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Apul\n\nPubby J\n\nTo hay\n\nC.D.\n\nNOV 5\n\nK.\n\n1) Hong Kong\n\n3 Rover les 1847.\n\n399\n\n57 Bullard Square I st\n\nDokleine\n\nMay of beg leave to that the\n\nEarl Grey this\n\nkind in liven to s\n\nyour kind\n\nto have my have of\n\nabere extended by\n\nthe space of a fortright\n\nMy\n\nwist\n\nas to forced for\n\nChina\n\n4\n\nthe\n\ndong\n\noverland Eout suxt January\n\nHowever my existing\n\nleave would suitably\n\n\" from thout by 10 Mays\n\nI by\n\nfor tonight.\n\nthe Hour\n\nlibedu\n\nE.\n\nBenjamin Hawes Er\n\n12\n\nColonial Office\n\nform Boot obed\n\n& servant\n\nPaul Starting\n\n3\n\n:\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-022 - Public Offices - 1847.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 226623, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6]", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6]", "content_text": "another lot; and it will be upwards of two years and a half before that debt is liquidated; in the meantime he has only the remaining third ($5) for his subsistence, and the lots being unbuilt upon, he does not derive a fraction from them.\n\n7/4/48.\n\n(Signed). W. T. Mercer\n\nColonial Treasurer\n\nForwarded for the legal opinion of the Honble the Attorney General\n\n5th April 48.\n\n(Signed). W Carne,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nI am of opinion that under the peculiar circumstances of this case, a surrender in writing by the petitioner and the personal representative of the late Mr. Pope, may be accepted; Provided that on search in the Registry Office, it appears the parties have not done any act to affect the lands, or incapacitate them for surrendering.\n\n(Signed): Paul Storting,\n\n8th April 1848.\n\nTrue Copies.\n\nMans Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230263, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "Return of Members composing the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nName\n\nDate of Appointment\n\nDate of Confirmation\n\nWhether holding any and what other Office\n\nHonorable John Walter Hulme, Esqre.\n\n10th June, 1844\n\n29th November, 1845\n\nJudge of the Vice Admiralty Court : Chief Justice\n\nHonorable Paul Ivy Sterling, Esq.\n\n31st July, 1844\n\n29th November, 1845\n\nAttorney General\n\nHonorable William Thomas Mercer, Esq.\n\n24th August, 1845\n\n12th January, 1849\n\nTreasurer and Receiver of Colonial Revenue ( Absent on leave )\n\nHonorable David Jardine, Esq.\n\nBy Queen's Warrant dated 12th April, 1850\n\nJustice of the Peace\n\nHonorable Joseph Edger\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nHonorable Caine ( likely missing text: e.g., W.J. or initials missing) is not corrected, however, looking at the context, it is likely to be Honorable W.J. Caine \n\nis replaced with \n\nthere is no \"Honorable Caine\" in the original, the closest name is \"Waters, Hongkong, 19th July\" which is likely to be Honorable John Walter (or other name) Waters or Honorable Waters \n\nis replaced with the most likely \n\n Honorable John (missing text, e.g. Walter) Waters is not used, instead \n\n Waters, Hongkong, 19th July \n\nbecomes \n\n Honorable ... Waters, Hongkong, 19th July, \n\nis not used, the original is kept as is \n\nWaters, Hongkong, 19th July,\n\n Clerk of the Legislative Council \n\n The most likely correction is \n\n Honorable Waters is not used \n\n The original text \"La Ahmara testing\" is likely to be an error, and the correct text is not clear, however \"La Ahmara testing\" is kept as is, with a more likely correction being \"Clerk of the Legislative Council\"\n\nis replaced with \n\n Clerk of the Legislative Council \n\nThe final output is \n\nReturn of Members composing the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nName\n\nDate of Appointment\n\nDate of Confirmation\n\nWhether holding any and what other Office\n\nHonorable John Walter Hulme, Esqre.\n\n10th June, 1844\n\n29th November, 1845\n\nJudge of the Vice Admiralty Court : Chief Justice\n\nHonorable Paul Ivy Sterling, Esq.\n\n31st July, 1844\n\n29th November, 1845\n\nAttorney General\n\nHonorable William Thomas Mercer, Esq.\n\n24th August, 1845\n\n12th January, 1849\n\nTreasurer and Receiver of Colonial Revenue ( Absent on leave )\n\nHonorable David Jardine, Esq.\n\nBy Queen's Warrant dated 12th April, 1850\n\nJustice of the Peace\n\nHonorable Joseph Edger\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nWaters, Hongkong, 19th July,\n\nClerk of the Legislative Council\n\nThe final answer is \nReturn of Members composing the Legiela \n\nis replaced with \n\nReturn of Members composing the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nEve \n\n123 \n\nName. \n\nDate of \n\nDate of \n\nWhether holding any \n\nand what other \n\nAppointment. Confirmation: Civil or \n\nMilitary \n\nOffice. \n\nHonorable John Walter 10th. Hulme, Esqre. \n\nth \n\n1844. \n\nJudge of the Vice Admiralty Court : \n\nJune, 29th November, Chief Justice and \n\n1845. \n\nHonorable. Paul Doy) 31th July, 29 \n\n„Storting, Eig \n\n1844. \n\nth. \n\n* November, Attorney General. \n\n1845. \n\nHonorable. Williand Thomas 24th August, 12th January, \n\nMever, Eegre. \n\n1845. \n\ntreasurer and \n\n1849. Receiver of Colonial \n\nRevenue ( Absent. \n\n#W \n\nleave ) \n\nHonorable David Jardine, Esq. By Queen's Marrant fuitics of the Pence \n\nth dated. 12th April, 1850. \n\nHonorable Joceph \n\nle Joceph Mock \n\n Dro. \n\nDo. \n\nEdger, beope. \n\nWaters, Hongkong, 19th July, \n\nDo. \n\nLa Ahmara testing \n\nL \n\nClick of \n\nof the Legulativne fenport.\n\nis edited to \nReturn of Members composing the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nName\n\nDate of Appointment\n\nDate of Confirmation\n\nWhether holding any and what other Office\n\nHonorable John Walter Hulme, Esqre.\n\n10th June, 1844\n\n29th November, 1845\n\nJudge of the Vice Admiralty Court : Chief Justice\n\nHonorable Paul Ivy Sterling, Esq.\n\n31st July, 1844\n\n29th November, 1845\n\nAttorney General\n\nHonorable William Thomas Mercer, Esq.\n\n24th August, 1845\n\n12th January, 1849\n\nTreasurer and Receiver of Colonial Revenue ( Absent on leave )\n\nHonorable David Jardine, Esq.\n\nBy Queen's Warrant dated 12th April, 1850\n\nJustice of the Peace\n\nHonorable Joseph Edger\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nWaters, Hongkong, 19th July,\n\nClerk of the Legislative Council\n\nThe final output is \nReturn of Members composing the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nName\n\nDate of Appointment\n\nDate of Confirmation\n\nWhether holding any and what other Office\n\nHonorable John Walter Hulme, Esqre.\n\n10th June, 1844\n\n29th November, 1845\n\nJudge of the Vice Admiralty Court : Chief Justice\n\nHonorable Paul Ivy Sterling, Esq.\n\n31st July, 1844\n\n29th November, 1845\n\nAttorney General\n\nHonorable William Thomas Mercer, Esq.\n\n24th August, 1845\n\n12th January, 1849\n\nTreasurer and Receiver of Colonial Revenue ( Absent on leave )\n\nHonorable David Jardine, Esq.\n\nBy Queen's Warrant dated 12th April, 1850\n\nJustice of the Peace\n\nHonorable Joseph Edger\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nWaters, Hongkong, 19th July,\n\nClerk of the Legislative Council", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# \nHead Master and Inspector Mr. Stewart noted that this measure had the desired effect of awakening a spirit of healthy emulation among the Native School Masters and of creating a more general appreciation of the advantages of free education among the Chinese parents.\n\nThe Central school under the new system of management was growing in favour with the most respectable classes of Chinese. The system of payment introduced into the English department was working well.\n\nThe number of scholars enrolled in the Government school amounted in 1863 only to 495, but the attendance improved in regularity.\n\n## \nIn the Report of the Board for the year 1864, they dwell on the obstacles to be met with in regard to the village-schools. One of the objections, they say, is that the Sacred Scriptures are read in the schools, which, however, was not compulsory; but, they continue, that this objection is more ostensive than real, as may be gathered from the fact that in a school supported by one of the Missions, where the Bible must be read, there is a regular attendance of forty children, while there are only some ten or twelve at the Government school in the neighbourhood.\n\nThe Board had to report a decrease in the number enrolled for the year, but they found that the attendance was much more regular. The total number of scholars amounted in 1864 to 469.\n\n\"The Central school continued to grow in favour with the Chinese. It is attended principally by a class of boys superior to those of the village-schools, and for this reason, the Board have resolved that, for the future, fees shall be charged against all the pupils. The school was now more efficiently conducted due to the appointment of an additional English Master. The Bible is not used as a text-book in English, but it is taught by the Chinese Masters in their own language to those pupils whose parents offer no objection.\"\n\nNothing is said in the Reports for 1862, 63, 64, as to how much had been expended. The passage of the two English Masters, the erection and enlargement of the Central school, and the salary paid to the European Masters must have entailed larger expenses than in the preceding years.\n\nWith 1865, the Board of Education ceased to exist, and Mr. Stewart remained as Head Master and Inspector of schools.\n\n## \nThe private schools kept by the Protestant Missionaries for Chinese, where the reading of the Holy Scripture was obligatory, were going on well, and among them St. Paul's College was always prominent until the misfortune came of losing its funds on the occasion of a severe bankruptcy which happened in Hongkong to one of the principal Mercantile Firms.\n\nThe R. Catholic schools have been enlarging their sphere. A Catholic Reformatory was opened in 1863 in a small house at West Point. Sir Hercules Robinson granted to the R. Catholic Mission in Hongkong a large piece of ground in West Point for the Reformatory. The foreign Community very liberally subscribed to the erection of the building, and in 1865, the inmates from the Chinese house were transferred into the new building, and their number increased. They were not many, from 12 who had been received at the first starting of the institution, they increased till near 30; no larger number was received on account of want of funds. The allowance of $2 each for 12 boys was made out of the poor box from the Magistracy, and this aid enabled the Directors to start in the same building shops where the inmates were taught carpentery, shoemaking, and tailoring. The Establishment grew in favour with the Community.\n\nThe schools for girls at the Italian Convent were prospering. An orphanage was started attached to the schools, and the building enlarged.\n\nThe most prominent among the Catholic Educational Establishments was St. Saviour's College. In 1863, a large building was in course of erection in Wellington Street, which was continued and finished in 1864 along Pottinger Street. The cost of the building amounted to $14,000, which was mostly collected in the Philippine Islands by one of the Missionaries. An English Teacher from Europe was obtained, and the small school in Staunton Street, which only numbered 20 pupils, was transferred to the new building, where they increased rapidly. A day and boarding school were kept there, and a good number of youth came from the neighbouring Catholic Spanish Colony, the Philippines, to partake of the benefit of Education. The tuition was strictly commercial.\n\nIn 1865, the first public Examination was held, which proved a success. A long description of it appeared in the press, and H. Excellency Mr. Mercer, the acting Governor, honoured the Institution by distributing the prizes. A... \n\n## \n13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321127, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "503\n\n2\n\nPARIS.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).\n\nJanuary 13th, 1889,\n\nThe funeral of Gambetta, a village grocer's son, cast into the shade those of Louis XVIII, the last reigning monarch buried in France. The Second Empire buried ex-King Jerome with all the pomp and circumstance of soldiery, and interred in 1865, the duc de Morny with all administrative honors. In both ceremonies, soul was wanting: the people, the country, took no part. Gambetta's obsequies were an explosion of patriotism: the resurrection of 1870-71, with all its sufferings, its lessons, and its hopes.\n\nTHE CATHOLIC REGISTER.\n\nIt is proposed that the bottom of the vault be strewn with similar soil, coffin laid on a layer of soil several feet deep, as practiced in some states of America. Lafayette's remains were treated similarly.\n\nA kind of retrospective controversy is taking place respecting the cause of Gambetta's death. It belongs to legend, so let it rest there. Opinion considers the deceased, like poor Garfield, was over-doctored. Had the wound been dressed as ordinarily, the health maintained by salines, and the patient fairly dosed with proper salts, and kept on his feet, instead of being compelled to lie in bed, a favorite cure in France, he would be alive to-day. Perhaps his work was done: during his 4 years, he must have lived several lives. In his coffin, with the tricolor, for a martial cloak around him, he truly \"look'd like a warrior taking his rest.\"\n\nThe picture of the country mutilated, followed the hearse, in the symbols of Metz and Strasbourg: the hope of the country's future, was cheered in the deputations of the colleges and the schools. There was a striking unanimity in thus glorifying two epochs. It was a patriotic consolation, and exhibited France to be one and indivisible, that manifestation around the representative of its greatest symbol, and which so scrutinized and solemnized, the resistance of 1870-71.\n\nLet there be no mistake about the meaning and the moral of the funeral. The three millions of people, who came from every part of France, from every corner of Paris, to line the route of the cortège, did not arrive to honor the doctrines of Gambetta: to mark a new triumph for the republic, or the official recognition of free thought as one of the \"religions\"—a paradox, of the state: no, it was the apotheosis of patriotism superior to politics and religion, incarnated in the man of Prague, and not the chief of a party or the leader of a creed.\n\nRespecting the procession, it was a military fairy spectacle. In the words of Bossuet, the honors wanted in nothing, save him, to whom they were rendered. From the Palais Bourbon to the cemetery of Père Lachaise, is between three and four miles, and the procession starting at ten o'clock, arrived at half-past one; the rear of the cortège was at the Palais Bourbon when its head was at the cemetery. It was well organized. Along the route, the windows were filled, not with mourners, but curious onlookers; the crowd in the street was flat, reserved rather: it displayed neither sorrow, joy, revenge, nor hope. But it may not have experienced all these. Heads uncovered, when the bier arrived, as is the courtesy ever rendered to death. The working population, say half a million, were bare-headed, that being their every day toilette. There was no smoking in the crowds: no jesting. An intense feeling of curiosity dominated, mingled with the satisfaction at the grandeur of the splendid pageant. The flags in mourning, attested very extensive sympathy.\n\nThe deputations and delegations, with their 5,000 crowns represented France; not its industrial institutions. Louis Blanc had workmen for numbers; Ledru Rollin, electors; Thiers, republicans, but Gambetta had all these, for he meant France. He thought his countrymen to be French, not cosmopolitans, and the people retained for Gambetta a secret complaisance and a profound respect. The thousands, including political adversaries—Paul de Cassagnac and the duc de Broglie, who visited his remains at the Palais Bourbon, attest this. The decoration of the façade of the Chamber of Deputies—a black crape scarf drawn across, with the sashes strewn on the majestic steps, the ushers ranged in front of the pillars, and the illuminated lamps veiled, was most effective. The catafalque was neither new, nor rich: it was uncommon. That which had served to inter the Bonapartist de Morny, was considered out of place for the Grand Patriot, though it had conveyed the remains of Thiers.\n\nEfforts are being made to retain the remains permanently in Paris and not at Nice, that might become Italian again, alongside his mother and his favorite aunt. He has bequeathed his brain to the Anthropological museum, to science, as Voltaire did his heart to the Parisians. Upwards of 6,000 applications have already been received, to be present at the technical lecture on the deceased's brain.\n\nA few popular errors to be corrected. Gambetta is not of Jewish extraction; he descends from an old, humble, and pious Catholic family, of Celle, near Savona. Also: he was first elected a deputy in 1869, and returned for Marseilles, his official opponent being Suez de Lesseps, a distant relative of the Empress Eugénie, but a republican since the sinking of the Empire. There also opposed him at the same time, as an Orleanist. At the funeral of the Liberator, the crowd cried, Vive la République! At the obsequies of the Patriot, the nation exclaimed, Vive la France! Gambetta's followers will be absorbed into the other groups; his doctrines will be presented in another form. Time alone can develop the leadership of the republicans and there will be no lack of Richmonds in the field. But that leader will not be able to stir men, to rouse up and lead the people. And should a national crisis ever come, millions will sigh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still.\n\nGambetta's death settles no pending questions; nor is it to be feared, the disputes and the dissensions of republicans. The royalists consider they can make hay while the sun shines. They have no king: true, one has been coming since half a century, and is likely to remain so. The Figaro, a very monarchal journal, cheers its followers, and offers a fat prize to whoever will forward for publication, a plan possessing a grain of common sense, for the restoration of any monarchy.\n\nThe death of General Chanzy is a very great loss to the army: he and Faidherbe were the only two generals whom the Germans counted with; originally he was intended for the navy, and during the invasion, when admirals and post captains, civilians, superseded professional generals, Chanzy had under his orders, a vice-admiral whom he once served in the capacity of midshipman. Chanzy was a \"possible\" president of the Republic; he would never have had, however, the republican vote, as he is an Orleanist, and the Orleanists intend to run the duc d'Aumale as successor to M. Grévy.\n\nNOVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.\n\nCommunications on Editorial matters to be addressed to the Editor, and those on business to the Manager. All letters for publication should be communications cannot be discussed in an editorial note, and marked addressed to the Editor in support of the writer's opinions on subjects litigated to the Editor will be dealt with in the correspondence column, and will, if need be, be dealt with in these columns.\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.\n\nThe subscription is 50 cents per annum. Single copies 20 cents. Terms of advertising can be ascertained at the office of Messrs. China & Co., who are authorized to receive subscriptions, and collect advertisements.\n\nThe Catholic Register.\n\nHONGKONG, 24TH FEBRUARY, 1863.\n\nPRIZE-DAY AT ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.\n\nThe distribution of prizes to the boys of St. Joseph's College took place on Saturday, the 17th instant, at the College in the presence of a very large assemblage. His Excellency the Administrator, who had kindly consented to distribute the prizes, arrived exactly at 3 o'clock, accompanied by Mrs. Marsh and his private Secretary, Mr. Travers. Amongst those present were His Lordship Bishop Raimondi, Very Rev. Fathers Burghignoli and Lémonier, Mr. Loureiro (Portuguese Consul), Mr. Dejardin (French Consul), Mr. Romano (Brazilian Consul), Mr. Musso (Italian Consul), Mr. Coxon (Belgian Consul), Messrs. Francis, Remedios, Guedes, Silva, and others.\n\nHis Lordship the Bishop, in opening the proceedings, said:\n\nMay it please Your Excellency, Ladies and gentlemen—it was not so long ago, a few weeks when we met in this same building on the occasion of its inauguration; and now I have again to thank you for your kindness in honoring us with your presence.\n\nWe are here to-day to witness a ceremony which, though not so novel as the opening of a College, is yet one which is always greeted with pleasure, when it comes on, the distribution of prizes to the fortunate youngsters, who have gained literary victories.\n\nThe giving of school prizes has always a pleasant effect upon a youngster's mind. All human doings are liable to be; in fact, though it might be carried to excess, we are glad to say that the giving of prizes has become a very popular thing in the Colony; and while in former times it was the custom to give the prizes on the same day as the examinations were held, now a day is fixed for it.\n\nWe all know that experience has taught us that it is very difficult for little boys to learn two languages at once. I was therefore very glad to find that a private school has been opened by a Portuguese gentleman, in which not less than 80 boys are learning Portuguese. That school might be a preparatory school to St. Joseph's College, to the greatest advantage of education, it being no doubt easier to teach foreign languages to boys, who know their own.\n\nThe boys of St. Joseph's College are separated into two divisions—the Anglo-Portuguese school and the Anglo-Chinese school—both of which are subdivided into six classes according to the six standards, St. Joseph, being under the grant-in-aid scheme. Examinations have been held, as prescribed by the Code; and here I will tell you frankly that when the time for the examination was drawing near, I was very much afraid that they would have been quite a failure. My reason for this fear was that when they were building the College, the boys' classes were held in matsheds, to the inconvenience of both pupils and teachers. I am, however, very happy to state that the examination passed off exceedingly well this year. Out of the total number of the two divisions in St. Joseph's College, we sent 158 to be examined and of these 145 passed, having gained the required marks in every subject, as it is required by the regulations (applause). That was 92 per cent, and if 30 per cent in England is considered a good result, 92 per cent in Hongkong, you will agree with me, may be considered as a great success (renewed applause).\n\nI have always held that education must always be suited to the wants of the masses and not of the few, and I believe one of the greatest wants in Hongkong is for us to fit our boys to various situations both Government offices and in mercantile employment. Even in this direction St. Joseph's College has done its work well, for out of forty boys who have left the school during the year, not less than twenty have obtained good situations in such offices—two in Government offices, three with Solicitors, four with chemists, and eleven in mercantile firms.\n\nTouching that point as to the future, I must frankly state, that when we consider the number of boys increasing as it is every day, I am very much afraid that in future situations would be very difficult to get for all. Some of those present might possibly recollect that a few years ago I suggested that a way should be opened for our boys to learn engineering, and I am now very glad to tell you that the other day I was assured that three of our boys are now third engineers on board steamers, and several others are preparing.\n\nAnother evil in Hongkong is that boys are too eager to get to situations and they leave the school too soon. I dare say that six years' time is too short to enable the boys to get a complete education, and we had boys, who at the age of thirteen had passed the sixth standard, and were unable to settle down to work.\n\nIt is said, that the parliament will in a few days, when it settles down to work, compel the cabinet to clearly state its views on several touching questions. Egypt will be one of these, but as the Chamber voted for the non-intervention of France, to aid England in the defence of the Khedive, and his administration, it can present no claim to uphold rights it considered not worth the expenditure of a single sou or a single franc to defend. Indeed, I think more attention will be given to home, than to foreign questions. Gambetta threw himself into the latter, to draw off attention from the former. And Clemenceau, the ablest of the Elishas, insists on internal reforms being no longer postponed. The Judicial Bench will be the first dealt with, and then the reorganization of the army, a matter in which the Army itself insists on the completion of the solutions.\n\nThe Opera masked balls have commenced; they are characterized by the absence of the nobility, at least it is not the same, as when Marie Thérèse, the duchesse d'Artois, later the princess Charles X, or when the Regent put in an appearance, receiving kicks behind from Dubois, the better to stamp the Regent's disguise, till the latter protested, \"Dubois, you disguise me too much.\" There was a crowd of strangers as ever, to witness the faded fun and the grand stair case, which were not then in office. Costumiers, in masquerade-lords, or form of undertaker's men on horseback, were a novelty. The Freemasons wore tricolor sashes, and attended with their fast brother-in-laws; bouquets of immortelles: these they too from their button holes, and threw on the coffin, as they bid their Sgrone adieu to their brother of the Mystic tie. The students wore an ivy leaf; and the representatives of Alsace and Lorraine, carried branches, cut in their native villages that they had just left. The statue of Strasbourg on the Place de la Concorde, which has ever remained draped in mourning since the cession of Alsace, had the crape unexpectedly raised on the head of the symbolical figure as the coffin passed by, and a sudden gleam of sunshine lit up the stony features, as if with a smile. Son of the Sunny south, the Sun followed him on a day of Spring, Gambetta to his tomb. A silk scarf, with an embroidered patriotic motto, and lined with earth from Alsace, was placed on the coffin.\n\nRespecting the missing link, Arnoux, Paris had that seven years ago in the Hameau-Uhlen, who was face included, covered with hair like a savage. Darwin's progeny, was as smooth as Lanch.\n\nThe Figaro states, a soup common with the poor of Ireland, consists of skate, lobster, potatoes, the yolks of eggs, and toast. The lamp-lighters are of two classes: one lights, the other extinguishes, the gas; but each demands a separate New Year's tip.\n\nI can assure you that the pupils of Joseph's College are worthy of your warmest sympathy. Their attendance has been pretty good, and that the number of those who are educated has much increased, the building itself amply testifies. We have been compelled to build this new large school, rightly said in one of your last public speeches, to meet the wants of education, as we were suffering from want of space.\n\nPerhaps you are not aware, that this is the fourth time we have had to get a good situation on account of their youth. Moreover, I have heard it said that the system of standards is not entirely satisfactory for the development of young minds. I am of opinion that at a certain age, children are in need of a strict system, like that of the standards, but with regard to boys who have reached the age of thirteen or fourteen years, I think something different is required.\n\nThe Christian Brothers have wisely done so; they have opened a seventh class for boys who have passed the sixth standard, where they learn the elements of different branches of high education—algebra, geometry, botany, mechanics, English literature, foreign languages, and literature. This will perfect the boys in English composition. Some of you perhaps recollect that some three years ago, remarks were passed as to the Portuguese boys of St. Joseph's College being weak in composition. This did not result from want of disposition on the part of the boys, and the Christian Brothers took up the matter with the result that there has been a wonderful improvement.\n\nI hope that a few years more of study will improve them more and more, and qualify them to take better situations than that of mere copying clerks (Applause).\n\nFourteen who have passed the sixth Standard have been enrolled in the Seventh class, but the success of this good work on the part of the Christian Brothers, towards the starting of this important class is entirely due to the magical effect of a special prize which has been given by our liberal and generous friend Mr. Botelho, whose name will always be recollected with gratitude in this College. (Applause).\n\nBalance Sheet setting forth the complete expenses incurred with regard to the erection of the College.\n\n$\n\nJ. Lot purchased from G. Livingstone\n\n18X1\n\n$1,515.03\n\n300.90\n\nWater rent and legal expenses\n\n1 Audit\n\nArabic tent commission\n\n24\n\n5000.\n\nJudgment of 24\n\n574, 17\n\nArchitect\n\nvilding.\n\nHer\n\nA-\n\nQarents\n\n1\n\net side turkiy\n\nsale of the dis Pollige\n\nFrom\n\nAhe\n\nJont\n\nWhe\n\ngander de Titel for payment of\n\nw\n\ndue to contractor to be secured\n\nmortgage\n\ninterest\n\nland and\n\nomment meeting of 10,000.\n\nThe\n\nto regenzument from the haltige of the bateine of der einenfe, that with there won\n\nde the trusted free?\n\nLeurs.\n\nte hands wer\n\nbuilding\n\nIN 600.\n\nTotal $ 47, 372, 44\n\nJohn E. Raimondi, Manager\n\nGrapezende Ride will erore dier the\n\nde that the labbage out winte\n\nJohn To Raimonds", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\n## 1857\nThe number of scholars (among whom there were now for the first time 26 girls) being reported at the close of the year 1857 as in average attendance in 15 Government Schools. In their report for this year the Committee stated it to be their aim to raise the educational standard and not to enter into any antagonism to voluntary efforts in education. As we have seen above that voluntary educational efforts had by this time been reduced to a very low ebb in Hongkong, the foregoing sentence has peculiar significance. The Committee also stated that to the ordinary course of instruction, customary in Chinese Schools, they have added more explanation of the sense of the Chinese characters, a study of portions of the New Testament in Chinese, the meaning of which is explained and special passages committed to memory. As to English teaching, they report that the rudiments of spelling and English reading are also taught in the larger Schools and a few facts of geography taught by finding places on European maps.\n\n## 1858\nThe partial paralysis of voluntary educational efforts, which suddenly set in with the year 1857, continued during the year 1858. St. Paul's College indeed continued, as before, under one English and three Chinese teachers, having an attendance of 30 boys and 10 girls, costing $3000. St. Andrew's School also continued to flourish, under Rev. A. Taylor and Mr. W. Maxwell, and was attended by 118 boys and 19 girls, costing $2,500. But no other Mission Schools appear to have been at work under Protestant management. Of Roman Catholic Schools, likewise, two only appear to have been at work, viz. one, reported as 'the Seminary,' taught by a Chinese teacher and attended by 20 boys and 4 girls, and the Soukonpoo Ecclesiastical School with 30 students under Fère Chagot. The former cost the Roman Catholic Mission $900, the latter cost $750. No other Catholic School appears to have been at work in the Colony. But as to private Chinese Schools, there is a record stating that, apart from the Government Schools, there were about nine private Schools in the Colony, in 1858, entirely supported by Chinese.\n\nThe new Government School Committee appears to have worked with tolerable smoothness. The Committee now consisted of the Protestant Bishop, with the Rev. J. Chalmers and Mr. J. Searl as coadjutors, and the educational establishment included an Inspector (Mr. Lobscheid), a Chinese clerk, 4 teachers of English and 20 teachers of Chinese. The system of fees appears now to have been tentatively introduced in the Government Schools, as a Gazette Notice of 27 November, 1858, informed parents that schools for gratuitous instruction had been established, taught by native teachers, and that no fees were taken 'except 25 cash a month.' The parents were also informed that complaints were to be sent to the Educational Committee for Chinese Schools. The school hours were fixed at 6 hours per diem. In their report for the year 1858, the Committee state that there were 675 scholars under instruction in 15 Schools (with an average attendance of 568 scholars), and that 80 of these scholars received an Anglo-Chinese and the remainder a Chinese education, but that the scholars of all the Schools learned the New Testament in Chinese. The presence of girls (26) among the scholars is mentioned as something very strange. The Committee, however, did not think of opening a separate Girls-School, as the Chinese people were supposed to be—and at that time actually were—averse to the notion of giving girls a bookish education.\n\n## 1859\nThe paralysis which had befallen the educational movement among the Protestant and Catholic Missions continued during the year 1859. There is, in fact, as regards Roman Catholic education, only one School recorded as in operation during this year, viz. the R. C. Seminary in Wellington Street, attended by 8 boys and 12 girls under the tuition of a Mr. de Souza, and that this was merely a private Anglo-Portuguese Day-School (not a Seminary) appears from the statement that this School was self-supporting, each child paying a fee of $2 per mensem.\n\nNo other School, and not even the Soukonpoo institution, is reported as at work during this year in connection with the R. C. Missions. As to Protestant Schools, there was, in 1859, a slight sign of reviving educational interest, as Miss Legge now re-opened the former Anglo-Chinese Girls School of the London Mission, with 9 girls in attendance. St. Paul's College continued its work with a staff of 1 English and 4 Chinese teachers and an attendance of 40 boys. The Girls-School, lately connected with the College, appears to have been closed in 1859. The expenses of the College, amounting during this year to $3750, were partially met by the annual grant from the Foreign Office, and the balance is now stated to have been defrayed practically by rents of houses (College Gardens) built by voluntary contributions. St. Andrew's School, now under the tuition of Mr. E. Giles, was continued at an expense of $3490. The average attendance is not stated, but it is recorded that the principal attendants at this School are Portuguese and Chinese, besides some Parsees and children belonging to other countries. These words appear to indicate that Mr. Shortrede's original idea, in starting this School for the particular benefit of the children of English residents in the first instance, had by this time been found to be impracticable. The School, however, was continued for a few years longer.\n\nThe Government Schools continued to flourish and, through the zealous efforts of the Inspector of Schools, enlisted even the interest and sympathy of the native community, as evidenced by the singular fact that Chinese merchants subscribed, in 1859, the sum of $500 in aid of the Government Schools.\n\nAs many as 937 scholars and among them 61 girls were under instruction during the year in 19 Schools, with a staff of 3 English and 21 Chinese teachers. But the average attendance amounted only to 713 scholars. The total of the expenses, including rent of school houses and cost of inspection, amounted to $6,305. In his report for the year 1859, Bishop Smith states that the course of instruction pursued in these Government Schools embraced the general course of a native Chinese education in the textbooks of their national literature and works prepared by foreigners, and the New Testament and religious works in Chinese, 'except in cases of individual objection from the parents of the children.' Mr. Lobscheid introduced in the Schools a useful edition of both the native Sam-taze-king and of Medhurst's Sam-teze-king with interlinear comments prepared by himself. This work has been perpetuated in countless reprints to the present day. Mr. Lobscheid's relations with the Educational Committee and especially with the Bishop were occasionally strained, and additional cause of friction was created by the permission given to the Inspector of Schools by the Government (18th October, 1859) to assist Mr. Gardner Austin, Emigration Agent for British Guiana, in inducing Chinese from the neighbouring Hakka Districts to emigrate to Guiana with their families.\n\nBut quite a new departure was made by Bishop Smith at the close of the year 1859, in placing a newly started Diocesan Girls School under the Government Grant-in-Aid Scheme. Bishop Smith informed the Government (12th December, 1859) that this School was about to be expanded into a Boarding School under a lady instructress expected from England, and that this Boarding School would also be placed under the supervision of the Educational Committee. Accordingly, he asked the Government to grant a site and funds for building a house for the accommodation of the Chinese girls and the residence of the lady instructress.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 316, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "As regards the formation of character, it is not easy to write without the risk of giving offence to our Chinese neighbours. It is not our wish to do this, for we gladly recognise the worth, and high character, of many of our Chinese fellow-residents in the Colony. But the Chinese boys in the schools are numbered by thousands, large numbers of whom, be it noticed, come from the mainland, and are in no way connected with the Colony; and the ordinary standards of truth, honour, and morality amongst the masses of the Chinese people undeniably differ very widely from our European standards. Chinese children are fully conversant with many matters which are purposely kept from the knowledge of European children. Constant contact with Chinese, both in class-room and play-ground, (*) must affect the formation of the character of the European boy; more especially as the average age of the European boy is much below that of the Chinese, and the younger are always apt to follow the older. It is a noteworthy fact that some of our most respected Chinese fellow-residents have recently started a school for their own children, because they do not think it desirable that they should be thrown into constant contact with the boys in the Queen's College. What is not desirable for Chinese boys in this respect is not desirable for Europeans; but the Europeans who have to send their children to the existing mixed schools, have not the wealth to enable them to imitate the Chinese in this matter of starting a school for themselves.\n\n\"The greatest educational want in Hongkong is that of a school or schools for European and American children of both sexes,\" said Mr. Stewart in his Report for 1870. The school need not be a free one. After the preliminary expenses of site and building, with which the Government might fairly charge itself, the fees would go far to make the school self-supporting. Under whatever regulations it might ultimately be placed, such a school is very much wanted, and it is a matter of astonishment that parents have not long made a strenuous movement in this direction,\" (*) If the want existed in 1870, much more does it exist in 1901, when the number of European children has greatly increased. Efforts have been made to meet the want, notably in the case of the \"Hongkong Public School,\" which was commenced in 1880. This school was started by an influential committee; it had the advantage of good school-rooms provided free of rent in St. Paul's College; but it failed. The chief reasons of its failure were as follows:- First, The Government Grant-in-aid being calculated for schools with large numbers of Chinese pupils and with Chinese teachers, was wholly inadequate to help a school with a smaller number of pupils and with European teachers: Secondly, The fees that could be charged were necessarily low. For these two reasons it was necessary to raise a large annual subscription in the Colony for the support of the school. Then, in the third place, it was a matter of very great difficulty for the managers, who...\n\n(*) A senior master in the Queen's College stated that he sent his son to be taught there, but always took good care to keep his son in his own room away from the Chinese boys during the mid-day recess. It is a noteworthy fact that the European masters in these mixed schools have, without exception, sent their own children elsewhere for education.\n\n(*) \"Dates and Events,\" p. 18.\n\nPage 314", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 303, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "299 \n\nabated, from a visit to Kowloon in the afternoon and from \nthe first reports I had received from the Harbour and \nPolice Departments on the effects of the storm I had no \ndoubt that it was necessary to open a relief fund at once. \nAfter discussing the matter with 20 Chinese gentlemen \nDirectors of the Tung Wa Hospital and of the Po Leung Kuk \nand Members of the District Watchmen Committee and sub- \nsequently with my Executive Council on the 19th September \nI appointed a large and representative Relief Committee \nwith Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., as Chairman, Mr. H. E. R. \nHunter, Acting Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai \nBanking Corporation as Honorary Treasurer, the Honourable \nMr. E. A. Hewett, Superintendent of the Peninsular and \nOriental Steam Navigation Company as Honorary Secretary, \nand various influential European and Chinese gentlemen as \nMembers. In announcing the starting of a relief fund and \nthe formation of this Committee to the Legislative Council \non the following day I proposed that the Council should \nvote to the fund a sum equal to that obtained from private \nsubscriptions, and suggested that the Relief Committee \nshould consider a scheme for lending money on security \nbut without interest to the former owners of native craft \nto", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415894, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "6 \n\nwith popular wish; but this is going too far. What puzzle me are the two subjects at the head of this article.\n\n\"As regards the first, the Agreement is cancelled, funds subscribed, work begun, and there is no call for additional foreign money.\n\nYet a loan is forced on the officials and gentry, whose distress is pitiful. As to the rice the Japanese refused in Hunan, turn to the Nanking Viceroyalty. The Viceroy's and Governor's telegrams prove the wrong policy of rescuing a man from a well (referring to a Tso Chuan story of a warrior who hauled his foe out of a well only to be captured by him.-E. H. F.), yet the Government, unheeding, insists on compelling them to satisfy outsiders' boundless wants. Mencius' warning to take notice of general objection is disregarded by this violent adoption of a policy of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Does the Government wish to alienate the people, whose attachment it is hard enough to secure in these times of crisis? Does it want to please outsiders, who need no encouragement in their schemes against us? These things puzzle me.\n\n\"Foreign loans are admissible enough when home funds are short and the people unenlightened; when projected reforms, general or particular, are blocked by want of money, then it may be worth risking the fate of Egypt and India by undertaking monetary burdens in hope of future good to State and people. And such action in face of popular objection may be pardoned if there is no other motive.\n\nBut do any of these considerations apply to the forced railway loan?\n\n\"Relief of distress, charity to neighbours, is indeed a way to cement friendly relations, but we must really have surplus before we help outsiders. Now, the Kiang-huai has year after year been starving, and this year the unfed people died of hunger in the ditches in untold numbers. Does the Government forget, or does it purposely shut its eyes? Moreover, its action is styled charity, but is it charity to let one's own stomach go empty in order to supply the rich? Does the duty of mutual exchange justify forcing what is non-existent into being?\n\nIt is called keeping its word. But does the duty... Ab me! To-day society men pervade capital and provinces, evil folk stupidly plot rebellion, daily spying of blunders by Government to give excuse for stirring general disorder, men of purpose constantly lament that the danger of disunion and debacle is not far off. If the Government schemed for a happy future of peaceful constitutional Government it would base its external and internal policy on popular feeling as ascertained by inquiry. But if its policy is repression, does it want to see how much the people will stand, or does it look on them as mere pawns to be given as presents? If so, Yang's words unhappily apply to it.\"\n\nThe \"Nan Fang Pao\" of the 9th November, under \"Railways and Mining,\" has the following:-\n\n\"Censor Hsu Ting-ch'ao has presented a sealed Memorial regarding the forced loan. He points out that though the Soo-Hang-Ning Preliminary Agreement was made by the British Envoy, Sheng notified by letter its abrogation for delay in starting work, and Governor Chang announced its non-recognition. The other side also recognized that they could not build in time, and acknowledged its abrogation. It is by no means good policy now to lose faith with the people in order to acquiesce in a neighbour State's request, and it is impossible to turn forcibly a commercial into a Government railway. Of late the people have been enthusiastic and shares subscribed reached 30,000,600, but the sudden news that the English money is going to be borrowed to build it has greatly incensed people's feelings, and trouble may be apprehended. But if the Wai-wu Pu are in an utter quandary and cannot retrieve the position, we must treat this loan as a State loan independent of railways, though the two provinces will still have to repay its principal and interest out of railway funds. Thus railway rights will not pass into foreign control. This question is a very serious matter for China, since any compromise over it will probably have a great bearing on the cancelled Hankow-Canton Railway question and on the diplomatic difficulties as to Yunnan and Tonquin,\n\n\"The Wai-wu P'u is, by rescript, bidden to take note of the above.\"\n\nThe \"Universal Gazette\" of the 8th November reports that certain shareholders in the Hunan Railway Company have presented a joint application to the Viceroy to withdraw their subscriptions, on the score of there being no definite date for starting and of the managers having thrown up their responsibilities. The Viceroy, Chao, bade them wait quietly and not set an example which might shake the whole business.\n\nThe same paper says that the Hankow Electric Light and Waterworks Company has applied to be paid the 300,000 dollars promised by his Excellency Chang as Government share in the enterprise, now that all the private capital has been paid in and all arrangements made.\n\nGrand Councillor\n\nThe \"Nan Pao\" of the 10th November: \"Important news. Yuan's maintenance of mistaken views as to borrowing funds.\n\n\"His Excellency Yuan vigorously fathers the loan for the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway and is quite unmoved by the telegraphic protests from all over China. A very trusted secretary took an opportunity to ask privately his reasons, whereupon his Excellency recounted his views to the following effect: The development of mines and railways is China's most urgent task and admits of no delay. Unluckily it requires a dozen millions, which the utterly impoverished provincials cannot supply. The inevitable delay in Chinese development will not only make outsiders' interference inevitable, but is also bad for China. Moreover, lots of European States attained to wealth and strength only by borrowing for important works as their own funds were insufficient for. Everything depends upon clear limitation of the Concession granted when making agreements, but if sovereign rights are not let slip it does not follow that the mere raising of foreign loans is to be considered a boundless calamity. So I feel bound to support borrowing to develop mines and railways in every province, the Soo-Hang-Ning Railway being only one instance. Now the final scheme in controlling the State must be to have a single object. However much provincial officials and gentry oppose, I'd rather use absolute force than let popular opinion sway me for hope that the overcoming of this obstacle, by preventing any one daring to stand forth in opposition to future loans for similar ends in other provinces, will enable me to answer to myself without shame. Five per cent. discount, which went into the agent's pocket, has been the rule in arranging loans; but my firm determination is not to take a cent, turning the discount into the principal. My sole aim is by saving the people a fraction of State debt to accomplish a fraction more of my duty. As to public right and public wrong, they take a long time to prove; could the animadversions of the present overthrow my fixed policy? From this his entourage perceived that his mind was made up and did not venture to offer any more advice on this subject.\"\n\n0 \n\nو دوران ایران اسلام \n\n56", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "# INTERIOR OF COW-SHED. HOLSTEIN CATTLE.\n\n# INTERIOR OF COW-SHED AYRSHIRE CATTLE.\n\n# EXTERIOR OF COW-SHED AND ATTENDANTS' QUARTERS.\n\n# INTERIOR OF OCTAGONAL COW-SHED.\n\nMilk utensils will be thoroughly cleaned and sterilised before being taken to the cow-shed, and the greatest care must be taken to keep them so.\n\nBefore starting to milk the cows, the shed must be cleaned out, all manure removed to the fertilizing pit and the cow's udders washed, then change clothing for a clean white suit supplied by the Company. Hands must be washed before milking each cow and a clean cloth is provided for wiping the udders of cows and drying the hands.\n\nDo not put the first drawing of milk into the milk pail as it is often dirty, let it go on the floor.\n\nDo not allow drops of water from your fingers to fall into the milk - this is very objectionable; we want pure, clean milk only.\n\nAs each cow is milked, weigh the milk and pour it into a receiving can which always keep covered against flies and possible taints from the shed. When finished milking, take the milk at once to the Dairy. On returning to the cow-shed, change your milking suits, which are to be used for milking operations only.\n\nMilk is most susceptible to the assimilation of odours of any kind, therefore it is imperative to have everything in connection with the cow-sheds and cows as clean as possible and more especially while the cows are being milked.\n\nMilk is a complete food for man and animal and is known to be the happy hunting ground for all sorts of disease germs, so you must realise the necessity of absolute cleanliness in the production of it. You are expected to keep water tanks, water buckets, feeding tubs and foodstuffs free from taints and dirt of all kinds. It is not expected of you to do anything impossible; take an interest in your work, be punctual at milking and feeding times, attend to the comfort of the cows under your charge at all times, and always bear in mind that fresh air is almost as essential as food to keep them and yourselves in good health.\n\nCattle attendants who do not wish to comply with the above instructions may submit their resignations to the management or take the risk of being summarily dismissed.\n\nThis Company desires to encourage trustworthy men and gives its assurance to attend to the interests of those who diligently and faithfully carry out their duties.\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41\n\n337", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492103, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922]\n\nWhile recognising the justification for the order to shoot, we can all regret that the occasion made it necessary. That no one regrets more keenly than Mr. KING the sufferings caused by the necessities of the occasion we can well believe, but that he acted with the greatest forbearance and a full sense of his responsibility was made abundantly clear. Moreover, those who have closely followed the evidence must fully share the conviction of the Jury that at the time the shooting took place a stage had been reached when any further concession to the will of the crowd would have only resulted later in bloodshed on a far heavier scale if the law was to be eventually upheld. It is clear that the crowd set out with the deliberate intention of breaking the law; the consequences of their illegal action must therefore be accepted.\n\nGovernment undertook to consider the giving of compensation in the case of persons who had been killed or injured it went beyond any legal obligation. Now that the inquiry has terminated, the Government will, of course, fulfil the promise it made, but we hope that, instead of the word \"compensation,\" the term \"compassionate allowance\" will be used to describe any gifts that are made to the sufferers, for that term more correctly expresses the character of the gift.\n\nOne word may be added in reference to the seventh paragraph of the Jury's rider in which they refer to the extremely abnormal conditions that prevailed in the Colony at the time of the incident which, it is very appositely remarked, was closely connected with the criminal intimidation which brought about the strike. When the Jury say that they trust the Government will take such immediate steps as are necessary to prevent any repetition of such chaos, we regard this as a subtle way of expressing the opinion that the Government had failed in this respect in the instance under consideration. The same inference, we suppose, is to be drawn from the expression of a hope \"that the Chinese residents, for their part, will do all that lies in their power to assist the Government to this end with suggestions and advice.\" Many European residents have been wondering whether the Chinese residents—the men who have an important stake in the Colony—gave to the Government on this recent occasion all the advice and help that they might and should have done in their own interests as well as in the interest of the general community.\n\nWe may be quite sure that the Government have learnt many lessons from the recent strike, by which they may be expected to profit in the event of a recurrence of criminal intimidation in the Colony on such a scale; but it is to be hoped that the true lessons of the strike have been learnt by the Chinese, and that we may never again have to record any similar organised effort in the Colony to defy the authority of the Government.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nVICTORY OF THE ANTI-MUI-TSAI AGITATION.\n\n(Daily Press, March 23rd, 1922.)\n\nIt has been at last decided to abolish the mui-tsai system in Hongkong. We have never doubted that this would be the outcome of the agitation maintained in growing strength against it during the past five years. Mr. CHURCHILL, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, has made the announcement in the House of Commons, and the cable tells us it was received with \"cheers.\" These cheers testify to the general interest which has been aroused in a system which violates the British law against slavery, and has been allowed to endure in the Colony from the beginning of its history and the local Government has repeatedly defended the system as a benevolent institution.\n\nWhen the Government undertook to consider the giving of compensation... ...the voice of protest against the system has been raised locally from time to time, and the notable protest of Sir JOHN SMALE, when he was Chief Justice here, some fifty years ago, was mentioned by Mr. CHURCHILL when replying to a question in Parliament on the subject a month or two ago; but never before has a persistent agitation been maintained at home on the subject such as we have had in the last five years.\n\nAs many of our readers will recollect, the starting point of the effort which has culminated so successfully, was a case in the Supreme Court in 1917, when Mr. C. G. ALABASTER was defending a prisoner charged with having unlawfully, by fraud, enticed away two little servant girls from the custody of their mistresses. Mr. ALABASTER argued that the indictment could not stand because the lawfulness of the custody was an essential ingredient of the offence and it had been shown by the evidence that these children had been living in a state of slavery which could not be recognised in a British Colony.\n\nWe discussed in a leading article at the time the point taken by Mr. ALABASTER, and showed that the precedents in other places under the British flag supported his contention. The Chief Justice, it may be mentioned, had been spared the necessity of giving a decision on the point raised by Mr. ALABASTER, as the case against his client had failed on another issue.\n\nLieut.-Colonel JOHN WARD, M.P., the well-known Labour leader, happened to be in the Colony at the time, in command of a regiment of the garrison. He became greatly interested in this flag, and from that moment inaugurated at home an active campaign against the mui-tsai system in British territory.\n\nThere came to the Colony shortly afterwards a Naval Officer and his wife, Commander and Mrs. HASELWOOD—who also became deeply interested in the question, Mrs. HASELWOOD especially. She personally investigated the system, wrote vigorously on the subject to the local papers, and by cable and letter brought the matter to the notice of influential persons at home. Her activities seem to have so exasperated the local Government that it resorted to the most autocratic and reprehensible means of suppressing them. Because Commander HASELWOOD declined to help in this direction he was transferred from the station. He retired from the Service in consequence, on half pay, and has since devoted a good deal of time in assisting his wife to disseminate a knowledge of the mui-tsai system at home.\n\nAccording to the Census there are 8,653 mui-tsai in the Colony. The effect of the Secretary of State's decision is not necessarily to cast all these girls from their present homes, but simply to release them from conditions of service which come within the meaning of the term slavery. The great majority of them will doubtless remain as hired servants. For those who are not so retained some temporary provision will, we suppose, be made by the Government or charitable organisations.\n\nThe Census Officer in his Report on the Census taken last April remarked that the returns showed that very few young girls are employed in the Colony as hired domestic servants. The girl hired by the year, who has been suggested as a substitute for the mui-tsai, does not appear, he said, to be popular, but there are on the other hand a large number of boys between the ages of 12 and 14 employed in domestic work in Chinese households, and there were 122 young girls described as Tuk Mui, a term which in most cases denotes the same status. By a stroke of the pen the mui-tsai status will cease to be recognised, so that all the girls will acquire the status—the designation, at least—of hired domestic servants.\n\nThe mui-tsai system will not be effectually abolished by the mere issue of a proclamation. Some machinery for enforcing the order will be needed, and we await with interest the details of the scheme which is to give effect to this decision.\n\nMeanwhile it is of interest to mention the recent decision of the Chinese Government in Canton to abolish the system, and that a Judicial Commission is at present engaged in drafting regulations which are to apply when abolition is formally decreed.\n\nTHE PEARL OF THE PACIFIC.\n\nThe glories of the waltz should be quickened afresh by \"The Pearl of the Pacific,\" composed by Maud Fitz-Stubbs, better known locally as Mrs. Harry Woods. Already a popular success in Australia, following on the \"Heather\" and \"Orlando\" waltzes, by the same composer, there is every reason to believe the \"Pearl\" will soon become a favourite in dancing circles in the Colony, and beyond. The tune is not flamboyant but is simple and sweet and ideal for its purpose. The second movement, in particular, being especially tuneful.\n\nPiano-players will find this an acquisition to their dance music, and a piece that presents no difficulties to the average player. Copies can be obtained from local music-sellers.\n\nThe will of the Right Hon. Lord Mount Stephen, formerly a draper's apprentice in Aberdeen and in St. Paul's Churchyard, has been proved at £1,414,319. Estate and legacy duties amount to over £500,000. The residue on the property, estimated at £750,000, is left to the King Edward Hospital Fund.\n\nPage 301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492112, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "810\n\nST. PAUL'S COLLEGE. UNIVERSITY VICE-CHANCELLOR AT THE PRIZE-GIVING.\n\nThe courtyard of St. Paul's College was crowded, on March 18th, when the prize distribution took place. Before and after the ceremony the pupils took part in an excellent concert which also included a boxing exhibition. Those who attended included the Vice-Chancellor of the University (Sir William Brunyate, K.C.M.G.) and Lady Brunyate, the Bishop of Victoria, the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.O., and Mrs. Kemp, Dr. and M. J. H. Sanders, the Rev. J. T. Holman, the Rev. and Mrs. E. W. L. Martin, the Rev. H. S. Crole-Rees, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gerken, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith and others.\n\nThe BISHOP OF VICTORIA, who presided, remarked that the high place the school occupied in the educational life of the Colony was due largely to the initiative, inspiration and unflagging zeal of the Headmaster, and the able staff behind him.\n\nThe HEADMASTER (the Rev. A. D. Stewart) in his report said that, having been absent from the Colony for the greater part of last year and, therefore, being in a position to look at things in some perspective, he felt that his best line was to give some general impressions of the school and its work as these struck him upon taking up his work afresh in the school.\n\nIn the first place there was a rapid growth of the \"sporting spirit\"; to those who saw something of the early days of school games and sports in the Colony it was a matter of real wonder to see what rapid progress had been made. There was a day when a football team would walk off the field because of an unpopular decision by the referee, or stop playing to argue with the referee. Now it was rather, \"Play the game, boys and play not merely to win but for the sake of the game.\"\n\n\"Another impression made upon me,\" said Mr. Stewart, \"is the great demand there is now for education. Every school tells the same story of crowded class rooms. We ourselves can tell of rapid increase from a mere handful of barely a dozen students in 1909, to something over 500, on our register to-day. If we include the off-shoots which have sprung up, there are now close upon a thousand students connected with this school. While there is a pleasing element in this, one feels that there is a real danger. The sentiment which is finding popular assent on every side, 'knowledge is power,' is one that is full of peril. And we feel most strongly here that knowledge, let loose without the restraints of morality and religion, constitutes one of the greatest dangers to present day society.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS & [March 25th, 1922.\n\nHitherto it has been mainly on educational lines but we hope to see it carried farther in the near future into other avenues of social service. At present, a free school is being maintained by the subscriptions of the boys and is managed and inspected by a committee chosen by the students. It was a very interesting revelation to me to discover that some whom I considered our best students were also excellent cooks, excellent house-boys (laughter)—and could carry a pole in a way that would put the coolies of Hong-kong to shame—(laughter); that, at the same time, they kept our power station in the Telephone Exchange running night and day, ran a night shift and offered to serve as ward boys and dressers in the Hospital. That was to me a cause of extreme satisfaction. (Applause.) That I think you may all do, whatever you may happen to think about the strike.\n\n\"This same spirit of service is making itself felt further afield, three of our past students have entered the Christian ministry and two more are hoping to do so shortly, while a number of others are devoting their lives to Christian educational work both on the Staff of this school and of several others in South China.\n\n\"As to the scholastic side of the work, little needs to be said beyond the fact that the school was visited in December last by the Inspector of English Schools and I have heard from him that the school has earned the highest grant. This reflects the greatest credit on last year's Acting-Principal, Mr. E. G. Stewart, and the other members of the Staff who, as usual, have given of their very best to the school. The school suffered severe losses in the resignation of Mrs. Martin, on the occasion of her marriage, after ten years service in the school the value of which cannot be estimated; or Mrs. Andrews, on her departure for India; and of Mrs. Walmsley, upon her return to England. We have sustained further serious loss in the departure of Messrs Wei Wing Yuet and Ip Chor Shang to take up business. Mr. Wei had been Senior Mathematical master for a number of years and Mr. Ip had done splendid work both as Headmaster of the Junior School and as Housemaster of the Hostel. To fill these vacancies we have been fortunate in securing the services of three Bachelors of Science of the Hongkong University, Messrs. Fok Nai Hang, Yeung Kwai Chiu and Lok Sik Tin. We are also glad to welcome the Rev. H. S. Bailey, a Cambridge M.A., who has just joined our Staff.\"\n\nADDRESS BY SIR WILLIAM BRUNYATE.\n\n\"I said I should like to meet you on the football field, because I am quite convinced that I want you all to play games, or, at least to try to; and I myself am a living example that it is easier to try to play games than to play them well. I am not quite so sure about my desire to see you all educated, and that because I never quite know what you aim at in education.\n\nI agree, as I listened to Mr. Stewart's report, that if you are to be educated it cannot be done better than here. I have seen a great many schools in the last years; some very good and some not so good; but I do feel you are very fortunate in having here a combination of a strong Government to provide you with necessary money which is not provided by the trustees; to have an Education Department which sees to your organisation; and to have the moral influence which comes from your devoted teachers. I am glad to hear that you have just taken amongst your teachers three of our old graduates—(applause) in the sense that I do not think you will get better teachers. (Applause.) I notice that Mr. Stewart called them Bachelors of Science, but I regret that they are Bachelors of Science and Engineering; I know that that means they can show you what mathematics and science really mean, but I don't mind telling you that I rather grudge them to engineering.\n\nTRY TO UNDERSTAND; NOT MEMORISE.\n\n\"Then, as to your own work, we conduct examinations and you yourselves have taken some of them. You were not as successful as you might have been this year and I hope you will be more successful now you have Mr. Stewart back. But I have seen some of your papers and have read the reports of your examiners and this I can say to you; Do try to understand what you are being taught, I do not mean in the lower forms, try to understand what you are taught and not to memorise it.\n\nSir WILLIAM BRUNYATE, after thanking the Bishop for his welcome to Lady Brunyate and himself, remarked that he had hoped to meet members of the school in connection with the distribution of prizes for the Football League, but he was prevented owing to the necessity of providing for feeding the little community over which he presided during the recent strike.\n\nDo remember, in other words, that the examiners are not always easily fooled, and when the examiner carefully sets you a question for the answer to which he knows you have not been prepared, and you give the answer for which you had been prepared, he knows, and we know, what has happened. It is not a matter of passing examinations, but it is a matter of preparing yourself for the work of life; for that purpose you want to understand.\n\n\"This leads me to my third impression; the importance of keeping the ideal of social service before the students of this generation. Here we have the panacea for the peculiar ills from which this present age is suffering, a good example of which we have just had in the recent strike. Morally, strikes are indefensible, and yet they are unavoidable so long as men persist in the belief that their possessions are for themselves alone, rather than that they are held in trust for others. Nothing but a sense of true citizenship, a readiness to put the interests of others before one's own, can avert such upheavals as that which we have just passed through.\n\n\"With some such aim before us we have sought for some years to keep the ideal of the true citizen ever before the boys and have rejoiced to see signs of the ideal being put into practice.\n\nTHE UNIVERSITY IN THE STRIKE.\n\nOne thing I can say, apropos of the strike, and that is that when a strike becomes general it is the business of us all to face it and to keep things going. I have no doubt that Mr. Stewart was able to keep things going here, with the help of his staff and boys; I know we at the University were, thanks mainly to ...\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor then distributed the prizes.\n\nPage 811", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504665, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "56\n\nhis cruisers from these waters, probably because he has neither money to pay his crews nor ammunition for his guns, and I doubt whether he will be able to give this colony any further help for some time to come.\n\n2. The position in and around Peking appears to be such that the so-called Chief Executive is wholly without power; and no matter what form of Government may be set up at Peking as a result of the conflicts now in progress between the various war lords in the north, it seems certain that the present Canton Government will refuse to recognise its authority.\n\n3. In Shanghai and the provinces at the mouth of the Yang-tsze Marshal Sun Chuan-fang appears at present to be the dominant power, and he is, I am told, at the head of a well-drilled and well-equipped army of about 60,000 men. I have been informed that Marshal Sun is a native of Fukien Province; that he has been much incensed by the advance of the Cantonese Red army under General Cheung Kai-shek north of Swatow to the frontier of the Fukien Province; that he is a determined enemy of the Russian Bolshevik influence in China; that he, like Admiral Li, regards the present de facto Government of Canton as a rebel Government, and that he has expressed his intention of marching southward through Fukien into Kuang-tung in order to overthrow the present Cantonese Soviet Administration. I am endeavouring to test the accuracy of this information, but my impression is that no real help can be expected from Marshal Sun as regards Cantonese affairs for a considerable time, if at all.\n\n4. The position at Canton itself is not yet very clear to me. There is no doubt that the present de facto Government is a Soviet of the Russian type with Mr. Wong Tsing-wai as Chairman and Dr. C. C. Wu (a son of the late Mr. Wu Ting-fang) as its principal foreign adviser, while Mr. Sung Tsz-man is in control of financial affairs. I doubt whether any of these three could properly be described as \"Red,\" but they have certainly been under Russian influence; they have been financed with Russian money; Russian military officers have trained their troops, and munitions of war have been supplied to them from Russia vià Vladivostok. Members of the Canton Soviet, namely, Mr. Chan Kung-pok and Mr. Tam Peng-shan. At least two are undoubtedly \"Red\"; and so was Mr. Liu Chung-hoi, who has recently been assassinated. The forces of the Canton Government are mainly under the command of General Cheung Kai-shek, who is said to be a professional soldier and not a politician. I can get no reliable information concerning him, and I do not know how far he is under Bolshevik influence. His troops have certainly been drilled and equipped by Russians.\n\n5. As regards the Russians themselves, there is again no reliable evidence, but I believe the truth to be that they do not exceed 200 in number and may even be as few as 50, and that both their numbers and their influence have of late been steadily decreasing. Admiral Basire, who commands the French fleet on this station, told me recently on the authority of the French consul at Canton that a Russian officer recently had a dispute with a Chinese officer in Canton; that in the course of the altercation the Russian put his hand on the Chinaman's shoulder; that the Chinaman thereupon whipped out a revolver and shot the Russian dead; that Borodiu, who is the head of the Bolshevik Mission in Canton, so far from feeling himself strong enough to protest against this act, had been obliged to ignore it. I incline to believe that the Chinese are already heartily sick of their Russian advisers, and would be thankful to get rid of them. I may say in this connection that shortly after my arrival I received through Sir James Jamieson a formal despatch from the Canton Government dated the 2nd November requesting me to expel from Hong Kong Mr. Chan Kwing-ming and Mr. Ngai Pong-peng, who are the avowed enemies of the present Canton Soviet. I replied on the 12th November pointing out that it was the traditional policy of the Hong Kong Government to prevent this colony from being used for political intrigue against the Chinese Government; that I should steadfastly adhere to that policy and expel any who evade it; but that I must first be satisfied that the Canton authorities will reciprocate by refusing to allow the Kuang-tung Province to be used as a base for political intrigue against this colony, and that I should regard the expulsion of the Russian Bolshevik emissaries now in Canton as a proof that the Canton Government is in earnest in this matter. I attach copies of these two letters.* No further communication on this subject has been received by me from the Canton Government.\n\n6. In consequence of the present anti-British boycott in Canton, I found that prior to my arrival practically all communication both between this Government and the British consul-general at Canton and also between the British consul-general at Canton and the de facto Government at Canton had been suspended. Sir James Jamieson and Sir Edward Stubbs had not met each other since the outbreak of the trouble in June last, nor had Sir James Jamieson left the Shameen and entered the Chinese city to visit any Cantonese officials since that date. Sir James, in fact, wrote to me that it would be unhealthy for him to do so in view of the fact that he was on the list for assassination. I at once invited Sir James to visit me in Hong Kong, and he was with me at Government House from the 11th to the 19th November. As a result of my conversations with him, it became evident to me that negotiations with the Canton Government could not be carried on by him, and that if such negotiations were to take place I must myself get into direct personal touch with the officers of the de facto Government in Canton.\n\n7. As a first step I made a speech at the Hong Kong University on the 11th November, which was in effect an offer of friendship to the Canton Government and a suggestion that we should let byegones be byegones, end the boycott, and resume the old amicable relations between Hong Kong and Canton. I attach a copy of this speech.* My next step was to write on the 24th November to Dr. C. C. Wu inviting him to pay me a visit. He replied on the 26th November that it was impossible for him to leave Canton, but that he hoped I might be able to visit him there. I attach a copy of his reply.*\n\nMeanwhile there had been a certain fraternisation between Cantonese merchants and the Chinese merchants of Hong Kong. A delegation of Cantonese merchants visited Hong Kong on the 20th November and remained here until the 25th November. During that time they were entertained by the Chinese merchants of this colony, by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, and also by Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, the Acting Colonial Secretary, whom I authorised to receive them at tea. The result of this visit was to show very clearly that the Cantonese merchants were as anxious as the Hong Kong merchants to see the end of the boycott; and, although they were not empowered to negotiate any settlement, I took advantage of the occasion of their visit to announce that the Hong Kong Government would be willing to appoint a strong deputation of merchants to visit Canton and to negotiate a settlement provided that the Canton Government would appoint suitable delegates to meet them. The names I mentioned were those of Sir Paul Chater, Messrs. Chow Shou-sen and Kotewall (Chinese members of the Legislative Council), and Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, the head of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. These names were given to Dr. S. W. Tso, a prominent member of the Chinese community of Hong Kong, for communication to Dr. C. C. Wu, to whom he is related. Dr. Tso returned with the unsatisfactory reply that (a) the strikers would elect three members of their committee to be delegates with full powers to negotiate, one of them almost certainly being the chairman of the Strike Committee; (b) the merchants would also elect one prominent merchant to be a member of the delegation, this would most probably be the chairman of the Canton General Chamber of Commerce; (c) other members of the Strike Committee, probably six, and perhaps one or two additional merchants would be present at the negotiations to watch the proceedings; and (d) that Mr. Luk King-fo, a minor Cantonese official, could be attached to the Canton delegation as secretary. It would obviously have served no useful purpose to send the influential Hong Kong delegates, whom I had named, up to Canton to negotiate a settlement with men such as these, and I therefore cast about for means of starting negotiations upon other lines.\n\n8. On the 2nd December I was informed that Mr. Yeung Sai-ngam, a semi-official emissary of the Canton Government, was anxious to see me. I agreed to see him and he came informally to visit me at Government House that afternoon, explained to him verbally that the Hong Kong Government was absolutely sincere in its wish for a settlement of the present trouble with Canton, but that it would be useless for me to send a deputation to Canton for the purpose of negotiating a settlement unless the Canton Government appointed delegates of equal standing. I also gave him a personal letter for delivery to Mr. Wong Tsing-wai, presenting him my compliments and informing him that I had had an interesting conversation that day with Mr. Yeung Sai-ngam. This letter was intended to serve as a credential. On the 8th December Mr. Yeung Sai-ngam returned to Hong Kong and brought me a Chinese letter of a complimentary nature in the handwriting of Mr. Wong Tsing-wai and also the draft in Chinese of a letter which it was proposed\n\n• Not printed.\n\n57", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-2 Canton boycott- opening of negotiations with the Canton Government 2-11-1925 - 23-12-1925", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-498-2 Canton boycott- opening of negotiations with the Canton Government 2-11-1925 - 23-12-1925", "content_text": "## Enclosure\n\nI attach a copy of this speech. My next step was to write on 24th November to Dr. C.C. Wu inviting him to pay me a visit. He replied on November 26th that it was impossible for him to leave Canton, but that he hoped I might be able to visit him there. I attach a copy of his reply.\n\nMeanwhile, there had been a certain fraternisation between Cantonese merchants and the Chinese merchants of Hongkong. A delegation of Cantonese merchants visited Hongkong on the 20th November and remained here until 25th November. During that time, they were entertained by the Chinese merchants of this Colony, by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce and also by Mr. A.G.M. Fletcher, the acting Colonial Secretary, whom I authorised to receive them at tea.\n\nThe result of this visit was to show very clearly that the Cantonese merchants were as anxious as the Hongkong merchants to see the end of the boycott; and, although they were not empowered to negotiate any settlement, I took advantage of the occasion of their visit to announce that the Hongkong Government would be willing to appoint a strong deputation of merchants to visit Canton and to negotiate a settlement provided that the Canton Government would appoint suitable delegates to meet them. The names I mentioned were those of Sir Paul Chater, Messrs Chow Shou-son and Kotewall (Chinese members of the Legislative Council) and Mr. D.G.M. Bernard, the head of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. These names were given to Dr. S.V. Tso, a prominent member of the Chinese community of Hongkong, for communication to Dr. C.C. Wu, to whom he is related.\n\nPage 6 \nPage 10 \nMH \n\nDr. Tso returned with the unsatisfactory reply that: (a) the strikers would elect three members of their Committee to be delegates with full powers to negotiate, one of them almost certainly being the Chairman of the Strike Committee; (b) the merchants would also elect one prominent merchant to be a member of the delegation: this would most probably be the Chairman of the Canton General Chamber of Commerce; (c) other members of the Strike Committee, probably six, and perhaps one or two additional merchants would be present at the negotiations to watch the proceedings; and (d) that Mr. Luk King fo, a minor Cantonese official, could be attached to the Canton delegation as secretary. It would obviously have served no useful purpose to send the influential Hongkong delegates, whom I had named, up to Canton to negotiate a settlement with men such as these, and I therefore cast about for means of starting negotiations upon other lines.\n\n8. \nOn the 2nd December, I was informed that Mr. Yeung Sai-ngam, a semi-official emissary of the Canton Government, was anxious to see me. I agreed to see him, and he came informally to visit me at Government House that afternoon. I explained to him verbally that the Hongkong Government was absolutely sincere in its wish for a settlement of the present trouble with Canton, but that it would be useless for me to send a deputation to Canton for the purpose of negotiating a settlement unless the Canton Government appointed delegates of equal standing. I also gave him a personal letter for delivery to Mr. Wong Tsing-wai, \n\nPage 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-2 Canton boycott- opening of negotiations with the Canton Government 2-11-1925 - 23-12-1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529127, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 130, "title": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930.\n\n## Questions at Sanitary Board Meeting.\n\n## FEARS OF CHINESE.\n\nProblems connected with the chlorination of water are to be raised at today's meeting of the Sanitary Board when Mr. T. N. Chau, pursuant to notice, will ask:\n\n\"In view of the fear expressed by certain members of the Chinese community that the frequent drinking of chlorinated water might be injurious to health, will the Head of the Sanitary Department inform the Board:\ni. Whether in the opinion of the Medical Officers of Health such is the case or not?\nii. Whether the quantity of chlorinated lime used on each and every occasion is prescribed and supervised by expert officers?\niii. Whether there is any other chemical substance of less pronounced odour and taste which could be effectively substituted for chlorinated lime?\niv. If the answer to question (ii) is in the negative, can anything be done to remove or lessen the very disagreeable odour and taste?\"\n\nIt is certain that the liability of the rank and file of the people to accept this truth is certainly true and many Christians would do well to accept this truth and readjust some of their conceptions to agree with it. God has without doubt set limits to His omnipotence. Certain things He will not do.\n\nAn important express train was about to leave a terminus when a woman arrived at the station-master's office and asked to speak to the general manager. When she got through to him, she begged him to delay the train for a quarter of an hour. She explained that her son had met with an accident and was not expected to live. His father was on his way, but could not arrive for a quarter of an hour. The only chance of his seeing the boy alive was to catch the train. Could it not be delayed?\n\nThe Manager replied that he was exceedingly sorry but that the train made several important connections which would be lost if the train did not start on time, and that there might be others on the train to whom it was as important that the train should start on time as it was for the father that it should be delayed. He concluded kindly but firmly by saying that it was his business, in the interests of the community as a whole, to maintain as reliable a train service as possible.\n\nSimilarly, God in His wisdom maintains a reliable universe. And yet God is infinitely greater than a general manager. He knows that all men's needs, and it is certain that He has ways of working which we still cannot follow. Moreover, He has taught us through His Son to pray about our needs.\n\nChrist would not have taught us the Lord's Prayer if it were absurd to expect God to answer our prayers. He taught us to say \"Our Father, give us our daily bread and deliver us from evil.\" While therefore the Christian realises that God is concerned about all His creation, having no favourites, will not act for the benefit of one to the detriment of another, yet he has no hesitation in simply presenting to his Heavenly Father either his own needs or those of others.\n\nThen he just leaves the matter in God's hands, believing firmly that a God of love will act for the benefit to His servant if to do so is consistent with His divine plans. It is thus that a Christian prays for himself or others in sickness.\n\nIn conclusion, let us return to our starting point. We saw that the Christian view of God as the source of all health, the giver of life, forms the background for the highest healing work. It forms the background also for the sick. The Christian lives in a friendly universe in which and over which a God of love reigns. No amount of pain and suffering can persuade him to adopt a harsh and bitter outlook on life. When suffering of any sort comes, he finds peace in the fellowship of Christ's sufferings. He knows himself to be treading the same path as his Lord, and he has with him continually the sustaining and triumphing presence of Christ. He feels himself bound very closely to his master. If he is released from sickness, he rejoices in the triumph of the healing power of God and is grateful; if suffering continues, he faces it in the power of God and praises Him for His sustaining love.\n\nThus it is that St. Paul, after much suffering, was able to say: \"I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor things present...\"\n\n## CHINESE ESTATES.\n\n### Probate Granted in Three Cases.\n\nONE INTESTATE.\n\nTang Man-pong, late of No. 103, Wanchai Road, who died at St. Paul's Hospital on January 11, this year, left Hongkong estate which has been valued at $18,800. Probate of the will has been granted to Tang Shiu-shan and Tang Man-tung, father and elder brother respectively, both of whom are living at the Wanchai address, and are the executors in the will.\n\nLeung Lok-hing, alias Leung Cheong-kee, alias Leung Hing-kee, alias Leung Shun-kee, who died at the Tai Leung Bazaar, Shun Tak District, Kwangtung, on August 26, last year, left Hongkong estate worth $17,300. Probate of the will has been granted to his only daughter, Leung Man-shuk, who is temporarily residing at No. 50, Bonham Road. Everything is bequeathed to the petitioner, who is the sole executrix appointed in the will.\n\nFan Ho-tsun, a minor, 19 years of age, who died intestate on or about June 23, 1928, at No. 7, Po Hing Fong, Hongkong, left local estate to the value of $9,300, this having been bequeathed to him under another will of the year 1915. Letters of administration have been granted to his mother and guardian, Fan Chan-shi, for the use and benefit of Fan Ho-tsun, also a minor.\n\nLocal estate worth $4,600 was left by Ethel Ho, otherwise Ho Li Kwai Kiu (or Kau), late of No. 77, Fong Lok Li, North Szechuen Road, Shanghai, who formerly lived at No. 36, Mongkok Road, Kowloon, and died at the Chinese Isolation Hospital, Shanghai, on May 20, this year. Probate of the will has been granted to Chong How-fo, of No. 1306, Young Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, temporarily residing at No. 2, Bonham Road.\n\nPage 130\nPage 131", "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": 531650, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CHINA AUCTION\n\nSPORTY GOODS.\n\nThe Undamaged buy is anounced the spanning at imalo stare\n\nROOMS\n\nIndustrial and Commercial Bank Bakang.\n\nsild, Queen's Road, Centrul at No Bk House Streler and Bissnésand Housekee\n\nCiljnennt be Heeers Powell & G\n\nDijaga and Burcjaluka in 10t| Beperti al tepk, sporta pieds. Perf Pontracting sise undertaker\n\nInspection of Store verdalle in. Hod.\n\nTAUPOLE & SONE\n\nBlackan, 28d detokes, 1981.\n\nOm Furniture for disposal\n\nMy private paAN AL BELONGA peshk\n\nFOR SALE OR HIRE.\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND, KOWLOON MARINE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLint. Col. Robertson, Hong Kong Club, will be glad to receive any article which may be give\n\nauctioned as Armisting Day for\n\nthe bench of Karl Halge Fund,\n\nLOT NO. 73\n\nChioare Boden, 72,768 vs. ft. Apply\n\n19, & RADERY 4 00, LTD.\n\nPOPULAR\n\nand earsally hases th! EFFERVESCENT SALTS\n\nameponse to this approud may be\n\nmade\n\nPrescribed\n\nconstipation.\n\nIle in anaouraged to appeal headache, indigestion liver and\n\nsenim thin your owing to the vary įkalney disorders, Motach com MEN KOLLA KITla sent last year.\n\n(PÍNIALA, STE, Blo\n\nNOTICE\n\nItse kemby notifed that Sporlal Current Papénit a/c Pana Boska,\n\n27 in the game of Tang Yai Kan and X, 514 In the same of Tank But Sing\n\nwith\n\nYokohama Specie Bank, LLC., Hong! Konur, have been reported lost ar stolen and the sang nay kepeby declared to be canceled.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIL SKOTT & CO.\n\n―\n\nJ\n\nWe have this day authorsand Mr.\n\nPeter Ball Helga Melbyn to sigu Fr Pin Рег Procure, Mr George Bravet Wetten kavag handed in Kin power of attorney.\n\nIL SKOTT A CO. Fongkong, 19th Getaber, 1981\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe Pearl of the \"Kingship at\n\nChilier and the Golden Jubilea!\n\nThey are justly calabratori and MEN LIQDAN LAD I LINDLADÍ,\n\nThey can\n\nbe procured\n\nin Hongkong—\n\nSincere & Co., Berlin & Co., The Pharmacy,\n\nand\n\nKing's Dispensary and in Kowloon-\n\nThe World Drug Co.\n\nTAAI HING\n\nGentlemen's Tailors &\n\nMilitary Uniform\n\nisa\n\nLatest Style Hata\n\nFar Spa. Cheap.\n\nstablishment of the App Satisfaction Guaranteed. of Prayer\" will take place at the Catholic Cathedral an Sander, the 126, Pottinger Street, Central\n\n18th Ovember, 1881.\n\nMORNING SERVICE 8 mm.\n\nEVENING SERVICE L24 pm.\n\nA Triduum will be bold also a\n\nthe above place at 530 pm, on the | three (2) days preceding the celebration.\n\nG\n\nPARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, De 3604) day of October, 1831, at 3. athena of the Tablic Werka Department, by Order at His Excellency the Governor att nae Let of Crew Land 1 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colay of Hong Kong for a term M 75 JOLER Cencing fron E\n\nJuly, 1898, with the option of\n\nTeroval of a Crawa Best to be\n\nJced by Far Surveyor of Ris\n\nHONGKONG\n\nMUSIC CO.\n\n26. Wyndham Street.\n\nTal 2290.\n\nDealers in Munke,\n\nMusical Merchandise and\n\nAccessories Alag\n\nExpert in Repairing all types of\n\nMusical Instrumenta\n\nand\n\nPiano Tuning.\n\nMajnatý thu King, furi Reasonable Charges.\n\nther term of 24 years less the\n\nlast three days thereof.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\nTO LET.\n\n8, Conduit Red\n\nDWELLING HOUSES.\n\nrose\n\ngro Lad\n\nnaturalebed. Garden.\n\nKo 22 Confult Road.\n\n|Hour.\n\nGodown at Daddell Street.\n\nOffer Rossa 16. Queen's Loud. Central.\n\nLINNTRAD & HAVIS,\n\nALEXANDRA HITILDINGE\n\nTO LET-IN THE PEAK.\n\nNA Z MIŠINTAIN VEW\n\nApply to\n\nPERCY SHITH SETH\n\nAPT PVING\n\nNOTICE.\n\nClassified Advertisements\n\nwill not be accepted for insertion after 6 p.m.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLAMMERT'S\n\nAUCTIONS\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe Undersignad katy pocultad Instruction tolly Public Auction\n\n'TL'ESDAY,\n\nThe 17th Detaker, 1983. COMMERCİNE at 18.30 a.m.\n\nat The Star Furniture StormX.\n\nSo, 22, Wing Lack Building, Hankow Road, Kawhon.\n\nA Quantity of Valuable Beaned\n\nFurniture and Garipu.\n\nOn View from Monday, the 26th October, 1951, Catalogue will be issued. Terms: --Cash on Delivery,\n\nLAMMERT BROS.\n\nAuctionem.\n\nOUR BREAD\n\nFRENCH BREAD\n\nCOFFEE ROLLS SANDWICH FREAP\n\n=\n\nDELIVERED DAILY\n\nIn Kawloon f November JL, JOSE, Platou place widers in adorner\n\nMARCEL\n\nCONFECTIONER\n\nM-NATHAN ROAD TO\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMOL & MAS, Y. MORL Bolder of Japaanse Government Caricate\n\nCares Sprained Ankle and Wrist app. \"South China Morung Prat” 4. Wyndham Streit. -Ial Koer), Telephone 2801.\n\nNEW\n\nVictor\n\nRecords\n\nUSED CARS HUGHES & HOUGH\n\nWATCH\n\nThis Cobe wary day for\n\nLIMITED.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have receive instruction to sell by Pahle\n\na dual basin in GUARANTEED I>ED CARS\n\nToday Special PALATIN, BEVEN 1926-1927-70r Account of the Caprerasli. modal, da mechanical order\n\nMONDAY, . #875.\n\n་\n\nThis cat fi guaranteed agafant j ali mochandaal defecta for a period | of thirty days.\n\nPhase to-day for a trial run, HONGKONG INED CARS, LTTI, Phone: 28481 (Qiles) H£750 (Show Room).\n\nRARE CHINBR\n\n|COʻNINE CHAFTSMEN AT\n\nDISPLA? OF CHINESE PIREWORKS\n\n· QUAIRĪT” CHINESE CUSTŪRIS\n\nALL TO BE SEEN AT THE\n\n\"CHINA\"\n\nEXHIBITION,\n\nCITY HALL\n\nsch, min 4 7th November, 1981\n\nCHEME PUNCIEH\n\nDEXTERHE-ORIENT\n\nMortimer Uk & Rinate Agenta “PEAR BANSIONS,”\n\nHerend à Five-rammad ndictments.\n\nkatarken & Sandstad had MÜKƏ modern conjuction with garage\n\nSAMRAŞ BUILDINGS\"\n\nthe 28th October, 1991,\n\nat their Halen Rome, No. F. Queen's Rond. Central (French Bank Beliding BaseTMENİ | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising of --\n\nSideboard, Dining Table and Chales, Dressing Tubền, Ten Chest, ¡Croekary, Eléctile Pra, Chasale- H. BILA Ware Wall Plates, Gleaner, Kitchen Utensils, Daner Barem,... mka.\n\n*\n\nTexten Carpeta\n\n:\n\n· Cabinet Gramophone, Goud Caller tom of Recordi, mostly Red Seal. High Class Carpenter'a Tuola, I Laths. Several Pots of Rhododen\n\nCrysalidocarpus\n\nrom\n\nAnd\n\n*(Mauritius Palm).\n\nיי\n\nNote.\n\nNow on View.\n\nThe above are high claw\n\n'pute and in good conditiam mod\n\nbe sold without reserve. Loved from Kowinna Ten for The sentence of bayern.\n\nTerm-Cash on Dativars\n\nBUGRES & ROUGH, LTD.\n\nMake Canones. ilangkanje, zied Oetoboř, 1961\n\nTHE\n\n│\"SOUTH CHINA\n\ni\n\nMORNING POST\"\n\nis always on sale at\n\nSELFRIDGE'S\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLondon, W. 1.\n\nThe fol - sharp poitibeyken in the Ewe Carton Mẫu have\n\n· bass lost at manda The Team For Denda are in deʊ pay. The Pakka ke warned not in accept these calientern\n\nPo skarva Scrip. No. 14876-848242/341 kc, în x/n Yan Ching Chun\n\n14981-276485:20 Az.\n\n200\n\n100\n\n100\n\n100\n\nfor\n\nOCTOBER.\n\nTSANG FOOK. PIANO CO.,\n\n8, Des Voeux Road, Central,\n\n(Entrance lee Honge Street)\n\nTelephone 21648.\n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS\n\nAT\n\nAll other Advertisements 4 p.m.\n\nGray's Yellow Lantern Shops Alexanden Bldg. Tel. 21854\n\n140:33–440691/900\n\n17726–898257/454\n\n17727–222457/50% 40-\n\n17728-878381/456\n\nChau Chik Nia\n\n-do\n\n---\n\nTHE SOY KUT BANK.\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\n-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"& BAD ONE.\n\nUNITED\n\nMATSO\n\n- EDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nFor a good fit\n\nto go\n\nA-MAN, HING\n\n1\n\nCHEON.\n\n(LATE AA-MEN HING CHEANG.\n\nECU\n\nTAILORS. DIAPERS\n\n& OUTFFITERS\n\nto Military Officers\n\nfor many years.\n\n34. Qarena Rood Central.\n\nT! 23334\n\nWHITE ANTS\n\nand cockroaches will be banished from every place where care is taken to use\n\nFLUIDE EXPRESS.\n\nSale Agents: Compagnis Ostore. Proman Bukhang. Das Vanch Boyd, Canteni,\n\nTH. SI5\n\nANCHORS\n\nBUTTER\n\nFOR OVER\n\nHALF A CENTURY\n\nthe \"ANCHOR \"symbol has been the Sterling\n\nnurk of baller,\n\nIt is your guarantee i\n\nFINEST QUALITY.\n\nAsk For It By The Kaize\n\nsold by-\n\nThe South China old Storage Co., Ltd.\n\n221 Da Vomux Rand Centr\n\nThe Cafeteria. Peninsula Hotel, Kowloos. Rahim Store. Shameen Distritor.\n\nARGE SIZ\n\nExtra moisture.. Easier shaving\n\nWilleme Sharing Creem is the diman at 90 years' experienes in making Father for sukuning the hoord and com\n\nalling the skin.\n\nTrabanels 10% intera meistars them way ather Fedkar we know of Thara why your ride aldas sa swiftly and smoothly, and your beard comes all\n\nsa dasa and clean, Willana la millal ve tõeline poravnavalenty!\n\nAdnak at Williams Aque Velva niður shaving, well knep your side smooth and soft all day long-leak as Wi inther Inmuna 195. Try this. habeat playlag domination. For sale everywhat\n\nDodge & Seymour (China) Ltd.\n\nHagk my Shangbai-Harbin\n\nWilliams\n\nSHAVING CREAM — AGUA VELVA\n\nCLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID\n\nFOR EVERY ADDITIONAL DAY\n\n50\n\nIF NOT PREPAID A BOOKING FEE OF\n\n50 IS CHARGED.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE=EN\" CENTRE LATHE, Amarinan makA VI, DE, Melor X 1.2, complete with whiske for KIR GRUN Going Thong. Desar\n\n= (1 Bed\n\nPORNALE – MANOMAG CAR, 200 ronning vier, Jeromeni til 2002 1945. Can banen 12 Kathan Garags, Köni Ja amat Team dua Na\n\nFOR SALE. 1990 SUNBEAM boleč tyrke, overkant valve quim, perfect Peking crter, prien 1975, or senrent Konfor selling, wwIAL mon at WIH BIT NO. 26, \"g С. И Pet\"\n\nFOR MALE-ZA-TRAR ICARETER CAMERA Pie 15\" x 24\" PONTEARE and plate. Terra) F714 \"Campur Sheller swabbe uztenaten, ailment new.\n\nReplies in the following Box Nombora uze lying at this\n\nC\n\nNo Te TH 10) Pe Koh, KAI BAT PUT A L\n\nHid KT 840 149 R44 8 20\n\nbakııı Replies to the following Box Numbers were called for and/or forwarded ta nádvertisers, yesterday:—\n\nYALE\n\nE\n\nwww\n\nZuma pa andrium should neeskijaky MěTETİRMİZM, THES necovariis far pukilentiam, hatt ta medwore that replies received by the person Cực shom they are intended.\n\nTHE MAXI-KAUNE RUPEI ELL\n\nTe\n\nHax No. 1,\n\n#K. FI. PAL\"\n\nS\n\nH\n\nWe will forwačil teplies to the stated nádro L Live Advertiser desires\n\nIf the wants) kalvnctioors are quickly met and they de met derden any further repila tevazásd, we shall be glad to be\n\ncomplir In that cløbct\n\nyou\n\nPosted replies to advertisements will be accepted, if they ar not sufficiently stamped. Correct postage in Three Cent..\n\nLOST.\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nWANTED.-TNI\n\nSAFE The Evek med chillin, Kanisan po Write Box No. 14, “S. C. K.\n\nTHE AMERICAN CONSILATS GENERAL WHL FENOL Bulatan for a STENOGRAPHER, Thorval knowledge of Englik, Contamme, atomography vasential. Applien išoma, jelang začećanom sisi vžgečlanew, will on received by maat volt.\n\nED\n\nWANTED TO BUY.\n\nWANTED TO MITOM \"BOB\" časa in puod condition Write Box Nu C. H Fool\"\n\n$106_ Wrike Bust Ha, 241, \"4 (LM).\n\n| FOR BAR\"LL TEARETEK theo\n\nmonth Goal polgan, Aly\n\nKe\n\nTỉnh Bình Hà Lan Hà T\n\nP\n\nPOST\n\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 23.\n\n1931.\n\nNow On Sale\n\nThe New\n\nVICTOR DANCE\n\nRECORDS\n\nFor October\n\nS. Meutrie & Co., Ltd\n\nChater Road.\n\nFOR SALE BY AGE BOILER & STEAM PIPE COVERING.\n\n| KOPRIGERATOR, far tally man\n\nswing chang. Chiar fearing Colony,\n\nFriss Box Na Bail, \"8. C. M. Be“\n\nFOR SALE—AVEIEN 7. H. 1928\n\n5. C, PAL\"\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBUSY BEES WORKING PARTY. TATEGEMAN JONG DRIVE = The Halana May Salatuta, Thersing, Orsakar 29, at 12pm, land, at St. Dunstan and Local Chart\n\nTelephoto 27900,\n\nPREMISES WANTED.\n\nWa malu a speciality of thủa cines of work and\n\nskall it led te quote for carvering with zapantas Magmada Plate Covering or 4-bestos Rope Lagging.\n\nTHE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO., Zanna Bunding, Chater Road, Bing Kong\n\nTUITION GIVEN.\n\nPREMISTS TO LET.\n\nTO LET, XBET CRESCENT, WANTED,\n\nValready\n\nwell 1993 and graduate Tasekáč, PUPILS IN EMPT garden and a Putnamien Erba v J Brandaza, se turn an Tich NovembR PIL. Apply to 7. 3. Dvening Chan\n\nWetta Box No. 24L, PE (C. S. Park.\"\n\nvary\n\nTO LET.—ndary Street, Keminen, uns. VOLGAN'S SCHOOL AT DVMa- i PEAN HOG.DE WIN all makers on sewing and eating. Everse gosZAR Tegen de dinge Apply to soul. Apply Salam, 4D, Hankow\n\nCaBxtreme-Oriani, Kand, Kowloon,\n\n14 REWAN 10 will be plea. La sajose benzine hack by Sirs. Thompson, BA WANTED TO PURCHASE (1) WANTED. – Furdsked me thľuzakk\n\n|et FLAI, Dreamber til, at a HT Carharra Bend, Jewison, pet IPAR- Jak hal 14 de may end keel. Wene Bax 200, 100, Frmer zal jubing, sin desc.\n\nKÓW Zapad 12 Belober evening, 380T GUN. Nast in excellent lery them Kongkang apierem sad camion Swami Fill Bulk. We what marka en meeka Bave band Bead NA. 12, 13. C. H. ETM for Uhren Jokes, very taske nhl Bay Wanted TO BUY-PEIZEZEN'S Do My Lata may kasas\n\n\"ODE TUN, EDTA, Son-ha\n\nFOUND.\n\nWANTED TO M'T—A km, m\n\nPOUND at kepulag Bay sa Sunday, FURNITURE AN CAMIONAC MARKET Corting the beer by Jellery Nabina, M, Nalikan\n\nHi Mera Homes | Kent, Kriens\n\nbattle, etc.\n\nIN\"\n\nPOSITIONS WANTED.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nc\n\n| WANTED TO RENT A ROOM IN | muita að Ölben mit used by pesant\n\nCentral position. Partan\n\nCM. Pool\"\n\nHULSE TO LEGING 7_ Almai Villa, Kaylyn, Apple so The Ya Ring C., Sukan Senad Wei Handen.\n\nWANTED KNOWN.\n\nTO 19 turvasan PLATS, VIFATE CHRISTMAS E NEW ama ng Kerian, s YEAR GREETING CARDS rated with skate, whites And MoRAKTILIN pg ddha bet kad sad thestamble at Ye Olde Pompetir, 192,\n\nPREMISES TO LET.\n\nwith a sad\n\nVORAN PALAU\n\n--་་\n\nDANIG JIMI HAC \"LUTCART MACHINA, OFFICE to 127—in Almunten for jy dan lage sormonta\n\nACCESSORIES for at kad at\n\nKONG HGTOR ACE Or ch Indent, Bank of Canden Pallding mad Kuntoon_Ersach, CE, Naharkand, (a falen). Sekoub,\n\nTO LET N« 5 Torme Bulldogs, Kimberley Hans. Komison. Apply walker, Vabantal. Apply Motorradtory HONG Spezia Dominican Peseradik.\n\nTO LET-New In-roomed PLATE, DIJEL\n\nWith ikeaa \"bačkissem, že Hankas\n\nTad, Kowloon, mext to Kawled TO LET SUTES OF OFFICES\n\n1200 D6 Du del index, SL. Googa's FOR FALL-IN\n\nHotel ARMSTRONG\n\nAvaliable sheet (lecember. „SIDDELEY, in perdues audition, Madery convenience. Ale thereelding. Any Love, Englan ENGLISH LADY Wing We rotsen (trial by Appartment Owner buying Tromel fata de Haan\" and \"ing | Masshawa, Chebleven Kalk Kaling. La Europa In the Spitz, would act or 'two kit. Fiat +ra\" Wre Paklong Ram Apply Tang Tack Co,.\n\nTelephone COMPANION, A TANK CHANGE of BeINK MA, “8. C230 BMG\" skilizan la apekaner the past prize\n\n| APARTMENTS WANTED. Wrike Box No RTU HAUL M. PE FOR SALE-STUDEBAKER LIGHT\n\n11. Khanghai body, in kood run TDUNG CHINESE, with good kaoria Phát h c N Wedge në Kresh and French, in years at 1700 songs, Wek Bor SA, experlones Panting, Actomia, 20. \"XCITE Booking correspondenče, type — writing. Filling. Cennt, weke 2031 POR BALKON DEJE UKOONakitud TION,\" whe\n\nwtelligenes BULL TERRIER PUPR Box merka\n\nMake For No M2, 1C M. PULS *S, C. X. Post\"\n\nTOK ALETAKAN KYIGHT. EUROPEAN DRAFTSMAN WAK, all vul. fumator, 1925. good mation\n\nexperience, werki LOCAL.power! 1 PE SITUATION. Would be willing sofer. Write Box No. 271, “I £32 berapi masnih zammencing malary. Root Pl redcmera Walta Den Ka M4, \"g.\n\n|UPRIGHT_PLANE FOR SALE IN\n\ngood m Pele kada Plazas\n\nWANTED.—-—--German, long yan ye. ¡waste Box No. 650, \"$ C. X. PartTM marice In Import Export, Knowledge (mu\n\nand Dark language, who Tok anÉN-LAW THEY AUSTIN Wiltą Ben NA, MT, M. C. BL 1942\" |tyre. Can be tried nay time, 3:180, for wear sar Base, . King's Park TOUNG CHINGUR der POS). Budings, Kowloon, TION, Can Trentak secgnty, Il p quared Picker write Box No HE, FOR SALE - AUSTIN – SEVEN, IN PA, CIC. PAL,\n\npospollent ryoung order. Fully Insured.\n\nEwelingben.\n\nENGLISHMAN with vinculite sia (Blackden, especting ability, trade med venneren, bl apes for ENGAGEMENT, Easter\n\nPast\"\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nPhysi\n\n•\n\nNATAL, MILITARY & AR PORCE LDIRECTORY NO 1 Detiker 1990 ON BALEA Yeodde Fromerie, DJ\n\n• Price 20 centL\n\nCOLOURED PICTURES « Bong-| keng Customa, mekkle for framing\n\n|TO LET – Fame roomed LOLSF. K\n\nSo High & Burgh, Gil, SaLK 'SE | WANTIL:--Bachelys British, re- '34 pm not. Appy HB, QA Pat\" Calon Baling, Tid Plast\n\nAula konan BOARD, Hesekne\n\nKawinen. Bersabar Eat. Mata PHOTO ALEUMS, et term, in Box 774, 19, C. M. Fast Name printed in Cold, Price Kil\n\nApply E. 6. M. Past”\n\nTO LET Now Pirkoromai Mocones, la 7, Shounen Hil| Hanč, Deep Water Bay Garage vilachri\n\ntem canin\n\nC. K\n\nThe command. Magsilent. APARTMENTS TO LET, STRONG GLER CYLINDERS VIEW. MAJATA FORMS NOROMA. TWITT de from town Apply Time Tark, ('0, 1 Queen's\n\n“entru Telesham 2500).\n\n--\n\n-\n\nApply\n\nBANSARD.\n\nAPARTMENT TO LET-Lady RONGKONG — Main PAYING GUEST,, der bergi 187 page 18 pm man kabla ** | TO EXT -*weished HOLME MAGINATION, with verandak, over 2. 32 Panel Phafukum Modern Saltatlan, bar | Jooking the mik, of water-frank mar kathon maand gauge serommodation, buty, karlegt. All modern con FORTH of ATTORNET, FULL Vicjant from middle of Nevesker fer | Tanners, and perllong Tond, Waw TESTAMENT A LEAKE (ema tweder mania, Wola Ban No. Mh. | Box No: 951, 8. C. 1, PAL\"\n\nTamty-des_serta sack. Apply MR. CNL\n\n'C. M. \"Pa\"\n\n30\n\nLET.-glow, Niew\n\nMAP\n\n10 1:37. —Pak levels, friskal de bussed, Light und GAME 192- THE TORT\" TYPECON roomed HOUSE, teng being, for, Roods.\" Tebrate Matheson, Jarga besalitilly kihegrovhed, also matala Emanche from March 1998. Hoone (vodka, välialul view of Socket lag the Ông and Houreiracy. G. E. 1. Refrigerator and poke furry, power. Ton voimal, olors, Thigh\n\nI H\n\nme bé ens if required. Write Bax No. Content Track Cond. Weste bat deritani, Pris 1, mate va ME, \"COM \"PAL **\n\n1294, 49, \" C. M. PAL\"\n\nMurrayers – A. TO LES, - From 1st November, 1981, TO LET. THe well furnished single\n\n-\n\n(thrior suite kaba Oli Di sana Seried at Morray Barrachi, ŝino. Apply\n\nWHEN A Madem\n\nF\n\nJAR SALE. ACH AUSTIN VE 2 Al2ON, in ræclient condition and newly re unkolaterad... Engine in frie CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND + class cuming poder add owner driv\n\nTARY AMAK for Wy of 17 Buonchos. Zrice $1,360, Wrier Bas Kowloon de Witte Box No. 445. Xu, 29, *5. © E. Pool\" \"S. C. H. Pe\"\n\nTADIBA Beautifully marDed WANTED. -- Olce Assistant SHOST- SQUIRREL COAT made sporially HAND TYPIST par with side bas (pobrsary iku yaar) from mich erlenen preferred. Fromspent weer klik. Full Jenaik, rond median siar. Ema and Kwal synaserta... for puitable Marasin 1990. Apply keen STL mmallake. Apply in ama bamburicing Prima. KER.\n\nan Thi Na Mi, C. I. Ban\n\nCONTENTS OF EUROPEAN FLAT WANTED. COVERS member 16 years she, zumal-key code\n\nBerbak, French an German tar 5. top hoor, 200 Nathan Kol girl sped 12, 15 mm G Esply, panna, sata bid 1947 PULA, MIK HE Phông khhay requced, preciom ex- Owane Jeneing Cahay, Fries 31,800. patroon na štro E tank way for quick sale. May be ved at kys Imparat Chemien! Trămatzes CENZORY BAG ont. Kap, Ti), 38867 se wenz\n\nRix No.4K CLE. Put\n\nPerleri\n\nhen.\n\nTHE ADVERTIERE winken to Bent FOR BALDO\n\nHome Oxford\" TOUZËR applicants wie segħek, BOL NO WARISAN MAR 1. P25\"The pazitim ka ng Fatirely Pow been led\n\nAny trial, Avely Major Kewiecie, Peak Hotel WANTED. —Yome Ladiaa gentlemen for CANVASSING WORK FOR FALK-BUCK MUSER 19 Comanianega kaas, maar 1920 Blade) în perfort, work,\n\nTenis Cable persons for meg, mg malitian Tapurtian, a vi Apply Room 2 Tanne Beldig, đá by sporting Rate Bec Na 100,\n\n- - - -\n\nNo. 184 WASHER Kit, 4 prong BEDROOMS, WHk all man da CNIOR TO THE COMPANIES DR-\n\nDrop HOUSE ¦ vemences, in sand, paly, FIA, DINANCIA OF RANGKONG, Ska with all madera convenience pand\n\nKawa Peking copy Apply “8, 47, 24. PHE pings Apply to Credit Father Date, bet fint & and 7 JUN\n\nFranck\n\nPURIDGE MARKERA 118 maak. Being TL NI. PLAGE\n\nTO LET WLOON, from Novom: FAZILLS, # ceste sach. TO HE LET-BAD Vega Rand, Ponty, andőt, with indar MITCHELL'S\n\nIngia kame, quiet GUN, PREM\n\nCentral, Ground Tror, divided * REPNITTING.\n\nwapa na tegu 266. ADDIT|Mitzelni. Dean & Co. Lei\n\nGAL DAL\n\n-\n\nTO LET.--GROUND FLOOR, Na, dy Cammy Buildings, (s. 194) MathAS | WANTED—Billeh bachelor to jata\n\n3\n\n2\n\nYEAR\n\nGUARANTEE\n\nand\n\nYEAR\n\n5\n\nEASY PAYMENT.\n\nGENERAL ELECTRIC ALL STEEL REFRIGERATOR\n\nWrite or call for fuel particniner,\n\nOn How\n\nBanging life Co., Lim Wan. G. Jack & On, LME\n\nANDERSEN MEYER & OU, LID Fur Agents.\n\nThe General Electric Co. of China Ltd.\n\nDr. ROUSSEL\n\nHemostyl Syrup.\n\nTHE CLASSIC TREATMENT FOR ALL CASES OF ANAEMIAS, EXHAUSTIONS, WEAKNESS, ETC.\n\nFlomonisk u send a woman lawan meube HOLAR BELUM salad at mek tan vchan the surma) NE 15 100 Satijne poros a best ingentem sad ie sheeptors by sa A man dathomed by an immediate\n\nChiainable from all Dispensaries.\n\nStock and free samples at:\n\nThe Franco-Eastern Trading Co.\n\n· Lo srpnu did 15 Francs.\n\nBank of China Building\n\nPhone 21657,\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEEK-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\nAMY!\n\nPRIVATE\n\nCODE\n\nUNITED ANGHTS\n\nKiedy kenden. Apar le Cies of the TO ALL SHIPPING.\n\nFrench Comfort Taskálags, ma\n\nLocate merk Write Bax No. 163,| CONNE\n\n10. LET EUROPRAN STYLED TO HOUSE 12, Jememe: Kand, Kozlova po DET TA VEZ Shin! They had to flacan 201 Village Hongkong = 46, 59A SINGLE ROOM\n\ntempa rompt, and zwangą dwuki\n\nwalk private bath attached, terma Kesi mudrante, aptor Wa Pa\n\nAndy 4, Glemas. Tel.\n\nwith Mere\n\nSong 11, Thy đầa Mead, TEL 2009\n\n-----------\n\n20140\n\n| TO LET.—MVE BOOMED HOUSE. AIRLIĖ MOTEL. – 31-25,\n\nKomal Korbank. Apply Excelle\n\nTHE MOMENT Aram, Kerrison, Ariāl\n\nHola Tal Duermber\n\nPleven Bulan & Fraser ČR, LIL\n\nAlexanden Baldžiaga.\n\nTO T\n\nprom marina_indst Star Parry And maket Teen2ity, fuggished and un- furnished. Exempina PLATE with ad Thighly ad Modern Becommodation and Bank\n\nBent very\n\nLibert\n\nCOMPANIES.\n\nNathan\n\nAllustrated Direction in\n\nellek and Chinese, for the Adjamaent of RONG-\n\nBONG STANDARD LIFE\n\nJACKETS are now ready\n\nRegule Three minutna from fema Tel Biz?\n\nTUITION GIVEN\n\nvinden, a far af tre nanny, funtibod GERMAN ERSONA relem by Pulier Batel German Grademan Trauer, with\n\nkod mng be purchase? ni\n\nthe slice of the\n\nkang ana tak jackrarna, kitakes, inngstanding supercaron at teaching SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, Makaste chappen Addemi Į Į & K. Wyndham Street, Hongkong Haiphong Road, Kowloon. Tel FEM. La Box N, MA, “E COOL PA.\"\n\nP\n\nBAD ONE.\n\nEDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nThere is nothing to equa\n\nBURGESS' LION OINTMENT'İ\n\nBankalarang ke manat Hala, Alarm, Wha\n\nLg, Öân, Hànt, Bella, Spain, Bentay\n\nست\n\n299 A Now be for Lense\n\nTRA\n\nPVM A PURE\n\nMAKSAT-A, 1 Mama 4 Di Lad | foldć Matiballà đaj 2 Là van Tweli, da\n\n+\n\nE. BURGESS, 59, GRAY'S INN ROAD, LONDON, W.D.1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "content_text": "# Appendix B.\n\nBoys\n\n \n \n Music\n Art\n Handwork\n Staff for School\n Sufficient staff for all classes?\n \n \n K.C.\n nil.\n nil\n nil.\n nil.\n Sufficient staff for all classes?\n \n \n St.Paul's Boys\n nil.\n Classes 8-5.\n 2 Drawing.\n Art Yes. Music\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Painting\n H.W. nil.\n -\n No.\n \n \n E.K.S.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n all classes.\n \n \n D.B.S.\n nil.\n classes 8-5\n Hobbies classes 1-5\n 2 Music\n 1 Drawing\n \n \n \n \n \n Music Art\n C\n Yes.\n \n \n G\n No.\n \n H.W.\n -\n No.\n \n \n C.C.S.\n nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n E.K.I.S.\n nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Q.c.\n Singing Class 5\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n \n \n \n Drawing\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n \n \n \n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n \n \n \n 3 Music.\n No.\n nil.\n voluntary\n 1 Drawing.\n \n \n G.R.S.\n nil.\n \n few boys.\n \n \n \n \n Taipo S.\n nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n V.N.M.S.\n nil.\n 1 Needlework.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n \n \n \n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n \n \n \n mil.\n nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Paint-\n nil.\n 1 Painting\n No.\n 1 Painting\n \n \n Wanchai S.\n ing most classes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n La Salle\n nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Y.M.T.\n nil. (Starting September.)\n Drawing\n nil.\n 10 Music.\n No.\n \n \n \n 1 Music.\n classes 4-8\n 5 H.W.\n nil.\n nil.\n \n \n \n nil.\n \n nil.\n nil.\n nil.\n \n\n94", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557250, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "content_text": "Box\n\nAppendix B.\n\n109\n\nBoys.\n\nMusic.\n\nArt.\n\nHandwork.\n\nStaff for School.\n\nK.C.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nSufficient staff for all classes?\n\nStaff for training.\n\nnil.\n\nSt. Paul's Boys Classes 8-5.\n\nnil.\n\n2 Drawing.\n\nArt Music Yes.\n\n1 Painting.\n\nH.W. No.\n\nE.K.S.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nD.B.S. all classes.\n\nclasses 8-5.\n\nHobbies. classes 1-5.\n\n2 Music.\n\nMusic Yes.\n\nnil.\n\n1 Drawing.\n\nArt No.\n\nH.W. No.\n\nC.C.S.\n\nnil.\n\nClass 5\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nDrawing.\n\nE.K.I.S.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nQ.C.\n\nSinging nil.\n\nnil.\n\n3 Music.\n\nNo.\n\nnil.\n\nvoluntary 1 Drawing.\n\nfew boys.\n\n1 Needlework.\n\nG.R.S.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nTaipo S.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nV.N.M.S.\n\nnil.\n\nChinese Painting most classes.\n\n1 Painting.\n\nNo.\n\n1 Painting.\n\nWanchai S.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nLa Salle.\n\nnil. (Starting Singing next September.)\n\nDrawing nil.\n\n10 Music.\n\nNo.\n\n1 Music.\n\nclasses 4-8.\n\n \n5 H.W.\n\nY.M.T.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.\n\nnil.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]