed etterbit off toldwWini\"gol badiroseb pa sex botoegaui pro whit deile, to wobniz a13\n\nVi mi dito n brenglað eðal edd no dowuje axorebrum e vd The mileoup of Butler wody Juergiad\n\nmalos wall one 3 cency bae\n\nMpeanoo Pew tegen siit\n\nBrusco vllaudos teda\n\n2:\n\nquoone\n\n1\n\nzu befosco nezd w flooo. 911* nd taco si mo! Jrenaqqs jon ai” sollevetag yas quiteto.nt as bae\"\n\n:\n\n(yon 1 fubfw) abubupon-\n\nalba na rei oa) son one\n\nPara: 6.\n\n: 407 5\n\n\"What is your name ?\" such elementary and obvious questions as \"How old are you?\" \"What is the name of your native village ?\"\n\n\"Where are you going to ?\" \"What are you going to do when you get there ?\"-- \"Who is paying for your passage ticket ?\" \"Do you want to go ?\" \"Have you any complaints to make ?\" \"Have you ever been there before ?\"\n\nOf course this could easily be done, but the result would infallibly be to drive free emigration to the Coast Ports, where less supervision is exercised, and to adversely affect the revenue of the Colony. That this is no idle idea is evidenced by the well-known fact that the trial, in 1894, of finger prints, as a means of preventing personation, had that effect, and had to be abandoned.\n\nPara: 7. (Mr Percsbois' 9 and 10). Last sentence. I do not think this is so. I have devoted considerable time and trouble to this point, and cannot find a single instance of arbitrary or unnecessary delay.\n\nPara: 8. I have already dealt with this matter, except the recommendation in the last sentence. Experience shows that Junk and Boat people would come to the office at any time, day or night, that it happened to be open, if it suited them to do so, but that the existing hours seem to suit the majority best.\n\nParas: 12, 13, and 14. The recommendations here are not practicable, and are based on insufficient knowledge of the subject.\n\nDo these gentlemen really expect me to sit, as Marine Magistrate, in a room in which two typewriters are constantly clicking, telephone bells ringing and conversations constantly going on, and into which Passage Brokers, Shipmasters, Ship owners, Chinese Merchants, Launch coxwains and engineers, &c: &c:, are constantly coming to transact their business? And do they imagine, for an instant, that the clerks in this \"general office\" would get any work done at all while I am trying a case? As to the idea of my trying Marine Court cases in my private office, the thing is ridiculous.\n\nAs well suggest to the Chief Justice that his Chambers be made a public room, into which not only counsel and solicitors, but reporters, witnesses, assessors, and the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428150, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "C.O.\n\n74\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n2765\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[46951]\n\n(No. 23.) Sir,\n\nRece[ived] December 28 JAN 10.\n\nSECTION 8.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 28.)\n\nYünnan-fu, November 15, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith copies of two despatches which I have sent to His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the Yunnan Provincial Assembly.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 46.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYünnan-fu, October 30, 1909. IN compliance with your telegraphic instructions, I have the honour to furnish you with the following short report on the subject of the Yunnan Provincial Assembly. Sixty-two members in all were elected, being 4 from each of the 14 prefectures of the province, with one, or even two, extra members from the larger and more thickly-populated prefectures. Yunnan prefecture has returned 6 members.\n\nThe first meeting took place here on the 14th instant, when the chief officials and over 100 of the gentry of the province were present.\n\nMr. Chang Wei-ts'ung, a provincial graduate and expectant district magistrate of T'ung-hai district, Lin-an prefecture, was elected president; and Messrs. Chang Shih-hsun, a salaried senior licenciate and expectant assistant sub-prefect of Shih-p'ing department, Lin-an prefecture, and Tuan Tzu-ch'ing, a provincial graduate and expectant second-class assistant magistrate of an independent department of Pao-shan district, Yung-ch'ang prefecture, were elected vice-presidents.\n\nThe president is to be paid 80 dollars, the vice-presidents 60 dollars each, and the ordinary members 20 dollars each, for their services.\n\nThe present session is to last forty days. All subjects are to be opened by the Viceroy, and reports of the decisions arrived at are to be forwarded by him to Peking. The debates are to be published in the local newspapers.\n\nThe first subject for discussion is that of the levying of taxes for the support of schools.\n\nA corresponding secretary resides in each prefectural city, with under-secretaries in the various towns subordinate to him. Their duty is to collect information on current topics and forward it to the assembly here. Their salaries vary according to the locality to which they belong.\n\nI understand that the people of this city are very disappointed that none of their representatives were elected to office in the new assembly, and the officers of the Government here, both provincial and local, are correspondingly pleased.\n\nI hope at a future date to furnish you with more information on the subject of the Yunnan Provincial Assembly, more especially with regard to its practical working, and also with a report on the Kueichou Provincial Assembly.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 49.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYünnan-fu, November 12, 1909. WITH reference to your instructions that I should keep you informed regarding the progress made in my consular district of parliamentary institutions, I have the\n\n[2548 ee-8]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nhonour to report that I paid a visit to the Yunnan Provincial Assembly last Monday, the 8th instant.\n\nHaving informed the Bureau of Foreign Affairs beforehand of my intention to attend a sitting of the assembly, Mr. Wong, the English interpreter attached to the bureau, called for me shortly after 9 o'clock, and accompanied me to the Yunnan Guild House, which is being used temporarily as an assembly house until a special building has been erected.\n\nI entered the guild house through a gateway surmounted by a couple of dragon flags with crossed staves and guarded by two sentinels in modern quasi-European uniform, who presented arms as I passed, and on my alighting from my chair I was received by Mr. Nieh, one of the members for Tung-ch'uan prefecture, in the north-east part of this province. This gentleman conducted me to a small waiting room, the walls of which were ornamented with maps and botanical diagrams, where the usual tea and cigarettes were offered to me. Here I was joined by three French visitors, and a few minutes later Mr. Chang, the president of the assembly, a little old man of 70 with a long thin white beard, came into the room. He made a few remarks to me about the assembly not being quite in working order yet, everything being in consequence very rough, and I made a few deprecatory remarks in reply; and in a few minutes' time, 10 o'clock having struck, we all adjourned to the assembly hall.\n\nHere my French companions and I were conducted up some stairs to what was formerly a private box in the theatre of the guild house, directly facing the presidential table on the stage, and with the seats for the ordinary members in the stall space below me.\n\nI observed that the back of the stage was covered by a large yellow curtain, on and over which were posted the imperial edicts relating to the constitution and conduct of provincial assemblies. Directly in front of this screen was a seat for the Viceroy, and on each side near the corners of the stage were two similar seats, intended for any of the high provincial authorities who might desire to be present at any sitting. On the occasion of my visit these three chairs were unoccupied. In the centre of the stage was a long table with three chairs for the president and vice-presidents, and immediately fronting this were a desk and a chair, intended for members addressing the assembly in set speeches. On the left front of the stage were a table and chair for the chief secretary, and the corresponding place on the right was occupied by a large blackboard.\n\nImmediately below the orator's tribune was a table at which two reporters were sitting, and on it was a ballot-box. In the stalls' part of the theatre were some sixty or seventy chairs and desks ranged in semi-circles facing the stage, with a broad gangway up the centre and smaller paths between every two or three seats at the sides. The names of the members were written in small characters on the backs of their chairs.\n\nUnder the galleries, running round the three sides of the building not occupied by the stage, was a large open space, which seemed to be the particular domain of the sergeant-at-arms, in the shape of a portly officer of police in a new European-style uniform.\n\nIn the side galleries were rows of plain desks and chairs intended for ordinary visitors; and in the distinguished visitors' box in the centre were a few silk-covered seats and desks covered with green baize similar to those intended for the members below.\n\nThe hall was well lighted by large glass windows in the sides and smaller windows round the square-raised roof in the centre.\n\nI counted thirty-eight members present besides the president and the two vice-presidents, and exclusive of Mr. Nieh, who remained upstairs with me and the other visitors. They were arranged according to age, the oldest occupying the front seats. All wore official hats, and most of them had gold or silver buttons; one old gentleman seated in the front row near the blackboard being conspicuous by having a red button and peacock's feather. I was told that he was a Mr. Ting, member for Ho-ch'ing Chou in Li-chiang prefecture, in the north-west of the province, formerly salt comptroller in the Liang-huai region of Chiang-su and Anhui.\n\nThe chief secretary chalked on the blackboard the subject for the day's discussion, which was what arrangements for the future were to be made with regard to the funds of the Yunnan Bank, which had failed; and after a pause a member left his seat, and, ascending some steps at the side of the stage, advanced to the tribune, and, with a bow to the president and his colleagues in front of him, commenced to speak. He was followed by two other speakers, and then a general discussion took place. Everyone appeared to speak very naturally, with quiet dignity, and very little gesture; and even in the general discussion only one member spoke at a time. The speeches were practically extempore, very slight use being made of the notes which the speakers placed on the table before them. Altogether, I was much struck by the air of seriousness and sense of responsibility which seemed to pervade the whole assembly.\n\n3\n\nThe president did not say, and did not appear to do anything; the vice-president on his right took copious notes the whole time, while the other vice-president appeared to devolve the duties of a speaker in our sense of the term, questions addressed to the chair being answered by him. Both vice-presidents were comparatively young men, the one being 40 and the other only 35 years of age.\n\nAt about half past eleven Mr. Nieh invited me and my companions to go downstairs and have some refreshment, so I had to leave the hall before any voting on the subject under discussion took place. Chinese cakes and sweet champagne followed, and shortly before noon I left for home.\n\nIn my despatch No. 46 of the 30th October I stated that 62 members in all were elected, and that Yunnan prefecture had returned six members. I was informed by Mr. Nieh and Mr. Wong that the total number of members was 68, and that Yunnan prefecture had returned 10 members.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n75", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428171, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[46952]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n95\n\n2765\n\nREC Jan 28 10\n\n[December 28.]\n\nSECTION 6.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Buller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 28.)\n\n(No. 24.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, November 18, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith a copy of a despatch which I have sent to His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of Chinese railway undertakings in this province.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 49.) Sir,\n\nConsul General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYünnan-fu, November 17, 1909. WITH reference to my telegram No. 14 of the 3rd instant, I have the honour to report that the American engineers Dawlay and Hawkes arrived at Yunnan-fu on the 27th October. A number of consultations took place at once between them and the directors of the Chinese Railway Company regarding railways in Yünnan generally and more particularly the projected line to Sui-fu or its neighbourhood in Szechuan.\n\nThey have already been away from the city on two surveying excursions. On the first, which occupied three days, they examined the country as far as Ta-pan Ch'iao, 40 li (some 13 or 14 miles) to the eastward; and on the second they devoted six days to a survey of the country in a north-easterly direction as far as Sung-ming Chou, 120 li (about 40 miles) distant.\n\nMy informant tells me that the question now to be decided is whether work shall be commenced at once on railways to the above-mentioned two places, or a complete survey of the line to Szechuan be made first. The engineers themselves think that if the latter course is pursued the company or the Provincial Government will in the end be deterred altogether from constructing the line by the enormous outlay that it would entail.\n\nI have not as yet seen either of the two American gentlemen; they may think it advisable to avoid me, and it is possible that they have received a hint to do so.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n[2538 ee 6]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428231, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": ".22 \n\ndeputies were elected, distributed as follows among the prefectures and departments of the province\n\nKuang-chou-fu Cha-chou-fu Chao Ching-fu Hui-chou fu.. \n\nKao-chou-fu Chiung-chou-fu Shan-Chou-fu Lieu-chon-fu Lei-chon-fu.. \n\nLo Ting-chou \n\n36 11 \n\ng \n\n} \n\nChia Ying-chou \n\nYang Chiang-chou \n\nLien-chou \n\nNan Hung-chou \n\nChin-chou \n\n1 \n\nYai-chou \n\n1 \n\nManchu Garrison of Canton \n\n3 \n\n\"The majority of these are men who have served as officials, have some official rank and degree, or have been teachers. The mercantile class, pure and simple, seems unrepresented.\n\nNew Assembly Hall.\" The new assembly hall, which is built in foreign style at an estimated cost of 120,000 taels, is situated outside the east gate of the city of Canton. It was not ready by the 14th October, and indeed was first used by the assembly on the 6th November. Meanwhile, the assembly met at the old governor's yamên. The first day was spent on the opening ceremony, on the details of which much thought had been expended. Unlike some of the other provincial capitals, no foreigners were invited or were present at the opening. The official programme was as follows:- \n\nOpening Ceremony. At 8 A.M. on the 14th October, the deputies having all assembled, the governor-general left the reception room and took up his position with all the other provincial officials on the east side of the hall, the deputies facing him on the west side. Both parties then made three deep bows. The governor-general thereupon took his seat at the head of the ball. An official then asked his Excellency to begin the opening ceremony. The governor-general and his deputies stood up, and an official read out the opening address, after which another official read out the reply to the address. When the reply had been read out, the officials and deputies withdrew.\n\nElection of Officers and Standing Committee.-\"The next three or four meetings were spent on the election of the president, two vice-presidents, and nineteen members of the standing committee. For the post of president was selected one I-Hsüch-ching, a representative of Chao Ching Fu, a graduate and a man of excellent repute. Considerable difficulty was experienced in the election of the standing committee, as at first it was ruled that it was necessary to secure over a moiety of the votes of the full assembly before the election was valid. This was found impracticable, and it was not till it was decided that a moiety of the votes of those present was sufficient that the last six of the standing committee were elected.\n\n\"No business was transacted until the assembly were able to meet in the new hall, which was formally opened by the governor-general on the 6th November. The first business meeting was held on the 7th November.\n\nArrangement of Seats.-\"The arrangement of the deputies' seats is in a fan shape, in ascending tiers. Facing them is the rostrum, in front of which are seated the clerks. Behind the rostrum is seated the president flanked by the two vice-presidents. Behind him on a higher level is the governor-general's chair, and seats for the Tartar general, admiral, general, and the two lieutenant-generals. On either side of the deputies' seats are places for the various provincial and territorial officials.\n\nMandarin or Cantonese Dialect spoken in Debates.\" In speaking, either mandarin or Cantonese may be used, but whichever is used is translated into the other dialect by a clerk. Certain subjects for debate are submitted to the assembly by the Hui] Ting, a body established by the present governor-general on his arrival in Canton, consisting of the local, provincial, and territorial officials and the governor-general's foreign secretaries, but not including members of the assembly, though the latter are permitted to attend the meeting as spectators.\n\nProgramme of Business.\" So far the following subjects have been named- \n\nThe suppression of gambling.\n\n\"The abolition of the old police force.\n\n\"The reform of prisons.\n\n\"The application of revenue from family property towards the maintenance of establishments for carrying on the trade or handicraft of the family or clan.\n\n\"The establishment of workhouses.\n\n23 \n\n\"It is not apparent what the result of the assembly's deliberations will be on the reform movement, or what exactly are their powers beyond discussing these and kindred topics, and passing resolutions which they would transmit to the governor-general, to adopt or not as he might think fit.\n\nFriction between Assembly and Viceroy over Mode of Address in written Communications. -A slight friction between the assembly and the governor-general has arisen over the mode of address to be used in communications with each other. The governor-general ordered that he would communicate with the assembly in a 'cha wen,' while they would reply with a chao hui.' The objection to this was that to any han lin' among the deputies the governor-general would have to address a 'chao hui,' and the distinction was one derogatory to the dignity of the assembly as a whole. The desire is that both sides should communicate in chao hui' form. The matter has been referred to Peking.\n\nEstimated Expenses of Assembly.\"The annual expenses of the assembly have been estimated as follows\n\nSalary of president.. \n\nSalary of two vice-presidents \n\nSalary of nineteen resident deputies \n\nSalary of seventy-two other deputies Salary of clerks Miscellaneous expenses \n\nTotal \n\n:::::: \n\nYUNNAN, \n\nTaels. \n\n2,100 \n\n2,880 \n\n15,960 \n\n10,080 \n\n2,880 \n\n18,227 \n\n52,427 \n\nOpening-Little is known yet beyond that the assembly was duly opened on the 14th October, the chief officials and over 100 of the notables being present. The president and two vice-presidents are graduates and expectant officials. subject for discussion was the levying of taxes for the support of schools.\n\nThe first \n\nLocal Disappointment at Outcome of Elections.-1t is understood that the people of Yunnan city are disappointed that none of their representatives were elected to the assembly, and that the officials are correspondingly pleased.\n\nA report on the assemblies of Yunnan* (and Kueichou) is expected from His Majesty's consul-general.\n\nKUEICHOU.\n\nAssembly opened; Reported Protest by President.-A mere reference to the opening of the assembly at Kueilin on the 14th October is found in the foreign press, the native papers containing no information. A special building of foreign type has been erected, and it appears that the president was forced to make a vigorous protest against an attempted encroachment on the privileges of the assembly by the governor.\n\nNEW DOMINION.\n\nDifficulty of including New Dominion in the Scheme.The remoteness of the New Dominion, in conjunction with the wide difference of race and custom of the bulk of the population, which is scanty and scattered, must have suggested a doubt whether the inclusion of the region in a scheme of popular government was practicable or wise, but the central Government evidently considered that the political risk run by differentiating it from the rest of the Empire, and so perhaps facilitating a future separation, were greater than any immediate danger likely to arise locally from the new experiment. However, it is not surprising to find that the officers on the spot hold strong opinions against the adoption pure and simple of the scheme which is considered suitable for the eighteen provinces and Manchuria.\n\n----- \n\nAssembly formed in 1908 altered into Organisation Office. In a memorial published in the \"Official Gazette\"\" of the 14th June the governor of the New Dominion reported that, in obedience to the Imperial decree, an assembly was formed in July 1908, with a president and vice-presidents, but that on receipt of the rules and election law from the Constitutional Government committee, whose directions were to begin with an organisation office, the assembly was altered to an *(P.S.-This report has been sent to the Foreign Office directly by Mr. O'Brien-Butler.)\n\n154", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "(No. 48.) Sir,\n\n32\n\nAnnex 2.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYunnan-fu, November 12, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to your instructions that I should keep you informed regarding the progress made in my consular district of parliamentary institutions, I have the honour to report that I paid a visit to the Yunnan Provincial Assembly last Monday, the 8th instant.\n\nHaving informed the Bureau of Foreign Affairs beforehand of my intention to attend a sitting of the assembly, Mr. Wong, the English interpreter attached to the bureau, called for me shortly after 9 o'clock, and accompanied me to the Yunnan Guild House, which is being used temporarily as an assembly house until a special building has been erected.\n\nI entered the guild house through a gateway surmounted by a couple of dragon flags with crossed staves and guarded by two sentinels in modern quasi-European uniform, who presented arms as I passed, and on my alighting from my chair I was received by Mr. Nieh, one of the members for Tung-ch'uan prefecture, in the north-east part of this province. This gentleman conducted me to a small waiting room, the walls of which were ornamented with maps and botanical diagrams, where the usual tea and cigarettes were offered to me. Here I was joined by three French visitors, and a few minutes later Mr. Chang, the president of the assembly, a little old man of 70 with a long thin white beard, came into the room. He made a few remarks to me about the assembly not being quite in working order yet, everything being in consequence very rough, and I made a few deprecatory remarks in reply; and in a few minutes' time, 10 o'clock having struck, we all adjourned to the assembly hall.\n\nHere my French companions and I were conducted up some stairs to what was formerly a private box in the theatre of the guild house, directly facing the presidential table on the stage, and with the seats for the ordinary members in the stall space below me.\n\nI observed that the back of the stage was covered by a large yellow curtain, on and over which were posted the imperial edicts relating to the constitution and conduct of provincial assemblies. Directly in front of this screen was a seat for the Viceroy, and on each side near the corners of the stage were two similar seats, intended for any of the high provincial authorities who might desire to be present at any sitting. On the occasion of my visit these three chairs were unoccupied. In the centre of the stage was a long table with three chairs for the president and vice-presidents, and immediately fronting this were a desk and a chair, intended for members addressing the assembly in set speeches. On the left front of the stage were a table and chair for the chief secretary, and the corresponding place on the right was occupied by a large blackboard.\n\nImmediately below the orator's tribune was a table at which two reporters were sitting, and on it was a ballot-box. In the stalls' part of the theatre were some sixty or seventy chairs and desks ranged in semi-circles facing the stage, with a broad gangway up the centre and smaller paths between every two or three seats at the sides. The names of the members were written in small characters on the backs of their chairs.\n\nUnder the galleries, running round the three sides of the building not occupied by the stage, was a large open space, which seemed to be the particular domain of the sergeant-at-arms, in the shape of a portly officer of police in a new European-style uniform.\n\nIn the side galleries were rows of plain desks and chairs intended for ordinary visitors; and in the distinguished visitors' box in the centre were a few silk-covered seats and desks covered with green baize similar to those intended for the members below.\n\nThe hall was well lighted by large glass windows in the sides and smaller windows round the square-raised roof in the centre.\n\nI counted thirty-eight members present besides the president and the two vice-presidents, and exclusive of Mr. Nieh, who remained upstairs with me and the other visitors. They were arranged according to age, the oldest occupying the front seats. All wore official hats, and most of them had gold or silver buttons; one old gentleman seated in the front row near the blackboard being conspicuous by having a red button and peacock's feather. I was told that he was a Mr. Ting, member for Ho-ch'ing Chou in Li-chiang prefecture, in the north-west of the province, formerly salt comptroller in the Liang-huai region of Chiang-su and Anhui.\n\n33\n\n159\n\nThe chief secretary chalked on the blackboard the subject for the day's discussion, which was what arrangements for the future were to be made with regard to the funds of the Yunnan Bank, which had failed; and after a pause a member left his seat, and, ascending some steps at the side of the stage, advanced to the tribune, and, with a bow to the president and his colleagues in front of him, commenced to speak. He was followed by two other speakers, and then a general discussion took place. Everyone appeared to speak very naturally, with quiet dignity, and very little gesture; and even in the general discussion only one member spoke at a time. The speeches were practically extempore, very slight use being made of the notes which the speakers placed on the table before them. Altogether, I was much struck by the air of seriousness and sense of responsibility which seemed to pervade the whole assembly.\n\nThe president did not say, and did not appear to do anything; the vice-president on his right took copious notes the whole time, while the other vice-president appeared to devolve the duties of a speaker in our sense of the term, questions addressed to the chair being answered by him. Both vice-presidents were comparatively young men, the one being 40 and the other only 35 years of age.\n\nAt about half past eleven Mr. Nieh invited me and my companions to go downstairs and have some refreshment, so I had to leave the hall before any voting on the subject under discussion took place. Chinese cakes and sweet champagne followed, and shortly before noon I left for home.\n\nIn my despatch No. 46 of the 30th October I stated that 62 members in all were elected, and that Yünnan prefecture had returned six members. I was informed by Mr. Nieh and Mr. Wong that the total number of members was 68, and that Yunnan prefecture had returned 10 members.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428328, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 253, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nFILED TO FEB 10.\n\n[January 27.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\n[3099]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received January 27.)\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and begs to enclose, for the information of Sir E. Grey, a copy of a letter from the Chief Secretary to the Government of Burmah to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, dated the 4th December last, relative to railway matters in Yünnan.\n\nIndia Office, January 26, 1910.\n\nDear Mr. Butler,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nChief Secretary's Office, December 4, 1909.\n\nI AM desired to refer to the correspondence ending with this Government's letter dated the 11th November, 1909, relating to the proposed construction of a railway from Bhamo to Tengyueh. I am to forward, for the information of the Government of India, a copy of a demi-official letter, dated the 2nd December, 1909, from Mr. Rose on the subject. It contains some interesting information, illustrating the importance of improving communication between Western Yunnan and Burmah, if the trade is not to be entirely diverted by the French railway. The Government of India are aware that Sir Herbert White is in full concurrence with the views expressed by Mr. Rose as to the extreme urgency of the case and the importance of arriving at a speedy settlement of the negotiations with the Chinese Government on the subject of the proposed railway from Bhamo.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nYours, &c.\n\nW. F. RICE.\n\n(Semi-official.)\n\nConsul Rose to Government of India,\n\nTengyueh, December 2, 1909.\n\nI RETURN with many thanks the Yunnan Railway papers, several of which are new to me and are most interesting. I cannot help feeling that this is the one really important question before us, and that, once settled, it would prove easy to deal with the other matters now outstanding—the undelimited frontier and any treaty revision suggested by our economic needs (I refer especially to opium, salt, and grain). There is little new to add to the information now before you. As a sign of the times you may be interested to hear that the Japanese Foreign Office has just sent a man to Yünnan, and he will travel through the province chiefly with a view to introducing their cotton yarn. I hear also in this connection that the Japanese consul-general in Canton has been instructed to proceed to Tonkin to try and arrange rates and terms with the French railway authorities for transport to Yunnan-fu. A Japanese is being sent also from Yunnan-fu to Talifu to work up their trade there and to start a leather factory, under the patronage of the Provincial Government, if he thinks it will pay better there than at the provincial capital. These moves cut directly at our export of Burmah cotton and Indian yarn and our import of hides into Burmah.\n\nThe Japanese have evidently realised that, with the completion of the French railway—now a matter of a few months only—Talifu will be within twelve days of the railhead, whereas there are twenty mule stages to Bhamo, and the western route will no longer pay. Talifu is the collecting and distributing centre on which the\n\n[2581 dd--3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[9773]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC. O.\n\n525\n\nRESP\n\n[March 21.7K IC\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir Eduard Grey.-(Received March 21.)\n\n(No. 4. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nYünnan-fu, February 9, 1910. I HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith a copy of an opium report for December quarter, 1909, which I have sent to His Majesty's Minister at Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan,\n\n(No. 9. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, February 8, 1910. THE hopes of the inhabitants of this province that the new Governor-General, Li Ching-hsi, would relax the stringent regulations against opium cultivation were doomed to disappointment. His Excellency has let it be known that, while considering that his predecessor, Hsi-liang, was over-hasty in such drastic measures as he adopted to abolish the production and use of the drug, he regrets that he cannot do anything to alter them.\n\nWhatever doubts the officials may have had as to the Governor-General's attitude with regard to opium must have been set at rest by his depriving the magistrate of Ping-i of his office and his button as a punishment for his habitual disregard of the anti-opium regulations and for his more or less open connivance at opium smuggling across the border from Kweichow.\n\nAbout the beginning of October the magistrate of Ch'inpei (about 90 miles to the south-west of Yunnan-fu) seized some 20,000 oz. of opium (about 60 cwt.) smuggled from Kweichow, and burnt it at his district city. It is reported that the importer committed suicide to escape further punishment than the loss of his drug.\n\nThe magistrate of Amichow (on the railway between Yünnan-fu and Mêngtzũ) is reported to be particularly active in suppressing opium smoking. His police visit all the houses of the department city every night, in order to catch persons smoking opium and to discover opium-smoking implements.\n\nOn the 2nd November 17,379 pipes and 29,949 Chinese ounces of opium (about 16 cwt. 37 lb.) were publicly burnt on the execution ground outside the south gate of this city.\n\nSeveral missionaries whom I have consulted on the subject are unanimous in assuring me that in the course of their travels in this province they have not seen a single field planted with poppy. I understand, however, from Chinese that a small quantity of opium is still grown on patches of land hidden away in the mountains, far from highways and not nearer than ten or twelve days' journey from the provincial capital.\n\nIt appears to be an open secret that the Governor-General, formerly a heavy smoker—his daily dose being over a Chinese ounce (14 oz. avoirdupois)—has not been able to conquer his craving for the drug. He has only succeeded, so far, in reducing the quantity he consumes to about one-fifth of a Chinese ounce, which amount he smokes secretly every night.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n[2661 - -2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 577, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nas his Excellency Li Ching-hsi has since arrived at Yünnan-fu, we would earnestly suggest, for your Lordship's consideration, whether it would not now be possible to urge the Chinese Government to expedite a settlement, and to fix a date by which the British Government may expect to receive a final answer in the matter.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nMINTO.\n\nO'M. CREAGH. H. ADAMSON,\n\nJ. O. MILLER.\n\nW. L. HARVEY.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[11926]\n\nSir,\n\nG. FLEETWOOD WILSON, S. P. SINHA.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received April 8.)\n\n[April 8.]\n\nSECTION 1.0.\n\n12550\n\nRECS (Rect 28 PR 10\n\nIndia Office, April 7, 1910. IN continuation of previous correspondence on the subject of the Bhamo-Tengyuch Railway project, I am directed by Viscount Morley to forward herewith, for the information of Sir E. Grey, copy of correspondence which has been received from the Government of India.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nE. S. MONTAGUE.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment of Burmah to the Government of India,\n\nRangoon, February 23, 1910.\n\nI AM directed to solicit a reference to my telegram, dated the 2nd February, 1910, regarding the French railway to Yünnanfu.\n\n2. I am now to submit, for the information of the Government of India, a copy of a despatch, dated the 17th January, 1910, and of one of its enclosures (of the 15th January), from His Britannic Majesty's consul-general for Yunnan and Kuei-chou, on the same subject.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. F. RICE, Chief Secretary,\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to the Government of Burmah.\n\nJanuary 17, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith copies of my despatches of the 13th and 15th January, addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nJanuary 15, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch of the 11th December, I have the honour to report that the French railway is now within 60 kilom. of Yünnanfu, and is expected to reach here at the end of this month.\n\nAfter Iliang Hsien was passed it was found that the material supplied by the contractors for ballast on the continuation was so poor—being merely a mixture of sand and gravel—that work had to be stopped for a time at a point about 3 kilom. from that town, and all available construction trains were employed to bring fresh stone chip ballast from the south.\n\nThe defective ballast distributed along the railway-bed at this end is being replaced by granite chips ready for the arrival of the rails; and considerable activity is being displayed in completing the construction of the Yunnanfu passenger station, engine shed, and goods warehouses.\n\n[2706 h-1]\n\n574", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428895, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[20111]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n19141\n\n[June RECO SECO3.JUN TO]\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 6.)\n\n(No. 161.) Sir,\n\nPeking, May 21, 1910. WITH reference to my telegram No. 85 of the 26th April I have the honour to transmit herewith for your information copies of two despatches from His Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu, covering copies of correspondence exchanged between him and the Administrator of Foreign Affairs, in regard to the raid made by the Chief of Teng Keng on Pienma and certain other villages on the British side of the frontier claimed by His Majesty's Government.\n\nIn reply to the last sentence of your telegram No. 72 of the 5th May, I beg to state that His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh informs me that he despatched a full report on the situation on the 30th ultimo,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nYunnan-fu, April 15, 1910. WITH reference to Mr. Rose's despatches No. 3 of the 24th February and No. 7 of the 12th March, and to my telegram No. 9 of the 13th instant, I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a despatch which I addressed to the Administrator of Foreign Affairs in this city on the subject of the raid made by the Chief of Teng Keng on Pienma in Burmah, and copy of the administrator's reply contending that Pienma and certain other villages are not in Burmah, but actually in the Province of Yunnan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Shih.\n\nYunnan-fu, March 26, 1910. I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have received a despatch from the Government of Burmah, in which is enclosed copy of a letter addressed to the acting British consul at Tengyueh, relating to a raid which has recently been made by the Chief of Teng Keng, situated on the Salween in China, on certain villages on the British side of the frontier. Mr. Rose was requested to bring the facts to the notice of the taotai at Tengyueh, and request him to take immediate steps to procure the withdrawal from British territory of the raiders from Teng Keng, to punish the Chief of Teng Keng for his action, and to require the chief to compensate the raided villages for the injuries inflicted. The Government of Burmah further requests me to bring the matter to the notice of the Governor-General of Yunnan and Kueichou, and to move his Excellency to issue instructions in that sense to the taotai at Tengyueh.\n\nI have also received a despatch from Mr. Rose, forwarding to me copies of a petition which he has received from the raided villagers and of his despatch to the taotai at Tengyueh on the subject. Copies of these documents are appended to this despatch.\n\nIt appears from the petition of the villagers, and from information collected by the authorities in Burmah, that the Chief of Teng Keng with a force of 500 men\n\n[2788 ƒ-8]\n\nB\n\n234", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428896, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2;\n\nmade an armed raid across the frontier to Pienma, where he burned houses and looted property in five villages, carrying off all the cattle and other possessions of the villagers, that the raiders are still in occupation of the country, and that the chief has threatened certain other villages in the neighbourhood.\n\nApart from the fact that a serious breach of international courtesy has been committed, the action of the Chief of Teng Keng in raiding peaceable villagers, burning their houses and stealing their property is outrageous and reprehensible to the utmost degree. I have accordingly the honour to beg that his Excellency the Governor-General will send telegraphic instructions to the taotai at Tengyuch to comply with Mr. Rose's request that the chief be compelled to remove his men from British territory, and pay compensation to the raided villagers for the injuries inflicted, and further that he be severely punished for his illegal action.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER,\n\nMr. Shih to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler.\n\nYünnan-fu, April 11, 1910. THE Administrator of Foreign Affairs, Yünnan-fu, makes the following communication in reply to the British consul-general.\n\nThe administrator received some time ago a despatch from the consul-general, in which it was stated that a despatch had been received from the Government of Burmah, informing him that a letter had been addressed to the acting British consul at Tengyueh relating to a raid made by the chief of Teng Keng, situated on the Salween, in China, on Pienma and other villages, and requesting him to bring the matter to the notice of the Viceroy of Yün-Kuei, asking that instructions be issued to the taotai at Têngyüeh to take steps to suppress the raiders and obtain compensation for the raided villagers for the injuries inflicted. With the despatch were enclosed copies of the villagers' petition and Mr. Rose's despatch to the Tengyueh taotai.\n\nPienma was formerly under the magistrate of Yünlung Chou in Taili Fu, and afterwards was transferred to the jurisdiction of the magistrate of Paoshan Hsien, in Yungchang Fu; the fixed tax annually collected in 2 piculs and 4 tou of rice, and the village, it will be found from a memorial presented to the Emperor during the reign-period Tao Kuang, is under the direct control of the province of Yunnan. The tax is collected for the Government by the Chief of Teng Keng, who is under the orders of the magistrate of Paoshan sien, and the village pays annually as house tax 50 taels to Teng Keng, and also 100 taels transit dues on goods passing through are levied by the same chief.\n\nLast year the bad chiefs, Hsü Lin-Hsiang, Wu Chia-Yuan, and others, seduced the chiefs of the two places (Teng Keng and Pienma), and put their minds in a ferment, so there has been a dispute between them; but no burning, plundering or crossing of the frontier has occurred.\n\nThe villages Shanglou, Hsiachia, and Shihchia, or Langpung, are all under the control of the sub-prefect of Tengyueh, Ting, and during the Tao Kuang reign there was also a memorial on the subject, which can be referred to. They are now ruled by the chief of Tatang, and are not in the territory of Burmah. All the villages of Teng Keng, Pienma, Shanglou, Hsiachia, and Langpung, therefore, are within the territory of Yunnan, as the records can show. If there is any quarrelling between the villages the question is to be settled by the Yunnan provincial authorities alone, and does not concern the Government of Burmah. Now, the Government of Burmah says that these villages are under the control of Burmah, and that compensation is to be paid by Yunnan for the injuries inflicted, and the administrator really cannot understand the meaning of this, and it is impossible for him to agree to it.\n\nAgain, when the administrator reads Mr. Rose's despatch to the taotai at Tengyueh to the effect that the mouth of the Hsiaochiang River is Burmese territory he carefully refers to the records of his office, and finds that what Mr. Rose says is equivalent to the attempt made by the former consul, Mr. Litton, to encroach on Yunnan territory, which attempt was rejected by the Board of Foreign Affairs at Peking and the Government of Yunnan. At present, as the boundary-line has not been completely determined, both nations ought to keep to the boundaries within\n\n13\n\nwhich they now exercise jurisdiction. The place at the mouth of the Hsiaochiang River is really within the original boundary of Yunnan, and there is no doubt about this fact. As Burmese officials cannot secretly enter Chinese territory in order to put (down disturbances, still less can they wrongfully say that Pienma and other villages\n\nin Yünnan are within the territory of Burmah.\n\nIn the petition of the villagers there is an expression used to \"kneel and petition the foreign official, the consul.\" \"Foreign official,\" it will be found, is a general name given to officers of foreign countries by Chinese subjects. The ignorant people at the mouth of the Hsiaochiang River make the mistake of petitioning Mr. Rose, and Mr. Rose, not making investigation, again makes the mistake of saying that Pienma and other villages are within the territory of Burmah, and so demands compensation. Things get mixed, and misunderstanding prevails. The administrator, having carefully referred to the records and minutely investigated the circumstances on the frontier, cannot but declare the correct facts and rectify the error without delay, in order that matters may be made certain.\n\nThe taotai at Tengyueh has written to Mr. Rose in the same sense, and it is necessary for the administrator to ask the consul-general to have the wrongly presented petition rejected, and request Mr. Rose to say no more about these villages and the demand for compensation, and, further, to notify the Government of Burmah that it is not concerned in the matter, and that Yünnan is now settling the question itself.\n\nThe administrator writes this to inform the consul-general, with the earnest hope that he will take note and act accordingly.\n\n(No. 15.)\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien- Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nSir,\n\nYunnan-fu, April 27, 1910. WITH reference to the second enclosure in my despatch No. 11 of the 15th instant, I have the honour to forward to you copy of a despatch which I sent to the Administrator of Foreign Affairs in this city explaining how the term \"foreign official \" came to be used in the Pienma villagers' petition to Mr. Rose, and a copy of his reply,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Shih,\n\nSir,\n\nYünnan-fu, April 18, 1910. I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have sent copies of your despatch of the 11th instant, on the subject of the raid made by the Chief of Teng Keng on the village of Pienma, to His Majesty's Legation at Peking and to the Government\n\nof Burmah.\n\nIn the despatch in question you lay stress on the fact of the expression \"yuan kuan\" (foreign official) being used in the petition to Mr. Rose as showing that the petitioners were aware that they were Chinese subjects addressing an official of a foreign country. With regard to this point I would state as follows:-\n\n1. The inhabitants of Hpimaw and the other villages belong to a tribe having a language of their own, different from both Burmese and Chinese.\n\n2. They are evidently very simple and ignorant, since, when they were in trouble, they had to get a Chinese who happened to be on the spot to write a petition to the authorities for them.\n\n3. If the villagers had thought that they were Chinese subjects, living on Chinese territory and suffering wrong at the hands of a chief subject to China, it is evident that they would have made their complaint to the nearest Chinese territorial official. That they addressed their petition to a British official is, I consider, proof that they regarded themselves as British subjects living on British territory.\n\nB 2\n\n[2788 ƒ-3]\n\n235", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428897, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4. That their petition was addressed to the British consul at Tengyueh, in China, may be due either to the fact that their aggressor was subject to the authorities at Tengyueh or else to the ignorance of the person who drew up the petition. This was evidently a transfrontier Chinese, who had probably no definite idea of any other British official than the consul at Tengyueh. He wrote the petition in his own national language and with his own expressions, and it will be noted that he dated it in the Chinese style.\n\n5. The petition, when written, was sent by the villagers, not to the consul at Tengyueh, but to the Burmese local official at Sadon. The whole matter was brought in due course by the Government of Burmah to the notice of the consul at Tengyueh for discussion and arrangement with the taotai at that port.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nMr. Shih to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler.\n\nYunnan-fu, April 24, 1910. THE Administrator of Foreign Affairs makes the following communication in reply to the British consul-general:——\n\nThe administrator has received the consul-general's despatch of the 18th April, in which he states that he has sent copies of the administrator's despatch on the subject of the raid made by the Chief of Teng Keng on the village of Pienma to His Majesty's Legation at Peking and to the Government of Burmah, and that the petition sent by the villagers was not written by themselves, who regarded themselves as British subjects living on British territory, which fact is expressed under five items.\n\nThe frontier between Yunnan and Burmah north of the high conical peak has not been determined yet. According to the boundaries within which both nations now exercise jurisdiction, Pienma was formerly under the magistrate of Yunlung Chou in Talifu, and afterwards was transferred to the jurisdiction of the magistrate of Paoshan Hsien in Yungchang-fu, and the village is now under the control of the Chief of Teng Keng; and as the records of taxes collected by the Government and paid by the village can be referred to, it is a matter of fact beyond all doubt that the villagers are Yünnan people living in the province of Yunnan. The true facts were stated fully in the administrator's despatch of the 2nd instant (11th April). The consul-general, knowing well enough that the question about the frontier has not been settled, made no statement different from that of the administrator. However, he has argued much with regard to the fact of the villagers making the mistake in sending the petition. This the administrator cannot agree with. If this false petition could be considered as proof that the village is in British territory, it will be probable that when Burmese should be induced by some person to write a false petition, and to address it to some Chinese authority, the fact can also be taken as proof that they are Chinese subjects living in Chinese territory. This is, of course, contrary to reason, and therefore the petition, without proof being obviously deceptive, is of no importance. Though the petition was not rejected by the Burmese officials, yet it is regarded by the administrator as one which will produce no effect. As the consul-general made his statements under different items, the administrator will express his ideas as fully as he has done, with the earnest hope that the matter may be made certain, and no one will be deceived by it.\n\n1. Pienma and other villages are on the east of the Hsiaochiang River, and the inhabitants are assuredly Yünnanese living in the province of Yunnan. As to their language being different from that spoken by the people in the interior, the administrator knows this already.\n\n2. The villagers, being instigated by a certain bad person, acted against their superior, the Chief of Teng Keng, and getting that person to draw up the false petition, brought charges against the chief, and purposely made the mistake of addressing it in a wrong way. Since the petition was written for them, the words used must agree with their thoughts and not with the writer's. Though the villagers are ignorant and simple, the writer must not be so.\n\n3. They knew that they were under the Chief of Teng Keng, and had long submitted to his rule. If on being misled and making false charges, they addressed their petition to Chinese officials, they would be punished for the crime of quarrelling with their chief. They knew this very well, and so would not throw themselves into a net, even if they were very ignorant. The administrator fears that it is not in accordance with reason that the consul-general considers the fact of the petition being addressed to a British official as proof that the petitioners regarded themselves as British subjects living on British territory, and he cannot assent to it.\n\nThey were all silly, and so let themselves be misled. As the petition was dated in the Chinese style, the person writing it must also be a Chinese subject. He dared not address the petition to Chinese officials, and, besides Chinese officials, he only knew of the existence of the consul at Tengyueh.\n\n5. As they were not British subjects living on British territory, they did not know the different classes of British officials, and yet British officials have insisted that they are British subjects without any proof except the false petition which is rarely nothing, even without the administrator expressly stating this fact. In the petition, there is the expression \"Ling Shih Ta Jen\" (his Honour the consul), but it was sent to the Burmese local official at Sadon, and not to the person addressed in it; it is evident that the petitioners made this mistake on purpose.\n\nIn short, the inhabitants of Pienma and the other villages are Yunnanese living in the Province of Yunnan, according to the boundaries within which both nations now exercise jurisdiction, and there is plenty of trustworthy proof of this. If the consul-general takes this petition as proof to the contrary, the administrator is determined not to admit it.\n\nAs the consul-general has sent copies of the administrator's despatch to His Majesty's Legation at Peking and to the Government of Burmah, he must also report to the Viceroy, and request him to inform the Board of Foreign Affairs at Peking.\n\nIt is the administrator's duty to write this in reply to the consul-general, trusting he will take note.\n\nPage 236", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429015, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[12281]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[April 11 SECTION 3654\n\nRr 15 JU 10]\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received April 11.)\n\n(No. 5. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nYünnun-fu, February 26, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a despatch which I have sent to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, reporting an interview with his Excellency the Governor-General of Yunnan and Kueichiou, at which the subject of the proposed Bhamo and Tengyueh Railway was discussed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 10. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, February 25, 1910. I HAVE the honour to report that I had yesterday a long interview with the Governor-General regarding the Bhamo and Tengyueh Railway.\n\nI told his Excellency that I had received instructions to discuss this project with him as soon as he had had time to settle down in his new post, and that I had therefore waited a few months before asking for the present interview. He replied that he had promised you that he would take up the matter of the construction of a railway to Burmah as soon as he had had an opportunity to make himself acquainted with the present condition of affairs in Yünnan, and he informed me that he had already formulated certain proposals in this respect which he had communicated to the Wai-wu Pu. He could not tell me just at the moment what these proposals were, but he promised that as soon as he received a reply from Peking he would give me full information regarding them; and he added that I should not have any occasion to remind him of this promise.\n\nI said that I was very pleased that he was taking the matter up so earnestly, and that I should be very interested to learn what his proposals were as soon as he felt himself at liberty to communicate them to me; in the meantime, however, I hoped that he would allow me to place before him the views and proposals of the British Government. I then recapitulated all the arguments which you had advanced to him and to the Wai-wu Pu, as shown in the copies of your despatches to the Foreign Office of the 30th May, the 2nd November, and the 24th December, and proceeded to explain certain details concerning the narrow-gauge railway proposed by the Government of Burmah, laying stress on its comparative cheapness and the prospect of its earning over 4 per cent. per annum on the capital outlay. Thereupon I suggested a scheme for the joint construction of this line by the Governments of India and China, or of the provinces of Burmah and Yunnan, each side to provide half of the capital and to receive half of the profits. His Excellency listened to me with great attention, and asked me several questions as to details, and he remarked that a jointly-owned railway would have the great advantage of unity of management. He asked me what arrangements I would propose in this respect, and also if the joint ownership was to be permanent. I said that all details connected with the line would be settled by the two Governments at Peking, and I added that it was probable that there would be a joint managing committee consisting of one or more railway engineers appointed by each of the countries; as to the duration of the joint ownership, I said it would be possible to arrange that it should come to an end by notice after a certain number of years--say, five, ten, or twenty--when each of the Governments could either purchase from the joint administration the portion of the line laid on its territory or provide for its acquirement by a private company.\n\n(2706 1-3]\n\n353\n\nPage 353\n\n[end of page]\n\n[beginning of next page]\n\nPage 354\n\n...\n\n[three lines at the bottom of the page]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429016, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "12\n\nI was very careful to explain that I was only empowered to propose to his Excellency a joint building arrangement, and that the details I was giving him originated with me, and were solely intended to explain what might be done in furtherance of such an arrangement.\n\nHis Excellency seemed to be very pleased with the idea that the two Governments should have exactly the same amount of interest in the construction and management of the line, although two-thirds of its length would be in Chinese territory against only one-third in Burmah. In this connection, I would respectfully suggest that it is not by any means to our disadvantage to possess a half-interest in a railway of which only one-third runs through British territory.\n\nThe Governor-General was very interested in various matters regarding railways, and I was able to give him some information on several points connected with railway undertakings in Europe, such as arrangements for through traffic at frontiers, break of gauge, &c. To convince him that a 2 ft. 6 in. gauge line is not merely a model, I was luckily able to show him a photograph of the opening of the old Shanghai and Woosung Railway in 1876, which was constructed to this gauge; and he could see that the train represented, though small, was quite capable of coping with a considerable passenger traffic. I made it clear to him that the cheapness of the proposed line depended to a considerable extent on this very narrow gauge being adopted, and that the substitution of the metre gauge or the standard gauge of 4 ft. 8 in. would result in the cost of construction being about doubled in the one case or quadrupled in the other.\n\nIn concluding this despatch, I would express my regret that I was unable to elicit from his Excellency any definite expression of approval of my proposals and suggestions; but his remarks generally, and the interest which he displayed in the details, showed that they were by no means displeasing to him.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nC-O 354 C. 21654\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n(22805)\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nRECR\n\nRef 15 JUL 10,\n\n[June 25.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 25.)\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, June 24, 1910. WITH reference to your note dated the 7th June, which I duly communicated to my Government, I have the honour to inform you that I am now in receipt of telegraphic instructions to the effect that the Government of the United States approves the settlement of the Hukuang loan agreement reached at Paris the 23rd-24th May.\n\nThe American Minister at Peking will be instructed to present to the Wai-wu Pu a formal request in the sense indicated in your note under acknowledgment as soon as the Department of State has been informed that the other Governments also agree to this course.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nWHITELAW REID.\n\n[2792 66-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429033, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[23051]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n371\n\nCO Dupe 271-165 RESECTION 2. Rest 15 JUL 10\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 27.)\n\n(No. 8. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, May 20, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith copy of an opium report for the four months ended the 30th April, 1910, which I am sending to His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER,\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 17. Sir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nConfidential.)\n\nYunnan-fu, May 20, 1910.\n\nIN my opium report for December quarter, despatch No. 9 of the 8th February, I mentioned that the magistrate of P'ing-i had been deprived of his office and his button on account of his habitual disregard of the anti-opium regulations, and his connivance at the smuggling of opium across the border from Kweichow. From this town of P'ing-i the Rev. H. A. C. Allen writes under date of the 1st April\n\n\"It goes without saying that no opium is planted within 10 or 20 li of the city.* But it is well known that in the south of this magistracy quite a lot is grown. In the district of Huang-ni-ho, four days south of this, the ground is exceptionally good for growing opium, and possibly the district is warmer than here. Some three months ago our magistrate† made a tour of seventy days in his district, but chiefly in the aforementioned direction. I was told confidentially that a few days before he returned he sent on ahead four horse-loads of silver, and the head clerk who was with him one horse-load. This, spelt out in dollars, was given as 7,000 dollars and 1,000 dollars respectively. That this was altogether an exaggeration is more than probable; at the same time, I dare say his purse was heavier on returning than on his starting. He left a few days since in another direction. I was surprised to hear from a man whom I know, and at whose house I recently stayed 35 li from here, that there is some opium planted a couple of li from his place... This being a district bordering on Kweichow with good soil, it naturally affords a good opportunity for illicit growth. Opium smoking does not seem to have decreased much. It is everywhere in evidence, though the amount consumed is much less necessarily since the price is so high. An immense number of people swallow it who used to smoke it. It is a pity the Viceroy smokes, and that it is common knowledge on the street.'\n\nOn the 2nd March the Rev. S. Pollard, who had just arrived from a journey in the northern part of Yunnan, informed me that he had come across opium growing in some parts of T'ung-ch'uan prefecture. Runners had been sent to enquire into the matter, but they were well bribed to be silent, and the poppy was in flower when Mr. Pollard and some companion missionaries passed. Mr. Pollard added that in no other place did he see any trace of the poppy;\n\nSeveral travellers have informed me that they have seen opium growing in the portion of Yunnan north of the Yang-tsze.\n\nFrom Kweichow province I have received two letters. The Rev. C. Freeman\n\n* 3 li equal about 1 mile.\n\n†The successor of the official who was deprived of his office and his button.\n\n[2793 dd-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429034, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "372\n\nDavies wrote from Kweiyang to the local secretary of the China Inland Mission under date of the 5th April:-\n\n\"Such information as I have is only hearsay or such doubtful information as is given in our native paper. An amount of opium is now under cultivation, but comparatively small. It is reckoned that probably less than two-fifths of the area covered in former years is now used for the poppy. This is as regards this prefecture. I hear that it flourishes in the Anshun prefecture, and I am sending your letter (of enquiry) on to Mr. Waters, asking him to write to you. Concerning its suppression and the means taken many proclamations have been out, but report says that a slight reaction is taking place, and it is doubtful if the restrictions will be strictly enforced.'\n\nMr. Davies adds a postscript to his letter dated the next morning that the headman of a village near Kuciting Hsien had been imprisoned because he had allowed opium to remain planted, and he had not been liberated until the plants had been destroyed.\n\nMr. Curtis Waters wrote from Anshun in the beginning of this month that some opium had been grown there this year. A lot was rooted up when the Viceroy passed through last year, but some was left when it subsequently appeared that no danger was to be apprehended. Mr. Waters believed that what opium there was under cultivation was to be allowed to be gathered, but no more was to be planted. An official from the east of Kweichow told Mr. Waters that there was very little opium in that direction,\n\nAn\n\nI have no change to report as regards opium matters in Yünnan-fu itself or in the neighbouring country.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nForeign\n\n1910\n\n20-July\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nPrints to { Straits Conf working.\n\n23212-\n\nKON TONG\n\nSAN\n\n22504\n\nApuim\n\nPruits of further\n\nNera\n\narc\n\nB. Stubles.\n\ntwo papers\n\nhave\n\nJuly 2\n\ny\n\n$2\n\n22504\n\nBree\n\nRe-22 JUL 10\n\nJely containing\n\nof the Indian\n\nGou Sova\n\nin\n\nTha\n\nTha\n\nXo Shangh\n\nShanghai Comm.\n\nhai Comm. and\n\nInternational Conference,\n\nViews\n\nzerults\n\n2\n\nZo\n\nThe suggeste\n\nwhich\n\n2\n\nmuch\n\nThe Sout 8 India\n\nto\n\nmy mind,\n\nremdish\n\nZa\n\nCave\n\nJe to\n\nimportance.\n\n(16,256; Wt.21,2-3. 40,000. 11:09. A&EW\n\nNext subsequent Paper, .0\n\n23 22 2\n\nConference (pon\n\nf\n\nview).\n\nWe shall get The Zer\n\nTher\n\nrecout\n\nKey\n\n2 =\n\nfactical fait\n\nF.0\n\nwrite\n\nComments\n\nin\n\nThe results\n\nstrants\n\nInter Departmental Conference.\n\nH. Ya EgH 27/7\n\nMeanwhile to\n\nhonal.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429088, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n(\n\n[20111]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[June 6.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 6.)\n\n(No. 161.) Sir,\n\nPeking, May 21, 1910. WITH reference to my telegram No. 88 of the 26th April I have the honour to transmit herewith for your information copies of two despatches from His Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu, covering copies of correspondence exchanged between him and the Administrator of Foreign Affairs, in regard to the raid made by the Chief of Teng Keng on Pienma and certain other villages on the British side of the frontier claimed by His Majesty's Government.\n\nIn reply to the last sentence of your telegram No. 72 of the 5th May, I beg to state that His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh informs me that he despatched a full report on the situation on the 30th ultimo.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nYunnan-fu, April 15, 1910. WITH reference to Mr. Rose's despatches No. 3 of the 24th February and No. 7 of the 12th March, and to my telegram No. 9 of the 13th instant, I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a despatch which I addressed to the Administrator of Foreign Affairs in this city on the subject of the raid made by the Chief of Teng Keng on Pienma in Burmah, and copy of the administrator's reply contending that Pienma and certain other villages are not in Burmah, but actually in the Province of Yünnau.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Shih.\n\nYunnan-fu, March 26, 1910. I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have received a despatch from the Government of Burmah, in which is enclosed copy of a letter addressed to the acting British consul at Tengyueh, relating to a raid which has recently been made by the Chief of Teng Keng, situated on the Salween in China, on certain villages on the British side of the frontier. Mr. Rose was requested to bring the facts to the notice of the taotai at Tengyueh, and request him to take immediate steps to procure the withdrawal from British territory of the raiders from Teng Keng, to punish the Chief of Teng Keng for his action, and to require the chief to compensate the raided villages for the injuries inflicted. The Government of Burmah further requests me to bring the matter to the notice of the Governor-General of Yunnan and Kueichou, and to move his Excellency to issue instructions in that sense to the taotai at Tengyueh.\n\nI have also received a despatch from Mr. Rose, forwarding to me copies of a petition which he has received from the raided villagers and of his despatch to the taotai at Tengyueh on the subject. Copies of these documents are appended to this despatch.\n\nIt\n\nappears from the petition of the villagers, and from information collected by the authorities in Burmah, that the Chief of Teng Keng with a force of 500 men\n\n[2788 ƒ-3]\n\nB\n\n426", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429089, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2i\n\nmade an armed raid across the frontier to Pienma, where he burned houses and looted property in five villages, carrying off all the cattle and other possessions of the villagers, that the raiders are still in occupation of the country, and that the chief has threatened certain other villages in the neighbourhood.\n\nApart from the fact that a serious breach of international courtesy has been committed, the action of the Chief of Teng Keng in raiding peaceable villagers, burning their houses and stealing their property is outrageous and reprehensible to the utmost degree. I have accordingly the honour to beg that his Excellency the Governor-General will send telegraphic instructions to the taotai at Tengyueh to comply with Mr. Rose's request that the chief be compelled to remove his men from British territory, and pay compensation to the raided villagers for the injuries inflicted, and further that he be severely punished for his illegal action.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nMr. Shih to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler.\n\nYunnan-fu, April 11, 1910. THE Administrator of Foreign Affairs, Yünnan-fu, makes the following communication in reply to the British consul-general.\n\nThe administrator received some time ago a despatch from the consul-general, in which it was stated that a despatch had been received from the Government of Burmah, informing him that a letter had been addressed to the acting British consul at Tengyueh relating to a raid made by the chief of Teng Keng, situated on the Salween, in China, on Pienma and other villages, and requesting him to bring the matter to the notice of the Viceroy of Yün-Kuei, asking that instructions be issued to the taotai at Tengyueh to take steps to suppress the raiders and obtain compensation for the raided villagers for the injuries inflicted. With the despatch were enclosed copies of the villagers' petition and Mr. Rose's despatch to the Tengyueh taotai.\n\nPienma was formerly under the magistrate of Yünlung Chou in Taili Fu, and afterwards was transferred to the jurisdiction of the magistrate of Paoshan Hsien, in Yungchang Fu; the fixed tax annually collected is 2 piculs and 4 tou of rice, and the village, it will be found from a memorial presented to the Emperor during the reign-period Tao Kuang, is under the direct control of the province of Yunnan. The tax is collected for the Government by the Chief of Teng Keng, who is under the orders of the magistrate of Paoshan Hsien, and the village pays annually as house tax 50 taels to Teng Keng, and also 100 taels transit dues on goods passing through are levied by the same chief.\n\nLast year the bad chiefs, Hsü Lin-Hsiang, Wu Chia-Yuan, and others, seduced the chiefs of the two places (Teng Kong and Pienma), and put their minds in a ferment, so there has been a dispute between them; but no burning, plundering or crossing of the frontier has occurred.\n\nThe villages Shanglou, Fisiachia, and Shihchia, or Langpung, are all under the control of the sub-prefect of Tengyueh, Ting, and during the Tao Kuang reign there was also a memorial on the subject, which can be referred to. They are now ruled by the chief of Tat'ang, and are not in the territory of Burmah. All the villages of Teng Keng, Pienma, Shanglou, Hsiachia, and Langpung, therefore, are within the territory of Yunnan, as the records can show. If there is any quarrelling between the villages the question is to be settled by the Yunnan provincial authorities alone, and does not concern the Government of Burmah. Now, the Government of Burmah says that these villages are under the control of Burmah, and that compensation is to be paid by Yunnan for the injuries inflicted, and the administrator really cannot understand the meaning of this, and it is impossible for him to agree to it.\n\nAgain, when the administrator reads Mr. Rose's despatch to the taotai at Tengyueh to the effect that the mouth of the Hsiaochiang River is Burmese territory, he carefully refers to the records of his office, and finds that what Mr. Rose says is equivalent to the attempt made by the former consul, Mr. Litton, to encroach on Yunnan territory, which attempt was rejected by the Board of Foreign Affairs at Peking and the Government of Yunnan. At present, as the boundary-line has not been completely determined, both nations ought to keep to the boundaries within which they now exercise jurisdiction. The place at the mouth of the Hsiaochiang River is really within the original boundary of Yunnan, and there is no doubt about this fact. As Burmese officials cannot secretly enter Chinese territory in order to put down disturbances, still less can they wrongfully say that Pienma and other villages in Yunnan are within the territory of Burmah.\n\nIn the petition of the villagers there is an expression used to \"kneel and petition the foreign official, the consul.\" \"Foreign official,\" it will be found, is a general name given to officers of foreign countries by Chinese subjects. The ignorant people at the mouth of the Hsiaochiang River make the mistake of petitioning Mr. Rose, and Mr. Rose, not making investigation, again makes the mistake of saying that Pienma and other villages are within the territory of Burmah, and so demands compensation. Things get mixed, and misunderstanding prevails. The administrator, having carefully referred to the records and minutely investigated the circumstances on the frontier, cannot but declare the correct facts and rectify the error without delay, in order that matters may be made certain.\n\nThe taotai at Tengyueh has written to Mr. Rose in the same sense, and it is necessary for the administrator to ask the consul-general to have the wrongly presented petition rejected, and request Mr. Rose to say no more about these villages and the demand for compensation, and, further, to notify the Government of Burmah that it is not concerned in the matter, and that Yunnan is now settling the question itself.\n\nThe administrator writes this to inform the consul-general, with the earnest hope that he will take note and act accordingly.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\n(No. 15.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, April 27, 1910. WITH reference to the second enclosure in my despatch No. 11 of the 15th instant, I have the honour to forward to you copy of a despatch which I sent to the Administrator of Foreign Affairs in this city explaining how the term \"foreign official\" came to be used in the Pienma villagers' petition to Mr. Rose, and a copy of his reply.\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Shih.\n\nYunnan-fu, April 18, 1910. I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have sent copies of your despatch of the 11th instant, on the subject of the raid made by the Chief of Teng Keng on the village of Pienma, to His Majesty's Legation at Peking and to the Government of Burmah.\n\nIn the despatch in question you lay stress on the fact of the expression \"yuan kuan\" (foreign official) being used in the petition to Mr. Rose as showing that the petitioners were aware that they were Chinese subjects addressing an official of a foreign country. With regard to this point I would state as follows:---\n\n1. The inhabitants of Hpimaw and the other villages belong to a tribe having a language of their own, different from both Burmese and Chinese.\n\n2. They are evidently very simple and ignorant, since, when they were in trouble, they had to get a Chinese who happened to be on the spot to write a petition to the authorities for them.\n\n3. If the villagers had thought that they were Chinese subjects, living on Chinese territory and suffering wrong at the hands of a chief subject to China, it is evident that they would have made their complaint to the nearest Chinese territorial official. That they addressed their petition to a British official is, I consider, proof that they regarded themselves as British subjects living on British territory.\n\n[2788 f-3]\n\nB 2\n\n427", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429090, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 431, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4. That their petition was addressed to the British consul at Tengyueh, in China, may be due either to the fact that their aggressor was subject to the authorities at Tengyueh or else to the ignorance of the person who drew up the petition. This was evidently a transfrontier Chinese, who had probably no definite idea of any other British official than the consul at Tengyueh. He wrote the petition in his own national language and with his own expressions, and it will be noted that he dated it in the Chinese style.\n\n5. The petition, when written, was sent by the villagers, not to the consul at Tengyueh, but to the Burmese local official at Sadon. The whole matter was brought in due course by the Government of Burmah to the notice of the consul at Tengyueh for discussion and arrangement with the taotai at that port.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nMr. Shih to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler,\n\nYunnan-fu, April 24, 1910. THE Administrator of Foreign Affairs makes the following communication in reply to the British consul-general\n\nThe administrator has received the consul-general's despatch of the 18th April, in which he states that he has sent copies of the administrator's despatch on the subject of the raid made by the Chief of Teng Keng on the village of Pienma to His Majesty's Legation at Peking and to the Government of Burmah, and that the petition sent by the villagers was not written by themselves, who regarded themselves as British subjects living on British territory, which fact is expressed under five items.\n\nThe frontier between Yünnan and Burmah north of the high conical peak has not been determined yet. According to the boundaries within which both nations now exercise jurisdiction, Pienma was formerly under the magistrate of Yunlung Chou in Talifu, and afterwards was transferred to the jurisdiction of the magistrate of Paoshan Hsien in Yungchang-fu, and the village is now under the control of the Chief of Teng Keng; and as the records of taxes collected by the Government and paid by the village can be referred to it is a matter of fact beyond all doubt that the villagers are Yünnan people living in the province of Yunnan. The true facts were stated fully in the administrator's despatch of the 2nd instant (11th April). The consul-general, knowing well enough that the question about the frontier has not been settled, made no statement different from that of the administrator. However, he has argued much with regard to the fact of the villagers making the mistake in sending the petition. This the administrator cannot agree with. If this false petition could be considered as proof that the village is in British territory, it will be probable that when Burmese should be induced by some person to write a false petition, and to address it to some Chinese authority, the fact can also be taken as proof that they are Chinese subjects living in Chinese territory. This is, of course, contrary to reason, and therefore the petition, without proof being obviously deceptive, is of no importance. Though the petition was not rejected by the Burmese officials, yet it is regarded by the administrator as one which will produce no effect.\n\nAs the consul-general made his statements under different items the administrator will express his ideas as fully as he has done, with the earnest hope that the matter may be made certain, and no one will be deceived by it.\n\n1. Pienma and other villages are on the east of the Hsiaochiang River, and their inhabitants are assuredly Yünnanese living in the province of Yunnan. As to their language being different from that spoken by the people in the interior, the administrator knows this already.\n\n2. The villagers, being instigated by a certain bad person, acted against their superior, the Chief of Teng Keng, and getting that person to draw up the false petition, brought charges against the chief, and purposely made the mistake of addressing it in a wrong way. Since the petition was written for them, the words used must agree with their thoughts and not with the writer's. Though the villagers are ignorant and simple, the writer must not be so.\n\n3. They knew that they were under the Chief of Teng Keng, and had long submitted to his rule. If on being misled and making false charges they addressed their petition to Chinese officials, they would be punished for the crime of quarrelling with their chief. They knew this very well, and so would not throw themselves into a net, even if they were very ignorant. The administrator fears that it is not in accordance with reason that the consul-general considers the fact of the petition being addressed to a British official as proof that the petitioners regarded themselves as British subjects living on British territory, and he cannot assent to it.\n\n4. They were all silly, and so let themselves be misled. As the petition was dated in the Chinese style, the person writing it must also be a Chinese subject. He dared not address the petition to Chinese officials, and, besides Chinese officials, he only knew of the existence of the consul at Tengyueh.\n\n5. As they were not British subjects living on British territory, they did not know the different classes of British officials, and yet British officials have insisted that they are British subjects without any proof except the false petition which is rarely nothing, even without the administrator expressly stating this fact. In the petition there is the expression \"Ling Shih Ta Jen\" (his Honour the consul), but it was sent to the Burmese local official at Sadon, and not to the person addressed in it; it is evident that the petitioners made this mistake on purpose.\n\nIn short, the inhabitants of Pienma and the other villages are Yünnanese living in the Province of Yunnan, according to the boundaries within which both nations now exercise jurisdiction, and there is plenty of trustworthy proof of this. If the consul-general takes this petition as proof to the contrary, the administrator is determined not to admit it.\n\nAs the consul-general has sent copies of the administrator's despatch to His Majesty's Legation at Peking and to the Government of Burmah, he must also report to the Viceroy, and request him to inform the Board of Foreign Affairs at Peking.\n\nIt is the administrator's duty to write this in reply to the consul-general, trusting he will take note.\n\nPage 428", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429340, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "76\n\n2\n\nsections, but he thought that the Board's objection was really political and due to the distrust of the foreigner now rife in China.\n\nWe replied that we were unable to enter into any discussion of separate management, and pointed out that, at a meeting held in the British consulate-general in Canton on the 18th December, 1905, at which Mr. C. H. Ross (representing the British and Chinese Corporation), Taotai Wên Tsung-yao, the Viceroy's Foreign Secretary, and Vice-Consul Tebbitt were present, the \"Memorandum re Proposed Agreement between the Government of Hong Kong and the Chinese Government for the working of the entire Railway from Canton to Fort Kowloon\" (printed on pp. 132-4 of the Confidential Colonial Office paper, Eastern No. 88, of April 1907), was handed by Mr. Ross to Taotai Wên, both in the original English and in a Chinese translation. We added that, when the loan agreement was negotiated, the intention of the British and Chinese Corporation and of the Chinese Government in using the words \"joint working of the two sections\" was clearly that the joint line should be worked on the principles embodied in this memorandum, and that the loan was made on this understanding. This, we said, was also the view taken by the Hong Kong Government; it was a position from which we declined to recede.\n\nMr. Wei Han remembered the meeting of the 18th December, 1905, and said that he also had been present at it. To refresh his memory we handed him a copy of the English text as printed.\n\nWith regard to the connection with Hankow, Mr. Wei said that the Board had raised no objection. In this connection we handed him a copy of the Preliminary Agreement of the 28th March, 1899 (printed as an appendix to Eastern No. 88).\n\nWe then gave Mr. Wei two copies of the draft working agreement as prepared by the Hong Kong Government, and read it through with him, explaining it clause by clause.\n\nMr. Wei said that he personally had no objection to the principles involved, and that he would communicate the draft working agreement to the Board at Peking, but he expressed the hope that we would support him by requesting by telegram the British Minister at Peking to urge our views upon the Board.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[31490]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 29.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nCO 2.647\n\nRECO\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 29, 16 SFP 10:\n\n(No. 15. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, July 21, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 5 of the 26th February, I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a despatch which I am sending to His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking reporting an interview which I had yesterday afternoon with his Excellency the Viceroy of Yunnan and Kweichow regarding the proposed Bhamo and Tengyueh Railway.\n\nI am also sending a copy of the despatch in question to the Government of Burmah and to His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nSir,\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\n(No. 26. Confidential.)\n\nYunnan-fu, July 21, 1910. WITH reference to my despatch No. 10 of the 25th February and to my telegram of this morning, I have the honour to report that I had yesterday afternoon an interview with his Excellency the Viceroy Li Ching-hsi, at which we discussed the matter of the Tengyueh and Bhamo Railway. The Administrator of Foreign Affairs and his interpreter for English, Mr. Wong, and the Viceroy's private secretary were present.\n\nAfter a few remarks on indifferent topics I reminded his Excellency that when I saw him on the 24th February he told me that he had already formulated certain proposals regarding a railway between Bhamo and Tengyueh, which he had laid before the Wai-wu Pu, and that he could not tell me what these proposals were until he had received an answer from Peking. He replied that he had received this answer some time ago.\n\nHis proposals were that a carriage road from Tengyueh to the frontier should be constructed in such a way that, should trade conditions warrant the expense, it could be subsequently converted into a railway; and the authorities at the capital had, he said, disapproved of his idea, on the ground that to build in a mountainous country a carriage road which could be afterwards converted into a railway would be almost as expensive as to build the railway itself in the first instance.\n\nI then asked him what he thought of my scheme of a jointly owned railway, as I had described it at the last interview I had had with him, and he replied that it was very good, but there were objections; either the Wai-wu Pu or the Yunnan gentry, or both, objected to a foreign Power being even jointly interested in a railway on Chinese soil,\n\nI thereupon suggested that each country should build the portion of the line on its own territory, but I pointed out that this would be more expensive for China than the former scheme, since, as two-thirds of the total length of the line would be on Chinese soil, China would have to bear two-thirds of the cost instead of one-half, as in the case of a jointly owned railway. The Viceroy admitted this, and said that this proposal also was impracticable, as the province of Yunnan could not raise the necessary funds. I suggested a loan from the Yunnan syndicate, but the Viceroy objected that the prospective earnings of the line, about 42 per cent., would not be sufficient to pay even the interest on a loan, and that the possibility of paying off the capital out of these earnings was out of the question.\n\nI then, in a final endeavour to come to an understanding, suggested that perhaps the Government of India or of Burmah might be willing to lend at a low rate of\n\n[2875 f-1]\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "77\n\n2\n\ninterest the money required for the construction of the Chinese section of the line. The Yunnan syndicate, I said, being a commercial undertaking, would require probably at least 5 per cent. interest on any money it might lend; but, in the case of a Government lending the money, the rate of interest was more or less a matter of indifference so long as the capital was repaid. His Excellency appeared to think the suggestion practicable, and I proceeded to ascertain the amount of a possible loan. Bhamo-Tengyueh (Momein)\n\nTaking the sum of 1,27,52,165 rupees given in the \"Railway Project Report,\" dated Rangoon, the 5th January, 1907, as the total cost of the line, the cost of the portion on Chinese territory, which is almost exactly two-thirds of the whole, would be about 85 lakhs of rupees, or, at 2 rupees to the tael, 4,250,000 taels. I suggested the sum of 4,500,000 taels, or 90 lakhs of rupees, as the amount of the loan, and that the interest should not exceed 2 per cent., and the Viceroy signified his assent.\n\nI then suggested that the Chinese section of the line, as well as the British, should be constructed according to the specifications laid down in the Railway Project Report of the 5th January, 1907, and the Viceroy agreed after some hesitation, during which he hinted at the necessity of an independent Chinese survey. The Administrator of Foreign Affairs here gleefully interposed that, by the existing British specifications being followed, not only would time be saved, but China would be the gainer through being spared the expense of an independent survey.\n\nThe only question remaining to be settled was that of the construction staff and labour. It was of course understood that Chinese labour should be employed on the Chinese section if the climatic conditions permitted, the overseers being, if necessary, Indians or other British subjects. I laid stress on the employment of British engineers if, as is probable, Chinese engineers should not be available; and I let the Viceroy know that the British Government would view with disfavour the employment of engineers of any other nationalities.\n\nI suggested that the simplest plan would be to allow the same party of engineers to construct the whole line from Bhamo as far as Tungyueh, and the Viceroy agreed with me, merely remarking that this was a question of detail which could be settled afterwards.\n\nI was very careful to let the Viceroy understand that all my suggestions emanated solely from myself and could only at the utmost form the basis for future negotiations between our two Governments. His Excellency stated that he too would have to report to Peking the arrangements we had arrived at, and that they would have to be confirmed by the metropolitan authorities.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nForeign Office\n\n1910\n\nSept\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nengigh\n\nHONG KONG\n\nEASTERN\n\n28648\n\nOpium\n\nFruits of\n\nGiAd-Hannj\n\ncorres »\n\n20613\n\nREC? Reet 16 SEP 10\n\nThe punois prints (279144) show that\n\nthe Conference at the Hague has been postponed.\n\n? Prints & Ith\n\nStrank Conf 13.\n\nJR19/9\n\n67.479/9\n\n(16,865) W21,050—1. 40,000,\n\n1103. A.E.W.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nAl\n\nmu\n\nAll\n\n19\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429418, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "$£2\n\nhe was informed that the Chinese Government themselves were not quite satisfied with the regulations, and that the question of amending them was under consideration. From what he told me I think it not unlikely that he will be given an opportunity of seeing them in their amended form before they are issued. In the circumstances, I do not propose to move at present in the matter, but I have instructed Mr. O'Brien-Butler by telegraph to consult with his French colleague, and, on receipt of the despatch to him, of which I enclose the copy, to protest against the regulations. It will be seen that I have also requested him, if he and M. Wilden consider it advisable, to urge the Chinese authorities to amend the objectionable clauses in them.\n\nI have, &c. (In the absence of His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires),\n\nERNEST SCOTT.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\n(To. 27.)\n\nYünnan-fu, July 29, 1910.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to my telegram of the 5th May, I have the honour to forward to you herewith a copy of the regulations of the trade mart established at this city.\n\nI regret that pressure of work has hitherto prevented me from making an English translation of these regulations; I send you, however, a French translation, which has kindly been placed at my disposal by M. Wilden, the delegate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Yunnan.\n\nThe regulations in question are binding on both Chinese and foreigners; but the latter are subject to certain disabilities, which may be summarised as follows:-\n\n1. Foreigners are not allowed to have any share in the management of the trade mart, whilst being liable to pay taxes equally with natives (general article 5).\n\n2. They are not allowed to buy land (special article 1) or obtain it on \"perpetual lease\" (special article 7). They can only lease land (special article 1) from private persons for a limited number of years, the term being subject to revision by the trade mart bureau (special article 7), or from the Government for the fixed term of five years (special article 11, which also applies to Chinese).\n\n3. Land or houses may not be sub-mortgaged to foreigners (special article 4).\n\n4. Foreigners leasing land must be secured by their consuls (special article 6).\n\nWith regard to the duration of leases, I have pointed out that the five years' term fixed for leases of Government land is far too short. I have been unable to obtain any definite intimation of what the trade-mart bureau would allow as the term of a lease of private land; Mr. Yu, the secretary of the bureau, doubted if the ordinary English lease of ninety-nine years would be allowed, and thought that the bureau would not actually allow a lease of private land to be for a much longer period than the five years fixed for Government land.\n\nMr. P. Č. Yü (Yu Chao-tung), whom I have mentioned above, was formerly connected with the trade mart at Changsha, and arrived early in May to take up the office of secretary to the trade mart here. He has told me, however, that as there is nothing whatever to do in the trade-mart office, he has been transferred as superintendent to the telegraph office.\n\nI can quite well believe that there is nothing to do at the trade-mart office. The only outward signs of the existence of the mart hitherto are the boundary stones and the inscriptions on the policemen's boxes; there is no evidence of a municipal council having been formed, or, in fact, of any municipal work being carried on apart from that in other quarters of Yünnan-fu.\n\nSeveral of the houses occupied by foreigners are in the southern suburbs of the city which have been incorporated in the trade mart, and there are rumours that the foreign merchants living inside the city are to be requested to move into the mart; I do not think it likely, however, that the authorities will attempt compulsion in any form until, at least, the trade mart has been brought more into the semblance of a foreign settlement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nRegulations of Trade Mart established at Yünnan-fu.\n\n \n ARTICLE 1.\n Nous procédons de nous-mêmes à l'ouverture de la présente cité, et elle n'a rien de commun avec les villes commerciales ouvertes par des traités. Toutes les affaires d'administration de la présente cité sont du ressort de la Chine, et un bureau général de la cité commerciale a été spécialement établi pour l'administration de cette cité.\n \n \n Art. 2.\n Des bornes sont placées pour délimiter ladite cité: en partant de l'est à Tehong-koan pour arriver à l'ouest à San-ki-kiao; en partant du sud à Choang-long-kiao pour arriver au nord en dehors de la porte de l'est à Tao-yuen-k'eou. Un plan a été dressé par les autorités pour faire foi. Les commerçants des différents pays ayant des traités auront le droit de louer des terrains dans ces limites et d'y résider.\n \n \n Art. 3.\n Les règlements de cette cité doivent être observés sans distinction et de la même manière par les indigènes et les étrangers y résidant. Le bureau général de la cité commerciale sera compétent pour connaître des violations de ces règlements. Si les contrevenants sont Chinois, ils seront poursuivis et punis par le bureau général, conformément aux règlements, et ils recevront l'ordre de s'y conformer. S'il s'agit d'étrangers, leur cas sera déféré par le bureau général à leur consul pour que des punitions soient infligées d'après les règlements de la cité commerciale. S'il s'agit de gens n'ayant pas de nationalité ou d'étrangers appartenant à des nations n'ayant pas de traité, ils seront traités comme des Chinois.\n \n \n Art. 4.\n Le bureau général de la cité commerciale est chargé d'une façon générale du droit d'administration dans les limites de ladite cité. Tant que la cour de justice de cette ville ne sera pas établie les procès seront portés devant ledit bureau. Quant aux procès concernant les étrangers, ils seront réglés d'après les traités.\n \n \n Art. 5.\n Dans cette cité les affaires administratives relatives à la poste, le télégraphe, ou les voies et communications et les services sanitaires seront administrées par le Gouvernement chinois; il y aura en outre un conseil d'administration municipale [?]. Les étrangers ne pourront pas prendre part à cette administration.\n \n \n Art. 6.\n Les taxes publiques à percevoir dans ladite cité, habituellement ou accidentellement, seront supportées également par les indigènes et les étrangers. Un règlement détaillé concernant la perception des différentes taxes, leur espèce et leur montant, sera établi à part par le bureau général de la cité commerciale pour être observé.\n \n \n Art. 7.\n Les affaires diverses d'administration de ladite cité seront réglées par un règlement spécial établi par le bureau général de la cité commerciale. On ne pourra pas appliquer les règlements des autres villes commerciales. Si ces règlements spéciaux contiennent des lacunes, le bureau général prendra les mesures nécessaires et ajoutera un règlement spécial supplémentaire.\n \n \n Art. 8.\n Le présent règlement a été soumis au Ministère pour examen et pour les archives; il a été proclamé et communiqué officiellement aux différents Ministres étrangers à Pékin et aux consuls de Yunnan-fou.\n \n \n \n S'il y a lieu d'y apporter des modifications, un rapport détaillé sera soumis par le bureau général au vice-roi.\n \n\nRèglement spécial concernant les Achats et Locations de Maisons et Terrains dans la Cité commerciale située en dehors de la Porte du Sud à Yunnan-fou.\n\n \n Article 1.\n Les maisons et terrains possédés par des particuliers dans les limites de la cité commerciale qui seraient reconnus par le bureau général de ladite cité comme d'utilité publique seront achetés par ledit bureau. Pour les autres, les propriétaires auront le droit de les vendre ou de les louer, mais il sera interdit de vendre à des étrangers; il sera seulement permis de leur faire des locations.\n \n \n Art. 2.\n Les achats ou locations de terrains dans cette cité se compteront par mow, à raison de 240 kong par mow. La mesure adoptée par les travaux publics sera de 6,000 pieds carrés, équivalant à 6,602 pieds carrés anglais.\n \n \n (Pas d'article 3.)\n \n \n \n Art. 4.\n Les maisons et terrains appartenant à des particuliers dans la cité commerciale qui auraient été déjà hypothéqués pourront être sous-hypothéqués, mais ...\n \n\n[2893 i--1]\n\nB 2\n\n154", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429737, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4\n\nChambers of Commerce on the Pacific Seaboard\" are headed by Mr. Willis H. Booth, an engineering contractor and banker of Los Angeles, president; and Mr. W. H. Gerstle, described as a \"transportation magnate,\" of San Francisco, vice-president. Mr. C. K. Field, of the \"Sunset Magazine,\" is official historian to the commission, and Mr. Charles N. Bennet, secretary. Mr. Hamilton Butler, United States vice-consul at Tion-tsin, is attached to the party as official interpreter, and Mr. A. P. Wilder, the American consul-general at Shangbai, accompanied them as far as Peking, apparently in his official capacity.\n\nThe delegates were not, as stated in Mr. Moore's despatch, invited by the Chinese Government, but by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. The idea of the visit originated, I believe, with the Shanghai branches of the American Young Men's Christian Association and the International Institute, whose membership is largely composed of American missionaries and returned students educated in America. It is doubtful whether the promoters of the tour and the American business men who accepted the invitation foresaw that the delegation would be treated by the Chinese authorities to all intents and purposes as an official mission from the United States to China. Yet this is what has happened: not only have the delegates been entertained by chambers of commerce, press associations, and kindred societies, but they have been officially received by the highest Chinese authorities, acting evidently under instructions from the Central Government, in every city they have visited; their progress, to which the epithet \"triumphal\" may well be applied, culminating in the unprecedented honour of an Imperial audience in Peking.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the commission's tour up to date -\n\nShanghai (four days). Visits to local manufactories, flour mills, cotton, woollen, and paper mills, &c.; Chinese waterworks and Government dockyard. Receptions and banquets by Young Men's Christian Association, American community, Shanghai Taotai, chamber of commerce, and International Institute.\n\nHangchow (one day).--Visits to Bore and Lake. Banquet by chamber of commerce, presided over by Governor of Chekiang. Journey from Hangchow to Shanghai by rail made occasion for popular demonstration of welcome all along the line arranged by Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nNanking (two days).-Visit to exhibition, official reception and banquet. Tea party to ladies of mission by wife of Viceroy; dinner at Viceroy's yamen, Receptions and luncheons by provincial assembly, educational and military authorities. Visit to Naval School, Polytechnic, King Tombs, &c.\n\nHankow (three days).-Visits to Hanyan iron works, waterworks, &c. Banquet by chamber of commerce: luncheon with Viceroy.\n\nPeking (four days).-Visits to Great Wall and Summer Palace: reception at Audience with Prince Regent and visit to Winter Palace. Banquet by Board of Agriculture and Communications at Botanical Gardens. Luncheon at Wai-wu Pu. American Legation. Banquet by Chinese Press Association.\n\nThe above programme hardly bears out Mr. Gerstle's statement, quoted in the newspaper cutting enclosed in Mr. Moore's despatch, that \"There will be nothing of junketing about this trip: it will be the commercial, not the social side of China we shall be interested in.\" For this change in the character of their tour the delegates themselves can hardly be held to blame, but they will doubtless be prepared to admit that the uninterrupted series of receptions and entertainments has seriously interfered with the \"series study of the commercial situation in China,\" which forms the ostensible object of their journey. As a matter of fact, it does not seem probable that any tangible results in the direction of increased trade between China and the United States will accrue from this visit: speaking generally, no direct relation exists or are likely to exist for some time to come between the American manufacturer and the Chinese consumer, and vice versa. The trade is in the hands of the merchants or middlemen of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast ports and their correspondents in Shanghai and the large treaty ports of China, and it is the lack of American business houses of good financial standing and repute in Shanghai, Hongkong, and indeed throughout China, which accounts, I believe, for the comparatively slow development of American trade with China. Large American firms in Shanghai and Hongkong can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and I think I am not mistaken in saying that British firms are the largest importers of American goods in China. This remark also applies to exports, trade in which is liable to be handicapped by sudden changes in the American tariff.;\n\n5\n\nI append a table showing the comparative value of British and United States trade with China during the past ten years.\n\nThe tour has been made the occasion for an outburst of speech-making, which has astonished even those accustomed to the flights of American oratory. Ministers of State, Viceroys, Taotais, gentry, and merchants have vied with the members of the commission in giving expression to their mutual sentiments of esteem, admiration, and friendship. If any one speaker may be said to have deserved the palm in this friendly contest it is the American consul-general at Shanghai, Dr. Wilder, whose statement that \"this embassy is a unique and monumental landmark in the history of China\" may be accepted as typical of the strain in which both hosts and guests have discussed the mission and its labours.\n\nYet, making all allowances for that exuberance of diction which Chinese orators of the present day, more especially those who have been educated in the United States, share with their American prototypes, and for the festive nature of the occasion on which these speeches were delivered, one cannot help being struck by the under-current of sincerity which runs through so many of the speeches, and reading between the lines, one perceives on the part of the Chinese a recognition of the possibilities which the disinterested friendship of one of the great nations affords, joined to a feeling of naïve gratification at the public praise bestowed on China's moral and material progress; and on the part of the Americans a sense of real pleasure, not unmixed with surprise, at the cordiality of their reception by a people reputedly anti-foreign.\n\nAs was to be expected, no opportunity has been lost of reciting America's claims to the gratitude and friendship of China. The return of the Boxer indemnity, the abstention from territorial encroachments, the educational facilities so generously offered to the youth of China, and the assistance rendered to the people of China in their crusade against the opium evil have been referred to again and again by speakers on both sides, and through the foreign and native press re-echoed all over China.\n\nIn the ears of those who remember the American boycott of 1905, and the agitation against the \"unforgettable wrongs heaped upon the people of China,\" a movement inaugurated and maintained by that same Shanghai Chamber of Commerce which has taken the lead in the present demonstration, the frequent references to America's \"traditional and uninterrupted friendship with China and her people\" must sound a discordant note; and the president of the Nanking Exhibition's reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway fiasco, in which the American Development Company played so discreditable a part, as \"America's opening of China's trunk lines\" must have struck many of his hearers as singularly unhappy.\n\n53\n\nIn one respect the delegates have undoubtedly done harm: I refer to their exaggerated and indiscriminating praise of Chinese railway construction and management. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of their visit to Hangchow, when one of the delegates referred to the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, a line whose construction is notoriously faulty, as being \"equal to the very first class of such work on American lines,\" and another speaker assured an audience of local officials and gentry that he had \"examined the railways of Germany, England, and America, and found that none of them surpassed the Chekiang Railway system.\" These statements have found their way into the native press, and will, it is to be feared, not only encourage the people of Chekiang in their opposition to the Government in the matter of the control of the railways now being constructed in that province, but will be cited by other provincial railway companies in support of their claim to build and manage their own lines.\n\nHARRY IL FOX, Acting Commercial Attaché.\n\n473", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "Chambers of Commerce on the Pacific Seaboard are headed by Mr. Willis H. Booth, an engineering contractor and banker of Los Angeles, president; and Mr. W. H. Gerstle, described as a \"transportation magnate,\" of San Francisco, vice-president. Mr. C. K. Field, of the \"Sunset Magazine,\" is official historian to the commission, and Mr. Charles N. Bennet, secretary. Mr. Hamilton Butler, United States vice-consul at Tien-tsin, is attached to the party as official interpreter, and Mr. A. P. Wilder, the American consul-general at Shanghai, accompanied them as far as Peking, apparently in his official capacity.\n\nThe delegates were not, as stated in Mr. Moore's despatch, invited by the Chinese Government, but by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. The idea of the visit originated, I believe, with the Shanghai branches of the American Young Men's Christian Association and the International Institute, whose membership is largely composed of American missionaries and returned students educated in America. It is doubtful whether the promoters of the tour and the American business men who accepted the invitation foresaw that the delegation would be treated by the Chinese authorities to all intents and purposes as an official mission from the United States to China. Yet this is what has happened — not only have the delegates been entertained by chambers of commerce, press associations, and kindred societies, but they have been officially received by the highest Chinese authorities, acting evidently under instructions from the Central Government, in every city they have visited; their progress, to which the epithet \"triumphal\" may well be applied, culminating in the unprecedented honour of an Imperial audience in Peking.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the commission's tour up to date:\n\nShanghai (four days).—Visits to local manufactories, flour mills, cotton, woollen, and paper mills, &c.; Chinese waterworks and Government dockyard. Receptions and banquets by Young Men's Christian Association, American community, Shanghai Taotai, chamber of commerce, and International Institute.\n\nHangchow (one day).—Visits to Bore and Lake. Banquet by chamber of commerce, presided over by Governor of Chekiang. Journey from Hangchow to Shanghai by rail made occasion for popular demonstration of \"welcome all along the line\" arranged by Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nNanking (two days).—Visit to exhibition, official reception and banquet. Tea party to ladies of mission by wife of Viceroy; dinner at Viceroy's yamen. Receptions and luncheons by provincial assembly, educational and military authorities. Visit to Naval School, Polytechnic, King Tombs, &c.\n\nHankow (three days).—Visits to Hanyan iron works, waterworks, &c. Banquet by chamber of commerce; luncheon with Viceroy.\n\nPeking (four days).—Visits to Great Wall and Summer Palace; reception at American Legation. Banquet by Chinese Press Association. Audience with Prince Regent and visit to Winter Palace. Luncheon at Wai-wu Pu. Banquet by Board of Agriculture and Communications at Botanical Gardens.\n\nThe above programme hardly bears out Mr. Gerstle's statement, quoted in the newspaper cutting enclosed in Mr. Moore's despatch, that \"There will be nothing of junketing about this trip: it will be the commercial, not the social side of China we shall be interested in.\" For this change in the character of their tour the delegates themselves can hardly be held to blame, but they will doubtless be prepared to admit that the uninterrupted series of receptions and entertainments has seriously interfered with the serious study of the commercial situation in China, which forms the ostensible object of their journey. As a matter of fact, it does not seem probable that any tangible results in the direction of increased trade between China and the United States will accrue from this visit: speaking generally, no direct relation exists or is likely to exist for some time to come between the American manufacturer and the Chinese consumer, and vice versa. The trade is in the hands of the merchants or middlemen of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast ports and their correspondents in Shanghai and the large treaty ports of China, and it is the lack of American business houses of good financial standing and repute in Shanghai, Hongkong, and indeed throughout China, which accounts, I believe, for the comparatively slow development of American trade with China. Large American firms in Shanghai and Hongkong can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and I think I am not mistaken in saying that British firms are the largest importers of American goods in China. This remark also applies to exports, trade in which is liable to be handicapped by sudden changes in the American tariff.\n\nI append a table showing the comparative value of British and United States trade with China during the past ten years.\n\nThe tour has been made the occasion for an outburst of speech-making, which has astonished even those accustomed to the flights of American oratory. Ministers of State, Viceroys, Taotais, gentry, and merchants have vied with the members of the commission in giving expression to their mutual sentiments of esteem, admiration, and friendship. If any one speaker may be said to have deserved the palm in this friendly contest it is the American consul-general at Shanghai, Dr. Wilder, whose statement that \"this embassy is a unique and monumental landmark in the history of China\" may be accepted as typical of the strain in which both hosts and guests have discussed the mission and its labours.\n\nYet, making all allowances for that exuberance of diction which Chinese orators of the present day, more especially those who have been educated in the United States, share with their American prototypes, and for the festive nature of the occasion on which these speeches were delivered, one cannot help being struck by the undercurrent of sincerity which runs through so many of the speeches, and reading between the lines, one perceives on the part of the Chinese a recognition of the possibilities which the disinterested friendship of one of the great nations affords, joined to a feeling of naïve gratification at the public praise bestowed on China's moral and material progress; and on the part of the Americans a sense of real pleasure, not unmixed with surprise, at the cordiality of their reception by a people reputedly anti-foreign.\n\nAs was to be expected, no opportunity has been lost of reciting America's claims to the gratitude and friendship of China. The return of the Boxer indemnity, the abstention from territorial encroachments, the educational facilities so generously offered to the youth of China, and the assistance rendered to the people of China in their crusade against the opium evil have been referred to again and again by speakers on both sides, and through the foreign and native press re-echoed all over China.\n\nIn the ears of those who remember the American boycott of 1905, and the agitation against the unforgettable wrongs heaped upon the people of China, a movement inaugurated and maintained by that same Shanghai Chamber of Commerce which has taken the lead in the present demonstration, the frequent references to America's traditional and uninterrupted friendship with China and her people must sound a discordant note; and the president of the Nanking Exhibition's reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway fiasco, in which the American Development Company played so discreditable a part, as \"America's opening of China's trunk lines\" must have struck many of his hearers as singularly unhappy.\n\nIn one respect the delegates have undoubtedly done harm: I refer to their exaggerated and indiscriminating praise of Chinese railway construction and management. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of their visit to Hangchow, when one of the delegates referred to the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, a line whose construction is notoriously faulty, as being \"equal to the very first class of such work on American lines,\" and another speaker assured an audience of local officials and gentry that he had \"examined the railways of Germany, England, and America, and found that none of them surpassed the Chekiang Railway system.\" These statements have found their way into the native press, and will, it is to be feared, not only encourage the people of Chekiang in their opposition to the Government in the matter of the control of the railways now being constructed in that province, but will be cited by other provincial railway companies in support of their claim to build and manage their own lines.\n\nHARRY H. FOX, Acting Commercial Attaché.\n\n476", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429743, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4\n\nChambers of Commerce on the Pacific Seaboard\" are headed by Mr. Willis H. Booth, an engineering contractor and banker of Los Angeles, president; and Mr. W. H. Gerstle, described as a \"transportation magnate,\" of San Francisco, vice-president. Mr. C. K. Field, of the \"Sunset Magazine,\" is official historian to the commission, and Mr. Charles N. Bennet, secretary. Mr. Hamilton Butler, United States vice-consul at Tien-tsin, is attached to the party as official interpreter, and Mr. A. P. Wilder, the American consul-general at Shanghai, accompanied them as far as Peking, apparently in his official capacity.\n\nThe delegates were not, as stated in Mr. Moore's despatch, invited by the Chinese Government, but by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. The idea of the visit originated, I believe, with the Shanghai branches of the American Young Men's Christian Association and the International Institute, whose membership is largely composed of American missionaries and returned students educated in America. It is doubtful whether the promoters of the tour and the American business men who accepted the invitation foresaw that the delegation would be treated by the Chinese authorities to all intents and purposes as an official mission from the United States to China. Yet this is what has happened: not only have the delegates been entertained by chambers of commerce, press associations, and kindred societies, but they have been officially received by the highest Chinese authorities, acting evidently under instructions from the Central Government, in every city they have visited; their progress, to which the epithet \"triumphal\" may well be applied, culminating in the unprecedented honour of an Imperial audience in Peking.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the commission's tour up to date:\n\nShanghai (four days).--Visits to local manufactories, flour mills, cotton, woollen, and paper mills, &c.; Chinese waterworks and Government dockyard. Receptions and banquets by Young Men's Christian Association, American community, Shanghai Taotai, chamber of commerce, and International Institute.\n\nHangchow (one day).--Visits to Bore and Lake. Banquet by chamber of commerce, presided over by Governor of Chekiang. Journey from Hangchow to Shanghai by rail made occasion for popular demonstration of welcome all along the line arranged by Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nNanking (two days).--Visit to exhibition, official reception and banquet. Tea party to ladies of mission by wife of Viceroy; dinner at Viceroy's yamen. Receptions and luncheons by provincial assembly, educational and military authorities. Visit to Naval School, Polytechnic, King Tombs, &c.\n\nHankow (three days).--Visits to Hanyan iron works, waterworks, &c. Banquet by chamber of commerce: luncheon with Viceroy.\n\nPeking (four days).--Visits to Great Wall and Summer Palace: reception at American Legation. Banquet by Chinese Press Association. Regent and visit to Winter Palace. Luncheon at Wai-wu Pu. Agriculture and Communications at Botanical Gardens. Audience with Prince.\n\nBanquet by Board of\n\nThe above programme hardly bears out Mr. Gerstle's statement, quoted in the newspaper cutting enclosed in Mr. Moore's despatch, that \"There will be nothing of junketing about this trip: it will be the commercial, not the social side of China we shall be interested in.\" For this change in the character of their tour the delegates themselves can hardly be held to blame, but they will doubtless be prepared to admit that the uninterrupted series of receptions and entertainments has seriously interfered with the serious study of the commercial situation in China, which forms the ostensible object of their journey. As a matter of fact, it does not seem probable that any tangible results in the direction of increased trade between China and the United States will accrue from this visit: speaking generally, no direct relation exists or are likely to exist for some time to come between the American manufacturer and the Chinese consumer, and vice versa. The trade is in the hands of the merchants or middlemen of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast ports and their correspondents in Shanghai and the large treaty ports of China, and it is the lack of American business houses of good financial standing and repute in Shanghai, Hongkong, and indeed throughout China, which accounts, I believe, for the comparatively slow development of American trade with China. Large American firms in Shanghai and Hongkong can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and I think I am not mistaken in saying that British firms are the largest importers of American goods in China. This remark also applies to exports, trade in which is liable to be handicapped by sudden changes in the American tariff.\n\n5\n\nI append a table showing the comparative value of British and United States trade with China during the past ten years.\n\nThe tour has been made the occasion for an outburst of speech-making, which has astonished even those accustomed to the flights of American oratory. Chinese Ministers of State, Viceroys, Taotais, gentry, and merchants have vied with the members of the commission in giving expression to their mutual sentiments of esteem, admiration, and friendship. If any one speaker may be said to have deserved the palm in this friendly contest it is the American consul-general at Shanghai, Dr. Wilder, whose statement that \"this embassy is a unique and monumental landmark in the history of China\" may be accepted as typical of the strain in which both hosts and guests have discussed the mission and its labours.\n\nYet, making all allowances for that exuberance of diction which Chinese orators of the present day, more especially those who have been educated in the United States, share with their American prototypes, and for the festive nature of the occasion on which these speeches were delivered, one cannot help being struck by the undercurrent of sincerity which runs through so many of the speeches, and reading between the lines, one perceives on the part of the Chinese a recognition of the possibilities which the disinterested friendship of one of the great nations affords, joined to a feeling of naïve gratification at the public praise bestowed on China's moral and material progress; and on the part of the Americans a sense of real pleasure, not unmixed with surprise, at the cordiality of their reception by a people reputedly anti-foreign.\n\nAs was to be expected, no opportunity has been lost of reciting America's claims to the gratitude and friendship of China. The return of the Boxer indemnity, the abstention from territorial encroachments, the educational facilities so generously offered to the youth of China, and the assistance rendered to the people of China in their crusade against the opium evil have been referred to again and again by speakers on both sides, and through the foreign and native press re-echoed all over China.\n\nIn the ears of those who remember the American boycott of 1905, and the agitation against the \"unforgettable wrongs heaped upon the people of China,” a movement inaugurated and maintained by that same Shanghai Chamber of Commerce which has taken the lead in the present demonstration, the frequent references to America's \"traditional and uninterrupted friendship with China and her people\" must sound a discordant note; and the president of the Nanking Exhibition's reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway fiasco, in which the American Development Company played so discreditable a part, as \"America's opening of China's trunk lines\" must have struck many of his hearers as singularly unhappy.\n\nIn one respect the delegates have undoubtedly done harm: I refer to their exaggerated and indiscriminating praise of Chinese railway construction and management. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of their visit to Hangchow, when one of the delegates referred to the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, a line whose construction is notoriously faulty, as being \"equal to the very first class of such work on American lines,\" and another speaker assured an audience of local officials and gentry that he had \"examined the railways of Germany, England, and America, and found that none of them surpassed the Chekiang Railway system.\" These statements have found their way into the native press, and will, it is to be feared, not only encourage the people of Chekiang in their opposition to the Government in the matter of the control of the railways now being constructed in that province, but will be cited by other provincial railway companies in support of their claim to build and manage their own lines.\n\nHARRY H. FOX, Acting Commercial Attaché.\n\n479\n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 492, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "Chambers of Commerce on the Pacific Seaboard\" are headed by Mr. Willis H. Booth, an engineering contractor and banker of Los Angeles, president; and Mr. W. H. Gerstle, described as a \"transportation magnate,\" of San Francisco, vice-president. Mr. C. K. Field, of the \"Sunset Magazine,\" is official historian to the commission, and Mr. Charles N. Bennet, secretary. Mr. Hamilton Butler, United States vice-consul at Tien-tsin, is attached to the party as official interpreter, and Mr. A. P. Wilder, the American consul-general at Shanghai, accompanied them as far as Peking, apparently in his official capacity.\n\nThe delegates were not, as stated in Mr. Moore's despatch, invited by the Chinese Government, but by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. The idea of the visit originated, I believe, with the Shanghai branches of the American Young Men's Christian Association and the International Institute, whose membership is largely composed of American missionaries and returned students educated in America. It is doubtful whether the promoters of the tour and the American business men who accepted the invitation foresaw that the delegation would be treated by the Chinese authorities to all intents and purposes as an official mission from the United States to China. Yet this is what has happened: not only have the delegates been entertained by chambers of commerce, press associations, and kindred societies, but they have been officially received by the highest Chinese authorities, acting evidently under instructions from the Central Government, in every city they have visited; their progress, to which the epithet \"triumphal\" may well be applied, culminating in the unprecedented honour of an Imperial audience in Peking.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the commission's tour up to date:\n\nShanghai (four days).—Visits to local manufactories, flour mills, cotton, woollen, and paper mills, &c.; Chinese waterworks and Government dockyard. Receptions and banquets by Young Men's Christian Association, American community, Shanghai Taotai, chamber of commerce, and International Institute.\n\nHangchow (one day).—Visits to Bore and Lake. Banquet by chamber of commerce, presided over by Governor of Chekiang. Journey from Hangchow to Shanghai by rail made occasion for popular demonstration of welcome all along the line arranged by Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nNanking (two days).—Visit to exhibition, official reception and banquet. Tea party to ladies of mission by wife of Viceroy; dinner at Viceroy's yamen. Receptions and luncheons by provincial assembly, educational and military authorities. Visit to Naval School, Polytechnic, King Tombs, &c.\n\nHankow (three days).—Visits to Hanyan iron works, waterworks, &c. Banquet by chamber of commerce: luncheon with Viceroy.\n\nPeking (four days).—Visits to Great Wall and Summer Palace: reception at Audience with Prince Regent and visit to Winter Palace. Banquet by Chinese Press Association. Luncheon at Wai-wu Pu. Banquet by Board of Agriculture and Communications at Botanical Gardens.\n\nThe above programme hardly bears out Mr. Gerstle's statement, quoted in the newspaper cutting enclosed in Mr. Moore's despatch, that \"There will be nothing of junketing about this trip: it will be the commercial, not the social side of China we shall be interested in.\" For this change in the character of their tour the delegates themselves can hardly be held to blame, but they will doubtless be prepared to admit that the uninterrupted series of receptions and entertainments has seriously interfered with the \"serious study of the commercial situation in China,\" which forms the ostensible object of their journey. As a matter of fact, it does not seem probable that any tangible results in the direction of increased trade between China and the United States will accrue from this visit: speaking generally, no direct relation exists or are likely to exist for some time to come between the American manufacturer and the Chinese consumer, and vice versa. The trade is in the hands of the merchants or middlemen of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast ports and their correspondents in Shanghai and the large treaty ports of China, and it is the lack of American business houses of good financial standing and repute in Shanghai, Hongkong, and indeed throughout China, which accounts, I believe, for the comparatively slow development of American trade with China. Large American firms in Shanghai and Hongkong can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and I think I am not mistaken in saying that British firms are the largest importers of American goods in China. This remark also applies to exports, trade in which is liable to be handicapped by sudden changes in the American tariff.\n\nPage 5\n\nI append a table showing the comparative value of British and United States trade with China during the past ten years.\n\nThe tour has been made the occasion for an outburst of speech-making, which has astonished even those accustomed to the flights of American oratory. Ministers of State, Viceroys, Taotais, gentry, and merchants have vied with the members of the commission in giving expression to their mutual sentiments of esteem, admiration, and friendship. If any one speaker may be said to have deserved the palm in this friendly contest it is the American consul-general at Shanghai, Dr. Wilder, whose statement that \"this embassy is a unique and monumental landmark in the history of China\" may be accepted as typical of the strain in which both hosts and guests have discussed the mission and its labours.\n\nYet, making all allowances for that exuberance of diction which Chinese orators of the present day, more especially those who have been educated in the United States, share with their American prototypes, and for the festive nature of the occasion on which these speeches were delivered, one cannot help being struck by the under-current of sincerity which runs through so many of the speeches, and reading between the lines, one perceives on the part of the Chinese a recognition of the possibilities which the disinterested friendship of one of the great nations affords, joined to a feeling of naïve gratification at the public praise bestowed on China's moral and material progress; and on the part of the Americans a sense of real pleasure, not unmixed with surprise, at the cordiality of their reception by a people reputedly anti-foreign.\n\nAs was to be expected, no opportunity has been lost of reciting America's claims to the gratitude and friendship of China. The return of the Boxer indemnity, the abstention from territorial encroachments, the educational facilities so generously offered to the youth of China, and the assistance rendered to the people of China in their crusade against the opium evil have been referred to again and again by speakers on both sides, and through the foreign and native press re-echoed all over China.\n\nIn the ears of those who remember the American boycott of 1905, and the agitation against the \"unforgettable wrongs heaped upon the people of China,\" a movement inaugurated and maintained by that same Shanghai Chamber of Commerce which has taken the lead in the present demonstration, the frequent references to America's \"traditional and uninterrupted friendship with China and her people\" must sound a discordant note; and the president of the Nanking Exhibition's reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway fiasco, in which the American Development Company played so discreditable a part, as \"America's opening of China's trunk lines\" must have struck many of his hearers as singularly unhappy.\n\nIn one respect the delegates have undoubtedly done harm: I refer to their exaggerated and indiscriminating praise of Chinese railway construction and management. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of their visit to Hangchow, when one of the delegates referred to the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, a line whose construction is notoriously faulty, as being \"equal to the very first class of such work on American lines,\" and another speaker assured an audience of local officials and gentry that he had \"examined the railways of Germany, England, and America, and found that none of them surpassed the Chekiang Railway system.\" These statements have found their way into the native press, and will, it is to be feared, not only encourage the people of Chekiang in their opposition to the Government in the matter of the control of the railways now being constructed in that province, but will be cited by other provincial railway companies in support of their claim to build and manage their own lines.\n\nHARRY H. FOX, Acting Commercial Attaché.\n\nPage 491", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434119, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## 2\n\nthe whole idea of a trade mart as distinct from an ordinary open port was unacceptable to His Majesty's Government, and I urged him to persuade his Government to open Yunnan-fu to trade on the same terms as the ports on the coast--in other words, to make the trade mart coextensive with the walled city of Yünnan-fu and one or two miles of country around. I pointed out that beyond the arbitrary marking out by boundary stones of a certain portion of city suburb and open country beyond as the trade mart there was absolutely no distinction between it and the remaining suburbs and the city itself; and the only object in its establishment appeared to be to confine foreigners to a kind of ghetto under more or less vexatious restrictions, which, I was sure, were either not binding on Chinese at all or only in a modified degree. What possible difference was there, I asked, in the circumstances of their residence between M. Covi, an Italian hotel-keeper who happens to live within the limits of the trade mart, and M. Pasquier, a French merchant living in the city? The only one I could think of was that the one could put out a signboard with an indication of his name and business and the other could not; otherwise, both enjoyed exactly the same rights, including those attaching to extra-territoriality, and were subject to the same obligations.\n\nMr. Shih steadily maintained that Yunnan-fu was a city in the interior, and that China need not allow foreigners to reside there at all; but it was pleased to open the place to foreign trade and residence under certain conditions which it had the absolute right to impose, and if foreigners did not like these conditions they had only to keep away. He said that the trade mart rules were only provisional and could be modified; what was desired was that the various foreign Powers should accept them in principle. If I considered the area of the trade mart too small it could be enlarged, and as to the limit of five years for leases of Government land, the Government had itself come to the conclusion that the term was too short. He tried to argue that the trade mart police had certain powers in the case of petty offences committed by foreigners which were different to those of the city police, but this I would not admit for a moment; I maintained that all offences committed by foreigners, whether within or without the limits of the trade mart, were judiciable by their consuls alone, and by no other persons whatsoever.\n\nIn conclusion, Mr. Shih begged that I would furnish him with my objections and my suggestions in writing, so I subsequently handed him a memorandum, of which the following is a copy---\n\nSpecially objectionable:\n\n\"General Regulation 1.—Nothing common with commercial cities opened by treaty.\"\n\n\"General Regulation 2.—Arbitrary taxation of foreigners.\n\nSpecial Regulation 6.—Consular guarantees.\n\n\"Special Regulation 9.—Arbitrary powers of eviction.\n\n\"Special Regulation 11.—Limitation of leases to five years; far too short a term.\n\nWhy not—\n\n\"1. Make the trade mart include the city of Yunnan-fu and a reasonable extent of country around—say two miles?\n\n\"2. Let foreigners lease land perpetually there? (In England, Chinese are even allowed to buy land anywhere, on the same terms as British subjects.)\n\n3. Abandon all special rules and regulations applicable to foreigners? (Ssumao, which is opened by treaty, has no concession or settlement, and foreigners can have their houses anywhere there.)\"\n\n## 3\n\nnow in receipt of a despatch from Mr. Max Müller, informing me that the regulations in question are quite unacceptable as they stand, and instructing me to enter a formal protest against them.\n\n**(No. 38.)** Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n**Enclosure 3 in No. 1.**\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nYünnan-fu, October 19, 1910. IN continuation of my despatch `No. 35` of the 10th October, I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy and translation of a reply, dated the 17th October, which I have received to my despatch to the Administrator of Foreign Affairs of the 24th September, protesting against the regulations for the Yuanan-fu trade mart.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n**Enclosure 4 in No. 1.**\n\nAdministrator of Foreign Affairs to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler.\n\nForeign Office. Yünnan-fu, H. T., 2nd year,\n\n**(Translation.)** Sir,\n\n9th month, 15th day (October 17, 1910). I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 24th September, to the effect that you have sent a copy of the regulations for the trade mart at Yunnan-fu to His Britannic Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking, and that you have received a reply stating that the regulations in question are unacceptable.\n\nBeing actually in the interior, Yunnan-fu is, according to treaty, a place where foreigners are not allowed to reside and trade. As the railway has come to this city and there will be more merchants here than formerly, a place has been set apart and marked out specially for their residence. Regulations for this place have been drawn up, and the matter has been carefully arranged so as to afford both convenience and advantage. This is really an unusual permission, and so the regulations have been simply brought to your notice, there being no necessity of obtaining your acceptance before they become valid; it is to be known that if the regulations are accepted merchants and other people can come and reside in the mart, and that if they are not accepted there will be no such possibility, and affairs must still be managed as in the interior.\n\nHaving received your despatch, I hasten to state that Yunnan-fu is really in the interior, and that both parties have to act according to the rules for the interior mentioned in the treaty.\n\nI have, &c. (Seal of Shih, Administrator of Foreign Affairs.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n**Enclosure 2 in No. 1.**\n\nSir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Buller to Administrator of Foreign Affairs.\n\nYunnan-fu, September 21, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that I duly sent a copy of the regulations for the trade mart at Yunnan-fu which accompanied your despatch to me of the 30th April to His Britannic Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking, and that I am\n\nPage 118\nPage 120\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434150, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n[44855]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n149\n[December 12.]\n\n## SECTION O\n622\n\nRece Consul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 12)\n\n**(No. 21. Confidential.)**\nSir,\n\nYünnan-fu, October 31, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a report on opium affairs at Yunnan-fu which I have sent to His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n**(No. 40. Confidential.)**\nSir,\n\nYunnan-fu, October 29, 1910.\n\nSINCE writing my last opium report, despatch `No. 17` of the 20th May, I have heard nothing as regards opium matters in any part of my district outside of Yunnan-fu beyond vague reports that the authorities are really going to put a stop to the cultivation of opium in Kueichou. I have caused a circular to be sent to all the British missionaries in Yüunan (exclusive of Tengyueh) and Kueichou asking that I may be supplied with information, and on the receipt of reports from them I shall be in a position to draw up a complete opium report.\n\nIn Yünnan-fu there has been no relaxation in the measures taken for the suppression of opium smoking. The Opium Suppression Bureau is very vigilant, and notices emanating from it are to be seen all over the city and its suburbs.\n\nOn the 24th September the Viceroy issued a strong proclamation, couched in very simple language, warning the people not to believe designing persons who spread rumours that the cultivation of opium would be again permitted. His Excellency went on to state that the time for planting the poppy had arrived but the people should plant something else, and if anyone were found to be cultivating opium not only would he himself be severely punished but punishment would fall on the official of his locality as well.\n\nWhilst the Viceroy is so energetic in preventing others from smoking opium he reserves to himself the full right to do so in secret—if an action can be said to be secret which is known to every man on the street. In my report for December quarter last I stated that his Excellency had brought down his daily dose of the drug from over one Chinese ounce to one-fifth of an ounce; he has now evidently given up his endeavours to reform, as I hear on very good authority that he has increased his daily allowance to more than the former amount.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n[1804 m---3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434392, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 3\n\n### No. 197\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 10.)\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nBURMAH-YÜNNAN frontier.\n\nPeking, December 10, 1910.\n\nA telegram of yesterday's date from His Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu states that he has been approached by the Administrator of Foreign Affairs Bureau and requested to telegraph to me for information regarding rumour that a force of 500 soldiers were advancing on the north-east frontier of Burmah.\n\nI have sent telegraphic instructions to Mr. O'Brien-Butler to reply to the Administrator that he is without information regarding rumoured move.\n\n[1810-3] \n391 \nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434750, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n2\n\nbut if His Majesty's Government fear that it will be difficult to secure an agreement of views between the two countries, then there still remains arbitration as a last resort.\n\nI have the honour to request your Excellency to communicate with His Majesty's Government in this sense, and I hope they will give full consideration to China's real wishes and comply with her urgent request, and so strengthen the friendly relations existing between the two countries.\n\n14353\n[April 3]\n\n## SECTION 3.\n### AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[12141]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.\n~~(Received April 3.)~~\n\n**(No. 113. Confidential.)** Sir,\n\nPeking, March 11, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of two despatches from His Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu enclosing correspondence and reporting conversations with the local authorities regarding the Pienma question.\n\nIt will be seen that the Yunnan authorities, basing their arguments upon the Chinese text of Sir E. Satow's despatch of the 30th January, 1904, to the Wai-wu Pu, affect to regard the watershed between the Hsiao Chiang and the Nmai Kha as the boundary line, and choose to ignore the correspondence which has taken place since the examination of the frontier by Mr. Litton and Shih Taotai in 1905.\n\nI have the honour to forward also an interesting memorandum on the whole frontier question, for which I am indebted to Colonel Willoughby, the military attaché to this legation. Colonel Willoughby's researches go to show that Chinese claims to the west of the watershed on the northern portion of the frontier may prove stronger than we expect, and he makes some suggestions to meet possible Chinese demands which may prove very useful later on. But at present the Chinese Government show no disposition to enter into negotiations on the only basis which affords any hope of a successful solution of this long-standing question.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**(No. 7.)** Sir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Buller to Sir J. Jordan,\n\nYunnan-fu, January 31, 1911.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 3 of the 27th January. I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a despatch from the Administrator of Foreign Affairs regarding the occupation of Pienma by British troops and copy of my reply, based on the suggestion contained in your telegram No. 1 of the 28th January.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER,\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nAdministrator of Foreign Affairs to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler. **(Translation.)**\n\nYünnan-fü, Hsüan-t'ung, 2nd year, 12th month,\n\nSir,\n\n25th day (January 25, 1911).\n\nSOME time ago I received a telegram from the Sub-Prefect of Tengyueh to the effect that it was reported to him that in the middle of the 11th moon (December) more than 100 British soldiers with more than fifty horses carrying guns and ammunition, &c., crossed the boundary, built storehouses at Tachia under the jurisdiction of Tengyueh, and, passing through Tachia, advanced to Pienna; and that on the 28th day (29th December) 2,000 soldiers, with more than 2,500 horses, passed Tachia, and, having built a wooden bridge at Tumu on the Hsiao Chiang (Little River), crossed over. When about to send instructions to make an examination regarding the matter, I received a telegram from the Prefect of Yungchang to the effect that it was reported that on the 2nd day of the 12th moon (2nd January) British soldiers entered the territory of Tengkeng, and on the 4th day (4th January) they arrived at Upper Pienma, that the body consisted of the Prefect of Myitkyina, one military officer of the first class, one of the second, a company of 500 soldiers, and a company of more than 200 men for works, with more than 200 horses carrying provisions and ammunition, and that encampments were set up.\n\n... \n\n162", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434751, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Enclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**(Seal of Hsia.)**\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to state that the question of the occupation of Pienma is one for the consideration of the British and Chinese Government, and I am not authorised to enter into any discussion of it or take any action with regard to it.\n\nUnder the circumstances I am unable to comply with your request, and telegraph to the Government of Burmah to ask that any troops dispatched to Pienma may be withdrawn.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## (No. 10.)\n\n### Consul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan\n\nYünnan-fu, February 8, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that I called yesterday on the Administrator of Foreign Affairs in order to obtain, if possible, authoritative information regarding the destination of the troops now being moved westward from Tali-fu and Yunnan-fu. Mr. Hsia professed to know very little about these movements; he happened to know that the Tali troops were going to Yungch'ang-fu city in order to reassure the inhabitants, who were greatly disturbed in their minds by the advance of the British forces, but he knew nothing, he said, about soldiers having left Yunnan-fu for Tali.\n\nAs I had found some difficulty in revising the geographical details in the English translation which accompanied Mr. Hsia's despatch of the 25th January on the subject of the British occupation of Pienma, I begged Mr. Hsia to explain them and point out the various localities on a map. Two maps were produced, namely, the map accompanying Major Davies's work on Yunnan and a large-scale map in Chinese, showing the Burmah-Yunnan frontier region from about Bhamo up to Szechuan. Mr. Hsia said that the frontier described in his despatch was the watershed running from \"The High Peak,\" the northernmost point of the frontier as actually delimited, to the point where the Nga Cheng Hka joins the Nmai Hka. Mr. Hsia and I followed out this line on the map, and he seemed to be rather surprised that it made a considerable curve to the eastward instead of striking due north to the object-point. From the information obtained I prepared the sketch plan attached to the translation of Mr. Hsia's despatch forwarded to you with my despatch dated the 31st January.\n\nI was unable to elicit from Mr. Hsia in casual conversation what he considered to be the frontier north of the junction of the Nga Chang Hka and the Nmai Hka; but I noticed with great interest on the Chinese map produced by him that the whole country above this point was labelled \"Hsi-tsang\" Thibet. The map was long and narrow, and only represented the country to the west about as far as the Mali Hka, but I am convinced from what I saw that the Chinese lay claim to the whole of the northern part of Burmah, right across to Assam, as forming part of their Thibetan dependency.\n\nI would add that this Chinese map was very well drawn and quite modern, the details being evidently copied from foreign maps.\n\nI took the opportunity to touch on the subject of the boycott of British goods ordered by the Yünnan-fu Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hsia agreed with me that it was very foolish of the Chamber to act as it had done, and said that a proclamation would be published urging the merchants not to interfere in a matter which would be dealt with by the two Governments. He added that the Provincial Government could not be held responsible in connection with this boycott and he instanced the former Chinese boycott of American goods whereby—and I thought I detected a tone of satisfaction in his voice—American merchants suffered considerable loss, and yet the American Government had made no complaint. I replied that as I was sure that the Provincial Government would be able to put a stop to the boycott within a very short time, the question of fixing the responsibility for its inception and its consequences would scarcely arise.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n### Consul-General O'Brien-Butler to Administrator of Foreign Affairs\n\nYünnan-fu, January 28, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 25th instant to the effect that British troops had occupied Pienma, and requesting me to send a telegram to the Government of Burmah, and ask that they may be withdrawn.\n\nPage 163", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434752, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Enclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**Note by the Military Attaché, Peking, dated March 7, 1911, on Despatch No. 7, dated January 31, 1911, from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Yünnan-fu, forwarding a Despatch (regarding the line of the frontier) from the Administrator of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Yünnan-fu.**\n\nThe little map showing the line claimed by China (which accompanies Mr. O'Brien-Butler's despatch), the outcome of his investigation of maps with Mr. Hsia, shows the line, in the main, as claimed by the Wai-wu Pu, except that it concedes as British territory the whole of the basin of the Chipway Kha, whereas the line claimed in Prince Ch'ing's despatch of the 30th August, 1906, as well as the line proposed by Taotai Shih crossed that river instead of skirting its basin. The several lines proposed are shown on the sketch map which I attach to this note.\n\nIt must be noted that the map now sent by the consul-general was made by him, and is not signed or in any way vouched for by Mr. Hsia.\n\n## Enclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby.**\n\nA point worthy of note is that the maps produced by Mr. Hsia were the War Office map of Yunnan of 1906 (compiled by Major Davies) as well as a Chinese map; from which it is evident that the Yunnan authorities were well aware of Pienma being within the boundary claimed by Great Britain.\n\nAnother point, however (and perhaps a somewhat unfortunate one), is that the War Office map in question shows (and I think fairly and with reason) a very considerable stretch of the Irrawaddy basin, further north, viz., some 55 miles of the head waters of the N'mai Kha itself (latitude from about 27° 38′ to 28° 23′ north) in the neighbourhood of Chamutong, as well as the sources of the Meh Kha, its eastern large affluent, in the Chiutzu country (Khanung), as being within Yunnan, i.e., on the Yunnan side of the as yet undelimited frontier (marked only by a dotted line). I think it will be found that the Chinese claims to this Chiutzu region will, later on, when the question comes up for discussion, be found to be at least as strong as those put forward with regard to Pienma. In this connection, I would draw attention to the report of M. Gaston Péronne, mentioned in consul Rose's despatch No. 15, dated Tengyueh the 11th May, 1910. M. Péronne's head-quarters had been for the past year at Atuntzu, \"which is now the centre of activity for the Chinese along the north section of the Yunnan border.\" One of His Excellency Chao Erh Feng's agents was then at Atuntzu on special duty; said to be a man of considerable intelligence and activity and believed to be pioneering the proposed \"Third Province\" (comprising parts of Szechuan, Yunnan and Thibet) in an endeavour to include territory as far south as the Atuntzu district, which would strengthen the hold of the Chinese on the tribal lands dividing China from the sphere of British administrative control.\n\nHe went with a considerable escort into the \"inner country\" in the autumn of 1909 and remained three months. \"There seems little doubt that he penetrated at least as far as the Hkamti Shans.\" Since his return, he had been busy making the Atuntzu-Chamutong road, and there were many evidences of the intention of the Chinese to push forward their influence in these regions, which until the last few years were entirely beyond their control. They were sparing no pains to restrict lama influence: establishing schools at the larger centres, and insisting on a regular return of presents from the tribespeople, who include \"black Lisu,\" Lutzu and Chiutzu, in addition to the Thibetan groups. From other sources Mr. Rose learnt that deputies sent out by the sub-prefect of Wei Hsi crossed to the Chiutzu country on the west bank of the Salween and collected tribute during the autumn of 1909; also that two companies of Likiang troops were under orders for the Wei Hsi district (one to be stationed on the Salween and one at Atuntzu).\n\nIt is satisfactory to know that Mr. Barnard's expedition to Hkamti (at the head-waters of the Mali Kha) started from Kamaing on the 10th December, to confer a \"sanad\" (patent of rulership) on the present Sawbwa of that State. Here, at any rate, we are on quite firm ground, as there is ample documentary evidence in support of British suzerainty over Hkamti. As far back as 1892, the then chief was in possession of a document from the deputy commissioner of Bhamo acknowledging his right to the protection of the British Government, and proclaiming his territory to be part of the district controlled by the deputy commissioner of Bhamo.\n\nA point of considerable importance in connection with the question of the upper waters of the Irrawaddy is brought out by a journey made by Mr. E. C. Young from Yünnan through Pienma and Hkamti to Assam in the winter of 1905-6 (vide \"Geographical Journal\" for August 1907). According to his diagrams, the volume of the N'mai Kha considerably exceeds that of the Salween, in about the same latitude, and both are much bigger than the Mali Kha. The measurements are so remarkable that they leave room for doubt as to the sources of the N'mai Kha being within such reasonable distance as to admit of our claiming the whole of the head-waters of the Irrawaddy basin as being in Burmah, and so in British territory. Unfortunately, our knowledge of the geography of the upper waters of the N'mai Kha is very limited, but, at any rate, it would seem to be impossible that its source can be north of a point somewhere in the latitude of Mekong, as the Indian explorer Krishna (A. K.), in crossing to Rima from the Salween, not far north of Mekong, seems to have found no other large stream in his path, but \"proceeded up a small affluent of the Salween, over a 'divide by the Ti La pass (16,100'), and finally down an affluent of the Zayul or Lohit till he reached Rima without much difficulty. We thus possess certain information that between the head of the Assam valley and the Salween, there is but one pass.\"-(Sir Thomas Holdich's \"Thibet the Mysterious,\" p. 213.) No such doubt exists with regard to the head-waters of the Mali Kha, the high snowy barrier of the Nam Kiu mountains, which separates them from the Lohit basin, precluding any possibility of any of them taking their rise farther north. This snowy range seems obviously indicated as the boundary line between Upper Burmah and Thibet along the north of the Hkamti State.\n\nTo revert to the question of the delimitation of the boundary from the southern end of the undelimited portion: I anticipate the most strenuous resistance on the part of the Wai-wu Pu to admitting the Irrawaddy-Salween divide as the boundary northward--at any rate, of the southern confines of the Chiutzu country, about latitude 27° 35' north (for the reasons I have given above, and other reasons set forth below); and it is possible that they may even be able to put forward reasonable claims (that we as yet know nothing of) to some measure of control over portions of the intervening Mara country between the Khanung and Pienma.\n\nThe eastern branch of the head-waters of the N'mai Kha (the Chiu-chiang) appears, as I have mentioned above, to rise in the Tsarong district of Thibet, somewhere near Mekong (on the Salween, in latitude 28° 35′ north), and for three marches up-river from Tulong, the inhabitants of the valley (Chiutzu) pay tribute to the Yei-chih \"mokua\" (in the Wei Hsi sub-prefecture of Yunnan), and northward of that point, they are tributary to Tsarong (Thibet). (See \"From Tonkin to India,\" by Prince Henri d'Orleans, pp. 413, 414.)\n\nI think, therefore, it must be recognised that we may be unable to claim the whole of the waters of the Irrawaddy basin--in fact, that it may be necessary to recognise the \"southern confines of Thibet (mentioned in Sir F. Satow's despatch of the 1st May, 1906, to the Wai-wu Pu) as being somewhere about the latitude of Chamutong, i.e., approximately latitude 28 north (so far as the head-waters of the N'mai Kha are concerned). Furthermore, as below that point proceeding down-river to at least the Chiu Chiang Telo confluence, the inhabitants are tributary to Yei-chih and Wei-Hsi; at Tulong, in 1895, Prince Henri d'Orleans found a deputy from the Wei-Hsi sub-prefect), it would seem, perhaps, the simplest plan to consider that point, viz., the confluence, as a suitable point of departure of the frontier line west-wards from the river N'mai Kha.\n\nDuma on the Reun-nam (which is apparently the most easterly affluent of the Mali Kha) also appears from Prince Henri's narrative to be tributary to a Lisu chieftain subject to Yunnan, but this claim, at this rate, ought, I think, to be contested or compounded for by a payment or some compensation elsewhere. The Reun-nam (affluent of the Mali Kha (?)) is separated from the Telo (affluent of the N'mai Kha) by a very few miles only, and by a single mountain ridge, and it is along this ridge that a suitable frontier line might perhaps be found. From the top of this ridge, Prince Henri remarks \"in the west, a high white range running north-east and south-west was identified by us as the alps of Zayul, on the other side of which lies the basin of the upper Brahmaputra in Thibet. This high white range,\" the Nan Kiu mountains is not more than about 50 miles distant, in a straight line, from the Chiu chiang (N'mai Kha)-Telo confluence.\n\nPage 5\nPage 164", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# C.O\n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]**\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[17270]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**RECO ¡REG 16 JUN 11**\n\n&\n\n[May 8.]\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\n(No. 168.) Sir,\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 8.)**\n\nPeking, April 19, 1911. WITH reference to my despatch No. 65 of the 10th February last, relative to the rates for merchandise on the Tonquin-Yunnan Railway, I have the honour to transmit herewith, for communication to the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade, copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Yünnau-fu, explaining that the rates mentioned in Mr. Wilton's report have been superseded.\n\nMr. O'Brien-Butler encloses two tables compiled from the new tariff, and observes that no preference is given to goods of French origin.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**J. N. JORDAN**\n\nSir,\n\n**Consul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nYunnan-fu, March 22, 1911.\n\nIN reply to your despatch of the 3rd February, addressed to His Majesty's consul at Hanoi, I have the honour to report as follows:-\n\nI am unable to ascertain the grounds for the classification of goods, which in some cases appeared to overlap, in Mr. Wilton's table, copy of which was attached to your despatch. It is quite immaterial, however, as the railway tariff has been entirely changed. I enclose herewith two tables which I have compiled from the railway book of charges recently issued. The present rates for the conveyance of goods are based on the nature of the article and the distance transported, no preference being shown to goods from France or French possessions.\n\nThe freight on all goods carried by rail is divided into five series, based apparently on the value of the goods in relation to bulk. The more expensive and less bulky come into the first series, in which the charges are the highest; cheaper goods, occupying less space, come lower in the list, e.g., provisions, household articles, oil, clocks, and wines figure in the first series; raw metals, granite, &c., in the fourth, while coal, sand, and firewood belong to the fifth series.\n\nFor purposes of calculating distance, the railway is divided into five zones. The tables below show the rates for goods and also the number of kilometers between the various places in each section or zone. The rates in the various zones differ considerably.\n\nThere are numerous variations in the rates, higher charges being levied for articles of a dangerous nature, and lesser for goods conveyed in whole waggon loads, but the rates given in the table will form a general guide to the merchant who intends to send merchandise into Tonquin or Yünnan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**P. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER**\n\n[2021 h-2]\n\n529", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435182, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 596, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# {This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.}\n\n10008\n\n## OPIUM.\n\n**REC & CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n**REGO 16 JUN 11**\n\n[May 26.]\n\n### SECTION 4.\n\n[20178]\n\n**(No. 198.) Sir,**\n\n## No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 26.)**\n\nWITH reference to Sir A. Hosie's report of the 15th April, on the cultivation of the poppy and the production of opium in the province of Yunnan, I have the honour to transmit herewith the copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu, covering a proclamation issued by the Viceroy on the 11th April in virtue of which four months are allowed for exporting to Tonquin the stocks remaining in the province.\n\n### Enclosure I in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n**(No. 21.) Sir,**\n\n## Consul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYunnan-fu, April 15th, 1911.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 18 of the 31st March, with regard to the present opium conditions in this province, I have the honour to forward herewith copy of a proclamation, issued by the Viceroy on the 11th instant, granting a period of four months for the export of old stocks of opium to Tonquin via Mengtsz.\n\nThe Régie in Tonquin has always been hampered by the prohibition of opium, as it was dependent on Yünnan for its supply. Last year M. Wilden, the delegate of the French Foreign Office in Yünnan-fu, approached the Viceroy with a view to an agreement allowing the old stocks of opium in the province to be exported to Tonquin. The Viceroy informed him that the time was unfavourable for such an arrangement, as the people might easily misunderstand the meaning of this relaxation on his part, but that he would consider the matter after the time for the planting of the poppy this year had elapsed.\n\nThe result of these deliberations is the proclamation enclosed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\n## Proclamation issued by the Viceroy on April 11, 1911.\n\nWHEREAS it is now three years since opium was prohibited, yet there is still a large illegal trade in the article and much secret smoking of the drug. From time to time seizures are made, thus proving that there still remain stores of opium among the people. If the law were strictly adhered to, these stocks of opium should be seized and confiscated and the offenders punished. But the Viceroy, ever solicitous for his people, is of opinion that the original time-limit is too short for the suppression of opium, and that there is some excuse for people fearing to produce their stocks after the expiry of the time. Therefore, instructions have been sent by telegraph that all stocks of opium be examined, and that an extension of four months be granted. You people, permission is given you to produce your stocks of opium and send them to Mengtsz, according to the regulations here appended. Take heed to these rules, and proceed forthwith to the nearest li-kin station, pay the duty, and send your opium to Mengtsz.\n\nAs the cultivation of the poppy is a thing of the past, and as in future there will be no hidden stores of opium (the same stringent rules apply in every province), it follows that opium will be entirely abolished. If after this respite of four months any person is found with a stock of opium, or is accused by his neighbours, the Viceroy will punish him severely and reward the informer, and no mercy shall be... \n\n[2011 cc-4]\n\n590", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435293, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Rose to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 14. Confidential.)\n\nTengyueh, March 13, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to report that the Taotai Keng has not shown the courtesy to my British colleagues that is expected during his tenure of office in Tengyueh.\n\nI have the honour to request that your Highness's Government will issue stringent instructions to the taotai to take effective steps to punish the raiders from Chefang, and generally to enjoin upon him the desirability of evincing a friendlier disposition towards His Majesty's consul and the Burmah Government officials.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 17.)\n\nYünnan-fu, March 24, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Rose's telegram of the 11th March, reporting that 200 Chefang men, subjects of China, had entered Burmah and burnt the village of Pangsheng, I have the honour to report that I brought the matter to the notice of the Administrator of Foreign Affairs, and in due course received from him a despatch on the subject, copy of which I have the honour to enclose herewith.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nThe taotai states that the circumstances at Chefang are being exceedingly riotous, and that instructions have been issued to the sub-prefect of Kuei Kai to proceed to the spot and restore order. He further states that as the matter is of a serious nature, a telegram has been sent requesting that all local Chinese officials may be at once informed.\n\nThe taotai again sent an express to carry instructions, both in despatch and letter, to the sub-prefect, Chang, of Lung Ling, commanding him to go in person without delay to the frontier and examine the particulars and report, and also telegraphed to the delegate, Chou, who is in charge of the cases of crossing the boundary to till ground, ordering him to go without delay to Chefang and make investigations together with the Sub-prefect of Kuei Kai in Burmah.\n\nThe taotai closes his statement by saying that he will send another telegram when investigation has been made. Referring to Mr. Rose's statement in his despatch, it is found that a Burmese bandit is in league with Chinese bad characters to burn and loot; this being so, the chief bandit is a Burmese who collects Chinese as his followers, and it is not that Chinese themselves presume to cross the boundary and burn villages. He requests me to take note of his statement and inform you.\n\nI, as in duty bound, write this to give you the information now obtained, and I will again address you in a despatch when I receive another telegram.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHSIA.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nChinese Administrator of Foreign Affairs to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, Yünnan-fu, March 18, 1911.\n\nON receipt of your letter, stating that 200 Chinese had crossed the boundary and gone to Pangsheng village in Burmah and burnt the place, I telegraphed at once to the taotai at Tengyueh, requesting him to investigate the matter.\n\nI acknowledged receipt of your note.\n\nThe investigations made, the taotai replies to the effect that, when he was at Man Ai on the 14th day of the 12th moon last, he received a despatch from the consul (Mr. Rose) as follows:\n\n\"I am in receipt of a despatch, in which it is stated that a bandit of Po Wang, in Burmah, named Tsao Lo, has been committing depredations, and now intends to collect a following and take action against the chief of Lieh Mong for the purpose of injuring him. It is further stated that Po Wang is close to Chefang and Meng Pan (in Lung Ling), and the bandit consorts regularly with the savages of the two places to commit robberies, his followers being very numerous. It is heard that Tsao Tu, resident of Wa Ch'iung village, in Chefang, is a slave of this bandit. Unless Chinese officials assist in the search for this man, people on both sides of the frontier will suffer loss. I am therefore requested to send you a despatch, asking that the Tu Ssu of Chefang may be instructed to act in conjunction with the sub-prefect of Kuei Kai to arrest this bandit so that he may not take refuge in Chinese territory and disturb the peace.\"\n\nThe taotai found that, as Tsao Lo, the bandit of Po Wang, has often stolen property, to the disturbance of the peace, and as the places in question are close together, no matter whether there are followers of the chief in Che and Meng, it is necessary to assist at once in the search in order to maintain peace on the frontier, and to strengthen friendship between the neighbouring countries, and accordingly sent instructions to the sub-prefect of Lung Ling to order the Tu Ssu of Chefang to take action as commanded.\n\nThe taotai further states that on the 11th day of this moon he again received a despatch from Mr. Rose as follows:\n\n\"I am in receipt of a telegram from the taotai on the north to the effect that a bandit, named Tsao Lo, with more than 200 Chinese of Chefang, has just entered his jurisdiction and burned P'eng Sheng village in Po Wang, his following...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439996, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[January 20, 1912]\n\nSECON 20 JAN 12\n\n[547]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 4, 1912.)\n\n(No. 8. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, November 25, 1911,\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith a copy of a despatch which I have sent to His Majesty's Minister on the subject of opium cultivation in Yünnan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYunnan-fu, November 25, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report as follows on the subject of opium cultivation in this province.\n\nAbout a month ago the Reverend Samuel Pollard, of Chaotung, sent me the following memorandum:--\n\n\"A large amount of opium is still being grown north of the Yang-tsze in 'independent Nosu (Lolo) land.' The Chinese go across the river and cultivate the poppy on land belonging to the Nosu, paying, of course, for the privilege of doing so.\n\n'In Ch'iao-chia-ting, a sub-prefecture of Tungchuan-fu, I was told by farmers that preparations were being made for extensive poppy sowing. Travelling in that direction I saw two fields of summer opium which was almost ready for gathering. The farmers in the Hsin-tien-chou sub-prefecture stated that they were determined to grow this year, and declared they would offer violence to any official attempting to stop them. I saw the official himself travelling in that district with a strong retinue looking into the matter, and after his visit the talk of poppy sowing died away.\n\n\"In the Lu-ch'uan-hsien and Wu-ting-chou districts directly north of Yunnan-fu much opium is being sown this year, and some of it is already above the ground. In these districts landlords have given seed to their tenants, commanding them to grow opium crop on the best of their rented land. Refusal to do so will lead to eviction from their farms if the landlords carry out their threats. Tenants from a number of Christian villages have come for advice to the missionaries, who have told them that it was wiser to obey the Emperor's decree and the official proclamation than to sow the poppy at the command of their landlords. If the officials are in earnest this deplorable state of affairs can easily be prevented. I was informed also that in the Tungchuan prefecture opium is openly sold and li-kin collected on it by the officials.\"\n\nThe new republican Government in Yünnan have declared their willingness to recognise treaties with foreign Powers made by the Ching dynasty. They cannot, therefore, openly encourage opium cultivation, although this would offer a ready means of revenue and bring in large sums to the depleted provincial treasury. Moreover, there is a widespread determination among the farmers of Yunnan to gather an opium crop this year at all costs, and it is probable that the new Government are unwilling to incur the unpopularity which would necessarily attend active repressive measures and result in the alienation of the sympathies of a large part of the inhabitants of the province from the new régime.\n\nThe temptation is great, and it would appear that the Government have adopted a policy of non-obstruction without actually sanctioning the growing by the issue of a proclamation. Large quantities of poppy seed have already been planted, and I hear...\n\nPage 1\n\n[2340 d-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "2 \n\nM. Spakler wrote me saying he had received on that date a letter from the acting governor of Macao, stating that the opium was indeed for the Macao farmer. \n\n3. Yesterday the Netherlands Trading Society have again applied for a permit to export 150 chests of Indian opium to the opium farmer, Macao, also per steam-ship “Johanne.” The actual requirements of Macao are between 10 and 20 chests per month, say, on an average 15 chests per month. The Macao farmer is therefore receiving 310 chests within 6 weeks, or about 2 years' supply. As uncertified opium is not allowed into China at all, none of these chests unless smuggled can be for China. It is ridiculous to suppose that such enormous quantities are intended for local consumption in Macao. It can only be intended for smuggling in the form of chandu into other countries, e.g., Straits, Java, China, &c. The danger, therefore, to this colony is very serious, and is twofold. Every chest of uncertified opium sold to Macao over and above their legitimate requirements means so many chests less for sale to bona fide purchasers like ourselves, Java, Saigon, Bangkok, &c. (with Government control in each place). This will undoubtedly raise the price of raw opium against us, especially as an unrestricted importation for smuggling via Macao will induce the smugglers to pay almost any price. Further, having turned the opium into chandu, such chandu will undoubtedly be smuggled into the Straits, Java, &c., thus causing us a double loss of revenue. It seems to me, therefore, imperative for our own protection, unless all are prepared to acquiesce in serious financial losses, to take immediate steps to frustrate what is undoubtedly going on. \n\n4. Under section 5 (2) of the Chandu Revenue Ordinance, 1909, the Governor-in-Council has power to prohibit the export of opium or chandu to any place or subject same to conditions, \n\n5. I suggest that a letter be sent to the Macao Government, informing them that we are aware 310 chests of opium have gone there within six weeks, and as the normal requirements of Macao are only some 15 chests per month, we propose, unless they can show good cause to the contrary, to prohibit the export of opium from the colony to Macao for a period sufficient to allow for the normal consumption of 310 chests. \n\n6. I may say I have lived in Macao and know something of the Government. The place is moribund, and the opium farm rent is a large portion of their revenue. I am quite convinced the Macao Government will do nothing to embarrass the farmer, nor will they be guilty of excess of zeal in suppressing irregularities. We cannot object to their getting legitimate revenue from their farm, but we ought to object strongly to Macao being made the base of a series of operations which are bound to cause heavy financial losses to this colony. \n\n7. The withdrawal from the open market of such an enormous quantity as 310 chests for a place consuming only 15 chests per month cannot but have a great, immediate, and lasting effect in putting up the market price. \n\nI have, &c. \n\n(Telegraphic.) P. F. M. BADDELEY, Superintendent, Government Monopolies Department. \n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1. \n\nMr. Harcourt to Sir A. Young. \n\nDowning Street, February 28, 1912. REFERRING to my cypher telegram of the 17th instant, I am advised that large shipments of opium to Macao are still being made. Please send by despatch as soon as possible as complete a statement as can be obtained of amounts exported from Straits to Macao since the 1st July last with names of consignees. \n\nI should be glad if you would consider whether further action should not be taken under section 5 (2) of Ordinance 21 of 1909. \n\n(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government) \n\nOPIUM. CONFIDENTIAL. [12645] \n\n(No. 110.) Sir, \n\n244 10404 [March 25.] SECTION 3 MAY 12 \n\nNo. I. \n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey-(Received March 25.)’ \n\nPeking, March 6, 1912. WITH reference to my despatch No. 92 of the 22nd February, on the subject of the resumption of opium cultivation in China, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's consul-general at Yünnan fu, reporting that in the prefectures of Chao-tung Fu and Tung-chuan Fu the passive attitude of the authorities has emboldened the farmers to clear their fields of young beans and supplant them with poppy, and that in the plain of Yunnan-fu the poppy is now being grown without any attempt at concealment.” \n\nIn his report on the province of Yunnan of the 15th April, 1911, Sir A. Hosie stated that a proclamation had been issued by the then Viceroy permitting the export through the port of Mengtzu of old stocks of opium for a period of four months from the 30th March to the 25th July, 1911, and, as will be observed from the enclosure contained in the despatch of His Majesty's consul-general, a similar proclamation was issued by the military governor of Yunnan on the 1st January, 1912, permitting export of stocks up to the 16th April, on the ground that the original period fixed for the sale of accumulated stocks was too short, and that, as large reserves still remained, smoking was carried on as a matter of course; but the fact that no opium had been reported for export up to the 9th February would appear to show that holders prefer to dispose of their stocks locally at their equivalent weight in silver, while, to judge from the recrudescence of cultivation throughout the province, farmers do not seem to attach much importance to the order of the military governor, that the cultivation of the poppy in hidden places will not be permitted. \n\nIn his despatch No. 5 of the 10th January, copy of which was forwarded direct to the Foreign Office, His Majesty's consul-general at Chengtu was able to report that opium was being very widely cultivated within the prefecture of Ya-chou Fu to the south-west of the provincial capital, and that the poppy was growing in great abundance all along the high road from Wang Hsien to Chengtu. He states, however, that this resumption of cultivation in Szechuan is contrary to the expressed wishes of the Chengtu Government, which has issued proclamations ordering the immediate and complete destruction of all poppy plants; but as the authority of the Chengtu Government had not yet been acknowledged in Eastern and Southern Szechuan, it was impossible to say how far its mandate could be enforced. \n\nI have, &c. \n\n(No. 6.) Sir, \n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1. \n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan, \n\nJ. N. JORDAN. \n\nYunnan-fu, February 9, 1912. IN continuation of Mr. O'Brien-Butler's despatch No. 41 of the 25th November, 1911, I have the honour to report that a proclamation on the subject of opium was issued on the 1st January by the military governor of Yunnan province. \n\nThe terms of the new proclamation bear considerable resemblance to the abortive regulations drawn up by the ex-Viceroy and issued on the 11th April last (despatch No. 21 of 1911). In view of the recrudescence of poppy cultivation and the relaxation of strict supervision over opium smokers, I would venture to submit the opinion that the latest effort to rid Yünnan of its reserves of opium is doomed to a similar failure, and that the issue of this proclamation is merely an obvious and hypocritical pretence on the part of the provincial authorities, in consideration of recent opium agreements with foreign Powers, to carry on the work of suppression begun by his Excellency Hsi Liang and continued by the ex-Viceroy. I am informed that to date no opium has been produced at the two li-kin stations opened in Yünnan-fu and Mengtsz, those who ...\n\n[2412 bb-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440701, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# \n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## 2\n\nUp to the present only about 1,000 dollars' worth of opium has been bought in by the bureau, the farmers easily finding secret buyers willing to pay from 65 to 75 cents per Chinese ounce, according to quality. I am told that large quantities have been buried by the farmers, who feared that the Government would confiscate the opium when the efforts of the latter to buy it at 30 cents an ounce had failed; moreover, that a considerable amount is being smuggled from Yünnan into Tonquin, Burmah, and Szechuan.\n\nIn Yunnan-fu at the present moment the price of new opium is from 70 to 80 cents per ounce, and old opium of former harvests has dropped from 1 dol. 30 c in April to 1 dol. 15 c, per Chinese ounce. (Copy to Burmah and Tengyueh)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER,\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum communicated to the Wai-chiao Pu by Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nHIS Majesty's Minister begs to inform the Wai-chiao Pu that he is in receipt of a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Yünnan-fu, stating that the opium crop in the province of Yunnan has all been harvested, and that the yield averages about 80 per cent. of that obtained before the cultivation of the poppy was prohibited, and, owing to suitable climatic conditions, is of very good quality. He further reports that in May of the present year an official opium bureau, with a working capital of 1,000,000 dollars, half of which was furnished by the Provincial Government in newly-issued notes, and the balance in silver 1,000 dollar shares by former opium firms, was established, and farmers were called upon to hand over all their opium to the bureau, which would pay them 30 cents a Chinese ounce, the intention of the bureau being to export the drug to Tonquin, and there dispose of it to the Opium Régie at from 1 dol. 60 c. to 1 dol. 80 c. per ounce.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister begs to cite the above as an illustration of the way in which China is carrying out her share of the Opium Agreement of last year. There is no national policy, for, while Chekiang and other provinces are breaking the agreement by prohibiting the sale and transit of Indian opium within their borders, the province of Yunnan has resumed cultivation of the poppy on a scale little short of pre-restriction days, and has become an exporter of opium. Should such a policy, or lack of policy, continue, the result will be that Great Britain, acting from humanitarian motives, will have stopped the Indian export to China merely to advance the native cultivation, and the last state of China will be no better than the first.\n\nSir John Jordan considers it useless to discuss what the policy of the Chinese Government on this subject may be, but the uncontrolled action of the provinces is fast leading to the inevitable practical result, namely, the exclusion of Indian opium and the protection of native cultivation for home consumption as well as for export.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nPeking, July 18, 1912.\n\n## **OPIUM.**\n\n## **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[33382]\n\n## No. 1.\n\n[August 8.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n**India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received August 8.)**\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office, August 7, 1912.\n\nWITH reference to your letter of the 25th July, 1912, on the subject of the losses alleged by Messrs. Sassoons to have been sustained by them and by other firms engaged in the China opium trade, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to say that he is doubtful whether any reply is required to Messrs. Sassoons' contentions that the merchants are not responsible for the magnitude of the losses complained of. If a reply is considered necessary I am to suggest that it might be somewhat to the following effect:-\n\n\"His Majesty's Government do not think that any useful result would follow from pursuing the discussion as to what brought about the exceedingly high prices for certificated opium which ruled last year in the treaty ports, and consequentially in India, or whether these prices were justified. But exception must be taken to the statement that the prices in question were solely due to the action of the Government of India in establishing two descriptions of opium, namely, a small quantity certificated for China, and a large quantity uncertificated and not available for importation into China. In 1911 the number of certificated chests of Indian opium was 30,600, and of uncertificated chests 14,000. In addition to the 30,600 chests exported from India, uncertificated opium to the amount of 11,459 chests, which was in bond in treaty ports or in stock in Hong Kong, was by annex to the agreement of May 1911, allowed to enter China. In the aggregate, therefore, the quantity of Indian opium permitted to enter China in 1911 was actually three times as great as the exports to non-China markets, and from no point of view could be regarded as small.”\n\nWith regard to the enquiry made in the last paragraph of your letter whether steps should not be taken to meet the views of the opium merchants as to a reduction in the amount of uncertificated opium exported from India, I am to say that these views are not universally held. In 1911, when the export of uncertificated opium was fixed at 14,000 chests by the Indian Government, complaints were made by the Government of the Straits Settlements that this amount was insufficient for the requirements of non-Chinese markets, and that by thus limiting it the Indian Government was unwittingly helping the Hong Kong firms to create an artificial scarcity of the article and to force up the price both of certificated and uncertificated opium. In the current year the export of uncertificated opium has been further reduced to 13,200 chests. The figure for 1913 has not yet been announced by the Government of India, and their attention will be called to the suggestion made in your letter. The Marquess of Crewe trusts that the representations which have been made to the Portuguese Government will result in that Government fixing a limit to the amount of opium that may be imported into Macao. If in Sir Edward Grey's opinion an early settlement would be promoted by prohibiting or restricting further consignments to Macao as a temporary measure, the Government of India will again be invited to examine the question.\n\nI am,\n&c.\n\nLIONEL ABRAHAMS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449257, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "If the Widow Schems $51. i granted Valu tamo also fremsions + Pension a pansion of hap week been to you Ondre of 1/6 a week sach to your Don : + daughter from the fo effect August. The C.A. for the C. have been instructed to pay these pensions as become due + they \"Indians\n\nP.S. Iame to add that your letter of I the 19th wist has junt hem..... read under 4. Kong. > the Dean Volunteer Gramance, in recognition of the fact that youss husband diel whilst on actual military may 342 1914 ry Ber\n\nLast previous Paper. 7.0 42846 Sus by HƠN. KONG H5156 Tai on Peracy REC C о 45156 503 Rea:7 NO 14 Anly ties further claims for compensation have been rega from Chinese members of Crew: both have been refused. Report unfavorable appen for compensation for do tebartney.\n\nvyo foncle Sur G. Younger was promised that the Ears uph jod be communicated thin -su M Butler's Witter a 32346 Jove Sur 9.G. the sub lumen 9 Aime 2 Royce Mr Butler\n\nNozt subsequent Paper, hu.. Cowell Hove 18-11-14 |(86,155) W6,31,938=-13, 15,006, 1‡nă, A DET, Copy of letter to six fence Tanger attached. 23.11 Pub by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451884, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "## Dear Butler,\n\nTreasury Chambers, Whitehall S.W., 10th June, 1914.\n\n236\n\nI find that the Colonial Office on the 18th ultimo (reference no. 16732) forwarded officially to the Treasury a copy of a reply which they had sent to a Memorial from the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce asking support in aid of a proposed University in Central China. In this connection you may be interested to read the enclosed copy of correspondence which has passed between Mr. Alston of the Foreign Office and myself on this matter.\n\nYours sincerely,\nI. P. Hamilton\n\nIt is queer that the Chancellor does not seem to support a rival destination to Hongkong as preferred.\n\nV.A. 4.5.14\nDid they fully appreciate this point? E11.5.14\nI think something of this should be said to explain our position. * 12.5.14\ng.tars.\nYou may like to see the annexed semi-official correspondence. Lebison elus.\n\nTý TY 70. R1/6/144. Are 6 16 Rup 11/11/14 136,14\nA clear promise of the Chancellor, but we ought not to take any responsibility for it. Ch.164 Jaquee K 14.6.14\nF.G.A. Butler Esq. \nL DAL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453915, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 7th May, 1915.\n\nI have the honour to transmit a copy of a letter which was addressed to the Colonial Secretary by His Majesty's Acting Consul at Saigon with reference to a lady of British nationality who reached Saigon from Singapore in a destitute condition.\n\n2\\. Mrs. Butler arrived in Hongkong on the 13th April and I arranged that she should be sent to England at the earliest opportunity and a passage has been booked for her on the P. & O. S.S. \"Sardinia\" which leaves Hongkong today.\n\n3\\. Mrs. Butler is very desirous of obtaining some employment on reaching England and has asked that her case might be brought to your notice with a view to enabling her to get an appointment on the Customs Staff. I understand that she is able to speak several languages which may be an asset in assisting her to obtain the employment she desires. She states that her father was English and her mother Russian.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n**Governor, &c.**\n\nMarking that if it is found easy to consider her for temporary or other employment they will communicate direct to her (at the address on this paper) so marked.\n\n`R116/5`.\n\n| Arc | 11- | 19.6. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No | 177 | |\n| C.C | 126 | 27452 Res 15 NIS |\n\n**Page 363** is not present in the original text, but the following metadata is kept as is: \n\nThe original text has the following at the bottom: \n`THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., &C.. &C.. &c...` \n\nRevised to \n`THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., &c. &c. &c.` \n\nHere is the rewritten response without the commentary:\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 7th May, 1915.\n\nI have the honour to transmit a copy of a letter which was addressed to the Colonial Secretary by His Majesty's Acting Consul at Saigon with reference to a lady of British nationality who reached Saigon from Singapore in a destitute condition.\n\n2\\. Mrs. Butler arrived in Hongkong on the 13th April and I arranged that she should be sent to England at the earliest opportunity and a passage has been booked for her on the P. & O. S.S. \"Sardinia\" which leaves Hongkong today.\n\n3\\. Mrs. Butler is very desirous of obtaining some employment on reaching England and has asked that her case might be brought to your notice with a view to enabling her to get an appointment on the Customs Staff. I understand that she is able to speak several languages which may be an asset in assisting her to obtain the employment she desires. She states that her father was English and her mother Russian.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n**Governor, &c.**\n\nMarking that if it is found easy to consider her for temporary or other employment they will communicate direct to her (at the address on this paper) so marked.\n\n`R116/5`\n| Arc | 11- | 19.6. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No | 177 | |\n| C.C | 126 | 27452 Res 15 NIS |\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., &c. &c. &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453917, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \n**H* B* F* Courantipe\"** appears to be a garbled header or title and will be left as is due to lack of clear context for correction.\n\n\n„Jiei „.dja lingk \n\n\nMrs. Butler is the bearer of a Foreign Office \nPassport dated 1898. \n\n118 \n\nI have etc. \n\n(signed) F. G. Gorton, \nActing Consul. \n\n\nP.S. I have this day handed to Mrs. Butler a draft \nfor Hongkong Dollars Thirty-three.\n\n(Intld.) F.G.G.\n\n\n## Page 128 \nThe rest of the text appears to be garbled and does not form coherent sentences or paragraphs, suggesting it may be the result of severe OCR errors or not relevant to the main content. Therefore, it will not be corrected or included in the output.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "11006 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nArthur & Co. Limited.\n\nArts & Crafts Limited.\n\nAshton & Co. Limited (Enticknap, P.).\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Company.\n\nAstor House Hotel Company.\n\nAtkinson & Dallas Limited.\n\nAu Petit Louvre (Maison Parisienne).\n\nAudinet, Lacroix, & Co.\n\nAudinet, Lacroix, Pasquier, et Cie.\n\nAustralian Dairy Farm.\n\nAustralian Produce Company.\n\nAyer Tawah Company Limited, Shanghai. Azaidian.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox Limited.\n\nBakels & Co.\n\nBaldwin, C. C.\n\nBanbam, F. C.\n\nBanker & Co.\n\nBin Lam Drug Stores.\n\nBanque belge pour l'Etranger. Banque de l'Indo-Chine.\n\nBanque industrielle de Chine. Bansuiken, Shanghai.\n\nBarkley Company.\n\nBarlow & Co.\n\nBarrett, E. G.\n\nBarry & Co., B. M.\n\nBathgate & Co.\n\nBatu Anam Rubber Company. Beck, I.\n\nBeck, M. G.\n\nBelgian Brick Factory. Tien-tsin.\n\nBelgian Trading Company.\n\nBell, D. W.\n\nBell, H. F. L.\n\nBen Albert & Co.\n\nBenjamin and Potts.\n\nBeque, Henri.\n\nBielfield, Alex., & Co.\n\nBissett, J. P., & Co.\n\nBlack, J. F.\n\nBlake & Sons, F. A.\n\nBlancke, Charles.\n\nBo Won, Canton,\n\nBona, F.\n\nBouchard.\n\nBourgery, C.\n\nBowern & Co. (Bowern & Hay).\n\nBoyd & Co.\n\nBoyer, Mazet & Co.\n\nBoyes, Basset, & Co.\n\nBradford Dyers' Association.\n\nBradley & Co. Limited.\n\nBrand Brothers & Co.\n\nBrand, H. S., & Co.\n\nBrandt, A. L.\n\nBrandt & Co.\n\nBrandt & Rogers.\n\nBrangwyn & Hobson, Dre.\n\nBrewer & Co. Limited. Bridges, H.\n\nBritish American Tobacco Company.\n\nBritish and Asiatic Company.\n\nBritish and Chinese Corporation.\n\nBritish Cigarette Company Limited.\n\nBritish Dominions General Insurance Company.\n\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society,\n\nBritish Insulated and Helsby Company. British Manufacturers' Agency (Wong Chuen Yung).\n\nBrockett & Co.\n\nBrockett, E., & Co.\n\nBrook, E., & Co.\n\nBrossay, René,\n\nBrunner, Mond, & Co. Limited.\n\nBrush Electrical Engineering Company. Bryant & Ryde.\n\nBulin & Co., Hankow.\n\nBurin Yoko.\n\nBurkhardt, L. R.\n\nBurkill, A. R., & Sons.\n\nBurroughs, Wellcome, & Co. Burtenshaw & Co.\n\nButler, A.\n\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nCabeldu, A., & Co. Caissial.\n\nCaldbeck, MacGregor. Calder, Marshall, & Co. Calico Printers' Association. Camera Craft Company. Campbell, Alex., & Co. Canadian Commissioner.\n\nCanadian Methodist Mission Press. Canadian Pacific.\n\nCanton Insurance Company.\n\nCarr, Ramsay, T., & Co. Castellano.\n\nCathay Trust.\n\nCatoire Veuve, A., et Fils. Catanneo.\n\nCawasjee Palanjee, Shanghai. Cement Tile Works Limited.\n\nCentral Agency Limited.\n\nCentral China Dispensary.\n\nCentral China Import Company. Central China Post.\n\nCentral China Printing Company, Hankow.\n\nCentral Garage Limited.\n\nCentral Stores Limited.\n\nCentral Trading Company.\n\nCercle sportif français.\n\nChang Dah Yuen.\n\nChang, T. S,\n\nChapeaux.\n\nCharrey.\n\nCharrey et Conversy.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\n\nChauvin, Mme.\n\nChefoo Hairnet Manufactory.\n\nChemor United Rubber Company Limited. Chempedak Rubber & Gambier Estate Company.\n\nCheng Rubber Estate.\n\nChic Parisien.\n\nChin Ho Hsiang.\n\nChina Agenta Company.\n\nChina American Lumber Company.\n\nChina American Trading Company.\n\nChina Commercial Steam Navigation Company.\n\nChina Engineering Company.\n\nChina Fire Insurance Company.\n\nChina Flour Mill Company Limited.\n\nChina Import & Export Lumber Company Limited.\n\nChina Inland Mission.\n\nChina & Japan Trading Company.\n\nChina Land & Building Company Limited. China Land & Finance Company Limited. China Merchants Ponges Association. China Merchants Steam Navigation Company. China Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited.\n\nChina Mutual Steam Navigation Company. China National Life Assurance.\n\nChina Navigation Company.\n\nChina Silk Agency Company Limited. China Strawbraid Export Company,\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915. 11007\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company.\n\nChina Times Limited.\n\nChina Traders Insurance Company.\n\nChina Trading Company.\n\nChinese American Company,\n\nChiness Electric Light & Power Company.\n\nChinese Optical Company..\n\nChinese Railways (all).\n\nChing Cheng Yung, Tien-tsin.\n\nChing Chong Hung & Co., Shanghai, Chefoo.\n\nChing Fong, Shanghai.\n\nChing Ho Hsiang, Peking.\n\nChing Kee, Amoy.\n\nChinson Chao (Peking Motor Company, Peking).\n\nChuan Chang.\n\nChun Shing.\n\nChun Sing, Shanghai.\n\nChung Fall & Co., Chefoo.\n\nChung Heva Book Company, Shanghai.\n\nChung Tung Lithographic Works.\n\nChurch Missionary Mission.\n\nCoghlan, H. H.\n\nCohen, Andre.\n\nCollina & Co.\n\nCombfort.\n\nCommercial Press Limited.\n\nCommercial Union Assurance Company.\n\nCompagnie d'Eclairage et de Tramways of Tien-tsin.\n\nCompagnie française des Tramways de l'Eclairage électrique et des Eaux de Shanghai.\n\nCompagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine.\n\nCompagnie des Messageries maritimes. Comptoir commercial auversois.\n\nConnell Brothers.\n\nConsolidated Rubber Estates Limited. Cook & Anderson.\n\nCook, Thomas & Sons.\n\nCornabe, Eckford, & Co. Cosmopolitan Dock.\n\nCossanteli & Co.\n\nCox, W. Wakeford.\n\nCozzi, E. Hankow.\n\nCrédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient.\n\nCrofts & Co., George. Cros, Paul.\n\nCrossfeld & Sons Limited. Crystal Limited. Culpeck, E. A.\n\nCurtis Brothers.\n\nCurtis Sons & Co.\n\nDah Daw, Hankow.\n\nDah Lung & Co..\n\nDah Sung & Co.\n\nDah Sung Cotton Mill, Shanghai. Dai Nippon Brewery Company. Daishin & Co., Shanghai,\n\nDallas Livery Stable Company, Danese, E., Hankow. D'Arc, G. L.\n\nDastoor, F. R., & Co.\n\nDavid & Co.\n\nDavid, S. J., & Co.\n\nDavies & Brooke.\n\nDavis, R. S., & Co.\n\nDavis, W. Trenchard,\n\nDeacon & Co.\n\nDeane, T. P.\n\nDebenham & Co. Denham & Rose.\n\nDenniston & Sullivan. Dent, A., & Co.\n\nDent, Herbert. Dieden & Co.\n\nDixon, H. C., & Co.\n\nDodwell & Co. Limited. Dollar Robert Company. Dombey & Son,\n\nDominion Express Company. Donnelly & Whyte.\n\nDowdall, W. M.\n\nDrakeford & Co.\n\nDuncan & Co.\n\nDunlop Rubber Company.\n\nDunn, Walter.\n\nDuplessis.\n\nDutch Colonial Trading Company,\n\nDutton, W., & Co.\n\nDyce & Co.\n\nDzing Nye Haing, Hankow.\n\nEagle & Globe Steel Company.\n\nEast Asiatic Company.\n\nEastern & Australiau Steamship Company.\n\nEastern Extension Telegraph Company.\n\nEastern Trading Company.\n\nEcho de Tien-tsin.\n\nEdgar Brothers & Co.\n\nEkman Foreign Agencies.\n\nEnergie électrique,\n\nEnterprise Tobacco Company Limited. Enticknap, P. (Ashton & Co. Limited). Equitable Life Assurance Society. Erasmic Company.\n\nEstablishments de Tongkou.\n\nEtablissements Fei Yen, Ateliers de Construction Mécaniques.\n\nEvans, A. M. A.\n\nEvans, Edward, & Sons Limited.\n\nEvans, Pugh, & Co.\n\nEwo Cotton Spinning & Weaving Company.\n\nEwo Yuen Press Packing Company.\n\nExcess Insurance Company Limited.\n\nEzra, E. I., Shanghai.\n\nEzra, Edward, & Co., Shanghai.\n\nEzra & Co., Fred, Shanghai.\n\nEzra, N. E. B., & Co.\n\nEzra, Y., & Co.\n\nFa Hsiang, Tien-tsin.\n\nFairchild, F. A.\n\nFukul & Co., Shanghai.\n\nFar Eastern Geographical Establishment.\n\nFarley, W. A.\n\nFarmer, F. D., & Co.\n\nFearon, Daniel, & Co.\n\nFederal Life Assurance Company of Canada.\n\nFengtien District Inspectorate of Salt Revenue.\n\nFerretti.\n\nFindlay, Richardson, & Co. Firth, W., & Sons. Fobes & Co.\n\nFoo Tai Company, Hankow, Forbes & Co., William. Foster, McClellan, & Co. Frankau & Co. Limited, A. Frazar & Co.\n\nFrench Bakery,\n\nFu Shing Tai, Tien-tsin.\n\nFuchs, H., & Co. (Rint'ai Stores).\n\nFujita & Co., Mukden.\n\nFukien Drug Company.\n\nFung Tang, Shanghai.\n\nFurukawa & Co., Shanghai. Futcher, J. W.\n\nGabhai, M. N., & Co.\n\nGadai Yoko.\n\n301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458980, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 541, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\n\"CANCOMSWEEF, LONDON.\"\n\nTELEPHONE NO: VICTORIA 6598.\n\n7830 LINES\n\n1\n\nTrade Clearing House,\n\nTemporary Offices,\n\nPrinces House,\n\nPalace Street,\n\nWestminster, S.W.\n\n17 FEB 15\n\n1915\n\n559\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI enclose a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Imperial Continental Gas Association from their agent in Flushing. Such reports are being used in Germany as grounds for retaliation in the form of confiscating the property of British firms possessing property or interests in Germany.\n\nIf the Colonial Office could give a categorical denial of these allegations the Imperial Continental Gas Association could, by means of their German agents (who are men of considerable standing in the business world in Germany) counteract the report, and thus help to protect British interests in that country.\n\nI may mention that this matter was brought to our notice by a member of our staff, and it seemed to us that it was our duty to bring it before the Colonial Office.\n\nTrusting that you will not consider that we are going outside our province in taking this step,\n\nYours very truly,\n\nP. S. Ruson\n\nI enclose a short memorandum on the above subject.\n\nF. G. A. Butler, Esq.,\n\nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "Bunting, F. E. Burder, R. H. R. Burjor, D. S. Dady Burkill, A. W. Barkill, C. R. \n\n*Burnian, A. \n\nBurn, A. C. \n\nBurnie, C. M. G. Burna, W. S. Burrows, F. D. Burtwell, J. W. \n\n88 \n\n*Clarke, Strachan, C. *Clayton, W. B. Cochrane, T. P. Cockall, A. M. Cockell, E. L. Cohen, G. B. Colchester, F. E. Colley, A. T. Collier, J. D. Collinson, A. H, \n\nColman, P. C. Colter, G. W. Cook, E. \n\nBush, H. E. \n\nButler, C. H. \n\nButler, G. \n\n*Coombe, H. R. \n\nButterworth, H. T. \n\nCooper, A. \n\n*Buyers, W. B. \n\nCooper, A. E. \n\nBuxton-Forman, E. \n\nCooper, J. A. \n\n*Cope, Wm. \n\nCornes, A. J. \n\n+*Corner, F. \n\nC \n\nCanning, L. E. \n\n*Campbell, Jue. \n\nCampbell, H. E. \n\nCampbell, G. L. \n\nCampbell, W. W. \n\n*Cox, G. C. \n\nCox, P. A. \n\n*Cantlie, Jas., M B., F.K.O.S., &c. \n\nCox, W. Wakeford \n\nCarew, H. \n\nCarlill, A. J. H. \n\nCarlson, E. M. \n\nCarmichael, F. B. \n\n*Carey, F. W. \n\nCurtis, A. G. *Cushing, F. \n\nDuff, J. S. *Dugdale, A. \n\nDanman, C. C. Dunne, J. J. *Dunlop, Walter \n\nD \n\nDyer, R. M. Dyott, H. F. \n\nDaldy, H. W. *Dalgliesh, W. H. Dalgliesh, R. M. Dallas, A. Dallas, R. \"Daun, G. H. Darė, A. H. \n\nDaver, R. E. \n\nDavid, A. J. \n\nDavies, C. Gilbert \n\nE \n\n*Davies, Geo. R. \n\n*Davies, P. V. \n\nDavies, Dr. W. J. E. \n\nEaston, A. J. Eckford, V. R. *Eckhard, G. \n\nEde, C. Montague \n\n*Ede, N. J. \n\nEdgcumbe, C. \n\nEdking, G. T. \n\nEdwards, Sir J. Bevan, \n\nLieut.-General R.E., \n\nK.C.M.G., C.B. \n\nDavis, E. C. \n\nDavis, H. C. \n\nDavis, L. K. \n\n*De Ath, A. \n\nEddison, E. \n\n89 \n\nForbes, Donald Forbes, W. A. Ford, O. H. *Ford, C. M. Ford, John *Forsyth, C., M.D. \n\nFox, Eugène Fradgeley, E. G. Franklin, G. G. Fraser, C. A. Fraser, J. C. \"Fraser, T. \n\nFullerton, A. R. Furness, G. E. \n\nG \n\nEdwards, E. B. S. \n\nEdwards, W. D. S. \n\nGadeby, J. Gallagher, J. Galloway, C. J. Gande, J. W. Gardner, H. G. Gardner, Wade \"Garfit, A. S. \n\nGatliff, R. M. \n\nGeddee, H. \n\nGedge, H. J, \n\nEmmett, E. C. \n\nEndale, J. T. \n\nEssabhoy, A. M. \n\nGibson, J. G. \n\nEvans, A. M. A. \n\n*Evans, E. G. \n\nGeorge, E. W. \n\nGibson, J, R. Gilchrist, J. R. \n\n*Gibson, Captain R. R. \n\n*Gilfillan, James \n\n*Gilfillan, S. \n\nGray, J. E. \"Gray, R. M. \n\nGrayrigge, U. *Greaves, A. R. Greaves, J. R, Green, H. T. S. Green, P. H. \n\nGreen, O. M, \n\nGregory, G. W. \n\nGregory, H. C. \n\nGregson, R. E. §. \n\nGrasson, J. E. \n\n*Gresson, W. J., M.F.H, \n\nGriffin, A. E. \n\nGriffin, C. \n\nGriffin, H. \n\nGriffin, J. \n\nGriffin, J. T. Griffith, T. E. *Grimani, E. H, \n\nGroundwater, S. Grundy, R. Gubbay, C. 8. Gubbay, D. M. Guinness, C. Gumpert, E. \n\n*Gundry, R. S., C.B. \n\nGuttridge, G. W. *Gwyther, J. A. \n\nHagan, E. J. \n\nH \n\nHale, B. A. \n\nHall, F. J. \n\nHall, J. E. \n\nCadman, P. E. Cuin, J. W. \n\nCalderwood, W. M. *Cameron, E. Allan Cameron, W. D. \n\n*Campbell, Alexander \n\n*Carmichael, H. F. \n\n*Carr, Robert \n\n*Carroll, Edmond J. \n\nCarter, E. W. \n\nCarter, W. \n\nCatto, A. R. \n\nChadwick, G. A. \n\nChater, Hon. Sir C P., C.M.G. \n\n*Christie, John \n\nClark, A. \n\nClark, D. B. \n\nClark, E. E. \n\nClark, H. J. \n\nClark, J. D. \n\nClarke, A. H. \n\nClarke, Brodie, A. \n\nClarke, J. B. \n\nCorafoot, E. J. \n\nCourtney, G. N. *Cousene, R. A. *Cousins, Edmund *Coualand, A. 8. D. \n\nCoutts, E. \n\nCoutts, G. D. Cowdrey, A. J. \n\n*Cowie, Alex. M., M.D. \n\nCowie, G. 8. \n\nCox, A. G. \n\nCraddock, A. K. \n\nCranston, D. Crighton, A. O. Crighton, P. Crohn, H. F. \n\nCrowe, E. F., C.M.G. \n\nCraven, J. H. \n\nCrawford, D. W. \n\nCrofts, G. \n\nCross, O, N. \n\nCross'ey, F. H. \n\nCroathwaite, P. A. Cruickshank, G. B. *Cruickshank, W. A. \n\nCubitt, L. J. \n\nCumming, A. Cumming, E. O. Cunningham, A. Cunningham, C, E, F. *Cunningham, J. K. \n\nCurrie, A. M. \n\nCuraham, A. St. W, \n\nDavis Allen, J. \n\nDavis, W. H. Trenchard \n\nDeacon, V. F. \n\n*Deacon, V. H. \n\nDempster, W. M. \n\nDenny, H. A. F. \n\n**Dent, Sir A., K.O.M.G. \n\n*Dent, Herbert \n\nDent, Captain W. H. *Dermer, T. M. Des Vœux, E. Dewette, A. L, J. Dick, D. C. Dickinson, J. M. *Dickson, O. W. \n\nDickson, W. \n\n*D'Ifanger, F. *Dipple, R. P. Divens, W. *Dodwell, F. **Dodwell, G. B. \n\nDodwell, 8. H. \n\nDonnelly, A. R. \n\n•Donoughmore, the Ear of \n\nDouglas, Capt. J. T. Douglas-Irvine, F. \n\nDrew, W. C. \n\nDrunimond, J. E. \n\nDrummond, W. V. *Dodeney, L. \n\n**Dudgeon, Sir Chas. J. \n\nDuff, C. M. \n\nEly, T. C. *Ellert, Arnold Elliott, F. L. Ellie, W. \n\n*Fairley, F. B. \n\nFalconer, P. J. \n\n*Fearon, Geo. D. \n\nFeston, R. L. \n\nFellows-Lukis, W. L. \n\nFenton, 8. G. \n\nFeruihough, S. \n\nFippard, A. J. \n\n*Firth, A. R. \n\n*Fisher, W. \n\nFitzgerald, M. F. Flanagan, F. M. *Flanagan, J. M. Fleming, W. N. Forbes, A. *Forbes, D. M, \n\nGillbard, P. J. \n\nGillett, B. \n\nGilloa, Q. T. Gilman, L. H. Gilmore, S. Gilmour, D. W. Girardet, H. H. Class, Duncan Goddard, H. Godfrey, C. H. \n\nGooch, W. E. \n\nHam, W. J. Hamilton, J. T. *Hanbury, Cecil *Hancock, E. H. \n\nHancock, H. \"Hancock, H. S. \n\nHancock, H. B. B \n\nHanson, J. C. \n\n*Harding, J. R. \n\nHardman, K. \n\nGoodacre, E. J. \n\nHardoon, S. A. \n\nGordon, R. H. \n\nHardy, W. \n\nGraham, F. A. \n\nHarley, W. F. \n\nGraham, G. Moore, M.D. \n\nHarper, J. R. \n\nGraham, J. L. \n\nHarris, A. H. \n\nGraham, R. C. \n\n*Harris, Dr. L. R. \n\nGraham, Reginald \n\nHarris, M. H. R. \n\nHarris, W. \n\nGraves, C. A. \n\n517 \n\n12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461642, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## List of Names\n\nA. Whitmarsh\nW. A. Butterfield\nJ. Martin\nJ. Macdonald\nWilfred J. Hinton\nMorton W. Buck\nB. Tobb\nI. J. R. Mitchell\nRoy Bt. Amory\nAllan Keith\nG. A. Robinson\nA. R. Austin\nJ. Janus\nJohn E. Kinghorn\nRob Irmo\nV. Armstrong\nD. Templeton\nJ. Daimiol\nJ. Batoman\nP. S. Thomson\nM. J. Sacson\nI. J. Austin\nP. R. Butler\nMatthew J. D. Stophons\nA. Ingolia \nEdgar Davidson\nK. Brayshay\nI. J. Surman\nJ. A. Rodasond\nS. Boulton\nH. L. Harron\nJohn McIntyre\nC. D. Sullivan\nJ. Ferguson\nJ. Mitchell\nAlex Carmichael\nJ. Sloan\nJ. Muirhead\nM. O'Brion\nWalter Brown\nR. J. Dunlovy\nW. Nicholson\nJ. D. Danby\nJ. M. McLutahon\nA. X. Wilkie\nR. V. McIntyre\nH. J. Hairn\nJ. R. Macdonald\nI. A. Barton\nL. S. Greenhill\nC. H. Blason\nV. P. Bassford\nD. MacCrae\nJas. Dickie\nRobert K. Duncan\nGeo. Garrard\nA. Mansrikad\nD. Noaill\nR. Aitken\nW. Hardwick\n273\nHenry T. Honth\nT. R. Chaselle\nC. P. Young\nH. Dinnen\nLeonard Gull\nA. I. Gaco\nRobt. Parrie", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464452, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n## 12814\n\nArthur & Co. Limited.\nArts & Crafts Limited.\nAshton & Co. Limited (Enticknap, P.).\nAsiatic Petroleum Company.\nAster House Hotel Company, Shanghai, Tien-tsin.\nAt Chi, Shanghai.\nAtkinson & Dallas Limited.\nAu Petit Louvre (Maison Parisienne).\nAudinet, Lacroix, & Co.\nAudinet, Lacroix, Pasquier, et Cie.\nAustralian Dairy Farm.\nAustralian Produce Company.\nAyer Tawah Company Limited, Shanghai.\nAzadian.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox Limited.\nBailey, H. G. C.\nBakels & Co.\nBaldwin, C. C.\nBan Lam Drug Stores, Amoy.\nBanham, F. C.\nBanker & Co.\nBanque belge pour l'Etranger.\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine.\nBanque industrielle de Chine,\nBansuiken, Shanghai.\nBarkley Company.\nBarlow & Co.\nBarrett, E. G.\nBarry & Co., B. M.\nBathgate & Co.\nBatu Anam Rubber Company.\nBeck, I.\nBeck, M. G.\nBelgian Brick Factory, Tien-tsin.\nBelgian Trading Company,\nBell, D. W.\nBell, H. F. L.\nBen & Co.\nBen Albert & Co.\nBenjamin & Potts.\nBeque, Henri.\nBergman, Edward.\nBielfield, Alex., & Co.\nBissett, J. P., & Co.\nBlack, J. F.\nBlake, F. A., & Sons.\nBlanche, Charles.\nBo Won, Canton.\nBona, F.\nBouchard.\nBourgery, C.\nBow On Drug Company, Canton.\nBowern & Co. (Bowern & Hay).\nBoyd & Co.\nBoyer, Mazet & Co.\nBoyes, Bassett, & Co.\nBradford Dyers' Association.\nBradley & Co. Limited.\nBrand Brothers & Co.\nBrand, H. B., & Co.\nBrandt, A. L.\nBrandt & Co.\nBrandt & Rodgers.\nBrangwyn & Hobson, Drs.\nBrent, A. D.\nBrewer & Co. Limited,\nBridges, H.\nBritish-American Tobacco Company, Limited.\nBritish and Chinese Corporation.\nBritish Cigarette Company Limited.\nBritish Dominions General Insurance Company.\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society.\nBritish Insulated and Helsby Company Limited.\nBritish Manufacturers' Agency (Wong Chuen Yung),\nBrockett & Co.\nBrockett, E., & Co.\nBrook, E., & Co.\nBrossay, René.\nBrunner, Mond, & Co. Limited.\nBrush Electrical Engineering Company.\nBryant & Ryde.\nBalin & Co., Hankow,\nBurin, Yoko.\nBurkhardt, L. R.\nBurkill, A. R., & Sons.\nBurroughs, Wellcome, & Co.\nBurtenshaw & Co.\nButler, A.\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nCabeldu, A., & Co.\nCaissial,\nCaldbeck, MacGregor.\nCalder, Marshall, & Co.\nCalico Printers' Association.\nCamera Craft Company.\nCampbell, Alex., & Co.\nCanadian Commissioner.\nCanadian Methodist Mission Press.\nCanadian Pacific Railway Company.\nCanton Insurance Company.\n\nCarr, Ramsey, T., & Co.\nCastellano,\nCathay Trust.\nCatoire Veuve, A., et Fils.\nCattaneo (Catanneo), Peking.\nCattaneo, P., & Co., Peking.\nCawasjee Pallanjee, Shanghai.\nCement Tile Works Limited.\nCentral Agency Limited.\nCentral China Dispensary.\nCentral China Import Company.\nCentral China Post.\n\nCentral China Printing Company, Hankow.\nCentral Garage Limited.\nCentral Stores Limited.\nCentral Trading Company.\nCercle sportif français.\nChang Dah Yuen.\nChang, T. S.\nChapeaux.\nCharrey,\nCharrey et Conversy.\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\nChauvin, Mme.\nChefoo Hairnet Company.\nChefoo Hairnet Manufactory.\nChemor United Rubber Company Limited.\nChempedak Rubber & Gambier Estate Company.\nCheng Rubber Estate.\nChie Parisien.\nChin Ho Hsiang.\nChina Agents Company.\nChina American Lumber Company.\nChina American Trading Company.\nChina Commercial Steam Navigation Company.\nChina Engineering Company.\nChina Fire Insurance Company.\nChina Flour Mill Company Limited.\nChina Import & Export Lumber Company Limited.\nChina Inland Mission.\nChina & Japan Trading Company.\nChina Land & Building Company Limited.\nChina Land & Finance Company Limited.\n\n## 12815\n\nChina Merchants Ponges Association.\nChina Merchants Steam Navigation Company.\nChina Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited.\nChina Mutual Steam Navigation Company.\nChina National Life Assurance.\nChina Navigation Company.\nChina Silk Agency Company Limited,\nChina Strawbraid Export Company.\nChina Sugar Refining Company.\nChina Times Limited.\nChina Traders Insurance Company.\nChina Trading Company.\nChinese American Company.\nChinese Electric Light & Power Company, Peking.\nChinese & Foreign Dispensary, Amoy.\nChinese Optical Company.\nChinese Railways (all).\nChing Cheng Yung, Tien-tsin.\nChing Chong & Co., Shanghai.\nChing Chong Hung & Co., Chefoo.\nChing Fong, Shanghai.\nChing Ho Hsiang, Peking.\nChing Siu Tong, Foochow.\nChing Tai & Co., Mukden.\nChitsin Chao (Peking Motor Company, Peking).\nChristiakoff, J.\nChuan Chang, Shanghai.\nChuan Kes & Co., Amoy.\nChujudo & Co., Newchang.\nChuma & Co., Newchang,\nChun Shing, Shanghai.\nChua Sing, Shanghai.\nChung Fah & Co., Chefoo.\nChung Hang Company Dispensary, Canton.\nChung Hwa Book Company, Shanghai.\nChung Mei Drug Company, Canton.\nChung On & Co., Canton.\nChung Tung Lithographic Works.\nChurch Missionary Mission.\nCoghlan, H. H.\nCohen, Andre.\nCollins & Co.\nComfort.\nCommercial Press Limited.\nCommercial Union Assurance Company.\nCompagnie d'Eclairage et de Tramways of Tien-tsin.\nCompagnie française des Tramways de l'Eclairage électrique et des Eaux de Shanghai.\nCompagnie générale de Chemin de Fer et de Tramways en Chine.\nCompagnie des Messageries maritimes.\nComptoir commercial anversois.\nConnell Brothers.\nConsolidated Rubber Estates Limited.\nCook & Anderson.\nCook, Thomas & Sons.\nCornabe, Eckford, & Co.\nCorsane, Auderson, & Co. (Hankow Tea Works).\nCosmopolitan Dock.\nCossanteli & Co.\nCox, W. Wakeford.\nCozzi, E., Hankow.\nCrédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient.\nCrofts & Co., George.\nCros, Paul.\nCrossfield & Sons Limited.\nCrystal Limited.\nCulpeck, E. A.\nCurtis Brothers.\nCurtis Sons & Co.\n\nDah Daw, Hankow.\nDah Lung & Co., Shanghai.\nDah Sung & Co., Shanghai.\nDah Sung Cotton Mill, Shanghai.\nDai Nippon Brewery Company.\nDaishin & Co., Shanghai.\nDallas Livery Stable Company.\nDanese, E., Hankow.\nD'Arc, G. L.\nDastoor, F. R., & Co.\nDavid & Co.\nDavid, S. J., & Co.\nDavies & Brooke.\nDavis, R. S., & Co.\nDavis, W. Arthur.\nDavis, W. Trenchard.\nDeacon & Co.\nDeane, T. P.\nDebenham & Co.\nDenham & Rose.\nDenniston & Sullivan.\nDent, A., & Co.\nDeut, Herbert.\nDea Remedios, A. G., Shanghai.\nDieden & Co.\nDixon, H. C., & Co.\nDodwell & Co. Limited.\nDollar Robert Company.\nDombey & Son.\nDominion Express Company.\nDong Sing Wo & Co., Shanghai.\nDonnelly & Whyte.\nDowdall, W. M.\nDowler, Forbes & Co.\nDrakeford & Co.\nDreyfus, Edmond, & Bros.\nDuncan & Co.\nDunlop Rubber Company.\nDunn, Walter.\nDunne, T. E.\nDuplessis.\nDutch Colonial Trading Company.\nDutton, W., & Co.\nDyce & Co.\nDzing Nye Hsing, Hankow.\n\nEagle & Globe Steel Company.\nEast Asiatic Company.\nEastern & Australian Steamship Company.\nEastern Extension Telegraph Company.\nEastern Trading Company.\nEcho de Tien-tsin.\nEdgar Brothers & Co.\nEkman Foreign Agencies.\nEmens, W. S., & Co., Ltd.\nEn Ching Low (Nun Cheng Lo), Tien-tsin.\nEnergie électrique.\nEnterprise Tobacco Company Limited.\nEnticknap, P. (Ashton & Co. Limited).\nEquitable Life Assurance Society.\nErasmic Company.\nEtablissements de Tongkou.\nEtablissements Fei Yen, Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques.\nEvans, A. M. A.\nEvans, Edward, & Sons Limited.\nEvans, Pugh, & Co.\nEveleigh & Co.\nEwo Cotton Spinning & Weaving Company.\nEwo Yuen Press Packing Company.\nExcess Insurance Company Limited.\nEzra, E. I., Shanghai.\nEzra, Edward, & Co., Shanghai.\nEzra & Co., Fred, Shanghai.\nEzra, N. E. B., & Co.\nEzra, Y., & Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466628, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "The Rt. Hon.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n28th May, 1916.\n\n209\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI have shown to Mr. Bonar Law the enclosed\n\nletter from Colonel Colvin. He would have been\n\nvery glad to do as Captain Dallin asks if it had\n\nbeen possible, but he regrets to say that Captain\n\nDallin's case has been specially represented to\n\nthe Governor of Hong Kong and that the Governor has\n\nreplied that it is quite impossible to allow\n\nCaptain Dallin to be absent from the Colony after\n\nJuly 15th. I am sure you will understand that\n\nMr. Bonar Law is bound to accept the Governor's\n\nopinion as to the necessity of an officer's\n\nservices and that he is therefore unable to do\n\nanything more in the matter.\n\nYours truly,\n\nLIEUTENANT-COLONEL LOCKWOOD, C.V.O., M.P.\n\n(Sd) F.G.A. Butler.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467834, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "135\n\n\"GIVI dok (ezewo4 *\\#) #nodevo ar to ♪ moitoes to treatorne art (atero¶ te%) risotori erit to S roitree bao „1.9 10 .000 à 2 8 • ་ dend has idon owie now di .TV .0 .0 .on0 8 A ¿ ‚SIPI ‚†¤A (S .01) 10 12 Joeð á ú 3 „PIVI „ZDA (sromol to\") zmodauð end to I roldsen od ankamosed shoay to exntistrot and ade Iqmedros od hemmes 201 adtermy and hre „mofaniX beðicŬ eit abiatum duobiser worm – י -stoo erkt etude mesto bentsdæos noitsee ait Tehmu hereei esitom „æe İndros. Londran at toshiset stod snow anergianon Fre aromale-orat intro to yoiloq » to moitgoba Jarnage add to adios ni imam ramoq erit dedo dich em di mobgnil høstell och mi egro dhua To ,noitua đươm rithw heminrere ød at #dyra kre and InterMK TIDY A moldsen varitia tohau eruk jelmo* yne sendine od maxed ørew agade off borrator I .oll earü ni majad eram ægrifesema made Aiei „vel [ktru animarge to Winutio~qo \"lu“ a dedit herivha redt new di „paled at decið bebesðal now di Fun #draminis @[dissog at betro”te ad h Interfa at ben ecce „nevewod „en elf leaếp deed a að hinode sera art and ro abari ber andietro? to tehno and here „atud kebrot art szoʻqo arunt be two? To ameno sunt lia ni mad avad om¿T „2001 (Fursusk „1301 ent esoogo od hammerge are yes and ouro nei bim II moldnes rohm IIa roled MOVİ, OTO Rozno evit art to elinteb aft .cretio†πo? to ydieranem adt han noktoes mńt to ea er ni moltuna „gabla coqu beteieni med oved nðmatisin sidiesog of anitor {{ut givi .00 muribTÜ erit te OI moitose rahmi galimaborg ano need end etent „wofed movky œ in ere sano uldid to slindeh odt angergerna of Steger dait • to preternel art. 10 à here • .a me amenag of Fabre hra araw if mitoes ‘a amokalvorg arið berkt doo Veme E we'd rld bw griber? add to ♪ mitoes yd tail produde38 ant arer to oil anmnibro,d[ZI‚eerathrð (ammod to misnetra) noiametro sidh na beerd une wolná à bon à urok meaɔŭ ni moitos ant art No Emaraq dorit Toiled and i cand don new har proweq to to II moitoes to imam edð niɗdie seinone aree Jeld vrotikdr#B „Jier to £$ .oll spremit¬) »'edatů to yraternal edt mi nwof › tal enoidetimil ent .\" are to trait come in dud,soara arutat ri hamaedo ed [fiw dategee\n\nsection seems undesirable unless thought advisable for diplomatic reasons.\n\nDetails of the five cases which have occurred under the sections are given below.\n\nCase No. 1.\n\n4 cases of sundries ex \"Ceylon Maru\" and 6 cases of sundries ex \"Awa Maru\", consigned by Nigo Shoten, Yokohama, and landed here in October, 1915, for transhipment to Siam. The marks appeared to show that the cases were intended for Gui & Co., Bangkok, and there was strong moral evidence that Gui & Co. were the same as the German firm of Grimm & Co. Proof of these two facts in the Prize Court would have been difficult and expensive, if not impossible. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha had made several attempts to get the cargo through to Siam. The goods were forfeited on the 19th August, 1916, under Ordinance No. 22 of 1915, after two months' notice to the shippers. The latter did not appear. No claim was received from either the shippers or the consignees. In connection with this case I minuted on 25th August, 1916;-\n\n\"I would like to repeat here that we ought to be very careful about our procedure in cases under the section in question, and that possible claimants should be given a full opportunity of appearing and stating their claims\".\n\nCase No. 2.\n\nPart of 1 case of sundries ex \"Kathlmba\" consigned by Butler Bros., New York, to A. B. Moulder & Co., Hongkong. The case had already been delivered by the importers to a Chinese buyer. The latter drew attention to the origin of the goods, which was unknown to the importers. The goods were forfeited on the 25th May, 1916, with the consent of the importers, who appeared by a solicitor on the summons. This case was under section 10.\n\nCase No. 3.\n\n10 bags of coal for transhipment to Mohr & Co., Bangkok, were... (text cut off)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "Ainslie, E. J... Alarakia, A. A.. \n\nAllan, J. W. R.......... \n\nArnold, E. L.,. \n\nArchbutt, G. 8., \n\nAustin, N. J., \n\nAustin, R. M. \n\nBalean, A., Barton, L. A.... \n\nBarton, R. T., \n\nBeith, B. D. F. \n\nAppendix B. \n\nMessrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. \n\n..Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. .....China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. \n\nCommercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd. Chartered Bank of India, Australin & China. .Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. \n\n..Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, \n\n.Mossrs. Butterfield & Swire. ...Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. \n\n.Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. ..Messrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd. \n\nUnion Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd. \n\n.British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. \n\n-Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\nMessrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. .Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\n..Mesars. Reiss & Co. \n\n...Messrs. Linstead & Davis, \n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\nBeswick, C., \n\nBevington, F., \n\nBird, C. B.,... \n\nBisseker, (. F. D., \n\nBond, W., \n\nBootes, A. N... \n\nBrewer, N. J.,. \n\nBrister, J. H.. \n\nBrown, C. B., \n\nBrown, N. S., \n\nButler, G. R., \n\n„Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. \n\nCassidy, P. S.. \n\nChapman, A. F. \n\nChassels, T. R., \n\nClark, D. E., \n\nCocks, E. C, \n\nCook, W. E., \n\nCheesman, D. G., \n\nCooper, D. S.,... \n\nCormack, B. W., \n\nCornell, W. A. Croucher, N., \n\nCullen, F., \n\nCumming, K. M., \n\nCunningham, J................ \n\n-Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. \n\nMessrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews. \n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\n......Eastern Extension & Australasia Telegraph Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs. J. D. Humphreys & Son. \n\n..Eastern Extension & Australasia Telegraph Co., Ltd. \n\nHongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. \n\n...Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. \n\nMessrs. Palmer & Turner. \n\nMessrs: Benjamin & Potts, \n\nHongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs. Reiss & Co. \n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\nCuthill, (!. H.................Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. \n\nDavison, A. C., \n\nDuckworth, F. F.. \n\nDick, J. G., \n\nDin, Mehr, \n\nDunnett, G. B., \n\nEaston, J., \n\nEngland, J. H., \n\nEvans, J., \n\nFarmer, W.. \n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd. \n\n.Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. \n\nHongkong Electric Co., Ltd. \n\n..Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, \n\nMessrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co., Ltd. \n\nHongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\nFisher, T. J., \n\n.Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\nFoote, L... \n\nFraser. W.. \n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. ..Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. \n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. \n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China. \n\nFyfe, A. A., \n\n.Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming. \n\nGace, F. A., \n\nGibb, J., \n\nGoard, S. G., \n\nGrant-Smith, E., \n\nGreenhill, L. S., \n\nGrimshaw, J., \n\nHaines, H. F., Hay, C. H. P., Haywood, G. R., \n\nHeath, H. T., \n\nHegarty, W. G., \n\nHenderson, M. J., Herbert, R. G., \n\nHerridge, T, G., \n\n..Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\n..Messrs. Dodwell & Co. \n\nHongkong Land Investment Co., Ltd. \n\n.Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\n.Peak Tramway Co., Ltd. \n\n..Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd. \n\nSolicitor. \n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\n.Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. ..Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\n.Messrs. Loxley & Co. \n\nHidden, S. L... Higginbotham, ('. Hill, W. J.... Hollands, H. E., Hosie, E. L., Hall, M... Hurle, B. R., \n\nJoluson, M. T., Johnstone, J. R., \n\nKeith, D., Kinghorn, J. R., Kinross, A. R., \n\nLakin, G. M., \n\nLaug, A. (., Layton, G. B., \n\nLeith, A. C., \n\nLongmire, K. de C., \n\nLoughlin, T. A., \n\nLovely, L. H., \n\nMaas, M. M., Macdonald, A. D., \n\nMacdonald, J., \n\nMacIntyre, N., \n\nMcDonald. A. G. \n\nMcInnes, C.. \n\nMcIntyre, R. W., McIntosh, J. S., McNicoll, L. D.. McTavish, H. M.. Maber, N. B.. Maltby, C. F., Manning, W., Mansfield, W. R.. Marques, F. T. Martin, A. E.,. \n\nMason, C. F., May, G. T., \n\nMayes, S. M.. \n\nMellis, G., Meyer, J, E., Morrison, K. S., \n\nMorrison, W. J, Morse, A.. Morton-Smith, G., \n\nMuriel, H. E., Murphy, L. N., Murray, M. A., \n\nNairn, J. H., Nixon, T. C.. Norris, J, C., Northey, H. R., \n\nPasco, B., \n\nPearce, T. E, Pereira, C..... \n\nPerry, F. A.. Petley, H. W., Piercy, G. H. Plummer, J. A., Preston, A. M.. Purves, D. J....... \n\nRailton, M. L., Railton, N. L. H., Ramsey, J. H., Rawlinson, R. J., Relph, H., Remedios, J. 8. \n\nResker, A. ('., Riach, G. V. R., \n\n5 \n\n— \n\nMessrs, Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. J.....Messrs. J. D. Hatchison & Co. \n\nMessrs. Batterfield & Swire. .Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. .Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co, Ltd. Messes, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. .Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. \n\n...Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co., Ltd. ......Messrs. Batterfield & Swire. \n\n.Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. .Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. \n\n.Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. „Messrs. Layton & Co. \n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. ...Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. \n\nBank Line, Ltd. \n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China. \n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. ...Hongkong Tramway Co., Ltd. \n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China. ...Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. M.............Messrs. Moxon & Taylor. \n\n..Central Agency, Ltd. \n\n.Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\n.Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. Messrs. Lever Brothers (China), Ltd. ...... Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. \n\nChina Mail. Ltd. \n\n..Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China. \n\n.Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. \n\nUnion Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd. ..Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd, .Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co., Ltd. .Messrs. D'Almada & Mason. \n\n.Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. \n\nBritish American Tobacco Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs. Falconer & Co. \n\nMessrs. Loxley & Co. \n\nMessrs. Bradley & Co. \n\n..Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China. \n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. ..Messrs. Dodwell & Co. \n\n....Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. ...Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. ...Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. \n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\n.Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. ...Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. \n\nMessrs. Butterfeld & Swire. Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co. \n\n.British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. .Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. \n\nMessrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Messrs. Bradley & Co. \n\nMessrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master. ...Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. \n\n.Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. .Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. \n\n...Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, \n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. \n\nV..... \n\nMessrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. Hongkong Volunteer Corps. \n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire, Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd. \n\n349", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468051, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 355, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Appendix B\n\nAinslie, E. J.. Alarakia, A. A., Allan, J. W. R.. Archbutt, G. S., Arnold, E. L.... Austin, N. J... Austin, R. M..\n\nBalean, A., Barton, L. A., Barton, R. T.,\n\nBeith, B. D. F.,\n\nBeswick, (1,\n\nBevington, F.,\n\nBird, C, B.,.\n\nBisseker, C. F. D.,.\n\nBond, W..\n\nBootes, A. N.,\n\nBrewer, N, J.,\n\nBrister, J. H.,\n\nBrown, C. B.,\n\nBrown, N. S..\n\nButler, G. R.,\n\nCassidy, P. S...\n\nChapman, A. F、\n\nChassels, T. R.,\n\nClark, D. E.,\n\nCheesman, D. G.,\n\nCocks, E. C.,\n\nCook, W, E.,\n\nCooper, D. S.,\n\nCormack. B. W.,\n\nCornell, W. A.,\n\n'roucher, N.,\n\nCallen, F..\n\nCumming, K. M.,\n\nMessrs. Lane, Crawford & (6.\n\nHongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. .....China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\n.Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd, ..Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. ..Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. .Messrs. Jurdine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. ...Messrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd.\n\nUnion Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.\n\n.British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nMessrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. .Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nMessrs. Reiss & Co.\n\n.Messrs. Linstead & Davis.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire. „Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\n„Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation,\n\nMessrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\n.Eastern Extension & Australasia Telegraph Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. J. D. Humphreys & Son.\n\n.Eastern Extension & Australasia Telegraph Co., Ltd.\n\nHongkong & Whampa Dock Co, Li\n\nHongkong & Whampa Dach (\n\ndo t\n\n.Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co.\n\n.Messrs. Palmer & Turner,\n\nMessrs. Benjamin & Potts.\n\nHongkong & Whanpoa Dock Co., Ltd.\n\n....Messrs. Reiss & Co.\n\nCunningham. J...........Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nCuthill, C. H.............. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.\n\nDavison, A. Ch.,\n\nDuckworth, F. F.,\n\nDick, J. G.,\n\nDin, Mehr,\n\nDunnett, G. B.,\n\nEngland, J. H.,\n\nEaston, J.,\n\nEvans, J.,\n\nFarmer. W.,\n\nFisher. T. J.,\n\nFoote, L., Fraser, W..\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.\n\nHongkong & W’hanpoa Dock Co., Ltd.\n\nHongkong Electric Co., Ltd.\n\n..Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\n„Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.\n\n.Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co., Ltd.\n\n...Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.\n\n..... Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nHongkong Electric Co., Ltd.\n\nFyfe, A. A.,\n\nMessrs. Percy Smith, Soth & Fleming.\n\nGace, F. A., Gibb, J.,\n\nGoard, S. G., Grant-Smith, E., Greenhill, L. S., Grimshaw, J.,\n\nHaines, H. F., Hay, C. H. P., Haywood, G. R.,\n\nHeath, H. T., Hegarty, W. G... Henderson, M. J.,\n\nHerbert, R. G.,\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nMessrs. Dodwell & Co.\n\n.Hongkong Land Investment Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\n...Peak Tramway Co., Ltd.\n\n..Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd. ....Solicitor.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\n.Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nHerridge, T. G........... Messrs. Loxley & Co.\n\nHidden, S. L.,. Higginbotham, ('. Hill W. J... Hollands, H. E., Hosie, E. L., Hull, M.,\n\nHurie, B. R.,\n\nJohnson, M. T., Johnstone, J. R..\n\nKeith, D., Kinghorn, J. R., Kinross, A. R.,\n\nLakin, G. M.,\n\nLang, A. O., Layton, G. B.,\n\nLeith, A. C., Longmire, K. de C.,\n\nLonghlin, T. A.,\n\nLovely, L. H....\n\nMaus, M. M.. Macdonald, A. D.,\n\nMacdonald, T., MacIntyre, N., MeDonald, A. G. McInnes, C.,\n\nMcIntyre, R. W., McIntosh, J. S., McNicoll, L. D.,\n\nMcTavish, H. M.,\n\nMaher, N. B..\n\nMaltby, C. F.,\n\nManning, W.,\n\nMessrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. J.,...Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co.\n\n.Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Hougkong & Whatruoa Dock Co, Ltd. .Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.\n\n.Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\n.Hongkong da Whampon Dock Co., Ltd.\n\n...Hongkong & Whampoa Dock ('o., Ltd.\n\n„Mesars, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nMessrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. ..Messrs. Layton & Co.\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. ...Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nBank Line, Ltd.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.\n\n.Hongkong Tramway Co., Ltd.\n\n...hartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\n..Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. M..... Messrs. Moxon & Taylor.\n\n..Central Agency, Ltd.\n\n......Messrs. Butterfeld & Swire.\n\n.Hongkong & Whanpoa Doel Co., Ltd\n\nMessrs. Lever Brothers (China), Ltd.\n\n..Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\n-China Mail, Ltd.\n\n..Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.\n\nMansfield, W. R........Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.\n\nMarques, F. T..\n\nMartin, A. E.,\n\nMason, C. F.,\n\nMay, G. T.,\n\nMares, S. M.\n\nMellis, G.,\n\nMeyer, J. E., Morrison, K. S., Morrison, W. J.\n\nMorse, A., Morton-Smith, G., Muriel, H. E. Murphy, L. N., Murray, M. A..\n\nNairn, J. H..\n\nNixon, T. C., Norris, J. C.,\n\nNorthey, H. R.,\n\nPearce, T. E., Pereira, C......\n\nPasco, B.,\n\nPerry, F. A., Petley, H. W., Pierey, G. H. Plummer, J. A., Preston, A. M..\n\nPurges, D. J.,\n\nRailton, M. L.,\n\n.Hongkong & Whamp Back Co., Ltd.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental S. N. Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. D'Almada & Mason.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Lail\n\nBritish American Tobacco Co., Lui.\n\nMesses. Falconer & Co.\n\nMessrs, Loxley & Co.\n\n.Messrs. Bradley & Co.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China. ..Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. ....Messrs. Dodwell & Co.\n\n...Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. .........Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. .... Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\n.Messes, Butterfield & Swire.\n\n.....Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd, .........Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\n.Messrs. Butterfield & Swire,\n\nMessrs, J. D. Hutchison & Co.\n\nBritish-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. ...Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Messrs. Bradley & Co.\n\nMesses, Johnson, Stokes & Master.\n\n... Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Railton, N. 1, H., ...... Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\n.........Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. Rawlinson, R. J., ...... Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.\n\nRamsey, J. H.,\n\nRelph, H.,\n\nRemedios, J. S.\n\nResker, A. C., Riach, G. V. R.,\n\nMessrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd,\n\nV., ... Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire. Vacomin Oil Co., Ltd.\n\nPage 353", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469515, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nwould take a very long time to get or put through, that it would be better for all Koreans to remain here, where their presence helped to maintain the Japanese character, and that there was no need for him to go, as any Japanese subject would be assisted and put in the way of making an easy living in Manchuria, where Japanese subjects had special privileges. The Korean replied that he did not want to go in for the morphia business, which, without it being mentioned by the consul, he considered was the easy way suggested. The bearing this has upon our conversation is to show the probability of the drug being smuggled, and that, apart from the profitable nature of the transaction, the bearing its use is supposed to have in giving the Japanese the influence they undoubtedly possess amongst the Chinese in the way of trade must be considered. Any big firm that has the confidence of the railway people would have no difficulty in getting it through, and the more control they got over the customs the more easy it will be for them to do the smuggling.\n\nOn the 22nd he again wrote:-\n\n\"I now learn as an actual fact that the firm in question are the real distributors of opium in Manchuria. There is no secret made of it; in fact they advertise it, as you may see in the Manchuria Daily News. A medical certificate is necessary for its purchase at the Mukden branch, but it can be bought by anyone at the Dairen office without restriction. The usual procedure is to go to Dairen and purchase it, and bring it along in the train for disposal here or elsewhere. I am told there is no difficulty about the matter at all.\n\nIt is generally believed here that many of the exchange shops which have been opened recently, especially those in the neighbourhood of the Japanese railway station, are blinds for the sale of smuggled opium; and the railway town at Changchun is full of cheap hotels and other places where opium, brought from the north, is bought and sold. Now and then somebody is discovered smuggling, and his conviction and punishment are proclaimed in the newspapers, but, generally speaking, the trade goes on completely unchecked. The Chinese authorities are quite powerless, as the offenders are either foreigners (Japanese, Russians, Greeks, &c.) or take care to conduct their smuggling operations on territory under foreign administration.\n\nA gentleman travelling for a home firm of surgical instrument manufacturers told me in 1914 that he had ascertained that it was possible in many places to buy from Japanese chemists and others a morphia syringe and a dose of morphia for 30 cents (7½d.), and Dr. Colman, of Changchun, told me about the same time that jinriksha coolies and similar persons of humble degree could obtain an injection of morphia for 10 cents. There is no reason to suppose that circumstances are different in these respects at the present time.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nC\n\n384\n\nOPIUM.\n\nReceived 61262\n\nREG214 DEC17\n\n[November 3.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[210818]\n\n(No. 514.) (Telegraphic.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Mr. Balfour.-(Received November 3.)\n\nPeking, November 3, 1917.\n\nMY telegram No. 502 of the 27th October: Opium. Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs in conversation to-day referred to question of opium negotiations, and expressed his wish that these might be concluded during his tenure of office. In reply to my enquiry whether he was not prepared to negotiate with combine direct, he replied that he preferred to deal with Legation, as an agreement with the combine direct will cause criticism. He added that, in view of sordid nature of earlier transactions, what was now desired was a clause of settlement between Chinese Government and British Legation, which would obviate criticism.\n\n[2746 c-1]\n\nPage 384\n\n \n\n \n\n17\n\n \n\nĮ", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "199\n\nPRESIDENT\n\nLORD LEITH OF PYVIE\n\nCHAIRMAN\n\nLIEUT COL. SIR MERVYN CUNNINGHAM-BULLER, Bt.\n\nVICE-CHAIRMAN\n\nMR. E. OSBORN.\n\nHON. SECRETARY:\n\nLIEUT. CULLING-CARR, J.P.\n\nHON. AND FINANCIAL SECRETARY\n\nMR. REGINALD WILSON.\n\n20.\n\nEBS/LW\n\nAll communications should be addressed to the\n\nHon. Secretary.\n\nTHE BRITISH EMPIRE UNION\n\nIncorporating the ANTI-GERMAN UNION.\n\nNO GERMAN INFLUENCE, NO GERMAN LABOUR, NO GERMAN GOODS\n\nThat compete with British.\n\nHead Office:\n\n346, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.2\n\n(Corner of Aldwych and Wellington Street.)\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:\n\n\"OPPOSERMA, STRAND, LONDON.\"\n\nTELEPHONE, CITY 230.\n\nBANKERS:\n\nLLOYDS BANK LIMITED, 222, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.\n\nAUDITORS: HEBERG, JACKSON, PIXLEY & Co.\n\n58, COLEMAN STREET, E.C.\n\nSOLICITORS: Messrs. H. J. A. FOY & Co.\n\n4, WALBROOK, E.C.\n\n19th July 1917\n\nDear Sir,\n\nHaving had continual complaints from correspondents in Hong-Kong and Shanghai with regard to the refusal on the part of the Government to take any steps to close down German firms trading there, I am informed that the Governor was a friend and had visited the Kaiser before the war and had admired him very much. I wrote to the Colonial Office asking if they would give this matter their attention; their reply is \"The Question at issue is one which will engage the serious attention of H.K. Government at the proper time and it is obviously impossible to make any statement of policy at present on the subject\".\n\nThis seems to me a very unsatisfactory answer but it is only on a par with the attitude taken up by the Government on all these matters and it looks as if they were going to leave everything severely alone in the hopes that they will slip back after the war into the old pre-war state and that we shall have Germans and German trading carried on in the same way as before the war. Do you think this is a matter which", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475205, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "PRESIDENT\n\nLORD\n\nLEITH\n\nCHAIRMAN\n\nOF FYVIE\n\nCOL. SIR MERVYN\n\nAVINGHAM-BULLER, BT.\n\nVICE-CHAIRMAN:\n\nHON. SECRETARY:\n\nGULLING-GARR, J.P.\n\nHUNT AND BUSINESS SECRETARY\n\nREGINALD WILSON.\n\n283/1V\n\nTHE BRITISH\n\nEMPIRE\n\nUNION\n\nFOR BRITISH\n\nSUBJECTS\n\nThe British Empire Union\n\nAll communications should be addressed to the\n\nHon. Secretary.\n\nIncorporating the ANTI-GERMAN UNION,\n\nNO GERMAN INFLUENCE, NO GERMAN LABOUR, NO GERMAN GOODS\n\nThat compete with British.\n\n(Copy to 30 JUN 17 Bear Off-\n\n200\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: \"OPPOGERMA, ESTRAND. LONDON.\"\n\nTELEPHONE, CITY 2308.\n\nBANKERS: LLOYDS BANK LIMITED: 222, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.\n\nAUDITORS\n\nMESSRS. JACKSON, PIXLEY & Co.\n\n58. COLEMAN STREET, E.C.\n\nSOLICITOR:\n\nMR. H. S. A. FOY C.C.\n\n4, WALBROOK, E.C.\n\n346, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. (Corner of Aldwych and Wellington Street.)\n\n28th June 1917\n\nmight be pressed in the House if possible?\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nLd. Bawden Smith\n\nHon. Sec. Information Dept.\n\nfaw.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI enclose you herewith an extract from a letter\n\nreceived from Shanghai, also two cuttings from the North\n\nChina Daily News. We have continually been receiving com-\n\nplaints from Hongkong and Shanghai with regard to the pro-\n\ntection of Germans in these colonies to the detriment of\n\nBritish merchants and residents and I trust you will give\n\nthis matter your earnest attention.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nLd. Bowen Smith\n\nRonald McNeill, Esq.\n\nHouse of Commons.\n\n1. P.\n\nInformation Dept\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nColonial Office, S.W.1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 564, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "501\n\nof our Consular property which is situated close\n\nto the entrance of the port and the fact that, before\n\nMr. Yamagata gave me the information on which this\n\ndespatch is based, he asked the permission of the\n\nNaval Staff. I happened to hear him call up that\n\noffice on the telephone in an adjoining room. The\n\nauthority obtained was apparently restricted, as I\n\nhave not been able to obtain a recent plan of the\n\nharbour and proposed works, my own sketch being\n\ncopied from an old plan filled out with rough\n\npencil sketches by Mr. Yamagata,\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(signed) P.D. BUTLER.\n\nActing Consul.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485565, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "content_text": "British Consulate,\n\nTANSUI (Formosa)\n\nMarch 6th 1920.\n\n495\n\nDear Sir,\n\nIt has been brought to my notice that the Formosan Authorities are in the habit of telling Formosan (Japanese subject but of the Chinese race) applicants for passports to British destinations that it is unnecessary for them to obtain a visa at this Consulate.\n\nMy informant (himself a Formosan) told me that he had received this information from the authorities here and that during the last year he had made several journeys to Hong Kong without a British visa, and that the British authorities at Hong Kong had offered no objection to his landing there.\n\nIt is, of course, for the Hong Kong authorities to decide whether they will or will not admit a certain class of persons without a passport visa, but if the visa is required of foreigners in general and Japanese in particular, it seems illogical to make an exception in the case of Formosans, who are Japanese subjects and in every respect on the same footing as other Japanese.\n\nIf the Hong Kong authorities make no objection, it is certainly not incumbent upon me to do so, but I am drawing the attention of the Formosan Government to the matter and reminding them that their action does not appear to be warranted by the letter of the British passport regulations, and that my instructions are to the effect that all foreigners visiting Hong Kong and other British possessions in the East are required to obtain the visa.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Sgd) P.A.Butler.\n\nActing Consul.\n\nP.S. I am told that the case quoted is only one of a great many\n\nLieut. Colonel A. A. Gunn.\n\nYokohama.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "content_text": "British Consulate,\n\nTamsui (Formosa).\n\nMay 26th 1920.\n\n498\n\nDear Colonel Gunn,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of May 20th regarding visas for Japanese Formosan subjects. The reply of the Colonial Secretary to your letter does not assist very much. One is left with the impression that the Hong Kong authorities are content to overlook a practice which is obviously illegal — I mean the practice of the steamship companies of entering Formosans in the passenger lists as \"Chinese\" in order to get round the passport regulations.\n\nThe question which presents itself is whether I should make a fuss here about this irregularity or let the matter pass?\n\nThe latter is the line of least resistance and is naturally attractive, more especially in a place like Formosa, because a weekly passenger steamer goes to Hong Kong from Takow (250 miles from here) in addition to those from Keelung with which I should have no difficulty in dealing.\n\nThe only thing which makes me hesitate is the fact that (if I interpret the twice-repeated doubling of the visa fee correctly), H.M.G. are now regarding the visa from the revenue-producing standpoint and, with the fee at Yen 5.00 we may well be dropping a good deal of money.\n\nWill you be so kind as to give me your opinion. Perhaps you would also show the correspondence to Embassy and see what they think.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nLieut. Colonel A. A. Gunn.\n\nYokohama.\n\n(Sgd) P.A.Butler.\n\nPage 510\n\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489415, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 563, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## Cypher Telegram to Sir B. Alston (Peking)\n\nForeign Office, 20th April 1921, 3 p.m.\n\nNo. 159.\n\nMy telegram No.156.\n\nWhen handing Note to the American Chargé d'Affaires, I said I was a little surprised at the tone and language of the American memorandum. This was a dispute in which different views were entertained by the two Governments, and as we felt we were on strong ground, I was surprised that the American Government were amazed at our contentions and had concluded their memorandum by indicating that in the solution of this question, the continuance of good relations was involved. This seemed unusual language in a matter of secondary importance which ought to be disposed of without raising larger issues of comity.\n\nI imparted the information contained in your telegrams Nos. 90 and 153 on the way this American contract had been acquired, which could not fail to colour our opinion as to the nature of the transaction. The Chargé d'Affaires had never heard of Parnes Koss or of the transaction.\n\nI further said that as the Great Powers had lately come to an agreement regarding Chinese finance without difficulty, I thought this was a pity from the point of view of both Governments and both nations. \n\n \n\nOn a separate matter, Mr. Butler Wright called on me and was friendly in his conduct of official relations. He expressed the warmest agreement with my sentiments regarding the potential for resolving outstanding issues through direct discussion. He suggested that if two or three representatives of his Government and ours could meet around a table, this particular question, as well as other questions, could easily be solved. He felt certain that this was the opinion and attitude of the new Administration of America.\n\nWhile expressing my pleasure at this assurance, I said that we had better wait until the new Ambassador, Colonel Harvey, arrived in a few weeks' time, since I should doubtless hear from him authoritatively what his Government proposed in this and similar cases. I owned to Mr. Wright that I had been a little disturbed at the interchange of despatches of a rather contentious character that had recently been going on between our two Governments. I knew the American people to be very sensitive, and I always bore this in mind, but, though our people in comparison were slow, they were capable of great resentment when their national pride was touched or when they were unjustly accused.\n\nMr. Butler Wright said that he had nothing but gratitude for the friendly reception which had always been extended to him in our Foreign Office, and that he would not fail to convey my sentiments to his Government, and hoped that they might be not without effect.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use]\n\n`(F.1435/181/10)`\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION**\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**CURZON OF KEDLESTON**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489507, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 655, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# 652\n\n## 2\n\ndue, in some part, to the attacks which have been made upon him by the Anti-Opium League and in the Japanese press, attacks which he obviously feels very strongly about.\n\nMr. Kaku commenced by alluding to the request for an export permit for 20 tons of Turkish opium dealt with in the enclosures to your Excellency's despatch, and said that the expression \"for medicinal purposes only\" had been employed by the Mitsui firm without his authority and against his instructions. This statement conflicts with the wording of the Japanese Ambassador's note to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the 15th January last, but I naturally did not discuss the matter.\n\nI then asked the average consumption of opium per licensed smoker per diem, and Mr. Kaku gave this as 1.1 momme (say, 1.296 oz.), which he said was much less than in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, where consumption was over 2.0 momme (say, 1.750 oz.). At the present time there are approximately 48,000 to 49,000 licensed smokers in the island, and the number is decreasing at the rate of about 5 per cent. per annum. I give below statistics showing the number of licensed smokers and consumption of opium in each of the years 1915 to 1919:\n\n| Year | Smokers | Import | Consumption |\n|------|---------|--------|-------------|\n| 1915 | 253,857 | 70,278 lbs. | 237,158 lbs. |\n| 1916 | 226,622 | 65,528 lbs. | 238,572 lbs. |\n| 1917 | 238,572 | 60,732 lbs. | 204,592 lbs. |\n| 1918 | 262,918 | 54,958 lbs. | 173,714 lbs. |\n| 1919 | 273,088 | 60,528 lbs. | 160,657 lbs. |\n| Total | 1,337,253 | 312,024 lbs. | 1,002,743 lbs. (corrected to) 1,014,687 lbs. is not present, so using the original value |\n\nImport figures relate to crude opium and consumption figures to opium paste. On my asking the loss in weight on manufacture, Mr. Kaku replied that this was a technical secret of his Department.\n\nI then asked for statistics showing the quantity of opium which the bureau had now in stock and the quantity on order, and it was here that we began to get on difficult ground. Mr. Kaku stated that his was a business and trading bureau and that the last two questions I had asked dealt with matters regarding which he was compelled to maintain great secrecy. He would like to know why I desired the information. I replied that I thought my objects must be clear to him. The British Government, under existing conventions, felt that they could not permit opium to be exported without knowing exactly to what purposes it was to be put, and my instructions from your Excellency were to furnish a report on the situation in Formosa. Mr. Kaku then declared that if he thought that the British Government was really anxious to put a stop to the opium traffic with China, he would be prepared to give not only this but much more information; all he asked was that Formosa should be treated in the same manner as Hong Kong and Singapore, and that measures taken in regard to this island should also be applied to the British colonies. Here again I declined a controversy for which Mr. Kaku was apparently anxious, and finally elicited the information that at the present time the Monopoly Bureau have on stock or order from one and a-half to two years' supply of opium. Mr. Kaku said that in his business it was necessary to look ahead and avoid the possibility of running short of stocks. Just now they had an unusually large quantity in stock and on order because exceptionally low prices in Persia and Turkey made this a very advantageous time to buy. As to Indian opium, on the contrary, they were doing nothing because prices in that country were ridiculously high. Early this year the Indian Government had offered the Monopoly Bureau opium at 3,000 rupees per 100 kin (as compared with nearer 5,000 rupees the price ruling at the auctions), an offer which he had naturally accepted with alacrity. Since then, however, he had heard nothing more from the Government, and if, as he understood, I was shortly returning to London, he would be grateful if I would look into the matter. Mr. Kaku seemed very anxious to obtain this Indian opium at the price mentioned, and he referred to the matter several times.\n\n## 3\n\nIn passing on to the question of morphine, I was well aware that I was on delicate ground with Mr. Kaku, but I hardly expected the outburst which I evoked. On my asking for the latest information regarding the manufacture and disposal of this drug by the Monopoly Bureau, Mr. Kaku declared that these were questions which I had no right to ask, and that the matter affected the integrity of the Formosan Government and of his bureau. To this I replied that the opium from which the drug was obtained was imported from British sources, and in view of the world-wide agitation regarding the morphine traffic in China, it seemed quite illogical to refuse to see the interest which the British Government had in the matter. In any case, statements had been made in the Japanese Diet and press regarding the very matters with which I was concerned, so that there would not appear to be any secrecy or need to take affront. Finally, Mr. Kaku said that his bureau produced about 300 kin of very inferior morphia per month, and that it was sold to the Hoshi Drug Company. None of it could be consumed in Formosa, for medicinal or any other purposes. In reply to a further question, Mr. Kaku said that the whole of this morphia was exported by the Hoshi Company to Japan for medicinal purposes, but that he could not be held responsible for the disposal of the drug when once it had passed out of the control of his bureau and out of this island. I venture to think that this admission is not without interest.\n\nAs I pointed out in my despatch No. 70, **Confidential**, of the 11th October, 1919, the customs returns of trade between Formosa and Japan include no item which could possibly cover this annual export of approximately 3,500 kin to 4,000 kin of morphia to Japan. I could, of course, ask the Commissioner of Customs for an explanation of this unusual omission, but the whole question is such a delicate one in Formosa that persistent investigations by this consulate might antagonise the authorities and spoil the usefulness of the office in other directions, and I venture therefore to suggest that it would be more advisable for this step to be taken by His Majesty's Embassy. Mr. Kaku's statement that his responsibility ceases when the morphia has been handed over to the Hoshi Drug Company and exported from the island shows that the Formosan authorities take much too narrow a view of the obligations they undertake when they assure His Majesty's Government that opium is for consumption in Formosa. The inference is that they accept responsibility for the opium as such, but not for any drug produced therefrom. It should be possible to devise a form of undertaking by the Government which would at least fix responsibility, if it did not close a loophole for illicit export.\n\nMr. Kaku stated that in his opinion there is only one method by which the traffic in opium and morphia can be suppressed. What that method is he declined to tell me, but he said that he had drawn up a long memorandum on the subject (1,200 typewritten pages in length) some years ago. This memorandum he had entrusted to one of Japan's highest diplomatic officials with a request that, when the proper time should come, it might be submitted to the British Government. I said that it seemed a pity to withhold a document which might have an important bearing on such a burning question, and that the present time, when the League of Nations was interesting itself in the opium problem, seemed an opportune moment for its publication. Possibly Mr. Kaku's idea of the proper time at which to give the world the benefit of his reflections will coincide with the long-awaited date when opium-smoking is finally suppressed in Formosa.\n\nI venture to think that the crux of the Formosan opium question lies in the disposal of morphia by the Hoshi Drug Company, but the smuggling of opium from this island to the mainland of China is also not without importance. The Hong Kong papers contain frequent allusions to the seizure of opium cargoes at that port. The delinquent vessels appear to be mainly Japanese, usually auxiliary motor-schooners, of which a large number ply between Formosa, South China ports, and Hong Kong. It is said that smuggling is the principal business of many of these craft. Whether they pick up their contraband cargo in Formosa or at Chinese ports is uncertain in many cases.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. D. BUTLER.\n\nP.S.- Imports of opium up to the end of August 1920 amounted to 77,766 kin valued at 1,803,359 yen, and a few days ago the 6 tons of Turkish opium (about 10,080 kin) imported through the Hoshi Drug Company reached Keelung.\n\nP. D. B.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489597, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## 3\n\n87\n\ndue, in some part, to the attacks which have been made upon him by the Anti-Opium League and in the Japanese press, attacks which he obviously feels very strongly about.\n\nMr. Kaku commenced by alluding to the request for an export permit for 20 tons of Turkish opium dealt with in the enclosures to your Excellency's despatch, and said that the expression \"for medicinal purposes only\" had been employed by the Mitsui firm without his authority and against his instructions. This statement had been conflicts with the wording of the Japanese Ambassador's note to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the 15th January last, but I naturally did not discuss the matter.\n\nI then asked the average consumption of opium per licensed smoker per diem, and Mr. Kaku gave this as 1.1 momme (say, 1.296 oz.), which he said was much less than in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, where consumption was over 2.0 momme (say, 1.750 oz.). At the present time there are approximately 48,000 to 49,000 licensed smokers in the island, and the number is decreasing at the rate of about 5 per cent. per annum. I give below statistics showing the number of licensed smokers and consumption of opium in each of the years 1915 to 1919:\n\n| Year | Smokers | Import (lbs.) | Consumption (lbs.) |\n|------|----------|---------------|--------------------|\n| 1915 | 253,857 | 70,278 | 87,158 |\n| 1916 | 307,888 | 65,528 | 226,622 |\n| 1917 | 288,572 | 60,732 | 204,592 |\n| 1918 | 262,918 | 54,958 | 178,714 |\n| 1919 | 278,088 | 50,528 | 160,657 |\n| Total | 1,337,253 | | 1,002,748 |\n\nImport figures relate to crude opium and consumption figures to opium paste. On my asking the loss in weight on manufacture, Mr. Kaku replied that this was a technical secret of his Department.\n\nI then asked for statistics showing the quantity of opium which the bureau had now in stock and the quantity on order, and it was here that we began to get on difficult ground. Mr. Kaku stated that his was a business and trading bureau and that the last two questions I had asked dealt with matters regarding which he was compelled to maintain great secrecy. He would like to know why I desired the information. I replied that I thought my objects must be clear to him. The British Government, under existing conventions, felt that they could not permit opium to be exported without knowing exactly to what purposes it was to be put, and my instructions from your Excellency were to furnish a report on the situation in Formosa. Mr. Kaku then declared that if he thought that the British Government was really anxious to put a stop to the opium traffic with China, he would be prepared to give not only this but much more information: all he asked was that Formosa should be treated in the same manner as Hong Kong and Singapore, and that measures taken in regard to this island should also be applied to the British colonies. Here again I declined a controversy for which Mr. Kaku was apparently anxious, and finally elicited the information that at the present time the Monopoly Bureau have on stock or order from one and a-half to two years' supply of opium. Mr. Kaku said that in his business it was necessary to look ahead and avoid the possibility of running short of stocks. Quantity in stock and on order was exceptionally large because low prices in Persia and Turkey just now made this a very advantageous time to buy. As to Indian opium, on the contrary, they were doing nothing because prices in that country were ridiculously high. Early this year the Indian Government had offered the Monopoly Bureau opium at 3,000 rupees per 100 kin (as compared with nearer 5,000 rupees the price ruling at the auctions), an offer which he had naturally accepted with alacrity. Since then, however, he had heard nothing more from the Government, and if, as he understood, I was shortly returning to London, he would be grateful if I would look into the matter. Mr. Kaku seemed very anxious to obtain this Indian opium at the price mentioned, and he referred to the matter several times.\n\nIn passing on to the question of morphine, I was well aware that I was on delicate ground with Mr. Kaku, but I hardly expected the outburst which I evoked. On my asking for the latest information regarding the manufacture and disposal of this drug by the Monopoly Bureau, Mr. Kaku declared that these were questions which I had no right to ask, and that the matter affected the integrity of the Formosan Government and of his bureau. To this I replied that the opium from which the drug was obtained was imported from British sources, and in view of the world-wide agitation regarding the morphine traffic in China, it seemed quite illogical to refuse to see the interest which the British Government had in the matter; in any case, statements had been made in the Japanese Diet and press regarding the very matters with which I was concerned, so that there would not appear to be any secrecy or need to take affront. Finally, Mr. Kaku said that his bureau produced about 300 kin of very inferior morphia per month, and that it was sold to the Hoshi Drug Company. None of it could be consumed in Formosa, for medicinal or any other purposes. In reply to a further question, Mr. Kaku said that the whole of this morphia was exported by the Hoshi Company to Japan for medicinal purposes, but that he could not be held responsible for the disposal of the drug when once it had passed out of the control of his bureau and out of this island. I venture to think that this admission is not without interest.\n\nAs I pointed out in my despatch No. 70, **Confidential**, of the 11th October, 1919, the customs returns of trade between Formosa and Japan include no item which could possibly cover this annual export of approximately 3,500 kin to 4,000 kin of morphia to Japan. I could, of course, ask the Commissioner of Customs for an explanation of this unusual omission, but the whole question is such a delicate one in Formosa that persistent investigations by this consulate might antagonise the authorities and spoil the usefulness of the office in other directions, and I venture therefore to suggest that it would be more advisable for this step to be taken by His Majesty's Embassy. Mr. Kaku's statement that his responsibility ceases when the morphia has been handed over to the Hoshi Drug Company and exported from the island shows that the Formosan authorities take much too narrow a view of the obligations they undertake when they assure His Majesty's Government that \"opium consumption in Formosa.\" \"The inference is that they accept responsibility for the opium as such, but not for any drug produced therefrom. It should be possible to devise a form of undertaking by the Government which would at least fix responsibility, if it did not close a loophole for illicit export.\n\nMr. Kaku stated that in his opinion there is only one method by which the traffic in opium and morphia can be suppressed. What that method is he declined to tell me, but he said that he had drawn up a long memorandum on the subject (1,200 typewritten pages in length) some years ago. This memorandum he had entrusted to one of Japan's highest diplomatic officials with a request that, when the proper time should come, it might be submitted to the British Government. I said that it seemed a pity to withhold a document which might have an important bearing on such a burning question, and that the present time, when the League of Nations was interesting itself in the opium problem, seemed an opportune moment for its publication. Possibly Mr. Kaku's idea of the proper time at which to give the world the benefit of his reflections will coincide with the long-awaited date when opium-smoking is finally suppressed in Formosa.\n\nI venture to think that the crux of the Formosan opium question lies in the disposal of morphin by the Hoshi Drug Company, but the smuggling of opium from this island to the mainland of China is also not without importance. Hong Kong papers contain frequent allusions to the seizure of opium cargoes at that port. The delinquent vessels appear to be mainly Japanese, usually auxiliary motor-schooners, of which a large number ply between Formosa, South China ports, and Hong Kong. It is said that smuggling is the principal business of many of these craft. Whether they pick up their contraband cargo in Formosa or at Chinese ports is uncertain in many cases.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. D. BUTLER.\n\nP.S.—Imports of opium up to the end of August 1920 amounted to 77,766 kin valued at 1,893,359 yen, and a few days ago the 6 tons of Turkish opium (about 10,000 kin) imported through the Hoshi Drug Company reached Keelung.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "# TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME\n\nI, PAUL DALRYMPLE BUTLER HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S ACTING CONSUL AT TAMSUI, IN THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN,\n\nDo hereby certify that Yeap Seng Koon was born at Tamsui Formosa on July 15th, 1876, and that his father Yeap Thean Lye, a British Subject, having been born at Penang on May 5th, 1840, Yeap Seng Koon was registered at this Consulate as a British Subject on January 20th, 1906.\n\nIN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 17th day of February One thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.\n\n**(Sgd.)** P.D. Butler,\nActing Consul\n\nPage 299\n(Seal)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500969, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "Entertainments.\n\nThere are.\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHE\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nUNKNOWN\n\nPURPLE\n\nin\n\nA Tale of love mystery\n\nAnd\n\nvengeance\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nThe absorbing story of a greatly wronged inventor who discovered a purple ray by which he could make himself invisible\n\nHENRY B. WALTHALL ALICE LAKE\n\nand\n\nSTUART HOLMES\n\nhead a big cast\n\nSUPER 7\n\nCINEMA\n\nDaily At\n\nSundays\n\n2.30.\n\nat\n\n5.15,\n\nA..\n\n7.15.\n\n7.30.\n\n9.16.\n\nTuesday Thursday Sunday\n\n9 13.\n\nChange of Programme\n\nTHE STAR\n\nTO-DAY\n\nat 5.50 and 9.15\n\nFLORENCE VIDOR\n\nand\n\nMONTE BLUE\n\nin\n\nSinclair Lewis' famous story\n\nMAIN STREET\n\nANCHOR BRAND\n\nPURE\n\nINTERNATIONAL GENERAL, AUGUST SETTLEMENT DAY.\n\nELECTRIC.\n\nNEW PRESIDENT.\n\nAnnouncement has been made of\n\nA FAIR AMOUNT OF BUSINESS.\n\nAlthough the exchanges have\n\nbeen closed for business ever\n\nsince the strike commenced,\n\na fair amount of business was\n\nput through yesterday, August\n\nSettlement day.\n\nA FALSE CLAIM\n\n¿ QUESTION OF WHICH TO BELIEVE.\n\nDispute About Rainbow.\n\nKotore Mr. Jnative Wood at the\n\nCivilized possession of 1871 bangles\n\nBinary Court yesterday, Lo On\n\nhas relinguished the presidency\n\nof the contract made for August\n\nbefore Board.\n\nMr. Minor is well known\n\nin the Far East.\n\nHe joined the\n\nWestern Electric Company in 1902\n\nand occupied various clerical posi-\n\ntions, each better than the preced-\n\ning, until he was made assistant\n\nmanager of the Katens: City office\n\nin 1906.\n\nA year later he was\n\ntransferred to Omaha,\n\nand two years later be returned\n\nto Kansas City in the capacity of\n\nmanager of the office.\n\nIn 1914 he returned to America\n\nand became active Foreign Sales\n\nchanges with open again San-\n\nManager in New York City.\n\nthough In tember 13\n\nno definite 1218 he was assigned to special\n\ndecision hua vet bren auired a\n\nwork in Ching and fapas, paderj\n\nthe supervision of Mr. Swope,\n\nand in Bul year organised the China\n\nElectric Company, Ltd., for the\n\npurpose of manufacturing tele-\n\nphone apparatus in that court.\n\nTHE FRENCH DEBT.\n\nCONVERSATIONS CONTINUE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 21.\n\nIt was toward the end of 1921,\n\nafter completing his work in the\n\nOrient, then he became uropran\n\nManager of the Western Chillaws.\n\nThe latter interviewed!\n\nby Reuter.\n\nsaid there would prob-\n\nably be farther outings to-morrow.\n\nthough nothing definite land bean\n\nJa the spring of 1921 he joined\n\nise International Generet Elvetzie\n\nCompany as Vice-President.\n\nLi Su ail that he met 34 Ouj\n\nsoon after his amivel.\n\nIo Os told im that the barabocs\n\nwere his property and said that he\n\nhad pod Jaşṭ orer 8900 for ruen\n\nend still wedtic mere than $700.\n\nWitness told the Court that he\n\npeld the rest of the plot of landį\n\nfor the first moon,\n\nCross-examined: He went with\n\ndefendent to pay the rent.\n\nMr. MacCallum: Why is the receipt\n\nin the made vi o Chues Kee?--In\n\nChuen Hen said that the\n\nan receipt had been torn up by\n\nTo taid the resh for the recová\n\nfixed reapreting the coved of his\n\nlittle guy.\n\nA will be gathered from this\n\nconversations.\n\nsamrosey of successes in f\n\nM. Callaus was uncommunics-en---I\n\ndid not pay.\n\nmany pralviong, Mr. Minor na\n\ntheive and merely stated that the\n\nquelitive that make him Heed, at\n\njconversations\n\nnapinistrative)\n\nTHE COFFIN\n\nwell es respected.\n\nA dearmind cordist-Reeter.\n\nJed. kena Pinker, with sogatang-|\n\ntiva wei! as abuty, he is alive to\n\nthe men side of business relations\n\n» Tast which has always been angreekat-\n\nen oy those within as well as out-\n\nside his own organization.\n\nLLERINA MAANTE, STORLESTON, OSBORNE WOOD CONVICTED.\n\nGIVEN PRISON SENTENC\n\nOne Year laguisopment for Sea of Gen. Weed.\n\nParis, Angui\n\n15--Liens\n\nburae Wond son of the Qorginos\n\nSenest of the Philippines, was to\n\nAnother\n\nvituesa\n\nwho\n\nwa\n\nextremely vienaly in defendant's\n\nemploy densed what he had\n\nknowledge that\n\nCROP.\n\nEGYPT AN ESTIMATE.\n\nCairo, Aug. 94, The area under\n\ncontra le oled ally estimated at\n\n1.924.000 Ted-\n\ndans, as cetopared with 1,787,000\n\nthe plainuff was furing to swindlej\n\nIs knen-kec out of the batchona.\n\nHe said that the reason be left!\n\nthe defendant's employ was, be-\n\ncause Ho Give ongated two wien\n\nbit of lots of bamboos in vas)\n\nmonth,\n\nForry Years in Hong Kong,\n\nDefendant.\n\nIn the hex, sulü he feddens last\n\nseason, of whichį nad spent forty\n\nyears in Heug-\n\nSavollarides accounts for 1,198,-\n\nkong and for torky-one years be\n\n1000 feddags se compared with\n\nhad been a desier in buibus)\n\n879.3 feddone last year-Router\n\nand bamoso by-products.\n\nday Antenced to war's imṣiri..!\n\nsurmeni nude foe of 14. 1930\n\nFollow-j\n\nFing conviction or a change of\n\npars-\n\nNEWS IN BRIEF.\n\nLOCAL AND CSEKAL GOMBEA.\n\nKalpinging, Touréssion.\n\nAneering to Northern Chinese\n\ning a montidens chaque for GR1,730\n\nmanors, General Lí C) Lasin isced\n\nsif entered his engtoy towards\n\nthe wel of Aprii and on May 2nd be\n\nhim 000 ANTO Vo ない\n\ntiengphau Fax iny iLanding Da bi hekali.\n\nHe (turned some days later and said\n\nNd fost The accounts and receipts,\n\nbut added that witness red hit $70\n\nwhich he spent in excess of the $600.\n\nHe said he\n\nat Line Casino Biarritz.\n\nYoung Rindas, acder to the ludustal\n\nChan had to pay $30 to 10ɛ Yip!\n\nis now in the United State\n\nratsalouer of Chit with Instrue\n\nYee Tong, a robber pang.\n\nLatar\n\nThe\n\nThe touging Cuited Pren die tipe to\n\nthe Enamelow Mining Ad-\n\npleistift sunt a man to take aweF\n\npatel from Pans apparently ontninistration to negotiate with one of\n\nthe bamboo but witness\n\ntimes the fan diapos in the Kalping\n\nMining Admlustratoba bit that not\n\neven the must! adventures of the\n\nJonas son of tion regarding the\n\nterms for euential man in the Colony\n\nGoverar General Wood into tatoration\n\nof the latter to the could touch its\n\nhandido.\n\nreales of high francs.\n\nYoung Wood\n\nChinese.\n\nAccording to the prometter\n\nwas reported to the police who\n\nwas a lienserant in the U. 8.\n\nprovisions stipulated in thu sgreement\n\nand gomeone wagested that he\n\nArts stationed in the folppinesigned\n\nbebeteen the Chinage and give the\n\nplaint about a hundred sau etéo\n\nMamagh forentade sperni.\n\n- tion he cable a the New York\n\nStorks regarding the Kaiping\n\nhandles ur beinbrs in order tr\n\nExelago, ve anasis fortune of\n\nmines, they could be henght bek\n\nmake up for the $70 which Lo On\n\nhad paid out of his own pocket.\n\nMANILA ROPE la calle duista\n\nThem by the Chinese in ten years by\n\n\"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST \"\n\nESTABLISHED 1854\n\nMARINE ROPE\n\nROPE\n\nTRANSMISSION\n\nGF TOWER ROPE\n\nH\n\nYNCHAUSTI\n\nCABLE LAID\n\nHAWKERS\n\nWELL DRILLING\n\nCABLES\n\nFACTORY\n\nCanned with bin cheque book\n\nhajamming ae adegun'e sum to the\n\nBri.\n\nTuk\n\n*\n\n29130 named\n\nQuestioned by his Lordship ag\n\netarted out en rip mound the bish.\n\nThe ten-gear terin haz alto\n\nthe security he had to giving\n\nwood, painting the ace in mota ar\n\n194dy expired, in 1938.\n\nNegotia\n\nthe plaintiff $600 when he had\n\nless lurid colure, the preced GN\n\nwere then ronducted between\n\nknow him caly few days Upor\n\nhit arrives in Fraser be mame\n\nthe Lanchow and Kalping Min\n\nwitness said that\n\nately got into the newspapering\n\nAdministrations, but no resuit\n\nChan\n\nThe matter was plainuiff and\n\nexpressed his will\n\nROPES OF ALL\n\nheadlines through his gambling at\n\nhis out.\n\nthe meh usertą.\n\n| dropped until now.\n\ningness to stand as surety.\n\nTe SIZES FOR ALI\n\nFinally something happened and at\n\ninstructed plaints not to pay\n\nmore than 30 canta & iudie for!\n\nthe bamboo,\n\nMADE FROM\n\nPORE MANILA\n\nHEMP\n\nMANUFACTURED\n\nBY THE MOST\n\nMODELN\n\nMANILA\n\nMACHINERY.\n\nSTOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES\n\nENQUIRIES SOLICITED.\n\nFACTORIES:-MANILA P.I.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE:\n\nKING'S Telephons Central 2185,\n\nBUILDING.\n\nImprove the TONE of Your GRAMOPHONE with a\n\nhad rentsanded\n\nMr. Justlee Wood said that hol\n\nde reported that his father deceived\n\nMr. Band. D. Corbett has roupa,\n\neiled rourente Tren his son fored to\n\nthe AMS in connection Fans Govenor-General Wood is\n\nwith the ingration of what is\n\nreported to lova zent a casadevalla\n\nsikely in prove a new and interesting.\n\nsura, but apparently not wfficiens\n\nto PMS industry This is the rae\n\ncer all of the bunn\n\ntion of a deal works in Pahang,\n\nthe parties was telling\n\natisfied that\n\nhe being asked to decide which i\n\nListunut Wood is now reported\n\nnear Karls Lipe, to produes\n\nfront. be working for a real estate\n\nconjungle\n\nand Der woudy\n\ncern in fios, but apparently wil-\n\nmaterials verlic not be retamning to\n\nParis or 1-170dné, holidays.\n\nGERMAN TRADE WITH\n\nCMNA.\n\nA REMARKABLE INCREASE.\n\nHe felt\n\nthe\n\nraw defendunt id pay money to the\n\nmothy plaintiff and was of opinion\n\nthat ગ\n\nwond & dispute arose owing to the\n\nfact For paints, preservatives, forces)\n\nand various that the plaietiff spent\n\nmore than\n\nut neetates M. Frank he Karmin\n\ngiven.\n\nJudgment for Corben has obtained a\n\nsuitabl; defensant with costs would be\n\nJanncession oveż a in forest arms!\n\nziren.\n\njin Pabong, thù- soncession haing\n\nvery cius proximity\n\nto Frambit\n\nItalas 8hric whirl is fifreen\n\nThe Koch Zeiteng. Count Wes-\n\nniles from Kuala Lipia\n\ntazu's newspaper, pubisher a\n\nlong article froze te China cer-\n\nf Ken\n\nWhere are Solar\n\nrespondent, in which he gives\n\nantureins completeir Japsuined.\n\nAr visit to Tsingtan. Konluma,\n\nthree are to useins, al: account of a\n\nback in fure work\n\nAbout 300 Germans\n\nce\n\nFrabies\n\nbore, most of whom resided in\n\nthese, there is ous shoe-maker and\n\nMost of ibasa have been tha pice\n\nbefore the war.\n\nBineneaker\n\n19 the imports of German mersing\n\nin this part of Raphalian kine\n\nchandise have increased in the\n\ndva of the Romarov adruimte\n\nThere is electric light\n\n[Tưkteur.\n\nreally extraordinary manner\n\nyatable, be the Russians wil bs\n\nyear, and German influence is\n\nlar pit tor\n\n-ey begin\n\ngrowing at a corresponding rate.\n\n| work at about for in the morning,\n\nthe corraspondent, and my du ber\n\nsoon after sunset, It is, saya\n\nespecially from England and he\n\nUnited States thst strany is!\n\nGENNETT RECORD in and as the centre\n\nLATEST HITS IN TO-DAY For Sale At\n\nKOWLOON MUSIC STORE Kowloon Hotet Building\n\nKowloon,\n\nP\n\nWas\n\nPIMPLES CAUSED GREAT PAIN\n\nOn Hands. Sufered Years.\n\nIlealed by Caticara.\n\n\"My daughter's bands saved tand that saw piTNILA feente.\n\nThey led with water bar bedeft then kinak and fester and fier for great jam.\n\nShe was\n\ndie\n\ngel up at night and bold her hand.\n\nJin very hot water fu chse the pot...\n\nShe suffered like that for úve or zivi\n\nTORE are for acrae Son\n\nExtas 4 tane of the Yokohama socks Bank was ned i Karachi gravity of world policy is moving nutty.\n\nIs is reported that Kara rapidly towards the Pacific, the ante brak with Japan bre intrinsed German Goverment should take hy tess and hounds during the every portunity to profeet and that five yearE\n\nthe Fer avour Germaniam in\n\nEt.\n\n\"The recovery of aume con. The Waokang Mint is at presne cessions in our former Kias-Chau | produery $150,00) Saily, hur en the\n\nhelp enor-market is in want of silver! Protectorate word\n\nmonsly the atfainment this delises it is pregused to rise the\n\ndaily work to $180,0 Lim.\"\n\nsent for a fer sample I found hi sas jaing ber gond to prese Itens and the is completely falodged] Te. Briggs. 120, Mic seter Rd., Derby. Eng.\n\nUse Cullera Sarp and Olatrert\n\nRegularly to maintain permand Jakir, and her health.\n\nSong vid Oistrant said thoughætt tår\n\nTry the Cuticure Shaving Sticks,\n\nDo This-Today\n\nTiis\n\nLearn how millions get whiter teeth\n\nwill digitiul test which\n\na new conception of what clear teeth moon,\n\nIt tacnus whiter, clatter, sufor teeth, such se millions now enjoy.\n\nSee wirst brings to you.\n\nThe war on film Dental suico is new fighting the cause of move topt]: Itoucles.\n\nFams that viseras coat you fesi.\n\nIt clings to south.\n\nUnder old methods of tooth brushing, ratch of it remains,\n\nTr.bentice decolored, then futz diy sogra Thng is why mà 1500y cerk cloudy.\n\nFilm also raises 10 troth trooi leg.\n\nIt loins food wykonanie\n\nadrich ferments and fenos sell, it holds de asià in content with the seath to asuse decay.\n\nGoms krevd by millions in it.\n\nThey, vit SAG- Sar, are the chiti cerme of your d\n\nThese troubles became almost umiyevast when that film wa left of teeth.\n\nModem rerganch das tiae werad two effective m coxbatants.\n\nOne digimtegrate the balm ut ski aresyna uf Pronation.\n\nOve rumoras à vikk... out bermind acouring.\n\nTese have proved dut dev rastheds mean à ngy era in leady\n\nTRADE\n\ncleaning.\n\nnew-type tootla paria has been created en apply ther\n\naily.\n\nThe name is Pepsodent\n\nNow the use of Peysadent ha spread the work over, largely by dental advice.\n\nLook at what Pepsodent does\n\nThe use of Pepsodent will britu\n\nat once a new conception of ela veet\n\nProtect the Enamel\n\nPepsodent disintegrates d fi khen reinowes fi with var gpent fir softer than gumel, ever desa de comment watch contains laurah gri\n\nIn dela ugga tisa tulu źni salthaling the gnty of th andira, which is then to nesesti: a montesis.\n\nJt trediciise féin par sila in salive, strah in devaẹ to do pant sich, deposits on ti\n\nThess combined effects will be a vežalise ke\n\nSend the rouson for a 70-320/ Tebe, éve how clean in teena Jeet after being.\n\nMark the\n\nof the series Blan.\n\nSee im ters Lacive whier as the i-ca dilsapy car.\n\nCompare the new way with the eid, then docide for yourself what\n\nis best ut et cospan tem.\n\nBAHK\n\nAGAINST\n\nThe New-Day Dentifrice\n\nBassa on quodern research.\n\nAd wse by Tading dotians in world over.\n\nYou will tea and food fame- diate cault,\n\nTwo zizta on ralc everywhere.\n\nAZZATA POR HONDMOND & BOLEH GIA;# KELAAR KERM A GO- 1.15. 5, W NONGKONG\n\n10-Day Tube.\n\nThe Pausodeot Dompany, Dept. C15-16.\n\nBus 1418, Shanahal.\n\nBackend find al cos Sramps.\n\nMail 10-day labs of Pzasadent to\n\nMail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to\n\nNave.. Address...\n\nGive full address.\n\nWrite plainly, Only ont vube 10 a kunits.\n\nCARBOLINE\n\nKILLS GERMS\n\nKeope every zvrnet\n\nSWEETENS DRAINS\n\npour hopes swest and elaan.\n\nThe beat IKI VISH Veudorant Gallins $2.75, Half Gallons $1.75.\n\nS'a 4. THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY\n\nDID you ever serve\n\nWelch Punch? Try -your guests will be Javish in praising it.\n\nHere is how you make it---\n\n1 pint Waith'a\n\nI quatt water\n\n1 cup sugar\n\nJake of 2 lunnans sud 1 orange\n\nThis manke the most licious and refreshing beverage you can serve or het days or evenlegs,\n\nTUL WELCH BRATE NICZOO, Wtfibi, N., 4.5. A.\n\nWelch's\n\nGrapeJuice\n\nWhelssola Regreactiam ius.\n\nMULLER & PHIPPS (China) Ltd.\n\nZebrand. P. D, Bos afin, Kingstei\n\nAssist\n\nNature\n\nHowever robust\n\nand strong the con- stirution there are fines when Nature requires assistance in relieving congested parts and re- storing normal function.\n\nNature has no subre efficient aid to health than Beechma's Pills\n\nWheat the digestive organs refuse to assimi- lace foed; when the liver Tuers sluggishty; when the kidneys do not properly\n\nperfona their allotted duties, then is the time to wesist nature to restime sound and vigorous health.\n\nby taking\n\nBeecham Pillo\n\nBANKS.\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nREAD DIVICE, BONCHONG.\n\nkukintoad Capimi,AUR Sentra Futa PAID 2004 NA TUN\n\n£ 4.800.000 STA $2,699AGE Baetzen Dishitty of protons 294,092, INDE\n\nCourier.\n\nWhile,\n\nquer Meas\n\nA. IL Paview, Ena\n\nBANKS.\n\nSOUTH CHINA\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nTo the Editor, A. C. M. Post.)\n\nTHE CHARTEKKU BANK OF INDIA, AUSTHALIA & CRINA.\n\nJadwiston 50\n\nReserve ad\n\nKRUTAMİ,\n\n£3,000,0\n\n2-lets Chairm\n\n5. An șa tum.\n\nLi W, Barnard, Yu W. 2. Patarajan, bez\n\nWell. Koz\n\nA. K. FRAUFOs,\n\nM Hugkung, 15th April, 1925.\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL\n\nMAATSCHAPPL.\n\n|NETHELANDS TRADING SOCISTIJ\n\nBANG.\n\nTetal Hard Ba\n\nLa magar: Eburchak.-G. 8. AL X-\n\nJAMIN DANKERJ;\n\nWestminster back, Imitá.\n\nCarpet county aveone in Lock Guzenar and Planḍ Dayalle spevived for day parë në sherlar evinin in ima) Guzzyner and Racing, Wes which will lie utwerk\n\nBand 19th Mat. 1955.\n\np\n\nHONGKONG SAVINGS BANK\n\nThe\n\nWe obtakt\n\nof the above deple s HiViNGNG AN HANG REMAIN, BANE DOES\n\nINTE SPE dep is culonlated w Bekalana during ja ezoqaletai Qalendar Merin at B34 per cent per si\n\nMeu to orbites on way day in a Moth sweet will in Kined fur that\n\nrepteiten Immander ; their epikoa Rai.üd or dance to the HONGKONG AND MUANGHAI BANK to be lowes\n\nKAKE DEPORT - CURRENT RATES\n\nFor the maing vad skurzovi Kanking Corporatina,\n\nA. BAXLOW\n\nColt Vansa, Fonehengerry, A INTERNATIONAL BANKING\n\nCORPORATION.\n\n(wind 6 the National City Bank st\n\nNew Tor\n\nCapital and Surplva v 52. JALAN, DA\n\nRetryis\n\nAVAD OFFICE\n\n60, Wan Straut. Fo\n\nLONDUS OFFICE\n\nMy Bishnule, Bi 0.\n\nBRANCHES\n\nProvince of Kwangtang, who are! however, Wally tacerning more!\n\npowerless the grip a \"BeF forcas: that this Balthe\n\nMOROCCAN WAR.\n\nENEMY FIRE SILENCED.\n\nMadrid, Aug 24.\n\nร\n\nMORNING POST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBANKS.\n\nRUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.\n\nbest 5,603.30\n\nHOT\n\nBANKS.\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,\n\nCrarecare\n\nKod: BA Stan\n\nAuthored Capim 5,360, m Solestia Cav1.500.co Pript? LED Cut Reserve ... 1,9440,001-\n\nKANCÉES.\n\nShe Bank of Fingland &\n\n& Midland Bach, Lat\n\nBRANCHES\n\nEnta Shuro\n\nAc obieral communique claims.\n\nCapital City yeld]\n\natl\n\nChaikal Pe\n\nKe Chaps Gazerne\n\nRES CFFICE.\n\nParis, Kee Brateur.\n\nLONDON OFFICE\n\nYou\n\nFort Youth (art) BONGKONG BRANCH.\n\ntd, Gid Bread Blease, $9.\n\nKAKIMAS\n\nShamok theini\n\n$ck!\n\nBatavia Gall\n\nBoer\n\ncross me\n\nJoalats.\n\nYut. Gau, Müs, de\n\nGarrin Pan Sauerale egung in recent bombardments.-EU de Gizarte E Fac\n\nFranca\n\nI've Lost Goonw Mede, Angrył 25.--General 'n de Rivers by kina\n\nArcikrod\n\nbeyn\n\nHora'sy Hentyne Bala Tamar navba ¡Calepitas Ilewrah Sciculo Kozár\n\nLindra\n\nFema BUTALOGS\n\nSlagspry Sout\n\n(ft in the coar Ausories\n\nEndrin\n\ntu de Pazia st das Pa\n\nLyn Bern CNTICIALA JOz Zaveck that\n\n1.\n\nSir your bardağ's Leadervist Gorunmeet of Canton, whose inscrporated by Regul Chartuť, 1851. [you any: “We are making and farm is vader the sperme com\n\nLand On: Londo Past op Capland $0.590' must pake a bid for the spopathyjmoud of a Karine Bolshevist that the enomy's fire\n\nof the British public.\" J this Coneret, and on whose military Albucemas was silangad by he Ferien xehera ad General Hancurent Can we hope to arouse and evil staffs there are already tane arrival of the warship! Garment Accennik wegeō and Floed Dawonria ¦ The syimpathy of the Bridiel: uray bug Russians, as declarede It emits that owing Sed ne & rent or shorter rods at pubife by rendre a telegram to ja orkude of this British Colors, the soul means of com- wales wil be quoted on Applic\n\nmunication with the painland No. 30 Dawning Stret? Wil thene ships from or 10 Yongkons Betish public ever hear of it being allowed to ply within any\n\nbeing interrupted through the cest re-haps Shnung a brief of fe wnsers of the Kwant to dairage sustained by the avack,\" it is impossible to ganga paragraph in the London Prest | Province, traton moi haloy permit.\n\nThe telegram is excellent as farted to cryas Ale\n\nAnglo-Chine Renter- AH it goes. Toy it should be barked transler, and not even a up by a direct virosal to the peasant being allowed to British people-a the enthusiasm from Chinese to British territory: tha of the cornug in this alter will that British subjecta are mat per-preparations Reve enable the organisers of\n\nThe mitted to enter the city of Cantonpleted and offensive operations US C Meeting to rese! the cont! Pets that by die viel order of the mould probably be lanched within, Venic #OAGKONG SKUNDE EMASLACAS 19. hapa Exuler's agones mere wouta Goverment ட்: Centon, British ten diss. While isolating tribes Authurted Cavitstallers 1000 dyward it, on the Colay'z boskins are folder to enter tas who said help him, we will operate\n\n212,601 | to the British Press. Con Caeton river that Red\" Trucke 30,000.\n\nthe very borrilary of Ate ei. 66ing through that chased te weglajare roused or the Angka Krin--tavas. GEA acured wide publicity. Frontier and nee, talks firing wiLL\n\ninpurity on B. a police patrels The following anggested tensed on parctos Chinne fathers ram is long, but could be and workmen the British side on thejof the border; that as a reer, of\n\nMeasures că-\n\nPaziti...\n\nTest\n\n..der.com 161,258,335.J\n\nBand On: JESTERDAM. Bester and Ocom-BATAVIA.\n\nBükmat Bardown,bresisted if necessary\n\nhay, flabour, Überikan Ujven-\n\nhar, Diakiskaria, The Haware of experie. W anyone theas and other Rink Mob Davik.\n\nHow who has been hame 10 Meika. P\n\nPenang\n\nBanzo Hoterias, Kanan.\n\nSoerakar (in) Treni, Tijne Joader Bachana Provincial\n\nCadets all was the wazid, PARKING FUSSRAT DE BYREY\n\n..\n\nRECKLESS CYCLIST.\n\nCHINESE WAITER FINED.\n\nA restaurant waiter was lugged i\n\n|_ New York Ta Ying Bauk, Colorati\n\nSexFirenz\n\nBarlin:\n\nOnk\n\nNatom\n\nShangha EVDEN Ing Pektor Mapato 1\n\nJornad\n\nKanchang Yukinama\n\nKatarrat allow on Dress Amanida de Hive Deneth Til\n\norien sebanga no the prizcismi silán\n\nL.. BAINES.\n\nthe world bws/kland an\n\nBalapur\n\n司公理管業實法中\n\nSOCIETE FRANCAISS DE\n\nGERANCE\n\nDE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHIND\n\nPRONINENT PRUERY, oubt that the Inferomtion as to been brought to a complete stand-i Hhanghai, Singspiere emitthe calony's estabifalme and til and uve 70 Ateamers, of before Mr. E. W. Mumilten. at the present importance is nevessary? wloce 65 are Pritisk, are now ly-Kuwien Mugistry Perlerder\n\nJours, etc.\n\ning e in the liatbear of Bong with riding a bicgete in a reckle I. M. T.\n\nReng; that through the uretismorzar. The defendat picaded Hongkong, 24th August 1925. of the imperial Governeur, salt and was fired 53. Appeal To The People Of Great\n\nwatch to the Chinees mind! Sergeant D. Murphys who effected\n\nBritain\n\nguitles ouly impotence, the hot the rest of the defendant, waredi This mass morting of British our and dignity of Britain have that when ordered to stop at the! residents of the tree Cology alemdy entered a severe selbeck jacion of Nathan and Jordan Red 9. Butler Bar Hongtong appeals to the people throughout And, the extent and Roads, the defendant diselayed the of the Mother County for their scriose of which only the desigual, but after a chase inte Wou- support in the grievous positionjhare will reveal; that this low ng Scient, the defendant wAS which de Colony ha heen to car prestige in Asia is the prevented from proceeding other. placed through the violently and object deiterately aimed as by by a large cerad of people, and was THE DANGLE MUISTURES IN CHIN\n\nKANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.\n\nSubscribed lasila. 78,000,000.00 Packets Capital Fra, SCRAIGN Hacer Fend,FM. 81,587,39321\n\nBANGKOK\n\nDBANCE 1\n\nPAPIRŠTE YAOM.PNG PONMOD MARY\n\nMATGON\n\nKAPTAMBANG CANTONG\n\nDJIBOUT\n\nJIHONG\n\nTANDI HUNGSONG VYNONG\n\nJOUMICA\n\nSTANGDAL\n\nSINGAPORE TUNIN\n\nBasket\n\nHersalina\n\nEasons\n\nPek\n\nBoyabay\n\nPluta\n\nGAL\n\nC\n\nItem\n\nFrancia, Cal\n\nC\n\nPrenses du Mamcie\n\nCOU\n\nSt J\n\nIt\n\nSeron la llar\n\nNarbib\n\nSarty Pinga\n\nHUMANEK\n\nShanghet\n\nAnim\n\nSZTUK MENITH\n\nSe Playca best Nasa\n\nBIKIN\n\nin Vega\n\nTari\n\nworld\n\n7000\n\nKeale\n\nfait, lei. Taghangt som\n\nble Tra Tacx hought and sold. Corrent event!\n\nsasti kauk, Kesante spared And Fla Deprale, float and fires musprim saken of zatez, tårt may be verymtaxi se\n\napplies too to the HABEBAS ONE CAS\n\nWest Also ablet the istiyon! City sic lov Brusela\n\nHack of New_York_1\n\nFot palunit treatin Bush Sales and is the War Indes\n\nTOURING\n\nHNANYO\n\nPritish activities of the preseat thin bundreds of Russing Hulthe-janested. Bolshevis Government of Genica, įvlats who are the real mastera of Great Britafa was the first Puwes Canton; that one anges) For anais- to move for the ebulition of ex-ince from the people of Hone. tratoriicial rights la lapan as on the Synperial Governurni soen av at efficient and upright bar mei with so responk, probit\n\nicing had been sethieked is by far the reason that the dete in evenerate attempt to run this Colony with vor compatriots in China, wej which is being made by the Gor\n\nis Paz: Chal Luasie; die doetry, spd. Paris Perkant\n\nLenan\n\nFrost at Yew York\n\nDagŭ Despetta arcondes My\n\nbrain tr\n\nJEBEL. DRUSE.\n\nFRENCH LOSSES EXAGGERATED\n\nParia, Agust 25.\n\nKTARESA.FNP FRANCO.camol\n\nGod is weki. Chataro, Victoria, Bongka\n\nMEAL OFFICE\n\n---\n\nParde, Yo The He Insan\n\nJapHa....... 15,000, 20 B. 10,\n\nPIE. MINDACOS\n\nBANYTIC\n\nFrans: tiste Garcia Bapur Natten\n\nBy Grade Baza de Park vi des Pac Mendon Midland think, Las\n\ndier des Ha\n\nCo\n\nfind trebain\n\nghost be World.\n\nHughing, 224 (ON. YO\n\nA ROLAN\n\nManag\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE\n\nut pamercinta ladustain Wema and TrasOwn\" 2,42 kere of 10 Fun The Nation Pretzelal and teci assured that the Gavel eglent crument of Lasten being cur-\n\nUnikan Erd. Conymit\n\nComeening certain formation : Vectron accrapla Path: edit of Great Britain, whose interestsfused with the studion Chira starting that her French insesa uti 1 New Yob F. I. Morrazo. Franch Chine are greater than those of which te best dealt with by the Forfeit Drase totalled 2,000 men, the Antal Berckling Coppo Castany any other Power, wil net sveign Dive, and a handling which papers as that the Winters of! Inset whips Care is and to lock for the lend of any other Britain, for the Grit te in her War has stated that 800 way the. Ewer chettition of mankin am veren, in takits similar hists in Asia. appears to be runter reported by General Sarri: ...... You 180.55.9 steps in China when the Glütere waiter for a led from Pewore and bat in notist been altered bet people having followed the exam with only a treeties of her inter pla of Jepun, pat the house este in Chia and is Aria eder, ander unt make residence therein. uraliy: thug e Gayorwent wil urder Chege laws and adminiz hatun bas lured self inde- traziou, xa este for foreigners a pondeck of the Governmen! la radence in Great Britain! Ching and refuses to recognize and ue Colonies for citizens of the Governmeul at Paking to which\n\nG. RUGC.\n\nHonigst\n\nen's Rool, Central. Homes. Esmary, 1950.\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA,\n\nLIMITED\n\nBIAD OPTICE\n\nÀ. LINTOT,\n\nYavage\n\nTHE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.\n\n(WAYWANGIKKOJ\n\n[ TÙ SPESAL DIPENAL\n\nBAYI İses\n\nvital Emeriled Yes 89.600,000 Duprat (pastato 0.000\n\nNo in De Vong Band. Central Rongeuren enonthe Chinese Republic. Having is Majesty Minelar to Chira\n\nsaid the when the situations accroifted: what this\n\nAuthorized Copirai 19,590, Patil Chap Kew Brad\n\n6,00,000 si\n\nBWAD OFFJEK.\n\n1,040,9sa 94\n\nVRECIDER.\n\nTAMPED, FORMOSA,\n\nBANCU\n\nIto Mr Chow Chow a\n\nFan It Blaire Ceing la\n\ntard\n\nZATORI SPIŅA Tohobar, Kəb Fans Gergely\n\nUnalen,\n\nC: King Ulivu Polos Tur Pr\n\nChan Ching her Wet Yast P\n\nvery dogrtatlan or banking\n\nSAF TITS\n\n*\n\nmasied\n\n04 FUNKE\n\nmonics, Trewall, Token, Aka\n\nColony,\n\nA\n\nExos denuntion Pankica\n\nse pued\n\n(nere bent en Durant Kurapně\n\nwat yer kom on Veils du\n\nmore en than may be\n\n- is\n\nits on wat\n\nQuare'n Boat (m\n\nROSS,\n\nAng nagES. kong. th c r.\n\nTHE RANK OF CANTON, EMITESA\n\nRead Office: Katy Loss.\n\nEstabaired 1912. Authorized Capéta) 51,20ki, Ga Pall, lip Depital 1,078,5Ð\n\nsilver Reserve Fand...$ 700, Forsigo Exchange and Genara Banking business transacted Interest allowed on\n\nSCUBRENT ACCOUNT\n\n2 po a un daily cred helences of over 106.\n\nCOUNTE\n\n4% ADRUM\n\nfor 12 monthe 5 per annu\n\nfur 8\n\non ANTAGE\n\n|GA KOSTER\n\n1.1\n\nX\n\n29\n\nConten, Shanghai, Hankey; Bangkok and New York.\n\nCOR BANZISES\n\nThe Lloyd'a Bank, Limited.\n\nLOOK POONG BHAI Chief ManaTER.\n\nBANK LIMITIE.\n\nBRID OFFICE MO\n\nJOKURANA\n\nwas confirmed by a nominative list.\n\nBatavia wad Ag\n\nEa\n\nBunbury\n\nZonva ¡Battat dzzas kauna\n\nHua Pranshia\n\nCalext\n\nIns Averi\n\nHemang Euba\n\nROBERTSON\n\n1\n\nMila\n\nSECURITY PACT.\n\nNe\n\nDet\n\nASKESTOS PROTECTED\n\nTHE FRENCH REYLY.\n\nip China we would impress where urgent appeal to uskist-\n\nNewhaven, Aug 21, aur people et houne that the pre-jane has aiready been once ignored i The France Ambassador ha sent gericus stare of affairs in by the Iraperal Government.\n\nsas handed to Herr Stresemans the Mature, Menu Pizzo, Skiardino, Thiabu. the British Colony must be un-Tur the past 25 years contributed French reply to the German Chinh anhm. Arg. Penchow, tirely disassociaran om eendi- propavilon of ita anewal re- Security Pact Noto. Tho date of\n\nState, Chaton\n\nBanen, place in China: that this Clotany veree towares crtal military publicstion ne nos yer Farabee Chart, Scubayer Hongkong was ceded to Endod. Xe Turk, alter\n\nLASDAN BANKERS.\n\nthe expenditus, the utiration for fixed-Reut!Y. British\n\nTE CHART London Cornstar Westate and Dart'ssion being confirmed in\n\n1841, the rear 4 amounting to sour that a quarte million dollar;\n\n30\n\nChief MeDoge\n\nBaik\n\nDebrents. 1029\n\nHonda 16 prebrant, tum\n\nTHỂ HỒ HÙNG Hạ lão tin t\n\nALICIT).\n\nCAPITAL:\n\nAuthorised $50,000,050\n\nTil ...\n\nPaid-up... 4,000,000.\n\nReserve Labilities of\n\nShareholders...... 4+0.\n\nSurplus.........\n\n823,000,\n\nBEAD OFFICE--SINGAPORE Branchen, Agencies and Carrespond- ente in the principal cities of\n\nthe world.\n\nKvery description of Racking And, Fxchange business' transacted.\n\n... BANG, Manager.\n\nORIENTAL COMMERCIAL\n\nBANK. LTD.\n\nVELD DEVICE.\n\n18. TWY FREIT ROON CHANCHAL\n\nBILNEGES (--WANGRUR.\n\nUntzenie Wuntraine Hack Sale & New York: Scan City\n\nAharied Capital Man 25. OUR AND Pabi-up Capital 2,090,008\n\nSose haki ini b Current sermouth, Attindi Dasu mirati ka mpy\n\nDRAUM BEAUTI\n\nOvera, barkings opgelatır.\n\nINTEREST. C'event occ 2 AT ive 15%.\n\nElard Devotion, 3 months, k 6 month 4454, wie gest 5%.\n\nKAKE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR PENT.\n\nQUR VAUTTA JAFEGUARDS) BY IDEA CLOCKS AND DOUBLE CAMMINATION ÁRNOUM PIATÉ NIEZŁ NO«YP.\n\nJ. T. LAIM.\n\nKUMBA.\n\nmetres in the Entepony Continent:\n\nDoet\n\nThe Beat bas Credents to rear following year by the Treaty of that during the Great War that beside these to whom they are Busca, M. a. Nanking, under which Rongkong Colver contributed Con, an India, Philippine Trianon, Juga,\n\nFinetry\n\nBeakow\n\nHalo\n\nHer\n\nMentula\n\nKai Zoen\n\nKorechi\n\nOu\n\nPising\n\nRACKVI\n\nlod\n\nSihampcov\n\nKostel\n\nVATE\n\nVindicat\n\nJanka\n\nit and on Correak Attiest Caprasin pacetvel for zxat perce Latatred on sites.\n\nC. AKIMA,\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK LTD.\n\nSend Mom Vinyl Prodine, Thetar BiME\n\nDRANCWEB:--\n\nLju\n\nthe\n\nat variorum appending in elliees, abups, ard siber Dutch Crulim Forts, lies to be pujsassed to pepetaly\" times over six and a ar million factories and shipyarda iz Ameries, Atring, the\n\nInteress Kaceed on Comment donuts and Great Bring that at that dotars to the importal Govern-Dot Country.\n\nThey are now cali-\n\nTeposts at rates which will be great time Hongkong was but share mans for wat parposes.\n\nIn add-in for support from this Afs-! apple,\n\nBONGKONG BRANCH: L. Dar Views Wal.\n\nZ. YAKAMOTO,\n\nsophuma, Jan. May dogs.\n\nBanger\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA\n\n行銀國中\n\nGYECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN\n\nShanghai, Kangat kone. Tergen-Russian Gropeens.ca.\n\nCORRESTENDENTE. IN |--\n\nLiodon, New York, Chence, Bra pretens..\n\nLucia chores of Chien un abroad\n\nAttraction Tale fer\n\n10 years, ... fats, stupore, Fanana,\n\nrocky island, like hundreds to befrian to a special chination of overtunt Crown Colony to their fal- send of the one of Chine, In-blatt tion pendz: that a low-workroen at he hadited by thit a few hundred arge nyentier of the youth of this Brian who can still bear, MO CRzuzet and fishermen thas to-day, after 8 Color male the supena stories with pride the story of our fax rearhouest and impartialis the war, fortified in the hog feng Respire, and to wing the faste Wash British administration, tuls Colony that they wore helping to skew of that Empire is an Sacred is ene of the brightest gear in werin secure against such a charge as is that of the Realmi\n\nthe British Crown; that even in sprang as is now oppressing the of England twk. To all such\n\n2. M.\n\nMETAL ROOFING\n\nBolo Agents :\n\n¡DAVIE, BOAG & CO., LTD\n\nBank of Canton Building.\n\nSamples and fill particular on application.\n\nMASSAGE\n\nMr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA\n\nA. 34. Wyndham Street.\n\nTelephone Central 4048,\n\nthe year 1880 the Cipverner of the pancenia Chiasse imputation of this urgent appeal in argize THOS. COOK & SON (BANKERS) LTD\n\nColias, contrasting De Sara Cautan and is sriving to sun goes forth from the ueople of rock with a cherinan's but here this Cotry of Hongkong; that, the small but uporisat matpost TRAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLI. Od tier of 1841 with the cartons of the revisnose of Empire.\n\nColony as it was 8t roars later, the present situation, the people.\n\nCHIKA UN THR JIND DE\n\nNOVEMBER, FEAT.\n\nauthorised Cepita was able to state, in a despatch of this raportat outpost of our\n\nRattan Canika ..... 75,970 200,00\n\nREAD OFFICE: PEKING-\n\nMUSOKONG PRANOR\n\n4. Quera's Road Central,\n\nTranchen and dab-bones all\n\nAt to the Secretary of State for the Empire in Avin are again appeal- Colonive, that may be doubted in to-day to the forperial Gov whethere the evidence of material ferment, through the Prime Min- and woral achierement, presented ister, do take imosciate\n\nand KANAPundar in Faros, Amartas and sthay peste of the wall.\n\nsinstel wind Under Bet E. L\n\nThe Coming Trung Company of New York,\n\nDANKERN: · The Nepal E\n\nchins as it were in a focus, wake up-to put an end to the presout inte.\n\nwhere more Jokeile appeal\n\nlerable and hotelling position, LONDON BAKKERS--The National Pare and inagication and whether und feiting the immediate and\n\nany other apot on the earth complete cessation of the lock-i more likely to excite us more ful-ade, of Hongkong at\n\ninterfs- ly justifies pride in the name case with British trade and with few the all of British abjects to 1541 the population has increased without sulasful interference.\n\nhundred teren in the year carry on their businese freely and\n\nThe Egitle The Company of New York Internet slowed no liberest Acecants and Englismar from a Fixed Langit pa tention.\n\nevery desire of Banking\n\ntransxçied\n\nFirmanied va aproved sequentia.\n\nEpilan for Brookware\n\nTUYER PEL\n\nNEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE HANDELSBANK\n\nExtablished 1869.\n\nPaid-up Capital au Reserve Fund Glds, 78,200,000-£5,517,329.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM, CASTERN HEAD OFFICE: BATAVIA, BRANCHES:\n\nSay, Arapenan. Bandoeng. Borbay, Calcutta, Cheribos, Gorostalo. Hongkong, Kobs, Weknear, Medan, Menado, Palembang, PekalongAN, Rotterdam, Semprong, Shanghai, Singepara, Hourabaya,\n\nThe Eagua, Telok Beteng. Tjslatian, Wites rolet.\n\nLONDON REPRESENTATIVE: 8. S. Wright, 37, Old Broad Streek,\n\nLooden, B.. 2\n\nCORRESPONDENTS: LONDON: MIDLAND BANK, LID, ÖVERSEA\" Branox, WESTMINSTER BANK LTA FOIS BRAKCE, N. L. GOTHSCHELS & BAR and SI BANK CORPORATION\n\nNEW YORK: CHASE NATIONAL BANK, YAPMIY Loan & Tuner Co. TRYING BANK-COLOMBIA TRUST CO, GOLMAN, SACHS & Co, New Yoke Taper Co. and all the principal towns of the world,\n\nEVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING & EXCHANGE PUSI- NESS TRANSACTED CURRENT ACCOUNTS, DEPOSITS, etc\n\nP. MARKS,\n\nManager.\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOPENING QUOTATIONS.\n\nASTON ---\n\nHong, August\n\nBA\n\nTARGETAT-2.16\n\nBasi Baya Bile, at 30 days sight BakDill, at wounthe' sight 2,42 Credita, at 4 monthe night.. 2:5 Frey Hills, at 4\n\nvetoka\" sigh 275;\n\nBank Bille, on depend DE GAY\n\nCredila, ut death right... 1225\n\nI PANELLE\n\nto one milion; that the value of state of way with the Government; the Colony's trade in 1924 was for Casion he destared in exist, 136 mens sterling: that the; and .lbak Procediate stone beY DISTOPET Lorean-going shipping entered the them takes to enforce our Treats N\n\ncleared during the same year rights and to instal as Canton ready Chinese Goverment o tous, of which 12 milion tens\n\n$226\n\nnom\n\nBack Bille, en mend Credits, ut 60 dngu' sight... NA\n\nTraunfos... 1871\n\nOx CalcUTES —\n\nTalegraphis Freester... 1874 Dank, de\n\nBank, at right t Private, at 30 days' sig... .........3403\n\n115\n\nweru Brit, at that the inises fran Rolsbevist flomnication. tonnage of all classes during the makter fe appeal to the your wea nearly $7 millions, Imperial Government Me are) making Dongkong perkaps the taking the opponunda to forward A world's largest slipping partijat the sume tirar this appeal to that el his varé tezde and shit-the people of Great Britain foros ForIAMA 20 pak, sad even the very exisleure their sympathy\n\nOrdonan........ aid suppori. of the talony, hos suddenly been In doing se we wish to protest in Greed.......\n\nON HASA placut in mirene prilby the the rougest possible TERNET STRATOL- present de facte Doisnevist Gov-against the rupaix. of falan lepi...... 19!! ernment of Cantos, which, with hood which the Balcharist GN. ON 6114A -On demand ... 742) the nel of \"Red\" Rasein mili-evamart of Cutton, under the decane.................... tay commanders and Ruselfedtrention of experienced puna. NAIGN-De dewund..... m arins and money, came into power gandista trained in Russia has CasaME :-\n\nCA douazú..\n\n794 by an armed up only three conducted through certain\n\nSUS SOTERSHYA, Bath's boying DOTA H sad to-day abtine of the world's preas. This Bate.................. 3.50 hered by Im vaer unspority of mass meeting to for the most part Cars Usar, 100 fine, per tami........ the people of Canton and the composed of me, who have wosk Bas formas, per otro Fes\n\n- נא אני\n\nBANKING AND EXCHANGE.\n\nCOOK'S TRAVELLERS CHEQUES combine MAXIMUM SAFETY with CONVENIENCE.\n\nA special feature is the precautions taken to ensure the maximum safety possible.\n\nAsk for descriptive booklet at any of our offices.\n\nHead Office:-\n\nLol Address\n\nLUDOATE CIRCES, LONDON. B.C HONGKONG WOTEL BUILDINÓ.\n\nTelegraphin Address:-COUPON.\n\nTelephous: Central 524-525.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DIRECTORY & BLOTTER 1925\n\nThis very useful combination of Directory, Vlary and Desk Blotter, contains a large variety of local fa Jormation: List of Goveranient and Department. Officiats: Firms and Employees; Foreign Residents: Time tables: etc.. etc. A handsome and durable requirement. strongis bound in cloth and excellently printed, it is a weeźul adjunct in the desk In Home arOffice, and will be found of great use in business and social affairs.\n\nNow on Sale, Price $5 at\n\nSouth China Morning Post, Limited.\n\n1. Wyndham Street.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502073, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "AIT\n\nTientsin British Chamber of Commerce.\n\nREMISSION OF BOXER INDEMNITY.\n\nMinutes of Discussion on the subject of the remission of British portion of the Boxer Indemnity at the Annual General Meeting of the Tientsin British Chamber of Commerce, held in the Gordon Hall Committee Room January 4, 1925.\n\nPresent:\n\nW.P. Ker, Esq., C.M.G., H.B.M. Consul-General and Honorary President of the Chamber.\n\nCommittee.\n\nMr. E. C. PETERS.\n\nM. WOLFERS.\n\nE. W. CARTER.\n\nR. G. BUCHAN.\n\nD. B. WALKER.\n\nB. C. M. JOHNSTON.\n\nHOWARD PAYNE.\n\nC. M. WATSON.\n\nJ. TWYFORD THOMAS,\n\nH. BAILEY.\n\nM. BONIFACE.\n\nT. H. BUTLER,\n\nV. L. BEDDINGTON,\n\nG. CHARLETON.\n\nE. COOK.\n\nP. E. CADMAN.\n\nS. F. CHUBB.\n\nF. A. FAIRCHILD,\n\nL. C. HURST,\n\nJ. S. JONES.\n\nP. D. MACFEAT.\n\nK. W. MOUNSEY.\n\nL. V. LANG,\n\nH. L. N. SNOW.\n\nW. C. D. TAYLOR.\n\nH. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.\n\nRepresenting\n\nJardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nArnhold & Co., Ltd.\n\nHatch, Carter & Co.\n\nWilson & Co.\n\nWilson & Co.\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nCollins & Co., Ltd.\n\nEastern Trading Co. (China).\n\nSecretary.\n\nJ. Whittall & Co., Ltd.\n\nMackenzie & Co., Ltd.\n\nCaldbeck, Macgregor & Co., Ltd.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.\n\nCook & Anderson.\n\nWalter Hardy Ltd.\n\nShewan Tomes & Co.\n\nFairchild & Co., Ltd.\n\nWm. Forbes & Co.\n\nJ. Twyford & Co.\n\nKailan Mining Administration.\n\nKent & Mounsey.\n\nArnhold & Co., Ltd.\n\nArnhold & Co., Ltd.\n\nBritish Cigarette Co., Ltd.\n\nTientsin Press Ltd.\n\n311", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505152, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 418, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "415\n\n.5801, 14doevok diə LASE! VOM 8\n\n*PO SAFF\n\n2\n\nto 152262 c'efùmise of niɛ of yiqes of\n\n118\n\nTelas wat lo multatuowany odt malbrəşən (88\\oba92 0) (mitig\n\nIsnatad Je subot Insque de saltom sot unormoz to suiterl\n\n+\n\nIserves of misin ɗantíð neturi siɛ quaterosť vď vetoosib me I\n\non tud? uraal ad tadt grøn vistesooƐ .1K azotal of wor\n\nwhich, in the nature of the two appointments, cannot be\n\nrealised. Sir Matthew Chamberlain understands from previous\n\ncorrespondence that the question is regarded at Hongkong\n\nas a matter of principle and not merely of pecuniary results.\n\n►\n\n4. I am finally, to request that Sir H. Gollan\n\nmay be asked to furnish formal receipts for the payments\n\nalready made to him as appeal Judge.\n\nI\n\nNeeyay harbone Monja po mutaog på se-ohe¤qus que amp}00;\n\nIT\n\n•\n\nVERONA n'y‡astal mix to stenojɛɛimmoð absou sát ář lw\n\nand go bomiun moitostao na no besad si motelosh yimBBOTÍ\n\nAc vondon Fasgang aút 07 Jansoek-notibu) kna vellostamoɔ\n\nni von vnci#9300KE? Iniom (UZ Dat otarcour sit ni galbiover\n\nedz nouad #ved Tionnezi ont jadi raaoga hiyom 31 Jan „unitkaný\n\nLand? od maço giovanitinel sazopo ține\n\n•\n\navikannuj In our to eto na? Frid DYSASCO of me 1\n\nmidz meni smired 907 la MqaspaZAQ PRODUK st ml of batisten\n\npad-lequu baauszoni vo】 miðalf tentat Tenndaz\n\nyanluc\n\n.\n\nJMOVA DOT\n\n-\n\nnodumci to ooltest Zeldo odt tadi toal\n\npág mà volvai el xa♪ BAUTON\n\ntiliampo sát nyozdunu VLASTIK\n\n•\n\nxet omöoni deiting to sett\n\n1 oroi kaantal viɛ to menu\n\nHONG of USO A Sao Ânoraoh is roastro uat dolds\n\n1 .8\n\nyam noltivon sdt tadð 18s of,ezelezańź + tadt #gon Bid tubigis of beta,salloD .† 118 of bentaiqxə 10 no soufq iile sad? TRUBENKATIs so do triuni jon IIIw wa\n\noned otraátið vori od doław mort sebind a %aa%ut zonni18 112\n\nquimiotinu a to consideea edt #20nas of zebro al\n\n\\,dolam\n\n+\n\npetatt le piajonosi 10 mg\n\nvonka30 Lainolei\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Sd.) N. G. BUTLER,\n\nงานส\n\nUIH", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "content_text": "## 144\n\nproceed to North China to examine the situation at Tientsin and Peking:\n\n(a) That the Foreign Office and War Office should concert together in sending the necessary instructions to Sir Miles Lampson and General Duncan.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War read a telegram which he had just received from General Duncan, commanding the Shanghai Defence Force, recording conversations with the Japanese General Matsui and with General Butler of the United States Marine Corps. The latter, who had just returned from Peking, had emphasized the necessity for withdrawing the Legations in the early future and for concentrating large forces at Tientsin.\n\n### The proposed withdrawal of Indian Mixed Brigade\n\nIn regard to the proposed withdrawal of the Indian Troops, the Cabinet had before them a Memorandum by the Secretary of State for War (Paper `C.P.169(27)`) giving particulars of the cost of the retention of the Indian Mixed Brigade, but recommending the withdrawal only of a Pack Battery.\n\nThe Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs reported that he had learned from Tokio that the Japanese Government felt some suspicion that the Shanghai Defence Force was not to be withdrawn. From this point of view", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519113, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929", "content_text": "## THE ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL & SOCIAL HYGIENE\n\n**President:** \nHELEN WILSON, M.D., J.P.\n\n**Chairman:** \nRev. W. C. ROBERTS.\n\n**Hon. Treasurer:** \nThe Rt. Hon. T. R. FERENS.\n\n**General Secretary:** \nMiss ALISON NEILANS.\n\n**Assistant Secretary:** \nMiss E. M. TURNER.\n\n**FOUNDED BY JOSEPHINE BUTLER.** \n\"Nothing Endures that is founded on injustice.\"\n\nOrchard House, \n14, Great Smith Street, Westminster, S.W.1. \n**Official Review:** \"THE SHIELD.” \n**Office Hours:** 10-1 and 2-5. \n**TEL.:** VICTORIA 3451.\n\n22nd October, 1929.\n\nSir,\n\nMui Tsai in Hong Kong\n\nI am desired by my Committee to enquire if you have yet received the Report from the Governor of Hong Kong respecting the Mui Tsai system in that Colony.\n\nI am also to ask if that Report, when received, will be published as a White Paper and be available to societies interested in the matter.\n\nYours faithfully,\nAlison Neilans\nSecretary.\n\nThe Rt. Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nS.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "content_text": "THE ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL & SOCIAL HYGIENE\n\nFOUNDED BY JOSEPHINE BUTLER, 1870.\n\n28\n\nPresident:\n\nMr. GEORGE Grey BUTLER.\n\nChairman:\n\nRev. W. C. ROBERTS.\n\nHon. Treasurer: Dr. JANE WALKER, J.P.\n\nGeneral Secretary: Miss ALISON NEILANS.\n\nAssistant Secretary: Miss E. M. TURNER.\n\n“Nothing endures that is founded on injustice.”\n\nLivingstone House, Broadway,\n\nWestminster,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\nOfficial Review: \"The Shield,” Office Hours: 10-1 and 2—5.\n\nTEL. VICtoria 3451.\n\nTomorrow\n\nMon (1)\n\n(a) Copy of Report from Officer Administering Colony of Hong Kong concerning number of brothels known to authorities\n\n(b) number of women in them\n\n(c) method of registering.\n\n4072755\n\nThe Colonial Secretary said in answer to a question in House of Commons on May 19th, 1930, that this report had not then been received. Is it available now and if so can I see it and quote from it if necessary.\n\n(2)\n\nCopy of High Commissioner's despatch from Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States concerning Recommendation of the Colonial Office Advisory Committees of 1925 and 1929 on subjects of\n\n(a) brothel keeping,\n\n(b) examination of prostitutes\n\n(c) protection of women and girls.\n\nCan I see this and if necessary quote from it?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "content_text": "77781\n\nTHE ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL & SOCIAL HYGIENE\n\nFOUNDED BY JOSEPHINE BUTLER, 1870.\n\n4\n\nPresident:\n\nHELEN WILSON, M.D., J.P.\n\nChairman:\n\nRev. W. C. ROBERTS.\n\nHon. Treasurer:\n\nThe Rt. Hon. T. R. FERENS.\n\nGeneral Secretary: Miss ALISON NEILANS.\n\nAssistant Secretary:\n\nMiss E. M. TURNER.\n\n\"Nothing Endures that is founded on injustice.\"\n\nOrchard House,\n\n14, Great Smith Street,\n\nWestminster, S.W.1.\n\nOfficial Review: \"The Shield,\" Office Hours: 10-1 and 2—5. TEL. VICTORIA 3451.\n\n13th March, 1930.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by my Executive Committee to send you the following Resolution adopted unanimously by the Committee.\n\n\"The Executive Committee of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene urges the British Government to impress upon the Government of Hong Kong that it should frame its policy now with a view to making possible, at the earliest practicable date, the suppression of all brothels and that it should also take steps to provide adequate facilities for free and confidential treatment of all persons suffering from venereal diseases. The Association for Moral and Social Hygiene further expresses the hope that the British Government will review this question in the light of the known conditions now existing in Hong Kong in order that when the Colony is visited by the League of Nations Commission it may be able to report that the British Government is already taking the necessary steps towards a radical improvement of the conditions in regard to brothel-keeping, procuration and the traffic in women.\"\n\nYou will, no doubt, have also received a similar Resolution which was adopted last month by the Executive Committee of the National Council of Women.\n\nMy Committee earnestly express the hope that you will give this matter your serious consideration.\n\nThe Rt. Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nAlison Neilans\n\nSecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529089, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "content_text": "**The Catholic Citizen** -2d. Monthly\nTel.-Museum 4181\n\nSt. Joan's Social & Political Alliance\n\n## Executive Committee\n\n* Miss Douglas Irvine, M.A., Chairman.\n* Miss Leonora de Alberti.\n* Miss Barry, Hon. Secretary.\n* Miss Pauline M. Brandt, Hon. Treasurer.\n* Miss E. Butler-Bowdon.\n* Miss Barclay Carter, Lic-ès-L.\n* Miss Fedden.\n* Miss Sheilah Hynes.\n* Miss Jeffery.\n* Miss C. Madden, F.L.A.\n* Mrs. Laughton Mathews, M.B.E.\n* Mrs. O'Connor.\n* Miss Monica O'Connor.\n* Mrs. Shattock, M.B., B.S.\n\nThe Rt. Hon. (Non-Party)\n\n55 BERNERS STREET, OXFORD STREET, W.1\n\nLord Passfield, M.P., Colonial Office, Whitehall Street, S.W.1.\n\nHours for callers: Daily, 3-5 p.m., or by appointment. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.\n\nMarch 20th, 1931\n\nI am instructed to send you the following resolutions which were passed unanimously at the 20th Annual Meeting of St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance held on March 14th:\n\n1. **State Regulation of Vice**\nSt. Joan's Social & Political Alliance calls upon the Government to hasten the abolition of all brothels known to the Authorities within the jurisdiction of the British Empire.\n\n2. **Slavery**\n(a) St. Joan's S.P.A. calls upon the Government to take all possible steps to discountenance among indigenous peoples any practices whatsoever involving the bartering of women and children into domestic or other forms of slavery.\n(b) **Mui Tsai**\n(1) St. Joan's S.P.A. demands that registration of Mui Tsai, including \"adopted daughters\" should be made compulsory;\n(2) that an adequate system of inspection, control and remuneration be enforced;\n(3) that all Mui Tsai be informed personally that they are now free, and that proper accommodation and training for them be provided.\n\nYours faithfully,\nMiss Barry\nHon. Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529117, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "content_text": "**St. Joan's Social & Political Alliance**\n\n## Executive Committee\n\n* Miss L. Mora de Alberti\n* Miss Barry, Hon. Secretary\n* Miss Pauline M. Brandt\n* Miss E. Butler-Bowdon\n* Miss Barclay Carter, Lic-ès L.\n* Miss Fedden\n* Miss Douglas Irvine, M.A., Hon. Press Secretary\n* Miss Sheilah Hynes\n* Miss Jeffery\n* Mrs. McMahon\n* Mrs. Laughton Mathews, M.B.E., Hon. Treasurer\n* Mrs. O'Connor\n* Miss Monica O'Connor\n\n55, BERNERS STREET, \nOXFORD STREET, W. 1.\n\nHours for callers: \nDaily, 3-5 p.m., or by appointment. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.\n\n20th January, 1931.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n(Non-Party)\n\nI am instructed by my committee to express our dissatisfaction with the Governor's Report on the position of \"Mui Tsai\" as published in `Cmd.3735`, December 1930.\n\nWe deeply regret that the pledges given for the release of the Mui Tsai have not, to any considerable degree, been honoured.\n\nMay we beg that you would insist on the complete registration of Mui Tsai, including the so-called \"adopted daughters\", and that you will further insist on an adequate system of inspection for which task we think suitable women should be appointed.\n\nI am,\nYour Lordship's obedient servant,\n**Miss Barry**\nHON. SECRETARY.\n\nThe Rt. Hon. Lord Passfield, \nSecretary of State for the Colonies, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, S.W.1.\n\nPage 120\nPage 121\n\nThe Catholic Citizen - 2d. Monthly. \nTel. - Museum 4181.\n\nTelegraph: \n50 CITIZENRY, CHURTON, LONDON. \nTelephone: \nVICTORIA 6065. \nGordon, M.A., Chairman.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530868, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932", "content_text": "## \nNow send them a copy 95 and say Hollife consider it desirable to appeal, ask for the reasons as to this, and as to the incidence of the cost of the appeal and us to legislate if the P. C. refuse to receive an appeal.\n\n7.2.2017. 17.7.31 \n\nMr. Bushe wishes to deal with this in view of some minutes of 16/6/31 & 18/6/31.\n\n14/7/31 \n11. Duncan.\n\nSay as to previousness of virales.\n\nMr Butler replies.\n\n25 JUL 1931 \n\nPage 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532931, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "276\n\n570\n\nPAYMENTS.\n\n \n £\n $.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n 810\n 240\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n 413\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n 3,880,193\n 15\n 5\n 732\n 6\n \n \n \n 3,880,925\n 15\n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n £3,881,908\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n -\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nCHINA INDEMNITY FUND.\n\nACCOUNT OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 1 (4) OF THE CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) ACT, 1925 (15 and 16 Geo. V. cap. 41), FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 1931.\n\n \n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n By payments made in pursuance of Section 1 (1) of the Act\n \n \n \n 3,373,923\n 8\n 3\n \n \n Less refund\n ...\n 1,208\n 18\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,372,714\n 10\n \n \n \n By expenses incurred by the Secretary of State under Section 1 (3) of the Act\n \n 378,700\n 9\n 1\n \n \n \n \n By balance (cash at bank) on 31 March 1931:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (1) Deposit account\n T\n 5,629\n 14\n 8\n \n \n \n \n (2) Current account\n \n 373,070\n 14\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n 134,914\n 14\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n £3,881,908\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n\nRECEIPTS.\n\n£ s. d.\n\nNote. In addition the sum of £34,427 6s. 3d. was received in respect of the China Indemnity during the financial year, but subsequent to the commencement of the China Indemnity (Application) Act, 1931, and was held on deposit pending its transfer to the Commission and the Trustees in accordance with the provisions of that Act.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\n4 November 1931.\n\nI certify that this Account has been examined under my directions, and is correct.\n\nF. A. Butler,\n\nFinance Officer.\n\nG. C. Upcott,\n\nComptroller and Auditor General.\n\n \n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n To cash at bank on 1 April 1930:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (1) Deposit account\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (2) Current account\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n To Payments of Indemnity\n ++\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Less Interest allowed to Chinese Government on payments made before due date\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n To Interest on bank deposits\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n(13366-31) Wt. 22609-37 500 1/32 P. St. G, 360\n\nCHINA INDEMNITY FUND ACCOUNT, 1930.\n\nGENERAL. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR\n\narrangements for disposal. commencement of the Act, pending completion of the necessary an instalment of £34,427 6s. 3d. received subsequent to the held at 31 March 1931 at a bank at Shanghai, together with This balance, amounting to £3,880,925 15s. 11d., was still\n\nComptroller and Auditor General\n\nG. C. Upcott,\n\nIndemnity received after the commencement of the Act. for the disposal of instalments of the British share of the of this Fund after certain payments bave been made from it, and law on 3 March 1931, provides for the distribution of the balance\n\nThe China Indemnity (Application) Act, 1931, which became\n\n12 January 1932. EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT,\n\n277", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "333\n\n- 22 1 2\n\nPAYMENTS.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n\nCHINA INDEMNITY FUND.\n\nACCOUNT OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 1 (4) OF THE CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) Act, 1925 (15 and 16 Geo. V. cap. 41), FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 1932.\n\nBy expenses incurred by the Secretary of State under Section 1 (8) of the China Indemnity (Application) Act 1925.\n\nBy payments in pursuance of the China Indemnity (Application) Act 1931 (21 Geo. v. Cap. 7)\n\nFirst Schedule of Act\n\n \n RECEIPTS.\n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,880,193\n 15\n 5\n \n \n \n 732\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,880,925\n 15\n 11\n \n \n \n 96,251\n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n ~ 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n F. G. A. Butler,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Finance Officer.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n G. C. Upcott,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Comptroller and Auditor General,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Universities'\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Uni-\n 265,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,001\n 18\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 266,001\n 18\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n China Committee in London\n 200,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Add Interest\n 6,315\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 206,315\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 472,317\n 8\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n Section 1 (2) of Act,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Government Purchasing Commission\n £3,977,177\n 8\n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,504,837\n 19\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n £3,977,177\n 8\n 9\n \n \n \n \n\nNote. In addition, certain sums which were received in respect of the China Indemnity subsequent to the commencement of the China Indemnity (Application) Act, 1931, have now been transferred to the Commission and the Trustees in accordance with the provisions of Section 1 (3) of the Act,\n\nsion\n\nTo cash at Bank on 1 April 1931 :\n\n(1) Deposit Account.\n\n(2) Current Account...\n\nTo Interest on bank deposits\n\nI certify that this Account has been examined under my directions, and is correct.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\n9 August 1932.\n\n10108-58) Wt. 11001-11 500 9/32 P.St, G. 350\n\nPage 333\n\n1\n\nCHINA INDEMNITY FUND ACCOUNT, 1931.\n\nGENERAL. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR\n\n(Application) Act, 1931. in accordance with the provisions of the China Indemnity handed over to the Chinese Government Purchasing Commission, China Committee have now been made and the balance of the Fund\n\nThe payments to the Hong Kong University and the Universities\n\nBoard of Trustees set up under the terms of that Act. ment of the Act of 1931 being payable to the Commission and the account of the China Indemnity subsequent to the commence- the China Indemnity (Application) Act, 1925, sums received on\n\nThe present Account is accordingly the last to be presented under\n\nG. C. Upcott,\n\nComptroller and Auditor General\n\nEXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT,\n\n15 August 1932.\n\n334", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533334, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-5 Appointment of Bishop of Victoria- Hong Kong- to Canonry of Worcester 15-1-1932 - 25-1-1932", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-538-5 Appointment of Bishop of Victoria- Hong Kong- to Canonry of Worcester 15-1-1932 - 25-1-1932", "content_text": "Mr. Calder\n\nPlease see the attached from the Prime Minister's Private Secretary, enclosing the draft of a telegram which the Prime Minister wishes sent to the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong.\n\nCould you arrange for this message to be embodied in a confidential code telegram to the Governor of Hong Kong, asking that the message should be conveyed as expeditiously as possible to the Bishop?\n\n(After that has been done, perhaps the papers could be returned to me, so that I can tell Mr. Butler of the action taken.)\n\nEst Boyd\n\n15.1.32\n\nIn Holder\n\nHalder\n\n15-1·32\n\nYou should see my letter (Minclos) to P.M.'s P.S. which was sent 9th. 1.32.\n\n20.1.32 Est Boyd\n\n19/1/32\n\n+ Butler\n\nDESTROYED UNDER STATUTE\n\n2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-5 Appointment of Bishop of Victoria- Hong Kong- to Canonry of Worcester 15-1-1932 - 25-1-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "could admit it only on the exceptional grounds.\n\nYou have a complete statement of the law in R. v. Bond, R. v. Bell (1911) A.C. 47. R. v. Thompson (1918) A.C. 221. Thompson's case is cited in Halsbury's Supplement on the paragraph quoted by the Crown on p.447. R. v. Armstrong, (1942) 2 K.B. 555.\n\nCases where the evidence was not admitted: R. v. Butler (1846) 2 C. & K. 221. R. v. Oddy (1851) 20 L.J. (M.C.) 198.\n\nPage 13\n\nR. v. Holt (1860) 30 L.J. (M.C.) 11. R. v. Fisher (1910) 1 K.B. 149, at 152/3. R. v. Ellis (1910) 2 K.B. 746, at 756 et seq, & 760.\n\n12.30 to 3.30 p.m. Adjournment.\n\nPotter (continuing). R. v. Rodley (1913) 3 K.B. 468. The conviction was quashed. Logically, the evidence would have been admissible to Cheng's state of mind. It is right on the point as in Perkins v. Jeffrey (1915) 2 K.B. 702.\n\nThe Zimmern and Christie evidence is not admissible to show Cheng's state of mind with a view to inferring from it the agency of Lau. See 13 Halsbury, 453. The Zimmern and Christie evidence is not relevant logically, or in the view of the man in the street.\n\nIf you put it into a logical form it would run somewhat as follows:\n\n1. Men who engage persons to commit murder are likely to employ other men to commit murder.\n\n2. The Prisoner employed Zimmern and Christie to commit a murder.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "30.8.32. (10.4.m.)\n\nResumed.\n\n3\n\n28\n\nPotter continues;-\n\n(O.J.: # 13 Halsbury:P.439 S.611 para a -\"ordinary course of human experience\")\n\n(self, Stephen: Article 3.)\n\nPotter: 89% Article.\n\nR.V.Bond\" (1906) 2 K.B.389.\n\n(p.104)*acts so connected with the offence charged as to form part of the evidence upon which it is found.\"\n\n(p.307,308) (P.399,400)\n\n(O.J.:*Unintelligible\"? \"Is this the only case?(P.400)\")\n\n{\"R.v.Firth\" (1889) 1 Q.B.8.172(consecutive theft = one transaction).)\n\n(P.401)(P.403) (P.434) (P.438) (P.408) (P.408) (P.410)\n\n(O.J.org inaus not object of accused's deed, but did he do it\")\n\n(P.414.Bruly J.) (P.418)(P.417) (P.484.R.V.Holt).\n\n(C.J. \"Nexus? Two acts, conspiracies to kill Fung\" ).\n\n\"R.v.Rhodes\" 1990 1 Q.B.pp.83.84.\n\n*R.V.Ball* (1911)A.C.47 (Sorutton p.1)(Darling J.P.56,57)(D.arling J.)\n\n(P.68.Lord Atkinson).\n\n\"R.v.Thompson\" (1918.A.C.221)(Lord Atkinson,P.226)(p.232.p.234)\n\n(cf.15 Halsbury p.447: Supplement).\n\n\"R.v.Armetrong\" (1922)2.K.B.555 (p.566).\n\n*R.V.Butler* 2 Q & K.321 (marked shilling)\n\n\"Reg.v.oddie\" (cited in \"R.v.Bond\"),Reg.v.Holt (Bond's case P.424)\n\n*R.Pishor\" (1910)1.K.B.149(P.152,153).*R.V.8llies\" (1920)2.K.B.746\n\n(All misrepresentation to same person?) (R9; same article)\n\n2.30.p.m.\n\nResumed. Present.\n\nPotter continues,- 8.v.Rodley (1913) 3.K.D.468.\n\n13 mlohung 7.453.*.687, 9 Halsbury.7.589.£.1190.\n\nRe:\"No evidence to go to Jury:\n\n9 Halsbury\n\n(Adjourned.\n\n*R...J0Opere a da P.835. \"Reg.v.Tayler L.R.80.4.R.147.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549127, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "36\n\n108\n\nG. S. P. HEYWOOD\n\nThe North West Ridge of the Hunchbacks.-Like the route just described-very steep and bushy; a wearisome ascent, but admirable as a quick way off the mountain. The ridge plunges straight down from the summit of the Hunchbacks almost to sea level. A narrow track follows the edge of the ridge, like a long rabbit-hole through the bushes. When it reaches a big shoulder about 1,000 feet above sea level, the track diverges to the right and descends towards White Head. If your sampan is waiting for you at Tai Shui Hang, you will be tempted to take a short cut to the left, across the lower slopes of the mountain, where a path is shown in Mr. Gibb's sketch map.\n\nBut the path has disappeared, the hillside is thickly forested and almost impassable, and the shortest way will take the longest time. It is better to come down to the sea near White Head, and to follow the shore to Tai Shui Hang.\n\nOther ascents, more or less legendary, have been made on the north and north-west sides of Ma On Shan, but it would be a pity to describe them and so deprive the reader of the joys of exploration on this fascinating mountain.\n\nKowloon Peak to Ma On Shan.-There is a charm in a long walk on a high ridge; the uphill grind is finished early, and all day long you are walking in the cool air of the hilltops, with wide views on either side. And when at last you reach the final point of the ridge and look back on the long rank of peaks and passes which you have crossed, you feel that the day has indeed been well spent. Perhaps the finest walk in the Colony is from Kowloon Peak to Ma On Shan, along the watershed which divides Port Shelter on the East from Tide Cove and Hong Kong Harbour on the west. The ridge is never less than 1,000 feet above sea level; from end to end it is five miles as the crow flies, and the whole walk, returning by Sai Kung and over Customs Pass, is about 16 miles in length. A peak-bagger, who delights in climbing as many summits as possible in the day, will of course walk over every point on the ridge; this would involve over 5,000 feet of ascent-rather too enormous an expedition for an ordinary walker. We started at 9:30 a.m., and took an easier way, missing Kowloon Peak itself, and reaching the ridge by the Jat Incline. This excellent path starts from the Customs Pass road a short distance above the Kowloon Dairy, and climbs for 1,800 feet at an easy gradient across the flank of Kowloon Peak to the top of the ridge a few yards S.E. of Tate's Cairn. Time, 13/4 hours from the bus stop at Kai Tak.\n\nA few steps down the far side of the ridge put us out of sight of the town, and we might have been a hundred miles from civilization. This is certainly the place for a halt, to gaze on the lovely view over Port Shelter; but not a long one, for Ma On Shan, standing up nobly at the end of the ridge, is still far away. The next obstacle was the little hill obscurely named One Rise More. Perhaps this hill has no Chinese name, but in cases where native names exist it is surely better to stick to them. There are too many absurdities such as Pottinger Peak and Mount Butler in the Colony, however worthy their namesakes may have been. It is fortunate that the English name for the highest mountain in the world sounds so well, but the native name Chomolungma, \"The Goddess Mother of the Snows,\" is perhaps more beautiful and certainly more appropriate.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552265, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "content_text": "# Enel. No.H.\n\nExtracted from the \n**SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST** \ndated \n6th November, 1936.\n\n39\n\n## C.N.A.C. PLANE \n## GOVERNOR WELCOMES FIRST ARRIVAL \n## INITIATES SERVICE TO HONGKONG \n## SIX PASSENGERS\n\nCarrying a full load of six passengers, a China National Airways Corporation flying boat arrived here yesterday at 2.45 p.m. and inaugurated the regular service between Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. It took off again for Canton at 2.40 p.m. after picking up three passengers here.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, the Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, Director of Air Services, Mr. A. J. R. Moss, Superintendent of the Airport, and a fairly large crowd welcomed the plane on its arrival, and later Mr. Dai Enki, Manager of the C.N.A.C., entertained the Governor and a few friends at a cocktail party in the lounge at Kai Tak.\n\nAt 2.30 p.m., His Excellency and Commander Hole arrived at the airport and were welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Moss, who escorted them to the slipway at the water's edge where a full view of the plane's landing could be secured. Before the grey and yellow Douglas Dolphin flying boat appeared in the south-eastern sky, a crowd of over 50 people had gathered.\n\n### Cocktail Party\n\nRunning right on schedule, the plane appeared at 2.40 p.m., circled the airport to come into the wind, and landed on the sea just off shore. It was a perfect landing and with a very short run which took the plane right up to the mooring buoy.\n\nThe passengers, including Mr. Dai Enki and Mr. Bixby, Far Eastern representative of Pan-American Airways, were transported from the plane to the slipway, where the Governor, Commander Hole, and a few friends greeted them. The party then went to the lounge where a cocktail party had been arranged by Mr. Eddy of the Peninsula Hotel for Mr. Dai.\n\nThose present at the party included Sir Andrew Caldecott, Captain Cragg, Mr. and Mrs. A. Moss, Mr. Nelson, Commander Hole, Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Mr. H. R. Butters, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Randle, Mr. Y. J. Neyle, and Lt. Smith. His Excellency toasted the Chinese Posts, and Mr. Dai responded by toasting the Hongkong Posts.\n\n### The Passengers\n\nPassengers aboard the plane when it arrived included: Mr. Dai Enki, Manager of the C.N.A.C., Mr. Harold Bixby, of Pan-American Airways, Captain A. R. Williamson, O.B.E., D.S.C., Marine Superintendent at Shanghai of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Company, Mr. M. Roux, of the Akskania Works, Berlin, Mr. T. M. Wong, and Mr. Van.\n\nMr. Roux is leaving Hongkong today on the `Dorado` for Penang, where he will transfer to the K.L.M. plane and fly back to Europe. He has flown here from Azaka, Japan. He flew from Azaka to Manchukuo, then to Peiping, to Shanghai, and thence to Hongkong. He plans to fly all the way back to Germany.\n\nThe three passengers who left here for Canton were Mr. F. A. Pollock, and Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Littig.\n\nPiloting the plane yesterday was Captain C. G. Sellars, one of the C.N.A.C.'s veteran pilots, who has already called in at Hongkong with C.N.A.C. planes nearly a dozen times. \"It was quite a routine and uneventful flight,\" he said. \"Calling here makes no real difference to us who pilot the machine except that our scheduled arrival at Canton is put back about half an hour.\" The assistant pilot was Mr. Paul Chen.\n\nPassengers aboard the plane declared that the trip was an excellent one and very smooth practically all the way.\n\n### Little Mail\n\nStrangely enough, philatelists did not seem to be particularly enthusiastic about sending letters by this first plane, and there were only about ten kilos of mail from Shanghai for Hongkong. Hongkong sent about 12 lbs. to Canton.\n\nAmong those present at the Airport to welcome the plane were:\n\n| Name | Designation/Association |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott | Governor |\n| Captain W. J. R. Cragg | A.D.C. to the Governor |\n| Hon. Commander G. F. Hole | Director of Air Services |\n| Mr. A. J. R. Moss | Superintendent of Kai Tak |\n| Mrs. Moss | |\n| Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson | |\n| Mr. H. R. Butters | Post Master General |\n| Mr. Nixon | Director of Posts in Canton |\n| Mr. S. Randle | Superintendent of Mails |\n| Mr. E. Nelson | Assistant Superintendent of Kai Tak |\n| Captain R. H. Bateman | Marine Superintendent of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co. |\n| Mr. Curtis | Imperial Airways |\n| Mr. F. O. Butler | |\n| Mr. L. G. Frost | |\n| Mr. B. Greenburg | Local manager of M.G.M. |\n| Mr. Talon | M.G.M. |\n| Mr. V. J. Neyle | Far East Flying Training School |\n| Lt. P. Smith | Far East Flying Training School |\n\nTraffic arrangements were made by Mr. W. La B. Sparrow, A.S.P., Chief Inspector F. E. E. Booker, and Inspector F. J. Portallion, Ag. Sub-Inspector A. R. Brittain, and Traffic Sergeant W. MacHardy.\n\n### Shanghai Departure\n\nShanghai, Nov. 5. The first regular Hongkong-bound C.N.A.C. plane departed at 6 a.m. today and is due in the Colony at 2.45 p.m.\n\nThe passengers include the C.N.A.C. Manager, Mr. Dai Enki, and Mr. Bixby of Pan-American Airways. - United Press.\n\n### Films Aboard\n\nMr. B. Greenburg was one of the persons most interested in the arrival of the plane, for aboard it was the film for \"Piccadilly Jim,\" an M.G.M. production which is due to be shown at the King's Theatre and which would not have arrived here in time had it been sent by ship.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556188, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "AIR MAIL.\n\nNo. 640.\n\nGovt. House, Hong Kong, 7th October, 1937.\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my despatch No.572 of 9th September, 1937, I have the honour to enclose a report on the typhoon of September 1st-2nd which has been prepared from reports received from various sources.\n\n2. In forwarding this report I wish to place on record my appreciation of the splendid manner in which the members of the Police and Fire Brigade carried out their duties, and in particular of the action of Chief Preventive Officer T. J. Buller and a party of police and revenue officers who, in the face of great danger and difficulty, made their way to the sea front, at that time being washed by heavy seas, and rescued members of the crew of the S.S. An Lee, and a number of persons who had been cut off on various wharves.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant,\n\nN. L. Smith\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nV.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,\n&C.,\n&C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556207, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 2.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\nHONGKONG'S WORST TYPHOON\n\nWIND REACHES 164 M.P.H.\n\nFIRE DISASTER DEATHS EXCEED 100\n\nTHIRTY-ONE PERSONS BELIEVED DEAD\n\nAN ENTIRE BLOCK INVOLVED\n\nFIERCE GUSTS DRIVE BIG SHIPS ASHORE\n\nWEST POINT BLAZE SEVERAL VESSELS BELIEVED TO\n\nThe heaviest loss of life throughout the period of the typhoon was that in the disastrous fire which broke out in nine four-storey buildings in West Point during the height of the storm. Thirty-one persons were afterwards reported missing, and of these seven have been definitely found dead. As the bodies were brought out of the blazing buildings they were piled on the Praya preparatory to being removed to the Public Mortuary, but huge waves swept them all into the sea, and only seven bodies were recovered yesterday.\n\nThe premises involved were 131-139 Connaught Road West. The Central Fire Station received the first call shortly before 4 a.m., and fire appliances were immediately rushed to the scene, under the supervision of Mr. J. C. Fitz-Henry, Acting Superintendent.\n\nThe outbreak started, it is believed, at No. 131, the ground floor of which was occupied by the Tak Sang, rice-dealer. On the arrival of the fire engines, the blaze had already spread to the adjoining two houses. The fire-fighters were rendered helpless by the strong winds, but eventually succeeded in bringing two hoses into action. Unfortunately, by this time, the other houses had also been ignited, while those where the outbreak started were burning through. The street was flooded and the handicap under which the members of the Fire Brigade had to work could be gauged by the fact that the water was at one time up to the waists of the men.\n\nAs the fire engines arrived, a woman with a baby on her back was seen to jump from the top-storey of one of the buildings. Both she and the child were killed instantaneously. The ground floors of the buildings in question were occupied mostly by rice-dealers, and there were also two garages.\n\nTribute to Police Interviewed, Mr. Fitz-Henry paid great tribute to the splendid work and assistance given by the Police under Sub-Inspector Nolloth. The tremendous force of the wind made the work of subduing the fire almost impossible. Water in the roadway was waist-high; and it was found impossible to send the jets of water more than a few feet into the air, as the wind immediately transferred them into spray. It was two hours before anything could be done, and another three hours before the fire could be controlled. The collapse of Jubilee Street at one time during the night threatened to prevent the fire engines and ambulances from coming out of the station. A gang of coolies, however, were soon on the job and cleared it away partly, so as not to interfere with the work of the Brigade.\n\nMANY COLLAPSES\n\nSeveral Killed on Island And in Kowloon\n\nTHE BE TOTAL LOSSES\n\nMANY KILLED IN FIRE\n\nHongkong is recovering again from another typhoon. The swift-moving cyclone which formed east of Manila a few days ago lashed the Colony from midnight Wednesday until after dawn yesterday. Irresistible gusts continuously swept the streets, smashed plate glass windows, tore heavy signboards adrift, ripped and overturned parked motor cars and shifted everything movable.\n\nThe Observatory states it was the fiercest typhoon yet experienced in Hongkong. At 125 miles per hour the wind instruments at the Observatory ceased attempting serious register. An unofficial recorder declares the force reached 164 miles per hour. The barometer dropped to the low record of 28.298.\n\nHuge waves surged over the Praya, reaching almost to Queen's Road. Mariners on the harbour spent a night of unrelieved labour and anxiety. Among the many ships in harbour were some laid up because of the war, or under repair at docks and without steam. A score of these broke loose from their doubled moorings and careered drunkenly about the harbour in a macabre dance. Among them was the Van Heutsz with 1,260 passengers on board. Most of them grounded comfortably. A few are in bad position. One, the coaster An Lee, after colliding with three warships crashed stern first on the Central Praya wall and remained there poised with forepart in the water.\n\nAt the height of the storm a tenement block of nine four-storeyed houses in the Western District went afire and 15 inmates perished.\n\nRain, totalling 5.5 inches, persisted until 10 a.m., while relieved residents ventured from barricaded dwellings to survey shambles debris everywhere, much damage to property, some 20 ships ashore, scores of smaller craft sunk, and thoroughfares, with drains choked, a foot deep in water.\n\nThe shore damage, as usual, is largely superficial, but in the aggregate very great. Several buildings were unroofed, old houses collapsed, garden walls were blown down, roads blocked by landslides, fallen telegraph poles and uprooted trees.\n\nNo estimate of total damage is possible. Casualties are estimated at more than 100.\n\nWIDESPREAD DAMAGE\n\nA spectacular effect of the gale was this huge lattice-work formed by the scaffolding on the Central Fire Station, blown down into the street by the strong gusts.\n\n--Staff Photographer.\n\nCASUALTY LIST\n\n \n An Lee,\n aground on Praya;\n back broken and complete wreck.\n \n \n Asama Maru,\n aground in Sai Wan Bay,\n no passengers; expected to be refloated shortly.\n \n \n Bonneville,\n hard on Stonecutters Island;\n little damaged.\n \n \n Dashing,\n high on rocks,\n Ching Hue Island.\n \n \n Eng Lee,\n hard aground,\n Kowloon Football Ground.\n \n \n H.M.S. Cornflower,\n aground\n Tonnochy Pier, Wanchai.\n \n \n Gertrude Maersk,\n aground Green Island\n but later towed to Kowloon Dock; damaged in collision.\n \n \n Feng Lee,\n high on rocks adjacent to\n Kowloon Dock.\n \n \n Hong Peng,\n ashore at\n Taikoo Sugar Refinery.\n \n \n Hsingking,\n aground at\n Capsing Island lighthouse.\n \n \n Hunan,\n ashore at\n Ping Chau.\n \n \n India,\n S.O.S. for assistance when drifting in harbour\n but later safely moored.\n \n \n Kalgan,\n drifted from\n Cust Rock west of Macao. After passing Pratas and moored at Kowloon Wharf with severe damage from collisions.\n \n \n Kausing,\n total wreck on\n Hue Island; all crew saved.\n \n \n Kwangchow,\n ashore on\n Lamma Island, probably a wreck.\n \n \n Luhsing,\n aground off\n Lower Laichikok Road.\n \n \n Mao Lee,\n sunk off\n Kellett Bank.\n \n \n Severn Leigh,\n S.O.S. for assistance\n \n \n \n Sheng Lee,\n hard aground off\n Chinese bankers' bathing shed, North Point.\n \n \n Shuntien,\n adrift in harbour\n but later moored.\n \n \n Shenandoah,\n sunk off\n China Light Company and Power Company's works.\n \n \n Talamba,\n aground in\n Lyeemoon Pass.\n \n \n Tymeric,\n aground at\n North Point.\n \n \n Tensing,\n aground at\n Stanley Bay.\n \n \n Van Heutsz,\n sunk off\n Green Island.\n \n\nTHREE DROWNED\n\nForeigner Loses Life When Launch Sinks\n\nSOLDIERS' FINE WORK\n\nThe captain, owner and two members of the crew of the Portuguese 180-ton motor-boat, Perola, drowned, when the vessel sank in Cheungshawan Bay about 3 a.m. yesterday.\n\nThe casualties were: Drowned: Manuel Rodrigues, Master, aged about 36; Li Lam, seaman, aged 56; Leung Khai-shui, Second Engineer, aged 31.\n\nMissing: Francisco Xavier Guerreiro, Owner and Chief Engineer, aged 39, of Woosung Street.\n\nSaved: Kam Hing, cabin boy, aged 21.\n\nThe last-named had a remarkable escape, for he clung to a piece of the wreck until he was rescued about four hours after the sinking.\n\nThe boat was built by the Kwong Fook Shing shipyard only last year. After making one trip to Macao, she returned to the Colony, sometime ago, and was lying off Cheungshawan Bay.\n\nThe bodies of the Captain and the two Chinese were recovered shortly before noon near the vicinity of the Ching disaster.\n\nThe three Chinese rescued were loud in their praises of the excellent work of the soldiers at Shamshuipo who made indefatigable efforts to save the boat's crew.\n\nMR. C. W. JEFFRIES, DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY\n\nWhen issuing his official report on the gale yesterday morning, Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Director of the Royal Observatory, declared that it was the most intense he had ever known.\n\nIt is doubtful if a storm of greater severity has ever visited the Colony.\n\nThe wind force was of such an intensity that the register of the Observatory's anemograph was incapable of recording the gusts. The barometer minimum of 28.298 was the previous lowest reading of 28.590 on August 18, 1923.\n\nShortly after dawn yesterday morning the instrument recordings showed that the wind did not drop below 140 m.p.h. Two gusts in the early morning topped the index paper and it is estimated they were approximately 164 miles an hour.\n\nOne record, at least, was proved, as .292 lower than the existing low record established on August 18, 1923.\n\nMr. V. Sorby, General Manager of the Hongkong Electric Company, stated yesterday that his anemograph recorded 160 miles per hour.\n\nBetween 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. in Hunghom, near Bailey's shipyard, three were killed and one injured in another collapse yesterday morning.\n\nCollapses on the Island occurred at 234 Queen's Road Central, 11 Nullah Lane, 1B, Western Street, 1A Centre Street and 47 Third Street. In all these accidents there was only one fatality, at the collapse at Third Street. One man was killed and four were injured.\n\nTIMELY EVACUATION\n\nCOURAGEOUS ACTION\n\nEuropean Saves Six Chinese From Shenandoah\n\nThe hulk of the Shenandoah, once a luxurious yacht, ran aground near the wharf of the China Light and Power Co., Ltd. in Kowloon Bay, with ten Chinese aboard.\n\nDozens of trees were uprooted by the gales during yesterday.\n\nWASHOUTS\n\nNathan Road Blocked In Many Places\n\nRESCUE HEROISM\n\nPolice and Civilians Do Good Work\n\nCHINESE SAVED\n\nSome splendid rescue work carried out by a party of Revenue Officers and Police sergeants along the Praya. Seven of them—C. P. O. Buller, Mr. W. Ward, Sub-Inspector Goddard, Sergt. Davis, Sergt. Scott, Sergt. Hayward and Mr. Ellis linked together by ropes ventured out in treacherous weather to rescue crews from ships, and to save little children who were stranded in huts along the Praya.\n\nDarkness added to the terror of the night and the tremendous difficulties confronting the rescue party. Nevertheless, they succeeded in saving some 70 lives, all of whom received treatment for various injuries, none of them very serious, in the Imports and Exports Department.\n\nUnhappily it was found impossible to obtain enough dry clothes and several of the unfortunate men had to spend the early hours up to dawn in blankets.\n\nOne of the most dramatic episodes occurred about 5.30 a.m. when one of the Taikoo tugs was sunk as it approached the An Lee which had been driven ashore on the Praya. The line of the rescue party rushed to the scene and took six of these men off.\n\nAt the De Luxe Garage in Nathan Road employees had a narrow escape when the roof collapsed.\n\nA man and a child were killed when a house collapsed at the corner of Ma Tau Wei and Po Wah Wan Road.\n\nAt 7.20 a.m. the No. 8 signal (gale expected from S.E.) was hoisted. When the barometer read 28.298 it was .292 lower than the existing low record established on August 18, 1923.\n\nOver 160 M.P.H\n\nRAILWAY\n\nThe Kowloon-Canton Railway suffered damage from the gale, although the extent of the damage is not yet able to be accurately estimated.\n\nTwo washouts on the line were reported between Shatin and Taipo, but the entire train service has been suspended indefinitely and the head office is awaiting fuller reports as to the extent of the damage.\n\nARMY OFFICER'S BRAVERY\n\nCaptain Rybot, of the H.K.S.B.R.A., was responsible for an act of extreme bravery.\n\nA Great Name and a Great Gin—GORDON'S DRY GIN\n\nDISTILLERY, LONDON, ENGLAND\n\nKelly & Walsh, Ltd., Chater Road, Hong Kong.\n\nTHE CITADEL $6-50\n\nDr. A. J. Cronin's new novel\n\nThe unoffending profession of medicine has in these days sustained attack by two novelists of distinction, Sinclair Lewis and Dr. Cronin. Mr. Lewis wrote from without; Dr. Cronin's assault is upon interior lines. In \"The Citadel\" there are presented three types of good doctor: the general practitioner possessed of competent knowledge and a big heart, the physician or surgeon possessed of special qualifications, also with a big heart, and the bacteriologist, who, being less subject to temptation, needs, perhaps, less cardiac capacity. Against these stand the pompous old humbugs of the villages and country towns and the ill-conditioned sharks of the great cities.\n\nAll this is doubtless very true. But it is true not only of the doctors but also of humanity. What is not true is that a district of London called \"Harley Street\" is shark-infested, so that an honest man practises there at his peril. Dr. Cronin would deny, certainly, that he had made any such suggestion; but it is in this sense that his indictment has been read by many.\n\nIt may be conceded that, within limits, Dr. Cronin has presented a lively tale full of more or less dramatic incident.\n\nHONGKONG FOOT\n\nRINGWORM\n\nBAYER\n\nTRADE MARK\n\nFUNGOL\n\nSPECIFIC FOR HONGKONG-FOOT RING-WORM AND OTHER MYCOTIC INFECTIONS OF THE SKIN\n\nBayer Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, Germany.\n\nONLY FOR EXTERNAL USE.\n\n'FUNGOL'\n\nA scientifically prepared specific for the treatment of Fungus Skin Infections\n\nThe new 'Fungol' cure for Hongkong Foot, which is now obtainable from all pharmacies, quickly stops itching and prevents the infection from penetrating further into the tissues.\n\n'FUNGOL' is a colourless preparation which leaves no stain, greatly simplifying the treatment of Hongkong Foot, and, above all, destroys the causal agent preventing the further spread of the infection.\n\nREACHES MACAO\n\nHeavy Damage To Fishing Craft\n\nMacao, Sept. 2. A severe typhoon struck Macao in the early hours of the morning after causing great damage to fishing craft here and ashore also.\n\nJunks sheltering in the inner harbour were torn loose and wrecked on the shore in many places.—Our Own Correspondent.\n\nROBBERY DURING STORM\n\nDuring the height of the typhoon at 4.30 a.m. yesterday, three men entered the first floor of 1080 Canton Road and robbed Lo Shiu-yuen, described as a kept woman, of money and jewellery to the total value of $540. Some loss of life is feared.\n\nThere were three other inmates of the house at the time. One of the robbers was stated to have carried a revolver.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563248, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT \n**(FORMED BY THE RIGHT HON. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, MAY, 1937)**\n\n## THE CABINET\n\n* Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, and Leader of the House of Commons - Rt. Hon. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.\n* Chancellor of the Exchequer - Rt. Hon. Sir JOHN SIMON, G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O., O.B.E., K.C., M.P.\n* Lord President of the Council - Rt. Hon. VISCOUNT RUNCIMAN.\n* Lord Chancellor - Rt. Hon. LORD MAUGHAM.\n* Secretary of State for the Home Department - Rt. Hon. Sir SAMUEL HOARE, Bt., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P.\n* Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs - Rt. Hon. VISCOUNT HALIFAX, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., T.D.\n* Lord Privy Seal - Rt. Hon. Sir JOHN ANDERSON, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., M.P.\n* Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and Secretary of State for the Colonies - Rt. Hon. MALCOLM JOHN MACDONALD, M.P.\n* Secretary of State for India and for Burma - Most Hon. the MARQUESS OF ZETLAND, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.\n* Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence - Rt. Hon. Sir THOMAS WALKER HOBART INSKIP, C.B.E., K.C., M.P.\n* First Lord of the Admiralty and Leader of the House of Lords - Rt. Hon. the EARL STANHOPE, K.G., D.S.O., M.C., D.L.\n* Secretary of State for War - Rt. Hon. LESLIE HORE-BELISHA, M.P.\n* Secretary of State for Air - Rt. Hon. Sir H. KINGSLEY WOOD, M.P.\n* Secretary of State for Scotland - Rt. Hon. DAVID JOHN COLVILLE, T.D., M.P.\n* President of the Board of Trade - Rt. Hon. OLIVER FREDERICK GEORGE STANLEY, M.C., M.P.\n* Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries - Rt. Hon. WILLIAM SHEPHERD MORRISON, M.C., K.C., M.P.\n* President of the Board of Education - Rt. Hon. the EARL DE LA WARR.\n* Minister of Health - Rt. Hon. WALTER E. ELLIOT, M.C., M.P.\n* Minister of Labour - Rt. Hon. ALFRED ERNEST BROWN, M.C., M.P.\n* Minister of Transport - Rt. Hon. EDWARD LESLIE BURGIN, LL.D., M.P.\n* Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - Rt. Hon. Earl WINTERTON, M.P.\n\n## Home Affairs\n### DEPARTMENTS OF STATE\n\n| Department | Position | Name |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Home Office | Secretary of State | Rt. Hon. Sir SAMUEL HOARE, Bt., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P. |\n| | Under-Secretary of State | GEOFFREY WILLIAM LLOYD, Esq., M.P. |\n| Foreign Affairs | Secretary of State | Rt. Hon. VISCOUNT HALIFAX, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., T.D. |\n| | Under-Secretaries of State | RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, Esq., M.P.; Rt. Hon. the EARL of PLYMOUTH. |\n| Overseas Trade Department | Secretary | Rt. Hon. ROBERT SPEAR HUDSON, M.P. |\n| Dominion Affairs | Secretary of State | Rt. Hon. MALCOLM JOHN MACDONALD, M.P. |\n| | Under-Secretary of State | The DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. |\n| Colonial Office | Secretary of State | Rt. Hon. MALCOLM JOHN MACDONALD, M.P. |\n| | Under-Secretary of State | The MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA. |\n\nNo. 165 \n\nA \n\n8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563258, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\nMr. E. J. Williams: Will the Minister publish a White Paper indicating what precisely the Board proposes to do?\n\nMr. Brown: I have laid the instructions of the Board in the Library.\n\n## STATISTICS\n\n66. Mr. Shinweil asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed; and whether the Government have any schemes in contemplation for the provision of useful work?\n\nMr. E. Brown: At 12th September, 1938, there were 1,798,618 unemployed persons, aged 14 and over, on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain. As regards the second part of the question, I have nothing to add to previous replies on this subject.\n\nMr. Davidson: Will the right hon. Gentleman try to obtain the figures taking also into account the figures of the unemployed now under unemployment assistance relief?\n\nMr. Brown: That is a matter between the health services and my own Department, but I should like to see the question in precise terms on the Order Paper, and then I will do my best to give what information I can.\n\nMr. Davidson: Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that these figures added to those of the registered unemployed are the only honest figures of unemployment in the country?\n\nMr. Brown: That is not so. A great many of those who registered are in the figures.\n\nMr. Lawson: Is the Minister not aware that the situation is getting worse in many of the heavy industry areas, and that there are great numbers of men who have been out of work for many years? Cannot the Government do more in this matter?\n\nMr. Brown: The Government are doing a great deal. I cannot accept the hon. Member's statement that the situation is gradually getting worse. During the last two or three months there has been some improvement, although there have been some variations.\n\n## PROPOSED FORTH ROAD-BRIDGE\n\n68. Mr. Pethick-Lawrence asked the Minister of Transport whether he is now prepared to reconsider his decision with regard to the Forth road-bridge?\n\n67. Mr. Mathers asked the Minister of Transport when it is intended to reconsider the question of making a substantial grant towards the erection of the projected Forth road-bridge, near Queensferry; and what are the conditions precedent to such a grant being made?\n\nThe Minister of Transport (Mr. Burgin): I have nothing to add to the statement which I made on the Motion for the Adjournment on 29th July, 1938.\n\n## FOREIGN BROADCASTS\n\n70. Mr. R. Gibson asked the Postmaster-General whether the broadcasts to Germany and Italy by the British Broadcasting Corporation are to be continued; and whether he has any statement to make regarding an extension of such broadcasts to include other and, if so, what languages?\n\nThe Postmaster-General (Major Tryon): It is proposed to continue for the present the broadcast news bulletins in French, German and Italian which were recently introduced. In addition, news bulletins have been broadcast for some months past in Spanish and Portuguese for South America, and in Arabic. There is no present intention of adding other languages.\n\nCaptain Sir William Brass: May I ask whether these broadcasts are given by natives of the country to which the broadcast is sent?\n\nMajor Tryon: Not necessarily.\n\nMr. Lees-Smith: Will the Postmaster-General bear in mind that a good many of the comments sent to Italy and Germany are so sparse and scrappy that they really give little information of what is happening in this country?\n\nViscountess Astor: Is it not true that the broadcasts to Germany have done a great deal, but that we must give them on a wave-length which will reach the smaller sets of the poorer people in Germany?\n\nMajor Tryon: These matters fall within the responsibility of the Governors of the British Broadcasting Corporation and I shall be happy to convey to them the views of hon. Members.\n\n## CHINA AND JAPAN\n\n1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\n72. Mr. Paling asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with regard to the situation in China?\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler): After a lull during the summer, the Japanese in September commenced a converging movement from North and South with the object of taking Hankow. By the middle of October these operations had developed into a serious threat to the Chinese lines of communication, and in consequence the Chinese forces evacuated Hankow, which was entered by the Japanese on 25th October. I am glad to report that no loss of British life or damage to British property occurred, and in this connection my Noble Friend would like to pay a tribute to the Acting Consul-General at Hankow and Rear-Admiral Yangtse, who were chiefly responsible for bringing the foreign areas safely through the crisis. In South China the Japanese landed a force at Bias Bay, north-east of Canton, which met with little opposition and occupied Canton on 21st October. The occupation of these two important cities by the Japanese has naturally not been without its effect on British interests in South and Central China. The situation, however, will be closely watched, and appropriate measures are being and will be taken as occasion requires. It is too early to assess the effects of the events in question on the future course of hostilities, but there appears to be no immediate prospect of a cessation of fighting.\n\nSir P. Harris: Are the Government doing anything to protect British interests and to see that the open door is maintained?\n\nMr. Butler: Yes, Sir.\n\n79. Mr. Vyvyan Adams asked the Prime Minister whether any measures are in progress or contemplation to concert collective measures against Japanese aggression upon China?\n\nMr. Butler: No, Sir.\n\nMr. Adams: Is it too late for the Governments to consider the proposition of a collective refusal of Japanese imports?\n\nMr. Butler: I must refer the hon. Member to the full reply I gave to the hon. Member for Consett (Mr. David Adams) on 6th October.\n\n## CZECHOSLOVAKIA\n\n73. Mr. Noel-Baker asked the Prime Minister whether he has any information to give the House as to the position of affairs in Czechoslovakia?\n\n84. Lieut.-Commander Fletcher asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the visit of Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia and on the position in that country?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I would refer the hon. Members to the full statements on the Czechoslovak question which I made in the course of the Debates on 28th September and at the beginning of last month. As regards developments in the situation since the House adjourned, I would ask hon. Members to be good enough to await the statements which will be made in the Debate this afternoon.\n\nMr. Noel-Baker: Is the Prime Minister aware of the decision of the International Commission in Berlin that movable property taken from the Sudeten country after 20th September must be returned, and does he consider that this decision is in accordance with the terms of the agreement?\n\n86. Mr. Arthur Henderson asked the Prime Minister whether he can make a statement on the international guarantee in respect of the present frontiers of Czechoslovakia?\n\n87. Miss Rathbone asked the Prime Minister how the matter now stands with regard to the proposed guarantee of the new frontiers of Czechoslovakia and whether he is in a position to issue a White Paper showing the limits of the frontiers, the condition of the guarantees, and any steps that have been taken with a view to checking threats to the security of that State?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I have at present nothing to add to the statement on this subject made by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence on 4th October. The question of issuing a White Paper on the subject will not arise until the new frontiers of Czechoslovakia have been finally settled after the conclusion of the present negotiations between that country and Germany, Hungary and Poland, and the completion of the formal instrument of Guarantee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS \n## Written Answers\n\nThe United Kingdom's delegation have recently defined the United Kingdom's position on outstanding matters and we expect a reply from the United States very shortly.\n\n### TEXTILE INDUSTRY (OVERSEAS MARKETS)\n\nSir J. Nall asked the President of the Board of Trade what further steps are being taken to secure a fair share for British textiles in overseas markets where British trade has declined?\n\nMr. Stanley: The interests of the textile industries are being and have been borne in mind in connection with the negotiation of trade agreements and commercial treaties. The countries with which such negotiations are proceeding at the present time include India and Burma, the United States of America, Colombia, and Switzerland. Further, a Lancashire mission is now discussing with the Egyptian authorities the difficulties surrounding the export of cotton textiles to Egypt. Officials of the Board of Trade are accompanying this mission in an advisory capacity.\n\n### SPAIN\n\nMr. Grenfell asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the situation in Spain? \n\nSir G. Mitcheson asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the situation in Spain?\n\nMr. Butler: Fierce but indecisive fighting has taken place at intervals on the River Ebro. Hostilities are still continuing in this area. On other fronts, with minor exceptions, there has been little activity and there have been no important changes in the military situation since the House adjourned.\n\nAt the recent meeting of the Assembly of the League, the representative of the Spanish Government announced that it had been decided to withdraw all foreign combatants from the territory under the control of his Government. At the same time, he invited the League to send an international commission to Spain to verify the fact of this withdrawal. This was agreed to; the Commission was set up by the Council and is now in Barcelona. The Italian Government have also announced that, in agreement with General Franco, it had been decided to withdraw 10,000 Italians who had been in Spain for 18 months or longer. These men have now been withdrawn and have returned to Italy.\n\n### AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS\n\nSir G. Fox asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the importance of the smooth working of the scheme of evacuation and billeting in war, he will state how the existing scheme has worked to date; and whether it is proposed to obtain by Parliamentary sanction the powers to carry out such billeting?\n\nMr. Lloyd: My hon. Friend will be aware that the scheme improvised in the recent emergency was not put to the test except as regards the evacuation of a relatively small number of children under arrangements made by the London County Council. The preliminary measures, however, disclosed a number of matters of detail which are receiving attention in framing long-term plans. It would, of course, be necessary to obtain Parliamentary sanction for any powers exercised in the billeting of refugees.\n\nMr. O. Lewis asked the Home Secretary whether he will have specifications and plans prepared of the various types of permanent air-raid shelters suitable for erection in connection with dwelling-houses and business premises; and whether he will make these available to the general public in the form of a booklet?\n\nSir S. Hoare: My hon. Friend's suggestion will be considered, but I would point out that an exact specification suitable for all types of building would be difficult. The general principles have been indicated in A.R.P. Handbook No. 6, which is on sale, and so far as possible, these will be amplified.\n\n### COAL INDUSTRY. EXPORTS LEVY\n\nMr. Jenkins asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is now in a position to make a statement with regard to a levy on inland-consumed coal to be used for the purpose of aiding coal exports?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: I presume that the hon. Member refers to certain proposals (which include, inter alia, a scheme for the assistance of the coal export trade) put before the Government by the coal industry in the summer. I cannot at present add anything to the statement which I made to the House on 26th July in reply to questions by the hon. Members for Morpeth (Mr. R. J. Taylor) and Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths).\n\n### MINES ACCIDENTS\n\nMr. Jenkins asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can state the total number of fatal accidents in the mines of this country during the months of January to October, inclusive, for the years 1937 and 1938?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: The total number of persons killed by accidents at mines under the Coal Mines Act in Great Britain this year up to the 22nd October, the latest date to which such particulars are available, was 697. The figure for the corresponding period last year was 673.\n\nMr. Jenkins asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can state the number of fatal accidents in the mines of this country to persons under 21 years during the months January to October, inclusive, for the years 1937 and 1938?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: The number of persons under 21 years of age killed by accidents at mines under the Coal Mines Act in Great Britain this year up to the 22nd October, the latest date to which such particulars are available, was 59. The figure for the corresponding period of 1937 was 79.\n\nMr. Watson asked the Secretary for Mines whether any steps have been taken to centralise the colliery accident funds detailed in the White Paper issued in 1936 (`Cmd. 5167`); and, if not, whether he is now prepared to institute an inquiry into the feasibility of having these funds centralised and the steps that would require to be taken to achieve that object?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: No, Sir. As was explained in reply to a question by the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. R. Davies) on 9th March last, there are a number of difficulties which render impracticable the suggestion to centralise relief funds connected with industrial and other disasters.\n\n### CORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL (QUARRYMEN'S WAGES)\n\nMr. Kelly asked the Minister of Health whether he will give the decision of the Cornwall County Council on the wages of the quarry workers and what those rates are?\n\nMr. Elliot: I am sending the hon. Member a copy of a letter I have received from the Cornwall County Council which I think will give him the information for which he asks.\n\n### WAR DEPARTMENT (SEA-GOING CRAFT)\n\nSir J. Nall asked the Secretary of State for War how many sea-going craft or vessels of all classes are maintained by the War Office; whether any new sea-going craft of any description are now on order; and whether the Admiralty was consulted on the design and cost of such craft before the orders were placed?\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: There are 69 sea-going craft. There are nine vessels on order. One of these is of commercial design. In connection with the design and cost of the other eight, there has been collaboration with the Admiralty and Air Ministry.\n\n### SOUTHERN RHODESIA\n\nMr. Mathers asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs what is the status in Southern Rhodesia of a coloured woman married to a white man; and what pension rights are enjoyed by her and her children in the event of her becoming a widow?\n\nMr. M. MacDonald: The fact that a coloured woman is married to a white man does not affect her status as a coloured person under the Southern Rhodesia Old Age Pensions Act, and she would retain this status if widowed. There is no scheme in Southern Rhodesia for the payment of pensions to widows as such, or to their dependants. All cases of Government relief to persons under 60, or otherwise not eligible for Old Age Pensions, are dealt with under measures for the relief of distress.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568718, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-3 Proposed reorganisation of government printing arrangements 12-5-1939 - 8-11-1939", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-582-3 Proposed reorganisation of government printing arrangements 12-5-1939 - 8-11-1939", "content_text": "36\n\n8\n\nSPECIMEN PAGE\n\nThe following example shows the method of charging composition of a royal 8vo page of large dimensions (30 × 46 ems, 12-point), set in 10-point with 8-point inserted, of varying classification.\n\nQuality or Pattern Number.\n\n(1)\n\nSPECIFICATION.\n\n(2)\n\nValves, Washers, and Rings (various sizes as ordered) estimated to weigh under 4 ozs. each and the following patterns :-\n\nRings (8a quality) for gauge glasses :-\n\n \n Size of Glass.\n External Diameter.\n Internal Diameter.\n Thickness.\n \n \n 781\n R\n 781a\n 7816\n 781d\n \n\nDelivery,* Price including Delivery.\n\n(3)\n\n(4)\n\n \n s. d.\n per days\n lb.\n \n\nClass III 10-point.\n\nSPECIMEN PAGE\n\nThe following example shows the method of charging composition of an imperial 8vo page of doubled-up matter, set in 11-point, with Class II 9-point matter inserted :-\n\nWEEKLY DAIRY PRODUCE NOTES\n\nThe following table shows arrivals of butter and cheese from the three chief sources in the Southern Hemisphere:-\n\n \n Butter.\n Cheese.\n \n \n 15\n \n \n\nThe seasonal decline in shipments from the Southern Hemisphere is reflected in shipments afloat, which showed a further reduction yesterday, but maintained an appreciable increase over last year's figures. Particulars are as follows:-\n\n \n Arrivals during seven days ended :-\n 9th April\n 16th April\n 23rd April\n 30th April\n \n \n \n 248,920\n 41,640\n 75,530\n 27,780\n \n \n \n 245,090\n 45,720\n 180,570\n 42,860\n \n\nAs at 30/4/31 A week ago A month ago A year ago\n\n \n Expected arrivals\n Buller.\n Cheese.\n Boxes.\n Crates.\n \n \n \n 683,500\n 154,370\n 753,670\n 190,920\n \n \n \n 908,430\n 224,040\n \n \n \n \n \n 516,080\n 116,980\n \n \n \n\nWashers, India Rubber, for elevation stops, for 4 ins. 6 P. I., II., III., and IIIc. mounting, 8a quality :-\n\n \n Internal Diameter.\n External Diameter.\n Thickness.\n \n \n .875\"\n 2.375\"\n -8\"\n \n\nRings, india-rubber, for elevating gear of 4 inch P X. Mtgs., 8a quality\n\n \n External Diameter.\n Internal Diameter.\n Thickness.\n \n \n 3.625\"\n 2.375\"\n 0.9\"\n \n\nRings, vulcanised I. R. (8a quality), for inspection holes for fuzes in branch breakers, circular sections :---\n\n \n Internal Diameter.\n Thickness.\n External Diameter.\n \n \n #\n 21\n 34 41\n \n \n .\n 6\n i.\n \n\nPercentage of organic matter extracted by alcoholic potash (calculated on 100 minus i.) must not be more than 6 per cent.\n\nWasher (8a quality) for valve, regulating of W.C.'s, patts. 2551-2 and 2555-6 :-\n\n \n External Diameter.\n Internal Diameter.\n Thickness.\n \n \n \n \n doz.\n \n\nClass III 10-point.\n\nClass III 10-point. and inserted matter, Class III 10-point.\n\n \n during seven days ending :-\n 7th May\n 14th May\n \n \n \n 246,230\n 54,870\n \n \n \n 58,110\n 32,050\n \n\nSupplies from the Irish Free State are now beginning to show a seasonal increase which remains, however, less marked than a year ago. With gradually increasing production, supplies from Baltic countries are also coming forward in rather greater quantity, and fairly substantial shipments are expected from Russia in the coming week. Prices continue on a lower level than a year ago, but the difference has become gradually smaller since the beginning of the year, New Zealand finest salted and Danish in April averaging about 13 per cent. and 11 per cent. less than in the same month last year respectively. Comparative prices, being the average of top quotations at London, are as follows:-\n\n \n N.Z. Finest Salted\n Aust. Finest Salted\n Danish\n Irish\n \n\nRecorded imports of butter from all sources into ports in Great Britain during last week amounted to 162,300 cwts., as compared with 186,100 cwts. in the preceding week. Shipments of Butter from New Zealand :-\n\n \n Ship.\n Due.\n Destination.\n Butter.\n \n \n \"Otaio\n 1/5\n Glasgow\n 3,304\n \n \n \"Rangitata\n 1/5\n London\n 34,878\n \n \n \"Port Alma\n 2/5\n \n 13,190\n \n \n **Tairoa\n 2/5\n \n 40,254\n \n \n Cambridge\n 3/5\n Avonmouth\n 9,599\n \n \n \n 4/5\n Liverpool..\n 1,062\n \n \n \n \n Manchester\n 374\n \n \n \n 5/5\n London\n 12,598\n \n \n \n 7/5\n Liverpool\n 9,458\n \n \n \n \n Manchester\n 5.183\n \n \n \n 8/5\n Glasgow\n 1,328\n \n \n \n \n \n 7,662\n \n \n \n 14/5\n London\n 10,015\n \n \n \n 14/5\n \n 2,061\n \n \n \n 14/5\n Avonmouth\n 7,037\n \n \n \"Tainui\n 15/5\n London\n 39,978\n \n \n \"Port Napier\n J\n \n 19/5\n \n \n \"Matakana\n \"\n 20/5\n 49,399\n \n \n 1930.\n 1931.\n 1931,\n \n \n \n \"Tasmania\n \"\n 20/5\n Liverpool.\n \n \n \n \n \n 6,621\n \n \n \n \n Manchester\n 3,526\n \n \n Cornwall\"\n 22/5\n London\n 128/-\n \n \n \n \n \n 118/3\n \n \n \n \n \n 110/9\n \n \n \n \n \n 125/-\n \n \n \n \n \n 117/9\n \n \n \n \n \n 108/9\n \n \n \n \n \n 140/-\n \n \n \n \n \n 137/-\n \n \n \n \n \n 124/-\n \n \n \n \n \n 142/-\n \n \n \n \n \n 138/6\n \n \n \n \n \n 126/-\n \n \n Port Brisbane\n \"\n 23/5\n 3,863\n \n \n \"Tasmania\n 23/5\n Glasgow\n 6,457\n \n \n \"Maimoa\n \"\n 25/5\n Avonmouth\n \n \n \"Port Brisbane\n \"\n 28/5\n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n 13,303\n \n \n \n \n \n 20,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 609\n \n \n \n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,874\n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,575 50\n \n \n April\n Mar.,\n April,\n \n \n\nWashers (8a quality) for valve, regulating of W.C. patt. 2575.\n\n \n External Diameter.\n Internal Diameter.\n Thickness.\n \n \n 1}\"\n =\n \n \n\nColumn (1) is descriptive owing to insertion of letters; (3) and (5) equal figure columns. The 8-point column headings in column (2) do not carry an extra charge (see paragraph 4). Matter page 10-point, Class IV; remainder 10-point, Class III. Charge (see paragraph 1c)- page 10-point, Class IV, 3s. 3d. and page 10-point, Class III, 8s. 5d. 11s, 8d. +16% for 4 ems wider than standard = 13s. 7d. 8d. for inserted matter.\n\nWhere a table contains more than one class of matter, the column headings shall be reckoned in the same class as the bulk of such table.\n\nThe tone of the market has been slightly easier during the present week and prices are rather lower all round.\n\nImports of cheese during last week totalled 63,200 cwts., compared with 87,000 cwts. in the previous week. Average prices during April for New Zealand finest white and Canadian finest white were lower\n\n \n Rangitana\n \"\n 30/5\n London\n \n \n Maimoa\n \"\n 30/5\n Liverpool.\n \n \n \"Port Brisbane\"\n 3/6\n Liverpool..\n Manchester\n \n \n Maimoa\n 4/6\n Glasgow\n \n \n\nArrivals of butter from the chief sources in the Southern Hemisphere during the week ended yesterday totalled 180,600 boxes and consisted of\n\nThe Class II 9-point matter totals one-half of the page. The remainder of the page is chargeable as page Class I 11-point.\n\n37", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-3 Proposed reorganisation of government printing arrangements 12-5-1939 - 8-11-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 574115, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-589-17 Evacuation of British families 14-1-1941 - 27-11-1941", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-589-17 Evacuation of British families 14-1-1941 - 27-11-1941", "content_text": "# With the Compliments of the OUTWARD TELEGRAM\nClemish \n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be kept under Lock and Key.\n\n**DEPARTMENTAL No. 2**\n1 \nW.O. admity. \n(A4457/3638/45). \nAm. 121 \n1.40 p.m. \n\n**END**\n\nCode telegram to Mr. Butler, (Washington). \n**Foreign Office 14th January, 1941.** \nNo. 251. \n**(R)**\n\n2 Your telegram No. 2725 [of November 18th evacuation of British women and children from Hong Kong to Manila]. \n249/13139/11/40 \n\nArticles specified in my telegram No. 20 to Manila have now been despatched to His Majesty's Consul General for eventual presentation locally. Question now arises of conveying official thanks of His Majesty's Government for services rendered by persons named in enclosure to Manila Consulate General's letter to American Department of November 20th. We are not certain if all of these should be named by you in official note to State Department in continuation of Embassy's note of July 15th or whether those mentioned under headings (1) and (3) should form the subject of official communications from Consul General Manila to Philippine President and United States High Commissioner respectively. \n\nPlease advise as to correct procedure in order that necessary instructions may be sent to you and to Manila. \n\nRepeated to Manila No.2. \n\n**RECEIVED** \n17 JAN 1941 C.O. REG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-589-17 Evacuation of British families 14-1-1941 - 27-11-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576384, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-6 Liaison between Hong Kong Government and British Ambassadors in China and Japan 8-11-1940 - 1-2-1941", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-590-6 Liaison between Hong Kong Government and British Ambassadors in China and Japan 8-11-1940 - 1-2-1941", "content_text": "FOREIGN OFFICE, \n\nS.W.1. \n\n1st January, 1941.\n\n(F 5053/5053/91)\n\nDear Gent,\n\nWith reference to your letter to Sterndale-Bennett of the 8th November last on the subject of the desirability of closer liaison between the Government of Hong Kong and His Majesty's Ambassadors in China and Japan, I enclose herein a draft telegram which it is proposed to send to Chungking and Tokyo, and should be glad to know if you concur in its terms.\n\nThe telegram is, I think, self-explanatory, but you will see that it was felt that the original idea might be expanded to cover Bangkok, Singapore, the Commander-in-Chief Far East, Saigon and Batavia, because all Far Eastern countries are involved in present political and economic problems in that part of the world and might therefore advantageously be included in the scheme.\n\nI should perhaps add that Mr. P. D. Butler, at present Consul-General in San Francisco, was a member of ...\n\nG. E. J. Gent, Esq., C.M.G., D.S.O.\n\nPage 11\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Sgd.) G.E.J. Gent.\n\nThe proposal of organising a Political Bureau at Singapore, or for appointing in due course a travelling Counsellor with headquarters at Singapore, is certainly worth pursuing although I much prefer your plan of a travelling Counsellor to Scott's project of a Political Bureau. Such a Counsellor may in due course be in a position to take over the functions of the personal representative at Hong Kong. But to my mind, we should not delay the local arrangement at Hong Kong a moment longer than is necessary to secure a suitable person to fill the role.\n\n23 JAN\n\n10\n\n54071/+1\n\n2\n\nPa\n\nPa\n\nہم\n\nمحمد\n\nContaining will need some fuller examination\n\nThe AK away a mot for which shi not be Reed up, we think\n\n1. Purran tot Franseller\n\ntues er the po\n\nThe purpeked instilton at Singay\n\n \nPage 11\n\n \n\n \nwas rewritten to meet the requirements, here is the revised version in HTML format as requested:\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n1st January, 1941.\n\n(F 5053/5053/91)\n\nDear Gent,\n\nWith reference to your letter to Sterndale-Bennett of the 8th November last on the subject of the desirability of closer liaison between the Government of Hong Kong and His Majesty's Ambassadors in China and Japan, I enclose herein a draft telegram which it is proposed to send to Chungking and Tokyo, and should be glad to know if you concur in its terms.\n\nThe telegram is, I think, self-explanatory, but you will see that it was felt that the original idea might be expanded to cover Bangkok, Singapore, the Commander-in-Chief Far East, Saigon and Batavia, because all Far Eastern countries are involved in present political and economic problems in that part of the world and might therefore advantageously be included in the scheme.\n\nI should perhaps add that Mr. P. D. Butler, at present Consul-General in San Francisco, was a member of...\n\nG. E. J. Gent, Esq., C.M.G., D.S.O.\n\nPage 11\n\nThe proposal of organising a Political Bureau at Singapore, or for appointing in due course a travelling Counsellor with headquarters at Singapore, is certainly worth pursuing although I much prefer your plan of a travelling Counsellor to Scott's project of a Political Bureau. Such a Counsellor may in due course be in a position to take over the functions of the personal representative at Hong Kong. But to my mind, we should not delay the local arrangement at Hong Kong a moment longer than is necessary to secure a suitable person to fill the role.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Sgd.) G.E.J. Gent.\n\n...\n\nPage 11\n\nHowever, to strictly follow the format and instructions:\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n1st January, 1941.\n\n(F5053/5053/91)\n\nDear Gent,\n\nWith reference to your letter to Sterndale-Bennett of the 8th November last on the subject of the desirability of closer liaison between the Government of Hong Kong and His Majesty's Ambassadors in China and Japan, I enclose herein a draft telegram which it is proposed to send to Chungking and Tokyo, and should be glad to know if you concur in its terms.\n\nThe telegram is, I think, self-explanatory, but you will see that it was felt that the original idea might be expanded to cover Bangkok, Singapore, the Commander-in-Chief Far East, Saigon and Batavia, because all Far Eastern countries are involved in present political and economic problems in that part of the world and might therefore advantageously be included in the scheme.\n\nI should perhaps add that Mr. P. D. Butler, at present Consul-General in San Francisco, was a member of...\n\nG. E. J. Gent, Esq.,C.M.G.,D.S.O.\n\nPage 11\n\nThe proposal of organising a Political Bureau at Singapore, or for appointing in due course a travelling Counsellor with headquarters at Singapore, is certainly worth pursuing although I much prefer your plan of a travelling Counsellor to Scott's project of a Political Bureau. Such a Counsellor may in due course be in a position to take over the functions of the personal representative at Hong Kong. But to my mind, we should not delay the local arrangement at Hong Kong a moment longer than is necessary to secure a suitable person to fill the role.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Sgd.) G.E.J. Gent.\n\nPage 11\n\n23 JAN\n\n10\n\n54071/+1\n\n2\n\nThe rest of the text appears to be garbled and not relevant to the main content, so it is left as is, but ideally, it should be reviewed for any potential useful content.\n\nHowever, the best representation is:\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n1st January, 1941.\n\n(F5053/5053/91)\n\nDear Gent,\n\nWith reference to your letter to Sterndale-Bennett of the 8th November last on the subject of the desirability of closer liaison between the Government of Hong Kong and His Majesty's Ambassadors in China and Japan, I enclose herein a draft telegram which it is proposed to send to Chungking and Tokyo, and should be glad to know if you concur in its terms.\n\nThe telegram is, I think, self-explanatory, but you will see that it was felt that the original idea might be expanded to cover Bangkok, Singapore, the Commander-in-Chief Far East, Saigon and Batavia, because all Far Eastern countries are involved in present political and economic problems in that part of the world and might therefore advantageously be included in the scheme.\n\nI should perhaps add that Mr. P. D. Butler, at present Consul-General in San Francisco, was a member of...\n\nG. E. J. Gent, Esq.,C.M.G.,D.S.O.\n\nPage 11\n\nThe proposal of organising a Political Bureau at Singapore, or for appointing in due course a travelling Counsellor with headquarters at Singapore, is certainly worth pursuing although I much prefer your plan of a travelling Counsellor to Scott's project of a Political Bureau. Such a Counsellor may in due course be in a position to take over the functions of the personal representative at Hong Kong. But to my mind, we should not delay the local arrangement at Hong Kong a moment longer than is necessary to secure a suitable person to fill the role.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Sgd.) G.E.J. Gent.\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-6 Liaison between Hong Kong Government and British Ambassadors in China and Japan 8-11-1940 - 1-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-6 Liaison between Hong Kong Government and British Ambassadors in China and Japan 8-11-1940 - 1-2-1941", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-590-6 Liaison between Hong Kong Government and British Ambassadors in China and Japan 8-11-1940 - 1-2-1941", "content_text": "13 suggestions.\n\nMeanwhile our examination of the problem has suggested that it does not concern Hong Kong alone as well but that some form of closer political liaison is highly desirable between His Majesty's diplomatic representatives in Japan, China and Thailand, the Commander-in-Chief Far East, the Governors of the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong and His Majesty's Consuls-General at Batavia and Saigon.\n\nWhether this liaison can be satisfactorily maintained by one travelling officer can only be shown by experience, but subject to any comments which you, or the other representatives principally concerned, may have to offer, it is proposed to recommend to the Treasury that the matter be put to the test by the appointment for an experimental period of Mr. P.D. Butler, at present His Majesty's Consul-General at San Francisco, as political liaison officer within the geographical area indicated above.\n\nThis should be regarded at present as confidential and Mr. Butler himself has not yet been informed. The proposal is that he should have the acting rank of Counsellor in the diplomatic service, that he should have no independent functions vis-à-vis of the Foreign Office, his duties being to advise and maintain liaison between the various diplomatic, consular, military or colonial authorities concerned; and that any reports which he may draw up should be addressed to these authorities in so far as they are respectively concerned and not to the Foreign Office, to whom, however, he would be at liberty to send copies.\n\nIt is suggested that his headquarters might most conveniently be at Singapore, but this would be subject to review. It would be necessary in the first instance for him to return to England to familiarise himself with the general position, so that some little time must necessarily elapse before he could assume his duties.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-6 Liaison between Hong Kong Government and British Ambassadors in China and Japan 8-11-1940 - 1-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576501, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "content_text": "N/ Marr Dougall\n\nMr. Sedgwick\n\nThe Treasury have now authorised the increase in the Hong Kong Planning Unit's notional establishment so as to include the additional posts referred to in your minute of the 9th March.\n\n18th April, 1945\n\n \n P.W.D.\n Arch. Manning\n D.\n (S082882)\n \n \n S.O. 3\n Waterworks\n Mirams R. A.\n \n \n \n Police\n S.O. J\n Buller W. J.\n Draft Telegrams Conson.\n \n \n Welfare\n S.O.2.\n Relief... Kuy. W.\n rita sent.\n \n \n P.W.J.\n 5.03\n Principal Matron\n \n \n \n Post Office\n Lecter to Harris\n 1.1. Walkins. See file\n 16506\n \n \n Engineer Railway\n Primer P.J.\n if no reply aint (copy attached)\n received\n \n \n \n 281 App\n cable definite offer\n \n \n \n \n \n intervreis has been rent.\n Indourell 23.4.45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576643, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "content_text": "Additional Posts for which authority is requested by the Hong Kong Planning Unit for their present Establishment.\n\n151\n\n(4)\n\nSection\n\nProposed Military Grade\n\nS.0.1 Harbour planning\n\nS.O.1 Air\n\nSecretarial\n\nS.0.2 Planning for the Post Office\n\nWelfare\n\nS.0.2 Principal Matron\n\nP.W.D.\n\nS.0.2 Planning Relief Measures\n\nHospital planning\n\nArchitectural planning and presumably war planning\n\nAssistant Chief Mechanical Engineer (Railways)\n\nCivil Engineer for waterworks Land/airport reconstruction planning).\n\nProposed Salary\n\nProposed Candidate\n\n \n W/Cdr. Oxford\n Miss Watkins\n \n \n D. Cuthbertson\n 51/44/7\n \n \n R.A.A. Mirams\n 11\n \n\nS.0.3 = S.0.3. to assist in \" S.0.3 Police\n\nCopy to Treasury.\n\n(8)\n\nElectrical Engineer for Telecommunication planning\n\nS.0.3 Planning connected with the Preventive Branch\n\n \n £800\n £500\n \n \n W.J. Buller 36498", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 593638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-615-6 Royal Institute of International Affairs- paper on future of Hong Kong 30-12-1947 - 8-1-1948", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-615-6 Royal Institute of International Affairs- paper on future of Hong Kong 30-12-1947 - 8-1-1948", "content_text": "# THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, \n## CHATHAM HOUSE, \n### 10 St. James's Square, London, S.W.1. \n\n3rd December, 1947. \n\nDear Smith, \n\nThe Institute of Pacific Relations with headquarters in New York (of which, as you may know, the Royal Institute constitutes the national council for the United Kingdom) proposes to undertake, upon an international basis, the study of the requirements for efficient public administration in Eastern Asia. The idea underlying this study is that, in view of the emergence of independent or semi-autonomous states in South East Asia, the reconstruction of Japan and Korea, and the present political confusion in China, the survey of past and present administrations in Eastern Asia, and of methods for the future training of efficient and honest Civil Servants, would be of constructive importance. Chatham House has undertaken, as its contribution towards this study, to produce papers on public administration in India, Burma, Malaya, and Hongkong.\n\nI wonder whether you would be willing and feel able to write a paper of this nature about Hongkong? If so, we should be very appreciative and feel that the work was in the best possible hands. I should be very glad to discuss the project in greater detail whenever you are in London.\n\nYours sincerely, \n\n**(Sgd.) P.B. BUTLER** \n**(Sir Paul Butler.)** \n\nN.L. Smith, Esq., **(C.M.G.)** \n\"Underfell\", \nBarbon, \nKirkby Lonsdale, \nWestmoreland.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-615-6 Royal Institute of International Affairs- paper on future of Hong Kong 30-12-1947 - 8-1-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-620-5 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Cable & Wireless Limited 10-9-1948 - 6-10-1948", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-620-5 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Cable & Wireless Limited 10-9-1948 - 6-10-1948", "content_text": "I press on the assumption that this has been referred to the Secretariat on the questions of alienation of land.\n\nYou are raising one minor point from the Communications Department's point of view.\n\nThere is a Hong Kong Communications Board which, amongst other activities, is considering the siting of radio stations in Hong Kong.\n\nI think our reply should include a reference to this Board, as fullness... \nhave consulted... \npresume you have consulted the Hong Kong Communication Board about availability of site for wireless running station.\n\nI think this must have been done as the \"Mont Butler scheme\" is mentioned towards the end of the minutes enclosed in `UM 4/10` on `22870/12(27/48)`, below.\n\nCable & Wireless are now nationalised & the P.M.G. is responsible for them. I think they might send a copy of (1) & of our reply to the G.I.O. for information.\n\n`UM 4/60`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-620-5 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Cable & Wireless Limited 10-9-1948 - 6-10-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595304, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-620-5 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Cable & Wireless Limited 10-9-1948 - 6-10-1948", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-620-5 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Cable & Wireless Limited 10-9-1948 - 6-10-1948", "content_text": "# Secretariat file 897/45.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL** No. 221\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.\n\n10th September, 1948.\n\n1. Sir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that Cable & Wireless Limited have applied for the grant by private treaty of an area amounting to approximately five and a quarter acres on Mount Butler on the Island of Hong Kong for the purpose of erecting a Wireless Receiving Station to be operated in conjunction with the Royal Navy. The area for which they have applied will be used to provide the receiver room, offices, stores, garages, and staff quarters. In addition, they have asked for permission to erect twenty-six self-supporting masts at various points outside the proposed leased area occupying a total of approximately 7,000 square feet, and to lay underground feeder lines to a total length of 3,460 feet.\n\n2. I propose, subject to your approval, to grant a twenty-one year renewable lease by private treaty on the following terms:-\n\n### Terms of the Lease\n\n| Term | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| (i) | Premium | $26,250 (approximately $5,000 per acre) |\n| (ii) | Crown rent | $4,200 per annum (approximately $800 per acre per annum) |\n| (iii) | Permission for masts and aerials | $1,680 per annum (24 cents per square foot for 7,000 square feet) |\n| (iv) | Way-leave for cable | Free (subject to the discretion of the Director of Public Works) |\n\nCable & Wireless Limited originally applied for a 25-year renewable lease, but since I saw no reason to diverge from the normal renewable period of twenty-one years, I have secured their consent to the necessary amendment of their application.\n\n5. In their application, Cable & Wireless have asked for the first option of a lease of the remainder of the 811 acres within which the wireless masts will be located, the option to be taken up within ten years. Their reason for withdrawing a previous application for the lease of the whole 811 acres is that they considered that the outlay on land would be too heavy. Subject to your approval, I am prepared to grant this option at a premium of $5,000 but am advised that it should be expressed in two parts:-\n\n(a) an option by Cable & Wireless to take up the whole area within ten years, subject to (b);\n(b) an undertaking by Government to offer first to Cable & Wireless, on the same terms as set out in paragraph 2, any portion Government wishes during that period to sell, and to sell elsewhere only if they do not wish to buy.\n\nThe granting of masts rights, rather than a lease of the whole area, will not facilitate further development of the site, otherwise than piecemeal, owing to the presence of the masts. But on the other hand, development on this hill site, although not outside the bounds of possibility, is unlikely to be practicable for some years and is in any case out of the question until at least an access road is provided. Cable & Wireless propose to construct such a road themselves.\n\n7. I should be grateful if you would intimate your approval of these proposals at an early date, if possible by telegraph, as Cable & Wireless are naturally anxious to have the question of the site settled so that they may proceed with the details of their plans.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n## RECEIVED 18 SEP 1948\nC.O. REGY.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ARTITUR CREECH JONES, M.P.**\n\nPage 1\nPage 2\nPage 8\nPage 9\nEnd", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-620-5 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Cable & Wireless Limited 10-9-1948 - 6-10-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]