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Labwn where \n\n552 \n\nBerbes of Pesterin zelez \n\nto betr \n\nkuch. \n\nSipel of a bett...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254006, "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": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Dispatch N.10 \n7th August 1862.\n\n## In Colonial Secretary's Department\n**Prouston 1st Clerk in Harbor Master's Department** - absence granted to Mr. Rouston on 5th August 1862.\n\n| Interest | 10 | \n|----------|----|\n| 9767. HongKong. | 2=147 |\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government.\n\nSir,\n\nI have received your despatch No. 22 of the 7th of August last, and I have to express to you my approval of the leave of absence granted by you to Mr. Houston, and of the temporary appointments made by you in consequence of his absence.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281764, "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": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "324\n\n\nnight. I arrived at the light-house at about three or a quarter past three o'clock in the afternoon. I waited there in order to try and get a passage up by a steamer, the smoke of which I saw at Caps Sagami. I did put off to the mail steamer when she was quite abreast of Kisousaki point. I went, I suppose, better than half a mile. There were two men in the boat. The steamer was going from 8 to 8.5 knots. I should think she was to the North of Kanousaki point when I turned round and left her. It took about ten minutes to pull back to the shore. When I got on shore, I went into the Japanese hotel again and finished dinner. It was about twenty-five minutes after I entered the hotel that I heard the guns. A man called Broderick was with me at dinner at the hotel. Have been in Japan going on for 11 years. I am an American citizen. There was only one foreigner besides myself, and ten to fifteen Japanese if not more. There are only three boats where I was. You could get plenty more by going about a mile. I am not aware that Broderick endeavoured to induce any Japanese to put off after hearing the guns. I did not consult with Broderick whether we should put off or not. I knew it was no use to offer any more than ten boos, as the boatmen would not go out at all. I am quite certain that I only heard four guns.\n\nSince I have been in Japan, I have been sent to San Francisco to stand my trial on a criminal charge. I decline to answer with what offence I was charged. I don't know if I was convicted of that offence. I decline to answer the question any way. I don't hold any license or written permission to act as a pilot here. I did not try to get the boats which were lying a mile off to go out, as I knew they would not go; besides the night was dark. I did not see any lights on the spit. I of course should have gone to get the other boats to go out, had I thought that the guns I heard were a signal that life was in danger, or that a ship was sinking in mid-channel. My impression was, that the vessel was on shore, and that there was no danger to life. The Japanese would not take me off, because they were not servants of mine. At the time I wanted to go off, there was a nice breeze from N. N. E. Broderick is somewhere in Yokohama. I don't know if he is a sailor or not. He has lately arrived from Nagasaki. I have never had charge of a ship as master. I was chief officer of a sailing vessel for six or seven months.\n\nTo Mr. De Love. The crime for which I was put upon my trial, was not perjury.\n\nThere are three Japanese in the light-house; no European has been in charge for some time. There is no light put there. The clock I referred to as having been stopped, was the light-house clock; the Japanese told me it was broken. The Hotel is two hundred or two hundred and fifty yards from the light. A Japanese keeps the Hotel. Japanese use the Hotel principally, but a pilot can get a meal there.\n\n(Signed)\n\n**JAMES CAVANAGH**\n\nISAAC I. YATES, sworn, states. My rank in the American Navy is that of master, and that was my rank on board of the Oneida. I am considered to be a responsible officer to take charge of a ship. The Oneida left Yokohama at 5.15 P.M., on the 24th January bound for Hongkong. We were cheered by the various men-of-war as we left. The general understanding was that the ship was homeward bound. After passing the lightship, just outside the anchorage, Mr. Stewart, a Lieutenant Commander and executive officer having charge of the ship, set all plain sail. This brought the ship under sail and steam. He braced the yard something about 3 points. He braced them in with the starboard braces; the vessel was on the port tack. The port tacks were hauled on board some. At 5.45 as near as I can remember Mr. Stewart sent for me and asked me if it was my dock. I told him it was and I relieved him. He told me that the masthead and side lights were burning and the lookouts were stationed; the man at the lead both sides and the proper men at the wheel. He also told me, the course S. by E. ¼ E. Mr. Moldaur, the navigating officer, was also on the bridge. (I relieved Mr. Stewart on the bridge) I asked him after Mr. Stewart went away to assure myself of the course; he told me again S. by E. ¼ E. So we headed. At 6 o'clock I relieved the watch, sent the port watch on deck, and ordered the officer of the forecastle of the starboard watch, Mr. Adams, to heave the log. He reported her going 6 knots and 6 fathoms. I thought she might be going a little faster, so I asked him again, and he was positive. He asked me if he should put it in his log. I told him no, that we must make an allowance for the quarter of an hour during which we were at anchor. Mr. Adams was then relieved by Mr. Hall, a midshipman. Before this, when I asked Mr. Moldaur about the course, he told me he wanted me to send a quartermaster on to the forecastle with a glass on the port side to keep a lookout for Saratoga spit buoy, which he told me was somewhere on the port bow. I sent for a quartermaster, and found it was William Boyston, signal quartermaster; he reported to me with the glass. I told him to go on the forecastle, and keep a lookout for this buoy on the port bow, and he went there. At 6 o'clock, he was relieved by Thomas Woolley, quartermaster. At 7.20, as near as I can judge, I thought we were sort of drifting in to starboard as Kanonsaki was drawing more ahead; we had had it a point on the starboard bow. I thought we were sagging in toward the western shore. I sent for Mr. Moldaur and gave the order to starboard a little; the ship was heading out to port slowly; my object was to put the light to the same bearing; just then the quartermaster on the forecastle reported a steamer right ahead; and I saw a steamer's mast-head light coming round Kanousaki point, and this light passed from ahead to starboard; then when I turned round, I saw Mr. Moldaur, who asked me, \"what's the matter, Yates?\" I said, \"I think we are sagging into starboard, and I ordered the helm to starboard; and there is a steamer's mast-head light passing from ahead to starboard\"; but Mr. Moldaur said, \"I can't go any more to port, we must head our course.\" I asked the quartermaster how the ship then headed, he said S. E. by S., so that she must have came up 1 point and, then I ordered her on her course, and when she got there, the quartermaster reported her so; that course was S. by E. ¼ E. When the ship was on her course, we could see the steamer's mast-head light on our starboard bow and changing its bearing further aft. Not long after, Mr. Moldaur and I both saw her green light, and her mast-head light a point on our starboard bow. She was then evidently running nearly parallel to us, pretty well into the western or starboard shore. Mr. Moldaur said, \"you see her green light there\" and I said \"yes\" and he said, \"she'll pass to starboard of us\" which was also my idea. She was then over three miles off; we were on our course all the time, S. by E. ¼ E., and we were of course approaching each other. When the steamer was a mile off, three points on the starboard bow, I saw she had put her helm to port, by the new direction in which she headed; she headed right for our green light. I was standing on the starboard side of the bridge where I had been standing all the time since we had made this steamer, and I saw her heading for me; and the instant her red light opened (then I saw all three lights), I gave the order “starboard,” then \"hard a starboard.\" The quartermaster answered me from the wheel. We headed off rapidly to port and kept heading off that way; when this steamer was a short distance from me, I can't judge how far exactly, she put her helm to starboard. If she had not starboarded her helm when she did, she would have struck forward of the point which she did strike. I didn't hear any order given on the other steamer, but I saw evidently that she headed to port and that her helm must therefore have been starboarded. I heard no noise on the steamer, and saw no signals made of any kind before or after the collision. Just about the time of collision, someone sang out, \"what the hell are you doing?\" Whether it was to someone on board the Oneida or to someone on the Bombay, I cannot say. She struck our ship not long after starboarding her helm; her helm was a starboard when she struck us; she struck us about the starboard mizen rigging, right abreast as I should judge, and at an angle of about 40 to 45 degrees, and she cut off the whole of the quarter diagonally, and carried away the poop, which went over the side astern; she also carried away our spanker boom and gaff, the wheel and starboard binnacle. She cut the gig in two and smashed it all up. The only binnacle we had left was the one on the port side. My ship was unmanageable—entirely so. As soon as she struck, I gave orders to shorten sail; the square sails were taken off the ship, and the main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main and the square sails were taken off the ship, and the main-trysail too; the spanker was gone, but the head sails were not hauled down. As soon as she struck, the officers all rushed on deck. Captain Williams was brought on deck by two men, and Mr. Stewart, as soon as he touched the ship's deck, ran to the port side of the deck, jumped upon an arm chest near the rail, and sung out in a loud tone of voice, \"steamer ahoy, you have cut us down, remain by us.” The Bombay was at that time across the stern of the Oneida, but immediately went out of sight. I only heard Mr. Stewart shout out once, and I heard no one else hail the steamer. I heard no one answer from the Bombay. He then went down from the chest and said, \"for God's sake, aren't there any primers about here? where's Langman, where's the gunner's mate.\" All the primers that were aft were carried away, together with all the rockets that had been made up and all the blue lights and signals which might have been available—the lights were in a box made fast up underneath the poop fastened to the beams; the rockets were also made fast along the beams together; the boxes of primers were in the armouries which were situated on each side underneath the poop. Soon after, Thomas Stevenson got the primers, I believe, and Mr. Stewart and Mr. Adane loaded and fired a gun, it was the starboard No. 1, 3rd Division gun which was just forward of the bridge. Her calibre was thirty-two lbs. and the charge was 6 lbs. When the Captain came on deck, I told him that the ship had ported her helm and cut me down; he said, \"I know it, sir, but let us save the ship,\" and he gave orders to keep silence on deck. He then gave orders for shortening sail, but they had already commenced to do so. When I next saw the Captain, it was about a minute after I had just spoken to him; he asked me to go and see if the jib was easy. I went and saw, and came back and reported \"yes\" so he said that was right; then the order was given to set the foretopsail, with the idea of paying the ship off and running her ashore on the westward shore. There were several officers forward. I went forward and gave the order to man the topsail sheet. I saw Mr. Sargent there and then I heard Mr. Moldaur call out for me, and he wanted me to help him to get the pumps manned on deck; the carpenter was there and we got the pumps manned, and the men got to work on them; all the pumps were going, the steam pumps, and deck pumps, but the water was rising very rapidly, and the ship sinking very fast by the stern; just before she sank, Mr. Moldaur called me to see how she headed; I went aft and looked at the port binnacle, and she headed E. by N., and I judge that she must have run about two miles after the collision; she kept coming up all the time toward the eastward. (Just before the Bombay struck us, the officer on our forecastle called out, \"hard a port,\" but I didn't repeat his order, and I think his idea was to swing the ships parallel, as the Bombay was passing our centre. The Bombay's bow had got past the centre of our ship; the Bombay had already starboarded her helm). I then went and told Mr. Moldaur how she headed, and he told me to go on the bridge and tell the Captain. Mr. Moldaur was sounding with the lead, trying to find the bottom. I went up and told the Captain, but I don't remember that he said anything. Immediately Mr. Moldaur jumped on to the bridge and said, the ship would sink in three minutes by the stern; he begged the Captain to take to the boats; they had been clearing away the boats before this, and getting them ready to lower; the first and third cutters were the only boats we had after the collision except the dingy which was broken in two; she had been condemned and was only kept on the davits to stow gear in. But the Captain would give no orders to take to the boats; he replied to Mr. Moldaur, \"no, no—never mind the boats.\" I understood that Mr. Moldaur did, notwithstanding, give an order to take to the boats. About that time, the bridge was very near the water; just before it touched the water, I asked the Captain to jump with me into the cutter, which was a little way off; but he stood there. He made some reply, but I couldn't swear what the reply was; I think he said something about: \"I will sink with my ship\" but I thought that I would jump, so I jumped, and dropped my trumpet as I jumped. I sank. I had on cloth clothes and a heavy overcoat, and I came up and struck against the side of a boat with my head. I begged a man to haul me in; he laid hold of me and, while he was hauling me in, I turned my head to the right and I saw the foretopgallant mast sticking out of the water, but just going down, and when I got into the boat, I stood up and looked about for the ship, but I could see nothing of her, nor anything in the water then. Just then Mr. Crowninshield swam to the boat and begged me to haul him in; so we hauled him in. Then I saw an officer in his shirt sleeves, and he begged me to save him; he said, \"Yates, for God's sake save me.\" That was Mr. Stewart, the executive officer. I ordered the men to back down; they backed their oars, but he sank underneath the stern of the boat. I saw no other person but Mr. Stewart and Mr. Crowninshields. I may have seen Mr. Moldaur, but I won't be certain. I begged the men to stay by the ship and they did so, but we soon all saw that our boat was very full of men; they had quite a number in the boat when she was lowered, and half were hauled in afterwards. We had 44 in our boat; the boat was not very large, and there was a great deal of water in the boat, and the water was coming in a little; so orders were given to bail with shoes and hats. I soon saw that if we wanted to save ourselves, we would have to get on shore as soon as possible, and the men were clamouring to go on. They commenced to pull ahead. I begged them to stop, but they wouldn't; we headed for shore. I having given up all hope, we went before the wind, heading into land when possible, and steering with a long oar. At one time, just before we landed, we were very nearly capsized in the surf, but we finally all got on shore and landed at a village, just in a cove, this side of Kanonsaki light, that is, we landed on the rocks, whence we proceeded to the village. Some of us stayed there all night, but after I went to sleep, some of them straggled off. I got up in the morning, leaving Mr. Crowninshields and three men with him. I had started to walk on with a party of men and arrived at Yokoska at about 10 A.M. They treated us kindly there, and I found a number of my men there. I went out in a steam launch from Yokoska toward Kanonsaki, and met the Aspic, French gunboat; she had a boat astern with Mr. Lyons in charge. I got into the boat, and sent all my men in the launch to the Yangtze; then I went down in this boat with Mr. Lyons, towed by the Aspic. She soon cast us off, and we pulled in toward the shore; afterward I got into the English steam launch and we looked around the coast. I went into the English launch from Mr. Lyon's boat direct. I didn't go on shore, but I saw a Russian boat there, and the Captain of the Sylvia came alongside in his boat; then we went out in the launch down to the lightship, and then we went on shore, and I walked about on shore with some officers of the Idaho, and the Captain of the Sylvia also; this was about three o'clock.\n\nI then went on board the Sylvia, in which I came to Yokohama, and was then put on board the Idaho.\n\nAdjourned till 1.30 P.M.\n\nProceedings resumed at 1.30 P.M.\n\nMr. YATES said he had forgotten to mention that the Oneida's steam whistle was blowing from the time of the collision until just before the ship sunk. I saw the man Jacobson turn it on. Jacobson was lost.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG.—When I said that our lamps were out, I meant that they were out in the boxes; both side-lights and the masthead light were burning brightly. When we first saw the Bombay's red light, it was something over three minutes before the collision took place, as I saw all three lights and this vessel broad on my starboard bow, it was my duty to starboard my helm. If I had ported at that time, we should possibly have collided bows on; and I would no doubt have struck her on her starboard bow. If we had struck bows on, I think the Bombay would have cut into us very far. On leaving the anchorage, the Oneida passed to the East of the light-ship. I don't know exactly at what time we passed her. I saw the light-ship on our starboard side. The light-ship was about three cables lengths off when we passed. I relieved the deck at a quarter to six. The course passed to me on taking the deck was S. by E. ¼ E. I speak of the course by compass. I do know that there was not one-half of a degree deviation between the standard compass and the compass we were steering by. The navigator would know all these things. S. by E. ¼ E. was the course actually steered. And Mr. Moldaur, the navigating officer, would have made allowances for deviation and variation. The deviation of the compass on that course would not be over half a degree. I changed the course S. by E. ¼ E. once. I changed because I thought the ship was sagging into the Western shore. I headed up to S. E. by S. I headed up that way somewhere about four minutes. The next course to that was S. by E. quarter E. Mr. Moldaur ordered me to return to the original course; the reason was, \"I cannot stand any more to port.\" I left this latter course again on seeing a steamer on my starboard bow heading for me. I suppose about 12 or 15 minutes must have elapsed between the time that I received Mr. Moldaur's order to alter the course, and the time that I altered it on seeing the other steamer. The Bombay was three points on our starboard bow. When I deviated the second time, the vessels were about one mile apart at that time. I think the gun was fired four times from the Oneida; all the shots were from the same gun; the sound of the fourth was, I think, somewhat smothered, as the vessel was about sinking. The lieutenant wanted the gunner's mate to get primers and powder. I should judge the primers were got from forward; we fired four times from the same gun, because the primers and powder were at that gun; and I suppose Mr. Stewart kept them there. I only stayed there with him until he fired that one gun. None of the guns were loaded at the time of the collision. There were two lookouts on the forecastle, and one on the port side of the poop; those were all we had. One officer, Mr. Midshipman Hall, was on the forecastle all the time; there was also a quartermaster with a glass. I don't mean to say that all the signals on board, but that all that were quickly available, were lost, when the quarter was carried away. I should say that 30 seconds after the collision, the steam whistle was blown; and that five minutes elapsed before the first gun was fired. The Oneida floated fifteen minutes after collision. I think the tonnage of the Oneida was 1,030 tons, with the engine-room. (Admitted that the gross tonnage of the Bombay is 1,376 tons). The new tonnage of the Oneida was 695 tons. The Oneida had a poop-deck built up over the spar deck astern. There were double doors on each side of the deck, which closed this cabin in. Inside of this poop cabin, there was an armoury on each side; the tiller also came through there; and the relieving tackles were also in there. Abaft the tiller was a bath tub; and there were pegs in the cabin for coats. The officers need to hang their rain clothes in there. We also had large easy chairs in there. This place was used as a lounging and smoking room by the Captain and officers. Over-head, there were boxes for signals; there was a chart-table and a drawer with charts on the forward side against the bulk-head; it was quite a broad table. There was also spare gun-gear. There were always lamps kept in there; two were always kept alight in there at night. There were also some books; the log-book was sometimes kept in there. There was no cloth on the table: the colour of the table was a yellowish brown. The barometer and thermometers were in there. The cabin had two stern portes; and there were arrangements inside for setting off the life buoys. The Oneida's bridge was some distance, say one hundred feet, forward of the poop cabin. Outside the poop cabin on each side were water-closets. As regards the Captain's cabin, this was covered by a raised hatch with windows. There were windows in its sides. There was a movable slide to this hatch; \n\nEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 286244, "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": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "content_text": "## of Command \n7.0. \nHongkong \n19th \n3663 \nNo \n22 April \n1871 \n\nAdmirad \nAgent \n**Confidential** \nfor R. Macdonnell att. Rennie Law \nApril \nWattoming - 19 \nVir F.Royston - 19. \nHugram - 20 \nPart of Kimberley \n\n4297 May 1. 1871 \n4504 May 4 \n\n\" \nEntered \nApril 1871 (cm) \n$87.670. \n\nI am directed \nby the Earl of Kimberley \nto transmit to you copy of a \ndespatch from the F.O. \nforwarding copies of \ntwo \ndespatches from H.M. Chargé d'Affaires \nin \nPeking \nregard to points \nconnected with the \nquestion of the revision of Treaties with China \nand I am \nto be favored with \nany \nobservations \nyou may have to \nmake upon \nWade's propositions. \nto add...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291956, "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": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 635, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "# No 207 25th September, 1875. Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B.\n\nThe Right Honorable \nThe Earl of Kimberley.. \n**Parliamentary Paper** \non \n\"**Macao Coolie Trade**\"– \nAcknowledges receipt of \n6 Copies of \n\n## Despatch Details\n| No. | Date | Last Previous Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 208 | 26 Sept 1873 | 11636 |\n| | | Ansut. n. 7-6 March 1874 |\n\n## Subject\n**DESPATCH, RECEIVED** \n0.0. \n17 NOV 1873 \n632 \nApplications from certain public Officers for increase of their salaries. Entores for poor `Ff. 24 Den Row 2` $0.\n\n## Minutes\nM. Meade: Sir Arthur Kennedy has increased the salaries of a good many individual Officers since he has been in the Colony, so that I am not surprised at his having troubles with applications from various other quarters.\n\nThe present despatch is not very clear, but it appears to leave the responsibility of refusing these applications to the Secretary of State.\n\nThe case of Royston does appear rather an exceptional one: he has recently rendered good service to the English in China, thus for more than 12 years remained on the same salary as Interpreter, which is an Office, from which there is not likely to be promotion.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307012, "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": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "Page 128\n\n» The China Mail. HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1880.\n\nSUPREME COURT. Thursday, Oct. 21.\n\nTHE SUPREME COURT SCANDAL.\n\nTHE CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE REGISTRAR.\n\nThis afternoon a number of cases which have been lying over since Monday last were to come on before the Chief Justice. The Registrar was in Court; the Chief Justice was in his room at the hour fixed, Mr Gibbons was sent for and refused to attend on his Lordship, holding that the cases should be heard in open Court and declining to subject himself, he said, to a repetition of such insults as he had already received from the Chief Justice.\n\nThe following were the cases which were on the board :—\n\nIN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nIn the matter of Yeong Yee Sze, a bankrupt.—Report of Registrar.\n\nIn the matter of Nursey Kessowjee, and ors., bankrupts.—Report of Registrar.\n\nIn the matter of Ng Akiu, bankrupt.—Report of Registrar.\n\nIN PROBATE.\n\nIn the goods of Son Sui Suen, deceased.—Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration. Petition by Chan Kwong Sung for $10.68.\n\nIn the goods of R. T. Mogridge, deceased.—Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Tau Seang, deceased.—Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Sarah Jane Royston, deceased.—Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Alice Windsor, deceased.—Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Che Suin, deceased.—Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Fook Su Tong, deceased.—Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Arthur W. Cunner, deceased.—Petition for grant of Administration.\n\nIn the case of Luk To Kwang, deceased.—Petition for grant of Administration.\n\nThe message Mr Mossop brought was to the effect that the Chief Justice was waiting for the Registrar.\n\nMr Gibbons said: Proceedings in Bankruptcy must be heard in Court, and I decline to attend in Chambers. The Ordinance orders the proceedings to be on motion in open Court, not by the Judge in Chambers. I decline to attend. The Judge has insulted me every time I have attended him in Chambers, and I intend to wait upon him no more.\n\nMr Mossop here left.\n\nThe Registrar, asking if any reporter was present, and the Reporter of the China Mail answering in the affirmative, proceeded—I desire what I have just said to be known publicly. I have been waiting here now for half-an-hour, and if the Chief Justice does not choose to attend to them, then these matters, which have been lying over now for three days and are all of a pressing nature, must lie over again, because the Chief Justice thinks that when I go into his Chambers he can keep the Press out and insult me there with impunity, and I don't choose to do it. The last time I attended in Chambers he ordered me out. After that I should be wanting in self-respect if I attended again. It is no part of my duty to attend in Chambers, either as Master of the Court, as Official Assignee or as Registrar. I don't choose to allow my office to be made into the office of Judge's clerk. I wish that to go forth to the public. I have laid a complaint before the Governor, and the Governor has not yet taken any notice of my complaint. Whether he will or not I don't know. I have asked to have the matter referred to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, because I think my treatment here has become a public scandal, and I think that the business of the public is entirely neglected, and I think that the office is falling into a state of confusion, almost as bad as that from which I rescued it. I am forbidden to write to the papers; I am not forbidden to utter my sentiments, and only desire now to make a public utterance.\n\nI have been six months in the Colony; I believe I have worked as hard as any man, and I have put things as straight as it is possible for any man to put them; but I have never had my duties defined in any way, and I do not to this day know what fees are properly leviable in respect of the business done in this Court. I have looked through all the scales of fees, have examined them carefully and I do not find one of the scales applicable to the present state of things. I say that that is entirely due to the neglect of the Chief Justice, by whom only, acting with the Executive, can a scale of fees be imposed. That man has, since 1864, neglected his duty in this matter of the scale of fees. I have addressed the Governor on the subject; nothing yet has been done.\n\nIn the matter of Ng Akiu, a bankrupt, I can do nothing. The Chief Justice will not sign the papers. A creditors' assignee was chosen, but I can do nothing. The Chief Justice says I ought to hand him the papers, I say I am not his clerk, not his servant. I decline to do that which is no part of my duty. I declined to have anything to do with that bankruptcy because I believed it has to do with the keeping of brothels. An official assignee was appointed, and the Chief Justice will not sign the papers unless I hand them to him personally. If that is a good reason all well and good. I don't think it is a good reason. As a Solicitor I say it is a very bad one.\n\nI believe my experience is as great as that of any one in this Court, both as a judicial officer and as a practising barrister. I was Chief Judicial Officer of the City of London for several years, and I say that in my opinion the Chief Justice is doing what he ought not to do. These are matters which concern the public more than they concern me, because I am utterly indifferent whether I keep the position or not. If the Governor would only furnish me with the means to go home, I should go home to-morrow, so sick am I of being here. I have experienced treatment since I have been here much as no official in my position would ever stand, and such as no official has ever been subjected to before. If I had not been the mildest of men I might have been forced into doing something which I dare not contemplate.\n\nCalling the Usher of the Court, Mr Stockhausen, the Registrar then asked him ...\n\nPage 128\n\nDec.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310676, "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": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "THE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nThursday, Oct. 21.\n\nTHE SUPREME COURT SCANDAL,\n\nTHE CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE REGISTRAR.\n\nThis afternoon a number of cases which have been lying over since Monday last were to come on before the Chief Justice. The Registrar was in Court; the Chief Justice was in his room at the hour fixed. Mr Gibbons was sent for and refused to attend on his Lordship, holding that the case should be heard in open Court and declining to subject himself, he said, to a repetition of such insults as he had already received from the Chief Justice.\n\nThe following were the cases which were on the board :-\n\nIN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nIn the matter of Yeong Yee Sze, a bankrupt. Report of Registrar.\n\nIn the matter of Nursey Kessowjee, and ors., bankrupts, Report of Registrar.\n\nIn the matter of Ng Akiu, bankrupt, -- Report of Registrar.\n\nIN PROBATE.\n\nIn the goods of Sen Sui Suen, deceased, - Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration. Petition by Chau Kwong Sung for $10.68.\n\nIn the goods of R. T. Mogridge, deceased. Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Tan Seang, deceased. - Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Sarah Jane Royston, deceased. - Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Alice Windsor, deceased. - Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Che Suin, deceased. - Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Fook Su Tong, deceased. - Inventory Account and Scheme of Administration.\n\nIn the goods of Arthur W. Connor, deceased. Petition for grant of Administration.\n\nIn the case of Lak To Kwang, deceased. Petition for grant of Administration.\n\nThe message Mr Mossop brought was to the effect that the Chief Justice was waiting for the Registrar.\n\nMr Gibbons said: Proceedings in Bankruptcy must be heard in Court, and I decline to attend in Chambers. The Ordinance orders the proceedings to be on motion in open Court, not by the Judge in Chambers. I decline to attend. The Judge has insulted me every time I have attended him in Chambers, and I intend to wait upon him no more.\n\nMr Mossop here left.\n\nThe Registrar, asking if any reporter was present, and the Reporter of the China Mail answering in the affirmative, proceeded. \"I desire what I have just said to be known publicly. I have been waiting here now for half-an-hour, and if the Chief Justice does not choose to attend to them, then these matters, which have been lying over now for three days and are all of a pressing nature, must lie over again, because the Chief Justice thinks that when I go into his Chambers he can keep the Press out and insult me there with impunity, and I don't choose to do it. The last time I attended in Chambers he ordered me out. After that I should be wanting in self-respect if I attended again. It is no part of my duty to attend in Chambers, either as Master of the Court, as Official Assignee or as Registrar. I don't choose to allow my office to be made into the office of Judge's clerk. I wish that to go forth to the public. I have laid a complaint before the Governor, and the Governor has not yet taken any notice of my complaint. Whether he will or not I don't know. I have asked to have the matter referred to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, because, I think my treatment here has become a public scandal, and I think that the business of the public is entirely neglected, and I think that the office is falling into a state of confusion, almost as bad as that from which I rescued it.\n\nI am forbidden to write to the papers; I am not forbidden to utter my sentiments, and I only desire now to make a public utterance. I have been six months in the Colony; I believe I have worked as hard as any man, and I have put things as straight as it is possible for any man to put them; but I never had any duties defined in any way, and I do not to this day know what fees are properly leviable in respect of the business done in this Court. I have looked through all the scales of fees, have examined them carefully and I do not find one of the scales applicable to the present state of things. I say that that is entirely due to the neglect of the Chief Justice, by whom only, acting with the Executive, can a scale of fees be imposed. That man has, since 1864, neglected his duty in this matter of the scale of fees. I have addressed the Governor on the subject; nothing yet has been done.\n\nIn the matter of Ng Akiu, a bankrupt, I can do nothing. The Chief Justice will not sign the papers. A creditors' assignee was chosen, but I can do nothing. The Chief Justice says I ought to hand him the papers. I say I am not his clerk. I am not his servant. I decline to do that which is no part of my duty. I declined to have anything to do with that bankruptcy because I believed it has to do with the keeping of brothels. An official assignee was appointed, and the Chief Justice will not sign the papers unless I hand them to him personally. If that is a good reason, all well and good. I don't think it is a good reason. As a Solicitor I say it is a very bad one. I believe my experience is as great as that of any one in this Court, both as a judicial officer and as a practising barrister. I was Chief Judicial Officer of the City of London for several years, and I say that in my opinion the Chief Justice is doing what he ought not to do. These are matters which concern the public more than they concern me, because I am utterly indifferent whether I keep the position or not. If the Governor would only furnish me with the means to go home, I should go home to-morrow, so sick am I of being here. I have experienced treatment since I have been here such as no official in my position would ever stand, and such as no official has ever been subjected to before. If I had not been the mildest of men I might have been forced into doing something which I dare not contemplate.\n\nCalling the Usher of the Court, Mr Stockhausen, the Registrar then asked him to ascertain from Mr Mossop whether the Judge was coming. \"If the Chief Justice,\" he added, \"does not do his duty, I will do mine so far as in me lies. My duty is to attend in Court, and I will attend in Court, but I will not attend in Chambers.\"\n\nMr Stockhausen left to interview Mr Mossop.\n\nThe Registrar: \"As to the matter of Sen Sui Suen, I have put his petition among the papers and have rendered an account of all the moneys received. He may attend in Chambers if he so chooses; I will not. I say, and I wish it to be understood, that my duty is not to attend in Chambers. If it were my duty, I would attend, but I do not attend because I have been insulted on every occasion I have attended, and I don't choose to be insulted unless I have the protection of the Press. I am very sorry for Sen Sui Suen, but I cannot help it. I believe the only safeguard the public has is the Press. The Law has been administered here since I came here in a way I never saw it administered elsewhere. Matters are taken in Chambers in secret which ought to be taken in public. I don't choose to be a party to anything of the kind. Whether I am in a high position or\n\n249", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383618, "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": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "6049/1901.\n\n360\n\nREG 22 OCT 01\n\nSir,\n\nTHE PARK,\n\n153 ROYSTON,\n\nHERTS.\n\nIt is impossible for me to give any estimate of the cost of an operating theatre for the Hong Kong Hospital - I do not know whether the present ward is adapted or not.\n\nThese papers are attached to Victor Ward.\n\nThe theatre alluded to in these papers was merely a room adapted for operating purposes.\n\nThe fittings, experience has shown, are unnecessarily...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383619, "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": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "154\n\nTHE PARK,\n\nROYSTON,\n\nHERTS.\n\nInexpensive.\n\nWe are however now building at the Queen Mary Hospital operating theatres with cheaper flooring than the terrazzo floor which can only be put down at great expense nor obtainable in Hongkong any more.\n\nA bad terrazzo is worse than a wooden floor covered with the best linoleum.\n\nI advise that M. Ram should come to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383620, "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": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "Achanden Hospital with \n\nC\n\nTHE PARK,\n\nROYSTON,\n\nletter form\n\n155\n\nHERTS.\n\nyourself introducing him to Mr. My. 2.\n\nan House Governor at the\n\nRoberts\n\nLanda hospital +\n\nhe will be able\n\nThaust obtain\n\nall the information\n\nThe requires.\n\nMr. Roberts has\n\ngreat\n\ntheches\n\nImportance in operating\n\nBy the\n\n\"Itcake\" is\n\nC\n\nmisnomer\n\nLawa\n\n22.07.\n\n(loom in\n\nneeded.\n\nI am Sir\n\nYour obedient servant, Sydney Holland\n\nChairman, London Hospital\n\nCorrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nAchanden Hospital with\n\nC\n\nTHE PARK,\n\nROYSTON,\n\nHERTS.\n\n155\n\nyourself introducing him to Mr. My. 2.\n\nan House Governor at the\n\nRoberts Landa hospital\n\nhe will be able\n\nThus obtain\n\nall the information\n\nhe requires.\n\nMr. Roberts has\n\ngreat\n\nexperience\n\nImportance in operating\n\nBy the\n\n\"Itcake\" is a\n\nC\n\nmisnomer\n\nLawa 22.07.\n\n(room in\n\nneeded.\n\nI am, Sir\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nSydney Holland\n\nChairman, London Hospital", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430055, "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": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "I have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nD. S. Rouston.\n\n240", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495993, "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": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "content_text": "## \nExecutor or Trustee of my said Will who may be a Solicitor or other person engaged in any profession or business may be so employed or not and shall be entitled to charge and be paid for all business (whether strictly professional or not, and including acts which an Executor or Trustee could have done personally) done by him or his firm in relation to my estate or the trusts of my said Will in the same manner as if he were not an Executor or Trustee of my said Will.\n\nIN WITNESS whereof I have to this sheet and the two preceding sheets of paper set my hand this Twenty-eighth day of April One thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.\n\nSIGNED and ACKNOWLEDGED by the said **Sir Ellis Kadoorie** as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses:-\n\nE.L. Shenton \nSolicitor, \n(Sd) Ellis Kadoorie\n\nHongkong.\n\n(Sd) J.A. Chue, \nClerk to Messrs. Jesmon, Legge, Deacon & Rouston, \nSolicitors, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580349, "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": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "Telephone: KENSINGTON 5121.\n\n412.\n\nDin Radion\n\nbring\n\nUNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\n\n40\n\nTEMPORARY OFFICE AT LONDON COMMAND\n\nSCHOOL OF EDUCATION,\n\nROOM 12,\n\n178 QUEEN'S GATE,\n\nKENSINGTON, S.W.7.\n\nSept. 28th /46\n\narising 89.\n\nI am writing this was for the time being for your own information, not having it typed here. Don't try to read it, however, until you've had it properly typed (after you do, come back and have a look; it will be more readable that way).\n\nI was talking about a bad way of accounting for capital expenditures for the accountants. Mr. Rolston rang up about this moving building. She has been discussing it with me.\n\n...\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583939, "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": "CO129-598-1 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 19-12-1945 - 23-6-1948", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-598-1 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 19-12-1945 - 23-6-1948", "content_text": "## Name \n**COLONIAL OFFICE** \nN. WOODWARD \n\nPerson with whom interview is desired \n\nMiss Roston \n\nHONGKONG WATER SUPPLY \n\nEscorted by messenger \n\n`D 63491~1 208 6 0 2jd All 5/4, RP`\n\n\nPage 80\nPage 81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-598-1 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 19-12-1945 - 23-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]