[ { "id": 282212, "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": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# XIX—RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from Places out of China, during the Year ending 31st December, 1869.\n\n## RETURN OF VESSELS Bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,--Continued.\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | COLORS | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | REMARKS | ADULTS | CHILDREN |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | M | F | M | F |\n| | Brought forward, | | 12,475 | | | | | 9,961 | | | |\n| 1 | Jan. 2 | Tigre | 1,700 | French | Sea Serpent | China | | | | | |\n| 3 | 11 | Clan Alpine | 942 | British | | | | 974 | | | |\n| | | | 3,846 | American | | | | | | | |\n| 7 | 14 | Fung Shuey | | | Diomed | | | | | | |\n| | | | 740 | American | | | | | | | |\n| 12 | 16 | Queen of England | 1,201 | British | | Saigon | | 30 | 103 | | |\n| | Aug. 19 | Jurgen | 274 | North-German | Ilderuf | San Francisco | | 93 | | | |\n| 20 | 20 | Diomed | 1,201 | British | | | | 1,000 | 103 | | |\n| 21 | 21 | America | 4,454 | American | | Singapore | | 1501 | | 106 | |\n| 28 | 28 | Mirage | 727 | British | Doane | Saigon | | 20 | 20 | | |\n| | | | | | Finch | Singapore | | 168 | | | |\n| | | Burra Noorfol | 960 | Siamese | | | | 630 | | | |\n| 23 | 23 | Enterprise | 988 | Italian | Young | Singapore | | | | | |\n| 24 | 24 | Cambodge | | | Zuhiera | Bangkok | | 109 | | | |\n| | | Seamen's Bride | 761 | | | | | 110 | | | |\n| 13 | 13 | | 1,682 | French | Destandais | China | | 401 | 111 | | |\n| 27 | 27 | | 2,010 | British | Stowmed | Singapore | | | | | |\n| | Feb. 11 | Dennai | | | | Japan | | | | | |\n| | | Clan Alpine | 942 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | Fang Shuey | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Sakura | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Windward | | | | | | | | | |\n| 12 | 12 | Great Republic | | | | Madras | | | | | |\n| | March | Achilles | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Carleton | 599 | North-German | Carleton | Newcastle, N.S.W. | | 907 | 118 | | |\n| | | Fung Shuey | 790 | American | Theland | Manila | | 150 | | | |\n| | | | 623 | British | Simone | Saigon | | 782 | | | |\n| | | Insign | 740 | American | | | | 4362 | | | |\n| | | | 904 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | April | | 457 | | | | | 1,265 | | | |\n| 21 | 21 | | 1,767 | French | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,2771 | British | | | | 31 | 51 | | |\n| | | | | | | | | 11 | 13 | | |\n| | | | 3,881 | American | | | | 1,414 | | | |\n| | | Moonlight | 447 | Siamese | | | | 383 | | | |\n| | | | 306 | North-German | Rehn | | | | | | |\n| | June | | 575 | Siamese | | | | 670 | | | |\n| | | | 336 | Dutch | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,700 | French | | | | 1,277 | | | |\n| | | | 716 | | | | | 1,265 | | | |\n| | | | 1352 | American | | | | | | | |\n| | May 12 | Fung Shiney | | | | | | | | | |\n| 18 | 18 | Chelsea | | | | | | | | | |\n| 19 | 19 | Camilo Cavour | | | | | | | | | |\n| 25 | 25 | Rangoon | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Atrevida | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Glergyte | | | | | | | | | |\n| 3 | 3 | Onward | | | | | | | | | |\n| 10 | 10 | China | | | | | | | | | |\n| 12 | 12 | Fusi-yama | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Fung Shuey | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Agamemnon | | | | | | | | | |\n| 28 | 28 | Imperatrice | | | | | | | | | |\n| 4 | 4 | Clan Alpine | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Shuey | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Queen | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Great Republic | | | | | | | | | |\n| 13 | 13 | Nestor | | | | | | | | | |\n| 21 | 21 | Sir Bartle Frere | | | | | | | | | |\n| 25 | 25 | Ten Rickmers | | | | | | | | | |\n| 20 | 20 | Swordfal | | | | | | | | | |\n| 25 | 25 | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 26 | 26 | Queen of the Ocean | | | | | | | | | |\n| 26 | 26 | Constance | 2 | West Indian | | Japan | | | | | |\n| | | | 2 | Node | | | | | | | |\n| | | Glengyle | + | | | | | | | | |\n| 7 | 7 | Aguia | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Fang Shrey | | | | | | | | | |\n| 10 | 10 | Parades | | | | | | | | | |\n| 12 | 12 | Maglala | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | St. George | | | | | | | | | |\n| 12 | 12 | St. | | | | | | | | | |\n| 14 | 14 | Crimea | | | | | | | | | |\n| 15 | 15 | Chieftain | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | DA | 60 | | | | | | | | |\n| 16 | 16 | Prosperity | | | | | | | | | |\n| 22 | 22 | Nautilus | | | | | | | | | |\n| 22 | 22 | Walrus | | | | | | | | | |\n| 24 | 24 | Cambodge | | | | | | | | | |\n| 29 | 29 | Resolution | | | | | | | | | |\n| 29 | 29 | Shooting Star | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Tiệ | | | | | | | | | |\n| 30 | 30 | Tay Walt | | | | | | | | | |\n| 30 | 30 | Pincess Saraphi | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Advance | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Soundary | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Malabar | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | China | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Fung Shuey | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Clan Alpine | | | | | | | | | |\n| 10 | 10 | Arratoon Apear | | | | | | | | | |\n| 12 | 12 | Denis | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Hugo | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Otto | | | | | | | | | |\n| 12 | 12 | Mysore | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Kame | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | L'aragon | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Travancore | | | | | | | | | |\n| 16 | 16 | Omar Pasha | 1,185 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | Cornelia Hendriku | 1,650 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1053 | French | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 942 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 820 | S. Salvador | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,776 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 3,836 | American | | | | | | | |\n| | | | '70' | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 740 | American | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,500 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,50 | French | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 913 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 740 | American | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 87 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 350 | Portuguese | Dos Santos | | | | | | |\n| | | | 741 | American | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 866 | North-German | Happ | | | | | | |\n| | | | 480 | Siamese | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 478 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 004 | Siamese | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,549 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,150 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | G35 | American | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,682 | French | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 886 | Siamese | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 860 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | D | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 592 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 17 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | Sit | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | * | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 454 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 356 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 485 | French | Peterson | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Barrows | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Blacklock | | | | | | |\n| | | | 322 | North-German | Godie | | | | | | |\n| | | | 8,850 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 758 | Siamese | Backman | Saigon | | 28 | 36 | | |\n| | | | 36 | American | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Warsaw | San Francisco | | 213 | | | |\n| | | | 942 | British | Hutchison | Singapore | | 145 | | | |\n| | | | 938 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 386 | French | Decont | Saigon | | 443 | | | |\n| | | | 443 | French | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 850 | North-German | Tickers | Singapore | | 700 | | | |\n| | | | 700 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | Merican | | Bus | Bangkok | | | | | |\n| | | | Mossos | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,155 | British | Enst | Singapore | | 462 | | | |\n| | | | 398 | British | Ropper | Singapore | | | | | |\n| | | | 886 | British | Lawson | Sydney | | 1,600 | | | |\n| | | | 542 | Siamese | Hofmann | Bangkok | | 40 | | | |\n| | | | 293 | | | | | 37 | | | |\n| | | | 45 | | | | | 11 | | | |\n| | | | 24 | | | | | | | | |\n| | Aug. | Amiral I'rotet | | | | | | | | | |\n| 15 | 15 | Success | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Great Republic | 3,883 | American | | | | | | | |\n| 23 | 23 | Joshua Bates | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Race Hurse | 210 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | Mahela | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 987 | Siamese | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 398 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 560 | British | Brown | Labuan | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Kruse | San Francisco | | | | | |\n| | | | | 298 | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Melbourne | | | | | | |\n| 25 | 25 | Glemariney | 1,087 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 384 | French | | | | | | | |\n| | | | British | Bonnett | Saigon | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Sufpon | | | | | | |\n| 25 | 25 | Bolton | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 150 | | | Singapore | | | | | |\n| | | | 50 | American | Barclay | | | | | | |\n| 11 | 11 | Peteris | 191 | British | Johnson | Bangkok | | 116 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | 28 | | | |\n| 19 | 19 | Hongly | 1,667 | French | De Bovis | Saigon | | 91 | | | |\n| 19 | 19 | Venus | 677 | American | Crowell | Manila | | 200 | | | |\n| | Carried forward, | | 112,475 | | | | | 96,061 | | | |\n| 21 | 21 | Syriin | | | | | | | | | |\n| 22 | 22 | Donnal | | | | | | | | | |\n| 22 | 22 | Queen | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Meteor | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Queen of England | | | | San Francisco | | 81 | | | |\n| | | | 486 | | | | | | | | |\n| 20 | 20 | Hermann Doctor | | | Bourdon | Saigon | | | | | |\n| 22 | 22 | Hutchison | | | | Singapore | | 55 | 129 | | |\n| 26 | 26 | Coldinghame | | | | | | | | | |\n| | Sept. 12 | Walter | | | | | | | | | |\n| 30 | 30 | Bertha | | | | | | | | | |\n| 3 | 3 | Clan Alpine | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Oregonian | 2,500 | American | | | | | | | |\n| | | Hindostan | | | | | | | | | |\n| 7 | 7 | Kalahome | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | in Care & Jane | | | | | | | | | |\n| 10 | 10 | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Brice | | | | | | | | | |\n| 18 | 18 | Glentora | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Travancore | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 42 | Britisb | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | North-German | | Singapore | | 176 | | | |\n| | | | 997 | North-German | Jensen | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Hutchison | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Dearborn | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Bailey | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | De Smidt | | | | | | |\n| 3 | 3 | | | | | San Francisco | | | | | |\n| | | | 424 | British | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,800 | Fenals | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 764 | BAtish | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 580 | Noth-German | Grave | | | | | | |\n| | | | 4,185 | British | MacMillan | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Macaire | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Edward | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Fastleg | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Whyte | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Thebaud | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | Manila | | 27 | | | |\n| | | Tycho Brahe | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | l'eel | 279 | | Lane | San Francisco | | 130 | | | |\n| | Oct. 2 | United Service | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Gaine | | | | | | |\n| | | | 42 | | Lowe | Melbourne | | 387 | | | |\n| | | Astorquit | | | | Callao | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,0871 | | Belton | | | 150 | | | |\n| 4 | 4 | | 4,852 | American | Freeman | San Francisco | | 518 | | | |\n| | | | | | Baker | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | Singapore | | 31 | | | |\n| 7 | 7 | Arratoon A pear | 988 | British | Gardines | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Pissett | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | De | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Iicoper | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Ilovis | | | | | | |\n| | | | 182 | Spanish | Barredo | Manila | | 170 | | | |\n| | | | | | Miller | | | | | | |\n| 14 | 14 | | | | | Singapore | | 10 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | 129 | | | |\n| 15 | 15 | | 1,700 | French | Boiliere | Saigon | | 137 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | 180 | | | |\n| 20 | 20 | Neva | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | ++ | Russia | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Onate | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Haran | | | | | | |\n| | | | 46 | | | | | 131 | | | |\n| 22 | 22 | Salsatte | | | | | | 52 | | | |\n| | | | British | Tomlin | Singapore | | | 4 | | | |\n| | | | | | Whyic | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | Sydney | | 83 | | | |\n| | | | 1821 | | | | | | | | |\n| 25 | 25 | Clan Alpine | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 04 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 0424 | | Hutchison | | | 34 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | 1? | | | |\n| | | | 51 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Warsaw | | | | | | 104 | | | |\n| | | | | | Su | Francisco | | 183 | | | |\n| 25 | 25 | Hindostan | 991 | | De Smidt | | | 108 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | +3 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Manila | | 83 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Singapore | | 194 | | | |\n| | Nov. 4 | | 62-4 | Russian | | | | 135 | | | |\n| | | | | | Miller | | | | | | |\n| | | | 433 | British | Aitkin | Syüley | | 43 | | | |\n| 6 | 6 | | 1,776 | | Dickson | | | 210 | | | |\n| | | | | | Laker | Singapore | | 136 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Saigon | | 137 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | 6 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Singapore | | 104 | | | |\n| 15 | 15 | | | | De Smidt | | | 130 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Manila | | 15 | | | |\n| | | | | | MacCaslin | | | 157 | | | |\n| | Dec. 1 | Timperly | | | | Singapore | | 141 | | | |\n| | | | | | | San Francisco | | 195 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | 142 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Singapore | | 182 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | 113 | | | |\n| 11 | 11 | | | | Thompson | | | 144 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Singapore | | 145 | | | |\n| 13 | 13 | Greshamn | | | | | | | | | |\n| 8 | 8 | China | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Glenartaey | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Ta Pang Nyu | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | America | | | | | | | | | |\n| 13 | 13 | Donnal | | | | | | | | | |\n| 14 | 14 | Day Dawn | | | | | | | | | |\n| 20 | 20 | Emeu | 965 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 8,886 | American | Bonince | Melbourne | | 406 | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | Warsaw | | | | San Francisco | | 829 | | | |\n| | | Cambodge | 1,682 | Freach | Ketaillo | | | | | | |\n| | | | 1,087 | British | | Saigon | | 81 | | | |\n| | | | | | Bolton | | | 230 | | | |\n| 27 | 27 | | 617 | North-German | Basell | Manila | | 254 | | | |\n| | | | 4,456 | American | Donde | San Francisco | | 1,016 | | | |\n| 29 | 29 | | 1,600 | French | Bourdon | | | 78 | | | |\n| | | | 398 | British | | | | 1,008 | | | |\n| | | | | | Susterence | Sydney | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Esbob | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | Singapore | | 52 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Saigon | | 146 | | | |\n| 27 | 27 | MATS | 679 | American | Bennett | Manila | | 177 | | | |\n| | | | | | Moller | Bangkok | | 147 | | | |\n| 29 | 29 | Chelsea | | | Corkery | Saigon | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Schroot | | | | | | |\n| | | | 904 | British | | Sydney | | 27 | | | |\n| | | | { }{xvish | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Rausser | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Mor | Singapore | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Wood | | | | | | |\n\n## Carried forward\n| | | TOTAL TONS | 167,257 | | | | | | | | |\n| | | TOTAL PASSENGERS | | | | | | 16,208 | | | |\n\n## SUMMARY\n| Place | Total Passengers |\n| --- | --- |\n| From San Francisco | 5,193 |\n| Singapore, Manila, Saigon | 4,434 |\n| ... | 2,109 |\n| ... | 1,570 |\n| ... | 1,196 |\n| ... | 1,091 |\n| ... | 294 |\n| ... | 170 |\n| ... | 122 |\n| ... | 70 |\n| Total | 16,208 |\n\n**Total Tons**: 167,257 \n**Total Passengers**: 16,208 \n\n**Emigration Officer**: H. G. THOMSETT, B...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362542, "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": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "prop\n\nexpended on the Lighthouses and is wiring to continue to pay for their maintenance. The original charge of a cent per ton is more than enough to co all the Colonial expenditure that should legitimately fall on steamers and sla frequenting the Port, and we respectfully submit that any further charge unwarranted and ought not to be levied.\n\nWe bave the honour to request that your Excellency will, before currying i effect the recommendation of the majority of the Unofficial Members of Cound tendered to your Excellency without any consultation with the principal shippe Arms—the persons most interested—to re-impose in another form the special Rock Light Dues, refer this our respectful remonstrance and complaint to f Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n9. If your Excellency should decide to submit the matter for the considerate of the Secretary of State before any change is made we ask your permission- forward copies of this letter to all Chambers of Commerce and to all shippe organisations, and to invite their co-operation with us in representing to Majesty's Government the injustice attending the course your Exceliency counsellors have recommended to you.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient,\n\nhumble Servants,\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. A. RITCHIE,\n\nGovernor. No.\n\nhern 1\n\n1897\n\n19. Jan\n\nLast previous Papers\n\nSuperintendent, P. § 0. S. X. Co. Goo\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,\n\nAgents, Ocean Steam-ship Co., Ed.,\n\nChina Navigation Co., Ld.,\n\nScottish Oriental 8.8. Co., Ld.\n\nG. DE CHAMPEAUX,\n\nAgent, Messageries Maritimes,\n\nMELCHERS & Co.,\n\nAgents, Norddeutscher Lloyd,\n\nD. E. BROWN,\n\nGeneral Agent, Canadian Pacific B. A\n\nJ. S. VAN BUREN,\n\nAyent, Pacific Mail and Occidental &\n\nOriental Steam-ship Co.\n\np. pro DODWELL, CARLILL & ÇË\n\nE. S. WOEALLER,\n\nAgents, Northern Pacific Steam-ship t\n\nShire Line, ogul Steam-ship and Others.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,\n\nAgents, Ben\" Line of Steamers,\n\nEastern & Australiua S.S. Co.,\n\n1 HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.,\n\nAgents, China Mutual Steam Navigat\n\nCờ Li\n\nARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,\n\nAgents, Shell Line, Rickmers Line.\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co..\n\nAgents, Kingsing Line, Se.\n\nSHEWAN TOMES & Co.,\n\nGeneral Managers, China and Manila\n\nS.S. Co., L.d.\n\nAgents. Oregon Bailway and Navigui\n\nCo's Pacific S S. Line.\n\nAgents, Union Line and Others.\n\nGor\n\nđộng trong Hong\n\nNo.\n\n3724\n\n(Subject.)\n\n57 DESPATCH.\n\nHoggings in Victoria Gool 1176\n\nLeuess report\n\n46\n\nT917994\n\nLord Selborne\n\n40.25 JE,\n\nW X5 & L (28)~~75509—18000-11-20\n\n?\n\nAnd\n\nThere\n\non number of\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nThe number of floggings in 1896 was 168\n\nin qo aud\n\nagainst 535\n\nhave however been only\n\nin the latter half of\n\nattention\n\nsysteem.\n\nw\n\nthe\n\nyear,\n\n208 in 1894.\n\nCasts\n\nof flogy unf\n\nie suce\n\ncalled to the abreses of the\n\nIt is satisfactory that refusals to labour have\n\nnot\n\nbeen increased since flozgung\n\nhas been discotund\n\nrefusal has been\n\nach: with expression P.C.M\n\nof satisfaction. 22/2/97\n\nNext subsequent Paperak about the\n\nfor\n\na second\n\n6338, for consideration (PL. 23 hospital accommodation at the prison\n\n97\n\ndraft\n\nabonce\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365310, "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": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "content_text": "101\n\n$\n\nexpenses of maintaining buoys, beacons and lights in and about Hongkong, but that ships and steamers should be taxed in aid of the general Colonial revenue and to relieve the inhabitants from bearing their proper burdens is wholly in disaccord with the character of a Free Port and is, we respectfully submit, opposed to the practice of the leading commercial nations. These buoys, beacons and lights are maintained for the benefit of the Colony and the profit of its inhabitants, and to attract trade and commerce thither, and the inhabitants not only have not borne one cent of the expenses of their construction or maintenance but it is now proposed that they should derive a direct profit from them.\n\n5. We very much doubt if in any highly civilized country has a deliberate attempt ever been made to raise a profit revenue out of Light Dues. They have always been imposed for the express purpose of providing for the construction and maintenance of Lighthouses, Buoys and Beacons and for no other purpose whatsoever. It has happened that in the course of time the precise object for which a light due has been imposed has been lost sight of and that a profit revenue has in fact been derived from it, but so soon as attention has been called to the fact there has been an express disclaimer and a reduction or abolition of the charge. In the Dardanelles and Bosphorus such a discovery was recently made, and the representatives of all the Powers are pressing the Porte for a reduction of the dues to an amount sufficient to cover the expenses. In England a Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade have just reported on the same subject and have unanimously recommended the equalization of all light dues and their diminution to an amount calculated to cover expenses and no more. The strongest representations have been made to the Government to relieve Shipping entirely of this burden and to transfer it to the General Revenue but so far without success; the principle, however, is clearly admitted that the light dues on shipping should not be made a source of profit.\n\n6. We have further to point out to your Excellency that the continuance of these Light Dues as a permanent charge is an injustice to Foreign shipping, and will tend to deter vessels from coming to the port. The Export Trade from the East has for some time past been passing through a period of very great depression. During the greater part of the last twelve months rates from the Straits Settlements averaged from 5/- to 8/- per ton, and from Ceylon about 7/-, and for some descriptions of cargo rates from China and Japan have been as low as 15/-. Interport trade has also been at a very low ebb for some time past and there is no apparent prospect of any improvement in the immediate future. Every item of expenditure has to be closely watched, and a comparatively small difference in the expenditure at a port may determine the course of a vessel's voyage. Steamers coming out to Japan and Shanghai are no longer as formerly compelled to call at Hongkong for coals or stores. The great increases in speed, the diminution in the consumption of coal and greater bunker capacity enable vessels to make the voyage direct to Yokohama or Shanghai without coming into Hongkong. The inducement to call is often very slight. Frequently it is a question, even with a big steamer, of taking in or discharging as little as 100 to 200 tons of cargo. The Light Dues to be paid may make all the difference between a profit and a loss on small quantities of cargo, and may decide the steamer to avoid the port. If she does not call then her expenditure here is entirely lost to the residents, and a permanent injury done to the trade of the Colony.\n\n7. We respectfully protest against this deliberate taxation of shipping frequenting the Port for the benefit of the General Revenue of the Colony. It is entirely opposed to the idea of a Free Port. It is an additional burden with no corresponding advantage whatever upon an already heavily burdened interest. Its tendency is in every doubtful case to drive away from the Port steamers and ships which would otherwise call and necessarily spend money here, by perceptibly increasing their expenses, at a time when every expenditure has to be most minutely considered and weighed. The shipping has already paid more than all the money expended on the Lighthouses and is willing to continue to pay for their proper maintenance. The original charge of a cent per ton is more than enough to cover all the Colonial expenditure that should legitimately fall on steamers and ships frequenting the Port, and we respectfully submit that any further charge is unwarranted and ought not to be levied.\n\n8. We have the honour to request that your Excellency will, before carrying into effect the recommendation of the majority of the Unofficial Members of Council, tendered to your Excellency without any consultation with the principal shipping firms—the persons most interested—to re-impose in another form the special Gap Rock Light Dues, refer this our respectful remonstrance and complaint to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n9. If your Excellency should decide to submit the matter for the consideration of the Secretary of State before any change is made we ask your permission to forward copies of this letter to all Chambers of Commerce and to all shipping organisations, and to invite their co-operation with us in representing to Her Majesty's Government the injustice attending the course your Excellency's counsellors have recommended to you.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\n(Signed)\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient,\n\nhumble Servants,\n\nH. A. RITCHIE,\n\nSuperintendent, P. & O., S. N. Co.\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,\n\nAgents, Ocean Steam-ship Co., Ld., China Navigation Co., Ld, Scottish Oriental S.S. Co., Ld,\n\nG. DE CHAMPEAUX,\n\nAgent, Messageries Maritimes,\n\nMELCHERS & Co.,\n\nAgents, Norddeutscher Lloyd.\n\nD. E. BROWN,\n\nGeneral Agent, Canadian Pacific R. Co.\n\nJ. S. VAN BUREN,\n\nAgent, Pacific Mail and Occidental & Oriental Steam-ship Co.\n\nDODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,\n\nE. S. WHEALLER,\n\nAgents, Northern Pacific Steam-ship Co., Shire Line, Mogul Steam-ship Co., and Others.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,\n\nAgents, \"Ben\" Line of Steamers,\n\nEastern & Australian S.S. Co., Ld.\n\nHOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.,\n\nAgents, China Mutual Steam Navigation Co., Ld.\n\nARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,\n\nAgents, Shell Line, Rickmers Line,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co.,\n\nAgents, Kingsing Line, &c.\n\nSHEWAN TOMES & Co.,\n\nGeneral Managers, China and Manila S.S. Co., Ld.\n\nAgents, Oregon Railway and Navigation Co's Pacific S.S. Line.\n\nAgents, Union Line and Others.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369423, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## \n\notherwise to our case the parallel of crushing blows dealt at the British Empire not seem to extend. The glories of the Naval Review and the gatherings of the Sons of the Empire were still fresh in our minds—yet even then was preparing that bolt from the blue that destroyed the fair fabric the foundation of which our forefathers laid with such stern determination at the cost of so much blood and treasure—wasted, wasted all, by their degenerate and emasculated descendants.\n\nJohn Bull, in his lethargy, had not noted the ever-increasing pack of curs baiting and ringing him in. The French poodle continuously papping money bags about Egypt, the Russian sleuth-hound, with his ostentatious love of peace and of the aforesaid poodle, the German boar-hound, with his suddenly awakened interest in Africa, and equally rapidly evolved affection for the Dutchmen of the Transvaal, and sympathy with their heroic efforts to shake off England's cruel yoke. The Yankee mongrel, with his curious interest in the Venezuela boundary and his perennial love of the pelagic seal.\n\nAll those things, I say, had conveyed nothing to the sluggish mind of John Bull; he had suddenly awakened for a few years, created a great navy (not adequate for his needs), had serious thoughts and even made some slight efforts at fortifying and garrisoning his bases, then came the Jubilee and a burst of self-gratulation. Everything had gone well. Everything would continue to go well. True, the Belgian and the German were cutting in uncomfortably into his trade, but things would right themselves, and he turned over for what he fondly hoped would be another forty years' snooze. It did not last four months, and the awakening was rude.\n\nWe in Hongkong got the first shake. Let me see you left Victoria in the `Petrel` at the end of August, or was it in the beginning of September 1897? You were very near the beginning of the end. On Thursday, the 23rd September 1897, the English mail left Hongkong (for the last time as it proved)—the `Rohilla` (Capt. Cole)—at noon. Everything was as usual; business was improving consequent on a slight appreciation of the now obsolete dollar, then standing at 1/10. The weather was thick and rainy, as indeed it had been the whole year.\n\nThe `Rohilla` must have passed within sight of the enemy's fleet about 4 p.m., but whether she did and was deliberately allowed to pass without molestation, or whether she slipped past without being seen, was never known; at any rate, the `Rohilla` made no report of an alarming nature on arrival at Singapore on the 28th. Doubtless the transports kept well to the westward, coming from Saigon.\n\nMr. Shiverly, the British Consul at Saigon (where we were only represented by a merchant in business), had made no representations of a disquieting nature. For many weeks past our communications with Saigon had practically ceased, having been confined to the Messageries Steamers, Marty's vessels, and two German tramps, the `Mathilde` and `Sabina Rickmers`, both of which vessels were commanded by men of the name of Berg.\n\nAbout sunset on the 23rd, after a heavy thunderstorm lasting nearly an hour, the sky had cleared over Hongkong and Lama, and a few stars peeped out after dark, though the clouds were still heavily banked to the south and westward. On this evening it chanced that Messrs. Menges and Hazeland, two Colonial Officers, had gone round in the `Lum On`, the Aberdeen ferry-launch, to that place, where they had hired a sampan to go fishing for rock cod off the S.E. end of Apichau Island. They had not long been anchored to the eastward of the Assistance Rock, when to their astonishment they made out the loom of a large vessel coming up slowly from the southward past the east end of Lana Island—showing no lights. At this time, it was about 10 p.m., two other ships were observed following the first in line ahead. The three ships...\n\n## Page 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386893, "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": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "content_text": "## Commercial: the Native Customs.\n\nForces available for war and military movements. They have also a service of police for home work, composed of members of the ordinary population, who when on service status as soldiers but resume their civil character on withdrawing. These are called and renewed at regular intervals so as to equalize the incidence of the burden. Some such system must be adopted if it be desired to establish the country in strength.\n\nNow there are at present in Kuang-tung Province some 47,000 disciplined troops enrolled under the old standing army (Lu Ying, or Army of the Green Standard) for the upkeep of which costs about 2,150,000 taels. Any considerable addition to these forces would require very heavy additions to expenditure for which the Treasury is unable to pay. There are in addition 37,000 Braves.\n\nThe work of the Native Customs at Canton is now under the supervision of the Imperial Maritime Customs, and matters appear to be working smoothly, although the whole of the system and administration has not yet completely come under the control of the foreign staff, who are not at present sufficient to cope with the outdoor work of examination, &c. This is still carried on by the Hoppo's old staff, and though it is nominally under the control of the foreign staff, there has not been time to develop a satisfactory system of checks upon malpractices, which doubtless continue to exist.\n\nThe Tariff is gradually being assimilated to that of the Foreign Customs, and the result has been that many kinds of cargo formerly carried to and from Hong Kong in junks are now shipped by steamer. The import duties are the same for either way of shipment, and the steamers can in many cases offer better terms as regards freight. Waste silk and matting are the two principal exports thus affected.\n\n## Visit of Colonel Dessino to Canton.\n\nColonel Dessino, a Russian military officer, holding rank as Colonel de l'État Major, paid a visit to Canton at the end of February. He called upon the Governor and Tartar General, and for this purpose described himself as \"Imperial Russian Commercial Commissioner for Kuang-tung.\" The object of his mission was, he said, to see what possible opening there might be for Russian commerce, hitherto non-existent in this Province.\n\n## The Kerosene Oil Trade.\n\nMessrs. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co., agents for the Shell Transport and Trading Co., are now importing on their account large quantities of kerosene oil in bulk, which comes from Hongkong in a tank steamer, the \"Sabine Rickmers,\" and is made up in tins in Canton.\n\nSome anxiety is felt as regards trade prospects for this year; the customary rains have not yet fallen and it has been found impossible to plant the rice in many places where irrigation cannot be carried on. Fortunately, this is possible in most parts of the Delta, but in the west and north of the province, there are many districts which depend for water supply solely upon the rainfall, and anything approaching a rice famine would have a most serious effect upon the trade.\n\n## West River Steamers.\n\nIt is satisfactory to be able to record that the West River steamers \"Nanning\" and \"Sainam,\" which have been running at a loss ever since they were put on the river, made a profit of about 700 dollars as the result of their running during March. The improvement has been entirely on account of cargo.\n\n## Health of the Port.\n\nCholera has been very prevalent among the Chinese during the past two months, and many deaths have been reported. Matters have now improved considerably. The foreign community have suffered heavily, there having been six deaths among them from this disease, and two more from acute dysentery with choleraic symptoms.\n\n## Army Reform (Confidential).\n\nAs a result of the instructions issued in October last from the Central Government respecting changes in the army, the Board of Reorganization and the Military Bureau have jointly made report to the Viceroy submitting certain proposals for the application of the new scheme to the forces of Kuang-tung Province. The following is the substance of their Report:-\n\nWe would point out with reference to this subject that in the organization of foreign armies there are two chief divisions, the standing army and the reserve—these constitute the forces available for war and military movements.\n\nOn the other hand, if matters are allowed to continue in the present way, we shall become increasingly helpless. All we can do, under present financial conditions, is to remove from the army all useless persons, reform the discipline, and proceed to the energetic training and drilling of the forces now at our disposal. When, by these means, morale has been raised and a new organization introduced, it will be possible to remove time-honoured abuses and malpractices.\n\nAfter exhaustive inquiries and lengthy discussion with a view to the military requirements of Kuang-tung Province, we now have the honour to submit the following proposals:-\n\nThere should first be formed in Canton city a corps of infantry, one of artillery, and one of engineers, to be posted at various stations and continue their training there. These should constitute the nucleus of the new permanent force or standing army, should number 10,000 men, and be placed under the leadership of the Provincial General, who should remain in quarters with them. They should be divided as follows:-\n\n| Branch | Companies | Men |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Infantry | 12 | ... |\n| Artillery | 3 | 344 |\n| Engineers | 2 | ... |\n\nThe yearly expenses for such a force would be 430,000 taels.\n\nA separate force of 15,000 men should be trained to form a reserve in six main divisions, to be posted in detachments on the East, West, and North Rivers, and at the border stations of Chiu Chou, Lien Chou, and at Kao Chou and Ch'iung Chou. This force would cost yearly about 1,300,000 taels, and would be under the direction of the present military authorities at the places where they are stationed.\n\nFor the command of these two corps, careful choice should be made among those members of the present forces who have some knowledge of the use of fire-arms and artillery. The selection should first be made from the Li Ying or Army of the Green Standard, and if that source is insufficient, officers can be borrowed from the Kiangnan Chiang Brigade or Yüan Shih K'ai's standing army. Students from the Hunan Chün Academy can be brought to Canton to establish colleges attached to the various camps, so that the officers can from time to time take up courses of study.\n\nA separate Pay Department should be instituted, so that the officers can devote themselves solely to the training of the forces, and not have their attention diverted by other matters.\n\nThe duty of the police force would, of course, be to see to the preservation of order. The Green Standard Army, rid of its worthless and decrepit members, can be converted into such a force, which would number probably about 12,000 men.\n\nWe would beg your Excellency to submit these proposals to the Throne by memorial, and also to consult with the Tartar General respecting the question of whether the Banner Forces should be trained as a separate force or incorporated in the army.\n\nThe above plan is intended to be carried out in conjunction with the reduction by 20 per cent. of the provincial forces and Braves, as ordered by Imperial Decree last year, and with the disbanding of the Irregulars specially enlisted in 1900.\n\nM. Mandi and Count von Butler, agents for Messrs. Krupp and Sons, paid a prolonged visit to Canton during February. So far as can be ascertained, they have not succeeded in securing any contracts for the supply of arms.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442716, "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": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "## STEAMERS IN HARBOUR\n\nAsamu, Japanese str., 3,912, K. Sairadzu, Bottle, via Japan and Shanghai March 13. Misui and General-Nippon Yusen Kaisha.\n\nBaron Napier, British steamer, H,159, B4 Tudy, Barry dan, B1, Cosl→ Order.\n\nBearna, British steamer, 9,123, 4. Woh fer, Maji Maren 13. Vuk— Gihe, Livingston & Co.\n\nCapri, Italian steamer, 4,200, A. De Amezage, Moji Mse. 13, Caseral....... Carinwitz Co.\n\nDaigi Maru, Japanese str., $16, Y. Smackaan, Tamsui, via day and Swatow Var. 15, Geveral. -0,9.K.\n\nDilwara, British str., 3,480, 0, N. Tamage, R.N.K, Csicut and Sugapore March 11, General. — David Sacova & Co., Lt\n\nEiger, Norwegian str., 875, E. Pingni se luy March 10, Brans Chinese.\n\nEmpress of India, British str., 5.910, 8. J. Hailey, Vancouver, 110, Rel 21, and Shanghai Maro H, Maila General. P. R. and Q. Fejor, Norwegian str., 891, Oli Andersen, Bangkok Muz. ¿, Rion- Neguand, Theoisen & On\n\nHatch, British str., 3.235 0. Hooker, Tientsin March 5, General, -Butterfield and Swire.\n\nIchwng, British steamer, 1,228, W. E. Jones, Swatow March 13, BuBart. Butterfield and wire.\n\nKwang Tah, Chinese str., 1,598, C. Stewart, Shanghai Mar, 11, General. C, M. B. N. Co.\n\nLieksan, German steamer, 1,908, W. Trabert, Nangkok and Svatom Mar. 14, Rice and Timber. Buttericid and Swire.\n\nMexican Prince, British str., 1,963, J. C. Yoang, Singapore Mar. 10, Ruik! O-Aatarie Petroleum C\n\nMongolin, American str., 1,780, Emery Rice. Sa Banco Feb. 15, via Handulu 22, Yokohama Marel 7, Kobe 9, Bagnenki 10, und Manila 17, Baile and General-F.M.S.8.2. C%\n\nPemprob, British steamer, 1,005. Jay. G. Scott, Saigon Mar. 15, Rice and General-Chinese.\n\nPha-yen, French steamer, 1218. 1. Bibante Lagesse, Saigon! March 18, Re-- Brudley & Co.\n\nPangtong, German steamer, 307, W. Boteft. Bangkok March 8, Blon and \"Tinata\" — Bukturfield and Swire.\n\nPrinzes Alice, German str., 6,829, L.. Frauck. Hainburg February B'pore Mar. 5, Mails and Geboral.-- Meloners and Ca\n\nPrinz Waimar, German str., 1,737, H. Bremer, Yokohama March 13 General-Metabers sad Co.\n\nBamsen, German str., 293, R. Petersen Bangkok March 4, Rice. --Bettar field and Swire.\n\nPandard, Norwegian str., 1,461. Bail, Bangkot Mar. 11, Rie-Chinese.\n\nTorila, British str., 3,159, 0.3, Swan-sou, kolama Marol 2, General Rudal, David Sal\n\nAjimai, Dutch stourer, 3,615, Ho Schurrateck, Muntah March 13, General---Java-tihion-Japan Lija.\n\nUtv, Norwegian str., 885, J. Pederssa. Hangkok Mar. 10, Rien-Anguard, Thoresen & Co.\n\nVary, Norwegian steamer, 374, 0 Rasausen, Boogey March 19. Cost isradley & C\n\nWiegand, Curas str., 201, B. Abreu « Caroline Lindy Mar. 10,--Melchers an: Chu\n\nYaogs, British steamer, 4.109, 0. Retway, Shanglist Mar. 15, Gener al-Butterfield and Swinn,\n\nYne sarg, British str., (,128, P. H. Rolle, Manila Mar, 13, Sagar wod General Jariae, Mathesna and Ob T.\n\nYoshow, British str., 1,308, 3. Boyd, Chinking March 14. General. –—–—– Butterfiell ami Swite.\n\n## Don't Grumble ABOUT THE HARD TIME\n\nMake the most of A GOOD OPPORTUNITY AND ADVERTISE IN THE CHINA OUTLOOK\n\nSared Advice, really\n\n## THE CHINA DAILY OUTLOOK, MONDAY, MARCH 21th, 1918.\n\n## STEAMERS EXPECTED\n\nYUEN CHEONG WING KEE & CO., \n\n### ABERMAN MATE\n\n| Steamer | Line | Leaves | Arrives | Ports |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Nippon Maru | T.K.K. | 21st February | 11th March | Sauraicises for thongkong via uzual porte |\n| Tenyo Mars | T.K.K. | 1st March | 28th March | San Pria-cise for Hungang via usust porta |\n| Eastern | E. & A. | 14th March | 6th April | Sydney for this port (via Queens'auri Pirts, Pare Darwin, Thor and Manila) |\n| Buye Mara | T.E.K. | 14th February | 20th March | Callao for Satins Oroz |\n| Glenlochy | | 18th February | | Bues Cavel for Hungg pis Straits |\n| Karengs | A. & M. L | 25th February | 28th March | Seet Caul |\n| Japan | S.E A. | 26th February | 24th March | Port Said |\n| Wakon | P. and O. | 17, 3 | 24th March | Biugspute, for thia pork |\n| Nore | P. and D. | 18th March | 24th March | Singapore for this prout |\n| Orterin | Barb Line | 21st March | 28th March | Moji |\n| Lothian | M.L | | | United Kingdon for the Fur Best via the Straits |\n\n## Steamers Passed Suez Canal\n\n| Date | Steamer |\n| --- | --- |\n| January 28 | Bensider, Calabaz Erness Sitaon, Indiamoiha, Peiha P. E. Friedrick, Welch Prince, Aleria |\n| 31 | Denatghshin, Kamo Maru, Kitano Maru, Kleist, Nera, Ningchow, Sachsen, Egremont Casale |\n| February 4 | Idomeneos, Laertes, Elleric |\n| 7 | Kemu, Nyanza, Pelens, Dem. darus, Sumatra |\n| 9 | Delayed through Mutilation, Dea of Garaiz, Anxanne |\n\n## Swatow Drawn-work Manufacturer\n\nWHOLESALE & RETAIL, LARGR SE) KOTIONS 2o Dɛawn-work Exeunibery, Masparis Cove, ASL-K 4. (YOK SIEN ST. SWATO\".) 37, Queen's Road C. Hongkong.\n\n## WHY WALK WHEN THE EXILE GARAGE Is as the Old Stan\n\n17 Non. 83 & 55,, Des Vœux Boyo Cera for bire, day or night; lowest rates. ALL KINDS OF REPANG DONK Phone 1.090 Mr. Lai Ju Tsun\n\n## DENTAL SURGEON\n\nNo. 2, D'ACMILAR STREST. HONGKONG. ON WO & CO., LTD.\n\n## GOLD & SILVER JEWELLERY Made to Onter.\n\nPik Foods, Chinese Erabrostery, and Grans Cloth, Silk and Linen Dress Pieres. Pracy and Twivatones Chris 37, QUEENS ROAD CENTRAL\n\n## SING ON & CO.\n\nIron, Steel, Metal and Hardware Merchants, Whelanie nad · Beseit Trotegera Big Trow and Wun dry Joke imgories County Storekeepers auit shipoladlem. 35 Rud 57, Hingevog Street 42nd Street West of Curral Market) Telephone Nor\n\n## A FONG, \n\nSin THE LEADING it, Benary. Brusilia, Ghaxes, In-draci, Nipyse, Seandia, Schuylkill, Yorck, Swazi.\n\n## ARRIVALS AT HOME\n\n| Date | Steamer |\n| --- | --- |\n| Feb. 28 | Prios Ludwing, Nelaus, Goon |\n\n## PRINTING FOR FIRMS and PROPLE WHO ARE FASTINOUS.. LET US OVER YOU AN RAPIMATE FOR YOUN VISITING CARDS... LETTER-HEADS,.. BALL PROGRAMMES, BOOKLETS, B.\n\nThe \"OUTLOOK\" Press\n\n## NOTICE TO READERS\n\nThe \"CHINA Outcox\" is sold at five cents a copy by newsboys and at the various bookstalls in Hongkong and Kowloon.\n\nThe rates of Sanscription are:- 33.0 per quarter, Pastam $1.25 de If subscriptions are not prepaid, the ates will he 21.00 81.50 per quarter per month\n\nThe Editorial ant trasiness offices the \"CHINA OUTLOOK\" is st No. Des Voeux Rewi Crutral.\n\n## PHOTOGRAPIERS\n\nNos, 47, 48 and 49. CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, PROVISION MERCHANT COAL MERCHANTS, Ée, e., OF 50 YEARS STANDING SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE USA TRIAL\n\nFRANCISCO THE YAT. General Manages, Hongkong, Decmber 37th 1911.\n\n## HONGKONG TO MACAC.\n\nSpeed. Safety and Punctuality. The Fast, New Twin Screw Steamer 8. 2. \"ON LEE.\" OPTAIN . C. EVERETT\n\nLeaves Hongkong every Sunday, at 9 a.m. Returns from Macao every Sunday, at 5p.m. First Class Return $2.00. Single $1,20. Special Free Cabin Reserved for Ladies.\n\n9. s. \"HING LEE CAPT, HUDSON, learos daily at 3 s.m. returning 2 p.. The Kwong Hip SZE YAP S.5. Co. Lung Co., Ltd. (NOW RECONSTRUCTED\n\n### ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Boiler Makers, Brass and von Foundery | All work done in this lielut is guaramund |\n| Town Office | 19, Connaughs Build, Hongkong. Shipyat, Sha-Sai-Po, Kawless, Hongkong. |\n| Telephone No. | 463 Telephone No. K9 |\n\n## KWONGTUNG YURM-HAN RAILWAY CO., TIME TABLE\n\n| TRAIN | Dept. | TRAIN | Dept. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Mixed Train | 7.00 | Goods Train | 3.00 |\n| Passenger | 10.00 | | |\n| Mixed | 12,00 | | |\n| | 16.00 | | |\n\n## LEE FEE HAIR DRESSING SALOON\n\nElectric Facial Massege with Mange Cream, Performed by ex perienced hands. Novels, Magazines, Ladies! My-shion Books Cigas, Cigarettes ned Toet Reisites for Šaje. 12. D'Aguilar Street\n\n## THE FAMINE IN CHINA\n\n### LOCAL NOTICE\n\nEIGHT FAMINE DIS-TRICTS with an area of 30,000 square miles Two and a half relion people facing starvation PLEASE SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO-DAY IT WILL HELP TO SAVE LIVES\n\nH. C. GELLAND, Esq., Trenure: INTERNATIONAL HANKING CORPORATION Hongkong or Shanghai,\n\n## GET THE BEST ON EARTH BY PATRONIZING The Turco Egyptian Tobacco Store\n\nCORNER QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL AND PEDDER STABET 40 Pest Olice Building, HONGKONG\n\n## THE CHINA DAILY OUTLOOK,, MONDAY, MAR ja ir, 1913.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICE.\n\n### THE CHINESE NATIONAL RAILWAF CORPORATION NOTICE\n\nIn pursuance of a Mandate issued by the President of the Chinese Republic, authorizing us to plan and construct the whole system of Railways in China, we have established our Head Offee at 36. Canton Road, Shanghai, to which place ali jetters relating to business should be seut.\n\nTelephone No. 3648. SEN YAT SEN, Cable Address: \"Sinorail.\" A.B.O. Western Union Codes. Shanghai, Decem or 1, 1912.\n\n## POST OFFICE HOURS\n\nGand Friday, the 21st, Saturday the 2-mil, and Faster Monday, the 24th indout, bung General Holidays, the Post One will be upen se follows \n\n| Day | Hours |\n| --- | --- |\n| Good Friday | 8 zelf. Yu. |\n| Sananday | 8 til 9 nusu. |\n| Easter Wonday | 8 tili il sun, |\n\nThere will be on delivery of lusters and s moliverion of letters from the Pillar Boxes on each day, \n\nThe Money Order Office will be qutively closed dung the Holidays.\n\n## MAILS\n\n### SUMBANG\n\nSwator, Amoy and Fuchow \n\n### HAITAN\n\nSAIGON, STRAITH, CHYLON, ADELAIDER, Weepers,” ALALI, IXnia, Apex, Eover and ErxOPK via MARSEILLE (Lam Lenore 12.00 to Noon. Esir» Postage 10 cents)\n\n### NERA\n\nLetters Tuesday, 20th, 11.0 pr. Taesisy, 45tă,\n\n### PARCEL POST\n\nThe Parcel it will be clues on Friday ¦ ¦ the 24th but.. » p.m.\n\n## STEAMERS ARRIVED\n\n### March 20\n\n| Steamer | Nationality | Tonnage | Captain | From | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Bilintar | British | 4,760 | D. Castill | Sostile via Moji Fe. 3 | Flour, Fish and Frait |\n| La Yusbau | Chinese | 1,079 | A. B. Balow | Tirani vin Chefon Mar. 14 | Gaunal |\n| Ch. Kjeld | Norwegian | 2,304 | T. Helleso | Saigon Mar.al | Chinese |\n| R. T. Eleric | British | 615 | C. Henry | Dan's Line, La Ffaipong Maco 1 | Gouecal |\n| Britz | Norwegian | 650 | J. Folkota | Bangkok | Order |\n| Mmuch | Durch str. | 2,888 | A. L. Rung | Balik Papas Mar. 13 | Sapar súð General |\n| T. H. Licha | | | | Chit kiang Mai. 13 | General |\n| Katsg | British | 4,899 | R. C. D. | | |\n| Wigsung | Chinese | 1,414 | | | |\n| Bradley | | | | Moji March 14 | Coal and General |\n| Taishan | Chinese | 1,216 | R.G. | | General |\n| Paramore | | | | Siscgbai | |\n| Nang | British | 1,741 | N. G. Major | Saigon March 17 | Rice |\n| Rajah | German | 1.375 | Rostetekty adakna | March 18 | Gevarni |\n| Boya Mara | Japanese | 3,242 | Maji Mar. 1 | | Col and General |\n| Helene | German | 771 | J. Jessen | Therane Mar. 18 | Gegersd |\n| Montrose | British | 4,886 | Reid | Singapore | General |\n| Kwangtal | Chinese | | | Canton | |\n| Elgar | Norwegian | | | Canton | |\n| Sabine Rickmers | Quich | | | Canton | |\n\n### March 22\n\n| Steamer | Nationality | Tonnage | Captain | From | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Engenfrok | British | 3,140 | T.A. | | |\n| Mitesult | | | | Calcuts March 5, and Singapore 15 | Geuerul |\n| Haiwun | British | 41 | W. J. Evans | Swator May, 21 | Ocneral |\n| Kwongsang | British | 1,425 | W. F. Bichard | Swatow Mas, 20 | General |\n| Glenlochy | British | 2,997 | | Straits Feb. 2 | General |\n| Barsen | German | 1,344 | Fe. | Sembill, Sembakan idar. 17 | Timber |\n| Tenuguehar | British | 2,297 | Krude | Karniku March 18 | Beans |\n| Colomin Maru | Japanese | 2,919 | N. Kawahine | Maji Mareh. 15 | General |\n| Chewnyn | British | | | auta | |\n\n## STEAMERS DEPARTED\n\n### March 21\n\n| Steamer | Destination |\n| --- | --- |\n| Prinzes Alice | 'hai sun Y'sma |\n| Tokai Maru | Nagsaski |\n| Fitsu | Japan and Vancouver |\n| Halvard | Bengku |\n| Michael Jelzen | Amoy and S'pore |\n| Ulz | Bangkok |\n| Dagny | Saigon |\n| Targ | Cantou |\n| Ghaze | Shanghai and Yokobama |\n| Tjitarom | Yokogawa |\n| Derwent | Saigon |\n| Haiching | Swaton and Facebow |\n\n### March 22\n\n| Steamer | Destination |\n| --- | --- |\n| Prinz Waldemar | Manila and Sydney |\n| Torilla | Singapore nad Calcutts |\n| Landrat Suheif | Swatow and B'kok |\n\n## COMMERCIAL BANK EXCHANGE\n\n| Currency | Telegraphic Transfer | On Demand |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| On Landes | | 4/22 |\n| Bank Rili | | 243 |\n| On Gorica | | |\n| On New York | | 7,8, Cexto....40 |\n| On Ceilin | Rupees 1454 | |\n| On Shanghai | | Bak, at sight Tusi- |\n| On Vokchania | | 94 Boverwin. Bank's Susing Ruth |\n\n## TEA\n\n| | Price |\n| --- | --- |\n| $10.88 | $4.20 |\n| Chinese .23 cool pieces... | disesuet USINGER......10 Flongkong. Se |\n| Hongkong...10 | ...$0.99 |\n| | ...34.00 |\n| | ...18.50 |\n\n## PORT WINES.\n\nFrom the oldest and most reliable Oporto HousOS I Messrs Guimarause & Co.\n\n## GANDE, TELEPHONE No. 135\n\nPRICE & CO., LTD. 12. Qu.en's Road entlar, Mongkuog", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458484, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "I.\n\nChina Import, Export & Bank Co.\n\nHead Office Hamburg.\n\nThree valuable Agencies.\n\nDyes. Meister, Lucius & Bruning.\n\nSwiss Watches, and Dutch Margarine.\n\nAll consigned free.\n\nDyes were distributed by up-country Agents on a fixed salary.\n\nThe Manufacturers also sent out a trained man to look after their interests.\n\nOne Agent $289,000 outstanding, $35,000 security.\n\nAnother Agent $62,000 outstanding. No security whatever.\n\nOld-fashioned methods. No abstracts kept. Salaries very small. Staff on a commission basis.\n\nManager $195 per mensem.\n\nChief Assistant $183.\n\nJunior $150 plus commission.\n\nProfit for last six months before the war - $22,000.\n\nFred. Bozzemann & Co.\n\nHead Office Saltau.\n\nA very wealthy Firm, who financed all their own business.\n\nAffairs in a satisfactory state with a large balance in hand.\n\nAgents for the Rickmers line of steamers.\n\nExports. A very large further business carried on with the United States, all drawn against Bankers' confirmed letters of credit in London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458617, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 178, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "1+\n\nJuspl\n\nC\n\nTeean\n\nToid\n\nt\n\nmultidonggo uasă ŋ'\n\npizza biela\n\n- N\n\ne julensoną kegri vesetsuril:\n\nDumadą, ani) isabush. Mabuar\n\ntook 15 zajuda a na\n\n++. \n\nand general storekeepers. Their stock is now being gradually disposed of by the liquidators as opportunity offers.\n\nThis is not unnaturally much resented by the British shiphandling firms. Blackhead's firm own considerable property in Hongkong, which the liquidators are not permitted to deal with.\n\nBerblinger & Co. Shipchandlers, stock was disposed of very shortly by the liquidators to the Java, China & Japan Line.\n\nLodiker & Co. were Commission Agents on a large scale and did a very good business. They were largely interested in West Africa and consequently are unlikely to be able to resume business after the war.\n\nLornemann & Co. a very good firm with command of considerable capital. Their stocks were considerable at the outbreak of the war and are now being gradually cleared off.\n\nThey were agents for the Rickmers Line, which was in opposition to the Conference.\n\nAt the outbreak of the war an Englishman in their employment, Mr. F. Taylor, advertised himself as a Commission Agent, no doubt with a view to carrying on the firm's business. He was warned by the Hongkong Government and did not proceed further.\n\nIt is reported that the firm is now trying to establish a business in Canton under a Chinese name.\n\nJume & Reif. This firm was placed in the hands of Messrs. Gibb Livingston & Co. as liquidators. Mr. Jume Austrian subject. Mr. Reif however, has British subject for some 20 years and is now carrying on business as Bradford, Abung, Freight, broker.\n\nbreak of the war and ar", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 618, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "The Chinese firms in Bangkok act as the compradores of the European houses, and the distribution of imported goods is in their hands. These articles are either obtained from their Chinese agents at Singapore—who purchase from the European houses at that port—or direct from the foreign merchants at Bangkok. The question of whether the goods are bought in Singapore or Bangkok is determined by the closeness of the ties with Singapore. Those Chinese firms which are large shippers of produce to Singapore usually receive shipments of manufactured goods in exchange. It should also be noted that Singapore is a large market where stocks are always held of the staple articles of import, and where parcels of goods can frequently be obtained at reduced prices.\n\nThe Shipping Situation. The history of the shipping services with Bangkok is a remarkable record of German pertinacity coupled with mismanagement. Towards the end of the \"eighties,\" a service of Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co.'s (Blue Funnel Line) steamers was established between Singapore and Bangkok, while the Scottish Oriental Co., Ltd., operated a regular line between Hong Kong and South China ports and Bangkok. These two British lines for some years almost monopolised the carrying trade, and in 1897, the British share was 74 per cent., and the German proportion amounted to 8 per cent. The visit of the King of Siam to Europe in that year brought the country into prominence at a time when the Norddeutscher Lloyd was in search of means to establish local branch services to feed its through lines of steamers. Negotiations were commenced, which resulted in the purchase of both lines; the Germans paid very high prices in order to obtain a position which would enable them to secure the trade, and obtained a guarantee from the vendor companies that they would not compete for a long term of years.\n\nThere remained, however, a few British and Norwegian tramp steamers, and in the somewhat drastic efforts they made to exclude these outside vessels, the German company so exasperated the rice shippers that they adopted the practice of shipping to Europe and elsewhere direct by chartered vessels. Further competition was received from a second German company, the Rickmers Line, from the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and from the East Asiatic Company's steamers. Violent freight wars resulted, followed by compromise, and the Norddeutscher Lloyd were neither able to secure a monopoly of the through trade nor were they even in a position to make the line pay. In 1913-14, the share of each of the four leading countries in the carrying trade was as follows:\n\n \n Germany\n 32.4 per cent.\n \n \n Norway\n 29.9 per cent.\n \n \n The United Kingdom\n 22.5 per cent.\n \n \n Siam\n 6 per cent.\n \n\nWhile from the point of view of the Norddeutscher Lloyd dividends, the regular service has not been a success, there is no doubt whatever that it has conduced to a considerable increase of the local German merchants' share in the trade of Siam, particularly in imports, and to an extension of German mercantile activity in the kingdom. It is extremely likely, although no proof exists, that in view of these advantages, a subsidy was granted by the Imperial German Government to cover the losses sustained by the company. The fact remains that the local German firms have made unscrupulous use of their shipping facilities to coerce business into their hands, and it is highly desirable that the German line should not be allowed to retain the virtual monopoly of the traffic between Singapore and Bangkok after the war.\n\nMessrs. Alfred Holt & Company have decided to re-enter the trade, and specially constructed steamers for the run are being built at Hong Kong. It is hoped that Messrs. Butterfield & Swire will see their way to maintain the service between Bangkok and South China ports after the war. They were largely interested in the old Scottish Oriental Line and sold their fleet to the German company on the understanding that they should hold the German agency in Hong Kong, which they did until the outbreak of war.\n\nThe situation now is completely changed, and British interests require that this line should be under the British flag.\n\nPage 33\n\nCustoms Tariff. The Siamese Customs Tariff was determined by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of Commerce of 1855 and remains in force today. The import tariff is remarkably simple: Beer, 5 per cent. ad valorem; wines, 5 per cent. ad valorem; spirits, 2 ticals (approximately 3s.) per gallon (with a small surcharge on higher strengths); all other goods, 3 per cent. ad valorem. The export tariff contains rather more items, but all duties are low, and of the two principal exports, teak wood is exported free, and rice pays an export duty of 4 or 2 ticals per coyan according to its class, i.e., approximately 4s. 6d. and 2s. 3d. per ton. The rise in the price of rice has very much lowered the incidence of the duty since the days when the specific rate was fixed, but until recently, no change could be made in the tariff without treaty revision.\n\nBy the terms of the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, the former treaty provisions regarding Customs duties have been abrogated, and it is likely that the Siamese Government will slightly raise the duties to provide income from Customs sources sufficient to justify the abolition of other sources of revenue which press unduly on the people. As the increases are not likely to be great, and as all nations will be treated alike, such revisions of the tariff need not affect British trade in the slightest.\n\nCurrency.—Up to November 1902, the currency of Siam was on a purely silver basis, and the exchange value of its unit, the tical, was subject to the fluctuations of the silver market. From that date, the Siamese Government closed the Mint to the free coinage of ticals against deliveries of silver and announced that it would, for the future, issue them only against gold at a price fixed at one shilling, or 20 ticals to the pound sterling. This has been raised by successive stages until it now stands at its final figure of 1s. 6¾d., or 13 ticals to the pound. Notes are issued by the Government Treasury, of which the circulation amounted on March 31st, 1908, to 14,796,010 ticals. This was secured by a general cash reserve, entirely distinct from the general Treasury funds, amounting to 9,003,474 ticals; the balance, representing 39 per cent. of the notes in circulation, being invested in Consols and other Government stocks. The law allows for the investment of 50 per cent. of the reserve, but the percentage actually invested is always a lower one, to provide a sufficient margin for fluctuations.\n\nFinancial Facilities. Branches of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine are established in Bangkok. In addition, the Siam Commercial Bank, Ltd., was formed under Royal Charter in 1906 to conduct ordinary banking business on European lines. This bank maintains a European department under the control of an official whose services are lent by the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank, with which corporation the Siam Commercial Bank is very closely connected. This institution, however, has not been a great success. Financial facilities in Bangkok are quite adequate to the requirements of British traders. In most commercial transactions, the finance is either arranged by their head offices in London, or the goods are sent out on consignment, and remittances are made by telegraphic transfer when the goods are sold. The British houses are mostly old-established firms with ample financial resources and high financial standing, and they are usually able to secure an overdraft—either clean or with collateral—in cases where special facilities are required.\n\nLegal Rights of Europeans. Prior to the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, British and other foreign residents in Siam enjoyed the privileges of extra-territoriality and were subject only to the jurisdiction of their own consular and judicial officers. By this treaty, however, in return for territorial acquisitions in the Malay Peninsula, Great Britain abolished her courts in Siam and placed both her European and Asiatic subjects, with certain safeguards for their just treatment, under the laws of the country and the jurisdiction of the Siamese courts. In point of fact, British subjects are under the jurisdiction of international courts, in which Siamese judges sit to administer Siamese law with the assistance of a British adviser, who automatically becomes a judge with powers equal to those of his colleagues when the British subject to be tried is a European. A British consular official watches the trials of all British subjects and has the power to intervene in the case and even to stop it and try it himself if it appears to him that a miscarriage of justice is occurring. This somewhat complicated system will probably be modified in the near future in the direction of a more complete subjection of all British subjects to Siamese jurisdiction.\n\nBritish Activity and Influence—British activity and influence in Siam may be divided into two spheres:—\n\n(a) The Official Sphere, where, in the capacity of advisers and administrators to His Siamese Majesty's Government, British officials are contributing largely to the success of that programme of State reform and development, inaugurated under the beneficent rule of the late King Chulalonkorn and actively fostered by the present monarch; and\n\n(b) The Mercantile Sphere, where the sound, old-established British trading houses have controlled the bulk of the foreign commerce of the kingdom since the first days of regulated intercourse under treaty in the fifties.\n\nF2087\n\nE\n\n613", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469746, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 620, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "36\n\ndistributed throughout the country, and by the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., for the distribution of kerosene and liquid fuel. Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd., have a departmental store in Bangkok.\n\nThe total number of British subjects in Siam has been estimated at not less than 10,000, of which the great majority are Straits Chinese. The number of British-born subjects is approximately 1,000, including the official and business communities and the missionaries.\n\nGerman Activity and Influence.-German activity and influence in Siam is of comparatively recent growth, but has become increasingly felt of late years, and before the war was second only to the British, German enterprise and initiative is manifested in three distinct spheres, in each of which the efforts of her agents have been directed towards the national aim of extending Germany's political and economic interest in the country. The three main German spheres of activity are:-\n\n(a) The Official Sphere, where, in the capacity of advisers and administrators of the Government railways and the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, German officials have been able to wield considerable influence.\n\n(b) The Mercantile Sphere. The German firms in Bangkok entered the field 10 many years after their British rivals, but during the past years their competition has been increasingly felt, particularly in the import trade.\n\n(c) The Shipping Sphere. German activity under this head has already been referred to. Their shipping policy has been a deliberately selfish one, with the sole aim of securing for their nationals the greater portion of the import business, even at the expense of shipping dividends.\n\nThe German control of the Siamese State Railways dates from the award of the contract for the Bangkok-Korat line to an English engineer in 1892, and the appointment of an unsuccessful German tenderer as Director of Siamese State Railways to supervise the carrying out of the contract, The natural result of this anomalous position was constant friction, until, in 1896, the Government cancelled the contract, stopped the work, and took over the construction in addition to the direction of the line. The financial management of the railways was for some years a cause of friction between the Financial and the Public Works Departments of the Government, the German railway director advancing the theory that money allotted to railways in the annual financial budget of the kingdom must be under his absolute control, to be accounted for only to H.M. the King, and not to H.M. Ministry of Finance whence the budget issued. Furthermore, after the cancellation of the British contract, the director insisted that the purchase of all material must be left to himself alone, to be conducted by private tender, or without tender at all, as seemed to him best. The efforts of the Finance Ministry and its British adviser to ascertain how the large sums of money annually voted for railways was being spent were met by violent protests from the director, and indignant objection from the German Minister in Bangkok. It was not until the failure of a Leipzig bank, involving the loss of a sum of Siamese money which should have been in the Bangkok Treasury, effectively demonstrated the unsoundness of the system, that a better system of control was introduced. The management of the railways has suffered considerably from an excess of officialism. During the early period of construction almost all the material was bought in Germany, but since the insistence of the Finance Department upon an open and equitable system of tendering, most of the rails and bridge girders have been imported from the United Kingdom, the locomotives from Germany, and the carriages and waggons from the United Kingdom and Belgium.\n\nIt should be noted here that in the spring of 1909 the Siamese Railway Department signed an agreement with the Government of the British Federated Malay States, by which it secured a loan of 1,000,000l. for the purpose of extending the Siamese lines southwards from Petchaburi through Southern Siam, to link up with the Federated Malay States railway system. By this agreement, the British Government secures considerable influence throughout the length of the Siamo-Malay Peninsula to the exclusion of other foreign Powers. This railway will bring Bangkok appreciably nearer to Penang and Singapore and the great mail and traffic route through the Straits of Malacca, and will at the same time develop the fertile regions of Southern Siam which are at present unexploited.\n\nThe construction of this line is now well in hand, and the junction of the Malay States railways with the Siamese lines is expected to be effected towards the end of 1917. The port of Prai, opposite to Penang, is being developed, and it is expected\n\n37\n\nthat the development of Northern Malaya and Southern Siam will bring greatly increased trade to Penang, which will then become the nearest port of call to Bangkok for the through mail steamers. In addition, the construction of a line to the eastwards through the States of Pahang and Kelantan, which will develop the eastern states of the peninsula, is being accelerated. The inauguration of through rail connections will do more than anything else to cement the bonds of mutual interest between the colony and its great economic dependency, and to stimulate the growing trade between Singapore and Bangkok.\n\nThe German control of the Siamese Posts and Telegraphs is vested in a Director-General and two deputies. These officials are employees of the German Postal Administration, and their services are lent to Siam by the German Government.\n\nIn the mercantile sphere, German activity is centred in the hands of her merchants in Bangkok. The German houses are few in number and, with two exceptions, are of recent establishment. The principal German merchants are:-\n\nA. Markwald & Co., Ltd.-Established in 1850 as rice millers, importers and exporters, this house has the distinction of being the second oldest European firm of its kind in Siam. The company's head office is that of the well-known shipping firm of Rickmers, of Bremen, and Messrs. Markwald & Co. provide the Rickmers steamers with the bulk of their cargoes of rice. They operate one of the most modern rice mills in Bangkok, and were the pioneers of the bulk petroleum business in Siam, for which they constructed large tanks on behalf of the Shell Transport Co., Ltd. The firm are agents for the Austrian Lloyd and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, and have a large fire and marine insurance business, holding, before the war, inter alia, the agencies of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. and the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co.\n\nWindsor & Co., Ltd., of Bangkok and Hamburg, were founded, in 1873, under the style of Windsor, Redlich & Co. This house is the principal German shipping and import firm in the trade, and holds the agency for the Norddeutscher Lloyd lines both to Singapore and to Hong Kong. The great bulk of the transhipment cargo from Europe via Singapore has therefore passed through its hands, and it should be noted that most unscrupulous use has been made of the trade information thereby acquired. Messrs. Windsor & Co. conducted the largest shipping and insurance business in Bangkok, and held, before the war, the agencies of many important British companies, including\n\nThe Canadian Pacific Railway Royal Mail S.S. Line.\n\nArchibald Currie & Co.'s Australian and Indian S.S. Line.\n\nThe Shan Line.\n\nBritish and Foreign Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\nChina Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\nChina Traders Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\nLaw, Union and Rock Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\nLondon and Provincial Marine and General Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\nManufacturers' Life Insurance Co.\n\nNew Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\nScottish Union and National Insurance Co.\n\nSouth British Insurance Co., Ltd.\n\nState Assurance Co., Ltd.\n\nSun Life Assurance Company of Canada.\n\nUnion Assurance Society, Ltd.\n\nUnion Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.\n\nThe Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd.\n\nIt cannot be too strongly urged that after the war these companies should be urged to place their agencies in British hands.\n\nBehn, Meyer & Co., Ltd. This well-known German house, with headquarters at Singapore and Hamburg, and branches throughout the Straits, Netherlands Indies and the Philippines, opened its Bangkok office in 1907, and the following year took over the business of Schmidt, Fertsch & Co. The firm has conducted a general shipping and agency business, and its competition has been most keenly felt in piece goods and general imports. The British agencies held by it include--\n\nThe North Western Insurance Co., Manchester.\n\nThe Western Assurance Co.\n\n£3\n\n615", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523480, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-4 China inland water- river and coastal trade- smuggling by British ships 12-12-1929 - 24-3-1930", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-522-4 China inland water- river and coastal trade- smuggling by British ships 12-12-1929 - 24-3-1930", "content_text": "he was acting on behalf of the group above referred to. He asked whether I would approach Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Jardine, Matheson and Co. in this matter. I replied that I could not do so, and that it was for the firms concerned, if so advised, to approach this consulate. It was obviously quite impossible for me to discuss any proposal of this kind unless I was asked to do so by the British shipping companies concerned. Since then I have heard no more of the matter, and I doubt whether the offer referred to is to be taken seriously.\n\n9. Another indication that the Chinese Government are preparing to develop their mercantile marine is shown by the anxiety of the Chinese Admiralty to obtain as many trained mercantile marine officers as possible. It will be remembered that Captain K. N. Humphreys, C.B., R.N. (retired), arrived a short time ago from home to take up the post of naval instructor in the nautical school about to be established in Shanghai in the Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs (see my despatch No. 275 of the 14th September), and recently the Naval Board of the Chinese Administration of Marine Affairs wrote to the superintendent of the cadet training ship \"Conway\" at Rockferry, Birkenhead, and to the superintendent of the cadet training ship \"Worcester,\" inquiring whether ten Chinese youths could be sent to each of the ships in question for training. In recent years four Chinese young men obtained Board of Trade certificates after service on the Blue Funnel Line ships, and the companies owning these ships (the Ocean Steamship Company (Limited) and the China Mutual Steam Navigation Company (Limited)) are now taking four more. Rear-Admiral C. C. Hsü, who is the official chiefly active in these matters, also recently approached the North German Lloyd and Rickmers Lines at Shanghai, with a view to having Chinese cadets trained on German merchant ships, but I learn that he was informed that at present such a proposal was not practicable.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nC. F. GARSTIN.\n\n45\n\nEND", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-4 China inland water- river and coastal trade- smuggling by British ships 12-12-1929 - 24-3-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]