[ { "id": 224567, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 473, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "REPORT ON \n\nthe town of Victoria, which may be likened to the bottom of a crater with a lake, prevents the dissipation of this gas, while the geological or marshy origin of fevers will not here hold, for that \"the hills are here not more woody than in other healthy places; some, indeed, where the epidemic of 1808 and 1810, as well as the endemic, were most destructive, are quite naked of trees, as Diudigal, Madura, and the rocks west of Seringapatam.\" \n\n\"Now, if it should be found, that this fever exists constantly and invariably among certain description of hills, when others of a different composition are as constantly free from the same, would it not become reasonable to suppose that the nature or composition of the rock itself must furnish the cause of the calamity? \n\n\"The hills where it is found to prevail, appear, at first view, to be quite harmless, as they are granite, which is the most common rock-kind on this globe. They contain, however, besides quartz, felspar, and mica, a great proportion of ferruginous hornblende, which, by its disintegration or separation from the rock, becomes highly magnetic, and in which, I suppose, the cause resides which produces this fever. This iron hornblende occurs in such quantity, that all rivulets, public roads, indeed, all hollows along these hills are filled with its sand; from which, also, all the iron in this part of the country is manufactured. This granite is remarkable for its disintegration, as it not only separates during the hot season in large masses of many tons, but crumbles as easily into its composing particles, and is found as sand in great abundance, not only near every rock, but near every stone, from whence it is carried by the torrents during the rains to the lower parts of the country, and thus forms the particular mark by which these hills may be distinguished from all others. It is generally not attracted by the magnet when united to the mass, even when it occurs as in hornblende state, or greenstone, in the greatest abundance, but after it has been separated it is attracted as much as any iron filing. This may be owing to the incipient state of oxydation, or, more likely, to the development of magnetism by the high temperature to which it has been exposed in the hot season, which also may have weakened the cohesion of the rock, and caused its disintegration in the mass. \n\n\"Hills of this description form the principal ranges of the Ghauts, as far at least as the Godavery; they predominate also among the smaller, and in single hills and rocks in the low country, so that they might be taken at the exclusive rock formation of this country. However, fortunately, this is not quite the case. They are easily recognised at a distance by their very rugged and abruptly pointed appearance, and the great steepness at their tops. The ranges of this formation are also very interrupted, and generally consist of rows of single hills, although to the southward, I have found them also connected at bases, and in triple and quadruple ranges.” \n\nDr. Heyne then gives an excellent topographic description of the hills \"which have rendered themselves known to Europeans for the malignity of the fever,\" and after that of such as are as \"constantly free of the hill fever.\" This is the right kind of topography, but for obvious reasons we cannot here enter into it. The hills where the fever is \"totally unknown,\" Dr. Heyne describes as \"primitive trap, which consists of quartz, felspar, and real hornblende.\" He then adds, that the epidemic fever of 1808 stopped short at a range of hills of this latter composition, in the Coimbatore district—a remarkable fact. \n\n\"These two ranges of trap proceed with very little or no admixture of iron stone through the whole Baramahal, from Namcul to Darampoory and Vellore; the rocks are sometimes compact hornblende and greenstone, or basalt, all belonging to the same formation; but here and there hills appear among them of iron granite, which stand in connexion with other ranges of that description in that province, both east and west of that valley, which have the hill fever as virulent as in other parts of the country, where whole ranges of these hills occur. \n\n\"A most remarkable instance illustrative of the above facts, and of my deductions from them, I found at Tripatoor, which lies in the above valley, close to a large table-land, the rock of which is sandstone. I asked there a respectable native whether any such disorders as fevers were frequent in the country, but received in answer, 'No, thank God, not within ten miles of this place; at To Javadymalle, a hill fort, where no man can live two days without getting it.' \n\nAt this place a peon was dispatched with the simple order of bringing two or three stones from the rock of the hill, and some sand as might be found on the road. The man returned, and brought pieces of a rock composed of red felspar, quartz, and plenty of ferruginous hornblende; and the sand of the road consisted entirely of magnetic sand and particles of felspar. \n\n\"I must name now the Pulicat hills, among which, as far as they extend to the southward (Chittoor), the hill fever is totally unknown; I was particular in my inquiries on this subject, in the beginning of this year, when among them. They consist entirely of flinty slate, and are bare in some places as they are woody in others, and as lofty and as low as the granite hills. \n\n\"I come now to a country and hills where I have lived myself for some years, the Cuddapah district. It is divided from Gurrumcondah on the south, and from iron granite and the hill fever, by a range of flinty slate. The same bends there to the northward, where the ranges thicken as they advance, and leave narrow valleys as far as Cummuur, and further up the river Kishna. The whole or most of these hills belong to the clay-slate formation, some are calcareous, all however are free of the hill fever. Other fevers may occasionally be seen, such as simple intermittents and bilious remittents, but they do not, like the hill fever, run into a typhus, and the cautious may easily guard against and get rid of them. \n\n\"This is the largest extent of inland country which I know to be free of the hill fever, viz., from Cuddapah to Kishna near Chintapilly, a place that has been at all times dreaded for its fevers. There, the iron granite hills prevail again. To the westward of Cuddapah, the healthiness of the country extends to the Ganjecottah hills, which belong to the flinty trap formation, consisting of sandstone, limestone, jasper and hornstone pebbles cemented together, and which are perfectly free of magnetic ironstone. \n\n\"Bababudden is another range of hills which is remarkably free of hill fevers, although it lies between places of notoriety for such, as Seringapatam to the S.W., and Chittledroog to the N.W., and Naggury to the W., an unwholesome country amongst the Ghauts. It belongs to the clay-slate formation, and active magnets are found in large depositions on them. It rains on them for six months in the year continually, when plants keep fresh and alive in the open air for many days after they have been taken out of the ground, or broken off the stem. \n\n\"In fact, my observation, viz., that the hill fever on this coast exists exclusively among the hills of the granite formation, or where iron-stone is found in large quantities, will be confirmed, the more it is brought to the test.\" \n\nHONG KONG, \n\nformation favours the retention of a morbific poison on the surface, to be occasionally called into deadly activity. There is no extent of marsh on the island capable of generating miasm; but the heavy rains are annually washing large portions of the mountain through deep ravines into the bay, and thus continually exposing a fresh rotten surface to the sun's rays, and preserving a focus of disease which will finally become endemic. \n\nVast quantities of the silt from the hills are being deposited along the shores of the harbour. Owing to this circumstance, and to the rapid receding of the tides from this coast, the bay is becoming shoaler every day. The average depth is only four to five fathoms, except in the stream, where there is six to seven fathoms. In no great interval of time, the harbour of Hong Kong will be too shoal in many places for large vessels. \n\nClimate. It is difficult to convey by thermometrical registers an accurate idea of the climate of any place. The range of the thermometer will not indicate the pressure of the atmosphere; the barometer, in or near the tropics, is of little utility as an index; the hygrometer imperfectly shows the quantity of rain which is in solution; while the \n\n436", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241528, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 553, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "Me of the 16th of March.\n\nSenelore Jo\n\nYour information a College of der Gillman's letter a copy of the reply which S\n\ndirected to be returned\n\nto her, declining,\n\ntherein\n\nthe questions stated, to interfere with\n\nthe decision of the local\n\nE\n\nShav\n\nBelowh\n\n550\n\n484\n\n4379 J Harry thery.\n\nby John Bousing\n\nGd.\n\n3.\n\nMINSTE Kis\n\nMR vale\n\nFBC. Fortescue\n\n1387\n\nL\n\nShove to acknowlegl\n\nthe receipt of your Des Geebles\n\nIn 107 of the 13th of March and\n\nThe Newsletter\n\nk57. of the 27th March last\n\nMeet the best I am exploring to farther letters\n\nGrow Stucson Intech by chit it. Jane Mer Squat\n\nI have received letter.\n\nletter for the Nading complaining of the bution in this casting operation of the Sanitary\n\nthat is for in Cutiten\n\nThey want correspondence.\n\ncorrespondent Architecture.\n\ntogether\n\nM. Susi 9.\n\nReturn extract the\n\nOpinion I have already\n\nexpressed on this case\n\nthat it is much one\n\nwhich\n\nCalls for interference.\n\nduties on the West of the\n\nRedup", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301917, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "7.7 \n\nas shown in front edges pounded off the Drawings 25 and 95A, 4 inches square, or pebbles. At a distance of 18 inches back from the face, full depth great nicks will be cut in each stone to form diagonal holes, these to be closely fit, full depth with granite dowels set in flush and grouted with liquid Portland cement. The dowels to be laid in cement mortar 3 inches inwards, proud of the four sides and the rest of the bed grouted.\n\nThe work below high water line will be pointed in Roman cement, and above it in Portland cement, both in the back and front of the wall.\n\n## Backing \nA hydraulic lime concrete backing of the dimensions shown in the Drawings will be carried up at the same time as the masonry, malously and well rammed in 12 inch layers. Of the merits of proposing Chinese hydraulic lime concrete, further particulars are submitted further on. Its proportions will be one of hydraulic lime, one of clay, and three of slons.\n\n## Filling \nAs the backing hardens, a bank of quarry debris and gravel will be carried up simultaneously with it, and the earths filling behind it will be rammed in to inch layers with small pebble stone.\n\n## Roadway \nFrom the concrete backing finished off at the level of the second course, it is proposed to lay a hard-covering also of line concrete, two feet thick, and of the same proportions as that used in the backing, extending back...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "5 111 \na thin soil cover. \narborescent vegetation is very scanty, there being scarcely any trees of native growth except those artificially planted. \n\nThe timber market of Hong Kong, however, is generally well stocked: but among the many varieties of wood imported from the Philippine Islands and the Straits Settlements, there are only three fit for marine works, these are the dark and Yellow Molava and teak. The first can be got in logs 12 to 18 inches square and from 25 to 50 feet long, while teak logs are seldom longer than 30 feet or more than 15 inches square.\n\nThe effect of the teredo navalis is seen in structures of teak or molava having to be renewed every 10 or 12 years. \n\nThe cleanest and most uniform looking shingle may be gathered along the south side of Cutter's Island where it lies in great quantities. None of the Hong Kong shingle, however, is very desirable for concrete on account of the excessive roundness and smoothness of the pebbles.\n\nOn Public Works here, therefore, angular stone in the shape of granite broken up either by convicts or hired labour is preferred; Rubble material for filling in and chipping on road metalling. The rubble will come from the quarries shown in the plan, conveyed thither in the Contractors' stone lighters and it...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## Appendix B \n### Continued \n#### Estimate for Part of Building\n\n| No. | Description of Work | Content | Date | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Brought forward | | | 207.80 |\n| | All Granite ashlar masonry set in Portland Cement in blocks not exceeding 15 cu ft, cut to exact content | | | 337.6 |\n| | Plain labour, five punched | 10.0 | 10.6 | 105.0 |\n| | | | | 14.70 |\n| | Schering Plain labour | 10.0 | 4.6 | 45.0 |\n| | | | | 24.10.50 |\n| | Labour to sunk work fine dressed | | | |\n| | Labour to cutting joggles 32 x 32 in granite | 2 | 24 | 2.40 |\n| | Labour (in Portland cement of pebbles and labour 22 1/2 wells) to punching joggles | | | |\n| | Hydraulic lime Concrete | 2 | 0.0 | 2.5 |\n| | | | 8.4 | 10.08.4 |\n| | | | | 2.6 |\n| | | | | 208.4 |\n| | | | | 724.200 |\n| | Carried over | | | 15.40 |\n| | | | | 388.28 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301967, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## Appendix C Estimate\n\nSubmitted by Eglinned on the ... day of ... 187...\n\n## Part of Building\n\n### Description of Work\n\n| No. | L. | B. | D. | Content | Rate | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | | | Brought forward | | 181.31 |\n| | 10.0 | 4.6 | | Granite ashlar set in masonry in Portland cement in blocks not exceeding 15 cu. ft. in content | 7.6 | 162.00 |\n| | | | | Plain labour to fine punched work | 341⁄2 | 32.50 |\n| | | | | Labour to cutting granite joggles | 10.0 | 10.60 |\n| | | | | | 14 | 14.70 |\n| | 10.0 | 4.6 | | | | 45.0 |\n| | | | | | 21 | 10.80 |\n| | | | | Labour to sunk work fine punched | 34 | ... |\n| | | | | | | 222.40 |\n| | | | | Portland cement (including pebbles & labour) | 252 | 2.0 |\n| | | | | Labour to running joggles | 2.56 | 2.40 |\n| | | | | | | ... |\n\nSee note at end of this appendix\n\nCarried over | 343.71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303053, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "47 \n\nThe progress, advantage of proceeding with at all events this portion of the work, independent of a material to be imported from England which would be liable to partial damage in transit, and the dates of its arrival in the Colony be subject to some irregularities. Turning now into the question of cost however, based upon the rates furnished in the Appendices attached to the Memorandum, I find that by omitting the courses of granite ashlar at the back of the ashlar face (see Fig. 2 Drawing 3) a face of granite ashlar, with a backing of Portland cement concrete, may be provided at about the same cost as in the case of the wall suggested by Mr. Price, and as there can be no question that the Portland cement backing would be very much superior to the rubble, I would recommend, notwithstanding the drawbacks referred to as attendant upon the use of foreign material, that the Wall with a cement back should be adopted.\n\nFig. 3 shews the details of the Wall referred to, the granite ashlar would be of the same description as in the case of Fig. 2, but would be set throughout in Portland Cement, the back and face of each stone being pointed up and the joints run in solid with Portland cement grout. Niches, or grooves, should be cut in the side joints to form joggles when filled with grout and pebbles. The Courses of Granite ashlar would consist of header and Stretcher blocks alternately.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318433, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 685, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## instance \nde \nby \nthemselves\". \n\nMr. The Commissioners \nI think Mr. \nM: Hayllar \nA. Eitel and \nare still in \nthe colony. they might be consulted as \nto the connexion between the sale \nof an old police building \nand the C.D. Ordinance fund. \n\nPage 54. Shows that I Rennick \ndid not share the views \nof his brother \nCommissioners \non the \nrevenue expenditure \nquestion. \nA curious revelation. \n\nCPL \n14. Nov. \nhow 15 \n Zoe should see this. \nau 50711 \ndating flouting \nbut the readout is \nin \n\nJustice of Sir John Hennessey's Jurisdiction & The Public officers who have been so much vilified in connection with this matter it would be desirable. To print this refutation of the M. Stansfeld's strong point of the Colony having made a profit out of these \n\nM. Dec, 124 \nhanser. \n\n7 \nI have schrift \nWhittie \nScale \nSuine au peebles un cette \n\npapers: they may be prosecuted \nsideration \n\nE.a. \n\nMy Lord, \nGovernment House, \nHongkong, 28th September, 1882. \n\nIn Your Lordship's Dispatch of \n26th July 1881. Some remarks are made \n( vide page 56 of printed paper (3093)) on the status of the report of the ... \nBee 3/82 of Kimberley \nto the Secretary of State for the Colonies' \nCommuniqué \n14650 P... \nMunicipal...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319368, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "# 367\n\n14. Rubble Masonry. The Concrete base of the dam, having been completed throughout, explained, and having been finished off in steps as shown in Drawing Nr 2, the erection of the rubble masonry structure upon the Concrete pedestal may now be proceeded with.\n\nBefore laying the first or footing course of masonry, the floor of the substructure should be covered with a layer of rich cement mortar not less than two inches thick on which the stones must be carefully bedded. The toe of the face of the wall, on both sides of the dam, should be set back five feet from the edge of the concrete, as shown in the Cross section in Drawing N.3. The face of the Masonry will consist of a two-foot course of ashlar headers and stretchers, upon which the random or uncoursed rubble work may be continued. Great care must be taken that every stone is thoroughly bedded and that no cavities are left in the Masonry. All spaces should be carefully packed with small stones, and the mortar should be unstinted in use. On both faces of the dam, there should be at least one header to every yard and a half of face area of wall. These headers may be two feet square and may extend five feet inward from the face. The bond on the face of the wall should be still further strengthened by a two-foot course of ashlar, laid at intervals of every ten feet of vertical height of the dam. There will be about eight of these ashlar belting courses in the dam. The ashlar work will extend at least five feet inward from the face of the wall. Masonry will finish in a two-foot coping course of ashlars bedded in cement mortar. The side joints of the cope stones will have diagonal joggle holes cut down their full length; these must be rammed with pebbles and filled with liquid cement upon the completion of the Masonry.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324995, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "The dozen or twenty guns there were on the front attacked by the French were placed in such cramped positions that they scarcely covered more than the country directly in front of them. Here and there, too, there were square wooden trough-like constructions run through the body of the wall, presumably called loop-holes, but absolutely useless except when a body of troops was unfortunate enough to pass directly in front of them. In addition to this, not even the best use that could have been made of the bad material at their disposal was obtained. The Black Flags seem to have handed over the artillery to the Yunnan or Kwang-si militia, and these men neither had the skill nor the courage necessary to serve the guns. It seems undeniable that if the cannon had been employed with anything like the energy which kept up the small arm fire, the French would never have taken Bortay, or at any rate, not till after a long siege. As it was, the fight here, though severe enough while it lasted, was nothing like the struggle at Phu-sa.\n\nDivided counsels no doubt helped the French greatly. The Chinese \"regulars,\" as they are styled, seem to have drawn off early on the morning of the 15th. Then Liu Jung-fu and the Torquinese Prince appear to have had bickerings, and in the end none but the Black Flags seem to have fought. Close to the west gate, where the entry was effected, there is a long street, constituting the Chinese quarter of the town and inhabited in great part by the leaders of the Hak-kis. Up one side of this street went the Turcos and the Foreign Legion and up the other the Infantry of Marine under the direct command of Admiral Courbet, who was one of the first to surmount the works. All through the second day the fighting centred in this street. Turning and counter-turning movements were made by both sides, but all the while the hardest work was in the centre. The Chinamen defended almost every house. They very early found out that the system followed by the French from the beginning of the campaign was to be carried out here. No quarter was asked for and none was given. So it went on till close on nightfall, when Liu Jung-fu's house was reached. From the extensive outline to be traced in the ashes and the pieces of ornamental stone and plaster-work still to be seen, this must have been a very fine building. With its capture the fighting seems to have practically ceased. The Frenchmen devoted themselves to the ransacking of the defeated chief's house, and the Black Flags drew off towards the citadel, which is not much more than two hundred yards off. What the value of the despatches discovered in Liu's house may have been has not yet appeared. The letters from Hué are at any rate of no practical value, unless they result, or have already resulted, in the beheading of anti-French mandarins. The import of Li Hung-chang's communications may or may not have important results. Perhaps the new reinforcements announced to have left France are not altogether unconnected with the perusal of these documents.\n\nWhat followed is long since known to you. The Black Flags drew off under cloud of night to the mountains which lie north and west of the town. The French entered the citadel early in the morning. The entry was, in true modern Gallic fashion, utterly unauthorized and irresponsible. A handful of Turcos and Estrangers approached the north gate, pushed it open, and entered and found no one inside except for wretched Annamese women and children, and 8 or so Scots of still more luckless youths. A flag was then improvised of a length of the red waistcloth of a Turco, the handkerchief of an officer, and a strip off the blue cummerbund of a Foreign Legion man, and the hoisting of this characteristic tricolor on the tower was the first notice Admiral Courbet had of the occupation of the citadel. Inside, the rice stores were the principal captures made. There was a certain amount of bar-silver taken, but the Chinamen seem to have carried the greater part away with them. About a hundred and fifty poulies were found, as also an elephant, since dead, and a small arsenal. It was obvious, however, that all who left carried their arms and cartridge belts with them. The French have made a clean sweep of all the buildings inside the citadel with the exception of a few of the better-class huts for the officers, the Royal Pagoda, in which the Colonel Commandant is domiciled, and the huge granaries of rice, which were piled up to the roof with grain and contained provisions for probably a couple of years. There is also a curious small building used by the Black Flags as a powder manufactory, with regular compartments for the saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal. The French are tinkering it up into an arms store. There is no doubt that Liu Jung-fu showed good judgment in abandoning the citadel. Its conglomerate walls would even have fallen before the French guns and the whole garrison would have been trapped. It does not seem to have mounted more than sixteen or twenty guns altogether, and these, if possible, were more wretched pieces than the ordnance on the earthworks.\n\nThe French have cleared a wide space all round the front, and have driven wide open ways in all directions out into the open country, necessarily sacrificing the houses of the town in the process. This presents a most desolate appearance at present. Only about one house in fifty yards is occupied, and yet it appears that it is dangerous for a man to walk alone through the streets after dark. Possibly this state of things may improve later on, but it will not do so very fast, if we are to judge from the other towns in French occupation. Nowhere have they as yet more than a mere military grip on the country. They hold the towns, but nothing more. The Chasseur d'Afrique may jingle his spurs down the Boulevard Marty of Haiphong; the Turco may clear the streets before him in Hanoi; the ordinary line-man and his fellow of the Infantry of Marine may kick over old women's vegetable stalls and swagger about consumedly in Nam-dinh and Haid-anong; at Sontay the same thing may be done with impunity, but nowhere can any one of them go beyond the range of French guns. The Black Flags or pirates would be down upon them immediately. The wanderer would be fortunate if he was merely pelted with stones. The ordinary thing would be a spear-thrust, and a pint of nails and pebbles from a blunderbus might be anticipated with reasonable confidence. It will be a long time before the delta is really brought to a peaceable condition.\n\nIt will be much longer if the projects at present seething in the Gallic brain are attempted. You are aware that the idea is to surround Bac-ninh completely and destroy the garrison to the last man, even if there should be twenty-five thousand of them. Unfortunately for the garrison it would seem that the heights round the town are taken, this scheme is quite feasible. This swooping scheme is talked of here in the most matter-of-fact way by naval and military officers, by civilians and loafers. The argument is that it will be a most salutary \"example\" and that under cover of the scare \"produced,\" the French General Négrier is the man whom rumour points out as the leader of the attack - will make a dash on Lang-son, through the hills, and so close the gate from China. Lang-son should certainly have been taken long ago, but that does not mean that it will be taken now, either easily or at all. There are signs that the rains may set in early this year. There has already been a great deal too much for our comfort. In the rains the country between Bacninh and Sontay would be impracticable.\n\nMeanwhile everything here is at a stand-still, pending the arrival of General Millot with the reinforcements. It is a question whether he will allow correspondents to go to the front, and if he follows the advice of those now in power, he will not.\n\nPage 253", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343460, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "L(121)-6576-6000-6-90\n\nDate.\n\nNo.\n\nHongkong\n\nNo 23320\n\n(Subject.)\n\n393 Advance to Mr Peebles.\n\n1890\n\n28 Feb\n\nC. O.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n23320 REC\n\nREG? 4 DEC 90\n\n206\n\nArrangements Paper. Reports that he will be allowed to refund\n\nat $50 monthly. Suggests that when advances are made,\n\nthere should be some understanding as to how he will repay.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Meade\n\nThis paper had better be seen by the various departments before a general rule\n\nas to the repayment is laid down. And if one is laid down I\n\nshould make it very liberal - of say, two years.\n\nJ.C.\n\nI think it is better to settle each case after\n\ngiving a limit. Mr Fleming does not appear to suggest\n\nan understanding in each case. I think it is better to\n\nsettle after...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343463, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "of Mr George Peebles to be Government Marine Surveyor in this Colony, and to the advance of £150 made to him in \n\nEngland, I have \n\nthe honour to inform Your Lordship that in consideration \n\nof the fact that Mr Peebles \n\npaid for \n\nhis passage to the Colony out of his own \n\nfunds, I have made an exception in his favour of the usual rule by \n\nwhich such advances are repayable within twelve months, and approved of his refunding the advance in instalments of $50 per mensem: \n\nAt the market rate of exchange therefore it will take some 18 months to pay off the whole sum. \n\nI would suggest for Your Lordship's consideration that when advances on account of salary are made by the Crown Agents, there should \n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343464, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "should be some understanding come to as to the time\n\nwithin which they to be refunded.\n\nare\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant, I. Heming\n\nKerning\n\nDKAFT.\n\n393\n\n23520\n\nHongtong\n\nSEART No. 294 hey\n\n-\n\nSr. G. W. das Vaux\n\nMINUTE. Mr. Lucas\n\nMr.\n\nkemy\n\nLucas 5. Dec\n\nFairfield 5 Dre\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nX Mr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nBaron de Worms.\n\nLord Knutsford.\n\nの\n\nWhen this has gone\n\n• Departments to see\n\nto be noted in Eastern book. (This merely mentions on universal practice)\n\nI there seems\n\ntouch\n\nbar.\n\n\"sug\n\nJ710/12\n\nP.11.12\n\nnothing\n\nNotew\n\nALF.\n\nCas\n\n110\n\n216\n\nSec.\n\n१० 1.9\n\nI have the honour to ack\n\nthe\n\nreceipt of M. Fleming's\n\nNo\n\ndesp: no. 393. of the\n\n28th of October reporting the\n\narrangement made with,\n\nM. Peebles for the repayment\n\nof the money advanced to him\n\nin this country and suggesting\n\nthat when advances are made by the Crown Agents some\n\nunderstanding\n\nshould be come to as to the time within which they should be refunded.\n\n.3.9\n\nI am inclined to think", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Office, etc.\n\nDate\n\nbrown Agent's 22 May\n\nT\n\nJE\n\nSubject.\n\nhuises for Civil Hospital\n\n15 July Agreement with Miss M. E. Ward\n\n123\n\nSelection\n\n\"\n\nof\n\n7 but\n\n10\n\n47\n\n11\n\n15\n\nน\n\nk\n\n+1\n\n14\n\n11 Dec.\n\n12\n\n11\n\n\"\n\n6 hurses for the Hospital Agreements with Messrs. Gibbs & Gall Agreement with M.W.G. Nicholls\n\nPraya Reclamation Works\n\nSelection of 15 Police Constables\n\nAppt of Mr. J.R. Cook as Asst. Engineer\n\nthe use of local cement for Praya Works\n\nCouncil office 14 Nov. Training Expenses of\n\n(Education Dept.)\n\nTeachers\n\nOffice of Treasury\n\nDate.\n\n78\n\n\"\n\nSubject.\n\n4 Aug. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank\n\nSupply of Subsidiary Coin 22 Sept. Khong and Shanghai Bank\n\nForeign Office & Aug.\n\n\"\n\nIF\n\n11\n\n20\n\n2 Sept.\n\n16\n\n2\n\n\"\n\n13\n\n11\n\n17\n\n[1\n\n\"\n\nConsular Prisoners in Col. Gaols Corres between persons into Hong Kong? Consul, Convention between Chinese Govt & Tel. Cos. Rumoured intention of Chinese Govt to event Fors\n\n(Canton\n\nVinit\n\nof\n\nBd.\n\nTrade My\n\nJeb\n\n2 Apl.\n\n·Patents Ordre. 1889\n\n14\n\n11\n\n11\n\nt\n\nT\n\nMr. Winter's Complaint agst Harbour Master 11 June Appt. of Mr. G. Peebles as Marine Surveyor\n\n125\n\n18 July\n\nAppt. of Mr. Dixon as Asst. Marine Surveyor 3 Oct. Merchandise marks Ordce.\n\n13 Nov. Conveyance of Distressed Seamen\n\nLabour in Bombay India Office 31 Oct. Sunday Labour in\n\nShanghai\n\nLaw Officers 19 Aug. Chinese Submarine miners\n\nTreasury\n\nMy Jan. Military Contribution\n\n22 Feb. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordce, 2 Apl. Supply of\n\n123\n\nl,\n\nSubsidiary coins\n\n(Bank\n\nBranches & Agencies of Hongkong\n\nMy June Establishment of Branches &\n\n30\n\nIssue of 50 cent pieces\n\n15 July Securities of Hongkong Bank agst. note issue\n\n1\n\nS\n\n3 Oct. Chinese Convention with Telegraph Co.\n\nVisit of Czarewitch to the East 13 Nov. Visit of Prince Bahnurangst of Siam\n\nCzarewitch to the East\n\n9 Dec. Consular Prisoners in Col. Gaols\n\n16\n\n31\n\n*\n\nChinese Consuls\n\nNationality of persons born on lands\n\nassigned to British Govt at Shanghai\n\nWar Office 15 Jan. Military Contribution\n\n2 Apl. Suggested Military Governor for Hong Kong 31 May\n\nWar Dept. Property and Praya Extensions.\n\n19 June Disposal of ground south of Kennedy's\n\n128\n\n+\n\ncost of Defence Works.\n\n15\n\n14\n\n26\n\n1\n\n14 July Expenditure on Defences\n\n29\n\nn\n\n11 Aug.\n\nMilitary Contribution\n\ndisposal of land south of Kennedy Rd Removal of Naval & Military Establishments\"\n\nRemoval\n\nof Kazarelto from Stonecutter's Island brown houses of marine lot's 260-2 16 Sept. Tytain Water Supply\n\n22\n\n29\n\nContribution towards Survey\n\nMilitary Contribution\n\nWaterworks Ordce.\n\n8 Oct.\n\nHouses\n\nof\n\nParlia", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344008, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Audit\n\nAudit Office\n\nOffice of works\n\n20\n\nProposed Survey\n\nDarthik Offers 23\n\n30\n\nEdinburgh\n\nPost Office 119 tong Kong 4 giải\n\n11\n\nShanghai\n\nDitto\n\nBank\n\n22\n\n126\n\nPost Office 44 June Post Office Remittances\n\nPost Office Audit Office 31. Exchequer\n\nAudit Office 15 Mch. Appt. of Mr Nicolle as Auditor\n\nGovt\n\nColonial Office 5 Apl. Removal of yout Bungalow\n\nPostal Agencies at Freaky Port's Security for hote Issue\n\nSalaries of Postal Agents at Freaty Selection of Mr Nicolle as Auditor 28 Feb Estate of Police Constable Parker\n\nPort's\n\nOffice, &c.\n\nDate\n\nSubject\n\nWar Office & how Removal of Lazaretto from Stonecutter's Island\n\n12\n\n\"\n\nĄ\n\nMilitary Contribution\n\nv\n\n$1\n\n3 Dec Defence Expenditure\n\n13\n\n23.\n\nRebuilding of pier, Stonecutter's Island\n\nColonial Office 9ganControl of Brothe lo\n\nIndividual.\n\nDate.\n\nSubject\n\nDes Voluce, sich. W 5 apt this leave of absence\n\nM\n\n\"\n\nDawson Comar Wo\n\n18\n\nof\n\nParlia\n\n3\n\nConstitution. Improved communication between\n\neast and west of Victoria\n\nof the Leg. Oct.\n\n2 June Gov's. Family Remittance. 23 Sept. Grant to Mr hister's Family\n\n14 bct Sunday Labour in the Harbour Des Voeuxe, Sirly. W. 1h0v. this return to Colony for Jubilee.\n\n20 moh. Resignation\n\nHouses\n\nEhless\n\nGordon, R. B.\n\n10 apl. Estate of Mr. 16. Parker\n\nHughes, K.\n\nlang.\n\nJones, zw.\n\nBranches of\n\nthe Bank\n\nAudit Office 10\n\n14\n\nAudit Expenses.\n\nPost Office 244\n\nAccount with bol. Post Office\n\nMerchandise Marks Legislation\n\n3 Jan. Apply for Promotion\n\nLockwood, Km.P.) 16 Ang Salary of Mr Chapman, Assevert\n\nof Ralls\n\nAudit Office 16 July Post Office Defalcations: Audit staff\n\nBranches of the Bank\n\nHong Kong y p2.\n\nShanghai Bank 25 security aget. note Issue\n\n•Audit Office 28.\n\nReligious Society\n\nof Friends, heinster\n\n\"HKong and\n\n*\n\ndelay\n\nin transmission of Accounts Opium Traffic\n\nShanghai Bank 25 Ang Reserve Fund agst. Note Ioane\n\nB. of agriculture Dept. Proposed Survey\n\nhord's Day obser\n\nvance Society\n\n20 bct Sunday haboud on British Steamers\n\nAudit Office 23.\n\nDefalcations in Post Office\n\nBhov Local Audit staff\n\n18 Dec. Auditor's salary.\n\nMissions\n\nto\n\n132\n\n14\n\nSunday\n\nhabour in Bolonial Porto\n\nIncrease of Auditoi's Salary\n\n2 July Appt of Asst. Marine Surveyor.\n\n18 Feb. Resignation Sargent, ht. Yer. 25 Mch. His care\n\nwaffield, X.\n\nWright, GAB.\n\n1\n\nSept. M?YA.Smith's Apply for Postmastership\n\n20 June Impresiision of teams, Victoria College. My July Overpressure, Victoria College.\n\nsupervision of teams.. Victoria College\n\n18\n\n16 Aug\n\n9 Dec. Apphr. for increase of salary\n\nincrease\n\nMarch, SiswH. 13 Jan.\n\nAudit Arrangements\n\nPeebles, G.\n\nStewart, Jas.\n\n1\n\nSeamen\n\nAwait Office 30›", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344224, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "R& 4 (X)-574-6000-10-89\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\n1 Trade\n\nDate.\n\n1890\n\n11 June\n\nNo.\n\nHong Kong\n\n11245\n\n(Subject.)\n\nMarine Surveyor\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nIn the event off\n\n10947.\n\n213 J\n\nCopy comes/: Sox inf.\n\nTrade\n\n12323\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n72323\n\n218\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n11245\n\nRECP\n\nRed 12 JUN 90\n\nRecommends To George Probyn.\n\nto\n\nhis selection, he might be asked\n\nto Submit applicants for the post off\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nW. Meade\n\nAppoint W. Peebles.\n\n& Reply\n\nthat S. J State will be prepared to appoint W. Peebles subject to his passing a medical Exam\" as to fitness for service in the tropics\n\n[He says he has been in the tropics but possibly his health has been somewhat damaged thereby] & request the Board to cause him to be examined by the Doctor at Hong Kong/Liverpool when they usually employ & to send in the Doctor's Report.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Drop to save time ook the \n\nto indops \n\nBrand also to instruct to Peeble \n\n& State had sour to B. \n\nf \n\nTrade \n\n& \n\nAdd that S. fstate accepts. Euggestion that WW-Peeble in the requested to select his Assistant but ask that he be instructed to proceed with this work as quickly as possible to report to this Office how soon he will be prepared to start to Hong Kong where his services are required. \n\nEvent of his being medically passed \n\nurgently \n\nDraft submitted for comment \n\nJun 30\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to- \n\nTHE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, \n\n(MARINE DEPARTMENT) \n\nBOARD OF TRADE, \n\nLONDON, S.W. \n\nAnd the following letter and number should \n\nbe quoted:-- \n\n(M. \n\n11146 \n\nTelegraphic Address. BOARD TRADE, MARINE, \n\nLONDON. \n\n \n\nBOARD OF TRADE, \n\n(MARINE DEPARTMENT) \n\nJUN 30 \n\nSurveyors \n\nLONDON, S.W., \n\n11th June. \n\n1890. \n\nWith reference to the letter from this Department of the 31 ultimo, respecting the selection of candidates for the vacant appointments of Marine Surveyor and of Assistant Marine Surveyor at Hong Kong. I am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you, for the consideration of Lord Knutsford the accompanying application of Mr George Peebles for the first named appointment. Mr Peebles is at present \n\nSurveyor under this Department as shown in the \n\nstatement of his services inclosed herein, and the \n\nBoard of Trade regard him as competent to fill the appointment for which he applies. \n\nThe Under Secretary \n\nof State Colonial Office. \n\nI am to add that the Board are not \n\nIt appears that the original text was a scanned document with OCR errors. I have corrected the text to the best of my abilities, following the provided rules. I have:\n\n* Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"indops\" to potentially \"informs\" or other suitable word, but left as is due to unclear context; \"sour\" to potentially \"sure\", \"shnons\" to \"shown\", \"ultime\" to \"ultimo\", \"selechoir\" to \"selection\", \"ú\" to \"Mr\")\n* Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces)\n* Rejoined broken sentences\n* Restored paragraph breaks where necessary\n* Indicated missing words with `...` (not necessary in this case)\n* Formatted the text in HTML using `` tags\n\nHowever, some parts of the text still appear to be unclear or contain errors. Further clarification or context may be necessary to fully correct the text. \n\nPage numbering information is not present in the provided text, so I did not include it in the output. 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I have tried to preserve the original content and structure as much as possible. \n\nPlease let me know if further corrections or clarifications are needed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344226, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "77+4*E% #i\n\n220\n\nI am in a position to recommend a candidate for the Assistant Surveyorship, and I am to suggest, in the event of Mr. Peebles being selected for the higher appointment, whether that Officer might not be requested to submit the application of a suitable candidate for the post of Assistant Surveyor.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nMy D. maniton\n\nWWW.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344227, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Please address reply (if any) to the Surveyors collectively, and not to any Surveyor individually.\n\nMI1140\n\n221\n\nTHE SURVEYORS,\n\nBOARD OF TRADE SURVEYORS' OFFICE,\n\nCUSTOM HOUSE ARCADE,\n\nLIVERPOOL.\n\n6th June 1890\n\nI beg respectfully to make application for the appointment of Senior Marine Surveyor at Hong Kong and to state that previous to joining the Board's Service I have had about 22 years' experience as an Engineer, the last 13 of which were at Sea principally in the tropics, during part of that time I was Chief Engineer and hold a first-class certificate of Competency.\n\nThe last six and a half years I have been in the service of the Board as Shipwright and Engineer Surveyor, also Examiner of Engineers at this port, during this time I have been employed in all the various branches of work performed by the Board's Surveyors.\n\nThe Assistant Secretary,\n\nMarine Department,\n\nBoard of Trade,\n\nWhitehall, London.\n\nI am,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nPeebles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344228, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Statement\n\nof Services\n\nof\n\nMr. George Peebles\n\nBoard\n\nDate of Birth\n\n \n31 January, 1848.\n\n \nDate of Civil Service\n\n \n5th January, 1884.\n\n \nCommissioners Certificate\n\n \nof Qualification\n\n \n\nW. Peebles\n\nTrade Surveyor\n\n \n222\n\nMr. George Peebles was appointed a Shipwright and Engineer Surveyor (3rd Class) on 1st February, 1884, at a salary of Two hundred pounds (£200) per annum, rising to three hundred pounds (£300) per annum. His present salary is Two hundred and sixty pounds (£260) per annum.\n\nMr Peebles is qualified to measure vessels for tonnage; to inspect Lights, Fog Signals, and crew spaces; survey steam ships for Passenger Certificates; and to examine Candidates for Certificates of Competency as Sea-going Engineers.\n\n15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344229, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nHA\n\nBT\n\n11245\n\n223\n\n13 June 90\n\nThe Assistant Secretary\n\nMarine Dept\n\nBoard of Trade\n\nMINUTE.\n\nI am directed by\n\nMr. Froude 12 June\n\nLord Knutsford to acknowledge\n\n11. Mr. Jamfield 13 June\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nthe receipt of your\n\nletter\n\nMr. Meade,\n\n13\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nBaron de Worms.\n\nLord Knutsford.\n\nfor consideration: No: Mi11146 of the 11th instant,\n\nand to acquaint you\n\nthat\n\nhis Lordship will be prepared\n\nto appoint Mr. George\n\nPeebles, Marine Surveyor\n\nat Hong Kong subject to his passing a medical\n\nExamination, as to his\n\nfitness", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344230, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "fit for service in the \n\nTropics and \n\nI am to request you to \n\nmove the Board to \n\nCause Mr Peebles to be \n\nmedically examined by the \n\nDoctor at Liverpool who \n\nis usually employed by your Dept.\n\nLord Knutsford concurs \n\nin the suggestion contained \n\nin the last para of your \n\nletter under reply, and \n\nwould be obliged if on \n\nfinding Mr Peebles, the state of his \n\nhealth being found satisfactory, \n\ncould be instructed \n\nto submit the application \n\nof a suitable candidate \n\nfor the post of assistant \n\nSurveyor, with as little \n\ndelay as possible, and \n\nto report to this Dept \n\nhow soon he will be \n\nprepared to start for \n\nHong Kong where his services are \n\nurgently required.\n\nDem J. \n\nRm \n\n \nPage 224", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344231, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "A1 (3)-574-6000-10-89\n\nDate: 25 June 1890\n\nPrevious Paper: 12445\n\nCopy concept sent to: Sovereign's information: No 121. 3a\n\nSubsequent Paper: 12482\n\nNo.\n\nStrong trong\n\n12323 (Subject) Jamie Surveyor 225 DOMESTIC\n\n12323\n\nReceived: 26 JUN 1890\n\nIn Peebles has been pronounced physically fit, has been told to nominate his Assistant. Buds copy of papers tasks when he arrives commence to draw\n\n(Minutes)\n\nM? Meade\n\nHoughton Hay\n\nAsked the Board to appoint inform M- Peebles that Lord Knutsford appoints him to the post of Marine Surveyor & expects him to leave for the colony later than the second week in August.\n\nHe should report to this Office exact date of his departure & whether or not he has secured an assistant: he will receive half salary from full pay from Colony.\n\nFind copy of despatch to the colony C.PL. 26 June\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\n was removed as it is not clear what it represents. However, the \"Page 1\" was added to follow the instruction for page numbering, assuming the original text had some form of page numbering or separation. If more context or the exact original formatting is provided, it could be adjusted accordingly.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "227\n\nConvidate for the appointment of Assistant Marine Surveyor at Hongkong.\n\nLam to add that the Lime Tr Peebles would probably be prepared to leave for Hongkong in five weeks approximately as stated in the accompanying letter, and will be glad to be informed of the date upon which it is proposed that the salary attached to the Hongkong appointment should commence.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nMy J. Deanston", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344234, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "229\n\nRavie.\n\nage Occupation\n\nFamily History\n\nPeebles.\n\nFathers\n\n42 years\n\nSurveyor in the Board of Trade\n\n56 drowned at Sea\n\nage mothers age 70 living\n\nHand Joins Ever had Rheumatic Fever\n\nNo\n\nNo\n\nHave you Ever had pulling of blood?\n\nNo\n\nHave you Ever had Small pox?\n\nNo\n\nHave you Ever been ruptured?\n\nNo\n\nHave you Ever suffered from fits of any kind\n\nEver had Hydrocele.\n\nEver served abroad?\n\nEver suffered from Headache: Rheumatism\n\nHave you Ever Suffered from the Eyes. Ophthalmia\n\nEver had fever ague.\n\nNo\n\nI hereby certify to the best of my knowledge &\n\nbelief the answers to the above questions are\n\nCorrect:\n\nSigned-\n\nExamined by Peebles\n\nNo:\n\nNo:\n\nNo:\n\nYes\n\nNever Severely\n\nNo:\n\n17.6.90\n\nfor Certificate\n\nSee 4th page hereof", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "We hereby certify, that we have medically examined Mr. George Peebles & find him in good health.\n\nand in our\n\nopinion.\n\nhe is in a fit condition to take duty in any foreign station\n\n18.6.90.\n\nW Shawoner\n\nLRCP. Lond. LRCS\n\nAli Vere Hill\n\nLRCP. Lond MRCS\n\nPlease address reply (if any) to the Surveyors collectively, and not any Surveyor individually.\n\nSir,\n\nTHE SURVEYORS,\n\n#12060\n\n230\n\nBOARD OF TRADE SURVEYORS' OFFICE,\n\nCUSTOM HOUSE ARCADE,\n\nLIVERPOOL.\n\n19th June 1890\n\nHaving been informed by Captain Wilcox, Principal officer at this port, that I am requested to state when I shall be prepared to proceed to Hong Kong to take up duties as Senior Marine Surveyor,\n\nI beg\n\nto state that there are necessarily several matters requiring my\n\nattention before I can leave this Country, and it will probably be the first or second week in August before\n\nI presume they can be fully arranged.\n\nthat the new Hong Kong appointment and\n\nSalary\n\nwill date\n\nthat of my ceasing\n\nfrom that\n\nto be a Surveyor under the Board of Trade in this Country.\n\nThe\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nyour obedient Servant\n\nAssistant Secretary\n\nTo\n\nMarine Department,\n\nBoard of Trade\n\nLondon\n\nPeebles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 234, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "The Day\n\nMINUTE.\n\nNo 121\n\nMr. Lucas 26\n\nMr. Fracefield from 27\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nX Mr. Meade.\n\n2767\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nBaron de Worms.\n\nLord Knutsford.\n\nTo BJT: 30 May\n\nHan BJT 21 May\n\nFrom BYT 11 June To BOT 13\n\nFrom BJT 25 June\n\nTo BUT June\n\n30 June 90\n\nWith reference to my telegram of the 11th instant and previous correspondence, I have the honour to enclose for your information copy of correspondence with the Board of Trade as to the appointment of Mr. Grage Peebles as Marine Surveyor at Hongkong.\n\n2 drafts for consideration", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nThe Assist: Sec: \"Marine Dept\n\nBoard of Trade\n\nX\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Lucas\n\nMr. Prade\n\n12323\n\nFairfield 27 prome\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nBaron de Worms.\n\nLord Knutsford.\n\n261819.\n\n2\n\n2 drafts\n\nfor consideration\n\nC\n\nHong Kong\n\n232\n\n30. June 90\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th inst: M-12066 enclosing a medical report on the fitness of George Peebles Marine Surveyor to serve as such at Hong Kong.\n\n2. I am to request you will be good enough to cause Mr: Peebles to be informed that Lord Knutsford now appoints him to serve on the conditions (lost on the post already) with which he has been made acquainted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "and expects him to leave for the colony\n\nnot later than\n\nthe second week in August.\n\nHe should communicate to\n\nthis\n\nOffice\n\nthe actual date\n\nof his departure\n\n& should\n\nstate in due\n\ncourse\n\nWhether\n\nhe can command\n\nan assistant.\n\nto the\n\nHe will according to Ordinary rule be granted half pay from\n\nthe date\n\nof Embarkation & full pay on arrival in\n\nthe colony\n\n3. I am to express Lord Knutsford's thanks to the Board for the trouble Which they have taken\n\nin the matter.\n\nRHM & L(121)-(1577-6000-6-90\n\nor Individual.\n\n1:2 Trade.\n\nDaffe.\n\n1890.\n\nKing Kong\n\n233\n\nDOMESTIC. C. O.\n\n13883\n\nREGE 18 JUL 90,\n\nNo.\n\n13883\n\n(Subject.)\n\nM. Peebles_.. Marine Surveyor.\n\n½ pay from date of Embarkation & arrangements for his Wife.\n\nprevious Paper.\n\n13628\n\nPeebles\n\nArrangements\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Meade\n\neven at the risk\n\nof losing\n\nPeebles\n\nI think both These\n\nrequests\n\nmust be\n\nrefused\n\nOur letter of the\n\n30th June\n\n[[12327] clearly said ½ pay from date of embarkation & to grant full pay would be against the ordinary rule.\n\nIn the same way\n\nhe cannot\n\nbe allowed to remit at 4/2, but we might advance him some\n\nmoney\n\nbefore\n\nhe leaves from which he can live on till he reaches\n\nthe colony & remits in the ordinary way.\n\nAnswer as above to the Board of Trade\n\nPage 233\n\nhas been rewritten to meet the requirements as follows:\n\n1. The original text has been formatted into paragraphs using HTML ``.\n2. Spelling corrections have been made (e.g., \"frcond\" to \"second\", \"дрісе\" to \"Office\", \"Ombarkation\" to \"Embarkation\", \"kommend\" to \"command\", \"RHM & L (121)-(1577-6000-6-90\" to \"RHM & L(121)-(1577-6000-6-90\", \"M. Leebles_..\" to \"M. Peebles_..\", \"Jusias\" to \"losing\", \"Uso\" to \"30th\", \"thewolony\" to \"the colony\", \"fo\" to \"live\", \"Life Something\" to \"live on\").\n3. Spacing issues have been fixed.\n4. No rephrasing or rewriting has been done beyond correcting spelling and spacing errors.\n5. The \"Page 233\" information has been preserved at the end.\n6. No translation has been performed.\n7. File references have been formatted correctly (though none were present in the original text that required correction).\n8. No comments or explanations have been added to the text.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Lack at the same time \n\ntime if they \n\nhave received a medical report on \n\nM: Dixon \n\nC.P.L \n\n18 July \n\nS% ET 18. Juh \n\nMis Report A been received today \n\nEn 19.7.20 \n\nalmee \n\nRM 19 \n\nAny further communication should be \n\naddressed to--- \n\nTHE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, \n\n(MARINE DEPARTMENT) \n\nBOARD OF TRADE, \n\nLONDON, S.W. \n\nAnd the following letter and number should \n\nbe quoted :- \n\nM 13697 \n\nTelegraphic Address. BOARD TRADE, MARINE, \n\nLONDON. \n\n2 \n\nSir. \n\nImmediate \n\nBOARD OF TRADE, \n\n234 \n\n13883 \n\nRECE \n\n(MARINE DEPART 18 JUI 90) \n\nLONDON, S.W., \n\n18th July \n\n1890. \n\nWith reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the appointment of \n\nMr. George Peebles as Marine Surveyor \n\nat Hong Kong I \n\nam \n\ndirected by \n\nthe Board of Trade to transmit for the consideration of Lord Knutsford, \n\nthe accompanying \n\nletters from Mr. Peebles, asking for the \n\ngrant of full \n\npay instead of half pay from the date of embarkation for the Colony, and \n\nUnder Secretary \n\nState. \n\nColonial Office. \n\nfor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": ") \n\nPlease address reply if any) to the Surveyor's eni lectisani no 16 Surveyor individually.\n\nTHE SURVEYORS,\n\n10307\n\n236\n\nS'ei\n\nBOARD OF TRADE SURVEYORS' OFFICE,\n\nCUSTOM HOUSE ARCADE,\n\nLIVERPOOL\n\n14th January 1890\n\nI beg respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of M12723/00 of the 12th inst! with reference to my appointment as Senior Marine Surveyor at Hong Kong for which I thank you. As soon as the date of my departure is fixed I will communicate with the Board thereon. I notice with surprise that half pay is to begin on the day I leave England, full pay only on my arrival at Hong Kong; this is contrary to what I anticipated, nothing having previously been said on this point, and I respectfully request, in as much as I have to bear the whole cost of my removal from this country, that the Board will be pleased to approach the Colonial Office to allow me full pay from the date of departure.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nPeebles\n\nAssistant Secretary,\n\nMarine Department,\n\nBoard of Trade,\n\nLondon", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344242, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Rose address\n\na to\n\nany\n\nSenior\n\nIndividually.\n\n237\n\nM10007\n\nSir,\n\nTHE SURVEYORS,\n\nBOARD OF TRADE SURVEYORS OFFICE,\n\nCUSTOM HOUSE ARCADE,\n\nLIVERPOOL\n\n14th July 1890\n\nWith reference to M/2728/90 relating to my appointment to the Office of Junior Marine Surveyor at Hongkong. I respectfully request, as it is not my intention to remove my Family to Hong Kong at present, that the Board will be pleased to arrange with the Colonial Office to pay to my wife Catherine Peebles, 52 Windsor Road, Tue Brook, Liverpool. monthly half pay at the rate of 4/2 per dollar until other arrangements have been made. This Concession will be very much esteemed.\n\nI am Sir,\n\nyour obedient Servant,\n\nPeebles\n\nAssistant Secretary Marine Department\n\nBoard of Trade\n\nLondon\n\nTo\n\n...\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344243, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "73127\n\n6969\n\nI think we had better write direct to him to Save time C.FL.\n\nDRAFT. & S. Peebles +S.\n\n5. Peebles Eng The August Ser.\n\nMarine Sp\n\nBoard of Trade\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Lucas 21 Lucas\n\nMr.\n\nTrade\n\n13883\n\nJuly\n\nParfield 24/kz\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert,\n\n2177\n\nBaron de Worms.\n\nLord Knutsford.\n\n9 Canalst\n\nCopy to be sent to Houghing later on.\n\nsee 142// \n\n0877771\n\nHongkong\n\n2\n\n238\n\nImmediate\n\n22 July 90\n\nby\n\nan directed to ack: Knutsford\n\nLord\n\nthe receipt of your letters of the both winst. M-1369\" addressed to the Board 977 fle exclosing two letters from on the ✓ in the inst Mr. Peebles who has becan Selected for the post of Marine Surveyor at Hongkong, in which the asks to be allowed full\n\ninstead\n\nq\n\nhalf pay from the date\n\nCopy to Board of Trade\n\nof\n\nembarkation and that\n\non 13914\n\nZ\n\n1\n\narrangements should be made for the payment for your\n\nA\n\nto\n\nyour\n\nHis wife monthly of \"\"\n\nW", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344244, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "## \n\n2. Lord Knutsford much regrets that he cannot grant either of these requests, but he is unable to make an exception to the ordinary rule of the service in the case of one individual officer, and the rule is that half pay is only allowed for the time between the date of disembarkation and arrival in the colony, and that family remittances shall be made only at the current rate of exchange.\n\n3. If Main Peebles wishes, however, Lord Knutsford will authorise an advance of salary to her not exceeding **£150** to be refunded hereafter by instalments in the colony, so as to enable her to make arrangements for her wife and family on her arrival in Hong Kong and begin making remittances in the usual way at the ordinary rate of 4/2 to the dollar, or at the market rate of exchange.\n\n4. Upon hearing from you, instructions will be given to the Crown Agents accordingly.\n\n5. I am to request you to state at your early convenience the exact date at which you propose to leave for Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "an examination \n\none 1 \n\nby the \n\nthis \n\nMedical officers of Cleport rent the fee is \n\n\"Guinea only, and the \n\none \n\ncertificate of one officer is \n\nConsidered sufficient \n\nto enclose for the the Board \n\nI am \n\ninformation of \n\na copy f \n\nletter which has \n\non \n\nthe \n\nsubject of \n\nhis two \n\nbeen addressed to Mr Peebles \n\nletters to the Board \n\nthe 14th the inst: and to add that Mr Dixon has been \n\nduly appointed to the \n\nMarine \n\npost of \"Assistant Surveyor\n\nRun \n\n&L(121)0577-6000-6-90 \n\nlee or Individual. \n\ndi Trader \n\nDate. \n\n1890 \n\n30 Oct \n\nprevious Paper. \n\nPip602 \n\nCopy for any. 230 \n\nHong Kong \n\nDOMESTIC. \n\n9423 \n\n1248 \n\nRECEIVED\n\nNo. \n\n19423 \n\n+ RECEIVED 4 OCT 90 \n\n(Subject.) \n\nMerchandise Marks Order \n\nS Charally satisfactory but \n\nCalls attention to transposition of \n\nin clause 3 \n\nGeneral Dept. Sw 1410 \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nMr Wingfield \n\nCertain words \n\nI do not suppose the transposition referred to is \n\nreal importance, but I leave to operation, sending \n\nMany \n\n1860. \n\nsubsequent Paper \n\ncopy of B.7. Letter \n\nNr 8/10 \n\nIt is a palpable misprint _ Call \n\nthe formers to it \n\nalonu \n\nEw 9 \n\nbet", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344849, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 847, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "No.\n\nHong Kong\n\n12788\n\n(Subject.)\n\n843 DOMESTIC.\n\n12788\n\nRECEIVED\n\nREG? 3 JUL 90.\n\nJR & S (40,043) 3000 3-89\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nMrrables &\n\nDate.\n\n1890\n\n2 July\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n124.12\n\nAsst Marine Surveyor\n\nMWR. C Dixon\n\nSubmits apply of\n\nwy 1906\n\n7 July\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n13058\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Meade\n\nI suppose we shall take this man subject to medical examination. His testimonials read good;\n\nHe is not a Board's Officer. Shall we write to the Board of Trade, ask them to examination, and pay the fee.\n\nGive instructions for Mering to ask them to do so. While telling M. Peebles this has been done.\n\nThe Clerk wrote. 257\n\nat one Run 3/7\n\n3.7-90\n\nC.PL\n\n3. Jul\n\nW", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 848, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Page 844\n\nC.O.\n\n12788\n\nREC?\n\nREGP 3 JUI 90!\n\nBOARD OF TRADE SURVEYORS' OFFICE,\n\nCUSTOM HOUSE ARCADE,\n\nLIVERPOOL.\n\n22 June 1890\n\nI beg respectfully to submit for your favourable consideration application & copy of testimonials from Mr. Diston, whom I have nominated as a suitable person for the appointment of Assistant Surveyor at Hong Kong.\n\nI presume he will have to pass a medical examination, I would suggest that the Sanitary Officers of this department may be asked to perform that duty as in my case.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nyour obedient Servant\n\nPeebles.\n\nUnder Secretary of State\n\nColonial Office\n\nDowning Street\n\nLondon S.W.\n\nW", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 851, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "12788\n\nAkong 847\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Assistant See: Marine Dept By Trade.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMINUTE Mr. Lucas 4 July Fairfield 4 July\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade. 4\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nBaron de Worms.\n\nLord Knutsford.\n\n2 drafts\n\n5 July. 90.\n\nWith reference to the letter from this department of 2nd ult. and to previous correspondence,\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to state that Mr. Peables has submitted the name of Mr. R.C. Dixon of 91, Gordon Terrace,\n\nWalton Breck Road, Liverpool, for the post of Assistant Government Marine Surveyor at Hong Kong.\n\n2. His lordship would...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344854, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 852, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Very A be much obliged if instructions could be given for the medical examination of Mr Dixon by the medical Officers of the Board. Any necessary fee would be paid from colonial funds.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nG. Peebles may &\n\nP 12788\n\nHong Kong\n\n818\n\nLis\n\n7 July '90\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Lucas 4.\n\nMr. Fairfield\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nBaron de Worms.\n\nLord Knutsford.\n\n4 2 drafts 9\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge and thank you for your letter of the 2nd inst.\n\nSubmitting the application of M. R.C. Dixon for appointment as assistant government Marine Surveyor, at Hong Kong.\n\n2. It is as you state desirable that M Dixon should at once be medically examined, and the Board of Trade have been requested to have the examination made.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345013, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "bulkheads are fitted as a rule, although the instructions do not enforce them.\n\nI have re...\n\n(Signed) G. Peebles,\n\nGovt Marine Surveyor.\n\nCapt Runway, R. N.\n\nHurbeer Master.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nExtract from a letter from the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce dated the 30th December 1890.\n\nWith regard to Bulkheads in Iron vessels.\n\nCommittee are of opinion that the requirements of the Act will be sufficiently cared for by the local surveyors in the ordinary course of their duties when called upon to report on the condition of vessels trading with this Port.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 10, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "\"I declared by the form \n\nHong Kong at # \n\nfor the purpose of \n\npayment of salary or \n\nhalf salary of an \n\noffice \n\non leave on \n\n=-4/- \n\nabsent from this country, \n\nand \n\nfor the \n\npurpose of payment of \n\na \n\nthe fusion of salary \n\nVice \n\n`WB & L(121)-16857-8000-7-91` \n\n**Governor. No.** \n\n**Breeson 2** \n\n**Sep.** \n\n**Date.** \n\n1892 **5 Jan** \n\n**Last previous Paper.** \n\nB \n\n1952 \n\n45.19 **Feb.** \n\nh.s. to drop. `mfheach 11526/80` \n\n**Next subsequent Paper.** \n\n4576. \n\n**Hong Kong** \n\n**No. 2844** \n\n**(Subject.)** \n\n**Marine Surveyor** \n\n**Race** \n\n**DESPATCH.** \n\nC. O. \n\n2844 \n\n**(Ref 11 FEB 32** \n\nReports resignation of to Peebles \n\nEncloses particulars of appl \n\n**(Minutes.)** \n\nMr. Fanfield \n\nI have been told \n\nin 1952 that he appoint Mr. Leslie \n\n... \n\nand \n\n? Refer to that telegram, I send copy of 1992 its successor, and, with reference to \n\n**Head 3** of \n\nthe annexed Paper \n\nParticulars, that as the Marine Surveyor at the Straits perform this duty as part of his official duties without receiving any fees\", and the Ass. Harbour Master", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348278, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 11, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# Government House, Hongkong, 5th January, 1892\n\nReferring to Mr Meade's despatch No. 121 of the 30th of June, 1890, I have the honour to report that Mr George Peebles has resigned.\n\nBeing lately had the felicitous opportunity of discussing this matter with the Harbour Master at Hongkong, who performs the similar duty of Examining Masters & Mates without receiving any fees [s.15(7) of the new Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ord. providing for this change], it would seem desirable to amend the Law, so as to qualify the Marine Surveyor to undertake marine survey work without fees, as referred to in `57/1/960`.\n\nIt is too much to take away the privilege from Mr Leslie, and he has already been appointed; therefore, I suggest in his case, with a promise that he should render such fees.\n\nThe average fees drawn during the last Margao say of 1890 (which is halfway between the average for the last 3 years given as £250 and £210) were £270, and in `787/90` £216. It is difficult enough to get a man to do this work, and I do not believe the pay is high. It has been considered whether the salary should be raised and perquisites abolished. I would not say more.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nC.P.L. 18 June 12923\n\nC.O. 2844\n\n¡Rec? IPES 11 FEB 32\n\nThe Right Honourable \nLord Knutsford, G.C.M.G. \n... \n30th of June, 1890...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348279, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 12, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "his appointment of Government Marine Surveyor from the 1st proximo in order to take up private employment in the Colony.\n\nThe amount of the advance (£150) on account of his salary made to Mr Peebles in England by the Crown Agents, will have been repaid before he leaves the Government service.\n\nAs it is desirable that the vacancy thus caused should be filled as soon as possible I telegraphed yesterday as follows :-\n\n\"Marine Surveyor has resigned. Send out successor receiving same pay as soon as possible.\"\n\n16th of February", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350451, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "## Board of Trade, and Enclosure \n\nfor your consideration a copy is sent in \"a memorandum left on file\" by the Inspector General of Bankruptcy. \n\n3. There is only one point of the Inspector General's criticisms, to which I need call special attention; and that is the in connection with See 15. Subsec. \n\nIt is not clear that the words within the colony \"I apply to rementioned as creditors \"in the debtor's statement\", but in any case I would suggest that they be omitted.\n\n( & L(x) — 12409 ---- 6000-2-91 \n\n| Date | Previous Paper | Subsequent Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1892 30 Jan | 1228 | 844 |\n| | 45.1976. Au | 2844 |\n\nHongkong No 1952 (Subject.) C.O. 117 DOMESTIC. 1952 Recd d Regd 1. Feb.92 \n\nMarine Surveyor \n\nThere is no adverse record against M. Leslie. Incloses statement of his.\n\n## Services \n\n(Minutes.) M Fanfield \n\nThis gentleman would suit but for his age; 48 is old for entering the government Service. There is a marine surveyor and an assistant marine Surveyor, both appointed with great trouble in 1890. The former, M. Peebles, who according to the telegram on 120 has resigned, selected his assistant M. Dixon: the latter presumably because he was not a Board of Trade officer, is apparently not considered fit to succeed him, but we are in want of details. There is a despatch giving all there are the parochial three", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359037, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "# \nthat \"its general appearance, as viewed from the sea, is inviting, there being a pleasant variety of hill and dale, and on the northern and eastern sides much cleared land, cultivation rising probably to the level of 2,000 feet. Above this, all appears to be buried in thick forests of pines and other northern trees, even to the highest peak, Mount Auckland, 6,558 feet above the level of the sea.\" As I saw it, however, 3 miles out to sea, and just before sunrise, the appearance of the great island was weird and gloomy in the extreme, a repellent contrast to the smiling archipelago I had left the night before. There among the islets is indeed \"a pleasant variety,\" the peaks are frayed into a thousand shapes, and flushed with red sandstone where they are not green with grass. Here the land rose smoothly from the sea like the back of a monstrous cachalot studded with huge bosses, grey cones that seemed like ghosts of, what in truth they are, dead craters. Over Mount Auckland, whose mass might have broken the spell of this gruesome procession, hung a thick pall of clouds. The island, in its silence and awesomeness, appeared indeed such as we imagine to be at closer quarters, the scenery of the moon.\n\nIt was not till I got ashore that the irrational horror began to lift. Quelpart is in fact of volcanic formation, and the cliffs along which we were skirting are formed of masses of black lava. It is in an opening in these cliffs, some 600 yards wide, that the city of Chei-ju fronts the sea. Why it was built there became more apparent as we drew near the shore in the ship's boat. At first nothing could be seen but a forbidding beach of lava pebbles, on which the surf was breaking. Guided by the people on shore we steered for the east end of the beach, where the stones had been cleared out at the mouth of a stream and a rough bund built up. The tide had not risen sufficiently to lift our boat over the bar of pebbles until she was lightened of her passengers, who were carried ashore on the islanders' shoulders. We then observed that the stream, protected from the sea by its natural breakwater of pebbles, formed a small boat harbour, in which lay a few fishing craft, among them one Japanese with two men aboard. I was taken into the city to call on the Chief Magistrate, a friendly crowd at our heels. Our way led us past the boat harbour, creek, lagoon, or whatever it should be called, westward to the city wall. Chei-ju claims to be 1,900 years old, but was restored and reorganized only two or three centuries back. The wall looks worthy of the earlier date, so grey is it, and overgrown in parts with creepers that have thickened into wood. The gates are remarkable. The arch is not more than 12 feet high or broad, and the two leaves of the gates do not fill the whole space, squared off as they are at top. The wall, the houses, the streets, are built of lava, and this, though it makes Chei-ju a gloomy city to the eye, at least keeps it comparatively clean for the feet. The shops, such as I saw, and I think I was traversing the main street, were equally novel to me. They appear as so many cupboards, as it were, 4 feet, or little more, in depth and breadth, and 6 to 7 feet high, opening on to the street through the usual Corean window space. There can be room for only two persons in the shop, and the purchaser, I presume, negotiates from the street.\n\n## \n\nThe public offices of Chei-ju open on to the market-place, through which a flagged causeway runs. The market, they told me, is held six times a-month. On the north of the square is the Yamun proper, displaying over its gateway the legend \"Tan-la Pro-cheng-sa\" T'an-la (pronounced Talla), was the old name of Quelpart when, some 600 years ago, it was an independent kingdom, and governed by a Queen. To this day, indeed, the islanders are regarded by the Coreans as foreigners. Under the system prevailing till the present year, Quelpart was governed by a \"Moksa,\" or Prefect (literally, a pastor), residing at Chei-ju, with a \"Kunsu,\" or Warden, at Chêng-wi, and a \"Hyên-kam,\" or District Magistrate, at Tai-chêng. All these officials were under the orders of the Governor of Chulla-do. Since the Reformation, Quelpart has become an independent county or department, and a \"Koanchalsa,\" or Governor, has been appointed. Pending his arrival the former \"Moksa\" is acting in his stead, and it was to call on this official that I was being taken. He received me, not in the Yamun proper, but in a compound on the other (the south) side of the market-place. As I entered he rose and bowed, then immediately reseated himself, cross-legged, on a small square mat covered with green cloth. I sat down on the only article of furniture that at all suggested a seat, a kind of wooden grating to his right, elevated some 8 inches from the floor. The \"Hyenik's\" linguist meanwhile knelt on a mat in front of the \"Moksa,\" and handed over the despatches he had brought from Seoul; for the \"Hyenik\" had conveyed to Quelpart six persons under sentence of banishment, two for ten years, the others for life. These men were said to have been concerned in the murder of Kim Hak-o, Vice-Minister of Justice, last September. Their sentence, which, under the new rules, should also involve hard labour, seemed to trouble them little, as they made no secret of their expectation that another turn of the political wheel would shortly release them.\n\nKim Hak-o, by the way, was at one time for some eight months purser of the \"Hyenik,\" and Captain Benzenius described him as an accomplished linguist, who spoke Japanese, Chinese, and Russian, and had visited Tôkið and St. Petersburgh.\n\nThe \"Moksa\" read his despatches and talked to me, puffing the while at his long pipe, which, with its polished brass ash-tray and the inseparable brass commode, lay handy at his side. He insisted on my sharing his breakfast, and three of the little octagonal tables were brought in (the third was for the linguist) loaded with vermicelli, bêche-de-mer, and pickled vegetables, inscrutably acrid. \"Sul\" (Corean spirit) was served, hot as in China, and the \"Moksa\" emptied three cups in our honour. I can, however, indorse the remarks of the \"Shin Chosen's\" correspondent, to whom he showed himself equally hospitable: \"He was in appearance studiously simple, self-possessed, and amiable, with the air of a gentleman.\" His secretaries, who stood in a semi-circle facing him, but behind us, were dressed in the old camisole of light blue or purple; indeed, I only observed one Corean at Chei-ju who wore the regulation outer coat of black. The \"Moksa's\" own garment was of dark grey, and he had on the old-fashioned amber hat string with a jade side button. The room in which we sat was bare of everything but the articles I have described and an old halbert in one corner; opening out of it, in full view, was the \"Moksa's\" bed-room, with the usual bed-mat and small oblong pillow, pile of books, and crossed paper slips at the bed-head for memoranda. The doors to the courtyard were wide open, and were crowded with an assortment of very orderly natives. When I came out I found my Chinese servant surrounded by some dozens of them, his face beaming with satisfaction. He confided to me that the disposition of the islanders was equally friendly with that of the inhabitants of Ping-yang, whither he had accompanied Mr. Osborne last June. My brief experience pointed the same way, but perhaps I shone in the reflected light of the \"big country' man. On the other hand, the Japanese press men affirm that the people are not well behaved, and received them on their landing with abuse. This, they say, is due to the harsh treatment of the natives by Japanese fishermen, who have indeed nearly driven the Quelpart fishers from their own seas. I was told that the Awabi shell-fisheries were chiefly worked by women, who at times used to dive for pearls; and that on one occasion at least their seclusion was invaded by Japanese, and a fight ensued, in which some of the latter were killed. The Quelpart women shy of strangers more than their sisters at Chemulpo and Seoul, old traditions lingering longer in this unfrequented corner.\n\n## \n\nQuitting the Moksa's Yamên, I turned north to the city wall to see if the clouds had lifted from Mount Auckland. That giant, for such he is among Quelpart hills, is known locally as Han-la San (read Halla), and abundant traditions cluster round him. The \"Moksa\" told me that not more than one or two in 10,000 would have courage to ascend to his top, and other Coreans declared that of those who had in times past done so, the few who returned came down in a tempest of thunder and rain. It was possible, the \"Moksa\" said, in answer to my question, that a European might escape these influences, but I do not think he quite relished my proposal to come back later and try. The mountain is evidently the principal crater of the volcanic system that has raised this island, and from what glimpses I could catch of his summit, and the reports of those who, like Captain Benzenius, had circumnavigated the island, there should be little natural difficulties in climbing his sloping sides. The woods with which they are clad would probably be the chief hindrance, and the superstitious fears of the people.\n\nI went along the eastern wall of the city, accompanied by my Chinaman and a dozen or so of volunteer guides, youths of 15 or 16 for the most part, whose hats proclaimed them already married. The wall is very picturesque in parts, reminding me of the city ramparts of Wênchow in China. The mountain stream, whose embouchure forms the boat harbour, approaches the wall at this side down a wooded ravine, and passes through it in a double arch. Near the south-east corner is a kiosque, whose chief glory, according to my guides, is a slab bearing the four words, \"Snowy north, fragrant south,\" written, as they proudly informed me, by the hand of Kim Chêng-hui, better known by his nom de plume of Ch'u-sa (\"the Autumn Author\"), a calligraphist of the first half of this century, whose renown penetrated even to China. From the wall I had a good view of the neighbouring fields, if such they can be called, for they grow to all appearance little else but lava. A melancholy but not unmusical singing induced me to look over at one point, where a row of women were weeding a field in time to the chant. My guides did not quite approve my curiosity, for the reason, as far as I could gather, that the weeders were of the other--for really in this case it could hardly be called the fair--sex. Quelpart of late years has not been self-supporting. Even in good seasons, says the \"Shin Chosen,\" 2,000 bags of rice have to be shipped thither from the mainland, while in famine time 5,000 bags or more must be sent. His fellow-pressman remarks, with admirable candour, \n\nPage 722\n\nPage 439", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395032, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "communication to Burmah markets. I counted in the day several flocks of over 100 sheep and several heads of over 50 ponies. The mutton and beef of Yunnan is almost as good as at home. Mules are bred in the hills north of Teng Yueh, but the sires are very small jackasses, and saw none but the ordinary small transport mule, which does the Bhamo carrying trade. Many of the people here are solely occupied in tending flocks and herds; but there is also a good deal of cultivation in the uplands---buckwheat, maize, wheat, and opium in sheltered spots being the chief crops. The land is prepared by a sort of skinning process, 4 to 6 inches of soil, containing all the roots of the grasses, being stripped off the land and piled in heaps over its face. These piles are then set on fire, and allowed to smoulder, the ashes serving as manure.\n\nOn the afternoon of our march from the Hsiang Yang Bridge we descended from 8,400 feet by a very steep path from the downs to the Valley of Ta Hsi Lienu, near its chief market town, Ku Tung Kai. Near Ku Tung there are several large and flourishing villages, All the country, indeed, between Ku Tung and the Ta Ying Shan north of Teng Yueh presents a most pleasing appearance, the villages being surrounded with ample orchards and pastures. The excessive droughts of the winter and spring in Central Yunnan are here tempered by local spring rains, which is a great boon to the shepherd folk, who have no difficulty in finding grass for their herds.\n\nNear Ku Tung I halted a day, at the request of the villagers, to shoot wild (bar-heads), which do great harm by browsing on the young opium and wheat shoots, and I disposed of fifteen of these marauders. We then marched west from Ku Tung up a lateral valley and over a pass 8,500 feet, leaving the Shweli Basin, and passing into the Valley of Ku Yung, which belongs to the Taiping system. This track is so narrow as to be impassable at some places for mules laden, and the packs have to be carried, but a little spade work is all that is required to broaden it out. The chief botanical features of this and of the other neighbouring ranges which I traversed are rhododendron trees, sometimes growing to a height of 30 feet, and covered in March with masses of rich red blossoms, a small lilac-coloured oxslip, which fills, not unworthily, the place of the home primrose, and in high, damp, sheltered spots a small and graceful primula of a delicate mauve colour. The folds and summits of these ranges are still covered with dense forest, but there is little timber of much value. Teng Yueh is, however, supplied with wood from these hills. The Kalej pheasant is by no means rare, and on the lower slopes the common pheasant of the country (Stone's, or Phasianus elegans) is frequently met with.\n\nThe country through which I passed is a country in compartments, consisting of valleys divided from each other by broad mountain ranges. The further north-east the nearer to the headwaters of the Taiping and Shweli Valleys-I was able to penetrate, the narrower and smaller were the valleys, and the more extensive and complicated was the mountain system; but a description of one of the passes from valley to valley would apply to nearly all the others.\n\nKu Yung is a market of fifty houses in a long and narrow but fertile and populous valley about 10 miles by 1 mile. It is the starting-point of the main track to the Upper Irrawadi, Mytkina, and the Burmah jade mines via the Kao Liang Pass (10,000 feet), and a number of the Ku Yung people are in the habit of going over into Burmah on petty trading expeditions. The pass is still infested by robbers, though there are supposed to be 200-and really are some 90-soldiers at Ku Yung, and a post of 15 men at Tatto, where the ascent of the Kao Liang commences. There is also a Lisan headman, the agent of the \"Fu yi,\" or Lisaw Chief of Tan Tsa-Lan Ma, but hitherto we have quite failed to get redress for robberies committed on this part of the frontier.\n\nOn the 5th March we moved up the Ta Ho, at the junction of the Ka Yang stream with the Taiping River, which here runs through wild country over a rocky course (20-25 yards wide in March) with some fine pools; it is almost like a salmon stream at home, but though there are salmon in Monmouth and in Macedon, there are none in Yunnan, and in the upper waters of the Taiping mahseer are very difficult to catch.\n\nOn the 6th March, in heavy rain succeeding nocturnal thunderstorms, we marched up the Ta Ho gorge in a northerly direction, and then turned east up a stiff ascent to 7,800 feet, whence there was a good view of the precipitous mountains whence the Taiping River takes its source. San Cha Ho, 5 miles north of Ta Ho, and consisting, like it, of a few scattered Lisaw huts, is the junction of the three head-waters of the Taiping River, which are:-\n\n1. The Ta Ho, which springs from the mountains not far from the sources of the Shingaw River, which flows into the N'maikha (the eastern branch of the Irrawadi);\n\n2. The Tan Tsa stream which comes in from the north; and\n\n3. The Lun Ma stream which comes from the east of San Cha Ho. There is a route over into the Shingaw Valley from Ku Yung, viâ San Cha Ho, by which the N'maikha can be reached in four days. By this pass, the watershed is crossed close to the mountain Manung Pum, which is the most northerly point of the demarcated frontier. This track was reported to me as not being passable for mules, and as being used only by a few Lisaw porters. There is also stated to be a route into the N'maikha Basin from Tan Tsa over a snow mountain, which is difficult, and in bad weather impassable even for porters; this track would, after passing into the N'maikha Basin, strike the head-waters of its tributary the Tummaw. The population in these hills round the head-waters of the Taiping is very scanty, and so far as I could find out, the Chinese have at this point no pretensions to any jurisdiction in the N'maikha Basin.\n\nThe little Plain of Lun Ma, which we reached in five hours' rough mountain march from Ta Ho, is only 2 miles by a mile, and contains only two villages, one Chinese and one Lisaw. The Plain of Tan Tsa is situated about 5 miles to the north of and is even smaller than Lun Ma, but it is the residence of the local Lisaw \"fu yi,\" or hereditary Chief.\n\nAs we entered the Lisaw country near Ta Ho, I may give a few notes on these people. They chiefly inhabit the higher valleys and slopes at an altitude above the Kachin villages on the N'maikba side, and above the Chinese villages on the Yunnan side. They are mostly scattered about in small hamlets of three to five families; they have been expelled from most of the padi lands which they once possessed, and now live chiefly on maize and buckwheat. The commercial activity chiefly consists in bringing down hemp, firewood, wheat, and the bark of the Koutree (Edgeworthia Gardneri), from which paper is made, to the Chinese hazaars in exchange for salt, cotton, clothing, rice, and opium. They mostly grow their own tobacco; their houses are of bamboo wattles, and divided into three partitions and thatched with dried grass. In the Kuyang Lun Ma district they claim to have come from either Pa Chiao or Sima, near the British frontier, and they assert that their principal Chief used to reside at Meng Ka, near Sima, in the old days before the appearance of the Kachins; but their real origin must be looked for elsewhere. It is almost certainly to be found in the valley of the Upper Salwen, where the bulk of the population is still Lisaw. The Lisaw race is probably, like the Kachins, an offshoot from the south-eastern edges of the Thibetan plateau. About Meng Ka and Lun Ma there is obviously a strong strain of Chinese blood in the Lisaws, but on nearing the Upper Salwen the Thibetan type and physique is strongly marked. It does not appear that there is any tradition of the Lisaws ever having been in possession of any of the main valleys; indeed, they themselves state that they put in an appearance in these parts after the Chinese, but before the Kachins. The Lisaws near Ku Yung have adopted Chinese habits and language to such an extent that they can hardly understand their cousins from the Salwen, but even those who have adopted Chinese dress preserve the hempen gaiters, tightly bound under the knee and falling loosely to the ankle, which are a characteristic feature of their national dress. Cotton garments are an innovation. The \"black,\" or wild Lisaw of the Upper Salwen, of whom I saw a few specimens, were entirely clad in coarse hemp, and wore rude turbans of the same material; the gaiters, the long robe and short trousers completed the costume, while their ornaments consisted of light silver bracelets and necklets of plaited straw, from which hung small shells, pebbles, and bits of silver. The Lisaw always goes about armed with his heavy, broadsword in a univalve wooden scabbard, and with his crossbow and bundle of hardened bamboo-arrows, which will penetrate an inch of deal at a distance of 30 yards. Some part of his person, the strap of his sword, or even his pigtail, if he has one, is invariably adorned with small shells, though in other respects he may be a \"short coat,\" i.e., if he is dressed in Chinese fashion and has discarded the hempen or \"long coat\" of his ancestors. The women dress very differently in nearly every community which I visited, but their heads and bodies are always adorned with shells, bits of deers' horns, and odds and ends of silver and pebbles. The real Lisaw female dress is a hempen kilt and short hemp jacket, with a cap encrusted with shells, but in Upper Ming Kwang the kilt has become a tightish petticoat worn under a long cotton robe, with a broad cotton belt adorned with patchwork of red, green, and white.\n\nThe Lisaw coolie carries 50 lbs. on his back, and is a good porter in difficult country.\n\nPage 366", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422725, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# Errors in existing Maps\n\nMost maps in existence limit the number of places in the Ordos of which they show the position to the seats of Government of the tribes nearest to the Great Wall; some include Hangkin on their list. While at one time the positions assigned to these places were doubtless correct, time has brought about a change in some of them, a change to which all are liable for the Prince of the tribe may at any time see fit to move his seat to a more suitable spot where there is better water or pasturage; or else some bad luck may come to his house and the lamas may advise him to build elsewhere. Thus all readings of the maps as regards these places should be accepted with caution. The position of Wushin, for instance, is wholly different now to what it was ten years ago. The Prince now resides two days' journey (50 miles) to the south of where he is indicated on the map as living. Again, the Prince of Hangkin is indicated on the German maps as living close to the south-east end of Dabassun Noor where as he now lives (whatever he once did) several days' journey from the lake in a west-south-westerly direction. But perhaps the strangest map error of all is in the position of Salatsi ting which is indicated as lying about 30 miles south-west of Kweihuacheng and off the main road to Bautu. Bautu is rightly placed at 90 miles distant from Kweihuacheng. The maps which mark Salatsi ting to the south will indicate Chagenkuren as a small place on the road 20 miles east of Bautu and 60 miles west of Kweihuacheng. Now Salatsi is the Chinese and Chagenkuren the Mongol name for one and the same place. It seems impossible to understand how such a vast error in distance arose and why it has been allowed to remain uncorrected for so long.\n\nApril 27—Leaving Anental to the west over low hillocks of sand piled up by countless years of winds we soon turned south-west away from the river, ascending gradually into the heart of the Ordos. No houses anywhere to be seen and no traffic. A Tai lu or official track is supposed to run in a south-westerly direction through the princedoms, but the difficulty of keeping on it is enormous owing to the number of side tracks crossing it. The country is covered with hillocks of drift-sand covered with scrub and among these antelope were browsing heedless of our caravan. Travelling would be extremely difficult for anything except camels. The country is so broken by sand-ridges and hillocks that a caravan can move along the tracks without being seen from a distance. Early in the afternoon we stopped at a small Mongol settlement of two houses known as Koturbala; here there is a good well, a necessary thing in a country where water can only be obtained by digging, a difficult process in view of the amount of drift sand.\n\nThe track was especially difficult just now because of the recent number of dust storms which had obliterated the tracks and made it hard to find the right road.\n\nThe Mongol dogs are as fierce in the Ordos as elsewhere in Mongolia; my retinue fortunately saved me from one today. Koturbala was a comfortable rest house after a dead calf had been ejected from the best room.\n\nWe picked up here a Mongol who spoke Chinese fluently and who consented to accompany us as far as Ninghsia for the sum of 10 taels (30s.).\n\nApril 28.—As payment for her hospitality the old lady here snipped off some camel's hair. She said she took toll of every passing caravan in the same way. Excellent sport is obtainable by walking some 200 yards from the convoy and parallel with it. Care has to be exercised lest one lose the convoy as the track twists and bends and one may imagine oneself to be keeping parallel with them and yet be far from doing so. Once lost it would be an extremely difficult matter to extricate oneself for one meets no one; at the same time there is always the danger of lighting on a cabin among the hills and of finding oneself attacked by several dogs who do not hesitate to spring at the traveller's throat. Even close to the convoy the utmost strategy has sometimes to be used to extricate oneself from an attack by dogs.\n\nAfter travelling three hours we reach the few lonely cabins which form the settlement of Bourdan, situated on a strip of land some few hundred yards wide and 1/2 a mile long, more fertile than the surrounding country.\n\nAn hour later we descended into a depression at the bottom of which trickled a little water an inch or so in depth and some 25 yards broad. This stream which flows north into the Yellow River is known as the Er khe gol. The banks are sandy and precipitous and must be 30 feet high. An hour later we reached the residence of the Djungar Prince. The first thing one sees is a mud-walled enclosure, each wall 200 yards long much broken down in places and against which a good deal of sand has drifted. This encloses an encampment surrounded by a low wall. This is the Prince's residence.\n\nThe encampment lies north and south. Outside the entrance at the south end is a temple in front of which are a number of poles with many prayer flags strung between them. There are prayer flags on all the walls and on many of the trees in the Prince's garden.\n\nThe Prince is a man of 60. He never leaves his house, except to go once in three years by cart to Peking. His duties are to keep the district in order and to administer justice; for this purpose there is a Yamen attached to the residence. The Prince is said to receive 500 taels of silver a-year and 100 bags of rice from the Chinese Government. As he has no taxes to pay and no soldiers to maintain the position cannot be a difficult one.\n\nThe few cabins round the encampment grow potatoes, wheat, millet, and kaoliang. The encampment is, however, wholly Mongol, nor has the Prince a Chinese wife. A few of the population speak Chinese, but there is no compulsion to learn it.\n\nDuring the afternoon we passed three small tricklets of water, at the last of which we halted for the night in a Mongol house known as Wotodiassho.\n\nApril 29—We crossed several small streams flowing northwards, and occasionally a Mongol cabin, either in the vicinity of the streams or of a marshy piece of ground. After three and a-half hours we halted at a small Chinese Settlement called Ba ha ra se ho.\n\nThe Chinese families here pay a small land tax to the Mongol owners. A farm labourer told me his wages were one tael (3s.) a-month, of which 20 cents (one-ninth) went to buy opium.\n\nTwo hours later we halted at Hungehow (Red Temple) for the night, a small Chinese village overlooking a stream of the same name which flows north. We had deviated a good deal from the right road, our guide wishing to take us to Ninghsia by the more direct route across the centre of the Ordos. There is a miserable inn at Hungchow.\n\nApril 30.—We passed occasional Chinese cabins: their inhabitants are said to be under the authority of the local Prince for petty offences. A hurricane came on in the late afternoon, followed by a dust-storm which changed to heavy snow. We just reached the shelter of a solitary Mongol house, called Sadungapu, in time.\n\nMay 1.—Deep snow lay everywhere; we could not start till late as the camels had to be unfrozen, they had been obliged to remain in the open all night, there had been also great mortality among the lambs and kids. The snow, however, melted during the day, but while it lay the track was exceedingly difficult to find. We stopped the night at a Chinese Settlement, called Hurutu, situated on the side of a ravine, the cabins being for the most part cave-dwellings.\n\nMay 2—The day saw a renewal of the terrible dust-storms we had experienced between Kweihuacheng and the Yellow River. From 9 AM to 5 PM it was impossible to see more than a few yards ahead, while the force of the wind raised not only dust but even pebbles, and hurled them against us. A caravan winding its way over the treeless downs with no sheltering hills is fully exposed to such storms. During the day we crossed a number of dry river-beds, each several hundred yards wide; these show that the country was once well watered. The country is extremely broken into deep nullahs and gullies, round the heads of which the track has to wind. The dry river-beds are, however, composed of firm sand or fine gravel; there are no rocks or boulders. We halted at a small Chinese Settlement called Hodatogol. One of the natives here is an example of thrift: he owns many flocks and herds, his expenses per annum are literally nil apart from his land tax to the Mongols. He lives on his fields and his flocks, and sells the skins of the latter to the native dealers, who come from Ninghsia at fixed times in the year.\n\nMay 3—The day was worse than yesterday for dust, and we got hopelessly out of our road, thanks to it, and had to halt early at a solitary house known as Shihpakotu for the night. It did not increase one's pleasure to learn later in the day that there was a child ill of small-pox in the farm.\n\nMay 4—We had to turn south to get straight again, and passed through quite a belt of cultivation, a large amount of land being under the plough, the inhabitants being of course Chinese. During the morning we crossed the dry Ulan Muran. In the afternoon we reached a different country altogether, the hills being of red sandstone, and both they and the valleys covered with a low scrub. We halted at the Mongol farm of Chaganboshoo.\n\nMay 5.—Three hours marching brought us to the residence of the Prince of Wang, round which farms are rather more plentiful than they had been for some days. The encampment resembled that of the Prince of Djungar, only that there were no outer walls to it. The Prince himself was away on a pilgrimage to the Wutaishan with a large retinue.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "335\n\nBoth were reported to the Police. No result. He said he had heard that there were many robbers, many Tien Sze Kuk swindlers and many Triads in Hongkong. He never remembered crime to be so prevalent.\n\n5.\n\nWei Yuk explained that there were 2 kinds of Tien Sze Kuk swindlers, namely the swindlers of returning emigrants and the like and the swindlers of rich people. He said that it was the swindlers of this latter class that were now so prevalent. Messrs. Brown and Badeley asked if the names of these swindlers had been reported for banishment. Mr. Wei Yuk said they had, but that the ringleaders had not yet been banished.\n\n6.\n\nMr. Wei Yuk said the most dangerous element at present was the Triad Society. He said the Society fomented the recent jinricksha strike. He instanced the man Chen Yi-kan who was a Triad and at the bottom of the strike and who had not been banished. Mr. Badeley said the man in question had been sent to him by the Registrar-General as a man who could stop the strike. Chan Yi-kan had given him (Mr. Badeley) useful information concerning the strike and he did not think that in the circumstances he ought to recommend the man for banishment.\n\n7.\n\nMr. Lau-chu-pak said that he had information that there were 50 Triad Clubs in West Point. He had reported the names of prominent Triads to the Registrar-General.\n\n8.\n\nHe said there was also much gambling along the Praya in the daytime. Those gamblers are thieves. They play fantan with small pebbles; when not gambling they steal.\n\n9.\n\nU Hoi-chau said that he had seen gambling carried on not far from Queen's Buildings with 2 watchmen stationed to give warning of the approach of the Police. He had seen bribes given to Chinese Police who came on the scene.\n\n10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459400, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "243\n\nshif\n\nford\n\nAs a\n\nto the\n\nvoyage\n\nJ\n\nthe\n\nyou\n\nand Kowloon\n\ngo one side to the other is not more than seven minutes. The\n\nsome time has been between\n\nshilling and ninepence farthing\n\nI am of the filling and ninefence and one fable for ten rides, now\n\nthe\n\nnote\n\ngot a ticket.\n\na\n\nCon\n\ntravel with.\n\nart NoPTI\n\nabout\n\non a concession that the British have here. how as to the food. Being a foreman joiner here I fitted out and the mainland\n\nthe bulkheads, lie this ferry company have at some time or other been granted troopship and I saw and nailed up stating the food that must be supplied. I have not got any monopoly of the ferry traffer\n\nbetween Hong-Hong these lists just now, but I know that the items specified on they the government here. The time taken by the ferry bout to although\n\nnot those of an hotel menu, evere\n\nfairly reasonable. I also know that the chief steward of a troopship can clear a atue of the dollar for certain amount through bleeding to opinion that the chief steward of the \"maniton\" was of this mefore the war one and I would like if you\n\nwould report this matter in the money have been raised to sixteen rides per two dollars. now this\n\nbrother says\n\nthe only ferry that respectable Europeans quarters and demand an explanation. My\n\nwas scandalous compared with other troopships. This refiret there is no\n\nother company apparently allowed to compute which she carried sovee of the 5-and L. F.A. K.A.Now why should we be forced to pay at the least two pence for they are chief & Il now.\n\nseven minutes ? This company's shares Glasgow. ] bring to your\n\nnotice one or two little three times their original value and they pay good dividends affain that I know to be going · Hong Kong but I the Colonial secretary.\n\nfind out the details of the cannot prove them so I would refer them to\n\nyou s\n\nthat company's affairs, because he has the power, and he will su you might bring them to the Colonial secretary's notishe need for stringent reform.\n\nmy opinion this colony is for enquiry.\n\nby a few monied men to their own as\n\nadvantage. In Hong-Kong here, there are some\n\nhere, there are some territorials of t should\n\nyou\n\nthink these items worthy of your attention Shropshires, there\n\ngovernment surveyors who are shall, like yourself, be pleased to have done doing volunteer service. Now my oldest brother at home is a\n\noldest brother at home is a furtherance of the cause and its objects\n\nthe Royal school teacher in Edinburgh, and is a lieutenant in\n\nThanking you he has been doing\n\nFremain began duty at Such keith, Leith, and now at Peebles. He receives to ammy on territorial pay and the School Board makes up difference between his civilian pay and the Army now, if the matter is\n\nenquired into Fam sure find these Surveyou\n\name\n\nalso\n\nsest's Territorials. Since the war\n\nthe\n\nis\n\ndrawing\n\noui\n\nthat you their surveyors payt their volunteer pay, while these Shropshire Femies are ge\n\nthe\n\nordinary soldier pay. Sots of them\n\nuled\n\ntau\n\nIn\n\nin anticipation\n\ngrowt\n\nyours sincerely James\n\nForeman Joiner\n\n-CL\n\nlittle to the\n\nKowloon Dock\n\nHong Kong,\n\nare tradesmen like oud. I shall be pleased to hear of any developement. The ferry\n\nar\n\nthe\n\nme and that little, the\n\nonly things that affect rest is for the good of thone who deserve it.\n\nselves and I don't understand why they should do all the fans sacrifising, while others do all the grabbing.\n\nThen is\n\nbetween Hong-Kong\n\nHerry Company here whose beats ply\n\nand the mainland, Kowloon is siturated and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462662, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "# BOTI\n\nFrom **SECRETARY OF STATE** \nTo **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG** \nTranslation of `CODE` Telegram, \n\nDate \n1st August, 1916 \n\n„Mergeist #000 to moitsfansTT \n„STATE TO YHATCHONB \n„DMONDXOH „ACHMATOD \n„alei „Jangjuk tai \nberpe \n\n1 1 h at C 1 1 1 1 sa sp. mm s \n- 926 \n446 \n\nLeveu no moldoeção on ootasid reqqet n#El viul mergaiət xzvoľ .sacitibnoo \n„WAI HAMOH \n\nYour despatch 29th April **Confidential** Munton, \nBruce Peebles \nenquire whether they may ship a machine ordered by their agents in Japan for Siemens China Electrical Engineering Company. \nDo you consider that they may be allowed to forward machine and that payment by Huntons Company may be allowed. \n\n**BONAR LAW**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463837, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "content_text": "# COPY\n\n## Confidential\n\n### Office of Commercial Attaché, British Consulate General, Yokohama\n4th November, 1918\n\nWith reference to your letter of 18th September, (Confidential) on the subject of the Siemens China Electrical Engineering Company, Ltd., I have the honour to enclose herewith copy of a letter which has been addressed to me by Messrs. L. J. Heilings & Co., Ltd., from which you will see that they have received a telegram from their London Office saying that the order is now \"bunkered\".\n\nThey are not aware what has happened, but presume that the Authorities have changed their minds, and they ask me therefore if I can give them any letter which they could send forward immediately to their London Office.\n\nI have the honour to enclose copy of the reply which I have sent to them, and I shall be glad to know if there is anything further which can be done in the matter.\n\nFrom the point of view of British trade, it would, of course, be better that the order should be placed with Bruce Peebles than with a firm in Japan, but naturally if there is anything wrong with Siemens in Hongkong, it seems to me that neither Bruce Peebles nor Heilings will want to touch it, and accordingly I shall be very glad if you will let me have particulars of anything which may have occurred, as soon as possible.\n\nClaud Severn Esq., \nColonial Secretary, \nHongkong.\n\nI have ... \n(E.D.) E. F. Crowe.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "content_text": "# L. J. HEALING & CO., LTD.\n24, Uzone-cho, Kyobaski, \nTOKYO, 2nd. November, 1916.\n\nE. F. Crows C. H. G. Esq., \nH. B. M. Commercial Attache, \nYokohama.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nSiemens China Electrical Engineering Company, Ltd. Hongkong. Our Order No. 4682. Bruce Peebles & Co's Order No. 25478-6\n\nYou will recollect that we received an order from the above concern in July for a 52 K. V. A. Alternating current Generator for direct coupling to and driving by means of an oil Engine to be manufactured by the Torbinis Engineering Company, London. The order for the latter having been placed direct by Messrs. Siemens, Hongkong; there was some delay in Messrs. Bruce Peebles' acquaintance with this order in view of the fact that they could not obtain immediate permission to manufacture from the authorities at home. The matter, however, was satisfactorily settled finally, permission having been granted by the Under Secretary at the Colonial Office, and in this connection Messrs. Bruce Peebles wrote to us on the 21st. of August, as follows:-\n\n\"On the 18th. inst. we received a telegram from the Under Secretary at the Colonial Office informing us that there was no objection to our accepting this order and we therefore cabled you on that date as per the confirmation already posted, informing you that we could accept the order, that we were proceeding and asking you to telegraph the power factor, and we have now to ask thank you for your reply received here this morning stating that the power factor is unity. This now enables us to put the machine in hand and we are in communication with the Torbinis Engineering Co. (1918) Ltd. regarding various details.\n\nThe official order for this machine was sent to us by Messrs. Tozer, Konsley & Fisher, Ltd. on the 1st. inst. regarding which we are therefore writing them to-day in triplicate regarding this matter\".\n\nWe are to-day in receipt of a cable from our London office advising that this order is now \"bunkered\" and requesting us to obtain immediately a suitable certificate from your goodself.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466420, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Hongkong\n\n1916\n\nVOL. 10\n\n1\n\nFROM\n\nWar Trade Dept. Pharmaceutical Society of G.\n\nCustom House\n\nquin. of munitions Foreign Trade Dept.\n\nWar\n\nA\n\nJ\n\nGeneral Post Office.\n\nmin. of munitions Foreign Trade Dept.\n\nA\n\nA\n\nPress Bureau · War Trade Dept. Col. Nursing Assocu.\n\nAnderson, F.\n\nAlkinson, W. a.\n\nDATE\n\n5 Dec.\n\nPeanuts\n\n13\n\n15\n\n18 A\n\n20 4\n\n22\n\nA\n\n30 H\n\nSUBJECT\n\nTacoma.\n\nfor Sale of Poisous Ordinance.\n\nTrading with the Excury.\n\nHigh Speed Steel for Vladivostock.\n\nOperations of Pacific mail Steamship Co.\n\nGinger for Holland.\n\nStaff of British Postal Agencies in China. Chinese Origin for\n\nPig Fron of Manila.\n\nRubber Shipments from Sumatra.\n\nWood Tax ou \"Hokula Taru\" exc \"Kafue.\"\n\nGood's \"Censorship of\n\nLinseed Oil Prevo. for Retherlands India Goot.\n\nAppt. of Nursing Sister.\n\nIndividuals\n\n4 Jan\n\nMurray Stewart 19 June\n\nBritish Trade with China.\n\nGift to War Hospital.\n\n23 miar. Shipment of Sulphur Black Dye from New York to H.K.\n\nBrowner, mussell & Co.\n\nBrown, J.\n\n4 April. Treatment of Soldiers \"Manitou\".\n\nBarrow, Miss C.H.\n\n7 June\n\nWish to Retire.\n\nBruce Peebles & Co.\n\n6 July.\n\nSieniens China Electric Co.\n\nBaker, R.\n\n18 a\n\nBruce Peebles & Co.\n\n264\n\nApfeln. for Transfer.\n\nSiemens China Electric Co.\n\nA\n\n18\n\nBrowne, F.\n\nBrett, Eure E.\n\nClark, F.W.\n\nSeriem L\n\nCanadian Pacific Ocean\n\nA\n\n11 Aug.\n\n15\n\n7 Sept. Income Taxe\n\n22 Fov.\n\nmaintenance oz gift of Zoo.\n\nher Husband ine Asylum.\n\n17 April. Applus. for à Reference.\n\n2 Aug. Invorings.\n\n(47612A) Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Gp 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466532, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "&? Tell the applicant\n\n2\n\nThat the matter Receiving Carson will repl\n\nrive\n\nsharts.\n\nc6.\n\n17146\n\nHall 13.7.16\n\n16 atonce\n\nAddress for Goods per Rail:-EAST PILTON SIDING, CALEDONIAN RAILWAY LEITH,\n\nTELEGRAMS\n\n\"PEEBLES, EDINBURGH,\"\n\nEdinburgh 1887 CENTRAL.\n\nTELEPHONE:\n\nBRUCE PEEBLES & CO. LTD.,\n\nENGINEERS,\n\nGO NAMISACT\n\n93\n\n113\n\nIN THE YEAR\n\n1805\n\nEDINBURGH. 6th. July, 1915.\n\nATTE ASSOCIATION\n\nJ.H.B./5.\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE\n\nc. a\n\n32089\n\nLONDON. 8.7.\n\n¡RECO\n\nREA 7 JUL F\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDear Sir,\n\nThe Siemens China Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd, Hong Kong.\n\nOur Agents in Japan, Messrs. L. J. Healing & Co.Ltd.,\n\nof Yokohama and Tokyo have just cabled us an order for a\n\nmachine value £345. 0. 0. which on enquiry we understand is\n\nfor the above firm. We understand other British firms are\n\nshipping goods to this Company having made enquiry of you before\n\ndoing so. Our object in writing, however, is to have your\n\nkind confirmation, if you will be so good as to give it to us,\n\nat your early convenience that we shall be in order in accept-\n\ning the contract in question, and shipping the machine.\n\nTo might mention that it was only a reference in our\n\ncabled order to the single word \"Siemens\" which enabled us to\n\ntrace the purchaser to whom our agents are evidently supplying\n\nthe goods.\n\nWe await the favour of your reply, and thanking you\n\nin anticipation,\n\nWe are, Yours very truly\n\nFor BRUCE PEEBLES & Co.\n\nJoint Manager.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466533, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Address for Goods per Rail:- EAST PILTON SIDING, CALEDONIAN RAILWAY, LEITH.\n\nBRUCE PEEBLES & CO., LTD.,\n\nENGINEERS,\n\nEDINBURGH.\n\n18th July, 1916.\n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLONDON.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nA.X.X./9\n\nWith reference to our letter of the 6th inst. J.L.3./5 we would point out that we have received an urgent cable from Japan regarding this matter, and we shall esteem it a favour if you can kindly let us have a reply to our letter as soon as possible.\n\nWe are,\n\nYours very truly,\n\nFor BRUCE PEEBLES & CO. LTD.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "01J\n\n6. Akong 32089\n\nJuni 100 sát to reżžež\n\nJnegru na berteses erat ar 3) mester Lada or bus,voždam settei swe of gigez a evad\n\nVAATEKĻOS AN\n\n[08/190 Jatavoš»D\n\ntwo takog birou o f\\,4,L,X elář gelbrayer noget mert oldas\n\ntai yibaki nao vay ti morat\n\nPressing\n\nInd\n\n.CMI .00 A BEDRING COURT zet\n\nC. D\n\nR. 14 JUL\n\nD.\n\n115\n\nP.\n\nThe Sees\n\n103 713/7/16 for Robinson\n\nZeunjörer 14.7.4\n\n2 dl\n\n166 July\n\n17\n\n27.\n\n32057\n\n(17795\")\n\n14 July 1914\n\nWith ref. to the letter from this 25 June, the request you to lay before the Board for their sons the account by J letting from Messrs Bruce Peebles & Co Ltd regarding Siemens China Electrical Engeneering Co Ltd HARLEY.\n\n2. Dr Bosan Land would", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466535, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Hong Kong\n\nWhen\n\n32089\n\n116\n\nbe glad\n\nan early\n\nreply\n\ndark the\n\n10 receive at\n\nobservations and letters & he works also be Mices if the Book Could at\n\nto the letter from\n\nthe same simil\n\nthis Dept\n\nunder reference.\n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE\n\nDRAFT.\n\nBerger Brace Peebles to Ltd\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. 10B 13/7/16\n\nGentlemen\n\n14 July 1946\n\nI am in receipt of your\n\nletters\n\n12\n\nMr. Thaybon 14.746. (attached) of 15 6th &\n\nMr. Robinson 14,\n\nMr. hos J. H. B./5 and AMNI9\n\nMr. Read.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nenquiring\n\nWhether\n\nyou\n\nbe in\n\norder\n\nin shipping\n\nKungson lease see\n\nfor letter\n\nattached. I am\n\nsure if\n\nwe ought not\n\nto stiffen\n\nFor other aft\n\neyards Earl\n\nalth as repl. gr.\n\ngoods to the Siemens China\n\nElectrical Engineering\n\nLA\n\nAkong,\n\n6\n\nand to inform you\n\nthat the Walter is receiving", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466542, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Address for Goods per Rail:-EAST PILTON SIDING, CALEDONIAN RAILWAY, LEITH.\n\nTELEGRAMS:\n\nPEEBLES, EDINBURGH.\n\nTELEPHONE:\n\nEDINBURGH 1887 CENTRAL.\n\nBRUCE PEEBLES & CO., LTD.,\n\nENGINEERS,\n\nEDINBURGH, 26th July, 1916.\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\n35494\n\nRECD 27\n\nDear Sir,\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE\n\nA.X.8./9\n\nRe: No. 32089/1916.\n\nWe duly received your favour of the 14th inst. acknowledging receipt of our letters of the 6th and 12th inst., and in which you stated that a further letter would be addressed to us shortly. Regarding this matter we would point out that our friends in Japan are waiting for a cablegram from us on the subject, and we shall esteem it a favour if you can let us have your reply at an early date.\n\nWe understand that other British firms have been supplying electrical machinery to the Siemens China Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd.\n\nWe are,\n\nYours very truly,\n\nFor BRUCE PEEBLES & CO. LTD.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466544, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Grove is still awaiting instructions as to what should be done with regard to her. Mantoni Company does not say whether the conditions enforced with regard to this precaution in 1914 are still applicable, or control over remission of part of the colony.\n\nIf so, is Brun Peebles allowed to forward the machinery present here?\n\nBut we should offer the Gov's concurrence.\n\nPeebles, saying by YA. 24/7/16 tel: to assist that we will let them know the result as soon as possible.\n\nA. J.R. 31/7/16\n\nREG 28 JUL 1916\n\nPOST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS\n\nGovernment Despatch No 10/28 EDINBURGH T 49 =\n\nGiven in at Received in Whall Sent out for delivery at 1:2.37\n\nTO\n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE COLONIAL OFFICE LONDON\n\nPLEASE REFER OUR LETTERS SIXTH TWELFTH AND TWENTYSIXTH INST REGARDING SIEMENS CHINA COMPANY OUR CUSTOMERS IN JAPAN HAVE CABLED US THAT WE MUST CONFIRM THE ORDER IMMEDIATELY OTHERWISE THEY MUST ORDER FROM AMERICA WILL YOU KINDLY TELEGRAPH US YOUR DECISION = PEEBLES", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466545, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "10\n\nZat. Peebles\n\nEdinborough\n\n17\n\n35679\n\nBoty 20 for Sat. 1.157m imm 1augttle\n\nYours 28th July regarding Siemens China\n\nMay 31/7/46 Company Am consulting\n\n2\n\nRistey 31/17/16 In Courts. 8.10\n\nGovernor Hongkong by Telegram will inform you of a result soon.\n\n38160\n\nrdles\n\nLezult possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466546, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nZel\n\nCoda\n\nGor. Hrong\n\nMINUTE.\n\n1878 31/7/16\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Risley 31/7/16\n\nB. Helong\n\n35679\n\nSoby Gabay\n\nLeforthet\n\nuncaptions\n\n127\n\n Squt-1-1/an\n\n1024 18/11\n\ncomporta\n\nYour desk 29 April conf.\n\nsilverpres\n\nMunton 5\n\neducaturos\n\nBurce Peebles\n\nenquire whether\n\nmarshsnipe\n\nThey may shift a machine\n\nMr. Covillal 18.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Read.\n\nSir H. Just,\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland,\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nCoff, Boft Follo\n\n38160\n\nordered by their agents in Japan for Siemens China\n\nElectrical Engineering Company\n\ns'gras\n\ncondyloid\n\nDo you consider that the key way allowed\n\nafakite\n\nTo forward payment present\n\nbeybe the company may be allowed\n\nby Muntons\n\nkachine aleja\n\nmarshat", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466547, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "128\n\nce\n\nPeebles.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n36031\n\nREC\n\n36031\n\nREG? 31 JUL\n\nPattern An Electrical Engineer;\n\n1916\n\n28 Jul.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nB\n\n35679\n\nCo. Lo\n\nConformis kl. If 38th racks\n\n28th. Vasks for Tel: decision:\n\nCA BFT. 15 Chugh B3060/6\n\nIn Jara\n\n9 fear Ky\n\ncontract.\n\na\n\n35879.\n\n?\n\n16.4.18.14\n\nwith lose Their\n\nwait for reply to let & IN.\n\n偶\n\n1/5/16\n\nHoe\n\n4.8.16\n\nClouse\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nB\n\n38029\n\n(20092) WI. 36800-6. 45,000 12/15. BM & 8.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466548, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Address for Goods per Rail:- EAST PILTON SIDING, CALEDONIAN RAILWAY, LEITH.\n\nTELEGRAMS: \"PEEBLES, Edinburgh.\"\n\nTELEPHONE: EDINBURGH 1867 CENTRAL.\n\nBRUCE PEEBLES & CO., LTD.,\n\nELECTRICAL AND\n\nIN THE YEAR 1905\n\nENGINEERS, 129\n\nEDINBURGH. 28th July, 1916.\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\n36031\n\nREC\n\nA.K.N./9\n\nREG 51 JUL\n\nYour Ref. 32089/1916.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nSince writing you on the above subject in ours of the 26th inst. Ref. A.M.N./9 we have received a telegram from our Japanese friends reading as follows:-\n\n\"CONFIRM IMMEDIATELY OTHERWISE ORDERED AMERICA\".\n\nIt is obvious from this that unless we can confirm to these friends immediately that we are proceeding with the alternator in question the order will be placed with an American firm.\n\nIn view of the fact that, as pointed out in ours of the 26th inst. already referred to, we are given to understand that other British firms have been supplying electrical machinery to the Siemens China Electrical Engineering Co., we should, of course, not like this business to go past us. We are, of course, entirely in your hands in this matter, and seeing the situation has become somewhat more acute we this morning wired you as follows:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466550, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "1/1 000'\n\n'9-008961 (26008)\n\nVE TO NOIN\n\nSNOINIWO0\n\nrede quenbesque e\n\nAddress for Goods per Rail:-EAST PILTON SIDING, CALEDONIAN RAILWAY, LEITH.\n\nLEGRAMS:\n\n\"PEEBLES, EDINBURGH,\"\n\nLEPHONE:\n\nEDINBURGH 1887 CENTRAL.\n\nBRUCE PEEBLES & CO., LTD.,\n\nENGINEERS,\n\n131\n\nALLIED\n\nINCORPORATED\n\nIN THE\n\n1905\n\nEDINBURGH.\n\nTHI\n\nASSOCIATY\n\n1st August 1916.\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE\n\nTHE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\nA.M.N./8.\n\nYour ref: 32089/1916.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nThe Siemens China Electrical Engineering Co.Ltd.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nWe beg to acknowledge with thanks receipt of your telegram of this day's date reading as follows.-\n\n\"YOURS 28TH JULY REGARDING SIMMENS CHINA COMPANY,\n\nAM CONSULTING GOVERNOR HONG KONG BY TELEGRAM. WILL INFORM YOU OF RESULT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE\"\n\nWe note that you are consulting the Governor at Hong Kong by telegram and we thank you for your kind promise to inform us of the result as soon as possible.\n\nWe trust that you will get a reply from Hong Kong in sufficient time to prevent this order going to America.\n\nWe are, dear Sir,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nFor BRUCE PEEBLES & CO., LTD.,\n\nAnthony ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466552, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "For Robinson\n\nH\n\nEnterta\n\nschedule\n\nThey\n\nI asked for connection below. They do not appear to have been brought up in connection with minutes.\n\na ccordian Math Presumably the contract is now lost beyond recall.\n\n?\n\nPut\n\nes\n\n193\n\n3/15/6\n\nShips is marked off as and on Sn! 38000 which is not connected. Phase have it connected.\n\nWith further action is required.\n\nR3/07/16\n\ndone MBB starfish\n\nLove required. (It was definitely a must that\n\nThere we\n\n(M) 135/16/4\n\nCater ph\n\n103\n\nG\n\nD\n\nREC\n\n133\n\n38029\n\nREA | AUF 16'\n\nPOST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.\n\nGovernment Despatch No\n\n10/26 AM EDINBURGH T 49 =\n\nliven in at ....\n\nReceived in Whats Sent out for delivery at 12. 9\n\nWHIT\n\nHALL\n\n11/19/16\n\nThis message has passed through the hands of\n\nTelegraphist\n\nTO\n\n{\n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE COLONIAL OFFICE LONDON =\n\nWriter.\n\nSIEMENS CHINA COMPANY YOUR TELEGRAM FIRST INST OUR CUSTOMERS IN\n\nPAN HAVE AGAIN CABLED ASKING US TO REPLY AT ONCE YES OR NO\n\nWETHER WE WILL ACCEPT THE ORDER PLEASE TELEGRAPH US SAYING\n\nWE ARE TO\n\nREFUSE OR ACCEPT =\n\nPEEBLES +", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466553, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Address for Goods per Rail-EAST PILTON SIDING, CALEDONIAN RAILWAY, LEITH \n\nLEGRAMS: \n\nPEEBLES, EDINBURGH,\" \n\nEPHONE: \n\nEDINBURGH 1887 CENTRAL \n\nBRUCE PEEBLES & CO., LTD., \n\nENGINEERS, \n\nEDINBURGH. \n\nIN THE YEAR \n\nTHE BRITISH TLE \n\nASSOCIATION \n\n134 \n\n1505 \n\n11th August 1916 \n\nIN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE \n\n& \n\nUNDER SECRETARY OF STATE \n\nColonial Office, \n\nDear Sir, \n\nLONDON 8.V. \n\nRECEIVED 1. 1916 \n\nOFFICE \n\nA.X.N./1 \n\nYour ref, 32089/1916 \n\nThe Siemens China Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd \n\nHon Jan \n\nOur customers in Japan have again cabled us today regarding the matter of the 52 k.v.a. alternator which we have on order for the above, and they have asked us to cable them our reply 'yes' or 'no' as to whether we will accept the order or not.\n\nIn your hands regarding this matter, we are, of course, anxious to get the business settled and as we are rather telegraphed you as follows.\n\n\"RE SIEMENS CHINA COMPANY YOUR TELEGRAM FIRST INSTANT OUR CUSTOMERS IN JAPAN HAVE AGAIN CABLED ASKING US TO REPLY AT ONCE YES OR NO WHETHER WE WILL ACCEPT THE ORDER PLEASE TELEGRAPH US SAYING IF WE ARE TO REFUSE OR ACCEPT.\n\nWe trust that you will be able to give us your final decision regarding this matter at an early date.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nFor BRUCE PEEBLES & CO. LIMITED", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466554, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Page 38\n\nBICI Jan KAUPII\n\n***M LOT 25088 I8I2\n\nSTATE KO CHAINROVE SCORU\n\n„eos710 Exirofob\n\n107.00..\n\nTONG KONG\n\n38\n\n3\n\n984\n\n135\n\n2 2\n\nREC\n\n38939\n\nREG 16 AUG 16\n\nb.T\n\n12 8000?\n\nMAICED DLA A STRIť \"A jak mi\n\nVending Charte de în\n\nStar of DL 103. Prudie „a.v. : So sad to Tette\n\nval páð\n\n1\n\nA.\n\n0\n\nDOM. BIL\n\n10 #LAJJA\n\nSVO ÍA WIS NOT DOBLO NO\n\nTO 10 110 sind dyeons IILw aw 19:(fade of mu tant to furt sto\n\nAT AD'IÍ TVOC AL (SO woɔ to\n\nt D'IS OF\n\n1.\n\nei. baľttaa asemisud odd deg ot a voleva\n\n*, Trulia) na nog bullgarys Lod\n\n1400 ATID BV, WI8 Aя”\n\nOT BU DUIABA ( IMAO ZIA. A TVAH MASAY I BALOTROD я00 44 10 JVA NEOMA TI.. CLEAN 7 0. 10 2NY ZUKO SA YICH \"TZRDA HO BRUINS OT DIA # IA\n\nBU YSASALES APA\n\nT\n\nTATELE\n\nIT.\n\nPIRAN\n\nBruce Peebles\n\nPeetha Meabenery for hemens China\n\n15\n\n1916\n\nAug.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nGov. 38160\n\nElectrical Engineering\n\nAck: our Telegram of\n\nof permet\n\nJapan\n\nwhich has been letter to spend\n\nCollins\n\nUnless we rufft to conforme\n\nXOOLE LATE:LUTI\n\n• EDITI 100 : BAI-BIT TOURS 10%\n\n•\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nfor 1995 16/17\n\n14\n\nm\n\nlit\n\nthes disposes of the\n\nmather for the moment.\n\n7\n\nPut S\n\nBUAT\n\n14/5/16 At once\n\nAre\n\n18.8.16\n\n(440) Wt. 14756–1. 27,000. 7/16. BM & 9.\n\nPage 39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466555, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Address for Goods per Rail:-EAST PILTON SIDING, CALEDONIAN RAILWAY, LEITH,\n\nGRAMS: PEEBLES, EDINBURGH,\n\nPHONE: EDINBURGH 1987 CENTRAL.\n\nF. BRUCE PEEBLES & Co., LTD., ENGINEERS, EDINBURGH.\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE\n\nColonial Office, LONDON S.W.\n\n15th August 1916\n\n38939\n\nRECO\n\nREG 16 AUG 16\n\n136\n\nTHE\n\nIN THE YEAR: 1905\n\nTHE MUGSHELT ASSOCIATE\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE A.M.N./1\n\nDear Sir,\n\nSiemens China Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd.\n\nHong Kong\n\nWe have to thank you for your telegram just received reading as follows.\n\n\"YOURS 11th AUGUST MACHINE FOR SIEMENS CHINA COMPANY \"NO OBJECTION TO YOUR ACCEPTING ORDER FROM UNDER SECRETARY \"COLONIAL OFFICE\"\n\nFrom the above we are pleased to learn that there is no objection to our accepting this order, and we have immediately cabled to our friends in Japan stating that we now have authority to proceed, and we sincerely trust that we are still in time to prevent this order going to America. If the matter is too late our friends in Japan will no doubt telegraph to us at once to prevent us going any further with the matter.\n\nWe are obliged to you for the trouble you have kindly taken regarding this order.\n\nWe are, Yours very truly,\n\nFor BRUCE PEEBLES & CO. LIMITED", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 666, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "0.20 \n\n**MINISTRY OF LABOUR APPOINTMENTS DEPARTMENT** \n\n**OFFICERS' UNIVERSITY AND TECHNICAL CLASSES PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS REGISTER** No. 10 **DISTRICT DIRECTORATE** \n\nhomema 2 \"Ådeziulad, 5. Kensington, London.\" iphone: Kausinglom 3140. \n\nDear Sir, \n\nJ. Jefferson. 661 \n\n99, QUEEN'S GATE, LONDON, S. 7. \n\n21.10.18. \n\nOn the 15th inst. you forwarded to this Office an application for employment from the above mentioned applicant. I regret to inform you that you omitted to state his address. Would you, therefore, be good enough to forward same at your earliest convenience. \n\nYours faithfully, \n\nnu. District Director 10. \n\nThe Colonial Office, Downing St. \n\nThe District Directorates, with Headquarters Towns and Counties directed from each, are as follows,. (An applicant should apply to the District Director, Appointments Dept., Ministry of Labour, at the H.Q. Town for the County in which he resides.) \n\n| District | Headquarters Town | Counties |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. | PERTH. | Berwick, Inverness, Argyll, Aberdeen, Forfar, Elgin, Fife, Clackmannan, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty, Caithness, Sutherland, Nairn, Banff, Kinross, Stirling, and the Isles, Linlithgow, Haddington, Roxburgh, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown, Lanark (with all Glasgow area), Selkirk |\n| 2. | EDINBURGH. | Edinburgh, Berwick, Dumfries, Ayr, Peebles, Dumbar-ton, Renfrew |\n| 3. | MANCHESTER, | Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Isle of Man, Cheshire, Salop |\n| 4. | CARDIFF. | Denbigh, Merioneth, Montgomery, Cardigan, Monmouth, Carmarthen, Anglesey, Carnarvon, Flint, Radnor, Brecknock, Glamorgan, Pembroke |\n| 5. | LEEDS. | Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire |\n| 6. | NOTTINGHAM, | Derby, Notts, Leicester, Lincoln, North Stafford, Rutland |\n| 7. | BIRMINGHAM, | Worcester, Gloucester, Oxford, Warwick, Hicks, Bucks, Hereford, South Stafford |\n| 8. | EXETER. | Cornwall, Somerset, Hants, Devon, Wilts, Dorset |\n| 9. | CAMBRIDGE. | Norfolk, Northampton, Huntingdon, Hartford, Suffolk, Cambridge, Bedford, Essex |\n| 10. | LONDON (South Kensington, 5 WIL). | London, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, Kent |\n| 11. | DUBLIN, | Ireland |\n| 12. | LONDON (Gresham House). | The Outer Empire |\n| 14. | LONDON (Gresham House). | Allied and Neutral Foreign, Consular", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n### Medical Notes.\n\n| No. | Regt. | Age. | Medical Notes. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.798 | R.E. | 29 | Good |\n| D.O.798 | K.O.Y.L.I. | 24 | Good |\n| D.O.840 | London. | 26 | Fair |\n| D.O.853 | Leicester Yoo. | 28 | Good |\n| D.O.871 | R.F.A. | 28 | Good |\n| D.O.1091 | R.E. | 28 | Fair |\n| D.O.1097 | A.O.C. | 28 | Good |\n| D.O.1127 | Cambridge. | 30 | Fair |\n\nB.Q. D.06.-29.7.18.\n\n### EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank. | Regt | Age. | Medical Notes. | Qualifications and Previous Employment. | Present Locality. | O.U.T.C. Courses, |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.1161 | Sergt. Maj. | 39 | 38 | Good | | London. | A.S.C. M.T. |\n| D.O.1179 | Trooper | S.A.F. | 35 | Fair | Ed. privately. Apprentice mechanical engineering. 1 yr. Italy, 1 yr. Germany. yrs. engineer (motor) to R.A.C., Pall Mall. 1 yr. on own account, India. Joined Army at outbreak of war. [Hindustani, French.] | Yorkshire. | |\n| D.O.1180 | 2nd Lieut. | R.E. | 61 | Good | Ed. privately. 4 yrs. apprentice to Redditch Gas Co. 2 yrs. engaged with Mexbro. Gas Co., Maltby Ons Co., and Brighton Gas Co. (gas engineering). | Essex, | |\n| D.O.1205 | Lieut. | B.G.A. | 25 | Good. Neurasthenia. | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. electrical and mechanical engineer, Electrical Installations, Ltd., London. Just completed course of engineering, Edwards & Armstrong, Stroud, Glos. | Warwick. | |\n| D.O.1224 | Lieut | S. Staffs. | 24 | Good | Ed. privately. Graduate of Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Worked with Herbert Morris Ltd., Loughborough, 6 yrs. In charge of 9-2 shell forge and press shop. Hydraulic forgery, Camell Laird & Co., Nottingham, 17 mos. | Edinburgh. | |\n| D.O.1228 | Capt. | R.A.F. | 25 | Good | Ed. privately, and Edinburgh Univ. B.Sc. Engineering. 1 yr. engineer, Beale Peebles & Co. 2 yrs. engineer, Eler, Power Station Leith, and engine testing fitting Sunbeam Motor Car Co., Wolverhampton. | Northante. | |\n| D.O.1282 | Capt. | R. Fus. | 56 | Good | Ed. Dever. Malines Inst. of Engineering, Belgium. Degree. Machine construction. & Fra. apprentice in engineering shops and drawing office, Massam, Scott & Co., Ltd., Fulham, 2 yrs. chief draughtsman, Deepwell Boring Co., St. Albans. Has been in Paris during last 2 yrs. in connection with supply of aviation materials to American and French Governments. Thorough knowledge aviation factory equipment, installation and supervision. [French] | Gloucester. | |\n| D.O.1364 | Private | London. | 32 | Good | E. City of London and London Univ. B.Sc. Course (engineering). 3 yrs. app, Mitchell Motor, Ltd. 1 yr. app. The Waterloo Motor Works. 3 yrs. with Leyland Ltd. Motor Works, 2 yrs with the Surrey Tracting Co. 1 yr. with the Powders Shell Works, maintenance plant, erection gun-making machinery. [French, Latin, Greek.] | London. | |\n| D.O.1385 | Lieut. | London. | 45 | Good | Ed. Royal Acad., Queen's Coll., Belfast, London Univ. yrs. engineering course. Appointed assist. engineer, Shell Transport Co. Resigned to join Army. [French.] | London. | |\n| D.O.1465 | Lieut. | A.S.C. | 20 | Fair | Ed. Dulwich. 22 yrs. engineering experience, England, France, U.S.A and Germany. Knowledge of motors. [French, German.] | London. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately, Passed exam, engineer Inspector, Natal, yrs. engineer inspector, Durban. 5 yrs. engineer inspector, Electrical and Water Supply Co. Natal. 2 yrs. on own account, automobile and agricultural business. 8 mths, inspector machine tool. Woolwich Arsenal. 15 mths Woolwich National Gauge Factory. [Dutch,] | Lancashire. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately. Trained engineering work, 4 yrs. asst civil engineer. yrs construction work, Midland Iron works. Several yrs. draughtsman, clerk of works, Gas Light & Coke Co. Engaged L.C.C. designing, constructing gas and chemical plant, bridges, piers, sewage and Water works, etc. | Lancashire. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. Merchant Taylors', Liverpool. Liverpool Univ. 4 yrs. specialising refrigerating engineering. Slight knowledge of aeronautical drawing. | Staffs. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. School Technology, Manchester. 3 yrs. shops of Hans Renold, engineers, Manchester. | Sussex. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately and Oxford. Matric. 1st honours Motor engineer. Theoretical railroad engineering. Designer and inventor of internal combustion engines. [French,] | Warwick. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately. 3 yrs, brass, copper works, U.S.A. 7 yrs. steel manufacture. 2 yrs. export, import trade. Represented eng. firm. Recruiting work. Military representative tribunal. [French, Italian, German,] | London. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. Newton Coll. Engineering course, Crystal Palace, A.I.E.E, 5 yrs, st. engineer, Cable Work Dept., India & Canadian Pacific Railway (drawing office and surveying). [Hindustani.] | Norfolk. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. engineering asst. 3 yrs. own business set to architects. 9 yrs. own business general engineering asst. [French.] | H.Q. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. St. Paul's School and Felstead. Studying engineering prior to joining Army. Unable to resume studies at present. Used to horses and cattle. Considerable veterinary exp. | | |\n\nH.Q. D.O.4-28.7.18.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494434, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 826, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "Arthur D. Roberts\n\nAndrew W. Brown\n\nH. E. Boriven\n\nW. H. Lane\n\nS. H. Hover\n\nF. H. Chituirez\n\nF. Malm\n\nA. C. Castro\n\nC. F. de Carvallio\n\nF. J. Sequin\n\nH. M. Silva\n\nK. M. Yamidy\n\nE. Timaroca\n\nA. D'Peobles\n\nL. E. H. Castro\n\nC. Alvey\n\nE. J. De Figueiredo\n\nV. F. V. Ribeiro\n\nD. D. Osorio\n\nJ. M. Rezeira\n\nP. Remedios\n\nJ. A. M. De Oracio\n\nE. E. O'Buzud\n\nR. P. Da Coues\n\nC. A. Sequeira\n\nW. Rodriques\n\nM. A. Figueiredo\n\nA. V. Barros\n\nA. Ma. Dougall\n\nArtur Hall Carvalho\n\nO. De Remedios\n\nF. A. Marcal\n\nE. Damberg\n\nJ. S. Souza\n\nThos. E. Jones\n\nJ. L. Brown\n\nJ. Henderson\n\nGeo. Martin\n\nI. S. Mitchell\n\nA. S. H. Castro\n\nW. Cogley\n\nF. E. Carvallio\n\nA. D. Barrelton\n\nA. V. S. Farias\n\nA. M. V. Rosario\n\nL. G. Ribeiro\n\nA. A. Alvet\n\nC. M. Straus\n\nA. L. Shaw\n\nJ. O. Remedios\n\nA. C. Rosario\n\nJ. M. Remedios\n\nA. D. Baptista\n\nJ. Da Rooka\n\nM. Da Lioz\n\nGeo. F. Gummad\n\nA. V. Pegueisa\n\nSequieros\n\nP. Karosthe\n\nL. E. Zorio\n\nJ. M. G. Rosario\n\nN. D'Aroy\n\nA. Jastra\n\nP. M. Silva\n\nC. A. Pravidge\n\nG. V. Ribeiro\n\nF. J. Horonha\n\n819", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "165\n\n[186]\n\nTHE CHINESE SACRED LILY.\n\nF. A. McCLURE.\n\nPROFESSOR OF ECONOMIC BOTANY, LINGNAN UNIVERSITY.\n\nThis charming flower, which has come to be so closely associated with the Chinese New Year festivities, and bulbs of which have been exported from China to many countries of the world, is generally supposed to have been introduced from the West (1), but recent botanical discoveries1 point to China as its native home. Known to the scientific world as belonging to the species Narcissus tazetta L., of the Amaryllis family, this plant is universally spoken of in China as the Water Fairy Flower (水仙花). The poets of this land have, however, bestowed upon it many other fanciful names which reflect their response to the charms of its beauty and its fragrance, and their sense of its almost holy purity. It is little wonder that the Chinese people adore it, for the pure whiteness of its petals and the rich, pervading fragrance shed by its nectaries, come into being almost as if by magic from out of the shaggy brown bulb. And blooming, as it does in southern China at least, at the exact moment of the birth of the lunar year, this flower could not have made a more timely bid for an intimate place in the affections of a people. The method of culture at the time of its flowering period is likewise such as to place it in a class by itself. Only pure water, clean pebbles, warm sunlight, and fresh air are required by it. And in the course of four short weeks it brings forth a great cluster of snow-white, fragrant blossoms set off by a background of rich green foliage. The flowering is the culmination, however, of three long years of careful nurture. Thus, a sense of the great amount of time and patient labour that have gone into the perfecting of the bulb doubtless enhances the appreciation bestowed upon this flower by poets and all lovers of beauty.\n\nEarly in December, one is awakened to the approach of the end of the old year by the appearance, on display counters in front of many shops in Canton and Hong Kong, of small heaps of selected Narcissus bulbs in their original, scaly, grey-brown skins, set off by strips of bright red paper on which black characters are inscribed. To one who is familiar with the trade in this choice commodity, this is a sign that men from the obscure source of its production have begun to arrive with their annual consignment of bulbs for the local market. Every year, at about this time, these agents of the producers come, take up their abode in one or another of the several wholesale houses which regularly have a share in this business, and stay until their several consignments have been sold, not to the wholesale dealers, but to the public. The agent simply makes the wholesale house his temporary headquarters while he oversees the selling of his goods. He allows the wholesaler, whose premises he uses, a fixed percentage of the sale price of the consignment. The loss incurred by allowing prospective buyers to cut open bulbs for inspection is considerable.\n\nThe bulbs are sold in wholesale lots, either to men with small retail businesses or to those who force them for the New Year market. Dealers in bamboo and rattan ware usually have an important share in the retailing.\n\n1The Hong Kong Naturalist, Vol. III, Nos. 3 and 4, Plate 26.\n\n100\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 537113, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-543-17 Marine Surveyor's Department- vacancies and applications 19-4-1933 - 13-2-1934", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-543-17 Marine Surveyor's Department- vacancies and applications 19-4-1933 - 13-2-1934", "content_text": "# Particulars concerning Mr. John Rundle who has been selected for the post\n\nDate and year of birth \n4th June, 1828 (Error: The year seems incorrect given the context; however, it is preserved as is.)\n\nWhether single, married, or a widower \nSingle\n\nNumber of children \n0 (Corrected from \"35\" as it seems implausible for a single person)\n\nPrevious tropical climate served in \nAt sea as Marine Engineer in all climates for 8 years.\n\nWhere educated \nTrinity Academy, Leith, 1903-1913. \nLeith Technical School (Night Classes - Winter Sessions 1914-1917) \nLeith Nautical College (Engineering Dept.) for a period of about 2 years during years 1921-1930.\n\nProfessional qualifications and date at which each was obtained \n- Extra First Class Engineer (B.O.T.) 18th January, 1926. \n- First Class Motor Endorsement (B.O.T.) 22nd April, 1929.\n\n## TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE\n\n| From | To | Name and Address of Employer | Position held and Reason for leaving |\n|-------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|\n| 2.5.1914 | May 1919 | Hawthorns & Co. Ltd., Engineers & Shipbuilders, Leith, Scotland | Apprentice Engineer |\n| 26.5.1919 | 6.9.19 | Joseph Murrell & Co., West Hartlepool | 3rd Engineer, s.s. \"EVEREST\". Ship laid up. |\n| 29.7.19 | March, 1920 | Messrs. Bruce Peebles & Co., Electrical Engineers, Edinburgh | 3rd Engineer, s.s. \"EVEREST\". Death of Father. |\n| June, 1920 | 18.6.1920 | Chr. Salvesen & Co., Leith | Power house engineer. To go to sea. |\n| 7.6.1921 | | W. & J. Ltd. | 3rd Engineer, s.s. \"SELLASIA\". To sit for 2nd Engineer's Certificate. |\n\nM. 17.-2,000-1/30 \nP.T.C", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-543-17 Marine Surveyor's Department- vacancies and applications 19-4-1933 - 13-2-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## PORT WORKS\n\nwhilst the roof, of beam and slab type, is of reinforced concrete carried on reinforced concrete piers. The capacity of the Reservoir is 208,000 gallons at a top water level of 778.00 A.O.D., the average depth of water being 12′-3′′. The division wall divides the reservoir into two equal halves. The invert is of cement concrete 9′′ thick and was laid out in bays of 13′-4′′ × 12′0′′ to correspond with the layout of the piers carrying the roof. The valves controlling the inlet, draw-off, and washout pipes are enclosed in a valve chamber at the west end of the division wall, and an overflow discharges into the stream on the east side.\n\nAn indent was prepared and forwarded to the Crown Agents for the turbines and pumps necessary for the first section of this scheme.\n\n| Expenditure | $19,985.11 |\n\n143. Sand Washer. A Peebles portable type sand washer was ordered through the Crown Agents. It has been erected and is giving satisfactory service.\n\n| Expenditure | $3,301.53 |\n\n144. Construction of Rubble Mound at North Point. This work, which was referred to in paragraph 126 of last year's Report, was satisfactorily completed in July, 1933. The total length of seawall constructed was approximately 1,222 linear feet.\n\n| 1933 Expenditure | $29,060.88 |\n| Expenditure to 31st Dec., 1933 | $113,964.60 |\n\n145. Construction of Rubble Mound between Oil Street and M.L. 321. Messrs. Ching Lee & Co. were awarded this contract and commenced work on the 28th June. Good progress was made, and at the end of 1933, 500 linear feet of sea walling had been built, leaving 100 feet to be constructed to complete the work.\n\n| Expenditure | $15,963.69 |\n\n146. Construction of Rubble Mound at Kennedy Town. A contract was let to Messrs. Tung Shing, who commenced work in February. At the end of the year, the rubble mound for a length of 450 linear feet had been formed, the total quantity of rubble deposited being 25,300 cubic yards.\n\n| Expenditure | $34,730.05 |\n\n## ANTI-MALARIAL WORKS\n\n147. Permanent Training of Nullahs. Throughout the year, work was continued in the Mount Parker Area, Quarry Bay; at Stanley, where no further progress is possible pending formation of the New Gaol Site; and in the Sookunpoo and Lyeemun districts. A commencement was made late in the year at Kowloon Tong. Streams were trained to lengths of 27,812 feet as open channels varying in size from 39′′ × 39′′ to 9′′ × 9′′, culverts from 63′′ diameter to 30′′ diameter, and rubble-walled nullahs in the following sizes: 13′6′′ × 13′0′′ partially trained for a length of 629 feet, 6′0′′ × 4′9′′ for 931 feet, 6′0′′ × 4′0′′ for 60 feet, and 5′6′′ × 3′6′′ for 242 feet.\n\n| Expenditure | $119,983.91 |\n\n## KOWLOON\n\n## BUILDINGS\n\n148. Magistracy at Yaumati. This work was referred to in paragraph 132 of last year's Report. A revised sketch plan was prepared, and the main amendment was the substitution of two flats for one large flat. A site adjoining King's Park at Gascoigne Road was acquired from the Military Authorities. Working drawings were commenced, but these had to be deferred owing to a shortage of staff.\n\n| Expenditure | Nil |\n\n149. Kowloon Hospital Additions. This work was described in paragraph 184 of last year's Report. The work proceeded very satisfactorily, and the M.O's Quarters and \"C\" Block were completed in December, three months before contract time. The Nurses' Quarters were nearing completion by the end of the year. \"C\" Block, Medical Officer's Quarters, and Nurses' Quarters were wired for electric light, power, and fans. Total number of points, four hundred and sixty-three. Five telephones were installed, and wiring for broadcast receivers.\n\n| 1933 Expenditure | $253,886.02 |\n| Expenditure to 31st Dec., 1933 | $273,738.40 |\n\n150. Ma Tau Kok Cattle Depot Lairage. This work was described in paragraph 186 of last year's Report. The work proceeded satisfactorily and was completed on the 29th March.\n\n| Expenditure | $10,543.61 |\n\n151. Venereal Diseases Clinic at Tsim Sha Tsui. This was described in paragraph 185 of last year's Report. The work proceeded satisfactorily and was completed on 15th March.\n\n| 1933 Expenditure | $13,013.77 |\n| Expenditure to 31st Dec., 1933 | $13,675.33 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554283, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "## Veterinary staff\n| County | Whole-time | Part-time | Frequency of inspection | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Dumbarton | | 2 | Four times a year | |\n| Dumfries | | 2 | Twice a year for about 600 registered dairies and once for about 400 other premises where cattle are kept | |\n| Dumfries, Burgh of | | | Three times a year | |\n| East Lothian | 1 | | Three times per annum | |\n| Fife | 1 | | Twice yearly | |\n| Inverness | | | Quarterly | There have been inspections burghs of Inverness and Kingussie. Three inspections per year mainland. Registered twice per annum. Unregistered once per annum. No inspections in outer islands. |\n| Kincardine | | | | *To enable all herds to be examined once during 1933 and 1934. Mr. J. Macmonemy has been appointed whole-time from 1st January to 31st March. |\n| Kirkcudbright | 1 | | Once a year for all herds and as often again as possible | *Two extra whole-time veterinary inspectors employed each year from 1st November to 30th April. |\n| Moray | | | Four inspections per year | |\n| Nairn | 1 | | Two inspections per year | |\n| Orkney | 1 | | Twice yearly | |\n| Peebles | | | Not known | There is also a consultant veterinary inspector employed (part-time). |\n| Perth and Kinross | 2 | | Three times a year is being attempted this year | Inspections are made under milk and dairies act. |\n| Renfrew | 1 | | Six times a year | |\n| Greenock, Burgh of | 1 | | Not known | |\n| Paisley Burgh of | 1 | | At least four times a year | |\n| Ross and Cromarty | 3 | | Two inspections per year. Twice per annum. Registered dairies once per quarter. Unregistered once a year | |\n| Roxburgh | 1 | | Thrice per annum | Appointment of whole-time veterinary inspector for Roxburgh and Selkirk jointly is being considered. |\n| Selkirk | ... | | Two inspections per year. Twice per annum | |\n| Stirling | 2 | 11 | | Up to now no annual inspection has been completed, but the veterinary inspector examined as many herds as he could. Many dairies remain in the burghs. |\n| Sutherland | 1 | | | The appointment of a third veterinary inspector is being considered. |\n| Lanark | | | | * Mr. Gibson has been given a temporary whole-time appointment from 1st February to 30th April, 1934, to do a general inspection. |\n| West Lothian | 1 | | | |\n| Wigtown | | | Quarterly | |\n| Airdrie Burgh of | 1 | | Not less than quarterly | |\n| Hamilton Burgh of | 1 | | Monthly | |\n| Rutherglen Burgh of | 1 | | Quarterly | |\n| Shetland | | | | |\n| Motherwell and Wishaw Burgh of | 1 | | Monthly | |\n| Coatbridge | 1 | | Quarterly | |\n| City of Glasgow | 5 | | Eight times a year | |\n| Midlothian | 2 | | Meat inspection and other duties are done by the veterinary department. Registered dairies thrice per annum. Unregistered about once in each two years | |\n\n## (b) Frequency of veterinary inspection of dairy cattle under the milk and dairies (Scotland) act, 1914 (statement furnished by the Department of Health for Scotland)\n| County | Minimum number per annum |\n| --- | --- |\n| Aberdeen-Landward area | 1 |\n| Burghs | 1-12 |\n\nPage 145\nPage 146", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554284, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "# \n## County \n| County | Landward area | Burghs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Angus | ... | |\n| Argyll | ... | |\n| Ayr | | |\n| Banff | | |\n| Berwick | | ... |\n| Bute | | |\n| Caithness | | ... |\n| Clackmannan | | |\n| Dumfries | | 1-4 |\n| Dumbarton | 4 | 4 |\n| East Lothian | | |\n| Fife | 33 | 2-12 |\n| Inverness | | |\n| Kincardine | | |\n| Kirkcudbright | | |\n| Lanark | 3 | 3-12 |\n| Midlothian | | 4-12 |\n| Moray and Nairn | 3-4 | 3-4 |\n| Orkney | 1 | 2-12 |\n| Peebles | 21 | 3 |\n| Perth and Kinross | | |\n| Renfrew | | |\n| Ross and Cromarty | 2-4 | 2-4 |\n| Roxburgh | 2-4 | 1-12 |\n| Selkirk | | |\n| Stirling | | |\n| Sutherland | 2 | 2 |\n| West Lothian | | |\n| Wigtown | 24 | 1-4 |\n| Zetland | 3 | 3-4 |\n\n## Minimum number per annum \n| County | Landward area | Burghs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Moray and Nairn | 3-4 | 3-4 |\n| Orkney | 1 | 4 |\n| Peebles | 3 | 3 |\n| Perth and Kinross | | 4 |\n| Renfrew | | 3 |\n| Ross and Cromarty | 2-4 | :: |\n| Roxburgh | 2-4 | :: |\n| Selkirk | | |\n| Stirling | | |\n| Sutherland | 2 | 2 |\n| West Lothian | | |\n| Wigtown | 24 | ... |\n| Zetland | 3 | 24 | \n## \nPage 141 \nPage 147 \nPage 148", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562584, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-572-5 King George V Memorial- progress report on fund 15-10-1937 - 17-2-1938", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-572-5 King George V Memorial- progress report on fund 15-10-1937 - 17-2-1938", "content_text": "# BARBADOS\n## 1936-60\n\nAn Act to incorporate the Committee of Management of the \"King George V Play Field Memorial Park.\"\n\n[21st November, 1936]\n\nWHEREAS Herbert Peebles of \"Bayleys\" in the parish of Saint Philip, C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., a Major (retired in his Majesty's Army), Gerald Pinder Skeete of \"Frenches\" in the parish of Saint George in this Island, Esquire, David Stonewall Payne, of \"Harrow,\" in the said parish of Saint Philip, Esquire, M.A., M.R.S.T., the Reverend Leonard Cyril Mallalieu, B.A., Clerk in Holy Orders, Vicar of Saint Mark's Chapel in the parish of Saint John in this Island, the Reverend Edward Augustus Pitt of \"Ebenezer\" in the said parish of Saint Philip, B.D., McGill University, Methodist Minister, Herbert Christie Manning of \"Golden Grove\" in the said parish of Saint Philip Esquire, Howard Lisle Smith of \"Sandford\" in the said parish of Saint Philip, Esquire, M.C.P., Leigh Stanley Tappin of \"Cox's Hill\" in the said parish of Saint Philip, Doctor of Medicine, Cecil Richardson Yearwood, School Master, of \"Shrewsbury School\" in the said parish of Saint Philip and Winfield Ulrick Gooding of \"Union Hall\" in the said parish of Saint Philip, Esquire, the present Committee of Management of \"King George V Play Field Memorial Park\" have petitioned the Legislature to pass an Act to incorporate the said Committee of the said King George V Play Field Memorial Park and to grant them certain powers, privileges and rights; AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition:\n\n66\n\nBe it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Island, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-\n\n### 1. Short title\nThis Act may be cited as the King George V Play Field Memorial Park Incorporation Act, 1936.\n\n### 2. Committee of Management of King George V Play Field Memorial Park\nThe said Herbert Peebles, Gerald Pinder Skeete, David Stonewall Payne, Leonard Cyril Mallalieu, Edward Augustus Pitt, Herbert Christie Manning, Howard Lisle Smith, Leigh Stanley Tappin, Cecil Richardson Yearwood and Winfield Ulrick Gooding shall be and are hereby constituted the first Committee of Management of the said King George V Play Field Memorial Park, with power in case of the death, resignation, incapacity to act or absence \n\n## Page 22", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-5 King George V Memorial- progress report on fund 15-10-1937 - 17-2-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580254, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "Ref. No.54147/45.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nColonial Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nAugust 10th, 1945.\n\nWith further reference to Mr. Paskin's letter of 3rd inst. I find that Mr. John Wilson was a part-time Assistant in the Spanish Department of this University from 1925 to 1936.\n\nThe Head of the Department has a very high opinion of Mr. Wilson and informs me that he carried out his duties in a most thorough and conscientious manner. I am afraid I have insufficient information to enable me to express an opinion regarding Mr. Wilson's suitability for the posts referred to in your letter. It is understood, however, that he was at one time on the teaching staff of George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, and is at present Rector of Peebles High School, and I have no doubt you have also referred the question to the Governors of these schools.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nAlex. Bearn,\n\nVice-Chancellor and Principal.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "54147/45\n\n27\n\n167\n\n3rd August, 1945\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Colonel Oliver Stanley to inform you that an application has been received from Mr. John Wilson of 5 Bonnington Road, Peebles, in connection with the possible appointment at a later date of a Registrar for Hong Kong University.\n\nIt is the intention that a small Advisory Committee should be established in the near future to represent the University and to undertake planning and make recommendations in regard to such matters as the assembling of staff, the collection of equipment and the priorities to be given to the re-establishment of the various faculties. It is expected that this Committee will recommend the appointment of a full-time paid Secretary and possibly other staff to assist in this work.\n\nIt would be appropriate if the secretary to this Committee were a person suitably qualified to become Registrar of the University when it is re-established.\n\nIt is understood that Mr. John Wilson was a member of the teaching staff of Edinburgh University from 1925 and 1936 and Colonel Stanley\n\nTHE VICE-CHANCELLOR,\n\nEDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.\n\nwould", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "3824B' Wt. 47664/398 20m. 1/45 C.N.Ld. 748\n\n54147/45\n\nC. O.\n\nXXX Miss Ruston 1. 8.45\n\nMr. Paskin\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\n2. 8.45\n\n+5 f.\n\nDRAFT OFFICIAL LETTER\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor,\n\nEdinburgh University,\n\nLet the despatches\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nPermi. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n169\n\n27 August, 1945\n\nFOR MR. PASKIN'S SIGNATURE\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to inform you that an application has been received from a gentleman named John Wilson of 3 Bonnington Road, Peebles, in connection with the possible appointment at a later date of a Registrar for Hong Kong University.\n\nIt is the intention that a small Advisory Committee should be established in the near future to represent the University and to undertake planning and make recommendations for its rehabilitation.\n\nIt is expected that this Committee will recommend the appointment of a full-time paid Secretary and possibly other officers to assist in studying the problems involved and making recommendations to the Committee in regard to such matters as the assembling of staff, the collection of equipment, and the priorities to be given to the re-establishment of the various faculties.\n\nIt would be appropriate for the Secretary to this Committee", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "3 Bonnington Road, Peebles.\n\n7th July, 1945.\n\n182\n\nDear Thomson,\n\nI understand that there is a vacancy for a Registrar in Hong Kong University and, given my experience over many years in university teaching and practice, I should like to be considered for the appointment.\n\nI would add that I have gained much practical experience during the last seven years as\n\nHead of a Secondary School sending forward annually students to all faculties of the Scottish Universities.\n\nI graduated in Arts in Edinburgh University in 1912 and have taken two Honours Courses in Languages therein. In London University I graduated B.A. with 1st Class Honours in 1923 and again in 1926, and took the Master's Degree in 1929. From 1925 to 1936 I was a member of the teaching staff of Edinburgh University and have been in touch with the work of the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool. I am therefore familiar with the background of the three distinctive types of university in this country.\n\nFrom the point of view of the present appointment I can lay claim to contacts which would enable me to carry out researches into the organisation of our home universities and to lay before any committee set up to consider the future of Hong Kong University the possible lines of its development.\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]